Scientists capture new memories being made: The ability to learn and to establish new memories is essential to our daily existence and identity; enabling us to navigate through the world. A new study by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (The Neuro), McGill University and University of California, Los Angeles has captured an [...]
I have been thinking about this lately. There are huge underground coal fires in China, one supposedly 3000 miles long. This article is about one in Pennsylvania. In 1962, a small community in rural Pennsylvania prepared for a Memorial Day celebration. On the town’s edge, near the Odd Fellows Cemetery, sat an old mining pit [...]
Information Technology was an after thought for most companies when I started working in the private sector. Budgets for things we now consider to be IT were administered by different department managers and things often did not work together. In pre-Cisco days, I remember having a meeting with a senior guy at Silicon Graphics. I [...]
I’ve experienced this. I have not yet characterized it. Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people think and behave. They say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information. These play to a primitive impulse to respond to immediate opportunities and threats. The stimulation provokes [...]
One of the things I figured out when I was a young man was that capitalism is inevitable. The retention of value in the form of capital is an inevitable result once trade begins. I bumped into a colleague and his mother in Printer’s Ink in Mountain View, California over twenty years ago and over [...]
Microsoft has been in the news the last couple of days because they are rolling out a new operating system for phones. Supposedly, this is a “start over”, as opposed to a revision of current software. But how did they start over? They brought in Todd Peters. A technology guy, right? Not so much. More [...]
Bill Gates was at TED and got his rant on. Microsoft founder Bill Gates took on climate change during his TED speech Friday. He told those gathered at the conference that “What we’re going to have to do at a global scale is create a new system… So we need energy miracles.” Bill, your company [...]
Andy Borowitz is pretty funny sometimes. There have been riffs on the name of the new Apple device, iPad. I think this is the funniest I’ve seen. Apple Launches Text-sharing Device, the CoTex Absorbs Heavy Flow of Data, Says Jobs See the link for the rest.
So, we have these drones that we can send in via remote control to hostile parts of the world and not risk the lives of military personnel. Sounds like a great idea, right? Except for the fact that the video downlink is unencrypted and can be tapped. Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software [...]
During President Obama’s interview on 60 minutes, he answered “It’s democracy in action” in response to a question about health care. He grinned when he said it, and I wondered which arrangement of those phonemes he was voicing. Canada is a primary source of an isotope that has certain medical applications. Every day, U.S. doctors [...]