Google Launches Public DNS to Speed Up Web - Reviews by PC Magazine: Users who want to try out the new Google DNS servers can change their DNS settings to 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4, as its instructions describe. Google strongly recommends, however, that users copy down their existing settings. Interestingly, Google also provides telephone support for its ( Read more... )

bwapi - Project Hosting on Google Code: The Brood War Application Programming Interface (BWAPI) is a free and open source C++ framework for creating AI modules for Starcraft: Broodwar. Using BWAPI, programmers can retrieve information on players and individual units in Starcraft as well as issue a wide variety of commands to units, opening the ( Read more... )

Large Hadron Collider: Damaged by a Time-Traveling Bird?: In a series of audacious papers, Nielsen and Ninomiya have suggested that setbacks to the LHC occur because of "reverse chronological causation," which is to say, sabotage from the future. The papers suggest that the Higgs boson may be "abhorrent to nature" and the LHC's creation of the ( Read more... )

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Caveman Science Fiction:

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Strangers in Paradise: Strangers in Paradise is the story of the lure, seduction and potential addiction of creating a “second life” online. Imagined lives in a virtual world, where users can make their dreams come true - what could possibly be wrong with that? For some, a lot. The fallout of a fictional virtual life can have far-reaching ( Read more... )

Algae and Light Help Injured Mice Walk Again | Magazine: In the summer of 2007, a team of Stanford graduate students dropped a mouse into a plastic basin. The mouse sniffed the floor curiously. It didn’t seem to care that a fiber-optic cable was threaded through its skull. Nor did it seem to mind that the right half of its motor cortex had been ( Read more... )

Spherical cow wiki: Spherical cow is a metaphor for highly simplified scientific models of reality. The phrase comes from a joke about theoretical physicists,

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Irrational Decisions Anchoring and Arbitrary Coherence: Professor Ariely describes some experiments which demonstrated something he calls arbitrary coherence. Basically it means that once you contemplate a decision or actually make a decision, it will heavily influence your subsequent decisions. Thats the coherence part. Your brain will try to ( Read more... )