The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
Now, a shape-shifting robot that changes to anything
http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/nowshape-shifting-robot-that-changes-to-anything/88714/
In case you somehow missed watching the Terminator 2, the T-1000 is the terminator that can change its shape. Made of a ‘mimetic poly-alloy‘ it can morph to nearly …
Court: Off-Label Drug Marketing Is ‘Free Speech’
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/FDAGeneral/36256
It is now official (unless the Supreme Court overturns it, which isn’t likely to happen), Big Pharma can now peddle any drug that made it through the FDA approval process for anything …
Laptop seizures by US government highlight 9/11-era climate of fear
The treatment of dissidents is the true measure of how free a society is: consider today’s examples from the US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/04/us-constitution-and-civil-liberties
This is a really interesting article that speaks to …
Dear Future Earthlings
A message in a bottle won’t be enough to communicate with distant generations
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/346713/title/Dear_Future_Earthlings
I don’t think I have blogged on this topic before, but I have exchanged a few ideas on the topic with a friend …
Your Digital Legacy: States Grapple with Protecting Our Data After We Die
http://techland.time.com/2012/11/29/digital-legacy-law/?hpt=hp_t3
This is quite interesting to me on more than one level. When my dad died a number of years ago he left quite a few on-line accounts …
A shock to pollution in chemistry
http://www.sciencecodex.com/a_shock_to_pollution_in_chemistry-103063
I have to say that I didn’t even consider this as a possibility. The idea that meaningful chemistry could happen by shaking a bunch of raw chemicals together in a jar of vibrating …
Do Robots Rule the Galaxy?
http://news.discovery.com/space/do-robots-rule-the-galaxy-121201.html
This article also mentions the rather silly Cambridge Project for Existential Risk but since it touches on a subject I have thought about from time to time (I feel sure I blogged on it, …
I earlier mentioned the undoubted hoax document meant to fire the sheeple up about a war with Iran. Well, once caught out as the idiot that he is, the original AP author has double downed on his idiocy. This guy …
Ignoring the Science on Mammograms
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/ignoring-the-science-on-mammograms/
It seems there is a mammography / industrial complex now, as opposed to the ‘simpler’ healthcare / industrial complex. It is now impossible for science to intrude into the thoughts of society here in …
DOJ Mysteriously Quits Monsanto Antitrust Investigation
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/11/dojs-monsantoseed-industry-investigation-ends-thud
Funny how our government treats everything as secret now. Soon people will be going to jail (like Bradley Manning) for leaking SEC investigations. The idiotic paranoia of the top of our government …