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Month: November 2013

Finally a better battery?

Self-Healing Battery Electrode Shows Promise for Smartphones, EVs
http://www.dailytech.com/SelfHealing+Battery+Electrode+Shows+Promise+for+Smartphones+EVs/article33767c.htm

I didn’t get the impression that this design had higher density, just that it lasted longer. Sure, that is nice, instead of replacing your PV/wind turbine batteries every 5 years you …

Author TfouiPosted on November 20, 2013Categories Science, Stuff

It is hard to think it is a coincidence

Does calculator overstate heart attack risk?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/18/health/cholesterol-calculator/

When I first read an article about this new way of doing things that was expected to double or triple the number of people on statins I was very skeptical (see here for …

Author TfouiPosted on November 20, 2013November 20, 2013Categories Business, Economics, Government, Healthcare, Politics, Psychology, Science, Society

Systems engineering

Goals vs. Systems
http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/goals_vs_systems/

This is another interesting article from Mr. Dilbert. I suggest my reader(s) take a look, but for this post it was more or less a trigger and my post won’t focus too much on it. When …

Author TfouiPosted on November 19, 2013Categories Business, Economics, Education, OriginalContent, Psychology, Society

The natural course of events

This is about the typhoon Yolanda that struck the Philippines at Tacloban, Leyte, where my parents-in-law live. Fortunately, they have a very sturdy reinforced concrete house that is several stories tall and were able to weather the storm comparatively well …

Author TfouiPosted on November 12, 2013Categories Business, Economics, Government, Law, OriginalContent, Psychology, Society

We are not so different

Tea Party shocker: Even right-wingers become liberals when they turn off Fox News
America’s center is to the left, and even Tea Partyers are liberals when they turn off Rush and learn real facts
http://www.salon.com/2013/11/08/tea_party_shocker_even_right_wingers_become_liberals_when_they_turn_off_fox_news/

A very interesting article that …

Author TfouiPosted on November 8, 2013Categories Politics, Psychology, Society

It is worse than we thought

ANOTHER DEVASTATING Chelyabinsk METEOR STRIKE ‘7x as likely’ as thought
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/06/chelyabinsksized_meteors_impacts_seven_times_more_common_than_first_thought/

I think that we (as a species) have been very lucky over the last few thousand years. Just a few large volcanoes (not ‘huge’, merely ‘large’), no massive tsunamis …

Author TfouiPosted on November 7, 2013Categories Science

Bridging the air gap

badBIOS
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/11/badbios.html

I got to say I was very skeptical when I started reading the post and kept checking my calendar to see if it was April 1st. As is usual for Schneier’s blog, the comments are also interesting reading; …

Author TfouiPosted on November 5, 2013Categories Infosec

Cheating as the day wears on…

Why You’re Likelier to Cheat in the Afternoon
Willpower takes work, and the later it gets, the more your energy runs down
http://science.time.com/2013/10/31/why-youre-likelier-to-cheat-in-the-afternoon/?hpt=hp_t3

A brief one for those of my reader(s) that like that sort of thing. People are more …

Author TfouiPosted on November 1, 2013Categories Psychology, Science, Society

Now we know where you are in real time! And you paid for that!

Close-In Surveillance Using Your Phone’s Wi-Fi
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/11/close-in_survei.html

Schneier’s blog post contains links to other articles, but to me the more interesting was reading the comments. Of course, infosec people will whine, bitch and moan, but for the average user this …

Author TfouiPosted on November 1, 2013Categories Uncategorized

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