The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
Monkey chatter smacks of human speech, researcher says
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-me-sci-sn-talking-monkeys-20130408,0,3583780.story
It makes a lot of sense to me that speech evolved gradually and that we would be able to find more primitive versions all around. One of the major conundrums surrounding …
Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet
http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/08/technology/security/shodan/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
I touched this a bit earlier, but it is worth bringing up again. We, as a society, are running around with our pants down around our ankles and are not …
Doctors driven to bankruptcy
http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/08/smallbusiness/doctors-bankruptcy/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
There is an uncomfortable element with any change in paradigm (for better or worse). In order for there to be any winners, there always have to be losers. Sometimes the losers just have some bad …
Why Washington is corrupt
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/07/opinion/lessig-washington-corruption/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
I thought my reader(s) might find this amusing. To me it is an effective way of summarizing why our government is the way it is (focused on the care and feeding of the oligarchy). I …
Knowledge is Health
http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/knowledge_is_health/
This is an interesting article, but what struck me was the idea that we (as a society) have already become cyborgs (the melding of machine and man), what with our dependence on smart phones and all. …
I’ve been sick the past few days. I think I got my boy’s bronchitis (that is not supposed to be contagious) and am hacking up a storm. Been watching lots of ‘tube, but nothing that prompted me to blog until …
Can you smell obesity?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/27/health/time-obesity/index.html?hpt=hp_t5
This is also related to the idea of the microbiome that I have talked about before. I really think our medicine is going to start to transform much like the IT industry has and functional …
Heart Failure: Is There a Breath Test?
http://www.medpagetoday.com/CriticalCare/CHF/38076
It seems I haven’t talked about this before, but there is a lot of very interesting science that is under development that allows for the potential of some rather incredible medical information …
Which naturally means it won’t have any impact…
When it comes to marriage, government should divorce itself
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/03/27/when-it-comes-to-marriage-government-should-divorce-itself/
I like this idea a lot, but unless the Supreme Court really does something shocking, I doubt things will go this far.…
Aluminum-Air Battery to Power EVs for 1000 Miles
http://news.discovery.com/autos/fuel-and-alternative-fuel-technologies/aluminum-air-battery-1000-miles-130325.htm
The first time I saw an article like this (over a decade ago) I probably spent a week reading up on alternative energy storage mechanisms, there are dozens that are realistic …