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An article in New Scientist Magazine describes how artificial lifeforms evolve, and develop rudimentary intelligence:Artificial life forms evolve basic intelligence – life – 04 August 2010 – New Scientist Send to Kindle

On this day many will recall the fate of Hiroshima, when up to 140,000 were killed and 69 per cent of the city was destroyed. It may be useful to put Hiroshima’s destruction into its sad context. The Japanese Empire … Continue reading →

From Slashdot.org: The Google Books blog has an explanation of how they attempt to answer a difficult but commonly asked question: how many different books are there? Various cataloging systems are fraught with duplicates and input errors, and only encompass … Continue reading →

From Space.com: The International Space Station is the largest structure ever built in space. Its backbone-like main truss is as long as a football field and the station can clearly be seen from Earth by the naked eye, sometimes rivaling … Continue reading →

“You fail only if you stop writing.” –Ray Bradbury Send to Kindle

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened. –Winston Churchill, commenting on Stanley Baldwin. Cited in Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations, edited by Richard Langworth, p. … Continue reading →

A TED talk: Astronomer Dimitar Sasselov and his colleagues search for Earth-like planets that may, someday, help us answer centuries-old questions about the origin and existence of biological life elsewhere (and on Earth). How many such planets have they found … Continue reading →

“Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.” — Sir Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld series of fantasy novels Send … Continue reading →

I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. –Attributed to Abraham Lincoln in 1917 in How to Get What You Want, by Orison Marden Send to Kindle

Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards. –Sir Fred Hoyle, British astronomer and science fiction author who coined the term “Big Bang.” He never liked that theory. Send to … Continue reading →