Monthly Archives: July 2008

Check out the video that comes along with this story from the Telegraph, or just go here if you’re impatient. The Antikythera device itself is stunning, but the technology they’re using to try to recreate a working model is cool, … Continue reading →

I love seeing stuff like this. A fellow named Hans Andersson borrowed his kids’ Lego Mindstorms NXT set and decided to try something that’s not in the manual. No computer or extra tech is involved; just what’s in the retail … Continue reading →

I’m never sorry to have taken the time to read and absorb what Glenn Greenwald writes. The current approval rating of the U.S. legislative branch is 14%, and my own explanation of that is simple: they’re the people’s representatives in … Continue reading →

He was long a jewel of the MIT faculty. Now, after a devastating brain injury, mathematician Seymour Papert is struggling bravely to learn again how to think like, speak like, be like the man of genius he was. Papert has … Continue reading →

The economy showed the depth of its twin problems on Tuesday, slow growth and rising inflation, as the nation wrestled with a teetering financial system, a slumping dollar and rising prices for food and fuel. Soaring costs for gasoline and … Continue reading →