Author of Seven Seconds and Maximum Impact (aka Circumference of Darkness in the U.S.)
Posted in News on Jul 31st, 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, too. The secrets of the worlds oldest calculating machine are revealed today, showing that it [...]
Posted in News on Jul 21st, 2008
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 box. Watch his video and then visit his site for more details on this very [...]
Posted in News on Jul 20th, 2008
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 these very challenging and worrisome times, and they’re not (at all) doing what we elected [...]
Posted in News on Jul 16th, 2008
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 a devoted group of caregivers working around the clock, including nurses, a physical trainer, and [...]
Posted in News on Jul 16th, 2008
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 food pushed inflation at the fastest pace in more than a quarter-century. read more | [...]
Posted in News, Research Archive on Jul 11th, 2008
A fairly major plot-point in my first novel involves the widespread use of digitally-altered “news,” and it’s easy to forget how often this sort of thing actually happens in real life. I’m sure you’re familiar with this recent missile-test image by now, from Iran: A number of international news agencies ran with the photo, before [...]
