Archive for the 'PopSci' Category
Alexander Leaf Dies at 92 – Linked Diet and Health – NYTimes.com
January 7, 2013Overarching Problems » American Scientist
January 6, 2013How the keystone “motif” is used in contexts other than construction (e.g. Penn state logo)
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/overarching-problems November-December 2012
Volume 100, Number 6
Page: 458
DOI: 10.1511/2012.99.458
Overarching Problems
Keystones, whether employed to complete an arch or as a metaphor, require care in their use
Henry Petroski
Free exchange: Game, set and match | The Economist
January 6, 20132012 econ nobel for creating efficient markets & prices where none existed
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21564836-alvin-roth-and-lloyd-shapley-have-won-year%E2%80%99s-nobel-economics
‘Want to Know My Future’? Parents Grapple with Delving into Their Kids’ DNA | TIME.com
December 31, 2012iPod Hearing Loss Danger
December 30, 2012Why loud jazz is bad.
See
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1881130,00.html
More detail at:
http://www.noisehelp.com/ipod-hearing-loss.html
| Volume Level | Maximum Listening Time per Day |
|---|---|
| 50% or below | No limit |
| 60% | 18 hours |
| 70% | 4.6 hours |
| 80% | 1.2 hours |
| 90% | 18 minutes |
| 100% | 5 minutes |
add 10% to vol. level for headphones
Roots 2.0: Using DNA to Trace My Ancestry | PRI’s The World
December 27, 2012Thoughts on O’Shea’s The Brain: A Very Short Introduction
December 23, 2012Good discussion of lots of technical stuff, including regions of the brain, how nerves work, & artificial neural nets
http://www.amazon.com/Brain-Very-Short-Introduction/dp/B002KE9BPO/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352690693&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Brain%3A+A+Very+Short+Introduction+%28Unabridged%29
Humans Think Like Quantum Particles: Scientific American
December 22, 2012How we can vote like a quantum superposition
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=humans-think-like-quantum-particles
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