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May 20, 2010
1) Mice show pain through facial expressions.
March 04, 2010
1) The 137 year archive of Popular Science is now online for free.
February 26, 2010
1) Human genome sequencing for $5000 per person.
2) Lost / stolen letter from Descartes found and returned.
3) South Dakota says global warming is a theory and astrology affects weather.
February 25, 2010
1) Wolfram Alpha info about how common names are.
2) Build your own spectrometer from a DVD or CD.
February 24, 2010
1) Simon Singh sued by British Chiropractic Association.
February 17, 2010
1) Cells that can express 4-letter codons.
February 03, 2010
1) Flowers genetically manipulated to produce insulin.
February 02, 2010
1) Antidepressants often as effective as placebos.
January 28, 2010
1) The colour of one dinosaur has been determined.
2) Link between Alzheimer's disease and Down syndrome.
3) 400 years (and 3 weeks) since Galileo documented the position of Jupiter's moons.
December 08, 2009
1) Gene therapy improves vision in people with Leber's congenital amaurosis.
November 16, 2009
1) Modifying mouse neurons to respond to light.
October 20, 2009
1) Fish are able to learn behaviour to get food.
October 14, 2009
1) 35th annual Nikon Small World Competition awards top images
September 06, 2009
1) GParted is an amazing tool.
September 02, 2009
1) Fold-It : A protein folding puzzle game.
August 18, 2009
1) Interview about the evolution of the Google File System (GFS)
July 17, 2009
1) Nearly 40 years since first standing on the moon.
June 08, 2009
1) UN announces launch of world's first tuition-free, online university
May 13, 2009
1) Should junk food be fortified with vitamins and minerals?
April 09, 2009
1) A 105-day isolation test to simulate a trip to deep space is starting
2) Editing the file explorer context menu for images in Vista.
April 07, 2009
1) A DNA test for HPV that causes cervical cancer.
March 19, 2009
1) Google gives 500,000 free e-books to Sony Reader customers.
March 15, 2009
1) Is 7-11 placement related to household income in the Calgary region?
March 13, 2009
1) I have updated Google Project Two to find Canadian postal codes.
2) How to turn a perl script into a windows .exe file.
March 11, 2009
1) Scientist fabricated data in pain studies. Journals asked to retract 21 studies.
October 04, 2008
1) Grand Prairie junior-high teacher found new dinosaur species.
2) Cell phone camera microscope attachment.
September 16, 2008
1) 120 million year old ant discovered.
September 02, 2008
1) Drug advertising does not seem to be very effective.
August 26, 2008
1) It seems bats die from the low air pressure around wind turbines.
2) Cattle tend to align north-south.
July 06, 2008
1) Top 10 most-visited sites as reported by Netcraft.
May 06, 2008
1) Carbon-14 isotopes in human eye lens can be used to date people.
2) Implanting donor spinal discs to relieve back problems.
April 28, 2008
1) Teach math using symbols. Later apply it to real life.
2) Growth in PhD program enrollment in Canada.
April 24, 2008
1) China has the most internet users by country.
April 23, 2008
1) Skype introduces a flat monthly fee for unlimited long distance calls.
2) On this day in 1984 : discovery of HIV is announced.
3) Advice for one potential programmer.
April 17, 2008
1) Darwin's private papers are now online.
2) Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory, died of cancer.
April 14, 2008
1) John Wheeler died of pneumonia Sunday April 13th.
2) Can cloud formations indicate where an earthquake will occur?
April 04, 2008
1) Road paint that turns colour in cold temperatures.
March 12, 2008
1) USENIX announces open access to conference proceedings.
February 26, 2008
1) Warren Buffet question and answer session at UT Austin
February 22, 2008
1) A "Nature" editorial is critical of Canadian federal government.
February 21, 2008
1) Google will store medical records online.
February 15, 2008
1) Aspartame experiment by Victoria Inness-Brown
February 12, 2008
1) Book Review: Outsource by Edward Yourdon
February 09, 2008
1) Canadian grant if you upgrade a furnace, water heater, etc.
February 02, 2008
1) Book review : Introduction to Bioinformatics by Anna Tramontano
January 30, 2008
1) Paul Graham announces the release of the Arc language.
January 25, 2008
1) Cola beverages linked to kidney disease.
January 22, 2008
1) Angus Reid phoned at work.
2) A kite is to help pull a ship across the Atlantic.
January 21, 2008
1) John Resig talks about tech book sales and profits.
2) Wikipedia about Canadian Beer.
January 19, 2008
1) Book Review: The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
January 17, 2008
1) Getting a single file out of a Subversion repository.
January 16, 2008
1) Rats laugh when tickled.
January 15, 2008
1) Auto exhaust produced air pollution mutates sperm in mice.
January 14, 2008
1) Texas $50 scratch lotto ticket does not appeal to high income households.
January 10, 2008
1) Cookie scent prompts purchasing more.
January 09, 2008
1) Unix shell customization tips from Simon Cozens
2) Book Review: The Millionaire Next Door by Stanley and Danko
January 02, 2008
1) eBay locator now has a list of items in addition to the map.
2) Revenue Canada no longer accepts cash in payment of income taxes.
December 19, 2007
1) Postgres Christmas carol.
2) Perl version 5.10 has been released.
3) Marking eBay item locations on a map.
December 17, 2007
1) I have updated my Google Project One to include Google Sets results.
December 16, 2007
1) It seems that incompetent managers tend to hire incompetent employees.
2) How many sugar cubes are in a can of cola?
3) Ten universities with free online science course content.
December 06, 2007
1) Book review: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
December 05, 2007
1) Free tire rotating at Canadian tire. But not changing tires.
2) Canadian passport web site security problem.
3) Kids get more exercise and eat better when they are not in school.
November 11, 2007
1) Cell phone signal data used to map traffic density.
2) Some numbers about automobile speeding in Canada.
November 05, 2007
1) Negative numbers confused some lotto customers.
October 31, 2007
1) 1/3 of Canadians have not used the internet. 1/4 use it for education.
October 30, 2007
1) Study finds 1/4 of Canadians are sleep deprived.
2) Gmail spam stats.
October 26, 2007
1) Who cares about adding value?
October 16, 2007
1) Sweden bans teaching "intelligent design" in biology classes.
October 15, 2007
1) The language C.
October 10, 2007
1) Trout raised in a hatchery are not very able to reproduce.
2) Jeff Bonforte says anger leads to innovation.
3) Guy Kawasaki talks about innovation.
October 04, 2007
1) Menstrual cycle linked to female stripper's income.
September 25, 2007
1) Bacteria and the human immune system are affected by space travel.
2) Fertilizer run-off is linked to amphibian deformities.
September 24, 2007
1) People get more injuries riding horses than motorcycles.
September 19, 2007
1) Canadians are waiting longer to have kids and get married.
2) G-rated movies are 11 times more profitable than R-rated movies.
September 17, 2007
1) Listening to MP3s can cure AIDs but I am a bit skeptical.
September 14, 2007
1) New water-soluble chewing gum.
September 12, 2007
1) Be wary of bad science or science reporting.
2) Water bottle that can filter viruses from water.
September 11, 2007
1) Radio frequencies "burn" salt water
2) Alex the parrot at Brandeis University has died.
September 06, 2007
1) OpenSSL commands sysadmins should know about.
September 04, 2007
1) Bash tips: single quotes within single quotes and find the version number.
2) Thoughts on mistakes and habits to avoid them.
September 03, 2007
1) How to create a second X11 virtual console in Linux.
August 30, 2007
1) Sun open-sourced Java for Brazil.
August 29, 2007
1) How to turn off colours in Emacs.
2) Squirrels heat their tails in defense.
August 02, 2007
1) Russia claims North Pole.
2) New underwater animals found in the Sable Gully.
3) Ontario introduces voluntary HPV vaccine for grade 8 girls.
4) Orangutans change communication strategies to ask for food
July 30, 2007
1) Giant microwave turns plastic back to oil.
July 29, 2007
1) New adhesive that stays sticky underwater.
July 28, 2007
1) Guitar player from rock band Queen has submitted his PhD thesis.
July 25, 2007
1) My trip to the Calgary Science Centre today.
2) Time off work.
July 23, 2007
1) Claim: Wikipedia contains some less than credible writing.
July 19, 2007
1) Game of Checkers is "solved" by computers. The BBC story reads:
2) Paint-on solar panels.
July 18, 2007
1) Carnegie Mellon robot walks on water.
July 17, 2007
1) Aspartame linked to cancer in a study using rats.
2) Radiation affects bird species differently.
3) Bring a camera with you and have it easy to get at.
July 05, 2007
1) Small vibration-based electric generator.
June 13, 2007
1) Plant root growth appears to be a function of whether neighbouring plants
May 24, 2007
1) 4% US email users buy spam products.
2) Pictures of pineapple plants.
May 14, 2007
1) It seems ants count their steps to keep track of where things are.
2) Sony has an organic-LCD monitor.
3) Disposable semiconductors produced by ink-jet-like printers.
April 09, 2007
1) Elephants seem to be self-aware. An elephant seems to recognize itself
March 26, 2007
1) Scientist retracts 5 years of work invalidated due to a programming bug.
March 21, 2007
1) John Backus dies at 82.
February 27, 2007
1) Trevor Blackwell's robot walks kind of like a human.
February 19, 2007
1) Anil Sethi is the chief executive of a Swiss company named Flisom. They
February 15, 2007
1) Michael Burns sent me a link to a "nifty 3-minute presentation". The
February 01, 2007
2) Beer prices. People are crazy.
4) Build an electricity producing wind turbine
5) We absorb more nutrients from food we find tasty.
October 08, 2006
1) Paul Hsieh on programming optimization.
September 11, 2006
1) Cyclist safety from drivers reduced by wearing helmet?
September 10, 2006
1) Joel mentions "Peopleware" again.
July 18, 2006
1) There is some interesting discussion about the hidden economic cost of free
2) Erik Sink claims the one key thing to know about negotiation is that you
June 25, 2006
1) Stephen Wolfram Lecture MP3.
2) Phil Greespun's ArsDigita University.
3) Charles Darwin's tortoise died at 176 years old.
4) Norwegian "seed bank" to preserve crop samples.
5) Stock ticker names influence stock prices.
June 16, 2006
1) Joel Spolsky remembers meeting Bill Gates.
2) Book review: Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel
3) Trans-fat monkey diet increases body weight and abdominal fat.
June 13, 2006
1) Dot-COM, dot-ORG, dot-Net. What about dot-TXT ?
June 12, 2006
1) New start-up companies job postings grouped by city.
June 10, 2006
1) Web-based graph plotting tool.
2) How to get a job paying more than $100k per year.
3) Book: My Job Went to India by Chad Fowler
4) Harvard is "a day care center for college students".
5) jim McGee's reading list for aspiring knowledge workers.
6) Photos of "abandonments. decay. industrial mayhem".
7) Garfinkel's "History's Worst Software Bugs"
June 04, 2006
1) Unix Command Name Rosetta Stone
2) Product ideas are not what make a business succeed.
3) Traffic light changes to reduce collisions.
4) Colour photos circa World War I.
May 27, 2006
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May 02, 2006
1) This post claims that caffeine makes people more likely to be persuaded.
2) A picture of porcupine babies.
3) Ever wonder what a banana tree looks like?
4) "Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an
5) 59 ingredients in a fast-food strawberry milkshake and not one of them is strawberries.
April 07, 2006
1) NASA picture of shadow cast by moon on the earth.
2) Oded Shenkar talks about China's economy.
3) D-Link NAT devices use NTP server without permission.
4) Photos of atomic bomb moments after explosion.
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