[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Binary stars could be causing massive planetary collisions
- [io9 - Alasdair Wilkins]
Three different sets of binary stars – two stars locked in orbit around each other – are surrounded by huge clouds of dust. Astronomers suspect these are the remains of gigantic planetary collisions caused by the binary stars' intense gravity.
[With gorgeous concept art. -L]
- The Church of the VSP — Very Serious People
- [Hullabaloo - digby]
A lot of smart people, Krugman in particular, are making the observation that the bankers, economists and Big Money Boyz are making it up as they go along and it certainly does seem that way. No matter what the circumstances, they profess that it's impossible for the Fed or the government to do anything to help average people and that tax cuts for the wealthy are the answer to every problem in good times and bad.
[quotes Krugman]
This discussion reminds me of the old perennial "why are we in Iraq?" The Very Serious people always had different reasons, but they supported the same conclusion: we just needed to be there….
Krugman thinks the economic elite are for for monetary tightening because they are biased against easy money and will find any basis they can to justify that. The question then becomes, why would anyone have an bias against easy money unless they are attaching a moral value to it?
- Book review: The Map as Art, Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography
- [Art Brussels - Regine]
- How Much Is Left? The Limits of Earth's Resources, Made Interactive
- [Scientific American]
- Genetically engineered frog-insect nose can control robots
- [io9 - Annalee Newitz]
Click here to read Genetically engineered frog-insect nose can control robots
In what seems like a Cthulian moment of experimentation, scientists have fashioned a biotech "nose" by genetically engineering frog cells to behave like insect nose cells. And then they turned the hybrid cells into a control device for a robot.[Uh.... what? -L]
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