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Science Etcetera Jupiterday, 20071227

December 27th, 2007
  • Anthropologists tend to either dazzle me with their brilliance or dazzle me with their stupidity. These Jared Diamond bashers fall into the later category. It’s not always about culture nitwits!!!
  • Have your new X-mas gadgets rendered your old ones obsolete? If you live in Louisville Kentucky, you can CyberCycle them.
  • The Optical Telegraph network was Email for 18th century Europe (HT Clint).
  • The Nanosolar company manufactures Solar Cheaper than Coal.
  • More on academics, musicians, and poker-players using Cognitive-Enhancement Drugs like ritalin and provigil. How do you get this stuff? Fake narcolepsy?
    • Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell
  • A new book looks at new evidence to argue that Alexander Graham Bell stole the phone idea from his rival Elisha Gray.
  • The last severe global warming episode 55 million years ago produced thousands of years of explosive plant growth in the oceans, which helped to end Global Warming.
  • ScienceWoman has the Top 10 Women in Science developments of 2007. You go girls!!!
  • Snark! Nanobots that Use Sperm Power

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    1. If you like the Gray/Bell controversy, look up a man named Nathan Stubblefield. Go Kentucky!

           by flyingsirkus December 27th, 2007 at 12:53 pm

    2. I was wondering if you were going to comment on the Cognitive-Enhancement drug stories that have been floating around the ‘net lately. I’ve been interested in Modafinil (Provigil) for awhile and I too wonder how you go about getting these drugs legally?

      Of course, I assume that once I started on the Modafinil regimen, my employer would find out and literally double my workload.

      -BMF

           by BMF December 27th, 2007 at 1:17 pm

    3. I’ve been interested in Modafinil too. Anyone who works extra is a sap. It would be for ME. Unfortunately it is counter-indicated for people with past heart problems.

           by Clint December 27th, 2007 at 2:17 pm

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