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  • 10 Books Meme

    Chriggy played with this on facebook, and the meme is totally something I can support: This can be a quick one! Don’t take too long to think about it! Ten books you’ve read that will always stick with you! First ten you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Principia Discordia, Malclypse the Younger…

  • Physics, Life and Mind

    General Jan Christiaan Smuts is probably equally remembered for his support of apartheid in South Africa and for originating the concept of holism, understanding systems as a whole, as opposed to reductionism, understanding them as the sum of their parts, in his book Holism and Evolution. Einstein found the work as impressive philosophically as his…

  • CIS512 Enterprise Architecture: Information Systems Proposal for XYZ Hospice

    A PDF of this Paper is available here. I. Organization Environment and Requirements A. Hospice Care Although Hospice Care makes no attempt to prolong life or cure patients, the service of caring for individuals in their final days is an extremely demanding profession. Hospice Care volunteers provide basic medical care, including prescription medicines and non-invasive…

  • Flash Fiction: Entropy Quest

    Saasnoah hesitated before stepping purposefully into the abyss. Once she had passed the rift nothing was visible except the light from the lab behind her, and, as that slowly sealed, all was darkness. As far as she could tell, she was still alive. This fact she could once again credit to the mathematicians back at…

  • The United State’s New CIO, Vivek Kundra

    Vivek Kundra at the Announcement for the “Applications for Democracy” Technology Contest Winners Although the mainstream media pretty much glossed over it (because covering our country’s IT infrastructure is too complex for them), I was eager to hear all about President Obama’s choice of federal Chief Information Officer, but even this Whitehouse Press Release was…

  • Science Slaying Beautiful Hypotheses

    The great tragedy of Science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. – Thomas Huxley The recent news of scientists identifying the bodies of Tsar Nicholas II’s missing children, confirms they were executed in 1918 and ends nearly a century of fanciful stories and speculation about the possibility of his youngest…

  • Economists Really Gots No Science

    “Wow. If I’d only followed CNBC’s advice, I’d have a million dollars today… provided I’d started with a hundred million dollars.” – Jon Stewart Thank the Cosmos for The Daily Show. I’ve been meaning to sit down and quantify just how incredibly wrong all those idiots like Jim Cramer, Rick Santelli, and the Fast Money…

  • Computer Programmers Master Nine Orders of Magnitude

    In his lecture, The Humble Programmer Dijkstra argues that programming is the only activity in which humans have to master nine orders of magnitude of difference between the lowest level of detail and the highest: Hierarchical systems seem to have the property that something considered as an undivided entity on one level, is considered as…

  • Science Mantras

    Freedom Located atop the dome of the United States Capitol Building Sculptor:Thomas Crawford Credit: dbking Last year, in attending my brother’s spiritual wedding, I had the opportunity to experience an all-night hug-fest celebrating Amma the “Hugging Mother,” a Hindu spiritual leader, who travels the world hugging thousands of people a night and doing charity work.…

  • Go Back to School Patriots!

    My favorite part of President Obama’s Address to the Joint Session of Congress last week: It is our responsibility as lawmakers and educators to make this system work. But it is the responsibility of every citizen to participate in it. And so tonight, I ask every American to commit to at least one year or…

  • NEMO Science Center: Machine Park, Amazing Constructions, and More

    Just a quick post to get the remaining miscellaneous photos from the NEMO Science Center online. There was elecricity, engineering, and water-power exhibits, as well as various displays that didn’t fit into any particular category, like how the center’s roof had some displays that were architectural, but not exactly science-focused. In the below photo, Vicky…

  • Flash Fiction: Dreams of Conceptua

    Is up at 365tomorrows. Go read it now. : ) As I lie in bed at night, I practice going from a waking state directly into REM sleep. It’s a meditative practice. You simply stare into the afterimages dancing in the darkness behind your eyelids, and suddenly your brain makes something solid out of them.…