Media Laboratory, MIT A study using a network analyzer reveals that rather than protecting the brain from invasive radio signals used for mind control, tinfoil beanies actually amplify the signals. “Statistical evidence suggests the use of helmets may in fact enhance the government’s invasive abilities. We speculate that the government may in fact have started the helmet craze for this reason.”
Category Archives: Science
Relativity, Uncertainty, Incompleteness and Undecidability
Gödel and the nature of mathematical truth
Gödel on the net
RoboDump 1.0
Kevin Kelm —
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RoboDump is a robot. Sort of. And it poops. Sort of. Forever. A horrible, never-ending bowel movement complete with straining grunts, horrific gas, splashes, and pee sounds. Here’s the soundtrack. I snuck RoboDump into the men’s room at the office. It still went over well; the office was abuzz all morning with gossip about the guy in the bathroom. Several people theorized it was the CFO. The janitor commented to someone in the hallway that he wanted to clean the restroom but “this guy’s been in there all morning.” I also decided to dress it in businessware to make coworkers less likely to try to talk to it — if it looks like a customer or visiting bigwig, they’ll be less likely to offer help or ask for a courtesy flush. ”
Science Service Historical Image Collection
Smithsonian Institution — The Science Service Historical Image Collection represents twentieth-century scientific research consisting of images and original captions as they appeared in period publications.
An intuitive explanation of Bayesian reasoning
Eliezer Yudkowsky — Bayes’s Theorem for the curious and bewildered; an excruciatingly gentle introduction. Why does a mathematical concept generate this strange enthusiasm in its students? What is the so-called Bayesian Revolution now sweeping through the sciences, which claims to subsume even the experimental method itself as a special case? What is the secret that the adherents of Bayes know? What is the light that they have seen? Soon you will know. Soon you will be one of us.
Frequent ejaculation may protect against cancer
New Scientist — April 4, 2004.
Frequent sexual intercourse and masturbation protects men against prostate cancer, suggests the largest study of the issue to date yet.
Humanoid robot conducts Beethoven symphony
New Scientist — April 4, 2004.
Sony’s QRIO humanoid robot led the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in a unique rendition of Beethoven’s 5th symphony during a concert held at the Bunkamura Orchard Hall in Tokyo on 15 March.
One World or None
Federation of American Scientists
One World or None: A Report to the Public on the Full Meaning of the Atomic Bomb
“In March 1946, seven months after World War II ended in fiery atomic bursts over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Federation of American Scientists published One World or None, an eighty-six-page paperback that immediately became a national bestseller.”
Includes articles by Arthur H. Compton, Niels Bohr, Philip Morrison, J.R. Oppenheimer, Hans Bethe, Albert Einstein, and others