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 [...]
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Kevin Kelm — “ 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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.
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.
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 [...]