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emmineb — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:59:47 GMT

Amazon.com: Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century: Books: Alex Steffen,Al Gore,Bruce Sterling

emmineb — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:20:06 GMT

Worldchanging is poised to be the Whole Earth Catalog for this millennium. Written by leading new thinkers who believe that the means for building a better future lie all around us, Worldchanging is packed with the information, resources, reviews, and ideas that give readers the tools they need to make a difference. Brought together by Alex Steffen, co-founder of the popular and award-winning web site Worldchanging.com, this team of top-notch writers includes Cameron Sinclair, founder of Architecture for Humanity, Geekcorps founder Ethan Zuckerman, sustainable food expert Anna Lappé, and many others. Renowned designer Stefan Sagmeister brings his extraordinary talents to

Chapter 11: Einstein, Kaluza-Klein And The Kleinbottle Universe

emmineb — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:10:52 GMT

As a great deal of the controversy concerning the contemporary dilemma inherent in the sciences, the first part of this chapter deals with the strange reportage of Einstein’s last years, as far from being deluded or misguided, his own nagging intuitions concerning the nature of Ultimate Reality led to him to discard his own theories and turn instead to the work of Kaluza and Klein. His insights were astute, and yet even those who work within the area of String Theory, an orientation itself aligned with the later theories that Einstein was engaged with were somehow compelled to diminish Einstein and his more recent theories, adulating his earlier accomplishments and anchoring for the public a false impression of the state of contemporary physics.

Cryptome

emmineb — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:31:49 GMT

[wikipedia:] Cryptome is a website hosted in the United States since 1996 by independent scholars[1] and architects John Young and Deborah Natsios[2] that functions as a repository for information about freedom of speech, cryptography, spying, and surveillance. According to the site: Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and secret governance—open, secret and classified documents—but not limited to those.[3] Cryptome hosted documents, consisting of over 54,000 files,[4] include suppressed photographs of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, lists of people believed to be MI6 agents

Feynman's Talk: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom An Invitation to Enter a New Field of Physics

emmineb — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:25:57 GMT

This transcript of the classic talk that Richard Feynman gave on December 29th 1959 at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) was first published in the February 1960 issue of Caltech's Engineering and Science, which owns the copyright. It has been made available on the web at http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html with their kind permission. Information on the Feynman Prizes Links to pages on Feynman For an account of the talk and how people reacted to it, see chapter 4 of Nano! by Ed Regis, Little/Brown 1995. An excellent technical introduction to nanotechnology is Nanosystems: molecular machinery, manufacturing, and computation by K. Eric Drexler, Wiley 1992. I imagine expe

Fringe Browser

emmineb — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:11:16 GMT

Welcome to the Fringe. This is an area of free information, things that some may find interesting, amusing, and/or dangerous.

G A P M I N D E R: HOME

emmineb — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:54:00 GMT

Search statistics through Google and watch it move with Gapminder

How to Write More Clearly, Think More Clearly, and Learn Complex Material More Easily

emmineb — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:12:48 GMT

Michael A. Covington Artificial Intelligence Center The University of Georgia. (Html slide presentation)

LifeClever

emmineb — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 05:36:52 GMT

How to cure traffic jams» <> <> <> The strategy is to simply maintain a large space in front of you instead of instinctively speeding up to close any gaps. It’s counter-intuitive, but according to his own experiments, it works. Here’s what he says: Traffic jams on highways are often triggered where two lanes must merge into one. Lanes of cars cannot merge if there are no large gaps between cars. Therefore, drivers who create large gaps between cars will ease this type of traffic jam.

Making the sky searchable

emmineb — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:09:37 GMT

In other words, their computer program will make night sky searchable. The team is organizing and mixing images coming from astronomical databases with images coming from 'all kinds of cameras, amateur telescopes, large ground-based telescopes, and space telescopes such as the Hubble Space Telescope.' This specialized search engine is still in beta-version, but is available to both professional and amateur astronomers.