Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Nuclear Fusion Discovered
I failed to blog this last week, anyway it’s worth mentioning – the Economist have a piece on it. Not read up on fusion? In principle, nuclear fusion is a simple process. All you have to do is push two suitable atomic nuclei close enough together for them to overcome their mutual electrical repulsion (since…
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Kingdom of Heaven
Doesn’t sound like a great one, but then what do I expect from Scott? Anyone else going to catch it?
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Oil in troubled waters
The Economist has oil as its cover story this week, a subject oft-covered on this blog. Vijay Vaitheeswaran is writing this story in the Economist. Here’s a nice graph: Vijay notes, and I will highlight the bits I like: More worryingly, Mr Morse believes the problem extends well beyond just spare production capacity. He points…
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IRA link to Cork hostage ordeal
A close eye might need to be kept on this: Three men are being questioned this evening after a businessman and his family were held hostage overnight in an incident being connected to the IRA. Officers believe a gang was trying to extort money from Gary O’Donovan, the owner of a major chain of off-licences…
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Mars Express to deploy 'divining rod' at last
I am really looking forward to the results from this: The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) instrument consists of three long fibreglass tubes strung with wires that will bounce radio waves off the planet. Some waves will penetrate the surface – potentially revealing oases of water, in liquid or ice form…
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9/11 babies inherit stress from mothers
It seems that the trauma of September 11 lives on: A study of 38 women who witnessed the World Trade Center attacks was carried out by researchers from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK, and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, US, one year after the events. Cortisol levels were lower…
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May
Another post, another month. I see Kaplan’s piece has appeared in the Atlantic. More soon.
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Rainbow TV innuendo
Ah long gone are the days – but if everyone who sees this (at least those Irish and UK readers) do not break their arses laughing then the Pope is not a Catholic.
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Nokia takes wraps off N Series phones
Could the new Nokias be iPod killers? I really don’t think so. But they do look nice, and they finally have a 3.5mm headphone jack. Along with a 4GB hard drive. Before we know it we will be all carrying around tens of Gigs of capacity with us, what are we going to fill it…
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Firefox doubles market share as IE slips
A fellow Gavin writes in the Register that: Janco Associates found IE had 83.7 per cent of the market for this month, down from 84.85 per cent, while Firefox grew from 4.23 per cent to 10.28 per cent. Janco believes Firefox could take 25 per cent market share in the next quarter. Separately, Infocraft reported…
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