Tuesday, wednesday...?

Finally finished it. Pessimistic, eloquent, anti-humanist and book of the year for a considerable number of established authors and journalists.

SP3 coming up, and it's good, Microsoft to build new Russian 'computer farm', Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on why the internet is more like electricity than gold (TED lecture), Google into renewable energy

Monday back to work... today's top TED webcasts

Stephen Petranek's top-10 ways the world could end
My favourites gotta be nr 10 (We Loose The Will To Survive) and 9 (Aliens Invade Earth)

Nick Bostrom
Hadn't seen him give a talk before, good stuff but.... what?

Jane Goodall
Hadn't seen her either, great voice

Craig Venter on making artificial microorganisms
Or him..

Bill Clinton
Good to hear he's in third-world health-care now

WIRED editor Chris Anderson on technology
More webcasts like this one pleease

"Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die"

End of the week approaching, still no learning

Bloodpressure at noon: 126/69, pulse 58. How much coffee is too much coffee? 5 cups per day? 10? 20? Sleeping problems? Shakes? Mania? Ulcers? The logic of this addiction is foreign to me. And I'm still avoiding sweetners, how cancerogenic (cervical and non-cervical) are they? There's too much milk in capuchinos, that's for sure.

Today's TED talks:
Steven Pinker on how violence has been DECLINING massively over the centuries w
The 20th century was not the most violent century the world has ever seen. Thanks, finally, a bit of sobriety.
Sherwin Neuland on his personal experience of electroconvulsive shock therapy
David Deutch on astrophysics
Jokes :)
Malcom Gladwell on what businesses can learn from the history of pasta sauce
Berry Schwartz on why increased choice on the market is making us miserable

Another wednesday

Helen Fisher on love, lust and antidepressants (TED talks, youtube)

Biological about romance without devaluing it, optimistic about equality and realistic about gender differences. Shame about the antidepressant scarecrow at the end. Says the antidepressant-induced increase in serotonin dampens the dopamine system and thus a person's ability to experience lust and love. Sure, serotonin functionally counteracts dopamine, but there are dysregulations to both systems in depression so antidepressants don't necessarily pull the brain further away from generating healthy dopaminergic responses. But hey, I might be biased.

Webby tuesday

Bob Thurman's TED talk on Buddhism
Such a character

Procrastinating monday

Funky web spider finds out how the world is feeling

Sleepy weekend

Personalized DNA analysis for $1000
Wicked!

Open Source Science
I agree.... so where is it?

Website-making tuesday

The new Intel 45nm processor kicks ass
Makes me happy just to read this

Monday back in the lab

Google software to turn phones into webbrowsers (efluxmedia.com)
To become available in the 2nd half of 2008. First OpenSocial and now this. No wonder Google stocks hit $700 recently. What's Microsoft doing?

10 big myths about copyright law explained (templetons.com)
Cleared things up a bit for me. Considered registering with CopyrightDeposit.com untill I read this.

Jetlagged sunday

Filesharing (dn.se)
The Swedish legal system's reluctance to punish file-sharing makes me proud to be Swedish. What other country would spawn a blog like this one? Non-swedes look here.

Musharraf promises elections before January 9th 2008 (dn.se)
Is the military regime necessary to keep the country from imploding or not?

EEG driven wheelchair (dn.se)
Good stuff. I may have underestimated our ability to eliminate noise from extracranial recordings, this could be huge..

Will Facebook join OpenSocial? (readwriteweb.com)
Damn good question, hard to answer (I'd put my money on yes).

Toxic Chinese toys
How the hell does liquid ecstasy get into 4.2 million kids toys by accident?

Evolution of animal personality
Short- vs long-term reproductive strategies as a basis for personality.

Finally...
What robot programmers do when bored (directneuralinterface.blogspot.com)
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