General Science

The coming nuclear renaissance

polymeme — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:19:13 -0400

THE BOSTON GLOBE : Thirty years ago this month, an accident at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania inflamed public opposition to nuclear power... READ MORE

Media distortion damages both science and journalism

polymeme — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:19:13 -0400

NEW SCIENTIST : WHEN media reports state that scientist X of Y university has discovered that A is linked to B... READ MORE

Can space tourism survive the economic downturn?

polymeme — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:19:13 -0400

WWW.THESPACEREVIEW.COM : The travel and tourism industry worldwide is suffering: one only has to see the number of great travel deals being offered by airlines and hotels to understand that things are pretty bad... READ MORE

Introducing the new Huffington Post Investigative Fund

polymeme — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:19:13 -0400

PRESSTHINK : "The announcement of its birth, along with the $1.75 million starter budget, is really the launch of a new Internet-based news organization with a focus on original reporting... READ MORE

Eroding our intellectual infrastructure

polymeme — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:33:30 -0400

SCIENCE BLOGS : One of the challenges facing the country right now in this time of economic crisis is that we're also about to be confronted by the result of a decade of neglect of the nation's infrastructur... READ MORE

The Civil Heretic

polymeme — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:20:07 -0400

NEW YORK TIMES : FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY the eminent physicist Freeman Dyson has quietly resided in Princeton, N.J., on the wooded former farmland that is home to his employer... READ MORE

Meteorites in Africa Traced to Asteroid "Parent"

polymeme — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:00:08 -0400

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC : For the first time, astronomers have been able to track down meteorites from an asteroid spotted before it broke up in Earth's atmosphere... READ MORE

How my genome was hacked

polymeme — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:00:08 -0400

NEW SCIENTIST : INTIMATE secrets hidden in your DNA could be stolen without you even realising. By taking a glass from which you have drunk... READ MORE

Astronomy: The rock that fell to Earth

polymeme — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:00:07 -0400

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP : Around midnight on 6 October 2008, a white dot flitted across the screen of Richard Kowalski's computer at an observatory atop Mount Lemmon in Arizona... READ MORE

The Future of Machine Intelligence

polymeme — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:58:04 -0400

WWW.HPLUSMAGAZINE.COM : In early March 2009, 100 intellectual adventurers journeyed from various corners of Europe, Asia, America and Australasia to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Arlington Virginia, to take part in the Second Conference on Artificial General Intelligence... READ MORE