Did you know that how you smile can predict Your well-being? How fulfilling and long-lasting your marriage will be? Your ability to inspire others? How long you will live? View Ron Gutman's entertaining Ted Talk, reviewing research on the positive effects of smiling. … [Read more...]
The Singularity Is Near
05/03/2010 By
Think the pace of change is accelerating? Just wait, 'cause as the song says, You ain't seen nothin yet. Can you imagine a home computer having power equivalent to that of the human mind--or even more inexplicably--of all of humanity? According to Ray Kurzweil, such progress is likely to occur … [Read more...]
Do You WolframAlpha?
04/25/2010 By
You probably Google, but do you WolframAlpha? If not, you should and soon. WolframAlpha is an incredibly ambitious project "to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and … [Read more...]
Haiti, Camus, the Surgeon
02/11/2010 By
I can't say I really know him, but one's got to help a neighbor hasn't one? No, we should go forward, groping our way through the darkness, stumbling perhaps at times, and try to do what good lay in our power. -- Albert Camus, The Plague --------- Before I read The Plague by Albert Camus, I was … [Read more...]
