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What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 2012?

“That means that all these examples from 1955 are only the tip of the iceberg. If the pre-1978 law were still in …

A Spacecraft For the Future

DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) recently issued an RFI to support a project to last at least 100 years concerning building …

Why women really are better at almost everything: Q&A with author Dan Abrams (shine.yahoo.com)

I’ve been saying this for almost all of my life. It’s pretty obvious if you pay attention. Why women really are better …

Dying is Easy. Comedy is Hard « Quote Investigator

I don’t think we’ll ever have the definitive answer, but the evidence presented here does point to Gwenn. I’m comfortable with that. …

Is 3-D a Fad or a Stepping Stone?

It’s all the rage. All the cool studios are doing it. What’s not to like about 3-D movies and TV? Well, a lot, but I just don’t want to be a naysayer. It’s possible that 3-D will stick around this time for it to develop into something still only seen in SF movies.

10 Interesting Futuristic Materials

Science is just so cool, sometimes. (Well, most of the time.) Accelerating Future » 10 Interesting Futuristic Materials

Stanford Researchers Make Batteries Out of Ink and Paper | Fast Company

OK. This is just stupid cool. Stanford Researchers Make Batteries Out of Ink and Paper

Believe – Part 3, Having Vision

Any intelligence is effectively useless without an ability to perceive that which is external to the intelligence. The key to vision isn’t the how of image gathering, but the processing and interpretation of the images gathered.

Believe – Part 2, The Necessity of Chaos

Construction of our AAI will require many elements to work together for sentience to be achieved. The glue we will use comes from chaos theory.

Believe – The General Purpose AAI Robot Project – Part 1, Overview

Who doesn’t want to build a really smart robot? The trouble is, many people don’t think outside the box enough. Me? I don’t think it needs to be a box. I say we start designing for the possibilities soon to come instead of holding ourselves back.

T:TSCC 0211 – Self Made Man

Analysis and opinions of the season 2 episode “Self Made Man” from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Noting with Wiki

I finished the first draft of the latest SF novel at the end of this summer, and was faced with the always …

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