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Wednesday, 25 November 2015

#top100 #scifi Num:101 The Children of the Sky

@VernorVinge - Not his best, but alien aliens and lots of good conceptual stuff. 



Vernor Vinge - The Children of the Sky

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Tuesday, 10 November 2015

A.G.C.T.X.Y. DNA goes from 4 to 6 letters.

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Friday, 6 November 2015

Crows Know Death

While the idea of a Crow funeral is unnerving, I'm impressed how much performance they get out of their tiny brains. 
Favorite quote: ‘I don’t care what you say, I’m calling the police.’ 

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Wednesday, 14 October 2015

Schrödingers Germ

It's all just atoms in the end but this does feel like a milestone.



“Although it has attracted enormous interest, no quantum superposition state of an organism has been realized."

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Sunday, 11 October 2015

Thursday, 10 September 2015

Odious Debt




"The rising tide of debt cannot be explained by a rising tide of laziness or irresponsibility. The debt is systemic and inescapable. It isn’t fair, and people know it."

"Radical proposals such as these bear in common a recognition that money, like property and debt, is a sociopolitical construct. It is a social agreement mediated by symbols: numbers on slips of paper, bits in computers. It is not an immutable feature of reality to which we can but adapt. The agreements that we call money and debt can be changed. To do so, however, will require a movement that contests the immutability of the current system and explores alternatives to it."



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Cyberhavior