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Image via Wikipedia I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image .   -   Stephen Hawking Related articles When Stephen Hawking Met Einstein, Newton and Data (blogs.forbes.com) Jane Fonda Meets Stephen Hawking (towleroad.com) Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow's Inadvertent Proof for God (trustinjesus.wordpress.com) Stephen Hawking And Richard Dawkins Singing About Big Bang (current.com)

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Image via Wikipedia Observations:  Attention, Ann Coulter:  Report to aisle 5 for radiation clean-up No good evidence exists for hormesis in human epidemiology, either. In her column, Coulter mentions that Japan 's atom bomb survivors lived longer than average. But that longevity has an easy explanation: the survivors received greater medical care over the course of their lives after the bombing. And although she correctly points out that identifying Chernobyl radiation deaths is tough , her analysis on the excess thyroid cancer cases is strange: she concludes that they resulted from iodine deficiency . I presume she means that more iodine (like what you might get in potassium iodide pills) would have prevented the radioactive isotopes created by the Chernobyl meltdown from getting into the thyroid. So yeah, it's the diet's fault--riiiiight. Related articles Attention, Ann Coulter: Report to aisle 5 for radiation clean-up (scientificame...

Image via Wikipedia AnnCoulter.com - Printer Friendly Article: A GLOWING REPORT ON RADIATION A GLOWING REPORT ON RADIATION by Ann Coulter March 16, 2011 With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan , the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer. ========================================================================================================= aha, . . . aha,  . . . . . a-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA  . . . !  :-) .. .ero . Related articles Ann Coulter, Nuclear Physicist, Says Radiation is 'Good for You' (laist.com) Ann Coulter: Radiation Is 'Good For You' (huffingtonpost.com) Is Ann Coulter Bereft of Sense? (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com) Ann Coulter: "Radiation Is Good for You!" Really (slog.thestranger.com) Ann Coulter: Radiation Is Good For You (alan.com) ANN COULTER: Don't Believe...

Image via Wikipedia Radiation: When to worry - CNN.com Nausea and vomiting are usually the initial symptoms of radiation sickness . A very severe exposure can lead to them within 10 minutes; dizziness , weakness, and low blood pressure may begin immediately. If the radiation exposure is mild, a person might not start experiencing these symptoms for up to six hours.  Check out this Mayo Clinic chart, under "symptoms" for more information about how various levels of radiation might affect a person. The simple removal of clothes and shoes eliminates about 90% of external radiation contamination , according to the Mayo Clinic, and washing with soap and water takes radiation off the skin. This lowers your risk of breathing or ingesting radiation particles, or having them get into open wounds. .. . Related articles Radiation sickness: Who's most at risk? (cbsnews.com) Infection is main risk for most with radiation sickness (ctv.ca) Radiation Exposure...

Image via Wikipedia Alpha the Robot Related articles Most Annoying Robot Of The Day (geeks.thedailywh.at) A drunk robot (linecirclesphere.com) How Do People Respond To Being Touched By a Robot? (hardware.slashdot.org) We Welcome You, Robotic Pharmacist (switched.com) In Which We Confused a Robot For a Human (narmer.wordpress.com) STUDY: How Do Humans Respond To A Robot's Touch? SPOILER: I'd Scream (geekologie.com) Robots Are Starting To Look Human! (ksfm.radio.com) Watch A Robot Really Go Nuts On An iPhone Game (gizmodo.com.au) How can robots get our attention? (esciencenews.com)

Image via Wikipedia Pi to 1,000,000 places 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273 724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609...

Image via Wikipedia Partial Meltdowns Presumed at Crippled Reactors - NYTimes.com “The entire town was enriched by Tokyo Power,” she said, referring to the company that runs the plant, which is 12 miles from her home. “I thought they picked a safe and secure location. So instead of opposing the nuclear plant , I felt more security. “Now I realize it’s a scary thing.” .. . Related articles Nuclear plant explosion releases radiation, raises meltdown fears following earthquake. (VIDEO) (slate.com) Japan Nuclear Plant Explosion,Nuclear Plant Meltdown Fears Confirmed (socialdiets.wordpress.com) Japan Tries to Cool Unstable Reactor, Avert 'Three Mile Island' (businessweek.com) Nuclear Power Plants Shut Down Across Japan; State Of Emergency Declared At Five (crooksandliars.com) Nuclear plant meltdown 'possible' (mirror.co.uk)

Image via Wikipedia Arranging the Solutions of f(x+y+z) = xyz Arranging the Solutions of f(x+y+z) = xyz For any quadratic polynomial f(s) = as 2 + bs + c with integer coefficients a,b,c, consider the Diophantine equation f(x+y+z) = xyz. In other words, for fixed integers a,b,c we have the equation If there exists a solution x,y,z to this equation, then z is a root of the quadratic This can also be written in the form Interestingly, we have z 2 = f(x+y)/a for a solution (x,y,z) if and only if (x,y) is a solution of f '(x+y) = xy. Related articles Graphing Equations (trigandstuff.wordpress.com) Game Changing Conjectures In Mathematics (rjlipton.wordpress.com) Pre Calculus:::: (trigandstuff.wordpress.com) The del Ferro-Tartaglia-Cardano solution of the cubic (talkmath.wordpress.com) Large values of the Gowers-Host-Kra seminorms (terrytao.wordpress.com) Quadratic Residues - I (mathematicaldreams.wordpress.com) Monday Math: Infinite Descent ...

Image via Wikipedia How to Celebrate Pi Day - wikiHow Celebrated on March 14 at 1:59pm, Pi Day is a special day in the lives of many people devoted to Pi. In much the same way that people celebrate Valentine's Day or National Pancake Day, people around the world gather in the shape whose ratio of its circumference to its diameter is the most revered mathematical constant in the known universe. If you're keen to become a part of the Pi Day celebrations, just follow the steps for making this day memorable to one and all.

Image via Wikipedia 'Two suns' spotted in China defy explanation - Technology & science - Space - Space.com - msnbc.com The double sun image is an effect of optical refraction, Kaler said, but it's a "pretty darn rare" one, and one not fully explained by science. Related articles 'Two suns' spotted in China defy explanation (fmiyar.com) China's 'Two Suns' Video Unexplained By Science (space.com) Refractive Index launched... (georgewigmore.wordpress.com) Will Betelgeuse Really Become a Second Sun in 2012? (space.com) Science struggles to explain China's "two suns" (holykaw.alltop.com)

Image via Wikipedia Google Nukes Rogue Android Apps On Users’ Devices - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall - Forbes “We are remotely removing the malicious applications from affected devices. This remote application removal feature is one of many security controls the Android team can use to help protect users from malicious applications,” . . . {this is one of the reasons that i find my new phone so scary, the other is that i don't know how to use it, but that's another story} . . . Related articles Google Responds to Android Malware with Remote App Removal (readwriteweb.com) Google using remote kill switch to swat Android malware apps (arstechnica.com)

Image by Getty Images via @daylife Steve Jobs' post-PC credo - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough. That it's technology married with liberal arts , married with the humanities , that yields us the result that makes our hearts sing. {and here all along i was thinking that it was money that makes our hearts sing.} ~~ ero Related articles Steve Jobs' post-PC credo (tech.fortune.cnn.com) "It's tech married with the liberal arts and the humanities" (adafruit.com) Why Apple's DNA puts the iPad 2 ahead of the competition (edibleapple.com) 2011: Year of the iPad 2, a Next Generation Post-PC Product Revealed in Wednesday's Presentation (wainess.wordpress.com) Steve Jobs: Tablets Are Not PCs And Our Competitors Don't Get It (AAPL, GOOG, RIMM, HPQ, MSFT) (businessinsider.com) Apple's Jobs to rivals: You're nerds, we're not (news.cnet.com)

Image via Wikipedia Aliens on earth? Nasa scientist claims to have found out-of-this-world bacteria which could hold the key to our existence | Mail Online Looking at these meteorites under microscopes he said he has found numerous different fossils of bacteria – some which are similar to ones on earth and others which are complete, um, alien. He suggests that meteors spread organisms around the universe and that life on earth could have been planted by bacteria in an asteroid hitting the planet in its infancy. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1363395/Aliens-earth-Nasa-scientist-claims-world-bacteria-hold-key-existence.html#ixzz1FlyDlYc8 Related articles Alien Life Found On Earth? (merovee.wordpress.com) Aliens on earth? Nasa scientist claims to have found out-of-this-world bacteria which could hold the key to our existence (dailymail.co.uk) NASA Scientist Finds Extraterrestiral Microbial Life In Meteorite - where did the DNA come from? (...