Placebo effect - only subjective perception, or objective results? [09 Jan 08]
Happiness may be good for your health | Health | Reuters
[02 Jan 08]
Edge
Thought-provoking essays. [01 Jan 08]
World outsources pregnancies to India
Clinic in India which provides surrogate mothers for couples worldwide. [30 Dec 07]
William McDonough presentation at Bioneers 2000
Excellent talk by this architect about a different perspective to designing things. "If I find myself going to Canada but I'm supposed to go to Mexico, it's not help me to slow down to 20." "Is effeciency good? Not if you're a Nazi!" [27 Dec 07]
Predicting The Future
Great essay by Alan Kay about great design and good ideas. "how smart you had to be in Roman times to multiply two numbers together; only geniuses did it. We haven't gotten any smarter, we've just changed our representation system." [24 Dec 07]
TED | Talks | Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen (video)
This talk is great because the data visualization is awesome (has been acquired by Google) the facts presented will challenge many pre-concieved notions you may have. [19 Dec 07]
The Island of Doubt
"All newly built homes to produce more energy than they consume by 2020." [20 Nov 07]
The Political Compass - Test
[09 Nov 07]
Technology in India and China
economist.com [08 Nov 07]
Charles Darwin: Religious belief
[06 Nov 07]
Mirror neurons, Altruism, Neuroscience | Salon News
[05 Nov 07]
What the Founding Fathers Meant by "Militia"
[18 Oct 07]
Anti-Terrorism Cartoons in the Arab Press
[18 Oct 07]
Milgram experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[17 Oct 07]
Going to the Mattresses - By Seth Stevenson - Slate Magazine
[13 Oct 07]
Features of Common Lisp (by Abhishek Reddy)
[08 Oct 07]
The obscure game-theory problem that explains why rich countries are rich. - By Tim Harford - Slate Magazine
[03 Oct 07]
Clinical depression | Something in the way he moves | Economist.com
[28 Sep 07]
Sam Sedaei: Smartest Man in the Room - Politics on The Huffington Post
[26 Sep 07]
Scientists Spot Brain's 'Free Will' Center on Yahoo! Health
[24 Sep 07]
Nathan Gonzalez: Who's Our Enemy Again? - Politics on The Huffington Post
[17 Sep 07]
Pagoda: A first-class plugin-based content management system
[16 Sep 07]
Great Quotes about God and Government
[14 Sep 07]
EE - Extension languages for Python
[12 Sep 07]