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AstroTwitter To Reveal Where Telescopes Are Pointing

The success of the Twitter feed from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is leading to a new generation of scientific comunications

by kfc
Friday, July 03, 2009

How to Reduce Cell-Phone Radiation Exposure

A new network architecture could dramatically reduce the radiation exposure from cell phones.

by kfc
Thursday, July 02, 2009

Comets Seeded Earth's Early Atmosphere

The ratio of nitrogen isotopes in several comets almost exactly matches the ratio on Earth, implying that our early atmosphere probably came from a cometary bombardment.

by kfc
Wednesday, July 01, 2009

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House Passes the Climate Bill

But the bill, which includes caps on carbon dioxide emissions, is still far from becoming law.

by Kevin Bullis
Monday, June 29, 2009

AstroTwitter To Reveal Where Telescopes Are Pointing

The success of the Twitter feed from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is leading to a new generation of scientific comunications

by kfc
Friday, July 03, 2009

You can’t prove you won’t want to be there

Avi Wigderson has asked me to announce that Princeton’s recently-founded and delightfully-named...

by Scott Aaronson
Monday, June 29, 2009

Email me the expanded edition of PI!

A few people purchased the original version of Predictably Irrational since it came out in...

by Dan Ariely
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Gnip Is Hiring Software Developers

Yesterday I posted that Trada is looking for a Test Engineer.  Gnip is also looking for software...

by Brad Feld
Friday, July 03, 2009

Civilization as Experiment

From birth, parents raise us in different ways, teachers teach us in different styles, and...

by Edward Boyden
Monday, January 19, 2009

The Clean Energy Economy: A New Industrial Revolution Rising From Challenging Times

In the last five years, many venture capitalists (myself included) have committed to backing...

by Hemant Taneja
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

How To Cold Call A VC

Mark Suster of GRP Partners in LA continues to crank out great posts, including today’s titled...

by Brad Feld
Saturday, June 20, 2009

The Wranglers

Some time ago I came across the essay What became of the Senior Wranglers?, which describes the...

by Steve Hsu
Thursday, July 02, 2009

Why Twitter Doesn't Mean the End of Iranian Censorship

As a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Hal Roberts...

by Hal Roberts
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Forty-Four Things about Debating We Media on Twitter

1. Twitter is not a medium for debate. Its telegraphic form obscures. Friendfeed is little...

by Jason Pontin
Friday, May 08, 2009