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Windows 8 Is Dead! No, It’s Thriving!
What is going on with Windows 8? Actually, what is going on with the response to Windows 8?
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Joi Ito's Near-Perfect Explanation of the Next 100 Years
“One hundred years from now, the role of science and technology will be about becoming part of nature rather than trying to control it.”
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Response to My Readers: Religion and Science
My blog about science illiteracy two days ago has fomented a mini-tempest–and some thoughts.
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Al Gore's Inconvenient Plan
One hundred percent renewable energy won’t come as easily as he thinks.
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Fermi Paradox Points to Fewer Than 10 Extraterrestrial Civilizations
The absence of alien probes visiting the solar system places severe limits on the number of advanced civilizations that could be exploring the galaxy.
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216 Million Americans Are Scientifically Illiterate (Part I)
The good news: America’s science literacy rate is up from a pathetic 10 percent in 1988. The bad news: it’s still only 28 percent.
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Windows 8 Officially Sucks. But So Does Every Other PC Interface
Usability expert Jakob Nielsen pans Windows 8’s redesign. But has a truly intuitive desktop UI ever existed?
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EmTech Preview: Another Way to Think about Learning
Why I hope kids in Ethiopia can teach the rest of us something profound about education.
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Even Without Accounting Gimmicks, Electric-Car Maker Tesla is Now Profitable
To stay profitable, Tesla needs to keep cutting costs and selling more cars.
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