WEB BOHEMIAN
Weekend Edition (Saturday/Sunday, November 24-25, 2012)
(1)- TRY
SOME OTHER PLACE! – There are obvious benefits from rejection. A survey of
the prepublication histories of papers reveals that manuscripts that are
rejected then resubmitted are cited more often.
(2)- WHY MINT? --
To sweeten the breath, medieval Europeans could crush herbs into their tooth
scrub or vinegar mouthwash; mint was sometimes used for this purpose, but so
were rosemary, parsley, and sage. And now?
(3)- SHALE
-- How cheap energy from shale will reshape America's role in the world. US
self-sufficiency in energy is likely to end American reliance on despotic Gulf
regimes but biggest loser of all may be Russia.
(4)- SISTENE
-- This year we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the unveiling of
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling. No matter how familiar the images, few
visitors have not felt awe standing under it.
(5)- SURVIVING
AN AVALANCHE -- What started as a glorious powder day ended in a desperate
fight for survival after three skiers were buried by a killer avalanche in the
backcountry of the Washington's Cascades.
(6)- MARKOVIAN
PARALAX DENIGRATE -- How conspiracy theory links the internet’s first spam
with a woman who posed as a CIA agent and was convicted of receiving funds from
Saddam Hussein’s government.
(7)- WHEN
THE NERDS GO MARCHING IN – This is an article describing how a dream team
of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google built the software that drove
Barack Obama's reelection.
(8)- NOAM
CHOMSKY -- He describes here where
artificial intelligence went wrong, saying “It could be that neuroscience for
the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.”
(9)- RAY
KURZWEIL’S THEORY OF MIND -- He claims his “pattern recognition theory of
mind” describes the basic algorithm of the region of the brain responsible for
perception, memory, and critical thinking.
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