From the bleeding edge of the
"The meaning of life is to improve the quality of all life"
battle front:
Jeff McMahan wrote in
"The Meat Eaters"
about the question of our moral responsibility when it comes to our ability to control predators in nature, and he later followed it up with
"Predators: A Response"
, responding to the commotion of absurd and offensive comments the article had received (from people that obviously hadn't read the article, or who didn't pay attention while reading it).
Thank you, Jeff McMahan, for doing all that legwork.
3.10.2010, 15:36
9.11.2010, 22:46
The Alpha project
at CERN
was able to trap 38 antihydrogen atoms in a vacuum for more than a tenth of a second and up to one sixth of a second. Given they had to fiddle with 10 million antiprotons and 700 million positrons in order to get there, I'm wondering how many petabytes of data they collected in the process.
Of course, I'm also wondering what will eventually come from this research. Driving a car for 100 thousand years on a kilogram of sugar would be cool ;-) ...then again, at the rate we use up natural resources, there would be not much left of the universe in no time.
17.11.2010, 23:58
Denis Simonets and the Swiss Pirate Party have
given Wikileaks a new home online
using their wikileaks.ch domain this morning, after the DNS provider decided to drop service for Wikileak's .ORG domain from its servers.
Switzerland has been getting more and more entangled in the Wikileaks controversy for a while already, with Andi Fink providing
his companies services for processing donation
payments for Wikileaks, and the Swiss Pirate Party having last month decided to "officially"
offer Julian Assange all their support,
particularly in regards to a possible request for political asylum in Switzerland.
3.12.2010, 12:06
Amy Goodman's exclusive election day interview with Bill Clinton on
democracynow.org,
where an intended quick two minutes call-in turns into a hard hitting 30 minutes interview:
(skip to the second half of the hour)
8.11.2000
17.12.2010, 08:11
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