Here’s a version of the famous Think Different commercial narrated by Steve Jobs…this never aired on TV.

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The “pro-innumeracy” part from Cory Doctrow’s article:
“Ironically, the money to restore Bletchley has come from the lottery, a government-run system designed to reinforce and exploit statistical innumeracy of the sort that Bletchley’s cryptographers overcame in order to help win the war. “

The new Blackfriars railway station, being built on the foundations of a Victorian bridge spanning the River Thames in London, has started to have the first of over 4,400 solar panels installed on its roof.

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Feynman talking and staggering nature photography. Just great.

This may sound like a crazy plan, but it was discussed quite seriously last week by a group of scientists and engineers at the California Institute of Technology. The four-day workshop was dedicated to investigating the feasibility and requirements of capturing a near-Earth asteroid, bringing it closer to our planet and using it as a base for future manned spaceflight missions.

This is not something the scientists are imagining could be done some day off … Read More → "Send a robot into space. Grab an asteroid. Bring it back to Earth."

IBM isn’t resting on its laurels as the newly-crowned second-most valuable technology company in the world.

Big Blue is working hard to make sure that the next decade is its biggest yet in computing advances, with projects in the works to create the world’s most powerful supercomputer and one with the same number of nodes as the human brain.

“Computer systems are becoming more bioinspired,” said John Kelly, IBM’s senior vice president and director of research at a briefing on Capitol Hill Tuesday.

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There’s a huge gap between the general public’s image of robots from movies and TV versus what robots are actually capable of doing in real life. The SlateV video below looks at some of those differences. via SlateV

Why? The reason they cite is for the purpose of tracking 911 calls. Whether or not that’s just a smokescreen depends on your personal level of paranoia and frequency of illegal activites. Currently, if a non-GPS enabled phone dials 911, the provider has to triangulate the location, which is annoying and inefficient, apparently. Straight up GPS is just much better for figuring out exactly where you are, however that makes you feel. via Geekosystem

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Interesting article over at Wired:

A new study, forthcoming in Psychological Science, and led by Jason Moser at Michigan State University, expands on this important concept. The question at the heart of the paper is simple: Why are some people so much more effective at learning from their mistakes? After all, everybody screws up. The important part is what … Read More → "Why do some people learn faster?"