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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Community of ChristiansCurrently reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Life Together, his essays about Christians living in community with each other. He wrote this in 1930s Germany when Hitler's government had coopted the Christian church and outlawed dissenting churches. He...
Community of ChristiansCurrently reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Life Together, his essays about Christians living in community with each other. He wrote this in 1930s Germany when Hitler's government had coopted the Christian church and outlawed dissenting churches. He...
The next Detroit? Atlantic City and Las Vegas facing catastrophic collapse
Via Drudge and Fox: …the niche that Las Vegas and Atlantic City once offered as a gambling and entertainment hub is heading toward the dustbin of history.Time will tell if these two cities will end up like Detroit. However, the fact that they are losing their biggest...
New robotic `muscle` thousand times stronger
Via Drudge and Z News: Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in US demonstrated a micro-sized robotic torsional muscle/motor made from vanadium dioxide that is able to catapult very heavy objects over a distance five times its length within 60...
New robotic `muscle` thousand times stronger
Via Drudge and Z News: Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in US demonstrated a micro-sized robotic torsional muscle/motor made from vanadium dioxide that is able to catapult very heavy objects over a distance five times its length within 60...
Facebook self-censorship: What happens to the posts you don’t publish?#!#!
Via Slate: Das and Kramer argue that self-censorship can be bad because it withholds valuable information. If someone chooses not to post, they claim, "[Facebook] loses value from the lack of content generation." After all, Facebook shows you ads based on what you...
Facebook self-censorship: What happens to the posts you don’t publish?#!#!
Via Slate: Das and Kramer argue that self-censorship can be bad because it withholds valuable information. If someone chooses not to post, they claim, "[Facebook] loses value from the lack of content generation." After all, Facebook shows you ads based on what you...
Isaac Asimov Robot Predictions
Via Business Insider: Isaac Asimov grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., reading pulp sci-fi magazines in his father's candy store. Because the magazines had "science" in the title, he was able to convince his father that it was educational. It was the 1930s, and the popular...