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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...
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...
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...
Army successfully tests truck-mounted laser to stop mortars, drones
Via CSMonitor.com: The Army has, for the first time, used a truck-mounted laser weapon to stop a barrage of 90 incoming mortars and several drones in mid-flight. Defense officials at the Army Space and Missile Defense Command hailed it as a “big step” in the...
Army successfully tests truck-mounted laser to stop mortars, drones
Via CSMonitor.com: The Army has, for the first time, used a truck-mounted laser weapon to stop a barrage of 90 incoming mortars and several drones in mid-flight. Defense officials at the Army Space and Missile Defense Command hailed it as a “big step” in the...
A Cybernetic Implant That Repairs Brain Damage
Via io9: a team of neuroscientists from Case Western Reserve University and the University of Kansas Medical Center have devised a solution that appears to work in rats. It's an implantable prosthesis called a brain-machine-brain interface that serves as a closed-loop...