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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Virginia Woolf on reading
Via Brain Pickings, a recap of Virginia Woolf’s advice on how to read a book: “Woolf — an eloquent champion of the joy of reading — considers reading not a means to some intellectual end, but an intellectual and creative reward in itself.”Amazon.com Widgets
Will robots do to jobs what Deep Blue did to Garry Kasparov and Watson to Ken Jennings?
Two items: A driverless truck from Mercedes. Robot construction workers for Google’s headquarters. What are the ramifications for jobs in these sectors? What must people do to adjust?
A New Birth of Reason
Via Arts & Letters Daily and American Scholar: Ingersoll emerged as the leading figure in what historians of American secularism consider the golden age of freethought—an era when immigration, industrialization, and science, especially Charles Darwin’s theory of...
Made on the Moon: 3D Printing, Lunar-Style
Via Popular Mechanics: …researchers led by Washington State University mechanical engineering professor Amit Bandyopadhyay have shown that future moon explorers might be able to fabricate new parts simply by pouring that regolith into the hopper of a 3D printer. The...
Made on the Moon: 3D Printing, Lunar-Style
Via Popular Mechanics: …researchers led by Washington State University mechanical engineering professor Amit Bandyopadhyay have shown that future moon explorers might be able to fabricate new parts simply by pouring that regolith into the hopper of a 3D printer. The...
American Dream Fades for Generation Y Professionals
Via Bloomberg: Generation Y professionals entering the workforce are finding careers that once were gateways to high pay and upwardly mobile lives turning into detours and dead ends. Average incomesfor individuals ages 25 to 34 have fallen 8 percent, double the adult...
American Dream Fades for Generation Y Professionals
Via Bloomberg: Generation Y professionals entering the workforce are finding careers that once were gateways to high pay and upwardly mobile lives turning into detours and dead ends. Average incomesfor individuals ages 25 to 34 have fallen 8 percent, double the adult...
Georgia Tech building ‘Decepticons’
Via Fox News: The Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing professor took this crafty squirrel strategy and applied it to robots. His detailed research was published in this month’s IEEE Intelligent Systems, funded by the Office of Naval Research. Arkin’s robot...