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Palin Choice

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:31:44 GMT

Comment by Ethylene Beard

I can’t stop laughing! I bet the imodium sales went up in Denver this morning.

What a weapon. Nothing like a beautiful, classy, charming, intelligent, high morals and good character, tough, NRA, huntin & fishin Tom Boy woman to be first VP and lined up to move right into the Presidential slot in 2012. She is not only a woman who will stick by her guns, she has a good lookin husband as the First First Husband who is not threatened by a strong woman.

McCain's VP Choice a Marginal Creationist

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:45:41 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: To be fair, it doesn't appear that McCain's pick for VP is a dyed-in-the-wool creationist but she still believes in the absurd notion that biblical creationism has a ligitimate place in the science classroom. Her ridiculous "teach the controversy" stance is of course the back door ploy by religious fanatics to gain a toehold in public classrooms. I don't see them siding with Native American's to teach their particular creation myth.

Clip Source: scienceblogs.com

Intelligent Design and the Alaska Governor's Race

The volatile issue of teaching creation science in public schools popped up in the Alaska governor's race this week when Republican Sarah Palin said she thinks creationism should be taught alongside evolution in the state's public classrooms.
Palin was answering a question from the moderator near the conclusion of Wednesday night's televised debate on KAKM Channel 7 when she said, 'Teach both. You know, don't be afraid of information. Healthy debate is so important, and it's so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both.'

Asked for her personal views on evolution, Palin said, "I believe we have a creator."

She would not say whether her belief also allowed her to accept the theory of evolution as fact.

"I'm not going to pretend I know how all this came to be," she said.

Tags: creationism, science, biology, religion, evolution

good note

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:58:22 GMT

clipped by: mzgeshia

Clip Source: rescomp.stanford.edu

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

Herbal Cancer Treatments

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:38:48 GMT

clipped by: witness4yah

Clip Source: www.cancersalves.com

Herbal Cancer Treatments

On this site, there are over 100 pages that provide only information. There are also about 30 pages that discuss herbs and herbal products that can be used to support different aspects of cancer treatment. Though some of the products are available to practitioners through Sacred Medicine Sanctuary, there is no sales pitch, merely intelligent explanations of the herbal remedies as they have been used by skilled practitioners historically and in the present.

A wealth of material on diet, life style, and psychospiritual approaches to healing that can be used in conjunction with cancer treatment can also be found on this site though much of this material is being transferred to cancerchecklist.com where the scope of discussion is wider.

Android emotion

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:05:13 GMT

clipped by: jgisme11

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Kim Jong-Hwan, the director of the ITRC-Intelligent Robot Research Centre, has developed a series of artificial chromosomes that, he says, will allow robots to feel lusty,

Until now, most researchers in this field have focused only on the functionality of the machines, but we think in terms of the essence of the creatures." That "essence" is a computer code, which determines a robot's propensity to "feel" happy, sad, angry, sleepy, hungry or afraid. Kim says this software is modelled on human DNA, though equivalent to a single strand of genetic code rather than the complex double helix of a real chromosome.

David Hatcher Childress: Extraterrestrial Archaeology

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:49:28 GMT

clipped by: WIDEEYECINEMA

Clip Source: www.sigh7ings.com

David Hatcher Childress: Extraterrestrial Archaeology

David Hatcher Childress lectures using official NASA and Soviet photos, as well as other photos taken via telescope. Childress seeks to prove that many of the planets (and moons) of our solar system are in some way inhabited by intelligent life. The presentation includes many blow-ups of NASA photos and detailed diagrams and structures–particularly on the Moon.

Tags: ufo

10 Questions, and Answers, About Evolution

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:23:55 GMT

clipped by: jedipunk

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

“Ten questions to ask your biology teacher about evolution,” a document by Jonathan Wells, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based group that advocates intelligent design, aims to highlight the weaknesses in evolutionary theory. Here are his questions, along with responses compiled by the National Center for Science Education. More questions can be found on Dr. Wells’s site, http://www.iconsofevolution.com/ More information about biological evolution can be found at http://nationalacademies.org/evolution/.

Tags: science, evolution

Pioneering Research in Neuromorphic Electronics that Function Like the Biological Brain

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:36:58 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: The HRL team's ultimate goal is to build a low-power, compact electronic chip combining a novel analog circuit design and a neuroscience-inspired architecture that can address a wide range of cognitive abilities--perception, planning, decision making, and motor control. In the initial two phases of the SyNAPSE program, the team will translate the neuronal and synaptic functions of the biological cortex into similar microelectronic functions.

Clip Source: www.alzheimer.ca

Clip Source: www.prweb.com

HRL Laboratories, LLC, will begin pioneering research to develop electronics that will simulate the cognitive capabilities and efficiencies of the biological brain.

The daunting undertaking is part of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's (DARPA) SyNAPSE, or Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics, program. HRL will lead a group of industry and university research laboratories with expertise in core areas of neuro and cognitive science in the groundbreaking research.

Despite exponential advances in computing technology over the last decade, the limitations of hardware and architecture prohibit computers from functioning independently in real-world scenarios. The goal of the SyNAPSE program is to bridge biology and electronics and establish a new paradigm for creating more intelligent machines that can interact with, react to, and actually learn from their environments.

Tags: technology, neuromorphic electronics, electronics

The Intelligent Asset Allocator

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:49:56 GMT

clipped by: jay-o

Clip Source: www.amazon.com

The Intelligent Asset Allocator: How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk (Hardcover)

Tags: book.to.buy

Web 2.0 definition updated and Enterprise 2.0 emerges

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:34:09 GMT

clipped by: akipta

Clip Source: blogs.zdnet.com

SLATES describes the combined use of effective enterprise search and discovery, using links to connect information together into a meaningful information ecosystem using the model of the Web, providing low-barrier social tools for public authorship of enterprise content, tags to let users create emergent organizational structure, extensions to spontaneously provide intelligent content suggestions similar to Amazon's recommendation system, and signals to let users know when enterprise information they care about has been published or updated, such as when a corporate RSS feed of interest changes.

While SLATES forms the basic framework of Enterprise 2.0, it does not negate all of the higher level Web 2.0 design patterns and business models.

Tags: slates web2.0 enterprise2.0 hinchcliffe.dion

Labour rotting away?

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:25:00 GMT

clipped by: notareargunner
clipper's remarks: The only person I have heard eulogising over this pathetic British Government was a former artilleryman, a Labour Councillor on Blackpool's council, in a so-called debate on selecting 12 Rgt RA as Blackpool's adopted regiment. He made me want to vomit. Had his 9 years service not taught him to think for himself? From that performance it appears very unlikely.
The debate was an insult to intelligent oratory . It culminated in the heroic Major of the Conservative Party giving the worst two minute speech ever heard. The soporific mutterings were almost intelligible because the Chambers seemed to be engrossed in the fact that they may get more expenses as fresh legislation had just been introduced, requiring the Council to form a fresh licensing committee. If you think Westminster stinks, take a night off and go and visit your local council chamber. The great pity is that too few people attend these public events. You can also speak, if you apply to do so. try it, you cannot do a

Clip Source: www.epolitix.com

New Labour has 'run its course', says senior MP

A senior Labour backbencher has said New Labour has "run its course" and that Gordon Brown must show "strength, will and purpose" to renew the government.

In an interview with ePolitix.com, schools committee chairman Barry Sheerman also said that he "very much doubted" that the embattled prime minister would face a leadership challenge.

Tags: labour, debate, 12regimentra

"Military AI could rule the Internet"

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:07:45 GMT

clipped by: cakebelly
clipper's remarks: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/08/military-ai-cou.html

Clip Source: blog.wired.com

Military AI Could Rule the Internet

As if it wasn't bad enough for the military to muck about with mind control, they're also bent on creating an online, self-teaching artificial intelligence.

Hasn't anyone in the Pentagon watched The Terminator?

Of the various possible types of AI, the "most revolutionary would be an intelligent machine that uses the Internet to train," write the authors of a military-commissioned National Research Council report on emerging cognitive neuroscience. With so much information online and constantly updated, "If a system that reasoned like a human being could be achieved, there would be no limit to augmenting its capabilities."

Skynet, anyone? What self-respecting, self-sufficient AI wouldn't see CO2-spewing humans as a threat to its existence?

Corporations in Brain Drain - Will Boomers Help?

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:23:23 GMT

clipped by: bookchick49
clipper's remarks: Quote excerpt: "Companies historically haven't been proactive in getting older workers to train younger workers to do their jobs. "

It is my (humble) opinion that the work ethics of the younger workers have changed over the years. When I walk by a (younger) worker's desk and see them surfing the web or iPhoning, iTuning and iChatting on company time, it pisses me off.

Whatever happened to asking a co-worker who is swamped, if they could use some help? It's called "Team Work" and I haven't seen much of it coming from the younger crowd.

I also see more bully attitudes. Those of us that have been working our asses off over the years don't appreciate this attitude in the work place nor do we have time to deal with it because we're 'busy.' Hello?

And what's this crap excuse "It's not my job," or "that isn't in my job description."

I had one young gal working with me, in college, bright and intelligent and took initiative. Quick learner. However, everything she did

Clip Source: www.walletpop.com

America's corporate brain drain accelerates

Tracy Coenen
Aug 18th 2008 at 12:00PM

Did you know that the United States is in the beginning stages of a major brain drain? Baby boomers are starting to retire, and along with them goes a whole lot of knowledge. Experts predict that we're going to have a serious talent shortage very soon because of the retirement of so many experienced workers.

There are about 76 million baby boomers poised to retire, and companies are looking for ways to lure them into staying longer

Companies historically haven't been proactive in getting older workers to train younger workers to do their jobs. They're finally realizing how critical this knowledge transfer may be to their businesses long-term

Studies show that many older Americans would like to continue working some, but would like flexibility and a fair amount of leisure time blended into their work lives

Transformers - The Nature of Alien Life

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:52:47 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: The driving factor is a pragmatic desire to improve mental capacity. Alien beings may have already reached a point in their evolution where, having exhausted the potential of their biological brains, they have taken the next logical step and opted for robotic brains equipped with artificial intelligence. This brain swap may not be as far off for humans as one might think. In only a few decades, the computer revolution here on Earth has produced supercomputers capable of performing more than a quadrillion calculations per second.

According to research by Hans Moravec, an artificial-intelligence expert at Carnegie Mellon University, that rate trumps the human brain’s estimated top speed of 100 trillion calculations per second. Some scientists speculate that in a few decades, an event called the technological singularity will occur, and machines armed with computer brains will become sentient and surpass human intelligence. Civilizations equipped with technology light-years ahead

Clip Source: kemo-d7.livejournal.com

The existence of a race of sentient alien robots might be
not just possible, but inevitable.

Daniel C. Dennett points out that we do not consider chemicals to be alive. Even self-replicating crystals and clever nanobots are not "living"; we consider them to be completely mechanical. Yet we are made of these non-living, "mechanical" chemicals. Not only are we made of robots, and we still consider ourselves to be valid conscious life, but the evolution of all life is from such mindless robots.

As life is based in biology, and biology in biochemistry, chemistry is based on the cold, non-living laws of physics.

Given the current pace of development, it is easy to imagine artificial life venturing out into the universe and leaving us fragile humans behind.

In fact, we might be living in a "post-biological universe" right now, in which intelligent extraterrestrials somewhere have exchanged organic brains for artificial ones.

Tags: ai, science fiction, alien life

The dawn of intelligent machines

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:15:52 GMT

clipped by: A53GG4

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

The dawn of intelligent machines

By Maggie Shiels
Technology reporter, BBC News, San Francisco

The idea may scare some, but Intel predicts that by 2050 machines could surpass the peak of human intelligence.

So predicted Justin Rattner, chief technology officer at the chip maker, in a presentation at the Intel Developer Forum which examined how technology is expected to bridge the gap between man and machine.

The vision included sensitive robots and shape-shifting materials.

"There is no question that one of the most likely things that will happen in the next 40 years is that machine and human intelligence will come much closer together," Mr Rattner told the BBC.

"The ability of humans to communicate with machines and for machines to communicate with humans will get so much better."

Mr Kurzweil said: "That machines will be more intelligent than humans is not a question of if or when it will happen. The real question is: What will it take for us to make it happen?"

Tags: tech