I like to look over Physics news, and to be honest, there are few articles covering elementary particles these days. It’s all about string theory, M theory, thoughts about before the big bang, gravitons, superluminal particles, and assorted other flavors of the week. I have a couple interesting links covering what could better be called [...]
Last week I threw my hat into the ring of pundits who presume to be able to foretell the future (hah!). Here are links to a few news articles (the BBC, and the Independent, which present predictions for the next 100 years. I thought my post was treading on some pretty thin ice, but 100 [...]
I have just finished an externally imposed hiatus from this blog. Somehow, my WordPress installation was corrupted while upgrading to the latest version. The net result is that I have been forced to screw around with the Htaccess file, the database, reinstalling WordPress, and looking through as much code as I could find on my [...]
I use the term ‘four year old questions’ to signify questions which are so obvious, yet elusive to answer, that most adults shy away from them. We have all considered these questions…before we had this sort of whimsical curiosity drummed out of us. As a thought experiment, try to see how many of them you [...]
This is the time of year for big lists of what the future may bring us. I’ve read, not hundreds, but at least tens of these sorts of articles during the last month. So I decided to make my own list of things and ideas, which may very well be in our short to medium [...]
I have been on the search for internet memes and buzz words lately, and the term ‘big data’ has to be near the top of the heap…right now. I have a few links that might help you understand what this is and what it may mean for you in the near future: To Know, but [...]
In the coming year I expect to see more of the impact of online social networking (i.er Facebook in particular) and the Apple iPhone 4GS’s Siri app to showcase the idea that we are in the process of becoming more and more physically disconnected from almost everything (not necessarily a good idea…). In the last [...]
Another thing which has slid into the front of our cultural view (with little comment) has been the continuing resurgence of Apple in almost every niche of computing (Laptops, phones, the iPad, apple TV, market share and profits) is an amazingly obvious but little realized nor understood phenomenon. Maybe is has become so obvious that [...]
More and more computers are being seen primarily as mobile devices (except for gamers and those with old hardware). Connectivity using laptops, along with other mobile devices is slowly edging towards the norm for all students (and post students). Smart Phones are growing on the public consciousness as a thing worth having, and the iPad [...]
Even a year ago, the idea that high school students should be encouraged to use their phone as tools in class was considered so far beyond the pale that anyone proselytizing hits idea must be insane (according to seemingly the majority of school principals)…now it is a cutting edge progressive education idea Back to (the [...]
