Charles Simonyi is making his second trip to the International Space Station as a tourist right now. His "donation" of $35m to space exploration makes me very happy indeed.

Follow-up to thisFor those of you who hadn't already figured it out, I was trying to take an anecdotal measure of how much crossover there is between Autistic/Asperger's culture and geek culture. (Why yes, I am lumping pretty much all of my friends into geek culture, and yes there are exceptions, but not so very many ( Read more... )

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.
- Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching #27 (trans. Stephen Mitchell)

Picture this ( Read more... )

Talking about it is almost as good.Study indicating women who talk about their cravings of chocolate more, eat less of it ( Read more... )

Ground-breaking research on Alzheimer's Disease: a plausible blood test that could help with early detection, before symptoms even start appearing.

It's been a relief to start seeing recent breakthroughs and payoffs in medical research in the last year.

Hover Cars

Got $90k I can borrow? GRiN

How can tea be a diuretic make me thirstier as I drink it if it's mostly made of water?

Do we have the ability to gas a whole city to sleep? I think we have the ability to gas most of a city to death, so it seems like we should have this ability, but maybe I'm being naive (likely, in fact ( Read more... )

The University of Kansas has withdrawn a controversial religion course that was intended to teach students that intelligent design and creationism are mythologies.State Rep Brenda Landwehr, even after the withdrawal, is still considering "withholding funding to KU ( Read more... )