When storage is cheap, finding data has value. A $600 hard drive can store all of the world's music so how do you find a song you like?Math can answer those mysteries, says Kaggle president and chief scientist Jeremy Howard, and in a world of information overload, people who understand making sense of data madness will be paid like rock stars - or athletes. So they are starting now.The San...
read moreRecent tests by Bayer show that a glass fiber wallpaper in conjunction with a special adhesive made from polyurethane can prevent the collapse of building walls during an earthquake. This innovation could be a lifesaver for people living in earthquake areas.
read moreWhat's the world coming to? With all of the PhDs America produces, pretty soon law enforcement will be limited to officers with graduate degrees in quantum physics - but for now, Newton is still all it takes. Well, usually. Sometimes even the laws of physics are not what they look like.And special laws of physics apply on April 1st so use the contents of this paper on the differences...
read moreThe downside to partisan embryonic stem cell hype over the last decade and conflation of it with adult stem cell breakthroughs, is that a whole lot of hucksters are exploiting public confusion and claims about miracle cures to make an easy buck. But there is real value in there too, the public just needs to be able to separate the good stuff from the nonsense. read...
read morePeople like to live in important times. This is why you will see fairly silly statements like, ‘politicial discourse is more acrimonious than ever’ even though no one is caning anyone on the floor of Congress, like they did in the 19th century. 60 years ago it was culturally taboo for even different types of Protestants to marry each other but Democrats marry Republicans all of the...
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