by Tom | May 20, 2011 | Reading
Mash. Well, other than Tom the nerd, of course. “I think we can safely say that they’re not what we would understand as ‘people’. We suspect they’re some sort of drifting, cosmic fungus that has hit Earth and started shopping in Tie...
by Tom | May 20, 2011 | Hong Kong / China
Scenes From China. A welcome reminder of what a varied country we live in. Also, a welcome reminder that most countries would have similar aspects, with the key exception the 1m people missing from a planned town.
by Tom | May 20, 2011 | Tech
World’s Smallest 3-D Printer Unveiled. Great news: 0.05mm layer depth in a box the size of a milk carton (whatever size that is!).
by Tom | May 20, 2011 | Business
The Great Switch by the Super Rich makes a point I hadn’t fully understood. 40% of US national debt is owned by Americans, much by the richest 1% (though the article does not provide figures). This means that the richest people in US society have reduced the...
by Tom | May 20, 2011 | Reading, Science
A nicely human and subjective view of some of the places where physics and philosophy blend. I very much agree that reverting to the Higgs particle (rather than “god particle”) makes sense. Although “God boson” has a lovely...
