by Tom | Mar 26, 2007 | Science
It was interesting to see the Indy come out for prohibition of cannabis. I don’t have a problem with their changing their mind on whether the drug is harmful or not (although badscience seems to debunk this pretty effectively), but flipping on prohibition seems...
by Tom | Mar 26, 2007 | Science
I wonder if the good burghers of Navarra think that their wind farms ruin the scenery? Interesting that they have over 70% of energy from renewables and that Spain recently had its biggest day of wind energy–at 27% the largest contributor to the national...
by Tom | Mar 26, 2007 | Business
Lovely idea from Mumbai. You get an Rs200 fine for travelling without an Rs8 ticket. This is sufficiently high to deter most of the 6m people travelling each day. Given that there is no system able to check everyone, random checks are the order of the day. Along comes...
by Tom | Mar 26, 2007 | Science
How a tiny subset of the brain is being modeled on a serious supercomputer. I love the idea that it started working spontaneously. Put a sufficiently sophisticated system together and you get thought-like activity? Who needs a creator?
by Tom | Mar 26, 2007 | Reading
I need a new Oyster wallet
