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04 Jun 09

Einstein's 'Spooky Physics' Gets More Entangled - Yahoo! News

  • idea riled Einstein so much he called it "spooky
    action at a distance    ."




    A new study found that this eerie
    quantum link     can apply even to situations that resemble the larger,
    everyday world. Scientists entangled two pairs of vibrating particles separated
    in space, so that when one pair was forced to change its movement, the other
    pair did as well.

  • Previous experiments have entangled the internal properties
    of particles, such as spin states, but this is the first time scientists have
    entangled the particles' pattern of motion.




    The breakthrough could help researchers build quantum
    computers    , which could theoretically make calculations much faster than
    existing technology.

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09 Dec 08

Are Chemists, Engineers on Green Jobs List? - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

  • What might happen if a president sought not to shrink the military research pie, but simply devote more of it to transformational technologies related to harvesting, storing, or moving energy (something I put on the recent Dot Earth list of low-budget ways a president might improve the planet)?
18 Aug 08

t r u t h o u t | How Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying America

  • In my talks to people, I often mention a statistic from the National Constitution Center that almost half of Americans can't name even one of the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment. A student stood up at a university in California and said, "That doesn't matter because you can just look it up on the Internet." But if you don't know what the First Amendment is in the first place, you don't know what question to ask the Web.

        Garbage in, garbage out. The Web's only as good as our ability to ask questions of it. The ability to access information means nothing if you don't have an educated framework of knowledge to fit it into.

  • We've always had more faith in technology than other countries. One of our problems with computers is that we believe in technological solutions to what are essentially non-technological problems. Not knowing is a non-technological problem.
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11 Jul 07

The Informed Patient - WSJ.com

  • The efforts come as more consumers are looking for health information online again after three years of little growth, according to Harris Interactive. Use of the Internet to search for health-related information by online U.S. adults increased to 80% in July from 72% in a year-earlier survey, and the total number of adults who have ever searched for health information online rose 16% to 136 million.
  • the social-networking sites make it possible for users to branch into different conversations and create special relationships.
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