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30 Jan 09

The Ottos were one of five families to bid and win an auction held by BioArts International in July for a chance to clone their family dog. Lancey’s genetic donor, Sir Lancelot, died in January, 2008, and the Ottos had his DNA stored. By October, samples from the original dog were on their way to the Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in Seoul, South Korea, which provides cloning services to BioArts.

23 Jan 09

Nowadays, although UK mathematician Alan Turing's test is still relevant, and unbeaten, new forms of it have evolved. In this online special, New Scientist discovers the different ways in which machines can be tested for human-like abilities - and how close they have come to passing as one of us.

27 Dec 08

yes, then the value can be shaped to social value

Past rewards influence how humans (and other animals) make decisions. We've known about that for a long time, said Serences – through day-to-day experience as well as the numerous experiments of economists and cognitive psychologists. Though more and more research is looking into it, little is known about how rewards affect the way the brain processes incoming sensory information, specifically as it relates to vision. Could it be that we see things differently if they have paid off before?

12 Nov 08

认识 TED 这东西纯属 serendipity（意外的收获），记得好像是在 iTunes 上看到的（那时还在用一个叫 Windows 的操作系统，而 iTunes 则是当时最让我欣赏的软件之一）。一开始的时候只觉得好玩，载了好几个下来，待到暑假慢慢听。有一次听到 David Pogue 的演讲，
感觉顿时被征服了。David Pogue 早年曾在百老汇当过导演，后来又跑到《纽约时报》当起了科技版专栏作者。他在2004年的 TED
大会上做的那个演讲真可谓声情并茂：演讲以一段唱词（加即兴钢琴伴奏）开始，而后 David
以十分诙谐幽默的语言来演绎出缺乏人性化设计的产品如何为用户（最终是为企业）带来苦恼的故事。听过这个演讲后，我才真正体会到学好英语所带来的乐趣——
就是能听得懂人家演讲里头的笑话、双关以及各种文字游戏！

24 Oct 08

Elisha Moses at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and his students Ofer Feinerman and Assaf Rotem have developed a way to control the growth pattern of neurons to build reliable circuits that use neurons rather than wires.

Howard Friedman and Margaret Kern at the University of California at Riverside found that people who were less conscientious were 50 per cent more likely to die at any given age, on average, than those of the same age who scored highly (Health Psychology, DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.27.5.505). This exceeds the effects of socioeconomic status and intelligence, which are also known to increase longevity.

22 Oct 08

In the past, others have used similar self-assembly tricks to make organic transistors, but the new method is much simpler. Moreover, researchers have been unable to accurately and reliably replicate self-assembled devices until now. "You need every transistor to be working in order for the circuit to work," says John Kymissis, an electrical-engineering professor at Columbia University. "Here, there are hundreds of transistors, all of which work. The yield is extremely good for complicated circuits."