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“If you're a regular Human Nature reader, you know the story line we've been following here and on the blog: Pakistan has become the world's first mechanical proxy war, with unmanned aerial vehicles hunting and killing bad guys so U.S. source...

“ A modern British university is no place to think. That's the sad conclusion I came to after ten years struggling in my secure academic job. What had at first seemed a magnificent opportunity and a great privilege had become source...

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“The SOE's combination of gestural i/o, recombinant networking, and real-world pixels brings the first major step in computer interface since 1984; starting today, g-speak will fundamentally change the way people use machines at work, in the living room, in conference source...

“The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E), a high-resolution passive microwave instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite, shows the state of Arctic sea ice in this September 16, 2008, file photo. (REUTERS/NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio)” source... source...

“In a post on his blog, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis has announced that his human powered search engine has laid off 10% of its staff. Along with the layoffs Calacanis writes that the company will be doing some “smart things” source...

“ A few months ago I learned what is, so far, the most fascinating thing I've learned about human nature: the difference between being right, and being able to look someone in the eyes. ”

“ They're odd-looking shapes you may never have heard of, but they're everywhere around you—the jagged repeating forms called fractals. If you know what to look for, you can find them in the clouds, in mountains, even inside the human source...

“Technological revolutions rocked our world long before the information age. Between 80,000 and 60,000 years ago, it was spurts of innovative toolmaking, rather than extreme climate changes, in southern Africa’s Stone Age cultures that heralded a human exodus out of source...

“FOR ANYONE WHO has ever worried about the power of a vicious rumor, Barack Obama's strategy over the summer must have seemed almost bizarre. Buffeted by rumors about his religion, his upbringing, and controversial statements made by his wife, Obama source...

“Abraham Maslow was a renowned anthropologist, best known for his concepts of the Heirarchy of Human Needs. Human needs are grouped into five categories with various priorities. The lower ones have to be satisfied before the higher needs can act source...

“  The Economics of Software Software is like nothing else in the history of human endeavor:¹ unlike everything else we have ever built, software costs nothing to manufacture, and it never wears out. Yet these magical properties are arguably overshadowed more...

“Recently citizen scientist Forrest Mims told me about a speech he heard at the Texas Academy of Science during which the speaker, a world-renowned ecologist, advocated for the extermination of 90 percent of the human species in a most horrible source...