Links for 26-05-2007
Rewriting and self-editing, procrastihacks, bloody huge holes on Mars, the death of the universe, hemispherectomies, self-replicating machines…
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1 – A Brief History of Self-Replicating Machines
“…there’s still more work to be done before we can create artificial self-replicating systems. Let’s take a look at the history of the concept in recent times.”
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2 – Strange but True: When Half a Brain Is Better than a Whole One
“The operation known as hemispherectomy—where half the brain is removed—sounds too radical to ever consider, much less perform.” Have you read Blindsight? Read this.
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3 – How will our Universe die?
“An interesting theory has emerged which predicts that trillions of years into the future, the information that currently allows us to understand how the universe expands will have disappeared over the visible horizon.”
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4 – Here Be Dragons
“It’s a picture of a “subterranean void” on Mars, taken by the HiRISE ultra-high-resolution camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The resolution on that photo is 25 centimeters per pixel; the void shown is about 100 meters across.”
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5 – Astrophysicists Find Fractal Image Of Sun’s ‘Storm Season’ Imprinted On Solar Wind
“This research opens up new ways of looking at both space weather and the unstable behaviour that affects the operation of fusion powered power plants.”
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“With a palate of great procrastination hacks, you can never go wrong. And often, a combination of these will work fantastically.” Not that I actually *need* these, of course…
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7 – Write. Write. And write again.
“Here are seven questions you should ask about your copy before you begin another round…” Self-editing regimen.
