This post starts with a little bit of science fiction. Suppose you wake up tomorrow and read in the newspaper that a scientific breakthrough led to the discovery of a cheap source of virtually unlimited energy, with zero greenhouse gas emissions, perhaps something exploring quantum vacuum energy. We can now celebrate victory and rest assured […]
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An awesome documentary about my stage hero: http://www.guba.com/watch/2000950423 (I removed the link that opened in this window because it was annoyingly starting even if you didn’t press play.)
This post will be an exercise in futurology. I predict that in the next few decades we will see some interesting debates about the legal rights of internet users over the content they create and their personal information, and their right to scrutiny and decision power over how their flux of information is handled by […]
1997 Physics Nobel prize laureate Steven Chu has been sworn in as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, PhysicsWorld reports. In previous news about this nomination, I had already felt that this is a strong indication of the seriousness with which President Obama is taking the issues his administration faces. According to this earlier […]
I was gladly surprised to see the new WhiteHouse.gov website introduced by the Barack Obama administration, and especially so with the new White House Blog. The new web front for the United States Government has been received with praise [ "Change Comes To The Internets" said the Daily News] but also with cautious skepticism. One […]
The recent events between Israel and Palestine just reinforce my belief that what is wrong with the world are two things: nationalism and religion. I highly recommend this talk, where Richard Dawkins talks extensively about the second topic, but I want to comment on the first one. We can give some simple evolutionary explanations for […]
I have been spending my last few days on a little fight against government bureaucracy. The Queensland Department of Main Roads is planning to upgrade a motorway close to my house. They are adding two extra lanes and building another bridge down the road — the second Gateway Bridge — and this large arterial road […]
