My friend Israel has a passion for helping people. He’s currently working on a grant proposal for a project to bring text alerts to farmers in so-called developing nations. Currently, middle men come to farmers and buy their goods at prices that aren’t always the going market rate. Farmers are often isolated and so getting [...]
Archive for 17 March 2008
Support farmers in developing nations
Posted: 17 March 2008 in UncategorizedTags: contests, developing nations, farmers, friends, funding, non-profit
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Precogs
Posted: 17 March 2008 in UncategorizedTags: books, dune, future, jessica biel, julianne moore, movies, next, nicolas cage, philip k dick, pkd, precognition, precogs, sci-fi, super powers, time
I just watched Next starring Nicolas Cage and Jessica Biel. Oh and Julianne Moore. I liked it a lot, mainly because it brought together a slew of my favorite elements: people who can see the future (precogs) and nuclear explosions. And other explosions. Plus it was based on a short story by one of my [...]
Ants are awesome
Posted: 17 March 2008 in UncategorizedTags: ant colonies, ants, books, city, clifford d simak, emergent behavior, sci-fi
Researchers in the video below filled an ant colony with concrete and dug it out to see just how exactly the colony was organized underground. The results are just plain awesome. Ants farm fungus and use livestock (aphids), build cities and wage wars. What the video refers to as a hive consciousness is emergent behavior: [...]
