tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328416352011-12-05T23:58:39.987-08:00Humans in the big scheme of thingsDavenoreply@blogger.comBlogger521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841635.post-38259655264218167472011-07-20T19:51:00.000-07:002011-07-20T19:58:41.321-07:00

I've set up a new blog here: http://blog.daviddufty.com/. I'll mainly be using it for blogging about my book, Lost in Transit: The Strange Story of the Philip K Dick Android.It was fun blogging here but I haven't done it for a couple of years now. My focus is on writing larger, more substantive pieces. Specifically, books. I may one day take up blogging again on issues about science and

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Coming soon to Australia and New Zealand:"LOST IN TRANSIT: The Strange Story of the Philip K Dick Android" by David Dufty.You can already pre-order online if you are so inclined.LOST IN TRANSIT is the strange but true story of the Philip K Dick android that was built in 2005 by Hanson Robotics and the University of Memphis and was exhibited at Chicago NextFest. It was lost on a flight to San

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Maybe you've wondered what happens to all that plastic that drops through grates, blows into rivers, and floats down storm water drains. Wonder no more. It's forming a massive vortex in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, known as the Great Ocean Garbage Patch. or Great Pacific Garbage Patch. You can't see it from satellite pictures because a lot of it is floating just under the surface. "Garbage

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I've pretty much stopped putting new content on this blog, for a number of reasons. Here's why.I have a demanding full-time job;We've recently moved to a new city and I don't yet have internet at home;My father is very ill and this takes up quite a bit of my time;I am working on a major project - a book - that takes up any free time that I happen to have outside of work and family.However, I do

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841635.post-53573204594004943532008-05-06T21:06:00.000-07:002008-12-04T22:33:37.575-08:00

A list of modern myths.I agree with about half of these.UPDATE:Goaded by an anonymous - and rather snippy - commenter, I have decided to elaborate.My original post to this simply said that “I agree with about half of these.” I didn't have time (at the time) to articulate my thoughts, but I wanted to record my reaction anyway, with the idea that I might come back and respond in more detail.An

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From Discovery News:Given the amount of time it has taken for human beings to evolve on Earth and the fact that the planet will no longer be habitable in a billion years or so when the sun brightens, Andrew Watson, with the United Kingdom's University of East Anglia in Norwich, says we are probably alone.Earthlings overcame horrendous odds -- Watson pegs it at less than 0.01 percent over 4

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841635.post-55093833972781317082008-04-16T03:55:00.000-07:002008-04-16T04:20:44.879-07:00

Here's a skeptical view of psychiatry by Charles Barber: The ultimate indicator of our newfound faith in scientific psychiatry may be the mysterious growth of the placebo effect in tests of the drugs the new psychiatry dispenses. When Columbia University psychiatrist B. Timothy Walsh analyzed 75 trials of antidepressants conducted between 1981 and 2000, he discovered that the rate of response to

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841635.post-42112232246818302702008-03-29T10:17:00.000-07:002008-03-29T10:25:35.138-07:00

My father has multiple sclerosis (MS), and it has been slowly degenerating over the last couple of years. He's in hospital right now because it got to the point that he wasn't sufficiently mobile to stay at home. What happens from here is anybody's guess.My mother has started a blog about multiple sclerosis called Multiple Sclerosis Carer (www.mscarer.com). It's a combination of insights into MS,

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841635.post-6324799010727258982008-01-19T15:31:00.000-08:002008-01-20T22:14:37.130-08:00

Every year, The Edge (www.edge.org) asks intellectual luminaries one question. The answers are usually a mixed bag. Some are throwaways, some are boring, some are entertaining, some are insightful, and some are just mindblowing. The 2008 question is “What have you changed your mind about?” The Edge site has one-line headings for many of the responses, but there is no summary of all the responses

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In 1971, a young student at the University of Illinois typed the Declaration of Independence and saved it on a Xerox mainframe computer. The student was Michael Hart, and the electronic document was the beginning of Project Gutenberg.Project Gutenberg’s aim is to create, store, and distribute electronic copies of books that are open domain: that is, works that are out of copyright, or for some

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Time Etc respects your privacy.At www.time-etc.com, the privacy of my visitors is important to me. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information is received and collected by www.time-etc.com and how it is used. Log FilesLike many other Web sites, www.time-etc.com makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol ( IP ) addresses,

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841635.post-80877277227477078252007-06-14T20:54:00.000-07:002007-06-18T15:14:26.079-07:00

Here are some common myths about the brain.1) We only use ten percent of our brain(a variant of this is Einstein said we only use 10% of our brain)This is not true. We use all of our brain. If you look at a brain map like those found here or here, or the interactive BBC brain map, you'll notice that there are arrows and labels going all over the place. There's not a part of the brain that isn't

Davenoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841635.post-88061853409519966812007-05-30T19:50:00.000-07:002007-06-19T12:22:57.152-07:00

We humans are proud of our intelligence. We hold competitions to find the smartest of our kind: spelling bees, chess tournaments, University entrance exams, quiz shows, trivia nights, poker, as well as informal tests like riddles, crossword puzzles. We collect symbols of intelligence, such as degrees and qualifications. We read literary books (or say we read them) that others think are a sign of

Davenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841635.post-23096037920096709092007-05-09T15:28:00.000-07:002007-05-09T15:40:28.406-07:00

CERN has reached a milestone. They installed the last magnet in the construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), an underground machine that will be the largest particle accelerator ever built.A large dipole magnet was symbolically lowered into the tunnel, completing the basic installation of more than 1,700 magnets that make up the collider, which measures 27km in circumference and is

Davenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841635.post-14053801102479093062007-04-17T15:29:00.000-07:002007-04-22T12:05:51.200-07:00

The Large Hadron Collider has suffered a setback. The very-important-piece-of-equipment that holds three magnets in place broke. A representative of CERN- the organization building the LHC - said that they could not say whether or not this would cause a delay because they did not yet fully understand the situation.That doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the organization that plans to build

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841635.post-33515981642521441632007-04-10T15:04:00.000-07:002007-04-10T20:40:53.689-07:00

In mathematics, if you can prove that a statement leads to an inconsistency (or erroneous conclusion), then the statement must be wrong. Bertrand Russell, a giant of mathematics and philosophy, gave a colorful example of this.During a popular lecture Russell explained that any statement can be proved, given a single inconsistency. (A standard remark in logic)A heckler shouted:Then I give to you

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841635.post-18410390312000981502007-04-05T20:16:00.000-07:002007-06-04T11:51:54.995-07:00

The Mars Express Probe is circling Mars, gathering data, and sending the data through space back to Earth. Its radar equipment is known as the MARSIS radar (that stands for "Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding". Data has recently been analyzed from the probe on the Martian polar caps, which appear to be water. This is interesting, because water is believed to be essential

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In 2005, NASA reported that its Mars Global Surveyor had detected three consecutive years of melting and shrinkage of the southern polar ice caps. This was interpreted by many as evidence of global warming on mars. In response, National Geographic ran an article about Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of space research at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia. Abdussamatov is a

Davenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841635.post-61370082799070392422007-03-26T19:14:00.000-07:002007-03-26T19:35:21.466-07:00

Cybernetic research is starting to pay dividends for quadraplegics. From BBC news:Matthew Nagle, 25, was left paralysed from the neck down and confined to a wheelchair after a knife attack in 2001. The pioneering surgery at New England Sinai Hospital, Massachusetts, last summer means he can now control everyday objects by thought alone. The brain chip reads his mind and sends the thoughts to a

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841635.post-10341336855460001692007-03-14T18:23:00.000-07:002007-03-14T19:35:43.715-07:00

It's been an interesting week for time travel. For those of you who have been cavorting around in the 26th Century, let me fill you in. First, there was an article saying that time travel is impossible. Then only days later, another article from a different venue virtually telling us to get our advance TARDIS bookings.From sfgate.com comes a quote from time researcher David Miller:"If you have

Davenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841635.post-467870236664845312007-03-09T17:53:00.000-08:002007-03-13T16:15:55.928-07:00

A paradox is a curious thing, because paradoxes seem to emerge out of thin air.The classic linguistic paradox is the sentence, This statement is false. If it's false, then it must be true, which means it's false, etc. The weird thing is that although someone, somewhere first invented that paradox, it has the feel of something that was already there, out there, waiting to be discovered rather than

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841635.post-47781628341734042862007-01-25T20:00:00.000-08:002007-01-26T18:38:20.069-08:00

In the classic scifi movie Planet of the Apes, the shocking plot twist is(wait... you haven't seen the movie?! But I'm about to spoil the ending! Quick! Look away!) that the strange planet they are exploring is Earth, millions of years in the future. Humans have lost the power of speech and are nothing more than animals. Apes rule the world. They shouldn't have been so surprised to find

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On the interstate the other day, I was trying to change lanes when a large white Ford SUV moved up and blocked my way. I braked, pulled in behind, and the Ford in front slowed down. Then the driver braked suddenly, then sped up. I needed to take the next exit. I was glad about that, because I could be free of this idiotic driver. But at the last minute, with no indicator, the car in front also

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Believing that you can get smarter makes you smarterAronson, Fried, and Good (2001) performed an experiment:They taught African American and European American college students to think of intelligence as changeable, rather than fixed — a lesson that many psychological studies suggests is true. Students in a control group did not receive this message. Those students who learned about IQ's

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In April 2006, Oak Ridge Observatory at Harvard, Massachusetts, unveiled the first telescope that will be used exclusively for the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence.In a display of breathtaking optimism,Horowitz’s previous searches have produced nothing definitive, although he said there have been some “heart-stoppingly close calls.”However, he said that if one assumes the existence of

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I've been too busy to post for a while, although I have several posts in various stages of completion for this blog. Topics that I will be posting on soon are neanderthals, psychology myths, and androids. Since I'm about to fly to Australia for Christmas, I don't expect that I will be devoting huge amounts of time to blogging over the next couple of weeks. However, I'll have some articles ready

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841635.post-69122417455732160272006-11-25T20:32:00.000-08:002006-12-01T09:17:56.052-08:00

The entire chimpanzee genome has been mapped!Like me, you've probably heard that we share 99 percent of our genes with chimps. Well, it now turns out it's only 96 percent overlap. The number has changed, but so what? That old "99 percent the same as chimps" has been bandied about in all sorts of contexts, from evolution-versus-creation arguments to animal rights. But without scientific context (

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Humans, at first glance, do not appear to be well-designed for survival. Our lack of fur, lack of claws or other natural means of attack and defense, slow breeding times, and our lengthy, costly infancy and childhood (when babies and children are resource drains on adults) all should have combined to make us a biological curiosity, inhabiting some exotic location where conditions were just right

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What species is our society? I'm guessing that your answer is 'humans'. But our society is made up of several species, peacefully co-existing, and working together for mutual benefit. The most prominent of these, after us, is the dog.Dogs live with us in our houses, or houses of their own. They consume food from the industrialized food chain just like you- canned meat from supermarket, or raw

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841635.post-65547069125810818352006-11-15T09:03:00.001-08:002007-01-18T12:06:27.876-08:00

The website spacefuture predicts that Space tourism will go through three phases:1) a pioneering phase, where space travel will be expensive and available to a handful of people,2) a mature phase as the cost goes down; and3) a mass phase as space travel becomes available to the general public.We have entered the pioneering phase.Russia is making a killing on space tourism: tickets for trips into

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We have been given the imperative: we must leave this planet in search of new homes. Michael Griffin of NASA says a species on a single planet will not survive. The risks for space travel are high. People are likely to die, yet we will still do it. Griffin points out that the risk of dying on a climb up Mount Everest is 10%, yet people still continue to climb.Who will colonize space? Americans?

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Organic compounds have been detected in the depths of the Milky Way galaxy. This is more evidence for the theory that life did not originate on earth. Instead, it is possible that the building blocks of life are spread throughout the universe. This theory is known as panspermia. (You can stop giggling now, it means "seeds everywhere"). Panspermia is an idea that has been around for centuries in

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Toward the end of his life, philosopher A J Ayer, a towering intellect of the twentieth century, had a near-death experience, and renounced his lifelong atheism. He admitted publicly that he was no longer sure that there was no afterlife, but his private confession to the surgeon that saved his life was even stronger. He confided to the surgeon that he had "met the supreme being," but would not

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Scientific American has a nice point by point explanation of evolution, responding to creationist arguments.Also on the evolution-creation argument, new discoveries have strengthened the case for evolution. Sharon Begley of the Wall Street Journal discusses a discovery of a fossil that seems to fit the criteria for being a answer to the well-known 'missing link' criticism:paleontologists unveiled

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Recently I argued that time travel into the future just doesn't make sense, given a reasonably cogent understanding of what "the future" is. It may be that traveling into the past is just as absurd. Jason of Jason's tech blog poses a question:what makes you think the past exists? I mean, sure, we lived through it, and will agree on much of what occurred there, but why should it still exist once

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Syria:French Archaeologists have found an 11 thousand year old building near Ja'de on the banks of the Euphrates river. The large size of the building suggests it was some kind of community building. There are multicolored geometrical paintings on the walls. Exactly what went on in this large hall is lost forever.Cyprus:British archaeologists have found 120 ancient stone anchors off the coast of

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There are certain ideas that tap into the deep primal currents of the human mind, ideas that simultaneously fascinate and appall. The end of the world is such an idea. Humanity lives and relives its own demise in endless variations through fantasy, fiction, science, religion, and prophecy.In Revelation 20, a thousand-year period of prosperity is foretold. For this reason, people that focus on the

Davenoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841635.post-1162268489064792302006-10-30T20:01:00.000-08:002006-11-16T10:55:09.676-08:00

In Brian Aldiss' 1962 masterpiece Hothouse the Sun is in its final phase before going nova. On earth, increased heat means that plants have taken over the earth (hence the title). New, deadly plants have evolved, plants that fly, vines that slash at moving objects, all kinds of variations of the venus flytrap. All this takes place in a seemingly bottomless forest, which has only one kind of tree:

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As a boy I loved astronomy, and was into anything to do with space. I collected newspaper articles about the Viking expedition to Mars and pasted them in a scrapbook, alongside my own clumsy but fanciful drawings of what might lie on the red planet. The failure of Viking to find life on mars was a devastating blow to a young boy's fertile imagination.Now, it seems, I was short-changed. The

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A professor in Connecticut predicts that time travel will be possible this century, and is working towards making it happen. Good luck, professor! I'll take a ride when it's ready.

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According to the New Scientist, the area around Chernobyl has returned to a wilderness state, including roving wolves and bears. There was an intermediate stage where feral dogs, rats and mice were plentiful, followed by reversion to an almost completely pre-human state. This gives us reason to be optimistic about the fate of the world. Nature is robust. Balance is eventually restored, even

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Before a technology is invented, it seems fanciful, even ridiculous, to believe that it could be achieved. Flight, radio, man walking on the moon. After its invention those who doubted it seem quaint and lacking in imagination. The breakthrough joins the realm of the known, the understood, and in some cases (such as television) the banal. It is unlikely, but perhaps such a future awaits

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Oliver Curry, a theorist at the renowned London School of Economics gave an interview with cable channel "Bravo" in which he predicted that in 100,000 years, mankind would have evolved into two distinct species, a tall, noble, upper class species, and a brutish, short, unintelligent lower class species. This future has more than a passing similarity to the vision of the future portrayed by HG

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The population of America has passed the 300 million mark and the Australian birthrate climbs (the newspapers term of "booming" is over the top- it's still below replacement level). Meanwhile, Russia's population is imploding due to AIDS, tuberculosis, alcoholism, poverty, and, well, just not having babies. This will have increasing repercussions worldwide. For example, Russia will have fewer and

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I've always loved second hand bookshops, particularly the science fiction/fantasy section. These shops are often as well-stocked and have as many quality titles as a regular bookshop. In the past though, I've tended to avoid time-travel titles. Look I can buy giant three headed ogres, faster than light travel, and mental telepathy. But time travel never gets past the suspension of disbelief

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Deep below the earth beneath the border of Switzerland and France, construction is underway on a huge circular machine. This machine, called the Large Hadron Collider, will be the biggest, most powerful particle accelerator ever built, and will enable scientists to gain new insights into sub-atomic physics. The price tag for the enterprise is 8 billion US dollars.One of the experiments that

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Several years ago, when I was a graduate student at Macquarie University, Daniel Dennett came and spoke. For months I had heard philosophers talk at length about the flaws in Dennett's reasoning and the problems with his epistemolgical stance. "Rampant externalist" was a phrase I heard applied to him, with a tone that suggested it was intended as an insult. But when they had the chance to

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Andy Clark wrote a very clever book, Natural Born Cyborgs. It's non-fiction; the central thesis of the book is that humans are cyborgs by their very nature. A cyborg is a synthesis of man-machine. Therefore someone with a pacemaker, or a hearing aid, or an artificial limb, is technically a cyborg. But Clark takes it further- it's not just people with medical assistance who are cyborgs, it's all

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Arthur C Clark famously said that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Hence, planes, telephones, guns, watches, and so forth could all be passed off as magic if introduced to a primitive tribe. The problem is that when you're using magic every day it becomes banal. But some of the most wondrous dreams of our ancestors have come to be. One of my favorites is

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Humans like to think of themselves as masters of the universe, commanding, destroying, or saving the environment around us. When we think about our 'caveman' past, we imagine tribes of hunters bringing down mammoths and bringing home slabs of meet to cook over an open fire. However, the truth is that we were more prey than predator. Many predatory animals eat primates. And as anthropologist

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Recently a friend of mine pondered the future of garbage:I began to wonder whether ultimately it is ecologically more responsible to litter. The argument goes like this, if you assume that the amount of garbage produced is not going to diminish and in fact will increase. In fact the only way this would not happen is if either our society collapsed back to an agrarian state or there was some

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This blog is a place primarily to record whimsical observations and musings on science, technology, time, the future of mankind, fantasy, and science fiction. I don't know how often I'll post to it.

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