December 2011
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“Science fiction stories are in a way business models in disguise.”
– Walter de Brouwer (via kate-quinn)
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Did Deep Space Nine predict the #Occupy movement...
“Past Tense” is a two-part episode from the third season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Commander Ben Sisko (Avery Brooks), Doctor Bashir (Alexander Siddig), and Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell) are back to Earth to attend a conference in San Francisco and become thrown back in time to 2024 on Earth. Time travel stories are nothing new to Star Trek, and neither is a good old fashioned...
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The Mystery Behind Anesthesia | Technology Review →
fuckyeahneuroscience:
Mapping how our neural circuits change under the influence of anesthesia could shed light on one of neuroscience’s most perplexing riddles: consciousness.
As an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Brown is constant witness to one of the most profound and mysterious feats of modern medicine. Every day, nearly 60,000 patients in the United States undergo...
“We’ve tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best...”
– Carl Sagan (via smwinterfeldt)
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shoutincavalcade:
“To many, the tablet computer seems new. But NPR’s Laura Sydell reports that the idea for a flat, personal computer shaped like a book has actually been around for a long time. Just think of Arthur C. Clarke’s 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey in which space travelers follow news on Earth via a…
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Top 10 Space Stories of 2011 →
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