Monday, October 31, 2005

Hey the radio thing is over and out. Have moved blog to http://www.moontravellerherald.blogspot.com. Cant say will be there that long. It has flaws of the technical order too. But it does not have the same flaws that tire me here. Hard to upload and synch. A site where question marks have replaced apostrophes going back three years. I voiced my complaints [on synch arch] to Radio HQ. But interaction is not human. Its mechanical mouse machine missives. Looking back on Radio Weblog: Some decent stuff. But scattered. Scattered notes in desk drawers was what I hoped to better. This is only slightly more neat. Got complaints from my readers about too much computer stuff. But what the hell else can I write about? So may fork into two sites in future. Good news is RSS and XML are here and the Web is ready to explode again. Short Google! Remember the words of Manny Ramierez: "I dont believe in no curses. You make your own destination." 8:45:48 PM    comment []

Friday, February 04, 2005

Lets go back to GOD! Ernst Mayr dies, aged 100 Sysematics, his specialty, I only came across yesterday. It was as historian that Mayr got my attention. Mayr got my attention and influenced my thought, that is for sure. I made point as a grad student in science communications get some history of science under my belt...all there was avaialble was one course, on Darwin, but lo and behold, Mayr's The Evolution of Biological Thought was just newly vailable and I shelled out the bucks and bought it, and got a decent grade in a course that was way over my head. Mayr's view was like James Burke' Connections, but significantly deeper. He showed how thoughts or thnkings intermingle and grow, bounce and resonate, pointing the way toward an explanation of the dialectics of science. Today blogs kind of form a dialectic; probably informed by Burke; but also probably informed by people who know people who read Mayr. The cat , he was long time harvard hadn, liived til a hundred and was scheduled to do a lecture in Bedford Jan 25 [it snowed big time that day]! http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4486887 http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=66948 As Orwell Foresaw Of interest: 'No Place to Hide' - By Robert O'Harrow Jr. - NYT's MICHIKO KAKUTANI writes: Brain waves with ''noninvasive neuro-electric sensors are just part of futuristic surveillance statethat is post-9/11 America, as described in Robert O'Harrow Jr.'s unnerving new book, ''No Place to Hide'' -- an America where citizens' The digital revolution of the 1990's exponentially amplified trends enabling retailers, marketers and financial institutions to gather and store vast amounts of information about current and potential customers. And as Mr. O'Harrow notes, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, ''reignited and reshaped a smoldering debate over the proper use of government power to peer into the lives of ordinary people.'' Orwell was right about this, Big Brother just arrived some two decades later than Orwell predicted. - NYT, Jan 25, 2005 UNRELATED HP crossbar threatens transistor hegemony -Reuter, Feb 1, 2005 Morse code of cells -BBSRC.ac, Jan 10, 2005 Eisner departs -NYT, Jan 2, 2005 Space probe enters Titan's atmosphere CBC News, Dec 22, 2004 Kansas Town Is Launch Pad for Bid at Flight Record 9:58:02 PM    comment []

Saturday, January 29, 2005

Robot ships on other moons big news last year Will we have such trips to view again? Maybe not in life time. Doors open and close as Apollo taught. Many years later the moon remains a mystery. Particularlly how it causes humans to misbehave. It is very hard to map.   Thrilling explorations of other worlds -USA Today, Dec 27, 2004 US share of the Human Genome Project complete - The Register, Dec 23, 2004 Burn start for Cassini-Huygens - SpaceRef.com Meet Bose - PopSci, Dec. 2004 Water on Mars: THE Story - TechNewsWorld Graham Glass weblog Ray Ozzie looks back, looks ahead – December 6, 2004 The rise of the green building -The Economist Special Sony to Disclose Details on Computer Chip - Forbes, Nov 29, 2004 Moon remains a mystery - Daily Times of Pakistan, Nov. 28, 2004 Web community flow machine history at IBM 10:01:32 PM    comment []

Sunday, October 10, 2004

Chemistry Nobel for protein death process In the late '70 and dearly '80s, Rose, Hershko and Ciechanover worked to identify the marking process in which cells identify molecules to be destroyed. The process governs cell division, NA repair, and various immune functions. The Nobel comes due to the impotr the work holds for others attempting to prevent protein breakdown or to use it to breakdown cancer causing proteins. Read: Protein death process earns Nobel - BBC, Oct 6, 2004 11:30:49 AM    comment []

Friday, August 06, 2004

Sun spotted Due to advances in computer modeling and new, high-tech instruments on the ground and in space we can monitor subtle aspects of solar behavior that make for real astrophysics. -Natgeo, July, 2004 [excrpt] Related Ming mans death ray -this site, Nov 5, 2003 Cassini Scientists Discover New Radiation Belt, Lightning --Planetary Society, Aug 6.2004 Alvin submarine to be replaced in 2008 - Reuters, Aug 6, 2004 Chicago's Von Freeman profiled on NPR - NPR.org, Aug 4, 2004 9:52:29 PM    comment []

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