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2010	Jun 07 The Humble User Interface Comes of Age “John Underkoffler points to the future of UI ”	May 24 Extremists destroy kids summer camp in Gaza, threaten UNRWA 21 First synthetic cell created at Venter Institute 01 My Top 10 TED.com talks “1. Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight 2. Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything 3. Temple ...” Stephen Wolfram shifts it up a gear ... then hits the turbo boost button!	Apr 20 The Universe as a Hologram by Michael Talbot “Does Objective Reality Exist, or is the Universe a Phantasm? In 1982 a remarkable event took ...” 13 Collateral Murder in Iraq [video] “Come on, let us shoot! This video clip was brought to my attention the other day ...”	Mar 23 Kabul's 2nd international music festival 04 Olympic dream vs. Vancouver reality 03 Head Shops products to be banned in June 02 Free the weed? (and tax it)
2009	Sep 11 Posthumous apology to Alan Turing	Aug 20 Guantanamo reloaded; more deadly, more clandestine “Appropriated from AlJazzeera ; "It is a US-run prison built from scratch on an US military ...”	Jul 24 What are the political and practical consequences of punishing blasphemy in accordance with Irish law? “At a political level, the signing of the bill reminds the world that Ireland is ...” 08 Bring on the Blasphemy 01 Sara Burke - Irish Apartheid: Healthcare Inequality in Ireland BBC NEWS \| UK \| Police stored DNA with ice cream	Jun 26 Lest we forget. 24 A lens on Iran The State of the Planet	May 31 Why We Believe in Gods 26 The Filth and The Fury 24 €500,000 for ministers in house perks 23 Origins Symposium > Lawrence Krauss 18 Virtual Dublin and the possibility of time travel “The virtual metropolis of Dublin established by Trinity College is amazing, not least because the ...” 15 Is There a Higgs Particle? Some pix from my regular "I wish I had a better camera" section. 12 Pictures from Space, pictures of Space 11 Origins Symposium > Brian Greene 03 Rohingya; the most persecuted people	Apr 24 Powers of Ten 22 Mapping the neanderthal genome.... “An interesting article over at New York Times merits mention. Namely, the article explains the ...” 20 TEN PRINCIPLES FOR A BLACK-SWAN-ROBUST WORLD “In his "Ten Principles for a Black Swan-robust world", NassimNicholas Taleb is on the ramparts ...” 17 CLOSE DOWN MODEVA;PROTECT CONSUMER RIGHTS “Here's a letter written to the Irish regulatory authority that clarifies a scam happening to ...” 16 US conservatives go wild for a bit of tea-bagging... 10 Future Times Abuse of Power : Another "G" Death GBFMYC “Here's a nice little video piece from the folks over at Visionon.tv from the Undercurrents ...” 08 When Education Challenges Evolution 02 How much is a Trillion?	Mar 31 Randolph Nesse - uncut interview from 'The Genius of Charles Darwin' “This is the uncut interview with Randolph Nesse from the 'The Genius of Charles Darwin' ...” 27 The Genius of Charles Darwin 23 The Killing of Jean Charles DeMenezes “Open verdict returned in Jean Charles DeMenezes inquest The tragic nature of the death of Jean ...” 22 Remote Thought Control, Humanity Evolving In An Electronic Dish, Babies Being Born Without Brains, and other stories from the cutting edge............ “The Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7) is a European Union sponsored initiative aimed at financing ...” 18 The washing machines, the condoms and the Bishop “A couple of recent Vatican related stories have made headlines for all the wrong reasons, ...” The Obama Deception - mithras4 edit “ This is the latest documentary from Alex Jones of infowars.com. The original duration of 1hr ...” 11 On the downward slope... but going forward “ And so, as projections for the Irish economy slide from 4% (Jan) to 6/6.5% ...” Yet ANOTHER post on the financial crisis “ Hello Earthlings, It being my first venture into this nether world I had hoped to charm ...” 10 WolframAlpha set to precipitate the Singularity “Stephen Wolfram, the author of A New Kind of Science and the creator of Mathematica, ...” 04 Generative Systems in Music, Games and Psychology 02 A conversation between Daniel Kahneman and Nassim Taleb “Daniel Kahneman and Nassim Nicholas Taleb continue a conversation that has been ongoing since 2005(!) ...” Clean Coal?	Feb 27 Money as Debt Interview with Benoit Mandelbrot and Nassim Nicholas Taleb 26 The Global Financial Meltdown pt2 “As outlined in part 1, the world economy is in very bad shape, in particular ...” The Crisis of Credit Visualized 25 The Global Financial Meltdown pt1 “While we watch in horror as our national economy crashes and burns, and as we ...” 24 Danny Schechter: News Dissector presents "In Debt We Trust" “ Danny Schechter provides an insight into how the credit industry works in the US and ...” Should the taxpayer pick up the tab? 21 A not so distant future? 2015? 2020? 2025? 2030? 2050? “The changes started when Russia cut natural gas supply to Europe. Initially Ireland, with supplies ...” 20 Stats Fail “ Taken from the always funny failblog.org” Do Christians believe that 2009 is the beginning of the End Times? “You might have become aware of recent Internet chatter on Christian websites around the world ...” 13 Jesus Camp “Following on from Cygnus' last post concerning Islamic extremism / fundamentalism, I wanted to post a film ...” Tags and Dates (Reality Tunnels) 12 The banning of Geert Wilders “And so the erosion of freedom of speech continues. Geert Wilders was turned back from ...” 11 Terrorstorm “ Another documentary about government sponsored terrorism.” 09 Bush tried the Bible once, but didn't inhale . . . “ Bush tried the Bible once, but didn't inhale . . . That is to say, he ...” Environment Minister Sammy Wilson bans adverts warning of the effects of climate change “The following excerpt is from the Belfast Telegraph: - Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has banned government ...” 08 People of note #1 - Ayaan Hirsi Ali “ Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaks at the AAI 2007 conference to give us an insight into ...” 07 Universal declaration of human rights “ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. You can contact your local TD and ask for this document ...” 05 Next week I'll be mostly reading about Nassim Nicholas Taleb Robot wars commence 03 Finally - Scientific proof that the Pope is a deviant Nazi hypocrite! 02 MIT News & Events: Chomsky on Gaza “Linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky lectured at MIT about the recent Gaza conflict, followed ...” Fair Play Tony Benn	Jan 31 Fractal Zoom Nosce Te Ipsum “Greetings fellow skeptics. Let me break some ice and lower the tone momentarily by suggesting ...” 29 Hello world! “The deities will be arriving shortly.”

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