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The 10 Most Absurd Scientific Papers 127

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 11, 2010 @03:14PM from the burning-potential-of-fire dept.

Lanxon writes "It's true: 'Effects of cocaine on honeybee dance behavior,' 'Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time,' and 'Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull?' are all genuine scientific research papers, and all were genuinely published in journals or similar publications. Wired's presentation of a collection of the most bizarrely-named research papers contains seven other gems, including one about naval fluff and another published in The Journal of Sex Research."

Letting Time Solve the Online News Dilemma 188

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday May 17, 2009 @10:51AM from the good-old-supply-and-demand dept.

The Guardian's John Naughton isn't looking to micro-transactions or licensing fees from search services to solve the online news business model problems that have come to a head recently. Instead, he's simply waiting for capitalism to do its job in killing off the providers who can't cut it. Once that happens, he says, the remaining organizations will be in a far better position to see what web-goers will pay for online news, and he doesn't think it will inhibit the growth of an increasingly information-rich news ecosystem. "Things have got so bad that Rupert Murdoch has tasked a team with finding a way of charging for News Corp content. This is the 'make the bastards pay' school of thought. Another group of fantasists speculate about ways of extorting money from Google, which they portray as a parasitic feeder on their hallowed produce. ... But what will journalism be like in the perfectly competitive online world? One clue is provided by the novelist William Gibson's celebrated maxim that 'the future is already here; it's just not evenly distributed.' In a recent lecture, the writer Steven Johnson took Gibson's insight to heart and argued that if we want to know what the networked journalism of the future might be like, we should look now at how the reporting of technology has evolved over the past few decades."

Journal Journal: In and out of work...

Journal by wizards on Monday August 30, 2004 @04:58PM

Well, looking into the journal found I had started it in August of 2003. I was happily re-employed full time with Verizon Wireless, commuting to Walnut Creek and anticipating a relocation to Orange County by the end of the year. How foolish we are to expect life to unfold as we plan...

Journal Journal: Posting to Slashdot Journal

Journal by wizards on Saturday August 02, 2003 @03:17PM

I am starting this here and now because if not here, where? If not now, when?

Work - I am once again gainfully employed, the first full-time gig since leaving Eturn Communications in November of 2001. I will not count the contracts I performed in 2002 except to mention that I would not be working now if I had not worked with Alain Trottier in June-July of 2002. Thanks to him, I am now with Verizon Wireless, and will soon be relocating from Silicon Valley to Orange County.

Comment Re:TRON memories (Score 1) 402

by wizards on Friday March 08, 2002 @11:17PM (#3133784) Attached to: TRON 20th Anniversary Edition DVD Reviewed

I have extremely vivid memories of TRON as well; I was on the team at Information International (triple-I) who worked on the high-res CGI (MCP, Solar Sailer, etc.) We got to visit the set and watch some filming of the live action, too. I was given the 20th anniversary DVD for my birthday this week. Sadly, we do not have a DVD player as yet, so will have to wait on viewing it.

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