Daniel B Stern

Andrew Magliozzi, who graduated from Harvard College in 2006, runs the FinalsClub.org website. It hosts lecture notes and study groups for Harvard courses. At the moment you can get the nickel…

By carefully observing and analyzing the pattern of activity in the brain, researchers have found that they can tell what number a person has just seen, or how many dots a person has been presented…

Computer researchers at UNSW (University of New South Wales) and NICTA (NICTA is Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Centre of Excellence) have achieved a breakthrough in…

In Blown to Bits we spend all of Chapter 5 making the argument that (a) perfect secrecy is possible through public key encryption and (b) almost no one encrypts their email anyway. Why this would be…

Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel

Open, ubiquitous broadband connectivity holds the promise to catapult America to the next level of competitiveness, productivity,…

Facebook has just announced integration with Xbox Live at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles this morning. Now, users can can update their status, post photos, and play games with friends directly within…

It’s no secret that those of us who have been in favor of pushing back against the worst abuses of intellectual property law have been disappointed by the Obama administration — which brought in a…

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Totally fascinating. I have always been interested in the evolutionary basis for the differences between liberals and conservatives, and it seems this idea / subject is getting…

Nanobots the size of living cells swimming around our bodies, doing our bidding to fight disease, make repairs, and augment our abilities?  Futurists and sci-fi books have cooked up this fantasy for…

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This is awesome, we may soon be able to say fuck on television… Maybe this will imbue Jimmy Falon with some life after all.

We make that argument (which we learned from a paper…