Your app makes me fat
In 1999, Professor Baba Shiv (currently at Stanford) and his co-author Alex Fedorikhin did a simple experiment on 165 grad students.They asked half to memorize a seven-digit number and the other half to memorize a two-digit number. After completing the memorization task, participants were told the e...
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Posted on 2013-07-30T11:04:48+0000
Computer scientists develop 'mathematical jigsaw puzzles' to encrypt software
(Phys.org) —UCLA computer science professor Amit Sahai and a team of researchers have designed a system to encrypt software so that it only allows someone to use a program as intended while preventing any deciphering of the code behind it. This is known in computer science as 'software obfuscation,'...
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Posted on 2013-07-30T09:38:22+0000
Why I willingly handed over my credit card and PIN to a fraudster
If scammers disguised themselves as your bank's fraud protection team, would you fall for it? Andy Welch did.
OSI: The Internet That Wasn’t - IEEE Spectrum
How TCP/IP eclipsed the Open Systems Interconnection standards to become the global protocol for computer networking
Why YouTube buffers: The secret deals that make—and break—online video
When ISPs and video providers fight over money, Internet users suffer.
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Posted on 2013-07-29T12:31:01+0000
A Race to Save the Orange by Altering Its DNA
Growers turned to genetics in hopes of building a tougher orange tree. But what intervention would the public accept?
Ruins of forgotten empires: APL languages
One of the problems with modern computer technology: programmers don't learn from the great masters. There is such a thing as a Beethoven or Mozart of software design. Modern programmers seem more ...
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Posted on 2013-07-28T11:37:48+0000
Women in Science
Summers was deservedly castigated, but not for the right reasons. He claimed to be giving a comprehensive list of reasons why there weren't more women reaching the top jobs in the sciences. Yet Summers, an economist, left one out: Adjusted for IQ, quantitative skills, and working hours, jobs in scie...
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"A man of science may earn great distinction, but not bread"
- Thomas Henry Huxley, mid-19th Century
Posted on 2013-07-23T13:53:46+0000
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Denis Dutton
ou’re probably thinking that a talk called “Is there anything good about men” will be a short talk! Recent writings have not had much good to say about men. Titles like Men Are Not Cost Effective speak for themselves. Maureen Dowd’s book was called Are Men Necessary? and although she never gave an e...
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"Is There Anything Good About Men?"
This is one of those rare articles that, albeit long, suffices to change your viewpoint about something. It's a pretty refreshing and interesting take on gender inequality.
Posted on 2013-07-21T17:18:36+0000