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April 30, 2008

Wired presents first glimpse at our new overlords

The Wired Gadget Lab has an interesting article up about a new, fourth electronic circuit element, the memristor, which was originally theorized by an engineering student back in 1971.
Thirty-seven years later, a group of scientists from HP Labs has finally built real working memristors, thus adding a fourth basic circuit element to electrical circuit theory, […]

Posted by Aaron on April 30, 2008, 3:21 pm permalink top | general
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April 23, 2008

What I did on my spring vacation

I just recently came back from La France, the nation where my girlfriend was born and raised. It had been 2 years since we last visited but, with the upcoming move, we could only afford to visit for a week. We flew in to Paris overnight on Zoom Airlines; we’ve flown with them in the […]

Posted by Aaron on April 23, 2008, 8:52 pm permalink top | general
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April 11, 2008

Lenore Skenazy: Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone

Here’s an article about a mother who let her 9-year-old son take the subway home, across New York City. If your first thought was “Oh my god! Is she insane?!”, don’t worry, it’s not your fault. You’ve just been brainwashed by years of “Tragic Event TV”.
The problem with this everything-is-dangerous outlook is that over-protectiveness is […]

Posted by Aaron on April 11, 2008, 3:39 pm permalink top | general
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