Estimating the prevalence of Vancouver hipsters using capture-recapture method. [The Dependent]
Years later, I wonder if they’ve followed this up.
A commenter by the name of David on Michael Eisen’s blog post about the California proposition to label genetically modified products. [source]
Michael responds, “But then people would realize that all food contains GENES, and they wouldn’t buy anything.”
…he thinks a woman’s desire to flash is rational while a man’s is instinctual because the desire is rooted in different parts of their brains. But what is the evidence for this? What “research has unveiled” this understanding?
Ogas’s list of evidence includes the writing of an 18th century intellectual, Girls Gone Wild, the behavior of wild bonobos, and ChatRoulette.
”Evolved for Exhibitionism? [Columbia Journalism Review]
No comment.
From PBS Newshour's Downloadable Gun Parts, Personalized Bioterror: the Downside of Innovation
- PAUL SOLMAN: Moreover, computers are becoming increasingly embedded in the hardware around us. The typical new car, says Goodman, has 250 computer chips. And in this Google prototype now legally riding the roads of Nevada, even the driving is fully computerized.
- MARC GOODMAN: So, you could put in bad GPS directions and have a car drive off a bridge. Every day, we're plugging more and more of our lives into the Internet, including bridges, tunnels, financial systems, hospitals, police emergency dispatch 911 systems, military systems, robotics systems. And there's a history of all of these being hacked.
- PAUL SOLMAN: The Stuxnet computer worm that disabled Iran's nuclear program made headlines, but smaller targets are also vulnerable.
- MARC GOODMAN: Diabetic pumps, cochlear implants, brain computer interface. There are 60,000 pacemakers in the United States that connect to the Internet, which means that the Internet connects to your pacemaker. It's great when you're suffering from an arrhythmia and your doctor can remotely shock you, but what happens if the kid next door does that because it's fun and does it for the lulz.
- PAUL SOLMAN: You mean LOL, laughing out loud?
