http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/03/the-virus-planet-a-hidden-universe-that-would-reach-out-100-million-light-years-todays-most-popular.html/quotthe-virus-planetquot-a-hidden-universe-that-would-reach-out-100-million-light-years-todays-most-popular Virus Planet: "There are 10 billion trillion, trillion viruses inhabiting Earth... more stars than are in the Universe" http://t.co/CJEbqpZC ]]> Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:36:41 -0700 http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/03/the-virus-planet-a-hidden-universe-that-would-reach-out-100-million-light-years-todays-most-popular.html/quotthe-virus-planetquot-a-hidden-universe-that-would-reach-out-100-million-light-years-todays-most-popular http://a.aaaarg.org/text/3791/impossibility-drawing-map-empire-scale-1-1 by Umberto Eco ]]> Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:15:00 -0700 http://a.aaaarg.org/text/3791/impossibility-drawing-map-empire-scale-1-1 http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2009/5/the-higher-arithmetic Last year the National Debt Clock in New York City ran out of digits. The billboard-size electronic counter, mounted on a wall near Times Square, overflowed when the public debt reached $10 trillion, or 1013 dollars. The crisis was resolved by squeezing another digit into the space occupied by the dollar sign. Now a new clock is on order, with room for growth; it won’t fill up until the debt reaches a quadrillion (1015) dollars. The incident of the Debt Clock brings to mind a comment made by Richard Feynman in the 1980s—back when mere billions still had the power… ]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:32:00 -0700 http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2009/5/the-higher-arithmetic