HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University Of North Dakota Says They’re Shrinking Enrollment With Tougher Admissions Standards.
Archive for 2013
September 26, 2013
FASTER, PLEASE: Amputee: Bionic leg controlled by brainwaves “blew my mind.” “When a person thinks about moving, a signal is sent from the brain down through the spinal cord. These impulses control the muscles. After an amputation, the muscles are no longer there but the nerves are. Zac underwent surgery to move these nerves to his hamstrings. Sensors relay these nerve signals to a computer, which instructs the knee and ankle how to move.”
STUDY: Are women less corrupt than men? Only where there’s social pressure against corruption. Makes sense. Women tend to go along with social pressure more than men.
FOUR SCENARIOS for our future lifespans. Well, two of the four aren’t bad.
21ST CENTURY MARKETING? Easyjet tells law professor he can’t fly because he tweeted critical remarks about airline. Yeah, that’ll help their problem with negative social media.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Iowa Shrinks 1L Class by 40%, to 95 Students.
THE BUSYBODIES CAN’T HELP WEIGHING IN: Pregnant Weight Lifter Stirs Debate. The Insta-Wife lifted at the gym until the day before delivery; she had a very comfortable pregnancy and a very easy delivery.
NEW BREAKTHROUGHS IN ENDOCHRONIC TRADING: US Fed probing market trades before policy release. “The Fed said it would be reviewing how it disseminates often market-moving monetary policy decisions after an analyst said that movements on the gold exchange just before the release last Wednesday could suggest someone had the information early.” The movements in thiotomiline futures were sublime.
NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: New Treatment for Gonorrhea Prevents Reinfection: A nanoparticle-based cancer therapy has been found to thwart an antibiotic-resistant, sexually transmitted infection in mice. Given the growth of antibiotic resistant gonorrhea — and antibiotic resistance in general — this could be big.
READER BOOK PLUG: Reader Thomas Alexander’s book, Mistress of the Dancing Bones, is a free Kindle download for the next few days.
CHANGE: The First Carbon Nanotube Computer: “For the first time, researchers have built a computer whose central processor is based entirely on carbon nanotubes, a form of carbon with remarkable material and electronic properties. The computer is slow and simple, but its creators, a group of Stanford University engineers, say it shows that carbon nanotube electronics are a viable potential replacement for silicon when it reaches its limits in ever-smaller electronic circuits. The carbon nanotube processor is comparable in capabilities to the Intel 4004, that company’s first microprocessor, which was released in 1971, says Subhasish Mitra, an electrical engineer at Stanford and one of the project’s co-leaders.”
ROGER KIMBALL: Racism, Inc. “The deployment of power always attracts acolytes and entrepreneurs. So it is no surprise that a thriving cottage industry has grown up around accusations of racism.”
SHADES OF THE EASON JORDAN DAYS: CNN Presented Bogus Rouhani Translations That Made Him Seem Moderate. This is CNN.
VERILY MAGAZINE: A Tangled Web: Don Jon Highlights Real-life Effects of Internet Porn. I’m prepared to believe that porn has deleterious effects on relationships — but what about romance novels, vibrators, and “you go girl” relationship advice columns?
JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: What The Right Keeps Missing About The Recovery.
THE POPEHAT SIGNAL: Looking for legal help in Maryland. (Bumped).
I THINK THEY TOLD ME THAT IF I VOTED FOR MITT ROMNEY, SOMETHING LIKE THIS WOULD HAPPEN: Barack Obama just discontinued Big Bird’s health insurance.
ECONOMY: What California Comeback?
IN THE MAIL: From Michael Barone, Shaping Our Nation: How Surges of Migration Transformed America and Its Politics.
TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 140.