Reshaping the architecture of memory.

Quoted: If an idea being kicked around in an I.B.M. lab is correct, electronic devices could potentially hold 10 to 100 times more data in the same amount of space.

Get the huge 160,000 word report from the Project for Excellence in Journalism, "The State of the News Media 2007." Next year - bloggers.

Quoted: The State of the News Media 2005, An Annual Report on American Journalism - Presented by Journalism.org

Reminds of what Borat says when addressing the rodea crowd on behalf os Kazakhstan:

"We support your war of terror!"

Quoted: In this open letter to C-SPAN's CEO, I submit my purchase order for 6,251 congressional hearings and assert my fair use rights.

How much would you pay for an invisibility cloak? Interesting new math/science possibilities.

Quoted: Every child’s dream of invisibility made a giant leap toward becoming a reality last year. A cloaking device has set the mathematical community buzzing about how to make invisibility not just possible, but practical. “Who would have thought that people would be talking about invisibility in scientific terms?” said Gunther Uhlmann, the UW’s Walker Family endowed professor of mathematics. Uhlmann followed the news especially closely because he and his colleagues had discovered an invisibility cloak in 2003.

My favorite quote from this article is the second one below. Why can't Bush and co. let government scientists speak for themselves? Why do they have to stay "on message"? Isn't it our money being sent to probe further into scientific truth?

Quoted: The administration claims it wasn't trying to tell government scientists what to say about climate change, but e-mails obtained by Salon prove otherwise.

Quoted: When NOAA press officer Laborde was contacted to discuss the e-mails, he denied that interviews were subject to approval from White House officials. Confronted with his own e-mails, however, he said, "If you already knew the answer, why did you ask the question?"

I thought this was an excellent article on the practice of investigative interviewing and how to ask questions that get answers that have real information in them.

An interesting free feature from today's WSJ. A female scientist who became male via surgery explores the seterotypes.

Quoted: "Female scientists who are competitive or assertive are generally ostracized by their male colleagues," he says. In any case, he argues, "an aggressive competitive spirit" ...

(free subscription required)

This is fascinating. Self-assembling molecules which are injectable and have been shown to regenerate damaged brain cells and restore vision in hamsters.

Quoted: Healing brain and spinal-cord injuries is one of the most desirable, but challenging, goals of regenerative medicine. Molecules that self-assemble into nanoscale filaments may show the way.