worth reading.
think his novels will be richer though.

Incredible.

Quoted: “we watched connections get weak and disappear.”

Kids should eat Wheaties...

Quoted: The new study “takes the idea of the intrinsic organization of the brain to a new level,”

(If you keep clicking on the brain image, you eventually get a nice blown up photo. No legend to explain what all the terms are but... still cool.)

Seems like we will learn some interesting things...

Quoted: Each year the detectors will generate 15 petabytes of data, the equivalent of a stack of CDs 12 miles tall.

As the dollar and equities plunge, there has been a flight to commodities. The following index is one example of this trend.

Quoted: it is being calculated from 35[1] commodities from 11 international exchanges.

Anyone disagree with this?

Quoted: Oil prices have doubled in the past 12 months, while gold is up 44 percent.

Good explanation of how a CEF's price can vary from NAV.

"The price of Closed Ended Funds can vary from the NAV. In particular, fund shares often trade at what look to be irrational prices because secondary market prices are often very much out of line with underlying portfolio values."

Weather around the world in real time on top of Google Earth. (click on the circles to see temp. details for any city). Very cool.

Looks really interesting.

Quoted: "It exposed these rocks so quickly and it dug so deeply, there wasn't a blade of grass or a layer of algae,"