Resistance Is Futile
As an avid technology watcher, The Bear tracks a number of trends on the World Wide Web, observing how new services come into common usage and are integrated into our ...
Multiverse
Late last year I started watching the new ABC series "Flash Forward" on Hulu. It began with a deep mystery: everyone on the entire planet experienced a coma-like black out ...
What Is Time?
Physicist Sean Carroll is hunting for the ultimate theory; he wants to explain the arrow of time. We remember the past but we don’t remember the future. There are irreversible ...
Many Worlds In One
The Bear has just finished reading Alex Vilenkin's Many Worlds In One (Hill and Wang, 2006). The book is subtitled "The Search for Other Universes" and describes Vilenkin's theory of ...
Stroke of Insight
Though it's been on my reading list for a couple years, I am just now getting around to reading My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Dr ...
Let Backyard Boxes Bloom
Electricity from a box in your backyard? Bloom Energy is making them for commercial businesses -- they're about the size of a parking space. The first ones (definitely business-sized) cost ...
Light = Love?
Here is a bit of philosophical thought play... If God is Love and God is Light then Is Light equivalent to Love? ------ This is related to yesterday's post entitled ...
We Are Made of Light
Here is something I have been thinking about for many many years (according to my own notebooks, as long ago as the late 1970s), but I credit the writer, artist ...
Immersive 3D – on an iPhone?
Spark Labs Tour Wrist iPhone App: Stand inside a 360-degree photo panorama and spin around to enjoy the view from any direction. That's the iPhone app that Spark Labs has ...
Whole Words
Can you read the following paragraph? "I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at ...
