The two articles aren’t hugely related, except that they share the idea of folks finding problems in the code. Either disabling or vulnabilerizing. Johnny Mnemonic’s Secret Door (Planet Money) Those Who Say Code Doesn’t Matter (blog@ACM) The latter link is…
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Many years
A billion years is a long time. xkcd: Stratigraphic Record
String theory and the advantages of being an outsider
A string theorist quotes Einstein as saying that being an outsider can be an advantage over the in group. String Theory: Fascinating, Not Science Fiction (NPR) He has more to say about string theory here. The Elegant Universe | Sylvester James…
Celestial spirograph
Astronomy Picture of the Day captures Mars and Regulus here.
An Innovation pairing
Marketplace: Middle class struggles with changing job market. A History of the World in 100 objects: Ship’s chronometer from the HMS Beagle (and AHOW’s main page). Everybody see the connection?
A pairing of pirate stories
A History of the World in 100 Objects: Pieces of eight Scientific American’s 60 Second Science: Pirates need science, too