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      • New tools for math learning
        01/30/07
        I first saw Wolfram Demonstrations when it was just over a thousand pieces old. At that stage a trove of passingly interesting ideas. No longer: I now realise each of them is a tool of first water. Each can be built into a model from game up to post-doc research. Any can grab a child and give a life

      • Is this what Charles meant by prince of faiths?
        01/30/07
        Most of us need a faith, a strong faith, to carry us through the bleak bits.
        Is no religion at all better than midwestern Christianity?
        If Christians truly turned the other cheek, would we not close Wall Street and the NYSE, the promoters and wardens of jealousy, when someone attacks the T

      • Sudoku and friends as arrangers of emotion
        01/23/07
        An emotion is a reaction to things. Like to mother, trust, gold bars, spiders. An emotion is usually instant, but can linger and be triggered by later stimuli.
        So a challenge like a crossword or sudoku raises a series of emotions, mostly pleasurable – I have done these well – enough to challeng

      • The new google software community
        01/22/07
        There seems to be very little of the usual dark side in this grouping. The combination of writely, jotspot, skype and doubtless many geek-blessed others is far more subtle than the old Microsoft extend and embrace method (Show us your secrets, tell us your dreams, and we will give you and your desc

      • A little list of some birth rights
        01/21/07
        I am not yet born, please hear me ..


        It is every child’s right to have -
        Security
        Caring parenting
        Choice of languages
        A just society
        Full access to the culture of that society when young
        Full access to global earth
        Freedom from imposed views and c

      • Below the reptile nerve system
        01/19/07
        If we have a reptile brain below the mammal overlays, should we not also have pre-reptile brains closer to or around the brainstem?

        Now if these early brains have pre-vertebrate nerve and other sensory systems, will we have essential services like fluid flows controlled by these. These wo

      • Why Crick failed with consciousness
        01/17/07
        Consider his background: father within church but an unbeliever. Teenage militant atheist, never bored in non-conformist boarding school chapel because he spent the sermons ridiculing the ideas.

        Now ask the mature discoverer of the messenger of life, doyen for decades of the causal genome

      • Googledocs evolves
        01/17/07
        The usenet groups supporting google’s online storage and wp community are an exemplar of the future growth. The trick has been to welcome greenies by letting oldsters pass on the good will.
        Google has recently bought commercial wiki JotSpot a geek-fave product booster and looks set to give it

      • Prime the maths wiki
        01/17/07
        Kind friends showed me the power of Prime to prove why the conic section called an ellipse is not egg-shaped. If only our Lilliputian wars were so easy to solve.

        Prime of course stands for Platonic Relations Interactive Mathematical Encyclopedia.
        Prime is thesaurus, vademecum, and ea

  • 2006