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Color-Coded Ants Reveal their Efficiency

By Amber Sasse Posted on 7.2.2009 1 Comments

7.18.2009 at 01:04pm - Comment by thequestion

The amazing, versatile ant does it again! Found on a piece of American money: "In God We Trust"
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Digital Rat Brain Spontaneously Develops Organized Neuron Patterns

By Posted on 7.16.2009 8 Comments
Four years ago, a team of researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland switched on Blue Brain, a computer designed to mimic a functioning slice of a rat's brain. At first, the virtual neurons fired only when prodded by a simulated electrical current. But recently, that has changed. Apparently, the simulated neurons have begun spontaneously coordinating, and organizing themselves into a more complex pattern that resembles a wave. According to the scientists, this is the beginning of the self-organizing neurological patterns that eventually, in more complex mammal brains, become personality.

7.18.2009 at 12:49pm - Comment by thequestion

As human technology advances to the point where we can understand just how amazingly advanced living things really are, I hope and pray that scientists will remember to give credit for creating them to God, and not to chance. Expect the Theory of Biological Evolution to become more and more difficult to believe as evolutionists try to explain how technology that is at least a century away from human comprehension was created by chance. Found on a piece of American money: "In God We Trust"
Science

New Evidence Suggests That Using the Internet Might Make You Smarter, Not Rot Your Brain

By Posted on 6.9.2009 9 Comments
"The simple headline here is that Google is making us smarter," says Gary Small of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California at Los Angeles. Thank you, Dr. Small. And thank you, Internet, for not only helping me dig up this information but also juicing up my brain while I looked for it. Small recently published results showing that searching the Internet does for the brains of older folks what doing bench presses does for chest muscles.

6.23.2009 at 10:04pm - Comment by thequestion

I don't know if this experiment proves that every part of the internet makes your smarter, but I know from experience that the Internet is a double-edged sword when it comes to brain function: While it does improve one's ability to figure out which keywords to use in a web search (and possibly describing things in general), over-use of the Internet can shorten attention span significantly. I don't know how big the Internet's effect on attention span is, and it probably varies from person to person. However, a short attention span (impatience) is a bad thing.
Entertainment & Gaming

Gaming Addiction a Growing Concern

By Posted on 8.11.2008 19 Comments
In a famous scene in the first Matrix movie, a character takes a bite out of a juicy steak. He knows it's not real, but enjoys it anyway. In some ways, a video game -- just moving pixels on the screen -- is a similar virtual reality experience. No, the aliens in Halo 3 are not real, but we pretend they are. That is how a game can pull you from a living-room couch into a foreign realm.

4.25.2009 at 09:19pm - Comment by thequestion

Video games are fun. I like video games. But remember, as the Hebrew King Solomon said (some of his sayings are in the Bible): "There is a time and a place...for everything" I play video games, and I like them a lot. But my mom loves me enough to limit how much I and my siblings can play on them. If anybody allows the virtual world - as wonderful as it is - to become more important than the real world, then they need to take a video game time out.
Science

Mooove Over, Darwin

By Posted on 1.21.2009 5 Comments
Also in today's links: crocodile deaths, sugar highs, and the pleasures of video games.

4.25.2009 at 08:53pm - Comment by thequestion

How many Creationist or Intelligent Design books have you read? [silence] I have read material on both sides of the creation/evolution debate, and I have come to the conclusion that Intelligent Design has more evidence for it than Evolution does. Please stop slandering your fellow scientists with this whole "Intelligent Design is a fraud" thing.
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Science Confirms the Obvious: Parents are More Strict with Older Kids

By Posted on 4.23.2008 7 Comments
The latest breakthrough in the burgeoning field of birth-order research reveals that parents discipline older kids much more severely than the younger ones. My own thoroughly unscientific poll also finds that this experience is common: Four out of five friends felt that hell yeah, younger siblings got away with murder. Well, not murder per se, but other transgressions such as sneaking home at 5 AM, shoplifting car stereos from Caldor, and smearing Vaseline on the family toilet seat.

4.24.2009 at 06:37pm - Comment by thequestion

I agree with the results of the study, but I am wary of robdur5233's opinion on spanking. Being an older brother and the recipient of many a spanking, I know that: 1. my little brothers (and little sister) get away with more than I did at their age 2. spanking is not deadly I am sure that there are and have been many parents who have abused their children by beating them (whether they deserved it or not), but so long as the parents control themselves, spanking (not beating) is an effective disciplinary measure that - at least in my experience - works just as well or better than all its alternatives. The bottom line is, you can survive pain. Spanking is not a health or emotional hazard to children unless the parents (or anyone else who is in charge of discipline) have violent tempers or don't really show that they love their children.
Science

Self-Control is Good, But Only up to a Point

By M. Farbman Posted on 4.24.2009 6 Comments
A strange new study found that people who rated high in self-control made good choices among an array of relatively healthy foods -- until a much healthier option was thrown into the mix, at which point self-control seemed to go out the window. Also in today's links: the most delightful creature in the world, the worldwide spread of technology, and more.

4.24.2009 at 05:58pm - Comment by thequestion

As if the spider knew that the markings on its back were entertaining to humans! Seriously people, do you really believe that evolution stuff? It's so dumb, that if you take a moment to examine it critically, you will find that it doesn't stand up to a paper clip.
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Hackers: the China Syndrome

By Posted on 4.27.2009 26 Comments
At 8 a.m. on May 4, 2001, anyone trying to access the White House Web site got an error message. By noon, whitehouse.gov was down entirely, the victim of a so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Somewhere in the world, hackers were pinging White House servers with thousands of page requests per second, clogging the site. Also attacked were sites for the U.S. Navy and various other federal departments.

4.24.2009 at 05:53pm - Comment by thequestion

Is it possible that in addition to alllowing this cyber-terrorism, that the Chinese government is actually teaching people that they should hack America?
Science

Islam Is Good

By M. Farbman Posted on 4.21.2009 33 Comments
British government officials are planning to deploy search-engine optimization in their war on terror, working with certain Muslim groups to push "positive" depictions of Islam up in the Google rankings. Also in today's links: watching your kids like a hawk, living like a pig, and more.

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4.21.2009 at 08:49pm - Comment by thequestion

I agree with criticalscience on this one; anyone who thinks that all religions are equal doesn't know much about any religion. Somewhere in the Bible (I forgot where), Christians are warned about false prophets and false teachers, and this is how Christians are to find out if a prophet or teacher is real or fake: "You shall know them by their fruits" The Koran (sharia law) orders Muslims to enslave all non-Muslims as dihmmis? I don't know how to spell it, but basically it means that you have to pay very heavy taxes for the 'privilege' of living in a Muslim nation. You also don't have as many rights as Muslims. Anyone who doesn't want to become a Muslim or endure this treatment is killed. I challenge any atheist to find a place in the Bible that orders Christians to do anything even close to that. Jesus even prophesied about Islam, hundreds of years before the false prophet Mohammed, when he told his followers that people would kill them for their faith, and think that they were doing a service to God. That is exactly what Muslims believe, and always will believe. While some 'christians' have done things like imongi said, don't think that atheists are innocent. Google "persecuted christians" and look for stuff that communists are doing to Christians and you will see what I mean. The bottom line is this: Islam is evil, Christianity is not. Stop trying to make Muslims appear morally equal to Christians.