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Swarm Bots Pull Child to Safety – Yeah Swarm Bots!!
If you want to sell the idea of swarm bots as a “good” idea (seems harmless), show them dragging a child to safety. This video is a good example of swarm bots to the rescue. (Notice the expression on the child’s face–mildly freaked out? or simply bored?) There is an interesting question that pops into my [...]
Continue reading...Citizen Lab, Where the Internet is an Open Public Commons
18 November 2009
Citizen Lab is a great site to troll if you’re at all interested in cyberactivism. Centered at the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies, this group, directed by Ronald J. Deibert, endorses the strong normative claim that the Internet ought to be “protected and preserved” as an “open public commons”. In addition to publishing [...]
Continue reading...UNESCO: Philosophy on the World Stage
13 November 2009
I’ve added some links to sections of the United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) web site. They have useful collections of information within their Social and Human Sciences section on hot topics, news and events, declarations, and reports organized around various themes, such as: Philosophy Ethics Bioethics Ethics of Science and Technology As with most of the United Nations [...]
Continue reading...Can Good Citizens Emerge from a Robot Nation?
12 November 2009
Here’s Adam Yamaguchi’s documentary on the looming population crisis in Japan and the potential of humanoid robots as a solution. Sound crazy? It might not be. One interesting theme in this documentary is that populating Japan with robots is seen as a better policy compared to one of broadened immigration. Foreigners, Yamaguchi argues, are a more [...]
Continue reading...BOINC Makes the World a Better Place – Part Two, Installing BOINC
6 November 2009
In this post I explain how to install the BOINC Manager software and attach to your first project.
Continue reading...BOINC Makes the World a Better Place, One Flop at a Time
2 November 2009
As you read this blog post your eyes are capturing the light emitting from your computer screen. Your brain is busy taking in the information and processing it into meaningful sentences and ideas. You’re hard at work (don’t feel guilty if this is on company time). You and your computer are “turned on” so to speak, [...]
Continue reading...Smile, You’re On Google Images
23 October 2009
I recently Googled myself. Admit it, you have too. This time I decided to check the Google Image results and I noticed that my Facebook profile pictures are appearing as top hits in the search results. This raises interesting concerns for anyone who thought their profile pics were somehow restricted to being viewed as search [...]
Continue reading...Loose-leaf Tea Filters for On-the-Go Tea
22 October 2009
Well here’s a great product that offers a good balance between the environmentally wasteful pre-packaged tea bags (Tetley and the like), and “loose-leaf in a cup”. These Finum tea filters allow you to portion the tea leaves so you get exactly the strength of brew you like, without having the wasteful paper, staple, and string [...]
Continue reading...Copyright and Cultural Capital
28 September 2009
Here’s a great introduction to the copyright issue surrounding sampling. After watching it, check out Public Enemy’s “Caught, Can We Get A Witness?”. “The World’s Most Important 6-second Sample” Share/Save
Continue reading...The Ecofont: An Ingenious Green Technology
17 April 2009
Somewhere in far-off Europe, someone realised that you could save a lot of ink, 20% in fact, just by putting little holes in all of your letters. Et voilà, the Ecofont was born. I suggest everyone download and install it on their computers and try it out. It’s not a bad looking font! Share/Save
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- Guest: Surely the issue is not about Pfizer reps specifically on the CIHR governing board.? I feel the issue is more about a conflict of interest between...
- Jason Millar: I take your point regarding the market/business experience. My understanding is that the board is required (though maybe in a loose sense) to have the...
- Michael Karlin: It's not as contrversial as it seems. He is one vote of 17, and adds some element of market expertise to the group. Most of the Governing Council...
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