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Previously
on MoreLiver’s:
PSYCHOLOGY
Does Contemporary Neuroscience Support or
Challenge the Reality of Free Will? – BQO
To Spot a Liar: An Offices of SciAm Mystery – SciAm
The Hunt Is On for Biological Signs of PTSD – technology
review
Nationwide team will work to find biomarkers
that could improve diagnosis and treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Secret of AA: After 75 Years, We Don’t Know How
It Works (June
2010) – Wired
Psych- and neuro linkfest – BPS
The Science of Sleep – brain
pickings
Dreaming, Depression, and How REM Sleep
Regulates Negative Emotions
MILSECINT
*A Cyber "Warhead" With an Unknown
Target – technology
review
The Gauss malware uncovered last week features
a mystery payload.
It's a plot worthy of a Hollywood action movie: 40 years ago, the U.S. Navy carried out a
daring mission to retrieve a top-secret film capsule that had settled more than
16,000 feet (4,876 meters) underwater on the ocean floor.
You, Too, Can Purchase a Not-Quite Panopticon – reason
We're almost certainly not yet living in the
Panopticon. But any step in that direction—even if it's well-spun
marketing-speak—is worth watching.
Wikileaks & Assange
Blocking
Assange – The
World / FT
Assange or
Corzine? – Azizonomics
Conflict Brewing
Between UK And Ecuador As Latin American Country Agrees To
Grant Asylum To Assange – ZH
SOCIETY
They have more money than you and this is what
they do.
"Poor but sexy"; the German capital
is a creative, forward-thinking centre, but only survives on subsidies paid by
other states. There, lives a population for whom money is tight, and universal
handouts are expected. Blogger Don Alphonso pulls no punches in his portrait of
Berlin. Excerpts.
Central Planning in History – The Greek Bronze
Age – Why
Nations Fail
The idea that the central planning of the
economy in the Soviet Union was driven by ideology seems compelling and obviously true. But it
isn’t that simple actually.
A $1.2bn Simulation of Civilization – technology
review
An ambitious European project wants to build
super-real simulations to help predict the future.
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428891/a-12bn-simulation-of-civilization/?ref=rss
As Ramadan ends, we publish three articles on
changes in the Islamic world: on the impact of digital technology, on religious
observance, and on the role of alcohol:
Islam and
technology: The online ummah – The
Economist
Muslim
rituals: Preaching and practicing – The Economist
Islam and
alcohol: Tipsy taboo – The
Economist
TECH / SCIENCE
Approaching maximum theoretical printing
resolution
The limits
of light – Babbage
/ The Economist
100,000 DPI
Image Pushes Limits of Resolution – Wired
A Playboy
Model and Nanoscale Printing – technology
review
The Q&A: Caleb Scharf: Engines of creation – Babbage /
The Economist
new data suggest that black holes, some of the
most enigmatic objects in the universe, may in a sense be deserving of
veneration. For they seem to have been instrumental in bringing about the conditions
necessary for life ultimately to emerge.
Fermat’s Last Theorem (video 45 min) – Farnam
Street
Simon Singh and John Lynch’s film tells the
enthralling and emotional story of Andrew Wiles. A quiet English mathematician,
he was drawn into maths by Fermat’s puzzle, but at Cambridge in the ’70s, Fermat’s
Last Theorem (FLT) was considered a joke, so he set it aside. Then, in 1986, an
extraordinary idea linked this irritating problem with one of the most profound
ideas of modern mathematics
The Emerging Revolution in Game Theory – technology
review
The discovery of a winning strategy for
Prisoner's Dilemma is forcing game theorists to rethink their discipline. Their
conclusion? Winning isn't everything.
Turn, Turn, Turn – Futility Closet
Mazes have exercised a peculiar fascination for
the mathematically minded.
OTHER
How top executives live (1955) – Fortune
5 Founders Who Came Back to Rescue Their
Companies – Fiscal
Times
Capturing the Last Don (GQ Mar 2007) – devinfriedman
How Bernardo Provenzano, “boss of all bosses of
the Sicilian Mafia” and fugitive for more than 40 years, got caught.