Selling Soap - New York Times

Selling Soap - New York Times

On doctors and poor hygiene....

Turns out that doctor's don't wash their hands very often. A hospital's efforts to change this are described, including mention of using physicians's hands on a petri dish to grow bacteria. They made the resulting culture into a screen saver.

In regards to the screen saver.... Eww....

A Show That Trumpeted History but Led to Confusion - New York Times

A Show That Trumpeted History but Led to Confusion - New York Times

Well, it looks like this program is/was a waste of time if you were interested in learning the facts of 9/11. I mean, it doesn't look like they post messages in big red letters proclaiming "This segment was modified to make it interesting. Any relationship to real facts is purely coincidental".

Pity.

Wired News: Experimental AI Powers Robot Army

Wired News: Experimental AI Powers Robot Army

I've long been a fan of AI in its many forms both fiction and non-fiction. Here's a story on the state of the art. Interestingly, there's even some mention of what's known as an emergent property, where the AI in individual robots unintentionally or unexpectedly work together with others to bring a cooperative, community behavior.

Photo Periodic Table Posters

Photo Periodic Table Posters

Neato....