I sometimes marvel at how much mental energy and reasoning skills I put into the computer games I play with my three and four year old sons. Now some real gamers ‘playing’ a simulator specially designed for the purpose have managed to solve in 10 days a problem in AIDS research that’s vexed scientists for more than a decade.
“People have spatial reasoning skills, something computers are not yet good at,” said Seth Cooper, co-creator of Foldit (the simulator) and a researcher at UW Department of Computing Science and Engineering. “Games provide a framework for bringing together the strengths of computers and humans.”
Search engine expert says Santorum is all wet in his attacks on Google.
A little while ago I told you how federal prosecutors were pushing for a twenty-year sentence for Abramoff associate Kevin Ring. I don’t think anyone thinks I’m an apologist for the folks in the Abramoff scandal. But that’s two decades for giving sporting events tickets to members of Congress and staffers. Most of the folks in the scandal got about a year, if they were even indicted. And even Abramoff himself got only a little over three years. The prosecutors made little attempt to hide the fact that they were pushing for this crazy sentence as pay back for Ring not pleading out. Today a federal judge said, No, you can’t do that.
New data from the federal government show worldwide energy consumption rising more than 50 percent by 2035.
There is one tiny silver lining in the new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration: While energy consumption is projected to increase by 53 percent, carbon emissions are expected to rise by 43 percent. That’s due to increased use of non-carbon-based energy and to improved efficiency.
Still, the increased energy production to meet this growing demand will still come overwhelmingly from fossil fuels, as these charts show.
At press conference on the day DADT finally ended, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mike Mullen says decision to end the policy was “first and foremost a matter of integrity.”
Okay, I think I have now seen the Michele Bachmann photo of all Michele Bachmann photos. And let’s be frank. It’s a high bar. And here it is.
Top House Republicans say if government shuts down over disaster relief stand off, it’ll be on Harry Reid.
Rick Perry just met this morning with right-wing Jewish leaders in Manhattan to tell them “help is on the way” for Israel after he becomes president because his religion has given him a “clear directive to support Israel.” Our reporter was there and filed this report.
Brit Hume: Income inequality? Who cares? Watch.