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Essay on the iconoclastic Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman and his involvement in the making of an early parallel supercomputer. gulfstream/2442

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. Includes sections on The Bible (the handwriting on the wall), proverbs (he who laughs last, laughs best), idioms … gulfstream/2349

Some proper Aussies in this (fake?) market research video for Drambuie Australia. gulfstream/2361

“Rather startled, I watched this scene from close quarters behind the window until 19.10 hours during which time (75 minutes) I made some photographs … gulfstream/1704

Conference accepts computer-generated computer science paper. (Looks like Alan Sokol, at least, was suitably cautious in not attempting to draw … gulfstream/1727

Eurasians are more beautiful, healthy, intelligent, etc.? (Nice theory, not very convincing.) gulfstream/1945

The Nocebo effect: thinking that bad things will happen is a self-fulfilling prophesy. (So should doctors lie to patients about their prospects?) gulfstream/2102

Jim Holt’s review of two books critical of string theory. (Good overview of the theory and its weaknesses.) I would’ve thought that two books on string … gulfstream/2163

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Perfect for internet dating! Computer scientists developer an image enhancement program that turn portraits into portraits that look like the original, … gulfstream/2246

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HeLa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
immortal cell line used in medical research

The Chronicle: 10/14/2005: The Number That's Devouring Science

Computational Visual Cognition Laboratory @ MIT

news @ nature.com - Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye - Potential readers can make snap decisions in just 50 milliseconds.

Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth

AOL reSearch : Research - Test Collections

Vodafone Betavine - Home
mobile network r&d and project hosting. e.g. gps logger. (not much now, check back later.)

Patrick Baudisch's projects

How NASA Screwed Up (And Four Ways to Fix It)

Tennis, pressure and the gender wage-gap | vox (beta) - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from Europe's leading economists
seems somewhat dubious but i might want to find this again

redesigns of the bloomberg terminal
conceptual redesigns (some quite radical) of the bloomberg terminal from ideo, happy cog

Systems Software Research is Irrelevant

Coding Horror: Has CAPTCHA Been "Broken"?