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“If you're a regular Human Nature reader, you know the story line we've been following here and on the blog: Pakistan has become the world's first mechanical proxy war, with unmanned aerial vehicles hunting and killing bad guys so U.S. source...

“ A modern British university is no place to think. That's the sad conclusion I came to after ten years struggling in my secure academic job. What had at first seemed a magnificent opportunity and a great privilege had become source...

“The SOE's combination of gestural i/o, recombinant networking, and real-world pixels brings the first major step in computer interface since 1984; starting today, g-speak will fundamentally change the way people use machines at work, in the living room, in conference source...

“In a post on his blog, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis has announced that his human powered search engine has laid off 10% of its staff. Along with the layoffs Calacanis writes that the company will be doing some “smart things” source...

“  The Economics of Software Software is like nothing else in the history of human endeavor:¹ unlike everything else we have ever built, software costs nothing to manufacture, and it never wears out. Yet these magical properties are arguably overshadowed more...

“Abraham Maslow was a renowned anthropologist, best known for his concepts of the Heirarchy of Human Needs. Human needs are grouped into five categories with various priorities. The lower ones have to be satisfied before the higher needs can act source...

“Recently citizen scientist Forrest Mims told me about a speech he heard at the Texas Academy of Science during which the speaker, a world-renowned ecologist, advocated for the extermination of 90 percent of the human species in a most horrible source...

“ A few months ago I learned what is, so far, the most fascinating thing I've learned about human nature: the difference between being right, and being able to look someone in the eyes. ”

“The traits appear to be specifically adapted for running—and for jogging for long distances. So Bramble and Lieberman were not at all surprised that a man won the Man Versus Horse Marathon. It fits their hypothesis. Unlike many mammals, not source...

“The Semantic Web is a global information space of linked data, designed for machine consumption rather than human use. Right? Well, yes and no. It’s true to say that machine-readable data, given explicit semantics and published online, coupled with the source...

“  print version Beautycheck - Causes and Consequences of Human Facial Attractiveness (Summary)  The face of a person can tell us everything. But are our judges of someone else's face really that unbiased? What, if we would dislike someone just source...

“Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston believe they have uncovered the Achilles heel in the armor of the virus that continues to kill millions.”

“ A few months ago I learned what is, so far, the most fascinating thing I've learned about human nature: the difference between being right, and being able to look someone in the eyes. ”

“ Bram Cohen's brain works differently from most people's. He has Asperger's syndrome, a condition that keeps him rooted in the world of objects and patterns, puzzles and computers, but leaves him floating, disoriented, in the everyday swirl of human source...

“When I was working on Live Mesh at Microsoft, I had the good fortune to meet James Hamilton. James is full of good ideas, many of which are captured in his paper “On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services.” There is source...