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Thursday, February 17, 2005
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Coffee is good [posted by Troy] A few weekends back, Justin and I were looking at a recent National Geographic issue about caffeine. I've been thinking about it, so I found this page on the National Geographic Web site about the drug. Here's a piece of this article:
The consensus today focuses on the drug's interference with adenosine, a chemical in the body that acts as a natural sleeping pill. Caffeine blocks the hypnotic effect of adenosine and keeps us from falling asleep. Since caffeine has also been shown to enhance mood and increase alertness in moderate amounts, it's a potent potion for students and scholars stuck in the lab at three in the morning. Paul Erdős, the Hungarian mathematician who often worked his equations around the clock, is known for saying that "a mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." --From National Geographic
11:25:49 PM permanent link Google It!
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I mean, I don't want to be killed [posted by Troy] But, there have been several articles like this one about how easy it is to manipulate the US voting system. Elections are really not about seeing who people want. It's more about technicalities and keeping people away from the polls. Even the Clintons and mainstream politicians are calling for reform. This American Prospect Article really hits some good points about the problems with the last election, and this grouping of links is interesting.
11:15:07 PM permanent link Google It!
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Can't turn around without blogs [posted by Troy] I spent part of the morning responding to a community college email discussion list (yes, this exists) where a librarian was asking about blogs. Since our library has blogs of its own, I was offering some information about how we use them and set them up. Well, this led to side email messages about more details about blogs. Then on the way home, there were a couple of NPR stories about blogs in China, where it seems that more often than not blogs are about sex and not human rights or revolution...what are ya going to do? Anyway, there is a discussion out there about blog ethics. Do bloggers have a responsibility to follow a code? Hmm? Josh, what do you think?
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