Today is the 22nd birthday — or maybe the 17th — of a now classic fictional “character.” That’s HAL 9000, the computer that plays a central role in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. In both the movie, co-written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, and Clarke’s book, HAL tells astronaut David Bowman that he […]
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Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Distinguishing Science From Nonsense (“Children are not going to flourish at science in a society that treats science either as something you can believe in selectively, something that is simply one point of view, or something about which anyone can have a credible opinion no matter how ill-qualified, dumb, […] Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes This is what it’s like to be at war with your body (“This time he settled for dry ice, one of the preferred methods of self-amputation …. The idea is to freeze the offending limb and damage it to the point that doctors have no choice but to amputate.”) […] |
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