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It's not until you acknowledge the world's greatest physicists do you realize how fundamentally useless our role here is. You and I will not uncover the secrets of the Universe. Luckily, someone's working on it. One branch of theoretical physics believes that the Universe is just a holographic versi...

Image via Wikipedia  of  Freeman Dyson Dave Winer my Vote for Futurist of the Year 2009 ! Dave Winer a man of good taste and exhibits Gusto! Gusto 1 a: an individual or special taste b: enthusiastic and vigorous enjoyment or appreciation c: vitality marked by an abundance of vigor and enthusiasm 2...

Pickens writes "MIT microcomputer rocketer Scott Aaronson has an interesting post on how to improve Wikipedia's scope copyrights:cite this source roget's ii: the new llc.view results from: thesaurus | dictionary | encyclopedia | all character | the web share this: of theoretical laptop* science. Aar...

Believe it or not, but it has taken 103 years and the combined power of various of the world's top supercomputers to prove Eintein's biggest equation right, resolving e=mc2 at the scale of sub-atomic......

Many people have rules upon which they lead their lives and conduct their behavior; in fact, one could argue that most people would subscribe to this some way or the other. My readers should immediately be assured that I am not in the process of morphing Alpha.Sources into some kind of quasi philoso...

*LOST SEASON FOUR DISCUSSION HAPPENING BELOW* PROCEED WITH CAUTION!!! For those of you who are Lost fans you know that this season has been dealing with a lot of nerd-friendly issues such as theoretical physics, the space time continuum, and the nature of reality. All good stuff to be sure but often...

I joked with a friend recently that a pop up version of the Karma Sutra would be a great book idea and I found out today  that Amazon is already on the ball!  So making my way back to the writing board, Jason and I have been talking about writing a book about deep church.  One of the ...

Why is it that gay men are always going on reality shows after they've done a little porn or stripping (or whatever other penis-baring activities there are out there)? On top (heh) of the latest rumor about American Idol contestant David Hernandez being a stripper in Phoenix (ew), there were the rec...

Since Martin constantly manages to cover all ongoing news regarding cryptography and security I myself planned on writing about “any time soon”, I had to look for other topics on the subject I could cover. So I decided to make good use of all the time I spend studying this kind of stuff ...