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"... the progress of science has been accompanied by the retrogression of man. Because of its practical triumphs, there grew up an almost mystical faith in the omnicompetance of science. Not only could it transform man's life, it could enable him to know the universe,...

I felt the use of abstract figures made most of the data meaningless. Russia has 5192 warheads. America 4102. France 300. What does that mean? Is that a lot? I can’t relate to that. There’s a single way I relate to nuclear weapons. By their destructive capability....

But Ben Huh's media star continues to rise. The founder of I Can Has Cheezburger, Fail Blog, GraphJam and more than 15 other quirky Web sites has now landed in the pages of Time magazine, the latest in a series of news articles on what has to be the strangest...

We can read about it every single day. One person describes the advantages of web applications over their native counterparts. Another one dismisses every single argument of the previous critique. This week, the web vs. desktop application debate gained new momentum...

Bill Wyman’s 9,000-word, two-part magnum opus laying out five reasons why newspapers are failing is a must-read — or at least the first three reasons are; the final two are a little weaker. The first part, on how consumers have never paid for news, is the clearest...

Editorial: X Could Learn a Lot from Vista, Windows 7 posted by Thom Holwerda on Sat 15th Aug 2009 17:55 UTC Over the past couple of months, and especially over the past couple of weeks, I've been working very hard to write and complete my thesis. I performed all...

FROM: Jean-Lou Chameau It is with great sadness that I share the news of the death of one of our students. Brian Go, a junior studying computer science, appears to have taken his own life over the weekend. Brian was president of Page House and was a double major...

Like most internet users, I waste too much time on the web. Despite that, I’ve never had much luck with the apps that set out to solve this, like Freedom or RescueTime. They feel too heavy-handed. Instead, I want fairly repetitive and annoying prods that make...

In this interview, Clojure creator Rick Hickey took some time to tellComputerworld about his choice to create another Lisp dialect, the challenges of getting Clojure to better compete with Java and C#, and his desire to see Clojure become a "go-to" language. What...