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Category Archives: Current History
Musings on the physics of baseball
I was just reading that Jose Bautista, the current MBL home run leader has popped 31 home runs, well behind the 50 or so that Mark McGuire was hitting by this time of year during the height of the Steroid … Continue reading
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The big sports competition: live versus fake
It’s been a nice habit recently to get up early and watch Wimbledon tennis before work. So it was frustrating this morning to find that the Sharapova-Lisicki match was nowhere to be found. I finally figured out why. NBC is … Continue reading
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Climate change is now
Summer is here, and in many places people are feeling the heat. But a Stanford study says it will get worse. The study says that in the near future, in many places, the coolest summers will be hotter than the … Continue reading
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Venture Capital and Intelligence Tech
As part of my story on Michael Crow, I recently interviewed Christopher Darby, the president of a company called In-Q-Tel (Crow is chairman of the board), which has been around for about ten years, although I had never heard of … Continue reading
Lions and eco myths
Recently another mountain lion wandered out of the hills into Palo Alto and had to be shot by the police. And then came the ridiculous assertion that comes up every time something like this happens, and it makes me want … Continue reading
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Humor in the police logs
For a long time I have made a habit scanning the Palo Alto’s Daily Post for a few laughs. It’s not the comics page I’m looking at–it’s the Police Blotter. They have it broken down by city, and while most … Continue reading
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Digital technologies and social networks will usher in the biggest shakeup medicine has ever seen
Yesterday, Eric Topol, who is director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla, CA, spoke to members of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute about the transformative power of digital technology and social networks in medicine. He noted that the … Continue reading
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