“It’s a savant, smart about a few things but profoundly ignorant about large swaths of human knowledge.”
on his experience with Wolfram Alpha, the “knowledge engine” designed to beat Google at its own game
“If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that’s fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray that makes people say crazy things and write lazy articles, a serious swarm of flies ends up in my ointment.”
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about the hype surrounding Ida
“Is President Obama, who has pledged to restore science to its rightful place in decision-making, now prepared to curtail the scientific analyses needed to determine whether a proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca mountain in Nevada would be safe to build?”
In the polls
51 per cent of , up 7 per cent on last year and the highest since polling began
Good week for…
Recycling Crew members on the International Space Station tasted the first drinking water produced by their urine recycling facility and declared it “great”
Bad week for…
Gas guzzlers President Obama announced tough targets on fuel efficiency that will raise the price of a new car by $1300
