These are my links for May 7th 2009 through May 11th 2009:
- New Statesman – Don’t sell me your dream – Far from liberating us, technology isolates us and makes us stupid. I want no part of your sterile, bloodless brave new world
- Energy of the Future: Igniting a Star With Laser Light – "It may look like one of Michael Bay's Transformers, but this mass of machinery could soon be the birthplace of a baby star right here on Earth. Using 192 separate lasers and a 400-foot-long series of amplifiers and filters, scientists at Lawrence Livermore's National Ignition Facility (NIF) hope to create a self-sustaining fusion reaction like the ones in the sun or the explosion of a nuclear bomb — only on a much smaller scale."
- Creation on Command – How creativity springs from a choreographed set of mental events.
- The Three Poisons, Institutionalized by David Loy According – txtbin – According to Buddhism the three roots of evil are lobha greed, dosa ill will, and moha delusion. Traditionally these are personal problems, but today they must also be understood more structurally, as institutionalized.
- Enormous Shark’s Secret Hideout Finally Discovered | Wired Science – After half a century of searching, scientists have finally discovered what happens to the world’s second largest shark every winter: It has a Caribbean hideout.
