With the health care debate raging in the House and Senate, some Swampland blog posters at Time.com have linked these tough decisions to the classic game theory problem called the Prisoner’s Dilemma.  It’s an interesting read about how complex problems can be boiled to a mathematical understanding…
You can read the thread at the Time.com website here, here and here…

Let the geekiness ensue!  March 14 is known in technogeek circles as Pi Day.  And yes (I know what you’re thinking – where can I learn MORE about Pi Day?!), there is a whole website dedicated to Pi Day – from piday.org: 
Pi, Greek letter (), is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi [...]

With the new “Alice in Wonderland” movie coming out, MSNBC.com takes a look at how science has evolved through the hundred years since Lewis Carroll’s story.
You can read the article here…

 
When I first saw this, I thought, “Yikes!”  
But it’s the artistic creation of RoboSteel, an Ireland-based firm that creates sculptures from scrap metal (their website is www.robosteel.com, where they also make metal scupltures of Star Wars, Predator, and Terminator characters).   
The large Alien Queen is only 4,500 Euros (what a bargain!)…
Here’s the article from Wired GadgetLab…

Ever wonder what controls your body clock?  Well, according to scientists, it’s a grain-of-rice sized clump of neurons in the brain. 
Here’s the Forbes article that tell us more…

Here’s the link to see what features are in Apple’s newly announced iPad tablet computer.  Right now, it’s a larger version of the iPhone, but with an iBook store for buying electronic books, and 3G/WiFi access to the Internet.

A quick note on one of my favorite new technologies – quantum computers.  Quantum computers are coming into reality, and here’s a story about the world’s first programmable one…
Quantum computers can do a number of things exponentially faster than regular computers, such as searching through unsorted databases and factoring integers (which is useful for codebreaking).  While these applications are pretty [...]

These are probably some of the coolest things I’ve run across in a while, and they all have to do with using your mind to control things…
Now, most of us already use our mind to control things – like our arms and legs, but they’re of course connected to our brain through nerves and our spinal cord.
But, what about things [...]

Like I said in an earlier post, I thought this week’s Newsweek had a lot of great stuff…  Here are two articles with a scientific bent that I thought were neat. 
The first article is by Fareed Zakaria, who asks Is America Losing Its Mojo?  Zakaria points to three tidals waves of innovation that made America the world leaders in innovation. 
The [...]

I’m huge on doing better with our math and science education.  But Alan Brinkley talks about not leaving the humanities behind as we do it (probably a good thing…)
His article is titled Half A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste…