Damek.

When you really need to sit down and study, absorbing some large quantity of knowledge, there’s really nothing quite like some semi-harsh ambient music.
I find Trent Reznor’s soundtrack for the Quake game works particularly well.
So does Spaces by Esa Ruoho, a.k.a. Lackluster.
What are your favorite sonic knowledge enhancers? Or do you just prefer silence? [...]

Not much to write about lately. I’m preoccupied with my own little projects and priorities. Biology class is going along swimmingly. I think I’m one of the best people in the class, but that’s not saying much. I’ve been getting good grades so far, anyway. It helps that I’ve done [...]

The strength of science is the principle of falsification. On that note, I came across this intriguing post about Intelligent Design and other nonfalsifiable ideas at TPMCafe:
…saying ID explains everything that is not irreducibly complex means it only explains natural phenomena that cannot yet be explained by any other theory. In other words, [...]

There’s a nice post over at Charlie’s place (he’s a fun sci-fi author) about complex systems and efficiency.
Our civilization runs on a much slimmer margin than most of us realize. As a cost-saving measure, the corporate policy of the past three decades has been to abolish warehouses and stockpiles wherever possible and to use information [...]