I heard about cloud seeding in China a few years back. Earlier this year I read about its potential uses in geo-engineering the Earth's climate. I had no idea the nondescript building I have passed so many time on Flamingo has been seeding-clouds with silver iodide since the 1970's.
Scientists in Israel recently published an article in Genetics demonstrating the fabrication of DNA. “You can just engineer a crime scene,” said Dan Frumkin, lead author of the study. “Any biology undergraduate could perform this.”
By now most of you have heard that I spent a lot of my time last summer reading about Iran, and its nuclear program. My paper attempted to determine whether or not Iran would develop a nuclear weapon. Bueno de Mesquita claims to have created a computer program that will tell us in a matter of minutes.
Book of the week: In Fed We Trust by David Wessel.
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Thanks for posting items like this ! I went and read about Bueno de Mesquita.. very interesting - but i like that he did put in garbage in, garbage out... you know I read a lot of novels -- I was just reading about a guy who built a computer that analyzed various scenarios, and could predict outcomes- it was a little unnerving and now you posted this article. I can see the benefit, but can also see the games people/governments can play... so many what if scenarios.
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