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	<title>Alphaverse.com&#187; Long Term Thinking</title>
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	<description>Life, the Multiverse and Everything...</description>
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		<title>FOXP2 human language gene changes mouse squeaks</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/foxp2-human-language-gene-changes-mouse-squeaks/2009/06</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happens when you substitute the human FOXP2 gene for that of a mouse?  According to researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, not much, except this interesting result — it changes their vocalizations. While the FOXP2 gene is important in the development of many different tissues, in humans it affects the development [...]
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		<title>77 Million Goes Big Down Under</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/77-million-goes-big-down-under/2009/06</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Long Tailor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[   This week Brian Eno transformed Sydney Opera House with mega projections of his 77 Million Paintings… (Stunning images from this DailyMail piece)       Go to the feed source of this article Go to publisher&#8217;s website This article appeared on the website mentioned above and the author and/or the publisher are to be [...]
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		<title>One Billion Years of Memory</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/one-billion-years-of-memory/2009/06</link>
		<comments>http://www.alphaverse.com/one-billion-years-of-memory/2009/06#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Kurzweilai.net ran a clip of this post from Nanowerk (a more complete report will be available here June 10th): &#8220;A new experimental computer memory device that can store 1 terabyte per square inch&#8230; with an estimated lifetime of more than one billion years has been developed by Alex Zettl of UC Berkeley and [...]
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		<title>Multi-millennial brain teasers</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/multi-millennial-brain-teasers/2009/06</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Put down your crosswords, cryptograms and sudoku.  Instead try boosting your brain power by deciphering an ancient script.  In case you have forgotten which ones are still available and want to stake your claim, here is a catalog with difficulty ranking based on two important criteria:  language (known/unknown) and script (known/unknown).  All have teased many [...]
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		<title>The Analog of Digital</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/the-analog-of-digital/2009/06</link>
		<comments>http://www.alphaverse.com/the-analog-of-digital/2009/06#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swedish design group Humans Since 1982 created this digital readout called The Clock Clock made of 24 analog clocks.  Notice the time reads 09:25 digitally above.  You can go to their website to see an animation of the clocks in action as well as download the font they create. Thanks to Creobic for this link [...]
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		<title>What 13,500 pages micro-etched into nickel looks like</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/what-13500-pages-micro-etched-into-nickel-looks-like/2009/06</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The good folks over at the Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena who organized the Data and Art show that the Rosetta Disk was in, were kind enough to get some really nice photos taken of the micro-etched data side of the disk.  What you are looking at is over 13,000 tiny pages describing over [...]
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		<title>Paul Romer, “A Theory of History, with an Application”</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/paul-romer-%e2%80%9ca-theory-of-history-with-an-application%e2%80%9d/2009/05</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Cities with New Rules This talk was the first in a series of public discussions of an idea that Romer has been working on for two years. His economic theory of history explains phenomena such as the constant improvement of the human standard of living by looking primarily at just two forms of innovative [...]
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		<title>The human side of climate change</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Long News: stories that might still matter fifty, or a hundred, or ten thousand years from now. There have been a flurry of reports in the last few weeks which try to anticipate how climate change may impact human populations. 1. Two trends (urbanization and global warming) seem to be on a collision course: [...]
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		<title>Live Twitter from Paul Romer Seminar</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/live-twitter-from-paul-romer-seminar/2009/05</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<title>Galactic Center Rising</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<title>Maker Faire Bay Area 02009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 4th Annual Maker Faire takes place this year on Saturday May 30th and Sunday the 31st at the San Mateo Fairgrounds and Long Now is thrilled to be an exhibitor for the third year running. Maker Faire is an incredible experience for the whole family with exhibits ranging from gigantic Tesla coils to small [...]
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		<title>3.16 Billion Cycles</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/316-billion-cycles-2/2009/05</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Member Austin Quig-Hartman sent in a reference to this very cool clock project by Che-Wei Wang.  It reminds me of a clock version of Art Ganson&#8217;s &#8220;Machine with Concrete.&#8220;  What I find really interesting is that the designer ended up with  3.16 billion cycles which is basically the average number of beats a human [...]
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		<title>Publishing Failure</title>
		<link>http://www.alphaverse.com/publishing-failure-2/2009/05</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyperborean</dc:creator>
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		<title>Digital Preservation and Nuclear Disaster: An Animation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[See Digi-Man and Blizzard duke it out over digital plans of a nuclear powerhouse!! It is good to see an effort to make digital preservation heroic, which as we saw with the Apollo tapes below, it certainly can be. From the halls of Digital Preservation Europe Go to the feed source of this article Go [...]
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
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