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- Smart Tractors?!?!? - "Guidance systems are enablers," said Mr James. "Farmers buy them with one job in mind and then realise they can use it for lots more."

"Row over 'torture' on French TV "

Suggestion for new format of ACT meetings. What would make this experiment scientifically relevant and not just a show?

The "Biological Economics" thing is a hyping (or misunderstanding) of the BBC article. The work it refers to seems to be an application of Complex Networks theory to financial networks. I found what appear to be some of the related publications: Andrew G. Haldane (April 2009) Rethinking the financial network (further references in the footnote to page 10) Erlend Nier, Jing Yang, Tanju Yorulmazer and Amadeo Alentorn (April 2008) Network models and financial stability Funny how these issues have been repeatedly popping up at the ACT in recent weeks. This connects both with the discussions on information spreading in networks, and with roadmaps' robustness.

not very impressive if this is the best of robotics ... or only a promotion tournament?

Look at this!!

well, this confirms the standard cosmological model as a coherent model... however who is satisfied with a model where 96% of the content is unknown...?

Sante, Luzi have a look at this???!!!

Leo, you mean that they measured 3 years? That's not a point to criticize: since the only interaction of neutrinos with matter is the Weak Interaction (which is indeed very, very weak), it is extremely hard to get a reasonable statistic. By the same reason, it's essentially impossible to shield the experiment from the background. And this background (solar neutrinos, cosmic radiation neutrinos) is huge.

for sure a result to be taken seriously. It makes a buzz in my lab... but always be cautious with this kind of declaration, that hugely violates all physics we know and even most of the reasonable alternative theories... Remember the Pionneer anomaly for which it took almost ten years to set up that finally its a thermal effect.

Excellent photo gallery.

Thanks for sharing! Most pics are very very nice, but a few are actually pretty mediocre I must say... "Wildlife" photography is always a rather tricky topic, as demonstrated by this famous story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8470962.stm

Some more stuff: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/15359263

impressive .... 

Oxford University scientists find that a complex skill such as juggling causes changes in the white matter of the brain. - Let's start juggling for the ideastorm!

cool. I can do some lessons with three and four balls... tomorrow after lunch !

for our AI guys ...