Science & Technology – Week of 09.15.13

Sun Mysteriously Goes All Quiet Just When Its Activity Should Be Highest
Wired | 16 September 2013
Almost every measure of solar activity flatlined over the weekend…

The Truth IS Out There: British Scientists Claim to Have Found Proof of Alien Life
The Independent | 19 September 2013
Life on Mars? No, say scientists, it’s floating 27km above Chester…

New 100 Gigabit/Second Wireless Links and DARPA
Giza Death Star | 18 September 2013
This one was sent to me by a regular, Ms. P.H….

DNA Double Take
The New York Times | 16 September 2013
From biology class to “C.S.I.,” we are told again and again…

Coping: More on Taxing Robotics
George Ure’s Urban Survival | 17 September 2013
I am besieged this morning with email from people who can’t believe my preposterous claim…

Report Suggests Nearly Half of U.S. Jobs Are Vulnerable to Computerization
MIT Technology Review | 12 September 2013
Oxford researchers say that 45 percent of America’s occupations will be automated within the next 20 years…