Greg H.

I've read on pretty much all of the above, but I just prefer paper. Maybe I'm old fashioned, or a traditionalist, or whatever, but to me the experience just isn't the same without the weight of a book, and the feel of the paper under my fingers. I'll read things on a tablet or whatever, but it's not my preferred method.

Here here.

I am reading Walter Truett Anderson's All Connected Now: Life in the First Global Civilization.

For those on the web application gig, AngularJS looks to be making inroads in the business world. We just started using it here at work for an 80,000+ user application.

www.angularjs.org

It serves hot sauce Maxwell demons. As a result, you get the calories and solution to the paradox. I hope it suits your needs?

I had to read this twice to make sure I had read it correctly. What are you talking about?

At the LHC they break down atoms(star stuff) and produce quark/gluon plasma.

Are we made of signals propagating across a 4 dimensional carrier?

If those signals eventually equate to carbon and iron and other elements that can only be born from solar fusion and the resultant deaths of those stars, then sure, we can say those statements are equal.

Scientists have finally uncovered the secret of the centaur: what you need is a man and a very curious horse....

And a friend who can keep a secret.

We are made of star stuff - the ashes of dead stars.

Obligatory IANAL.

That said, I think the real issue is that the laws (as I understand them) make no distinction with regards to the intent behind the possession or creation. Simply having the material is enough to receive the maximum sentence available, even if said material was captured to provide evidence. This is, in my opinion, what happens when you create knee-jerk laws instead of thinking a situation through slowly, carefully, and completely. Combined with mandatory sentencing guidelines, laws like this have, quite simply, emasculated the judiciary, and are, as has been noted in the articles you linked, destroying the lives of young people for being young and a little stupid.

I wonder how many guilty people I could find if I crawled Facebook looking for pictures of children and playing in bathtubs or swimming pools. I'd be willing to bet there would be more than a few.

Unfortunately the question of what to do about it is so politically charged that I'd be surprised if 10 years is enough time to get them changed in the US.

Java!

Of all the programming languages I have worked with, I like working with Java the best. Of course, I also don't do interface design in it, so that might change my mind.

A little new...

A little old...

The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

I'll second that one, and add in A Brief History of Time by Hawking as well.

Evolution Isn't What it Used to Be: The Augmented Animal and the Whole Wired World by Walter Truett Anderson

The Dinosaur Heresies by Richard Bakker

Edit to add

A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer by George Johnson

Hello all, my name is Greg, and I too suffer from an addiction to science, especially Physics (particularly cosmology), evolution, and astronomy. I'm also something of a math geek, and a student of philosophy and history. I'm a java programmer by trade, I live in the Midwest (US), and I occasionally say Very Stupid Things^TM. I am looking forward to learning more on these forums, and perhaps contributing a nugget or two of my own knowledge (or ignorance, depending on if what I say turns out to be right or wrong).