Marcin Jakubowski: Open Source Imaging — $10K Instead of $1M

Welcome to Open Source Medical Imaging. A prototype machine will be $10k in materials instead of $1M off the shelf, and first images are expected next year. Lukas has received a Shuttleworth Foundation Flash Grant for this work, and just presented this at the world’s largest MR conference. Open Source Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Chuck Spinney: Teen Discovers Mayan City Using Internet, Star Charts, and Insight

One of the promises of the internet was that it would fuel an intellectual revolution, particularly in emergence of citizen science.  To date, that promise has seemed to be more a pipe dream than a reality.  But occasionally, one comes across a reminder of its potential.  Herewith is a stunning example of what is possible. …

Stephen E. Arnold: AI Is Stupid — Microsoft Says So….

Microsoft Says That AI Is Stupid I know there is a difference among: What senior managers believe about their minions’ innovations What marketers say about the technology the engineer wizards are crafting in the innovation microwave What “real” journalists angling for a job with some tailwind write What the reality of an innovation is, right …

Stephen E. Arnold: A Non-Profit Search Engine

A Not-For-Profit Search Engine? That’s So Crazy It Just Might Work The Common Search Project has a simple and straightforward mission statement. They want a nonprofit search engine, an alternative to the companies currently running the Internet (ahem, Google.) They are extremely polite in their venture, but also firmly invested in three qualities for the …

Robert Steele: Peace Intelligence Biography, Graphics, & Selected Works

SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Peace-Intel Robert David Steele is a champion for Peace Intelligence who has sought since 1988 to redirect the craft of intelligence (decision-support) away from spies and secrecy enabling war and waste, toward open sources and methods favorable to peace and prosperity. Most recently he has lectured in Denmark and Norway on the need …

Sepp Hasslberger: Exposing the Wikipedia Trolls Seeking to Cover Up the Truth

Tim Bolen and Mike Adams on the skeptics – intriguing story – a good read. Hate Spewing “Skeptics” – A Modern Day Ku Klux Klan of the Internet (Primarily Centered at Wikpedia) The control of Wikipedia health care articles is a prime example.  The manipulation of Google’s search engines is another.  The “skeptics” have training …