Filed under: free, information, photo, writings | Tags: friendship, georges bataille, literal
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Filed under: 2011, information, news, video | Tags: egypt, slovaj zizek, sweat
Worth watching for many reasons:
The revolutionary chants on the streets of Egypt have resonated around the world, but with a popular uprising without a clear direction and an unpopular leader refusing to concede, Egypt’s future hangs in the balance.
On Thursday’s Riz Khan we speak with Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek about the power of popular dissent, the limits of peaceful protest and the future of Egyptian politics.
Filed under: 2010, information, science | Tags: information, memory, multiple universes, quantam theory
Here is some exciting news in science:
Scientists at the University of Utah have taken an important step toward the day when digital information can be stored in the spin of an atom’s nucleus, rather than as an electrical charge in a semiconductor.”
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“In quantum information, I can have a bit which is zero and one at the same time,” says John Morton, a physicist at the University of Oxford in England. This idea of being in two places at once is hard to explain. Morton says one way to think about it is to imagine there are multiple universes out there.
“Whenever quantum mechanics allows something to exist in two states at the same time, the universe splits,” says Morton, “and you have a universe where it’s one thing and a universe where it’s in the other state. You can along those lines think about a quantum computer as many parallel computers running in different universes.”
