ELIZA, the paperclip maximizer: A story
An unspecified government agency released a set of decoded log files [see below], recovered from an accident at an AI research lab. According to an eyewitness who visited the site, an “unusually large” heap of paperclips towered over the...
Junk DNA and Media science literacy. How on earth the two subjects could be related is not immediately clear though the poor quality of some of today’s news publications might suggest otherwise. First let’s get a handle on what the most recent kerfuffle i...
10 years ago, on 28 April 2003, Apple released their game changing service iTunes Music Store. It has been growing ever since its release, reaching 7800 million downloads in 2012. The digital music store has been blamed and praised for the changes the music industry ...
Welcome to Circus Bazaar, I, on behalf of all the people that have contributed to the creation of Circus Bazaar, would like to extend a warm welcome to you, our dear audience. In the coming weeks and months we will be launching our first headline stories. We can assu...
Wherever I go, whatever I see, I compare it to my home. When the weather clears, when nature unfolds – Its blinding. Home to lights like you never seen. Warmth of the midnight sun, breathtaking Auroras, and moonlit mountains and fjords. The polar day lasts 12 months:...
The internet is flooded with claims that Spirulina will improve every thing from heart health to your mood. Believers of all things seen as alternative will sing you the gospel on its virtues, but is there a darker side to that deeply green and bad tasting alleged mi...
“After a surprise appearance by Edward Snowden at TED2014, Chris Anderson said: “If the NSA wants to respond, please do.” And yes, they did. Appearing by video, NSA deputy director Richard Ledgett answers Anderson’s questions about the balance betwe...