Munden's Bar

Given what adrexia, R, Ant, and I have all been doing recently in superlate's game, I thought the recent Wired article Does quantum computing have a future? might be interesting to them. But then I decided it might be of more general interest as well.

If you're at all interested in this sort of stuff, I'd recommend Deutsch's book that is mentioned in the article, The Fabric of Reality, I read it when it first came out, and his synthesis of Popper, the Many Worlds interpretation, Turing, and Dawkins evolutionary refinements, essentially exactly matched my own ideas, except that Deutsch had done it with rigour.

It's probably why I considered myself mainly a Virtual Adept when we were playing "old" Mage.

Has anyone else noticed that qubit ( a quantum bit) sounds like "cubit" (an Egyptian measure) ? Are the pyramids really quantum computers ? teases

It seems that the old adage that brain cells don't regrow, is wrong :

A pool of "resting cells" migrate to create new nerve cells in the part of the brain which deals with smell.

The system has been shown in mice and rats but it was believed it did not exist in the human brain.

Experts said the findings, published in Science, opened up the potential for research into repairing brains in conditions such as Alzheimer's disease.

The researchers from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and the Sahlgrenska Academy in Sweden showed stem cells rest in certain areas of the brain, just beneath large fluid-filled chambers called ventricles.

And for the paranoids out there, don't read this!

Thanks to my colleague Chris for these links!