Misc

Hayek, psychology and the Electric Universe.

"Hayek began his inquiry into the foundations of theoretical psychology in 1919 before specializing in economics (and winning a Nobel Prize in that latter field in 1974). He didn’t publish The Sensory Order until 1952, when he found “with considerable surprise” that theoretical psychology “remained pretty much in the same state in which it had been” 30 years before. He attributed this stasis to “the prevalence during this period of an all too exclusively empirical approach and of an excessive contempt for ‘speculation’.
It seems almost as if ‘speculation’ (which, be it remembered, is merely another word for thinking) had become so discredited among psychologists that it has to be done by outsiders who have no professional reputation to lose.”"

This is another factor explaining why scientists receive stolen money to discover the obvious.

Google blocks YouTube app for Microsoft phone. Petty. It doesn't benefit anybody.

Another way government is taking control of your car: using built in GPS, it knows the speed limit.

"The latest versions of these GPS systems have “real time” functionality. They can adjust route guidance to take account of accidents along your planned route, for instance. This is handy. But the same functionality can be put to other uses, too. For instance, there is no technological reason why the new Lincoln MKZ’s ability to keep abreast of the speed limit wherever you happen to be driving could not also be used to limit the speed you drive – or at least, record your failure to abide by the speed limit and perhaps report your noncompliance to the authorities. Or more likely, your insurance company."

I bet it already records speeding for the insurance company. Another reason I doubt I'll ever buy a new car again.

More risky work at Fukushima.

Micro-particle delivers oxygen to cells even when person can't breath. This sounds too good to be true.