Delicious LiveJournal Links for 3-11-2009

[andrewducker]

• The best article I've read on Watchmen
  The book, not the movie. But the point still stands.
  (tags: watchmen alan_moore)
• A positive review of Wolfram Alpha
  Which nicely explains some of its limitations.
  (tags: wolfram cyc knowledge mathematica)
• Belief and the brain's 'God spot'
  Which it doesn't have. Or rather, it seems to have several.
  (tags: science religion brain god)
• Rorschach vs Wolverine
  Very, very funny.
  (tags: funny watchmen comics video superhero)
• Possibly the cutest thing in the world ever
  Not Safe for Work. And I hope that's not the look I have on _my_ face during sex.
  (tags: funny video sex rape animal turtle)
• Snow White needs a bailout
  Actually a fascinating piece on Kuiper Belt objects.
  (tags: astronomy)

Comments

[nmg.livejournal.com]

A positive review of Wolfram Alpha
(Which nicely explains some of its limitations)

A positive review *by Doug Lenat*. I'm not sure if I would take his review with any less than a large grain of salt, given his previous work on CYC.

[andrewducker]

Wll, obviously. He'll be reviewing it from his point of view. But his descriptions of what it's doing and the methodology it's using is more information than I've seen anywhere else.

The brains god spot...

[endless-psych.livejournal.com]

They found that people of different religious persuasions and beliefs, as well as atheists, all tended to use the same electrical circuits in the brain to solve a perceived moral conundrum – and the same circuits were used when religiously-inclined people dealt with issues related to God.

Doesn't that kind of invalidate the claim and mean they are essentially saying all human beings are wired up with similar moral circutry? Which makes a lot more sense then an area specifically dealing with religious belief...