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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Friday, 08 August 2008 |
As loyal readers are aware, Uncle Doc has held down a great many professional jobs in his life. Nothing too special, and most of the pedestrian variety befitting a man with several dozen advanced degrees. Associate Chair of the Physics Department at Yale. Operations director at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NHRA owner/driver. Head of Israeli intelligence. This sort of thing.
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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008 |
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I've been monkeying around in the lab this week, looking at backlight options for several new gadget initiatives here at Dyscern World HQ. Backlighting is one of those humble little technologies that you never really notice, but tend to miss it considerably when it's not working. Like the illumination on your watch or iPod. Or the dashboard display in your car. Or time machine. Once, due to a dim backlight, my trip to 1973 dumped me in the Precambrian era. That sucked.
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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
I can safely say that this short film clip is not something I ever expected to see on the corporate website for Philips Electronics. Um, I'm going to have to use some words here that may strike you as incongruous in a consumer technology blog. Let us steel ourselves. The film is rather sensual, rather erotic, rather beautiful. Click over and I think you'll agree.
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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
Some fascinating new research published in the journal Nature this week. Like most Dyscern readers, I suspect, I like to keep a stack of scientific journals in the kitchen for light reading over breakfast. In the study, researchers used location-tracking data from cell phones to monitor the movement patterns of that fascinating species, the Modern Urban Denizen.
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