As the year breaks, the internets are abuzz with deep thoughts!<\/p>\n
What will change everything?<\/a> is this year’s Edge Annual Question. Many interesting answers, as you might expect. Choose from Massive Technological Failure<\/a> (David Bodanis), Breaking the Species Barrier<\/a> (Richard Dawkins), Coordinated and Expanded Computational Power<\/a> (Lisa Randall), Faster Evolution<\/a> (Jonathan Haidt), Happiness<\/a> (Betsy Devine), Synthetic Biology<\/a> (Dimitar Sasselov), and more. The book of last year’s question<\/a> is out soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The blog posts to be reprinted in the Open Lab 2008 anthology<\/a> have been announced — only 50 selections from over 500 nominations<\/a>, I’m glad I wasn’t responsible for making the tough choices. Also glad that they chose one of my posts, The First Quantum Cosmologist<\/a>. You can also read about The Igneous Petrology of Ice Cream<\/a> (Green Gabbro), Expect the Unexpected<\/a> (A canna\u2019 change the laws of physics), How do cave bats know when it is dark outside?<\/a> (Pondering Pikaia), and perhaps the most courageous blog post of all time: Liveblogging the Vasectomy<\/a> (Terra Sigillata). Some sort of new journalism” going on there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Finally, if all those ideas are weighing you down, play with the David Lee Roth \u2018Runnin\u2019 With the Devil\u2019 Soundboard<\/a> (via Cynical-C<\/a>). Deconstructed from this classic track.<\/p>\n