81. Reason Magazine - The Twin Paradox Ronald Bailey asks what exactly is wrong with cloning people. Reason Magazine http://www.reason.com/news/show/30253.html

@import "/media/css/tf.css"; /* layout - screen only*/ @import "/media/css/reason.css"; /* layout - screen only*/ Reason Magazine Contact Subscribe Site Search Home Subscribe Contact Us Reason Staff ... Submissions Site comments/questions: Mike Alissi Media Inquiries and Reprint Permissions: Chris Mitchell 3415 S. Sepulveda Blvd. Suite 400 Los Angeles, CA 90034 The Twin Paradox What exactly is wrong with cloning people? Ronald Bailey Print Edition By now everyone knows that Scottish biotechnologists have cloned a sheep. They took a cell from a 6-year-old sheep, added its genes to a hollowed-out egg from another sheep, and placed it in the womb of yet another sheep, resulting in the birth of an identical twin sheep that is six years younger than its sister. This event was quickly followed up by the announcement that some Oregon scientists had cloned monkeys. The researchers say that in principle it should be possible to clone humans. That prospect has apparently frightened a lot of people, and quite a few of them are calling for regulators to ban cloning since we cannot predict what the consequences of it will be. President Clinton rushed to ban federal funding of human cloning research and asked privately funded researchers to stop such research at least until the National Bioethics Advisory Commission issues a report on the ethical implications of human cloning. The commission, composed of scientists, lawyers, and ethicists, was appointed last year to advise the federal government on the ethical questions posed by biotechnology research and new medical therapies. Its report is now due in May.

82. SSRN-The Piracy Paradox: Innovation And Intellectual Property In Fashion Design SSRNThe Piracy paradox Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design by Kal Raustiala, Chris Sprigman. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=878401

83. The Fermi Paradox: An Approach Based On Percolation Theory The absence of any evidence for such visits is the Fermi paradox. A more proper name for this would be the FermiHart paradox, since while Fermi is http://www.sff.net/people/Geoffrey.Landis/percolation.htp

Published in Journal of the British Interplanetary Society , London, Volume 51, page 163-166 (1998). Originally presented at the NASA Symposium "Vision-21: Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in the Era of Cyberspace" (NASA CP-10129), Mar. 30-31, 1993, Westlake, OH U.S.A. The Fermi Paradox: An Approach Based on Percolation Theory Geoffrey A. Landis Ohio Aerospace Institute NASA Lewis Research Center, 302-1 Cleveland, OH 44135 U.S.A. Abstract If even a very small fraction of the hundred billion stars in the galaxy are home to technological civilizations which colonize over interstellar distances, the entire galaxy could be completely colonized in a few million years. The absence of such extraterrestrial civilizations visiting Earth is the Fermi paradox. A model for interstellar colonization is proposed using the assumption that there is a maximum distance over which direct interstellar colonization is feasable. Due to the time lag involved in interstellar communications, it is assumed that an interstellar colony will rapidly develop a culture independent of the civilization that originally settled it. Any given colony will have a probability P of developing a colonizing civilization, and a probability (1-P) that it will develop a non-colonizing civilization. These assumptions lead to the colonization of the galaxy occuring as a percolation problem. In a percolation problem, there will be a critical value of the percolation probability, Pc. For P<Pc, colonization will always terminate after a finite number of colonies. Growth will occur in "clusters," with the outside of each cluster consisting of non-colonizing civilizations. For P>Pc, small uncolonized voids will exist, bounded by non-colonizing civilizations. When P is on the order of Pc, arbitrarily large filled regions exist, and also arbitrarily large empty regions.

84. Paradox Unbound paradox Unbound. Everyday Low Prices Satisfaction Guaranteed Or Your Money Back. Saturday, March 01, 2008. John F. Long, R.I.P.. Me and John F. Long, 1987 http://www.mitchglaser.com/journal/

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=13780483"); Paradox Unbound Everyday Low Prices...Satisfaction Guaranteed Or Your Money Back Saturday, March 01, 2008 John F. Long, R.I.P. Me and John F. Long, 1987 Developer and philanthropist John F. Long passed away yesterday at the age of 87. Mr. Long, an Arizona native who honed an indomitable work ethic during the lean years of the Great Depression, led the transformation of Phoenix into a modern metropolis. He was also an inspiration to a young boy who wanted to grow up to be a "city builder" and attended kindergarten at a school that bore his name. John F. Long's homebuilding empire began humbly and grew through fortuitous timing. After serving in World War II, Mr. Long returned home, got into the construction business, and married Mary Tolmachoff. The newlyweds began to build a home for themselves; before finishing, they were presented with an unsolicited offer for twice what they had paid to construct it. Rather than move in, the Longs sold the house and began building two more on adjoining lots. Phoenix's growing population had created a huge demand for new homes and the Longs profited greatly, waiting until they had built several more before claiming one for their own. In the early 1950's, Mr. Long acquired huge tracts of farmland west of Phoenix and began constructing Maryvale, a master-planned community named for his patient wife and business partner. He was determined to provide affordable housing for the thousands of people moving to the booming Valley of the Sun through innovative building techniques and economies of scale, selling three bedroom units to growing families for less than $10,000. Among the early buyers were Ray and Virginia McMahon, recent transplants from New Jersey who happen to be my grandparents. They raised my mother and nine other children in a Maryvale home.

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