Discovering Earth and space: Family fun at Exploration Station

The International Space Station at risk.

H uman space exploration is in deep trouble. The challenge is to maintain momentum , visibility, and funding just when the public and the U.S. Congress are preoccupied with problems of security and economic recovery. President Bush's budget request for 2003 cuts funding for the International Space Station (ISS) vehicle and operations and would eliminate its costly Crew Return Vehicle, meant for...

Fruit Fly Family Fun

A recent comparative analysis of the sequenced genomes of 12 Drosophila species (Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium, 2007; Stark et al., 2007) reveals a comprehensive picture of the evolution of small animal genomes and greatly improves computational predictions of functional elements in the D. melanogaster reference sequence.

Artificial Fun: Mapping Minds to the Space of Fun

Yampolskiy and others have shown that the space of possible minds is vast, actually infinite (Yampolskiy, 2015). A question of interest is “Which activities can minds perform during their lifetime?” This question is very broad, thus in this article restricted to “Which non-boring activities can minds perform?” The space of potential non-boring activities has been called by Yudkowsky “fun space”...

A Power Aware Cache and Register File Design Space Exploration

Family fun--family tragedy: ATV-related deaths involving family members.