The Incompleteness of the Harm Principle
A response to Jason Pontin’s essay on free speech by the author of Principles for a Free Society.
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A New Computer Screen Reaches Out to Touch You
An experimental new touch screen, the Obake, has a stretchable surface that to reacts user interaction in new ways.
Two Ways to Fix the Typing-on-Touch-Screens Problem
One solution to the typing-on-a-screen problem asks us to change our behavior; the other changes its behavior to fit us.
Bird Flu: On the Move and Hard to Track
The H7N9 virus is deadly to humans but does not present symptoms in birds, which makes it more difficult to control.
Other Interesting arXiv Papers This Week
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv preprint server
Google Trends Could Predict Stock Market Moves, Study Shows
A paper found that trading based on search query volumes for the term “debt” could yield large returns.
Physicists Build World's First "Magnetic Hose" For Transmitting Magnetic Fields
Magnetic fields decay rapidly and so have never been transmitted over long distances. Until now ...
Keyboard App Swype Could Soon Offer Slang That Varies by City
Keyboard app Swype could soon get hyper-local dialects that automatically change depending on which city you are in.
Life's Trajectory Seen Through Facebook Data
Data donated by Facebook users to Stephen Wolfram yields interesting patterns that may reveal how people change over time.
Why Tech Companies May Really Want All Those Extra Visas
The shortage of workers in the IT industry may be overblown, a new study claims.
