30 October 09 - 17:18Bryant Austin's Stunning Whale Photography
Impressive close-up whale photos.sth - default - / No trackbacks - § ¶
27 October 09 - 21:49Soros Launches Effort to Battle Market Fundamentalism
George Soros launches a $50 million effort to purge economics of its free-market zeal. He should start here at Paecon.
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25 October 09 - 21:47Record NYC real estate deal now on the rocks
"It was the most expensive real estate deal in U.S. history. Now it's poised to become one of the biggest flops."sth - default - / No trackbacks - § ¶
25 October 09 - 01:25White House confronts the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
"Our strategy is to reach out directly to the business community," said Valerie Jarrett, the president's liaison to the corporate world. "This is a shift. Previously, the chamber had served as the sole intermediary for business. That's not our approach." Bam!sth - default - / No trackbacks - § ¶
23 October 09 - 18:38'Holy Grail' Of Cancer Therapy: Researchers Find Way To Protect Healthy Cells From Radiation Damage
"...biochemical signaling pathway that can profoundly influence what happens to both cancerous and healthy cells when they are exposed to radiation. In mouse experiments, they found that blocking a molecule called thrombospondin-1 from binding to its cell surface receptor, called CD47, affords normal tissues nearly complete protection from both standard and very high doses of radiation."sth - default - / No trackbacks - § ¶
23 October 09 - 01:20Another Intelligence-Enhanced Rodent, Hobbie-J
Dubbed Hobbie-J after a smart rat that stars in a Chinese cartoon book, the transgenic rat was able to remember novel objects, such as a toy she played with, three times longer than the average Long Evans female rat, which is considered the smartest rat strain. Hobbie-J was much better at more complex tasks as well, such as remembering which path she last traveled to find a chocolate treat."One simple modification, three times longer memory plus a problem-solving ability boost. People underestimate the potential value of intelligence enhancement in humans because what they expect are just smarter humans, not humans that are smarter than any human that ever lived. Because the potential range of technological modifications is much larger than the range of natural variations, it’s likely we’ll eventually get smarter-than-human intelligence without even really trying, as long as we try out enough options."
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23 October 09 - 01:17LED Eyelashes [VIDEO]
The next trend in clubwear
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22 October 09 - 17:27Bedding Inspired by the Homeless
"The Home Duvet lets you sleep under a cardboard box so a homeless person doesn't have to"
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21 October 09 - 20:47Super Fast Industrial Robots
Rockin' bots and soda cans!
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18 October 09 - 23:59Juha Arvid Helminen's Shadow People
Cool, spooky black on black art
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18 October 09 - 22:01Jupiter's Moon Europa Has Enough Oxygen For Life
In fact, there may be enough oxygen to support complex, animal-like organisms with greater oxygen demands than microorganisms
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18 October 09 - 05:49NASA -Giant Ribbon Discovered at the Edge of the Solar System
Although the heliosphere is huge and literally fills the sky, it emits no light and no one has actually seen it. Until now.
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17 October 09 - 04:49Nudging the Calorie Counters
Calorie nudges. Cute.
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17 October 09 - 04:35Fear Of Being Laughed At Crosses Cultural Boundaries
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15 October 09 - 20:38Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed)
Sagan and Hawking get the vocoded nerdcore treatment. Excellent.
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15 October 09 - 18:34Virtusphere
Someone needs to put a bunch of these in a gaming cafe: The Virtuspheresth - default - / No trackbacks - § ¶
12 October 09 - 00:58Hard Work's Overrated, Maybe Detrimental
A co-founder of Flickr argues that hard work often doesn't amount to much--and neuroscience offers some backing for the claim.sth - default - / No trackbacks - § ¶
10 October 09 - 01:20Nanomedicine Kills Brain Cancer Cells
Incoming GBM brain cancer cure
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09 October 09 - 08:54Economist's View: "25% of US Jobs are Offshorable"
Ouch
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05 October 09 - 15:42Immortality Enzyme
Three American scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine for research on cell division and the “immortality enzyme” that can help cells multiply without damage, illuminating conditions including cancer and aging.
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05 October 09 - 12:17The Coming World Hunger
"It is hard for me to comprehend that in the next 50 years we will need to produce as much food as has been consumed over our entire human history"sth - default - / No trackbacks - § ¶
04 October 09 - 15:50Surgeons Offer Eyesight Tailored to an Individual's Career
Would sir like night vision? Does he require the eyes of a hawk? Or one eye customised to see into the distance, the other for reading? Such questions are now the stuff of client consultations in leading eye clinics.
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02 October 09 - 08:40Free-flying cyborg insects steered from a distance
RC beetle army, here we come
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01 October 09 - 17:46Scientists Develop Nasal Spray That Improves Memory
"If a nasal spray can improve memory, perhaps we're on our way to giving some folks a whiff of common sense, such as accepting the realities of evolution"
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01 October 09 - 10:06Memes strike back
: Gerbils, blood elves, and Glenn Beck
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01 October 09 - 09:21Print is Undead
How New York City's Seven Newspapers Are (Nearly) Surviving
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