Monday, June 25, 2007

TV's "Mr. Wizard" Dies At 89, Don Herbert Was Beloved By Generations Of Kids For Science Shows

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Video reveals sprites are brighter than Venus

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Google backs green computer plan

BBC NEWS UK Google backs green computer plan

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Jets of matter clocked at near-light speed

Jets of matter clocked at near-light speed - space - 12 June 2007 - New Scientist Space

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I put that, at roughly 185,999.442 miles per second ..... Whoooosh! ......

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Liquid lens can magnify at the flick of a switch

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Weed Worse Than Kudzu Spreads to Ga.

11Alive.com - Weed Worse Than Kudzu Spreads to Ga.

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A weed worse than Kudzu .... THATs just what we need ....... :-(

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Toshiba Plans 5TB Drives by 2013

PC World - Toshiba Plans 5TB Drives by 2013

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WD My Book Drive Hits 1.5TB

PC World - WD My Book Drive Hits 1.5TB

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Ancient Rome comes back to life in virtual model

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Molecular holograms are coming into focus

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Ice ages dried up African monsoons

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Ancient DNA Traces Woolly Mammoth's Disappearance

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The ultimate remote?

The ultimate remote? Chicago Tribune

Hard to get more "Potato" than that! .... :)

More HERE.

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Friday, June 22, 2007

'Dirty snow' warming Earth, study finds

'Dirty snow' warming Earth, study finds

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More HERE.

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Agonized pose tells of dinosaur death throes

Agonized pose tells of dinosaur death throes

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Goodbye wires... MIT experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer

Goodbye wires... MIT experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer

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WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE ???? ..... TESLA ?!?!?!?!?!?!! ............ ;-)

They chose the name "WiTricity" .... At Least they didn't pick "WikiTricity" ... :)

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Wheelchair man gets highway ride

BBC NEWS Americas Wheelchair man gets highway ride

Unbelieveable! ....

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Bear robot rescues wounded troops

BBC NEWS Health Bear robot rescues wounded troops

Thought this was quite interesting ...

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Researchers Chart Internet's 'Black Holes'

Researchers Chart Internet's 'Black Holes'

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Meteorite damage found on space station

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Bob Barker Bids Goodbye To "Price", After 35 Years, Beloved Game Show Host Tapes Final Episode

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Not so fast a twist in the tale of T.rex

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Breakthrough for High Definition Image Compression Technology

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Terabytes of Mars Pictures Released to Public

Slashdot Terabytes of Mars Pictures Released to Public

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Over 1200 new HiRise images of Mars, along with talk about possible huge cave entrances or large, deep holes on the surface ....

More HERE and HERE.

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Stem cells ready to spread

Stem cells ready to spread - Jun. 6, 2007

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More HERE.

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Lake disappears suddenly in Chile

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1st Gene Therapy Trial Effective Against Parkinson's

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Bone-Crushing Wolves Roamed Alaska During Ice Age

Bone-Crushing Wolves Roamed Alaska During Ice Age

Well ... at least .... they weren't wise-cracking wolves .... :)

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Thursday, June 21, 2007

'Smiling Bob' wins privacy appeal

'Smiling Bob' wins privacy appeal -- Coshocton Tribune - www.coshoctontribune.com - Coshocton, OH

I agree to the principal .... but am discouraged to hear about possible defrauding of customers ....

More HERE and HERE.

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NVIDIA launches Tesla: GPUs are the new CPUs

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Hubble movie captures spinning space rock

Hubble movie captures spinning space rock - space - 20 June 2007 - New Scientist Space

Big as Texas ..... THAT's a Mighty-Big Asteroid ....... :)

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'Dark galaxy' continues to puzzle astronomers

'Dark galaxy' continues to puzzle astronomers - space - 20 June 2007 - New Scientist Space

Perhaps 10 Times too much Dark Matter ... it too much for star formation .....

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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

First Known Gunshot Victim in Americas Discovered

First Known Gunshot Victim in Americas Discovered

Remarkable .... I guess we knew the body (and possibly gunshot victims predating this find) had to be out there somewhere ....

More HERE.

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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Sandisk announces 64 GB solid state disk drive

TG Daily - Sandisk announces 64 GB solid state disk drive

.... And 256 GB SSDDs are moving up the pipe .....

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Onyx Drug First to Extend Life in Liver Cancer

Onyx Drug First to Extend Life in Liver Cancer Health & Drugs Reuters.co.uk

A short increase in life-span ... but a Fabulous Start .........

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Id Software Announces a New Game Engine

PC World - Id Software Announces a New Game Engine

Id .... New Game Engine .... Count Me In ...... ;-)

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Google Buys Its Way into Photo Sharing

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Upright walking 'began in trees'

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Upright walking 'began in trees'

Funny, that we have always used the haven't-gotten-there-yet knuckle-walkers as the archetypal model, when we might in fact, be looking at the end-result devolution of a separate line.

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Plasma could turn old tyres into new

Plasma could turn old tyres into new - tech - 29 May 2007 - New Scientist Tech

I had forgotten that vulcanized rubber does not melt ... it will burn ... giving off that acrid smoke, everyone is so familiar with, from tire fires.

THIS however, is a good first start at trying to recycle it ....

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Microsoft Plans to Revolutionize Interface Technology With "Surface"

DailyTech - Microsoft Plans to Revolutionize Interface Technology With "Surface"

A supposedly multibillion dollar category .... How Interesting ..... :)

More HERE and HERE.

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Sony joins HD radio push

Sony joins HD radio push Tech News on ZDNet

Interesting new direction .....

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Friday, June 01, 2007

Bubbles offer solution to nanotube tangles

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Lab study indicates Mars has a molten core

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Genes may help people learn Chinese

Genes may help people learn Chinese - life - 28 May 2007 - New Scientist

Interesting to think, that a DNA sample could tell who would be better at speaking Chinese ...

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Planet-hunters find bonanza of new solar systems

Planet-hunters find bonanza of new solar systems: Scientific American

Bonanza of new planets ?!?!? ....... Maybe HOSS is there! .... ;-)

More HERE and HERE.

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Tired of potholes? Do what the ants do...

Tired of potholes? Do what the ants do...: Scientific American

Great Idea! ... If you get TIRED of the POTHOLE .... Get IN the POTHOLE ... Put your CAR on your BACK .... and let the TRAFFIC pass smoothly OVER you BOTH !! ..... ;-)

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Gene breakthrough

Gene breakthrough The Courier-Mail

The technology used in discovering these genes, only became available in 2006.

More HERE.

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Dodeca 2360 camera on top of a Beetle shoots Google Street-Level Views

Dodeca 2360 camera on top of a Beetle shoots Google Street-Level Views -- SCI FI Tech SCIFI.COM

This 11-lens, Dodeca 2360 camera, looks like the perfect thing, to sprout from the top of a V-Dub ...... :)

More HERE.

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