Saturday, August 23, 2008

Satellites Track Mexico Kidnap Victims With Chips

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Chips are down: AGPS satellite like this one is used to pinpoint where potential hostages are From Yahoo News/Reuters: QUERETARO, Mexico (R...

Google Continued To Gain U.S. Search Share In July

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From Information Week: Google increased its share by a small amount, while Yahoo and Microsoft had small decreases, according to ComScore. G...

New Drug Approvals By The FDA At An All Time Low (Opinion)

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Sick Patients Need Cutting-Edge Drugs By Gregory Conko -- Wall Street Journal Anna Tomalis was a bright, pretty, 13-year-old girl who liked ...
Friday, August 22, 2008

The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time

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From PC World: The Beatles. Citizen Kane. Muhammad Ali. Many have laid claim to being the "best ever" in their respective fields o...

A Prediction Of 1000-Year Life Spans

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The Speculist: Last week, after hearing a prediction of 1000-year life spans from Aubrey de Grey, Roger L. Simon expressed concern about the...

A Flash Movie Of Planet Earth From the Space Station

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Here is a cool flash presentation of Planet Earth from the Space Station. The link is here .

Jump In US Measles Cases Linked To Vaccine Fears

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From Yahoo News/AP: ATLANTA - Measles cases in the U.S. are at the highest level in more than a decade, with nearly half of those involving ...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

Top 5 Mad Scientists of All Time

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From Popular Mechanics: For millennia, legions of mad scientists have toiled in underground laboratories, trespassed on the territory of the...

Get A Second Wife Or Girlfriend

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Is this Guy Happy? Polygamy Is The Key To A Long Life -- New Scientist Want to live a little longer? Get a second wife. New research suggest...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Mummified Iceman's Ancient Job Determined

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Methods used to crack the dress code of Oetzi, the iceman mummy, seen here in 1998, whose mummified remains turned up in an Alpine glacier...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Where Is My Warp Ship?

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Star Trek Warp Drive Is A Possibility, Say Scientists -- The Telegraph Two physicists have boldly gone where no reputable scientists should...

Pandemic! 10 Of The Deadliest Diseases

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Policemen in Seattle wearing masks made by the Red Cross, during the influenza epidemic. December 1918. The Black Plague, Third Pandemic and...

A Cure For The Uncommon Flu

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The H5N1 Virus Scientists Have Succeed In Replicating Flu Pandemic Antibodies From 90 Year Old Survivors Ninety years ago the Spanish flu sw...

Changes In the Earth's Magnetic Field

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The innermost part of the earth. The outer core extends from 2500 to 3500 miles below the earth's surface and is liquid metal. The inne...
Friday, August 8, 2008

Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Spreading

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From Future Pundit: erome Groopman has a good article in The New Yorker surveying the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Of...
Tuesday, August 5, 2008

NASA, Scientists Not Ready to Give Up on Martian Life

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Soil samples taken from "Snow White" trench, shown here on July 8, 2008, were found to contain the highly oxidizing substance perc...

Captains’ Logs Yield Climate Clues -- Records Kept by Nelson And Cook Are Shedding Light On Climate Change

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Replica -- Captain Cook's "Endeavor" From Times Online: Britain's great seafaring tradition is to provide a unique insight...

The Coolest Machine Ever?

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From The Dinocrat: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is set to begin operating this year to test the validity and limitations of the Standard ...

Why Coffee Is Good For You

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Sorting Out Coffee’s Contradictions -- New York Times When Howard D. Schultz in 1985 founded the company that would become the wildly succes...

More Than 100,000 Rare Gorillas Found In Congo

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From CNN: (CNN) -- An estimated 125,000 Western lowland gorillas are living in a swamp in equatorial Africa, researchers reported Tuesday, d...