Thursday, October 22, 2009

Revealed: The £1m Bullet-Proof SUV (But That's Cheap Compared To The Vodka That Comes With It)

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Bulletproof: The £1 million Dartz Prombron Monaco Red Diamond Edition armoured car From The Daily Mail: This is the world's most expensi...

Microsoft Bets On Windows Success

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From BBC: Microsoft is hoping that its newly-launched operating system will be one that "doesn't let you down". Speaking at th...

Earliest Evidence Of Humans Thriving On The Savannah

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From New Scientist: Humans were living and thriving on open grassland in Africa as early as 2 million years ago, making stone tools and usin...

Massive Gene Database Planned In California

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Photo: Spit kit: Genetic data from a diverse group of 100,000 California patients will be gleaned from samples of saliva, captured in kits ...

'Eighth Wonder' Ida Is Not Related To Humans, Claim Scientists

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The skull of Ida. Photograph: Atlantic Productions From The Guardian: US palaeontologists dismiss initial claims about the 47million-year-ol...

Are Artificial Sweeteners Really That Bad for You?

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Richard Levine / Alamy From Time Magazine: Too much sugar will make you fat, but too much artificial sweetener will ... do what exactly? Kil...

CIA Buys Stake in Firm That Monitors Social Networking Sites

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Gathering Intel The web 2.0 and open source intelligence make old intelligence gathering methods look, well, quaint Paramount Pictures Fro...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

New Method To Help Keep Fruit, Vegetables And Flowers Fresh

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Did you know that millions of tons of fruits and vegetables in the United States end up in the trash can before being eaten, according to th...

Music Benefits Exercise, Studies Show

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From Live Science: With the Fall marathon season in full swing, thousands of runners are gearing up for the big day. Just as important as t...

Fancy Going To Mars? Space Agency Seeks Volunteers For 520-Day Trip... But It's Only A Simulation

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A warm-up 105-day mission took place in 2009, with participants from Germany and France and four Russians living together in cramped conditi...

Weather 'Shapes Human Body Clock'

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From BBC: Our internal body clocks are shaped by the weather as well as by the seasons, scientists have discovered. Researchers used compute...

Intelligence Explained

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Brain map: Software called BrainLab analyzes data collected during a specialized MRI scan of the author’s brain in order to create a neural ...

Hydrogen Muscle Silences The Domestic Robot

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Kwang Kim's hydrogen muscle (Image: Kwang Kim) From The New Scientist: IF ROBOTS are ever going to be welcome in the home they will need...

Looking Beyond The Open Source Battle

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Mitch Kapor. Photograph: Kim Kulish/Corbis From The Guardian: Software pioneer Mitch Kapor thinks Microsoft's war against open source is...

Medical Marijuana

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From Time Magazine: On Oct. 19, the U.S. Justice Department announced that federal prosecutors would not pursue medical-marijuana users and ...
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Epicenter The Business of Tech Google Preparing Music Search Service

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From Epicenter/Wired: Google plans to launch a music service, Wired.com has confirmed with sources familiar with the situation. Next to noth...

Darpa Seeks New Round Of Proposals For Universal Biosensor

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Bio-Threats Darpa is seeking proposals for a antibody biosensor that can effectively identify a wide range of bio-threats. Sari Huella From...

Facial Profiling

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From Slate: Can you tell if a man is dangerous by the shape of his mug? On Nov. 27, 2008, Indian police interrogators came face to face wit...

Killer Algae: Key Player In Mass Extinctions

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Pond covered with algae. (Credit: iStockphoto) From Science Daily: Science Daily (Oct. 20, 2009) — Supervolcanoes and cosmic impacts get all...

3 Detroit Marathon Deaths Likely A Fluke

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From Live Science: The deaths of three runners at Sunday's Detroit Marathon were tragic, but probably not representative of any increasi...