Thursday, December 17, 2009

McDonald's Free Wi-Fi Part Of Growing Trend

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From Computerworld: Everybody wants free Wi-Fi, and McDonald's Corp. is responding to that demand with Wednesday's announcement that...

A Global 'Planetary Skin' Network Will Monitor Earth's Resources

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Planetary Skin Satellites join forces with drones and surface sensors to monitor the Earth NASA/Cisco From Popular Science: NASA and Cisc...

Inconvenient Truth For Al Gore As He's Caught Exaggerating The Threat Of Global Warming... Again

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Spin row: Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore makes his controversial speech during a presentation of a report on the melting of the Greenlan...

Michelangelos Make Smart Lovers

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From The Science Blog: EVANSTON, Ill. --- Is that really Bob? You've seen him hundreds of mornings for the last 10 years at local coffee...

More Powerful Superconducting Magnets will Make More Powerful Particle Colliders

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From The Next Big Future: The completed long quadrupole shell magnet (LQS01) in the Building 77A assembly area of Berkeley Lab's Enginee...

Most Earth-Like Extrasolar Planet Found Right Next Door

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From Wired Science: Meet GJ 1214b, the most Earth-like planet ever found outside our solar system. It’s not exactly Earth’s twin: It’s about...

Dying Star Previews Our Own Sun's Fate

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Artist's impression of Chi Cygni. As the red giant star runs out of fuel, it pulses in and out, beating like a giant heart and ejecting ...

New Displays For E-Readers: Read All About It

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Photo: Getty Images From The Economist: Display technology: Readers of electronic books must choose between long battery life or vibrant, l...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Tremors Between Slip Events: More Evidence of Great Quake Danger to Seattle

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Seattle skyline with Mount Rainier in the background. (Credit: iStockphoto/Natalia Bratslavsky) From Science Daily: Science Daily (Dec. 16, ...

Robotic Planes Capture Detailed Images Of Remote Antarctic

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After three stokes of bad luck, the group launches the unmanned aerial vehicle in mission No. 4, a 15-hour trip to Terra Nova Bay and back. ...

Scientists Decode Entire Genetic Code Of Cancer

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Cracking the Cancer Code A cluster of breast cancer cells, with blue ones marking actively growing cells and yellow marking dying cells. Cou...

Susan Boyle's I Dreamed A Dream Audition Tops List Of Most Watched YouTube Video This Year With 120m Hits

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From The Daily Mail: Britain's Got Talent runner-up Susan Boyle was the star of the most-watched clip on video website YouTube this year...

The Publishing Disruption

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From The Futurist: What a unique thing a book is. Made from a tree, it has a hundred or more flexible pages that contain written text, enab...

Russians Confirm That UK Climate Scientists Manipulated Data To Exaggerate Global Warming

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From The Telegraph: Climategate just got much, much bigger. And all thanks to the Russians who, with perfect timing, dropped this bombshell ...

Calls To Debate 'Fertility Outsourcing'

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Most countries do not permit commercial surrogacy, say experts (Source: iStockphoto) From ABC News (Australia): In a world where rich countr...

30,000 Flee Philippine volcano

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Lava flows down the slopes of the Mayon volcano in the Philippines From CNN: (CNN) -- More than 30,000 people have fled their homes ahead of...

Scientists Crack 'Entire Genetic Code' Of Cancer

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From BBC: Scientists have unlocked the entire genetic code of two of the most common cancers - skin and lung - a move they say could revolut...

15% Of Teens 'Sexting' On Cells, Study Says

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From San Francisco Chronicle: About 15 percent of American teenagers have received nude or sexually suggestive photos on their cell phones, ...

Who Needs The Grid?

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From The Atlantic: In the boardroom at Bloom Energy, a single picture hangs on the wall: a satellite image of the world at night. Clusters o...

Scientists Decode Memory-Forming Brain Cell Conversations

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Artist's rendering of neurons. (Credit: iStockphoto) From Science Daily: Science Daily (Dec. 16, 2009) — The conversations neurons have ...