Saturday, February 25, 2012

Cartoon Pic For Today

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Pick The Stradivarius Violin

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Stradivarius Violin. Photo: Wikimedia.org. Double-Blind Violin Test: Can You Pick The Strad? -- NPR In the world of violins, the names Strad...

100,000 Times More ‘Nomad Planets’ Than Stars?

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An artistic rendition of a nomad object wandering the interstellar medium (intentionally blurry to represent uncertainty about whether it ha...

100 Billion Stars In The Milky Way

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An Otherworldly Discovery: Billions of Other Planets -- Wall Street Journal Astronomers said Wednesday that each of the 100 billion stars in...

Is Google 'Dumping' Search

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Why Google Is Ditching Search -- CNET There has been a huge maelstrom about Google integrating Google+ into its search links. And it all mis...

The Rise And Fall Of Personal Computing

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The Rise And Fall Of Personal Computing -- Asymco Thanks to Jeremy Reimer I was able to create the following view into the history of comput...
Friday, February 24, 2012

A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors

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The World Belongs To Apps

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How Apps Have Taken Over The World -- The Guardian Steve Jobs initially resisted apps, fearing sabotage. But when the late Apple chief relen...

Apple Buys Chomp

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Apple Said To Pay About $50 Million For Application-Search Startup Chomp -- Bloomberg Apple Inc. (AAPL), the world’s most valuable company, ...

Is This The Future of Touchscreen Tech?

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Is This The Future of Touchscreen Tech? New Video Will Blow Your Mind -- Mashable Tech Gorilla Glass manufacturer Corning has unveiled a fol...

Were Neutrinos Faster-Than-Light .... Or Not?

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'Faster-Than-Light' Particles May Have Been Even Speedier -- CBC Subatomic particles clocked at speeds exceeding the speed of light ...

De-Classified UK Submarine Data Will Be Used To Assist Climate Science

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Environmental data is routinely collected by submarines and other Navy vessels UK Submarine Data De-Classified To Aid Climate Science -- BBC...

Closer To A Heroin Vaccine

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National Institute of Psychiatry's Director Maria Elena Medina speaks about the patent of a new vaccine that could reduce addiction to h...

Tabasco Sauce Is In Demand On Board The International Space Station

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Astronauts may have a particular affinity for Tabasco sauce in space because their sense of smell and taste is distorted. John Rose/NPR Why ...

Google Ocean

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Catlin Seaview Survey Google Street View Goes Undersea -- MSNBC Less than a month after Google Ocean drowned our dreams of Atlantis by updat...
Thursday, February 23, 2012

The 'Wow!' Signal

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The 'Wow!' Signal: One Man's Search for SETI's Most Tantalizing Trace of Alien Life -- The Atlantic For decades, Robert Gray...

Robot Fish

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Real Fish Welcome Robotic Overlord Into Their School -- Wired Science A robotic fish has sailed across an aquatic uncanny valley by tricking...

Man's First Homes And Settlements

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Excavations in Jordan have revealed dwellings dating back millennia before the development of agricultural settlements. The finds suggest th...

Astronomers Discover A Water World

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GJ1214b, a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth Photo: AFP Astronomers Discover New Type Of Planet – The Water Wo...

How Not To Fly

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Birdman Releases Footage Of His 120mph Crash Into South Africa's Table Mountain -- The Telegraph Jeb Corliss, a daredevil who nearly die...