December 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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Benefits of the open source software market... →
Business is very slowly learning what scientists have known for over a century: open-source collaboration and competition produce more benefits than costs.
December 2010
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November 2010
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WatchVery cool time-lapse of the shuttle Discovery being prepared for launch, via Air & Space Magazine.
September 2010
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“…there might be substantive disagreement in the scientific community about...”
– BEYOND THE IVORY TOWER: The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change — Oreskes 306 (5702): 1686 — Science
“We haven’t known the solar neutrino to interact significantly with...”
– Radioactive decay rates vary with the sun’s rotation: research
April 2010
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November 2009
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“…extinctions rates during mass extinctions were significantly higher in...”
– Paleontologists find extinction rates higher in open-ocean settings during mass extinctions
October 2009
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May 2009
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“Two physicists…have an idea that can turn travelling [sic] at the speed of...”
– Spacecrafts may soon travel faster than light
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“But the real surprise was that acupuncture was effective even when the treatment...”
– Acupuncture, Real or Fake, Eases Back Pain - healthfinder.gov
April 2009
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Most Distant Detection of Water in the Universe |... →
Evidence that water existed more than 11 billion years ago.
Indexed →
Very clever blog.
March 2009
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Scientist may have cold fusion breakthrough |... →
I wonder how much of this latest result is to attract funding and much it’s a genuine breakthrough.
February 2009
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Next Big Future: Cambridge Making Carbon Nanotubes... →
Carbon fiber research producing fibers ten times longer in just two years, without decrease in strength. The strength is good for skyhooks and borderline for space elevators. Next steps appear to be spinning cables from the material and increasing production throughput.
Extinct ibex is resurrected by cloning -... →
January 2009
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“But he said surprises such as this are always welcome. The 1960s discovery of...”
– From far away, signals loud and clearer | Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/08/2009
December 2008
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October 2008
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'Intelligent' computers put to the test... →
Also interesting. Arguably a sort of slight of hand, but doing it the “hard way” like this will be a good learning experience. The next iteration will be more elegant.
ABC News: Scientists Study Out-of-Body Experiences →
Possibilities for understanding consciousness and, someday, extending life in novel ways.
September 2008
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“Eight-year-old children have a radically different learning strategy from...”
– Learning From Mistakes Only Works After Age 12, Study Suggests
perspctv →
Nice visualizations, and constantly-updating news feeds. Not a bad model for any dashboard.
May 2008
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“deep inside the planet Mercury, iron “snow” forms and falls toward the center of...”
– Iron ‘snow’ helps maintain Mercury’s magnetic field, scientists say | Eureka! Science News
April 2008
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“Learning to control the human wound environment to trigger salamanderlike...”
– Regrowing Limbs: Can People Regenerate Body Parts?: Scientific American
March 2008
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January 2008
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“physicists from Austria claim to have performed an experiment that rules out a...”
– Quantum physics says goodbye to reality - physicsworld.com
December 2007
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“The Defense Department this October quietly issued a 75-page study conducted for...”
– ‘Drilling Up’ Into Space for Energy
“It shows when you take language away from a human, they end up looking just like...”
– Monkeys and college students as good at mental math | Science | Reuters
“…both galaxies are likely to have planetary systems but nothing resembling life...”
– Bully black hole blasts nearby galaxy: NASA | Science | Reuters
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“Time is a total mystery. What exactly is time? I can’t tell you,” he...”
– How Super-Precise Atomic Clocks Will Change the World in a Decade
November 2007
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“The researchers say these studies may eventually help pinpoint why some people...”
– Carnal Knowledge | Why do men like porn more? | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/26/2007
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“Dr Lisi had been tinkering with some smaller geometries. Soon after reading...”
– Theoretical physics | Geometry is all | Economist.com
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