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(http://www.forbes.com)
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over 4 years ago
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Cell phones are commonplace in third world environments. Since cells are fast becoming universal multipurpose mobile terminals, how can they be used for the purposes of education?
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(http://uanews.org)
- scanned by: Adam Cutsinger
over 4 years ago
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Theoretical work suggests that superconducting wires might be possible. Superconductors are materials that become almost perfect conductors at temperatures approaching absolute zero. Electrical current flows through these substances with almost no...
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(http://www.news.com.au)
- scanned by: Jeff Hilford
over 4 years ago
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The study implies that humans may not be immune to the kind of subtle, below-the-threshold-of-awareness marketing that, in the 1950s, fired the imagination of advertising executives.
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(http://www.paulcarr.com)
- scanned by: Jeff Hilford
over 4 years ago
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Paul Carr on why you should Twitter and 12 people you should be following on there (he excludes the tech cognoscenti).
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(http://nextbigfuture.com)
- scanned by: Adam Cutsinger
over 4 years ago
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Micro-fusion work of Friedwardt Winterberg from the 1950's-1970s was recently declassified. Winterberg had several ideas for using micro-fusion without fission bomb triggers to generate nuclear energy or power spacecraft. Winterberg was proposing ...
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(http://www.sciam.com)
- scanned by: Jeff Hilford
over 4 years ago
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Shinya Yamanaka discovered how to revert adult cells to an embryonic state. These induced pluripotent stem cells might soon supplant their embryonic cousins in therapeutic promise.
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(http://blog.wired.com)
- scanned by: Jeff Hilford
over 4 years ago
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Calling a cellphone a mere phone seems a little silly these days. The little pocket wonders now do so much they are really handheld computers.
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(http://www.physorg.com)
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over 4 years ago
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The "solar-powered" sea slug Elysia chlorotica has fascinated scientists for years because of its ability to retain "stolen" chloroplasts and carry out photosynthesis as if it was a plant.
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(http://news.prnewswire.com)
- scanned by: Jeff Hilford
over 4 years ago
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The vicious cycle of stress, overeating and sleep deprivation that manifest during difficult times.
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(http://www.redorbit.com)
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over 4 years ago
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There's some good news for the people who are in favor of legalizing marijuana. Scientists from Ohio State University have found that there are properties in marijuana that help prevent the onset of Alzheimer's.
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(http://www.wired.com)
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over 4 years ago
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Chris Anderson advances the theory that computer modeling will supercede scientific method as we move into the petabyte, cloud computing age.
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(http://www.telegraph.co.uk)
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over 4 years ago
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But researchers, who studied the self-assessments of the Millenials, or Generation Y, warn that instilling children with such confidence could be simply setting them up for a fall.
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