Microchip breakthrough could keep Moore’s law intact (again)
12th July 2008
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Artificial kidney enables “dialysis-on-the-go”
12th July 2008
There is something very disturbing about this, although I can’t quite put my finger on it.
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Epilog Zing, your personal laser engraver
12th July 2008
I wonder whether it could be used to engrave some sense on the forehead of Barack Obama, so he’d see it every morning in the mirror.
Probably not.
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Cat Faucet solves elusive cat drinking from sink issue, we sigh in relief
12th July 2008
You may not think it was a problem but it was.
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Stolen 17th century First Folio Shakespeare recovered
11th July 2008
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Nanoparticle Smart Bombs Against Metastatic Cancer
10th July 2008
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Cow farts collected in plastic tank for global warming study
9th July 2008
It is certainly comforting to know that someone is taking action on this vital and pressing issue.
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The grandmother who turns cats into hats
9th July 2008
Go, granny, go, granny, go, granny, go.
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The French Academy vs the European Overclass
9th July 2008
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How Much Does It Cost You in Wages if You “Sound Black?”
8th July 2008
Applied Freakanomics.
His main finding: blacks who “sound black” earn salaries that are 10 percent lower than blacks who do not “sound black,” even after controlling for measures of intelligence, experience in the work force, and other factors that influence how much people earn. (For what it is worth, whites who “sound black” earn 6 percent lower than other whites.)
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2010 Prius revealed, sneakers still a major design influence
8th July 2008
Cute little car, can’t deny that. And it’s great to have communists self-identify themselves; it will make it so much easier when the baloon goes up.
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Pioneer’s Blu-ray disc hits 400GB across 16-layers
7th July 2008
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Prius to go (partially) solar
6th July 2008
I’m waiting for them to have one powered by a polar bear in a treadmill. That will solve a number of problems at once.
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Stuff White People Like: Biking to Borders
6th July 2008
Once you learn the signs, you see them everywhere.
Not skilled at spotting White People yet? Well, buy the book.
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When he learnt potatoes contain all the nutrients humans need, Tom Sykes set out to survive a whole week by eating nothing else
6th July 2008
Gee, you’d think that Ireland never existed….
We tend to think of the humble spud as nothing but carbs – maybe this is why fewer than 20 per cent of meals eaten by under-35s contain potatoes.
In fact, potatoes are packed full of vitamins and minerals, including iron, potassium more vitamin C than an apple, and vitamins B6 and B1. During World War II, government information leaflets advised Britons to eat ‘at least 1lb of potatoes daily’ to provide vitamin C to ‘prevent against fatigue and help fight infection’.
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Polymorph robot mimics human joints and muscles, puts curtain rings to good use
6th July 2008
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Researchers boast of progress with printed electronics
6th July 2008
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Zooming Around the Alps In a Homemade Wing Suit
4th July 2008
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Ovei home theater pod: not for claustrophobic, poor people
3rd July 2008
I’ll take one….
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Tata’s Nano to begin production this Fall, eco-friendly version on the way?
3rd July 2008
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German “Future Store” lets you grocery shop with your cellphone
3rd July 2008
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Nanowire-based memory promises leap in storage capacity
3rd July 2008
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Microchip Detects Cancer And Cancer Cell Mutations
3rd July 2008
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Scientists create sea-power generating ‘Anaconda’
3rd July 2008
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Man dies of brain haemorrhage after heading football
2nd July 2008
Let that be a lesson to us all.
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Hidden Tap faucet flows from left to right as you go from dirty to clean
2nd July 2008
Me want.
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The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating
2nd July 2008
Precisely the sort of column that a person named Tara Parker-Pope would write for the Health section of the New York Times.
Which reminds me: The Stuff White People Like book is out. Buy it.
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Christians on the move in China?
1st July 2008
The growth of Christianity in non-Western cultures and societies is widely acknowledged to be one of the biggest religion stories these days. A significant subset of that story is the rapid growth of Christianity in China to a point where it is the country’s second largest religion (behind only Buddhists and ahead of Islam).
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Palace of Versailles golden gate restored
1st July 2008
Sometimes the old ways are best.
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Wednesdays are most depressing day of the week
1st July 2008
But you knew that….
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Sunk Cost Bias: How It Hinders Your Life and 4 Ways to Overcome It
1st July 2008
Sunk cost is one of the most difficult concepts for beginning accounting students to grasp. To non-accountants it comes out of left field. But it represents an eternal truth.
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Holy Cows: Is organic better for us?
1st July 2008
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Russian scientists in bid to solve Tunguska Event
1st July 2008
If that works out, they’ll next tackle trying to discover what Obama wll do as President. No guarantees on that one.
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Electric bandages: not your favorite new prog-rock band
1st July 2008
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Ian McKellen to lead in ITV’s The Prisoner remake
1st July 2008
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Canada truck crash releases 12 million bees
30th June 2008
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Topia shows off 330-pound HUVO electric car
28th June 2008
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Local politics explained in one sentence
28th June 2008
Steve Sailer is always worth reading.
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New Zealand MP Nandor Tanczos smashes watch as he resigns
27th June 2008
Gotta love those Kiwis, too.
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Nanomaterials Reduce Energy Needed To Boil Water
27th June 2008
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Big Genetic Influence Seen Over Political Activity
27th June 2008
Always knew that regressives were genetically defective — nobody could choose to be that much of a fool.
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Shaolin monastery launches eBay-style website
26th June 2008
Kung-fu pander?
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Gun statistics
26th June 2008
Megan McArdle adds some righteous common sense to the gun debate.
Men like to kill themselves with guns. (This is not culture-specific; women tend to choose poison everywhere, presumably because of some deep fear of disfigurement). Gun suicides tend to be successful. But this does not mean that if you took away the guns, people wouldn’t commit suicide. There are many other near-surefire ways of killing yourself, like jumping off a high bridge, gassing yourself with carbon monoxide, driving your car at high speed into a piling, hanging yourself, etc. Think of it this way: most people who choose to wear high heels are women. That doesn’t mean that if I threw out my Manolos, I would turn into a man.
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Scientists to unravel the genetic code of chocolate
26th June 2008
Women of the world wait with bated breath.
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The World Unites! (In opposing immigration)
26th June 2008
Steve Sailer is always worth reading.
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Family ties can determine how genes react to environmental factors
25th June 2008
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A mother who has just given birth to her 12th child has been married for 250 months and has been pregnant for 110 of them.
25th June 2008
Note that she isn’t whining about it as some would do.
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Beijing Olympics 2008: China installs missile batteries to protect Games
25th June 2008
I wonder what “Star Wars” is in Mandarin….
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Website offers cosmetic surgery without a knife
25th June 2008
We have the technology.
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Cambridge graduate is top cage fighter
24th June 2008
A female Cambridge graduate who has a PhD in computer science has struck a lucrative deal with a US broadcaster to become a television cage fighter.
A career plan worthy of envy.
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