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Flexible Organic Thin-Film Solar Cell Leaves!
2008-06-05 01:55:00 These are actually solar cells that you are looking at, flexible organic thin-film solar cell leaves that is. A Japanese institute and firms prototyped a foliage plant-like solar cell module by using organic thin-film solar cells. A leaf-like module featuring bright green solar cells was developed by National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Mitsubishi ...
I Always Knew Flamingos Were Gay
2008-05-18 02:30:00 And now a scientist says so, so that proves it. According to University of Oslo zoologist Petter Böckman, about 1,500 animal species are known to practice same-sex coupling, including bears, gorillas, flamingos, owls, salmon and many others. If homosexuality is natural in the animal kingdom, then there is the question of why evolution hasn’t eliminated this ...
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Green Google? - Google is investing $125 Million in BrightSource Energy!
2008-05-17 05:54:00 Google (GOOG) just announced that they are investing $125 million in BrightSource Energy, a company that focuses on generating solar energy. You never hear these things from Microsoft or any other big tech companies but it’s great to hear that Google is focusing on the brighter future for our earth. I did notice Google.org, which is Google ...
Dissuading China
2008-05-15 14:53:00 What about stop trading with China? Wait, that would be inconvenient. Plus it would lower my standard of living. Wouldn’t war and death lower your standard of living even more? From the article: The US would like to prevent China from developing certain offensive military capabilities. A dissuasion strategy has its charms, but it lacks a political ...
By: 1913 Intel
Women 'should have abortion on demand'
2008-05-13 20:55:00 Women will be able to terminate their pregnancy without having to obtain the signatures of two doctors in an overhaul of abortion laws. Andrew Lansley, the shadow health secretary, told MPs on Monday he would seek to make it easier for women to have an abortion at an early stage, while lowering the time limit for late procedures. The Government indicated it would not oppose the move meaning it will almost certainly be passed. Next week, the Commons votes on the abortion laws for the first time in nearly two decades, when pro-life MPs will attempt to reduce the limit from 24 weeks to 22 weeks or lower. Last night the Government avoided a major rebellion as just nine Labour backbenchers voted against the Bill, which was given a Second Reading by 340 votes to 262. But ministers will face a sterner test when the measures return next week and Labour MPs have a free vote on some of its most contentious elements. The highly-charged clash will be one of a number of controversial votes...
Wall Street Journal - McCain's Climate 'Market' is Obama-lite
2008-05-13 20:46:00 The latest stop on John McCain's policy tour came at an Oregon wind-turbine manufacturer, where the topic was ? what else? ? the Senator's plan to address climate change. This is one of those issues where Mr. McCain indulges his "maverick" tendencies, which usually means taking the liberal line. That was the case yesterday, no matter how frequently he claimed his approach was "market based." In fact, if "the market" is your favored mechanism, Mr. McCain's endorsement of a "cap and trade" system is the worst choice for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. The Bush Administration has pursued one option, which combines voluntary measures with subsidies for "clean" alternatives. Since 2001 under this approach, U.S. net carbon emissions have fallen by 3% ? that is, by more than all but four countries in cap-and-trade-bound Europe. At the other end of the market spectrum is a straight carbon tax, which would at least distribute costs more efficiently. It would also force politicians to...
The Top Ten Unexplained Phenomena
2008-05-04 02:50:00 Science seems to have it all but it cannot explain all phenomena. Here is a list of the top ten from Live Science:#10 The Body/Mind ConnectionMedical science is only beginning to understand the ways in which the mind influences the body. The placebo effect, for example, demonstrates that people can at times cause a relief in medical symptoms or suffering by believing the cures to be effective - whether they actually are or not. Using processes only poorly understood, the body's ability to heal itself is far more amazing than anything modern medicine could create.#9 Psychic powers and ESPPsychic powers and extra-sensory perception (ESP) rank among the top ten unexplained phenomena if for no other reason than that belief in them is so widespread. Many people believe that intuition (see #3) is a form of psychic power, a way of accessing arcane or special knowledge about the world or the future. Researchers have tested people who claim to have psychic powers, though the results under ...
What does the Guidestones in Denver Foretells
2008-05-01 03:41:00 Getting deeper into this 2012 theory I stumbled across a video regarding a guide stone erected in Denver. The guide stone talks something about maintaining humanity's population to 500 Million in perpetuity with nature. It also has sort of commandments written in 6 languages. Want to know more? Watch the video below...
Solar powered coffee table
2008-04-28 14:00:00 When a solar power table comes along, they are normally large and heavy affairs, however this one from Solo is completely the opposite to that, in fact it is totally stylish and just looks great. However the images show the woman using a laptop, I am not quite sure that a laptop can be charged up ...
A Prediction of the End of Days or Doomsday on December 2012
2008-04-27 03:22:00 During my lifetime since I was in Elementary the prediction of the End of the World had been repeated many times. Back in 8-8-88 or August 8, 1988 there was a prediction that there will be a three days of darkness and doomsday but none of that happened. Before the year 2000 which was called the Millennium there was also a doomsday prediction but it did not happen.Now there is another prediction and theory which is shown in various uploaded videos in YouTube wherein a prediction that the current age in which we are in will end on December 2012. This was predicted by the Mayan, Inca, Aztec, and Egyptian civilization. In 2012 it is said that we will pass through the Galactic Equinox and major repercussions will occur. Below are a series of video regarding this.. and you be the judge.What do you think? Comments are welcome.
Nanoscale Printing Has Big Implications for Science and Technology
2008-04-25 19:46:00 Researchers from IBM’s Zurich Research Lab and Switzerland’s ETH Zurich science and technology university today announced the development of a dramatic new printing process that can manipulate nanosize particles to create larger images. The new technology promises to allow scientists, medical professionals and technologists to for the first time place particles smaller than 100 nanometers ...
Killer Asteroid May Hit Earth by 2039
2008-04-16 13:16:00 While browsing Yahoo I came across this news in which a 13-year old kid corrected a NASA projection of an asteroid named Apophis possibly hitting Earth by 2039. NASA formerly said that this asteroid which will nearly pass Earth in 2029 has a 1 in 45,000 chance of hitting the Earth, however the kid after calculations concluded that it can hit Earth by a 1 in 450 chance. That was a huge discrepancy from a mere minuscule percentage to a near terrifying 0.22% chance. Not much but a possibility.Nico Marquardt used telescopic findings from the Institute of Astrophysics in Potsdam (AIP) to calculate that there was a 1 in 450 chance that the Apophis asteroid will collide with Earth, the Potsdamer Neuerster Nachrichten reported.The schoolboy took into consideration the risk of Apophis running into one or more of the 40,000 satellites orbiting Earth during its path close to the planet on April 13 2029.Those satellites travel at 3.07 kilometres a second (1.9 miles), at up to 35,880 kilometr...
Microsoft?s CEO Steve Ballmer Interviewed by Guy Kawasaki at MIX08
2008-04-10 03:59:00 Technology - Despite what many people believe and say about Microsoft, I have ultimate respect for Microsoft. It is the biggest software company and I am a user. And yes I do choose to be one. I have option to work in an open source eniovrnment or run Mac at home, yet I stick to ...
Fear of Eggs
2008-04-09 23:46:00 I know that all those bleeding-heart, anarchist hippie chicken farmers are going to claim that there are lots of things that kill you and it could be that the doctors who ate lots of eggs had other stuff going on. That?s the kind of relativist thinking that makes life too complicated and gets in the way of CERTAINTY.
By: Kmareka.com
Google Getting Out of Search Marketing Business
2008-04-05 23:08:00 Science and Technology - A while back Google bought double click, which was a typical SEO and SEM company. Many in the search engine optimization and search engine marketing industry thought that was confilict of interest and Google not practicing words they preach.So it appears that Google is finally dropping the SEO and search ...
International Conference On Science and Technology in Archaeology and Conse
2008-04-05 04:09:00 The Sixth International Conference on Science and Technology in Archaeology and Conservation will be held in Rome between the 8th and 14th of December 2008. The conference has been organised under the special patronage of the United Nations World Tourism Organization. The main theme of the 2008 conference will be Documentation and Risk Management of ...
Aztecs Arithmetic Far More Complex Than Thought
2008-04-04 02:35:00 Science and Technology - It appears that scientists had underestimated Aztecs mathematical abilities. Many had suggested a simple culture such as theirs could not have produced such complex and sophisticated architecture. Some even believed that Aliens at some point came down to earth and did this for the Aztecs. Well, now it has been ...
LIFE and the long view: ideologies of science and technology since the Enli
2008-04-01 15:18:00 Part two in a series. As I suggested in Part One, the messianic/utopian view of science and technology attributed to LIFE Magazine is consistent with an ideological bent that traces its lineage to the dawn of the Enlightenment in Europe. Francis Bacon?s highly influential New Atlantis, first published in 1626, recounts the narrator?s fictional shipwreck on the shores of Bensalem, a lost utopia, and offers one of the earliest testaments to the potential of applied science (Outhwaite & Bottomore 1994). In an extended ceremony, Bacon is given to know the seemingly limitless bounty of Bensalem?s scientific expertise. Bensalem is well versed in all manner of advanced technology: refrigeration and preservation, mining, agriculture, astronomy, meteorology, genetics, animal husbandry, desalination, medicine, musicology, mechanics, air flight, and mathematics are literally only a few of the society’s advanced technological arts. Together these technologies provide the citizenry wit...
Science and Technology of Rubber, Third Edition
2008-04-01 06:02:00 Science and Technology of Rubber, Third Edition (Hardcover)# Author: James E. Mark, Burak Erman # Format:PDF 15.3MB# Page Count: 768 pages# Publisher: Academic Press; 3 edition (April 21, 2005)# Language: English# ISBN-10: 0124647863# ISBN-13: 978-0124647862The 3rd edition of The Science and Technology of Rubber provides a broad survey of elastomers with special emphasis on materials with a rubber-like elasticity. As in the 2nd edition, the emphasis remains on a unified treatment of the material; exploring topics from the chemical aspects such as elastomer synthesis and curing, through recent theoretical developments and characterization of equilibrium and dynamic properties, to the final applications of rubber, including tire engineering and manufacturing.Many advances have been made in polymer and elastomers research over the past ten years since the 2nd edition was published. Updated material stresses the continuous relationship between the ongoing research in synthesis, physics,...
First Web 2.0 Now JavaScript 2.0
2008-03-25 22:20:00 Technology - It seems that TC39 is in the process of designing new specification for JavaScript that are big enough to call this JavaScript 2.0. Some of these changes are major improvement in OOP design, Compile Time Type Checking, Operator Overloading, Constants, Not Null (”!”) Operator, Real Namespaces, and Program Units have be among changes ...
Testify for Building Schools on Safe Land
2008-03-25 15:40:00 There will be a hearing this Wednesday, March 26, from 4:00 to 5:00 pm in Room 135 of the State House, on a bi-partisan bill to stop building schools on contaminated land in Rhode Island. The bill is controversial (as evidenced in this post by Alex Moore on RIFuture.org and the ensuing discussion) in ...
By: Kmareka.com
Microsoft, Live, Google, and Yahoo.
2008-03-25 02:50:00 Technology - Everyone knows that Microsoft has tried to beat Google in the Search Engine Market for sometime now. After Microsoft offer to buy Google back in late 90s was ridiculed by Google, Microsoft has realized how far it is behind in the search engine market. That is why they introduced Live search, which in my ...
Microsoft Should Force Upgrade to IE 7
2008-03-21 00:13:00 Technology - I am really tired of testing my code in multiple IE versions simply because there are still some people out there who use IE 6 or even earlier IE versions to surf the web. IE 7 has been around long enough for people to upgrade but ofcourse there are those who don’t pay ...
The Rise of the Machines
2008-03-20 06:02:00 Danger Will Robinson! The video above is of BigDog, a robot made by Boston Dynamics and funded by the Defense Advanced Research Products Agency. Haven’t these people ever watched any of the Terminator movies, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, or Battlestar Galactica? One day they are fighting for us, and the next day Skynet might ...
By: Liberal Values
Arthur C. Clarke Dies at 90
2008-03-19 01:14:00 AP reports that Arther C. Clark has died at age 90 in Sri Lanka, where he moved in 1956, of post-polio syndrome. Clarke is best known for his science fiction books including 2001: A Space Odyssey and Rendezvous with Rama. Clarke has been credited with the idea of communications satellites in 1945, well before ...
By: Liberal Values
New Eco-Friendly Slim LCD Monitors
2008-03-16 18:50:00 There will always be suckers for new technology and with the vast distribution of LCD monitors today, we find ourselves tempted to getting the new ones as long as we can afford them. But this new eco-friendly slim LCD monitor is something different. Other than being a new release from AU Optronics Corp., the eco-friendly ...
Bill Gates: Testimony before the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S.
2008-03-16 04:19:00 Bill Gates: Testimony before the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of RepresentativesRemarks by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates before the Committee on Science and TechnologyUnited States House of RepresentativesWashington, D.C.March 12, 2008MR. GATES: Thank you. It's a privilege to be here. Chairman Gordon, ranking member Hall, members of the Committee, I'm Bill Gates and I'm the chairman of Microsoft. With my wife, Melinda, I'm also the founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. And it's an honor to be here to commemorate your 50th anniversary.During these 50 years incredible advances in science and technology have revolutionized the way people around the world communicate, run business, find information and much more. I'm optimistic that over the decades ahead, information technology will continue to transform business productivity and have a profound positive impact on our day-to-day lives. It will also help us address important global challenges relat...
IBM Unleashes Green Optical Link
2008-03-03 01:34:00 Technology has evidently set its mark in the world today and one thing that it has now been busy developing is applying the green touch to adhere towards environmentally standards the world requires today. This trend has covered most technological factors including gadgets, infrastructure and computer paraphernalia. IBM, widely popular for IT solutions has come ...
SciFi Friday Part I: A Science Fiction Debate
2008-03-02 09:41:00 SciFi Friday is a little late this week, which actually works out well as a couple of the stories include shows from Saturday night. Tonight I’ll also break SciFi Friday into two parts. During last week’s debate in Ohio, Tim Russert went overboard with hypothetical questions leading me to comment that I half expected him to ...
By: Liberal Values
PhD / MSc Studentships in Science and Technology Studies, University of Edi
2008-03-01 21:12:00 ESRC 1+3 and +3 studentships in Science and Technology StudiesPhD/MSc (Research) Science and Technology StudiesThe Science and Technology Studies Doctoral Programme at Edinburgh is a designated ESRC outlet for 1+3 and +3 PhD studentships, available for UK or EU students. UK student awards cover fees and maintenance; EU students normally receive fees only; part-time students receive the fees plus pro rata maintenance. 1+3 awards combine 1 year of MSc research training with 3 years’ PhD funding. +3 awards are for applicants who have already completed a year of ESRC-recognised research training. ESRC national competition awards, Genomics Network awards, and various other funding opportunities are also available for the Programme.The deadline for applications for the studentships is 21 March 2008, and candidates must have contacted the postgraduate adviser and submitted an application for the programme by that time.Recipients will be selected on the basis of their academic performance...
Scientists Predict When World Will End
2008-02-27 17:03:00 Scientist have nailed down how and when the Earth will cease to exist. The sun will slowly expand into a red giant, pushing the Earth farther out into space, but not far enough. Our home planet will be snagged by the sun's outer atmosphere, gradually plunging to its doom inside the fiery stellar furnace. "The drag caused by this low-density gas is enough to cause the Earth to drift inwards, and finally to be captured and vaporized by the sun," explains astronomer Robert Smith of the University of Sussex in southern England. Previous projections had all figured that the Earth would avoid falling into the sun, even during our star's red-giant phase. The good news: This won't happen for another 7.6 billion years. The bad news: Life on Earth will end long before then. That may sound like a long time, but in fact life on Earth's been around a lot longer than that ? a total of 3.7 billion years, according to the latest estimates. For those first three billion years, true, we w...
Air Powered Car To Be Manufactured in India
2008-02-19 21:50:00 In India, where there is a massive middle class population, Tata Group, is going after them with a vengeance. They recently made an announcement that they are in production with the worlds cheapest car, the Tata Nano. Now Tata is coming out with an Air Powered Car. via - B2Green This time they are going to manufacture ...
Nigeria: African University of Science and Technology opens July 2008
2008-02-15 13:52:00 Source: Lady Brille via Timbuktu Chronicles Mark your calendars for July 2008 when in the state of Abuja, capital of Nigeria, West Africa, the doors open to admit the first set of students for the African University of Science and Technology [AUST]. “The African University of Science and Technology in Abuja (AUST ? Abuja) was established ...
Candidates Invited to Science Debate
2008-02-14 05:21:00 In December I reported on plans to invite the candidates to a Science Debate. An invitation has now been sent to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Mike Huckabee to participate in a debate proposed for April 18. The invitation provides the following description of the debate: The debate may include such policy issues as: ...
By: Liberal Values
A New Direction For Vietnamese Science and Technology
2008-02-07 10:46:00 (Nanowerk News) We are now living in an era of global competition, which is based on scientific and technological strength. Growth of a country is driven by technological renewal and creativity. To follow this situation, Vietnam?s science and technology service should make complete changes. Global tendencies According to top the World Bank?s scientific and educational experts, ...
Whitehouse Presses to Make E-Prescribing a Reality
2008-02-06 17:08:00 As with many behavior problems, acknowledging that you have the problem is usually the first step to effective behavioral treatment. Unfortunately for children, we frequently skip right over behavioral treatment and give a drug, but that’s another subject. The point here is that, after tough questioning from Sheldon Whitehouse and others, the Drug ...
By: Kmareka.com
Seeking Environmental Justice in Rhode Island
2008-02-02 16:49:00 Yesterday I attended the state’s Environmental Justice Community Network meeting. It was hosted at a very interesting place downtown called New Commons. They are doing many innovative things at New Commons besides facilitating environmental justice. Next week, as part of their “Soul at Work” series, they are hosting a screening of a ...
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The Davos Question: Science and Technology Research
2008-01-27 18:40:00 http://razela.blogspot.com to see more of my videos. Also, if you have a more thought out response, I’d rather you put it there since this is just getting way to many comments. This is my response to the question: “What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world ...
Wellspring of Prosperity: Science and Technology in the U.S. Economy
2008-01-21 07:07:00 As experts seek explanations for America’s recordbreaking performance in the current world economy, it is tempting to credit our bountiful natural resources and our diverse, hardworking population. But many other countries — and even our own ancestors — have enjoyed similar resources without producing an economic boom such as the United States achieved in the late 20th century.
By: Asiaing.com
Bill Gates eyes next "digital decade"
2008-01-07 18:18:00 Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates took center stage at the world's largest technology show for the last time on Sunday and predicted that his industry was on the cusp of the next "digital decade." Gates, who plans to switch in July to a more limited role at the company he co-founded in 1975 with childhood friend Paul Allen, said computing will become a pervasive part of everyday life through devices like televisions, mobile telephones. "Everything will connect up. You'll just take it for granted. No longer will users have to bridge between devices and remember what's where," Gates told the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Monkey Wars
2008-01-06 18:07:00 In just a couple of months, this nation will have been at war in Iraq for half a decade. To date, 3,909 American soldiers have perished. Tens of thousands more have been physically and psychologically wounded. Who are these men and women who fight on our behalf? Often, they are those ...
By: Kmareka.com
Helium Supplies Endangered, Threatening Science And Technology
2008-01-06 13:14:00 The element that lifts things like balloons, spirits and voice ranges is being depleted so rapidly in the world's largest reserve, outside of Amarillo, Texas, that supplies are expected to be depleted there within the next eight years.This deflates more than the Goodyear blimp and party favors. Its larger impact is on science and technology, according to Lee Sobotka, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis."Helium's use in science is extremely broad, but its most important use is as a coolant," said Sobotka, a specialist in nuclear chemistry and physics who collaborates with researchers at several national laboratories.Generally the larger users of helium (He), such as the national laboratories, have the infrastructure to efficiently use and recycle helium, Sobotka said. The same cannot be said of many smaller scale users.Helium plays a role in nuclear magnetic resonance, mass spectroscopy, welding, fiber optics and comput...
By: science life
PSP goes for solar
2008-01-05 20:00:00 Having the batteries go dead while in the middle of a game is a real nightmare, especially if you are playing one that needs to be saved in order to advance to the next level. But fear not for help is at hand with this solar powered charger, this device is essentially a battery and charger ...
The Hydro Pak power supply
2008-01-05 18:00:00 For people who occasionally need power in a remote location, be it when camping or work etc, they have been using solar, battery or other power source, but now there is another way. This is a fairly reasonable way of carrying around portable power that comes with disposable cartridges, has zero emissions, creates little noise ...
Can You Say ? Anthropomorphizing?
2008-01-03 14:58:00 Maybe the Invisible Hand of the market is tickling monkeys too, which would make it kind of like the Hand of God, but I?m not convinced.
By: Kmareka.com
Calculator powered by water
2007-12-27 16:00:00 Batteries will never be needed again, especially for applications like making simple calculations, all that is needed here just to power this up is a little water poured into the back of the device. This is an amazingly neat little device which gives everyone an idea of what is possible by using a bit of technology ...
Haycarb’s Recogen plant wins National Science and Technology Award
2007-12-23 00:53:00 Sri Lanka Sunday Times - Financial Times … Nearly 10 years in research, development, engineering and operation, Recogen (derived from ‘Recover and Generate’) will by … Financial... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: Engineers Voice
U.S. Bans Incandescent Light Bulbs
2007-12-21 19:28:00 President George Bush recently signed into law, the banning of incandescent lightbulbs. Flickr The energy-friendly LED, Halogen, and CFL, are what they are to be replaced with. These are pricier (by a few dollars) but they also last much much longer and they will also save you moola in annual energy bills. The incandescent lightbulbs are to be phased out over ...
Korea Institute of Science and Technology announced its ?Securo? bot
2007-12-15 15:02:00 It looks like the international fraternity of security robots could soon be about to welcome a new member, as a team of researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology recently announced that its “Securo” bot has passed a test that had it navigating a one kilometer long course by all by itself.
"w00t" crowned word of year by U.S. dictionary
2007-12-14 00:48:00 "w00t," an expression of joy coined by online gamers, was crowned word of the year on Tuesday by the publisher of a leading U.S. dictionary. Massachusetts-based Merriam-Webster Inc. said "w00t" -- typically spelled with two zeros -- reflects a new direction in the American language led by a generation raised on video games and cell phone text-messaging. It's like saying "yay," the dictionary said. "It could be after a triumph or for no reason at all," Merriam-Webster said. |
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