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Save NASA, sign the petition to
George Bush!
"I AGREE! We must stop the U.S. Administration
from foisting this disastrous anti-science,
antiexploration agenda on NASA. I want to
help the Society fend off these attacks
that are threatening both space science
and human and robotic exploration of other
worlds."
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Icy Reception: Broadband Connection
Reaches the South Pole
"Now we're transmitting 15 gigs per
day, and every room has a data port with
Ethernet service," says Pat Smith, manager
of technology development for Antarctic
infrastructures and logistics at the National
Science Foundation. In 2005, the phones
were upgraded to voice over IP. Back in
1985, the rate was a meager 200 kilobytes
per day.
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All Cranks, All The Time
Sometimes, you have just enough science
to be dangerous. Crank dot net is a website
dedicated to preserving crankery on the
internet, and if you have some spare time,
contains links to some very entertaining
websites. Features batshit crazy ideas in
the areas of science, technology, mathematics,
religion, prophecy, aliens, and much more.
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The trouble with soy, part 3 ("Soy
makes you gay" author at it again)
Jim Rutz's third column on how soy is
causing people to be gay. Citing the high
levels of female hormones in soy, He says,
"Right now, no evidence indicates that soy
during childhood or adulthood is likely
to change sexual preference. The danger
zone is the first three months of both pregnancy
and infancy." Could I get some science with
that?
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TOP 100 SCIENCE SITES
"The Best Science Sites were collected
in this rating and sorted by popularity.
The URL of every science site was found
in multiple internet searches and the amount
of mentions of site's addresses is used
to generate the rating
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Real Robots: Robots that looks like
humans
From the moment the robot walked on
screen in Lost in Space one question has
haunted the watchers of bad science-fiction
television dramas: When do we get our robots,
our mechanical soulless friends?Answer :
They're getting closer.
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Revolutionary new scientific journal
PLoS ONE is launched
Until now, online scientific journals
have been little more than electronic versions
of the printed copy. Today, that all changes
with the launch of PLoS ONE, which publishes
primary research from all areas of science
and employs both pre- and post-publication
peer review to maximize the impact of every
report it publishes.
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20 Crazy (and real) Scientific Research
Studies
Sometimes scientist research some rather
odd things in the pursuit of science: "On
Human Odour, Malaria Mosquitoes, and Limburger
Cheese (1996) Presented by B. Knols: "It
shows that the female malaria mosquito Anopheles
gambiae is attracted equally to the smell
of limburger cheese and to the smell of
human feet."
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Sticky Web: Science ponders Internet
'addiction' (pic of treatment)
"Dr. Elias Aboujaoude -- principal author
of the study and head of the Impulse Control
Disorders Clinic at Stanford University
School of Medicine -- says their investigation
was the result of an alarming rise in patients
seeking treatment for excessive computer
use."
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Free Technical Books Online!!!!!
This site lists free online computer
science and engineering books and lecture
notes, all of which are freely and legally
available over the Internet.
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Iran's Oil Exports May Disappear
Iran is suffering a staggering decline
in revenue from its oil exports and if the
trend continues, income could virtually
disappear by 2015, according to an analysis
published on Monday in a journal of the
National Academy of Sciences.
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When Math, Science and Sculpture
Meet
From the Artist: "My work is about life
in three dimensions: working with symmetry
and balance, getting from a zero point to
infinity, and always finding beauty in geometry."
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Laboratories turn to the zebrafish
for faster, cheaper drug research
In a two-decade career in science, biologist
Demian Park has prodded chicken embryos
and manipulated the nerves of a fruit fly.But
for the last two months he has burrowed
into a lab in an unmarked brick building,
using $70,000 worth of equipment to perform
complex heart exams on tiny silver-sided
fish."This is completely unexpected," he
sai
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Modern to post-Peak Oil medicine:
Garlic Case Study
Medicine after Peak Oil will look very
similar to medicine before industrial civilization.
The difference is that our modern science-based
medicine can enable us to verify what "traditional"
cures are valid, and show us the best ways
to use them. Garlic is one powerful example.
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The Inside Story of the Cell Phone
- on the Discovery Channel (TV)
an hour-long piece on the cell phone
and its importance to society - part of
Discovery's new The Inside Story of ...
series, which also has episodes on the iPod
and the SUV ... I was interviewed for the
Cell Phone episode back in June in the Museum
of Science in NYC ... producers of the show
seem savvy ... show will premier this Wed,
Dec 27, 1pm
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Report: Iran oil profits could dry
up by 2015
"Iran is suffering a staggering decline
in revenue from its oil exports, and if
the trend continues income could disappear
by 2015, a National Academy of Sciences
analysis found. Iran earns about $50 billion
a year in oil exports."
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Surveillance Camera's that can YELL
at you for littering in Britain
People are shocked when they hear the
cameras talk, but when they see everyone
else looking at them, they feel a twinge
of conscience and comply,'' The city has
placed speakers in its cameras, allowing
operators to chastise miscreants who drop
coffee cups, ride bicycles too fast or fight
outside bars.
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Iran oil profits could dry up by
2015
A National Academy of Sciences analysis
found that Iran is suffering a serious drop
in revenue from its oil exports. The report
further finds that income could disappear
by 2015, if the trend continues.
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World's smallest form of life discovered
The smallest form of life known to science
just got smaller.Four million of the newly
discovered microbe — assuming the discovery,
reported Friday in the journal Science,
is confirmed — could fit into the period
at the end of this sentence.
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Convince your Network Admin at School/Work
to let you play games on the LAN
Have you ever sat there in your computer
science or multimedia class and wanted to
fire up a multi-player game but school rules
forbid you to play them? This guy explains
how he convinced his teacher to let him,
his class and the rest of the school to
game on the network. The secret is: do it
for charity.
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Great new science projects site
Project guides that walk you through
the science project process along with tips
and ideas to get started. Shows how to turn
a hobby into an enjoyable project.
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Facts about Climate Change
The science of climate change is complex,
but everyone should know the basics: the
Earth is heating up because gases produced
from vehicles, power plants, deforestation,
and other sources are building up in the
atmosphere, acting like a thick blanket
over our planet.
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THE SCIENCE OF SANTA CLAUS
I Believe In Santa Claus, but when my
now grown up Sister asked about how does
this whole sleigh and reindeer thing work,
I went to Google and search to find out
the 214,000 Reindeer needed to pull the
321,000 ton sleigh would be vaporised. This
article goes over some of the science behind
the jolly old man!
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'Papers' - New Mac software to find
and organize research articles
A great-looking new app to manage a
digital collection of journal articles.
From website: "Papers will revolutionize
the way you deal with scientific papers.
Search for papers using PubMed, directly
retrieve and archive PDFs, and read and
study them all from within Papers, your
personal library of Science."
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Excellent Math and Science Tutor
Many people have a difficult time in
advanced classes because they are afraid
to ask for help. But automated bots and
asnwer websites are impersonal and don't
give you the specific help you need. Instead
check out this excellent and affordable
tutor for math and science students of all
grade levels. Give him a try!
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