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More Science-Fiction Pilots Are
Coming
Last time out, we took a look at the
new series ordered by the broadcast and
cable networks that should be showing up
on our television screens in the next 12
or so months. Today I’d like to take a
look at the genre related pilot projects
in the works.
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13-yo David Archuleta Singing "Imagine"
Someone posted this video of David Archuleta
singing John Lennon's "Imagine" when he
was just 13. I gotta give him props. The
hand gestures, the squinting eyes, the runs--back
then the kid understood the science for
pop music. Too bad the song's metamorphosis
has not caught on after four years.
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Feb 28 marks National Science Day
Feb 28 marks the celebration of National
Science Day in India to highlight all scientific
and technological research and developments
in the country. In a country like India
with such a huge number of population and
their ever increasing needs ......
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iphone-haptics HMM (IMMR, VibeTonzis
the way to go!?)
This project involves a group of PhD
students from the Computing Science Department
of the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Our aim with this web site is to publicly
experiment with user interface design prototypes,
implemented on the Apple iPhone utilising
its built-in variable intensity actuator
and multi-touch screen.
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Ayurveda - The Ancient Knowledge
Of Life
This interesting article provides a
brief overview of the 5,000 year old science
that is Ayurveda, and dispels the myth that
it is some form of religious thing.
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How to write web-copy that stands
out
We started out as a term paper site,
but we have expanded to a point where we
wrote content for hundreds of web sites.
We can show you through our blog, articles
and samples how to write outstanding copy
for anything. There is much more to writing
copy than putting together words. Writing
is an art and a science.
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All U.S. kids should get flu vaccine,
panel says
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All U.S. children
aged from six months up to 18 should be
immunized every year against influenza,
a panel of federal vaccine advisers said
on Wednesday. The panel, which advises the...
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BBC - History of Magic - Disappearances
(movies)
Magic is the opposite of science. Science
says that matter cannot be created yet the
magician goes disappearing things so easily.This
is the story of how the magician has taken
the scientific advantages and use them to
conjure up a new ways to make things appear
and disappear..
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The Science of Getting Rich
The Science of Getting Rich is a step
by step program by The Teachers of The Secret
which will create wealth and change your
entire life.
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Sea reptile is biggest on record
!!
A fossilised "sea monster" unearthed
on an Arctic island is the largest marine
reptile known to science, Norwegian scientists
have announced.The 150 million-year-old
specimen was found on Spitspergen, in the
Arctic island chain of Svalbard, in 2006.The
Jurass
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Great, Now We've Ticked Off the
Sharks
As if things weren't perilous enough
for humans on Planet Earth, a story at Live
Science makes it seem like the sharks have
it in for us more than ever.
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How Airplanes Fly
Fascinating information explaining the
science behind how the wings work and what
keeps that big airplane up in the sky.
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Who Said Losing Weight had To Be
Boring?....
Lose weight and create health and wealth
at the same time. Science enhanced Diet
Cookies and Rich Decadent Shakes by Vitamark
Intl. Share these products and earn $10,000
in 10 months with the Power Of One Plan!
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The Bush Administration's War On
Science
Over the past eight years, the lives
of millions of people in the United States
and beyond have been endangered by the US
government. No, I'm not talking about the
war in Iraq. I'm talking about the quiet,
systematic war the government has been waging
against science.
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World's first "fun" computer weighed
1200 pounds!
Ken Olsen, who helped start Digital
Equipment Corporation, will be the focus
of three museum-style exhibits in the lobby
of the new Ken Olsen Science Center at Gordon
College in Wenham, MA. The exhibits will
feature many technological artifacts, images
and manuscripts surrounding Ken Olsen's
life, his innovative spirit, and enduring
legacy.
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Scientists discover a huge pliosaur
A fossilised “sea monster” unearthed
on an Arctic island is the largest marine
reptile known to science, Norwegian scientists
have announced.
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Fossil sea monster big enough to
''bite a car''
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
OSLO (Reuters) - The fossil of a 15 meter
(50 ft) long ''sea monster'' found in Arctic
Norway was the biggest of its kind known
to science with dagger-like teeth in a mouth
large enough to bite a small car,...
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Tips for Filling Out Your NCAA Tournament
Bracket
Picking NCAA teams for your March Madness
Tournament pool is both an art and a science.
The science part consists of studying things
like strength of schedule and key injuries.
The art aspect is not unlike throwing darts
at a board; no matter how good you are one
always seems to slip out of your hand.
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Doctors Stop HIV at Earliest Stage
Inspired by the Death of an innocent
baby, born with HIV, the Researchers fought
to find a Cure.Their study, which appears
this week at National Academy of Sciences
create a preventive/therapeutic vaccine
against HIV. Doomwatch, Sunstroke lauds
their efforts in Medscan.
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Piety? Who Needs Piety?
"What do you think you're doing!" cried
the great scientist to the soldier, as he
leaned over his tracings in the sand. The
soldier -- who had no idea who the man was
-- slew him on the spot. Had his world needed
the works of his restless mind, the great
Archimedes might be hailed as the inventor
of modern science.
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Life Encyclopedia - too popular
for its own good?
Encyclopedia of Life is a free, online
collaborative encyclopedia intended to document
all of the 1.8 million species of living
organisms known to science, which went live
on February 26, 2008 with 30,000 entries.
It crashed after about 3 hours, after 11.5
million hits.
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Upset by Creationism in the West?
It's worse in Russia.
This "Science" article is on Pravda's
front page (not opinion section). "Millions
of people are taught in schools and textbooks
all over the world that the fossil record
furnishes scientific proof of evolution.
But, where are there fossils of half-evolved
dinosaurs or other creatures?"
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Will You Become a Public Domain
Donor?
Current Copyright law prevents anyone
from building upon your creativity for 70
years after your death. Live on in collaboration
with others... By donating your IP into
the public domain you will "promote the
progress of science and useful arts" (U.S.
Constitution). Ensure that your creativity
will live on after you are gone, make a
donation today.
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Microfluidic technology fuels the
growing microRNA revolutio
LC Sciences announced today the publication
of the 30th peer-reviewed study by one of
its customers using the company’s microarray
service for analyzing microRNA expression
profiles and for discovery of novel small
RNAs. These studies, by leading researchers
in the field, contribute to a fast growing
body of knowledge
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15,000 gov't scientists protest
government Bush data coverup
More than 15,000 government scientists
have endorsed a report to Congress protesting
government cover-ups of scientific data.
The report cites multiple examples of government
manipulation of science for the sake of
political gain, saying the current Administration
has censored, suppressed and falsified important
environmental and health research.
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Recommended historic science fiction
Two sub-genres of writing come to mind
at the term "historic science fiction:"
that which was written long ago, and that
which was written recently but takes place
long ago. To differentiate, I'll call them
"classic" and "modern historic," respectively.
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Characteristics of science fiction
literature
While like fantasy and horror, science
fiction centers around subjects contrary
to known reality, the latter takes thing
to the next level by adding feasible explanations.
The extraordinary objects and events of
science fiction are based not in the supernatural,
but in scientifically known aspects of physics,
technology, and the general sciences.
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