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Students create "intelligent
scarecrow"
Computer science and
engineering students at the University of South
Florida in Tampa have created an intelligent
scarecrow that uses a computer, Internet camera
and imaging software to scare away birds. |
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Wal-Mart equals higher poverty
rates
A study published in the latest
issue of Social Science Quarterly is the first
to examine the effect of Wal-Mart stores on
poverty rates. The study found that nationwide
an estimated 20,000 families have fallen below
the official poverty line as a result of the
chain's expansion. |
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Heat shields tested for shuttle
replacement
NASA has finished tests
of five heat shield candidates for the shuttle's
successor, the Crew Exploration Vehicle. Several
of these have been used in space before ? in the
Apollo moon landings and space science missions
like Genesis and Stardust. |
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Is Batman a stupid
head?
Interesting look at the
psuedo-science of a recently spouted line from
The Batman. Looks like he is a stupid head,
after all. |
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Walmart working towards a green
globe?
In an impressive display the
CEO of Walmart outlines his current agenda.
Decrease waste, Decrease greenhouse gas
emissions, and go 100% renewable . . . by 2015.
A great read, about how the company appears to
be growing a conscience. |
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Journey to a Black Hole with this
Award Winning Site
The Web site won
the top prize for 2005 in the Pirelli
INTERNETional Award competition, the first
international multimedia contest for the
communication of science and technology on the
Internet. The site is very explanatory with
Q&A's and interactive guides. Very smooth
and clean site if I say so myself. |
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How Children Learn About God and
Science
Children seem to be more
confident in the information they get about
invisible scientific objects than about things
in the spiritual realm. A new review of
scientific studies supports the idea that
children do not take all the teachings of
parents and teachers at face value. |
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Naked Scientist
From
site "The Naked Scientists Online science radio
show and science podcast utilises streaming
technology to allow you to hear science,
medicine and technology news, discoveries and
breakthroughs being discussed by scientists and
researchers, and includes interviews with famous
scientists of world-class reputation." |
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CALBIO Conference & Annual
Dinner
CALBIO attendees will include
up to 600 attendees at the conference and more
then 1000 attendees at the concluding dinner.
The attendees are mostly life science executives
(CEO, CFO, & Business Development) community
leaders, elected officials and members of the
media throughout California. Thursday, May 18,
2006 7:00 AM - 9:00 PM |
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Electric book wins science
prize
'A book that details the
discovery of electricity and how it has changed
our lives has scooped this year's Aventis Prize
for popular science writing.' |
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Back to the Moon: Uniting Science
and Exploration
"Back in January
2004, President George W. Bush put NASA on a
trajectory to return astronauts to the Moon as
early as 2015 and no later than 2020. Since
then, the space agency has been hustling to
devise its lunar action plan." |
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Skype Gives It Away - Republican
Senator Wants To Take It Away
As most
of you know Skype is now free to use for within
the US and Canada for mobile and landlines but a
bill offered by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska),
chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and
Transportation Committee, proposes to levy fees
on voice-over-Internet companies, and hearings
on the legislation are scheduled later this
week. |
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Back to the
Moon
Space.com is reporting that
NASA's planned trip back to the Moon isn't
without a significant amount of science and
technological innovation. Simply 'sponging off
Apollo' won't do it. Among the issues: safer
human spaceflight, lunar ice, sustainability,
robotic scouting missions and more. This won't
be easy. |
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Modern Tech Shows Chronology of
the Ancient World is Faulty
Two new
radiocarbon studies in Science magazine show
that the explosion of the volcano Santorini on
the island of Thera has been wrongly dated by
mainstream science. The Ancient World Blog at
http://ancientworldblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/santorini-explosion-on-thera-redated.html
comments on the repercussions for ancient world
chronology. |
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Why do girls lose interest in math
and science?
Government data show
that girls fall behind boys in math and science
as they progress through school. In the fourth
grade, 68 percent of boys and 66 percent of
girls say they like science, according to the
National Center for Education Statistics. |
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The NSA's Real Problem: It Can't
Find Terrorists
Lost in the
controversy over the National Security Agency
getting phone records of hundreds of millions of
people may be a very dangerous fact: The
information it requested is useless for tracking
down terrorists. So says a science fellow at the
Center for International Security and
Cooperation at Stanford. |
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7 Keys to Success with a Physics
Degree
Good guide for Physics majors
and all technical majors! -- "It is true that
getting a physics degree is less of a sure thing
than say becoming an electrical engineer ...
However, rather than panic or lament having
studied a pure science, there are steps that
students can take to ensure they will be
employable both inside and outside of academia."
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Da Vinci Decoded: A Flying
Machine
Think decoding Leonardo da
Vinci is just fiction? As this ScienCentral News
video explains, two men did just that with one
of da Vinci's most famous ideas, a flying
machine. Two Seattle area men chose to finish da
Vinci's work, building a full-sized flying
machine. For three years, 2 retired engineers
worked to make the flying machine a reality.
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Expliting Code-Level Parallelism
in New CPU Architecture
Penn State
professor of computer science who has
interviewed the father of Russian Elbrus
supercomputers and Intel fellow Boris Babayan
argues that the future boost of CPU performance
would come from replacing complex cores with
arrays of single-EU cores thus enabling
exploitation of dynamic code-level parallelism
that exists at OS level. |
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Testing Interview
Questions
Purpose: Communicate
course-related information to students in COSC
198 Software Testing being offered in the
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and
Computer Science at Marquette University. |
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Anomalies & Forbidden
Science
THIS YEAR'S shindig for
lovers of all things weird, the annual general
meeting of the Fortean Times took place in
London recently. The Unconvention (Uncon) meets
once a year so that the motley gang of people
interested in unusual and anomalous phenomena
can gather together and share theories and
ideas. |
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Google plans Aussie internship
program
Search giant Google will
commence an internship program this summer that
will see Australian university students work in
projects in the company's Sydney office. Get
those resumes ready, computer science
undergraduates! |
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Guitar Hero For the PC, With Any
Music
Want a way to play Red Octane?s
awesome PS2 game Guitar Hero, but lack Sony?s
console? A former computer science student from
Ottawa may have the solution. His Freetar Hero
is already showing a lot of promise. The first
part, a music editor, should be available soon.
Follow the link to see it in action. |
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Two Parts Vodka, a Twist of
Science
Freethinking bartenders have
taken to the idea of employing the techniques of
avant-garde cooking to their work behind the
bar, a trend that's being called "molecular
mixology." For example, some turn cocktails into
papers, gels, and powders, like a "rum and Coke"
made of rum powder from a flavoring company and
soda-flavored Pop Rocks, for fizz. |
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Dell Gives $50 Million to the
University of Texas
The new computer
science building is to be built on the Austin
campus. The healthy living center will
concentrate on childhood development, focusing
on battling childhood obesity which can lead to
other health problems such as diabetes. |
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Carbon fullerenes now have
metallic cousins, 'hollow golden
cages'
Scientists have uncovered a
class of gold atom clusters that are the first
known metallic hollow equivalents of the famous
hollow carbon fullerenes known as buckyballs.
The evidence for what their discoverers call
"hollow golden cages" appeared today in the
online early edition of the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences. |
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Data-mining Pioneer Joins
Microsoft
Rakesh Agrawal, who is
credited with creating data mining, or the
science of extracting trends from large and
often disparate databases, has left IBM to
become a Microsoft technical fellow in the
company's Search Labs. |
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The Only TI Calculator Resource
You Will Ever Need
This website has
all the Texas Instrument Calculator stuff you
will ever need. It provides a news blog, an
excellent community, and a HUGE selection of
math and science programs as well as games for
every TI calculator out there. A few notable
ones are the ClosedGL library and the gb68k
Gameboy emulator; digg this site! |
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Hippies/students re-enact protein
synthesis
Several hundred students
convened to undulate and impersonate molecules
undergoing protein synthesis by a ribosome.
Wearing costumes and colored balloons to
identify their roles. A different colored
balloon for every ribonucleotide and a puff of
smoke for every pyrophosphate cleavage...
science entertainment at its best. |
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