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Fluid theory confirmed by Foton
In scientific research, there is great
satisfaction when theoretical work is eventually
supported by experimentation. Such was the
case this week for a team of Italian and
US scientists when they received preliminary
confirmation of a 10-year-old theory from
a fluid science experiment that is currently
orbiting the Earth on the Foton-M3 spacecraft.
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No one Will Hear you Scream in Dead
Space
The EA Redwood Shores studio has been
working on a science-fiction survival horror
game called Dead Space. The game, a 3rd-person
type, promises to deliver psychological
thrills and gruesome action, in space of
course.
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SEIGEN LIFE FORCE - A GIFT TO MANKIND
SEIGEN LIFE FORCE, the Japanese wonder
nutrient based on the Japanese-pioneered
science of biofermentics - beyond probiotics
- is creating wonderous results.
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No bionic people yet, but war fuelling
new advancements in prosthetics
By Chris MorrisFREDERICTON, Sep 24 (CP):
As she grew up, Adele Fifield was keenly
aware that her artificial leg was more than
a few steps behind the bionic marvels portrayed
in popular science fiction shows.The old
hydraulic version she used in earlier years
worked fine at a slow, steady stroll, but
got balky if she changed her...
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Making a Simple Periscope
Make your own simple periscope to see
around corners and over walls. The periscope
is suitable for school science projects
and also good for your kids to play around.
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Weird Science Wonders: Shark Gives
Birth Without Sexual Reproduction
At Carl Hayden High School in Arizona,
a marine biology teacher kept a pet shark
in her classroom. The female shark, Twilight,
had been alone in her tank for four years.
On September 12 students saw a baby shark
in the tank with her. Although the mother
did not have any contact with other animals,
she was somehow impregnated and gave birth
to a you
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Letters from the Chicago Reader
regarding Leo Strauss
This is a very good time to review the
'work' of Leo Strauss. The neocons mentor,
Strauss in his political science (not philosophy)
courses taught students that we must have
war without borders and total authoritarianism.
As the US and Israel enter the next phase
of the endless war, here is some sophisticated
and enlightening looks at the debate.
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Microsoft readies "Halo 3" for launch
Microsoft Corp geared up on Monday to
launch "Halo 3", the acclaimed science-fiction
video game that it hopes will widen its
lead over rival Sony Corp in the battle
for industry dominance.
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Homeland Track Internet Anti-War
Sites?
Students gathered Thursday outside the
Hill Center for Mathematical Sciences on
Busch campus to protest research that they
decried as racist, paranoid and undemocratic.
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What 'cybernetics' really means.
(Hint: It ain't about cyborgs.)
Contrary to what the Terminator movie
franchise may have led you to believe, the
science of cybernetics is not explicitly
and entirely about developing superhuman
cyborgs bent on waging a war for human destiny.
(That would be political science.) In truth,
cybernetics is one of the broadest and most
esoteric fields of study ever conceived.
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Agriculture In A Post-Oil Economy
The decline in the world's oil supply
offers no sudden dramatic event that would
appeal to the writer of "apocalyptic" science
fiction: no mushroom clouds, no flying saucers,
no giant meteorites. The future will be
just like today, only tougher. Oil depletion
is basically just a matter of overpopulation
— too many people and not enough resources.
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Art+Science = BioGlyphs
BIOGLYPHS is an art and science collaboration
initiated in 2002 by members of the Center
for Biofilm Engineering and the Montana
State University School of Art.Two BIOGLYPHS
exhibitions of living bioluminescent paintings
were created by teams of student and staff
artists, scientists and engineers in 2002.
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All in the name of science
An individual has compiled a list of
over 56k words which can all be spelt with
chemical symbols. Well some one had to.
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Dead Bones Talk & Silent Stones
Speak
Dead Bones Talk & Silent Stones
Speak: Solving Mysteries with Forensic Science
is the title of the presentation being delivered
by Forensic Anthropologist and best-selling
author Dr. Kathy Reichs.
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Vote For Your Favorite Science Blog
Dr. Novella's regular blog is among
the most well reasoned, intelligent, and
insightful entities on the Web. Anyone interested
in science, skepticism, or logic and argument
would do well do become a regular reader
of his.
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Biotechnology: Changing Life Through
Science vol 1-2-3 .pdf free
Far from being a new branch of scientific
discovery, biotechnology has been practiced
for thousands of years; it affects everyday
life in continuously evolving ways. Biotechnology:
Changing Life Through Science aims to explore
this complex subject in a way that is understandable
for students with an emphasis on real-world
applications of biotechnol
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Is the Singularity about God or
Science?
The Singularity Institute blog challenges
assertions put forth about the Singularity
Summit put forth in a recent Wall Street
Journal, page B1 article by Lee Gomes.
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Myth of Reason Crashes and Burns
Vox Day has nailed it again, as he highlights
the fallacies of the secular community,
in their attack against Christians for their
alleged opposition to science and progress.
In fact, Vox shows that it is actually the
rationalists who exhibit--shall we say--irrational
behavior with respect to both religion and
science. Go Vox!
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Science Fiction - Analysis of the
term
When most people think of science fiction,
the image that comes to mind is probably
one of star trek, space ships and perhaps
some other worldly creatures. This is an
analysis of the term through several works
of recent films.
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Parallel universes exist - study
Parallel universes really do exist,
according to a mathematical discovery by
Oxford scientists described by one expert
as "one of the most important developments
in the history of science".
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Plan 9 from outer space
The 1959 cult horror/science fiction
movie Plan 9 from Outer Space is considered
by many as a shoddy horror movie. However,
the movie has a cult following and there
are many groups on the internet who discuss
this movie even today. Bela Lagosi died
while filming this movie and apparently
the director included some file footage
of the actor.
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A Nutrition Supplement
These days, many people are more aware
of their diet and often take a nutrition
supplement to make up for an imbalance.
Examination of the relationship between
diet and health is a science named nutrition.
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U.S. funds earmarked for anti-Darwin
group
The money is set aside for the Louisiana
Family Forum in the labor, health and education
financing bill for fiscal 2008, the New
Orleans Times-Picayune reported Sunday.
The group is being paid to develop a plan
to promote better science education.
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The Limits Of Ignorance
After centuries upon centuries of patient
and dedicated refinement of the scientific
method, allowing us to gain greater knowledge
and understanding of Nature in so doing,
science keeps finding itself increasingly
under attack of late.
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Freeing dark, negative research
data is the next in open access science?
Positive, published scientific data
form the tip of the iceberg of any data
produced in labs. The majority of all experiments
are failed or lead to negative results.
But those "dark data" are as important for
making science happen as positive data and
this information must be free - argues Thomas
Goetz in the October issue of Wired.
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Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy
Pausch's Last Lecture
was watching the news on television
last night and heard the newscaster saying
that we would be watching a professor's
last lecture.On Tuesday, September 18, 2007
a computer science professor named Randy
Pausch, Ph.D, gave a lecture. Dr. Pausch
is regarded as an expert teacher of video
gamesand virtual reality technology.
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SEEING THOUGH THE HEART IS BEING
ONE WITH SOURCE
The great dawning and, I would add,
inevitable realization of psychology, science
and religion is that our separateness is
an illusion measured by the state of our
consciousness and that our ultimate reality,
once again measured by the state of our
consciousness, is the realization that we
are all united and part of a loving and
indivisible whole ~
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Researchers Study Software Gender
Gap
For more than a decade, academics and
technology executives have been frowning
at the widening gender gap in computer science.
Everyone has a theory, but no one has managed
to attract many more women.
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