Danny Hillis With A Drop Of Your Blood, Well
Soon Diagnose Your Disease Before You Even Have Symptoms

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Danny Hillis has had a prolific career, to say the least. The co-founder of the Long Now Foundation developed a [...]

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TED: Ivan Krastev: Can democracy exist without
trust - Ivan Krastev (2012)

post from TEDTalks (video) on 13 August 2012 11:20:07 AM. © TEDTalks (video)

Five great revolutions have shaped political culture over the past 50 years, says theorist Ivan Krastev. He shows how each step forward -- from the cultural revolution of the ?60s to recent revelations in the field of neuroscience -- has also helped erode trust in the tools of democracy. As he says, "What went right is also what went wrong." Can democracy survive?

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Heartworm in Dogs, Worrying Increase in 2012

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Heartworm is on the rise in 2012 and this has led to Vets, the American Heartworm Society (AHS) and the Companion Animal Parasite Council (CAPC) making a massive push to educate and inform the public ?and dog owners in particular about protecting their pets from this insidious disease. Heartworm is spread by mosquitoes. The juvenile [...]

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Social cloud television

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Leaving your TV show midway because you had to leave your home will no longer happen as you can now 'pull' the programme on your TV screen onto your tablet and continue watching it seamlessly.

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Sonic bug repellants dont work

post from Sciencebase Science Blog on 13 August 2012 09:59:14 AM. © Sciencebase Science Blog

More deceived wisdom debunked, this time sonic bug repellants. Whether they are meant to repel mosquitoes, cockroaches or ants they don’t. They are based on junk science, according to a Texas A&M entomologist Roger Gold who has studied these products for two decades. The Android and iPhone apps all fail too, even the paid ones. [...]

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IBM Observes Spintronic 'Waltz'

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 13 August 2012 09:47:01 AM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From EE Times: Researchers from IBM Research and the university ETH, both based in Zurich, have reported the observation of a persistent spin helix in a semiconductor, which they claim could have implications for information storage and processing.View the full article HERE. Read th

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One-Piece Carbon Composite Wheel Drives Cars

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From Design News: Carbon Revolution says it has made the first one-piece, all-carbon fiber composite wheel for cars as well as planes. Read the whole article

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Catalyst Could Zap Methane Emissions

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From Chemical & Engineering News: Latest News: Catalysis: Agent oxidizes methane efficiently at low temperatures Read the whole article

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One Half Million Mile Solar Filament

From Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories: This image (above) from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows a very long, whip-like solar filament extending over half a million miles in a long arc above the sun's surface. Read the whole article

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Into the Uncanny Valley

After our recent exchange of ideas on SETI, Michael Chorost went out and read the Strugatsky brothers? novel Roadside Picnic, a book I had cited as an example of contact with extraterrestrials that turns out to be enigmatic and far beyond the human[...]

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