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December 20 to 31, 2005
What can one say about over 100,000 lives being extinguished so quickly? Too many things for words. "You are the music while the music lasts", said T.S. Elliot. Larry Geller of the Hawaii Coalitio...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Scientists make bacteria behave like computers: http://re
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news.osu.edu/archive/eggcarton.ht...
Now classified military re
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is making inroads into the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Dozens of students and faculty have occupied the administration building in a rare sit-in...
Beautifully photographed abandoned structures in Japan: http://home.f01.itscom.net/spiral/re
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April 11 to 17, 2005
The government gives lame reasons for making passports remotely readable. Also noted is that your birth date and photo can be picked up remotely. That means (identity) thieves could make instan...
Did you know that samples of a flu virus were mistakenly sent to 3,700 labs around the world and that some have gone missing? This normally would not cause worry except for the fact that the virus i...
April 4 to 10, 2005
A better overview of perpendicular storage technology, which leads to a 10X increase in hard drive capacity. There's also an odd Flash movie that may end up being a digital collector's item...
The original article is gone, but traditional librarians are wondering what do to about the new "millenial" generation that is impatient with the slowness of re
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via paper...
With 99% confidence, re
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ers have found that planetary biodiversity comes and goes roughly every 62 million years, and may be due to astrophysical causes. Looking at the graph, I think we're at ...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Here's a slightly new way to visualize large graphs - topological fisheye views: http://www.re
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.att.com/areas/visualization/projects_software/topfish.htm...
A small fake survey led 94% of respondents to give enough information to allow a thief to empty their bank accounts...
March 14 to 20, 2005
And here's photos of all those wildflowers that have been blooming in Death Valley lately: http://flickr.com/photos/
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Peep surgery - this one's a classic, still funny, and just in time for Easter: http://www.peepre
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March 7 to 13, 2005
Yet another Google thing - Google weather: http://www.google.com/
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February 28 to March 6, 2005
"A man who recently had received radiation treatment... set off a nuclear alert detector on a fire engine, prompting police to close down a roadway in Escondido while authorities
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ed for ...
February 21 to 27, 2005
Turns out Google Maps isn't that new. Here's its predecessor, an amazing zooming map of Switzerland: http://map.
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January 31 to February 6, 2005
A nanoscale "crossbar latch" from HP's Quantum Science Re
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labs may one day replace the transistor...
"Climate Change Desiccating the Planet, Re
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ers Conclude"...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Amazon adds 20 million pictures of storefronts to its Yellow Pages
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The
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January 17 to 23, 2005
Cornell re
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ers figure out how to make plastic from citrus fruits and CO2, eliminating the need to use petroleum to make plastics...
UCLA re
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ers have made microscopic robots powered by living heart cells...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Re
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ers find a new efficient way to convert water into hydrogen by using high temperature...
December 6 to 12, 2004
John Perry Barlow's fight against Homeland Security may set a legal precedent regarding
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It's still a little early to call, but here are some pictures of the year, more worthy for their subjects than aesthetics...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
New clear, flexible transistors may lead to clear, flexible gadgets: http://www.eyebeam.org/reblog/archives/2004/11/re
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"Re
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ers compost old mobile phones & transform them into flowers"...
November 22 to 28, 2004
I'm now working at zLab, the CommerceNet "center for decentralization" in Mountain View, California. It's been a while since anyone started a software re
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lab in the area - let's see what we whi...
November 15 to 21, 2004
U.S. pressure to try to ban international work in stem-cell re
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may mean its end...
The latest design proposals for the latest high-tech Antarctica re
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station...
November 8 to 14, 2004
Ever need to do a little re
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yourself on the latest trends? Just go to Google News and
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for a few key phrases, sorted by date. Here are four: "international survey", "scientifi...
October 18 to 24, 2004
Re
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ers develop an electronic replacement rat neuron that works "with a 95% accuracy rate"...
September 20 to 26, 2004
IBM scientists figure out how to make single-atom magnetic measurements, possibly leading to super-dense storage media: http://www.re
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ers are studying net viruses using methods used to study human epidemics...
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ers are finding ways to reduce buckyball toxicity...
September 13 to 19, 2004
China's a new "hotbed of re
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September 5 to 12, 2004
New applications of P2P technology are helping people to register to vote and
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August 15 to 22, 2004
The
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August 8 to 14, 2004
New algorithms allow projectors to project clearly on any surface, such as wallpaper and curtains: http://www.uni-weimar.de/~bimber/re
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The corporate ownership of computer technology is a large factor. No one wants to (or can get the money to) do pure, essential computer science re
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July 26 to August 1, 2004
In the meantime, check it out. I've got
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July 19 to 25, 2004
An LED re
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breakthrough may lead to LEDs replacing lightbulbs in five years...
New technologies in the running for the next replacement for hard drives, including molecular storage and cow protein...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
An Antarctic scientific re
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vessel gets equipped with two heavy-caliber machine guns to fight fish poaching off of Australia...
June 7 to 13, 2004
Where are the guitar heros of today? "Still
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ing for the next guitar hero"...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
Hebrew U. re
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ers have devised a method that allows people to use a type of password that they don't have to consciously remember...
"This is the most amazing, subversive piece of political webware I've ever seen. It scrapes the Parliamentary record and makes the entire thing commentable,
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able and permalinkable... We need on...
May 17 to 23, 2004
LANL re
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ers have figured out how to use nanotechnology to boost solar cell efficiency as much as 37%...
May 10 to 16, 2004
More on acoustic cryptanalysis - studying keystroke sounds. From a cellular phone, it's possible to tell what you're typing...
April 12 to 18, 2004
A9, Amazon's
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Google and books at the same time...
April 5 to 11, 2004
The McCollough Effect http://re
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March 29 to April 5, 2004
A material widely used in nanotechnology re
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has been found to trigger organ damage in fish...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Google Local Searc...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Heating trend in North Pacific baffles re
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"For the first time, a microbial fuel cell has generated electricity while cleaning wastewater, a development that could make sewage treatment more affordable for both industrialized and developin...
February 23 to 29, 2004
An HP study of the transmission of ideas via blogs (online journals), with visuals. For future re
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: How is the spreading of ideas like the transmission of virii? Can one reliably predict the mos...
Face recognition technology will be incorporated into the MPEG-7 standard, allowing one to retrieve a scene with a specific person in a 24-hour video in one second. Of course, this has far-reachin...
A nice overview from Popular Science on current brain-machine interface re
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. "If you think about using superconducting magnets, maybe you could figure out how to make a helmet," says [forme...
February 16 to 22, 2004
In Rat Brain Cells, Re
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The Pentagon re
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es ways for GIs to fight for up to five days without a break. Have they not heard of crack? "The question is: 'Are there temporary biochemical approaches we can use to squeeze th...
I can't wait to upgrade my memory! Cells-on-silicon breakthrough "Re
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ers... have found that nerve cells grown on a microchip can learn and memorize information which can be communicated to th...
February 9 to 15, 2004
Can technology save us from the future oil crash? "Re
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ers say they have produced hydrogen from ethanol in a prototype reactor small enough and efficient enough to heat small homes and powe...
February 2 to 8, 2004
A California bill has been signed to invest $3.7 billion in the next four years in nanotech re
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December 15 to 21, 2003
The anatomy of a Hawaiian high-tech news item This year, a UH-Manoa re
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er working with international collaborators discovered a new unknown subatomic particle, called X(3872)...
November 3 to 9, 2003
Scientists are now visiting "traditional herbalists" in
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of breakthrough drugs...
October 27, 2003
The rise of underground restaurants: http://query.nytimes.com/
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September 8, 2003
Thanks to the human genome project, re
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ers are pioneering the field of ionomics, the study of how genes regulate ions. That can lead to plants that soak up heavy metals.....
July 8, 2003
To experience the Auto-ID Center's security holes firsthand, simply visit the web site at http://www.autoidcenter.org and type "confidential" in the site
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box. The Center encourages such sit...