Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime
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Via Wired Science, an excerpt on the One Block Off the Grid project: “While researchers have struggled for half a century to push down the cost of solar photovoltaic modules, an innovative web service is creating communities of customers who pay less for solar panels through collective bargaining with installers. One Block Off the Grid collects groups [...]
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
From Wired Science: Thanksgiving is about eating, and though local, organic food might be what the cool kids are eating, most people are still eating products of the industrial food system. Whether you’re talking turkey, cranberries or potatoes, industrial-scale processes have been developed to drive down food costs, drive up corporate profits and feed America’s incredible hunger for novel...
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
From Wired Science: How can you not love Cassini? The latest treat NASA’s spacecraft has provided us is the first ever movie of Saturn’s incredible aruroras. The high-resolution video was assembled from 472 still images, spaced over 81 hours in October, that show the phenomenon in three dimensions. The lights can be seen as a rippling, vertical sheet up to 750 miles high above Saturn’s...
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
From Wired Science: Alien-seeking researchers have designed a new simple code for sending messages into space. To a reasonably clever alien with math skills and a bit of astronomical training, the messages should be easy to decipher. As of now, Earthlings spend much more time searching for alien radio messages than broadcasting news of ourselves. We know how to do it, but relatively little attention...
Randy McDonald's Livejournal (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Pluto , second-largest dwarf planet in Sol's planetary system and prototype of the plutoids (trans-Neptunian dwarf planets), is a rejected planet. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it. The news of the demotion didn't move me particularly, even though I remember from Grade 1 or 2 listening to one of those books to be read along with an audiocassette and hearing the thin methanogenic winds when...
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
From Wired Science: A new infrared image of the galaxy Centaurus A reveals the gassy, ghastly bones of a galaxy that it consumed several hundred million years ago. The parallelogram of stars leftover from the collision had been obscured by dust. But using new processing techniques in the near-infrared part of the spectrum, European Southern Observatory astronomers were able to glimpse the leftovers...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Experts at an American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting this week said that resistance to the best available drug to treat malaria "is more widespread in Southeast Asia than previously reported," Science News/Wired Science reports. Researchers have been monitoring
901am (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Wired Magazine’s parent company Conde Nast seems to be taking the rumored iTablet PC seriously. A couple of days ago, the company was convinced by All Things Digital’s Peter Kafka to share a video demo of Wired’s iTablet PC. The video doesn’t say much about the iTablet PC, but you can fairly observe how cool it’s [...] Related posts: PBS series ‘Wired Science’...
In The Faith (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
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Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
From Wired Science: With each passing year, the boundary between man and machine gets slimmer. Bionic ears have become commonplace, motorized prosthetics allow wounded soldiers to care for themselves, and electronic eyes are just over the horizon. Neuroscientists have almost jacked rodents into the matrix: They have used electrodes to read signals from individual mouse brain cells as the critters wandered...
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
From Wired Science: The retooled Jaguar supercomputer blew away the competition on the latest list of the 500 fastest computers in the world, clocking an incredible 1.759 petaflops — 1,759 trillion calculations per second. The machine, housed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, added two more cores with the aid of almost $20 million in stimulus spending....
haha.nu (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Six stories of people who found a fortune when—and where—they least expected it. Click to start reading @ mental_flosss blog. @ haha.nu Related posts:25 Most Powerful Businessmen10 smart people that died in stupid ways7 fatal injuriesBest of 2008: Wired Science’s most popular stories of 2008The Truth About Coffee Related posts: 25 Most Powerful Businessmen 10 smart people that died...
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Lunar Impactor Finds Clear Evidence Of Water Ice On Moon -- Wired Science There is water on the moon, NASA confirmed today, and lots of it. In the first look at results from the LCROSS mission, which sent a probe crashing into the Cabeus crater near the moon’s south pole, NASA’s main investigator said their instruments clearly detected water, despite the underwhelming plume . Within the...
Mind Hacks (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: Wasting your corporate money on neuromarketing? That's so last season. You should be wasting your money on genomarketing instead. The Neurocritic looks at the birth of an interesting new field which will undoubtedly get inappropriately commercialised any time now. Not Exactly Rocket Science has an excellent post on how manipulating dopamine levels...
TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Capitalizing on the cooperative spirit of the emerging green economy, hundreds of start-ups and Fortune 500 companies convened at UCLA over the weekend for the third annual Opportunity Green Business Conference . The two-day event–which was co-sponsored this year by the Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies –featured talks from green-tech visionaries, journalists, government officials...
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