Links for 08-11-2006
Solar flares, satellite beer-tracking, shuttle computer glitch, Second Life’s first tabloid, Australia digs stem cells, cover your online tracks…
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“Imagine our Sun spewing out a flare 100 million times stronger than usual, releasing the energy of 50 trillion atomic bombs. The effect on our planet would be catastrophic.” No kidding.
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“Do you know where your beer is? Dutch beer maker Heineken wants to make sure - so it has put together a team that includes IBM and the University of Amsterdam to track beer by satellite.”
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“A man, a plan, a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam, a hat, a canal — Panama!” Bumper selection of palindromes.
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“One year might as well be an eternity for NASA’s space shuttles, which – it turns out – have no automatic reset once the calendar hits Jan. 1, 2007.” Well, that’s proprietary code for you.
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“The professionals look and listen for signs of nervousness, and pay close attention to the content of a suspect’s story. Does it contain a lot of detail? Does it stay consistent through repeated tellings?”
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“Channel 4 and the Sci-Fi channel are among the companies contributing content to Second Life’s first broadband TV network, due to launch in the virtual world at the end of this month.”
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“Axel Springer, the publisher of Germany’s top-selling Bild newspaper, is poised to launch a weekly paper designed to sate the virtual population’s appetite for news and gossip.”
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“Hazy skies on early Earth could have provided a substantial source of organic material useful for emerging life on the planet…”
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“The bill … would relax rules on stem cell research and allow therapeutic cloning of embryos for medical research. The House of Representatives still needs to pass the bill before it becomes law, but lawmakers had expected the Senate to pose the biggest
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“Bioartificial kidneys seem to work, but can we make enough for everyone who needs one?”
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“After determining the chemical composition of over 2000 stars in the four nearest dwarf galaxies to our own, astronomers have demonstrated fundamental differences in their make-up…” Cosmological revelations.
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“Figures for 2005 from the global Business Software Association showing $361 million a year of lost sales in Australia are “unverified and epistemologically unreliable”, the report says.”
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13 - Bizarre Lunar Orbits“What appear to be flat seas of lunar lava have huge positive gravitational anomalies—that is, their mass and thus their gravitational fields are significantly stronger than the rest of the lunar crust.”
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“A new startup, ReputationDefender, will act on your behalf by contacting data hosting services and requesting the removal of any materials that threaten your good social standing.” The web gets weirder by the week.
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“I am totally in favor of bloggers working on post quality (and have written many tips on this) however - I still think that some bloggers could improve their blogs by upping the quantity of posts.”
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November 9th, 2006 at 2:37 am
Ahem… You could have linked directly to the actual author of the beer tracking satellite story…