Links for 23-05-2007
The market function of piracy, virtual schizophrenia, wet Mars back on (yet again), world’s smallest book…
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1 – The Market Function of Piracy
“…if some companies give away merchandise to expand market share, what’s not to like about having someone else take on the expense of manufacturing and distributing the goods, as long as they’re high-quality copies?”
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2 – Virtual Hallucinating Device Drives Police Insane for a Day
“The training device, created by Janssen L.P., is a rig with earphones and goggles that plunges the wearer into the mind of a serious schizophrenic.” The street will find its own use for this, no doubt.
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3 – NASA – Mars Rover Spirit Unearths Surprise Evidence of Wetter Past
“A patch of Martian soil analyzed by NASA’s rover Spirit is so rich in silica that it may provide some of the strongest evidence yet that ancient Mars was much wetter than it is now.” ‘Wet Mars’ back on again.
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4 – Nanoscience creates world’s smallest book
“It is primarily a work of art – we are using it as just a fun project,” said Professor Karen Kavanagh said. “In order to read it, you have to have an electron microscope.”
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5 – How NASA Screwed Up (And Four Ways to Fix It)
“Of course, “Keep money flowing to favored contractors and congressional districts” is not a formal NASA objective, but these words explain the agency’s core problem.” Tough talk from Easterbrook at Wired.
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6 – Inside the Digital Dump (photojournalism)
“…when we replace our computers and flat-screens with the newest in high-tech cool, what happens to the hardware we throw away? Welcome to the digital dumping ground, where the poor make a living off other people’s spare parts.”
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7 – Positive Self-esteem In Youth Can Pay Big Salary Dividends Later In Life
“Believing in yourself [...] can also be good for the bank account, according to a new study that finds self-confidence can translate into earning hundreds of thousands of dollars more over a lifetime.” NOW they tell me.
