Links for 25-02-2007
Eugenics reassessed, transition words, burnout, chemical origami…
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1 – Glimmers of Hope in Iran Report?
The former staff of Defense Tech are now running out of ‘Danger Room’ at Wired – where they’re going to find their readership a lot less hawkish – witness the comments on this post.
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2 – Neugenic Nation
“Eugenics. It is a word that has come to mean different things to different people. Some consider it a pejorative, while others use it as a powerful tool in political rhetoric.”
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3 – “Chemical origami” shrinks 2D discs into 3D objects
“The trick is to pre-treat a gel disc half the size of a beer coaster with a monomer solution “blueprint” that selectively shrinks when heated.”
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“One of the most important yet difficult tasks a writer faces is choosing words to move smoothly and logically from one sentence or paragraph to the next.”
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5 – Burnout
“In my life as a writer so far I have not as far as I know suffered from writer
