Friday, May 24, 2013

Pay Attention: How We Focus and Concentrate

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130523093319.htm

Regenerating Spinal Cord Fibers May Be Treatment for Stroke-Related Disabilities

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130523101814.htm

Motion Quotient: IQ Predicted by Ability to Filter Visual Motion

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130523143130.htm

Drug Reverses Alzheimer's Disease Deficits in Mice

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130523143541.htm

Biophysicists Measure Mechanism That Determines Fate of Living Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130523143735.htm

Cinnamon Compound Has Potential Ability to Prevent Alzheimer's

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130523143737.htm

Technique to Detect Breast Cancer in Urine Developed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130523180316.htm

It's Not Your Imagination: Memory Gets Muddled at Menopause

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130523181344.htm

Engineers Devise New Way to Produce Clean Hydrogen

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130521153938.htm

Drawing Closer to Alzheimer’s Magic Bullet? Drugs Found to Both Prevent and Treat Alzheimer's Disease in Mice

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130521153940.htm

Itch protein may hold key to cure for skin conditions

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23586-itch-protein-may-hold-key-to-cure-for-skin-conditions.html

Cold fusion reactor independently verified, has 10,000 times the energy density of gas

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/156393-cold-fusion-reactor-independently-verified-has-10000-times-the-energy-density-of-gas

California judge cites “Star Trek,” stuns copyright trolls

http://www.salon.com/2013/05/24/judge_slams_copyright_trollers_with_sanctions_order_star_trek_quotes_partner/

SAP to hire hundreds of autistic IT experts

http://www.thelocal.de/jobs/?site=tlse&AID=49819

Google Compute Engine: Too Little, Too Late?

http://xcluesiv.com/blog/2013/05/22/google-compute-engine-too-little-too-late/

Thursday, May 23, 2013

To Succeed, You Need to Play with Some Degree of Abandon

http://bigthink.com/big-think-tv/to-succeed-you-need-to-play-with-some-degree-of-abandon

Our Viral Inheritance

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6134/820.full

A Floating Lab Explores the Fringes of Science and Gastronomy

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6134/809.full

Going Green: U.S. Equipped to Grow Serious Amounts of Pond Scum for Fuel

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130521140916.htm

Better Understanding of Water's Freezing Behavior at Nanoscale

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130521152429.htm

Big Data, for Better or Worse: 90% of World's Data Generated Over Last Two Years

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522085217.htm

New Technique May Open Up an Era of Atomic-Scale Semiconductor Devices

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522112032.htm

Plasmonics: A Wave Without Diffraction

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522131024.htm

Fragile Mega-Galaxy Is Missing Link in History of Cosmos

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522131156.htm

Making Chaos Visible: As Chaos Celebrates Its 50th Birthday, Biophysicist Christian Herbst Develops a New Method to Visualize It

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522131200.htm

Innovation Could Bring Flexible Solar Cells, Transistors, Displays

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522142032.htm

Magnetic Field Misbehavior in Solar Flares Explained: The Culprit Is Turbulence

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522160303.htm

Fungus Among Us! Body's Microbes Mapped

http://www.livescience.com/34589-fungus-on-human-body-mapped.html

How to build a Mars colony that lasts – forever

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23542

The Story Behind Hairspray

http://www.stylelist.com/view/the-story-behind-hairspray/

Tiger's Basketball-sized Hairball Removed By Surgeons (VIDEO)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/22/tigers-basketballsized-ha_n_3322726.html

Hospitals Profit When Patients Develop Bloodstream Infections

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522141841.htm

Children of Married Parents Less Likely to Be Obese

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522142026.htm

Small, Speedy Plant-Eater Extends Knowledge of Dinosaur Ecosystems

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522142028.htm

Migraine and Depression Together May Be Linked With Brain Size

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522163919.htm

Pinpointing How Nature's Benefits Link to Human Well-Being

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522180317.htm

UGE replaces 4K wind turbine with mysterious mid-range VisionAIR

http://www.gizmag.com/uge-visionair-wind-turbine/27609/

Strawscraper concept calls for a wind energy-harvesting toupee

http://www.gizmag.com/strawscraper-piezoelectric-fiber-concept/27626/

IBM's Watson gets a job in customer service

http://www.gizmag.com/ibm-watson-customer-service/27597/

Acrobatic XRL robot takes cliffs and valleys in its stride

http://www.gizmag.com/xrl-robot-jumping-kodlab-upenn/27539/

Stem-cell treatment restores sight to blind man

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23568

Are You a Nacho, a Tomato or a String Bean? New Research Reveals the 7 Different Shapes of Modern Man

http://lewrockwell.com/spl5/7-shapes-of-modern-man.html

Insects, from Delicacy to Tool against Hunger

http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/05/insects-from-delicacy-to-tool-against-hunger/

Brain Can Be Trained in Compassion, Study Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522160352.htm

Slowing the Aging Process -- Only With Antibiotics

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522131120.htm

Fish Oil May Help the Heart Beat Mental Stress

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522111951.htm

How Immune System Peacefully Co-Exists With 'Good' Bacteria

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522130951.htm

'Boys Will Be Boys' in U.S., but Not in Asia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522180319.htm

Baby's Life Saved With Groundbreaking 3-D Printed Device That Restored His Breathing

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522180102.htm

Mystery of Moon’s Magnetic Field Deepens

http://www.pakalertpress.com/2013/05/23/mystery-of-moons-magnetic-field-deepens/

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Jay Silver: Hack a banana, make a keyboard!

http://www.ted.com/talks/jay_silver_hack_a_banana_make_a_keyboard.html

College Graduate, Your Skills Are Increasingly In Demand

http://bigthink.com/60-second-reads/college-graduate-your-skills-are-increasingly-in-demand

Buzz Aldrin's Out of This World Martian Technologies

http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/buzz-aldrins-out-of-this-world-martian-technologies

How Kindle Promotes Bad Book-Reading Hygiene

 
http://bigthink.com/harpys-review/how-kindle-promotes-bad-book-reading-hygiene

Following the Flavor

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6134/808.full

Warp Speed, Scotty? Star Trek's FTL Drive May Actually Work

http://www.space.com/21140-star-trek-warp-drive-possible.html

Black box software: a problem for science that extends to big data

http://gigaom.com/2013/05/16/black-box-software-a-problem-for-science-that-extends-to-big-data-2/

Proposed New Toothbrush Could Secrete Caffeine During Brushing Process

http://www.redorbit.com/news/oddities/1112850872/toothbrush-may-one-day-deliver-a-jolt-of-caffeine-051913/

50 Billion Reasons to Support Ethanol

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/05/19/50-billion-reasons-to-support-ethanol.aspx?source=ihpsitcag0000002&lidx=1#828874

Sergey Brin: Why Google Glass?

http://www.ted.com/talks/sergey_brin_why_google_glass.html

Why Don't We Have Fusion Power?

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/next-generation/why-dont-we-have-fusion-power-15480435

U.S. Has Depleted Two Lake Eries' Worth Of Groundwater Since 1900

http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2013-05/us-depleted-two-lake-eries-worth-underground-water-1900-study-finds

Oklahoma Students Design Drones That Can Fly Into Tornadoes

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-05/tornado-research-drone-concepts-study-storms-keep-pilots-safe

Russia Is Building Robots To 'Neutralize' Terrorists

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-05/russia-building-robots-will-neutralize-terrorists

Petcube lets you play with your pet, wherever you are

http://www.gizmag.com/petcube-laser-pet-play/27603/

Flexible, wearable sensor promises new era in heart monitoring

http://www.gizmag.com/micro-sensor-heart-monitoring/27555/