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The Historyscoper's Science & Technology News Blog. Daily links to the most eclectic hand-picked news for the elite minority of supergeneralists, plus occasional off-the-wall links.

Friday, July 30, 2010

Old men chasing young women: A good thing

http://scienceblog.com/cms/old-men-chasing-young-women-good-thing-14203.html
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Analysts encouraged by Microsoft's 'cloud' progress - John Letzing

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/analysts-encouraged-by-microsofts-cloud-progress-2010-07-30
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Researchers Study Benefits of White Button Mushrooms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100729101609.htm
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Graphene Exhibits Bizarre New Behavior Well Suited to Electronic Devices

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100729141134.htm
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Fly Eyes Used For Solar Cells

http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/07/28/2223205/Fly-Eyes-Used-For-Solar-Cells
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Big Bang Abandoned in New Model of the Universe

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25492/
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

IBM Researchers Create the Most Detailed Brain Map Yet

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=0108093
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

NASA Puts the "Green" in Its Other Mission: Developing Revolutionary, Energy-Efficient Airplanes The first "A" in NASA stands for aeronautics, and the agency is leading a host of federal programs and initiatives that aim to develop a fleet of environmentally friendly aircraft

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nasa-green-aircraft&sc=DD_20100726
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Novel Algorithm Cuts the Risks of Choosing Ineffectual Team Members

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100728083407.htm
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

More than 100 'Earth-like' planets discovered in past few weeks

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1296841/More-100-Earth-like-planets-just-past-weeks.html
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Now you see it, now you don't An invisibility cloak made of glass

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-07/mtu-nys072110.php
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The Difference between ‘True Science’ and ‘Cargo-Cult Science’ “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts” is how the great Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman defined science.- Frank J. Tipler

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-difference-between-true-science-and-cargo-cult-science/
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Infectious Prions Can Arise Spontaneously in Normal Brain Tissue, Study Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100726162125.htm
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Saturday, July 24, 2010

Could Our Universe be 150 Billion Years Old?

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/07/could-our-universe-be-150-billion-years-old-a-weekend-feature.html
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Buckyballs Detected in Space

http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/07/23/032213/Buckyballs-Detected-In-Space
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Google Engineer Decries Complexity of Java, C++

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/07/23/1838243/Google-Engineer-Decries-Complexity-o|
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Friday, July 23, 2010

Congress Proposes Commission to Study Asteroid Impact Threat By Leonard David

http://www.space.com/news/earth-asteroid-impact-congress-commision-100719.html
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Quantum Mechanics Not in Jeopardy: Physicists Confirm a Decades-Old Key Principle Experimentally

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100722142640.htm
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Sun's Rumored Hidden Companion May Not Exist After All By Clara Moskowitz

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/sun-hidden-companion-nemesis-100720.html

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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Alert: Doomsday Methane Bubble Rupture? How the BP Gulf Disaster May Have Triggered a ‘World-Killing’ Event

http://www.pakalertpress.com/2010/07/23/alert-doomsday-methane-bubble-rupture-how-the-bp-gulf-disaster-may-have-triggered-a-world-killing-event/
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A Universe of Us

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/opinion/20tue4.html
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Japanese Scientists Create Touchable Holograms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2jzB-M5yTo
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Orgasm Just by Thinking: Is it Medically Possible?

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20010797-10391704.html
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Yes, we should clone Neanderthals

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/07/19/yes-we-should-clone-neanderthals/
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Almost invisible mirrored tree house built in Sweden

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=0107022
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Scientists discover most massive star

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=0107026
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

First-of-Its-Kind Map Details the Height of the Globe's Forests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100720162306.htm
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Computers to translate world's 'lost' languages after program deciphers ancient text

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1296214/Computer-program-translates-ancient-language.html#ixzz0uG51X2mT
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Music 'Tones the Brain,' Improves Learning By Rachael Rettner,

http://www.livescience.com/culture/brain-music-language-100720.html
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Polymath: a new IT job description

http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/07/polymath-it-renaissance
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Anti-aircraft laser unveiled at Farnborough Airshow

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10682693
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Oh, Pepsi, What Hast Thou Wrought?

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2010/07/07/oh-pepsi-what-hath-thou-wrought/
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An Open Invitation to Seed’s Ex-Sciencebloggers

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/07/20/an-open-invitation-to-seeds-ex-sciencebloggers/
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Breakthrough in Thin-Film Solar Cells: New Insights Into the Indium/gallium Puzzle

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100719083044.htm
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Unearthing King Tet: Key Protein Influences Stem Cell Fate

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100718204803.htm
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Of Bugs and Brains: Gut Bacteria Affect Multiple Sclerosis

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100719162643.htm
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Monday, July 19, 2010

Edinburgh scientists devise plan to beat viruses The researchers were able to target more than one virus at the same time Scientists have developed a new way to target viruses which could increase the effectiveness of antiviral drugs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-10684052
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Part of the Brain That Tracks Limbs in Space Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100715123406.htm
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Saturday, July 17, 2010

How Human Immune Response to Virus Is Triggered at the Atomic Level

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100715123410.htm
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

The Chicken and the Egg: Ancient Mystery Solved?

http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/07/14/the-chicken-and-the-egg-ancient-mystery-solved/
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Fossil links humans and monkeys

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science+environment-10633640
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Viscosity at the Nanoscale: Intriguing 50-Year-Old Puzzle Solved

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100627201529.htm
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Origin of Key Cosmic Explosions Still a Mystery

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100712133131.htm
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Monday, July 12, 2010

Is Gravity Real? A Scientist Takes On Newton

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/science/13gravity.html

http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0785
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Computing Power Cracks Egg Shell Problem

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100709083751.htm
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What Would the Earth Look Like if it Stopped Spinning?

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-07/what-would-earth-look-if-it-stopped-spinning
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Saturday, July 10, 2010

Marijuana Derivative Could Be Useful for Pain Treatment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100707222548.htm
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New Parallel Found Between Cold Gases and 'Hot' Superconductors

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100708111338.htm
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Origins of Multicellularity: All in the Family

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100708141541.htm
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Friday, July 9, 2010

Proton Smaller Than Thought—May Rewrite Laws of Physics Scientists "totally surprised" by "significant shake-up."

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/07/100707-science-proton-smaller-standard-model-quantum-physics/
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Thursday, July 8, 2010

Cell Development: How Do Plants and Animals End Up With Right Number of Cells in All the Right Places?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100630132758.htm
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Revolutionary Medical Dressing Uses Nanotechnology to Fight Infection

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100707211621.htm
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Researchers Measure Single-Molecule Machines in Action

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100706130322.htm
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Scientists Reveal the Mystery of Sudden Cardiac Death

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100706093235.htm
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Writing Circuits on Graphene A heated AFM tip can draw nanometers-wide conductive lines on graphene oxide.

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/25547/
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Gender Gap Persists at Highest Levels of Math and Science Testing, 30-Year Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100706113210.htm
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Carter Emmart demos a 3D atlas of the universe

http://www.ted.com/talks/carter_emmart_demos_a_3d_atlas_of_the_universe.html
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Our Brains Are More Like Birds' Than We Thought

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100702152407.htm
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Nano-Sized Advance Toward Next Big Treatment Era in Dentistry

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100630132842.htm
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Monday, July 5, 2010

Discovering a Soft Spot for Circuitry

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/science/05robot.html
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Nanomachines in the Powerhouse of the Cell: Architecture of the Largest Protein Complex of Cellular Respiration Elucidated

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100702100414.htm
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Sunday, July 4, 2010

The 10 Founding Fathers of the Web

http://mashable.com/2010/07/04/web-founding-fathers/
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How Rules of Physics in Quantum World Change When Applied to Classical World

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100630132740.htm
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Saturday, July 3, 2010

Feathered Friends: Ostriches Provide Clues to Dinosaur Movement

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100630213614.htm
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Genetic Signatures of Human Exceptional Longevity Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100701145521.htm
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New Drug Restores Hearing After Noise-Induced Hearing Loss in Rats

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100630071258.htm
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