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Submission + - School Lets Students Play Games As A Reward (xuecast.com)

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XueCast

on Monday December 17, 2007 @06:25PM

XueCast writes: "http://www.xuecast.com/?p=373, In the United Kingdom, there is a school that has a special room where it's diligent students can play video games on all sort of platforms such as : Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, Sony Playstation 3, Personal Computer and more. This " modernized " school is called Selly Oak and is located at Birmingham, West Midlands."

Submission + - The Future of Digital Media (informit.com)

Submitted by bravo24 on Monday December 17, 2007 @06:17PM

bravo24 writes: What's on the horizon for digital media? David Chisnall looks at the current format war in the video market (BluRay, HD-DVD, HD-VMD) and tries to work out which will win and whether anyone will care.

Submission + - Life from Artificial DNA?

Submitted by SixFactor on Monday December 17, 2007 @06:05PM

SixFactor writes: Bioengineering proves itself again a field of significant breakthroughs. From a Washington Post article, researchers in Maryland are about to conjure life from completely artificial DNA. This is a rich article that covers profound angles like, life as an operating system, energy, genetically manipulated food, patent law, and most interestingly, raises shades of Jurassic Park:

Many scientists say the threat [referring to "bio-error"] has been overblown. Venter notes that his synthetic genomes are spiked with special genes that make the microbes dependent on a rare nutrient not available in nature.

And we all know what happened to those critters with amphibio-dino genes, don't we? So, just because we can, should we?

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