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Biotech

Submission + - Modern Technology Reveals Mummy's Past

mamamia writes: The baby mummy had a European mom, and likely came from a wealthy family. But where he lived and why he died — and at such a young age — remain a mystery. The mummy, exhibited for the first time Thursday at the Saint Louis Science Center, has been the year-long focus of an international team of investigators. The museum said it may be the most extensive research project ever undertaken on a child mummy.
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Submission + - Record for Microwaved CDs?

JAB Creations writes: "Any geek with balls has stuck a CD or two in their microwave but the question remains: what is the record? What would happen if you stuffed several hundred CDs in to that microwave? Not that I'm suggesting anyone do this at home (try it at work instead) but I'm simply curious about what it would look like, how big of a bang if any it would produce, and how many towns it might potentially wipe off the map?"
GNOME

Submission + - Latest GNOME 2.18 released

An anonymous reader writes: The GNOME Project has released the brand new 2.18 version of the popular open source desktop environment.
Unix

Submission + - File descriptors and why we can't use them

insane_coder writes: "I wrote a short article explaining the virtues of file descriptors, and how file management security is now going to get much better and easier to program with soon to be standardized functions, yet why we can't make good use of it. I also propose what we may be able to do to fix it."

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