http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100429141430.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+(ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News)

The summary link is to a blog, which gives a short not too useful summary and then links to this Science Daily article.

I like how Science Daily includes APA and MLA citation information at the bottom of their articles. Also, it seems like the fiber-based solar cells this article is about are the development, and the purple pokeberries are one of many possible natural or artificial dyes which could be used.

It's a shame that the article tells us nothing about how the fiber-based solar cells work. Here is some information on that:
http://www.fibercellinc.com/Technology.html

The patent is with the EPO (european parliament patent office), so if anyone could find that, it'd be rad.

Not at all.

It means they have access to each others results and source data when published (once the group is done researching this phase, and is ready to publish). There's no "opening notebooks", simply because that's a terrible metaphor for how data is collected these days.

hey, I heard about that too! ...in a dilbert book.

Which really bugs me, because there are other numbers they should be using. % of graduating class which go into particular types of post secondary programs, % of graduating class which finish those programs, % of graduating class who make above poverty wages 5/10/20 years after graduating.

These are the important numbers, they're just hard to get, so we use easy to measure but largely useless numbers instead, like mean and median grades on a committee-written series of tests. I have never met anyone who works in education who thinks this is a good idea...

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That's... really not the same as what we were talking about. Not even a little.

Because they have no idea. wikileaks and the like are anonymous, and if that's not enough protection for you, you won't post it there.

If you got hired based on your insider knowledge of a few secrets, as opposed to insider knowledge of techniques and development practices, you're absolutely right.

By never starting it, obviously.

Not to be depressing up our thread, but... they won't let untouchables have important jobs like chip manufacturing. The untouchables are several ranks too low in Indian society to allow that.

Luckily, due largely to the outlawing of the caste system some time ago, the harsh treatment of untouchables seems to be waning, at least in urban centers, so this might not even be a sensical distinction between potential employees in high tech industries in India anymore.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit#Social_status_of_Dalits

My Taiwanese roommate violently disagrees with you. YMMV.

Not that this would surprise me, but... how can you tell? citation please?

No really, anybody, if this is true I'd like to know.

So set firefox to check for updates first... but really, the target audience of this live cd isn't updating their software every 2 months, or year, so I think your argument isn't quiet spot on.

Fewer than pedestrians would like.

The fine isn't applied to people under a certain income, who can't get health insurance for less than a certain percent of their income, etc. I believe it's above the poverty line and 8%, respectively, although it was 400% of poverty wages in a previous draft. Shame that got changed.

More actual info:
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/03/20103224250561653.html

In what ways is France's healthcare better than the United State? Seriously?

Cost (11.2% of GDP or US$3,926 per capita) in France vs (15.2% of GDP or US$6,347 per capita) for the United States

And just about everything else:

Life Expectancy
Abortion Rate (irony!)
Deaths from Cancer
Heart Disease, Obesity
# of Physicians per 1000 people
Teenage Pregnancy

Any questions?

It certainly doesn't cost $0 to pass a bill... especially one which Hilary Clinton tried to pass when her husband was in office, and got completely and thoroughly shut down on. And how was it treated?

People who say that business should be free of government competition are full of crap, because they pretend that the government should just regulate. Except they don't like regulation either.

I was going to tell you that all of these professions are mostly self employed, since that's the impression I grew up with, but I looked it up, and it's actually around 6-9% for each field who are self employed.

I guess you're right. Pity.