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Good SAT Scores Lead To Higher Egg Donor Prices 175

Posted by samzenpus on Monday March 29, 2010 @02:59PM from the golden-parachute-eggs dept.

alphadogg writes "Analysis from Georgia Institute of Technology of college newspaper egg donor ads showed that higher payments offered to egg donors correlated with higher SAT scores. 'Holding all else equal, an increase of 100 SAT points in the score of a typical incoming student increased the compensation offered to oocyte donors at that college or university by $2,350,' writes researcher Aaron D. Levine in a paper published in the March-April issue of the Hastings Center Report. Concerned about eggs being treated as commodities, and worried that big financial rewards could entice women to ignore the risks of the rigorous procedures required for harvesting, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine discourages compensation based on donors' personal characteristics. The society also discourages any payments over $10,000."

Comment Re:It's the freeloaders time (Score 1) 1051

by mikevdg on Sunday March 07, 2010 @04:48PM (#31393472) Attached to: Ars Technica Inveighs Against Ad Blocking

English is a badly broken language. Let's fix it one word at a time.

Debian Elevates KFreeBSD Port to First-Class Status 376

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @04:00PM from the you-want-options-here-are-options dept.

Reader tail.man points out this press release from Debian which says that the port of the Debian system to the FreeBSD kernel will be given equal footing alongside Debian's several other release ports, starting with the release of Squeeze. Excerpting from this release: "The kFreeBSD architectures for the AMD64/Intel EM64T and i386 processor architectures are now release architectures. Severe bugs on these architectures will be considered release critical the same way as bugs on other architectures like armel or i386 are. If a particular package does not build or work properly on such an architecture this problem is considered release-critical. Debian's main motivation for the inclusion of the FreeBSD kernel into the official release process is the opportunity to offer to its users a broader choice of kernels and also include a kernel that provides features such as jails, the OpenBSD Packet Filter and support for NDIS drivers in the mainline kernel with full support."

Virtual Autopsy On a Multi-Touch Table Surface 72

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @12:17PM from the over-my-dead-body dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Engadget points out one of the more interesting ways to use a multitouch table surface so far. Researchers at Norrkoping Visualization Centre and the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization in Sweden have fitted such a device with stunning, volume-rendered visualizations of high-resolution MRI data. If you've ever wondered what the inside of a human being really looks like, but lacked the grit or credentials to watch an autopsy in the flesh, check it out."

Comment Re:No Windows? Great! No Microsoft tax! (Score 1) 521

by mikevdg on Wednesday September 16, 2009 @08:02PM (#29448463) Attached to: ARM Attacks Intel's Netbook Stranglehold

If you want a ARM-based notebook, you could get a Touchbook. It contains a Cortex A8-based ARM CPU: http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/

Comment ARM Netbooks already exist (Score 2, Interesting) 59

by mikevdg on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @06:04PM (#29372483) Attached to: Foxconn and Hon Hai Both Planning ARM Smartbooks

If you want an ARM netbook, get yourself a Touchbook. Its based on the BeagleBoard, runs Linux, and has a 10-hour battery life.

Alternatively, there are these devices: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skytone_Alpha-400. These are MIPS-based (still a nice ISA), can run Linux and are the cheapest netbooks you can get. The best bet for getting one is to try an online auction site such as eBay and try searching for "MIPS", or the names that these cheapo devices go under.

Submission + - "Fermilab is in deep, deep, deep trouble." (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @07:01PM

sciencehabit writes: Hot on the heels of Congress's slashing of science funding increases, Science is reporting that "The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, will be forced to stop work on all accelerator-based projects, a move that threatens the viability of the 40-year-old Department of Energy (DOE) lab." So much for particle physics — and hundreds of jobs.

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