This isn't a case of correlating multiple measurement techniques that suggest the same thing. In fact, it was quite the opposite: the authors stitched together data that showed what they wanted it to show and threw out the rest.

On an episode of "Explorations" about a year ago Michio Kaku had an interview with David Goodstein of Caltech. Unfortunately the archive was deleted but it was on May 27, 2008. Prof. Goodstein claimed that if we were to switch to all Nuclear power for our electricity needs, we would run out of Uranium in 20 years.

Is this a surprise? None of the nation's biggest airports are on there because they're all locked into various Wi-Fi carriers like Boingo that charge $7-10 for a day pass.

Trust me, CVD synthesis of graphene is in the earliest of early stages. The problem is that neither group (Korea nor MIT) have figured out how to get the graphene off the nickel layer that catalyzes the reaction. There are other ways of making graphene that are much further along, such as epitaxial growth on silicon carbide.

This is unfortunate. The two universities that I am very familiar with both have very large computer labs where people can print out things. I am wholly reliant upon the university currently to print things out. I HATE toting around my laptop and so I prefer to use campus resources. That said, my department made the switch from physical computers to remote desktops. It's worked out well, but I have to say I don't like not being able to pop in and check my e-mail between classes without having to lug my laptop around like a ball and chain.

Many of the professors I know of host copies of their publications on their lab websites for all to view. Perhaps this decision by MIT is the first of its type officially, but it's hardly new.

For a constant temperature, efficiency goes up logarithmically with light concentration. A solar cell with 1 sun on it is going to be less efficient than one with 500 suns on it assuming you have a way to cool the cells. Past a certain point the efficiency drops like a rock due to lack of cooling the cells and this reduces the voltage you can produce by about 2.3mV/C past room temp.

I regret ever putting any information about myself on that website. Even though I deleted some of my old stuff (like e-mail), Facebook still holds the data hostage. Anyway, I found this funny:

God that is the laziest form of protest ever. Yeah let's join a group on the service we are protesting to show how much we disagree with this new policy! If you take such exception, stop using the damned service.

For what it's worth "tick-tock" is actually alternating between a new architecture and a process shrink every 12 months. "Q4" in the summary means Q4 2009.

I hate to be snarky but you sound like one of those people who bought the crap about the "Megahertz Myth". Processor clock rate has little to do with performance. I'll agree that pentium 4 was underwhelming, but Core was a huge hit and saw huge performance, especially toward the ones that were released in early this year that used the high k dielectric.