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Comment Re:Terrible Idea (Score 1) 498

by dhudson0001 on Thursday December 11, 2008 @10:47AM (#26074671) Attached to: Nobel Prize Winning Physicist As Energy Secretary

I'm reminded of how impressed I was upon hearing Christine Peterson's talk at the 2007 Singularity Summit where she addresses the same issue on how science desperately needs a stronger voice in politics.

2007 Singularity Summit

As this speech was given at Eliezer Yudkowsky's summit-some of you will undoubtedly want to riff on the merits of speculation that occur there. However, her suggestions during the talk are overall on firm ground and seem to apply to what has happened here.

I for one welcome our new Geeky-Politica Overlords...cough,cough...

Submission + - Giant simulation could solve mystery of "dark (dur.ac.uk)

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dhudson0001

on Sunday November 09, 2008 @03:26PM

dhudson0001 writes: "The search for a mysterious substance which makes up most of the Universe could soon be at an end, according to new research.

The international Virgo Consortium, a team of scientists including cosmologists at Durham University, has used a massive computer simulation showing the evolution of a galaxy like the Milky Way to "see" gamma-rays given off by dark matter.

They say their findings, published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature (Thursday, November 6), could help NASA's Fermi Telescope in its search for the dark matter and open a new chapter in our understanding of the Universe."

Comment Re:I'd rather see someone involved in Free Softwar (Score 1) 393

by dhudson0001 on Thursday November 06, 2008 @11:59PM (#25671421) Attached to: Bill Joy For New National CTO Post?

I believe that was Bill's initial reaction to nanotechnology...what was yours? Perhaps he has settled down now that he has had a decade or so to think it over?

Comment Re:For those that don't get the joke (Score 3, Insightful) 388

by dhudson0001 on Thursday November 06, 2008 @06:48AM (#25658801) Attached to: Michael Crichton Dead At 66

When comparing Crichton with Verne, please don't forget that the latter was a sci-fi pioneer who lived in the 19th century.

There was no excuse for Prey...IMO it desperately sucked..especially as the laypersons introduction to the nascent field of Nanotechnology at the turn of this century.

Finnish Patient Gets New Jaw from His Own Stem Cells 141

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday February 03, 2008 @10:25AM from the close-the-organ-banks dept.

An anonymous reader writes with news out of Finland, where a patient's upper jaw was replaced with bone cultivated from stem cells and grown inside the patient himself. We discussed other advances in stem cell research a few months ago. Quoting: "In this case they identified and pulled out cells called mesenchymal stem cells -- immature cells than can give rise to bone, muscle or blood vessels. When they had enough cells to work with, they attached them to a scaffold made out of a calcium phosphate biomaterial and then put it inside the patient's abdomen to grow for nine months. The cells turned into a variety of tissues and even produced blood vessels, the researchers said."

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