Mr.Sharpy - Slashdot User

+ - Google, consortium to build "movie" telesc

Submitted by TravisW on Saturday January 06, 2007 @11:37PM

TravisW (594642) writes "Google announced a partnership with a public-private consortium to create a "moving picture" database of the universe using data collected from the 3.2 billion-pixel reflecting Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, slated for completion in 2013. The project, whose planned uses will include studying dark matter and near-Earth asteroids and mapping the Milky Way, will generate some 30 terabytes of data nightly."

+ - scientific basis for race: genome Hamming distance

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06, 2007 @06:50PM

An anonymous reader writes "Physics professor describes how genetic clustering corresponds to racial identity. Individual genetic data, when plotted in an abstract genome space, tends to cluster into groups corresponding to traditional continental ethnic groups (Europeans, Africans, Asians, etc.). Race is more than a matter of pigmentation or other superficial traits: it determines the likelihood an individual is carrying a particular gene variant."

+ - Inventor of Ramen Noodles dies at 96

Submitted by

LinuxGeek

on Saturday January 06, 2007 @04:30PM

LinuxGeek writes "Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant Ramen noodles has died at age 96. Slashdoters will surely mourn his passing, and also note the coolest japanese name I've ever heard."

+ - How To Go To MIT For Free

Submitted by

theodp

on Saturday January 06, 2007 @01:15AM

theodp writes "Can't scrape up the bucks for junior college tuition? Don't worry, there's always MIT. By the end of 2007, the contents of all 1,800 courses taught at MIT will be available online to anyone in the world, anywhere in the world thanks to OpenCourseWare (OCW). Learners won't have to register for the classes, and everyone is accepted. The cost? It's all free of charge."

+ - 5 Reasons Apple Has Survived for 30 Years

Submitted by Gammu on Saturday January 06, 2007 @12:03AM

Gammu (1004474) writes "Apple turned thirty last year and it has endured and even thrived despite a series of incompetent leaders, poor products and inexplicable business decisions. MacObserver has compiled a list of the top 5 Apple decisions that have allowed the company to survive and grow over thirty years."