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Submitted by hydra on Thursday December 20, @06:21PM
hydra writes "A group of scientists in a Florida have claimed they have invented a low energy polymer which once injected into food, cooks it from the inside. Apparently six of the scientists dined on a three course meal at the weekend which was cooked entirely by using the cunning formula. The scientists intend to launch a website soon where they will sell 100 polymer pellets for $5.00. Their site will feature a full length video of how a sausage can be cooked in 10 minutes, once injected with a polymer pellet. This patented technology has enormous applications in other areas of science, not to mention potential reduction in green house gases when consumers stop using ovens, barbecues and microwaves. Now that's real innovation!"
http://intrench.blogspot.com/2007/07/scientists-invent-green-food-that-cooks.html
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 [+] submission, science, announcement

  Senate Report Debunks AGW "Consensus"[->] 2007-12-20 13:31 PoliTech

Submitted by PoliTech on Thursday December 20, @01:31PM
PoliTech writes "
U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007

Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called "consensus" on man-made global warming. These scientists, many of whom are current and former participants in the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), criticized the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore.

This blockbuster Senate report lists the scientists by name, country of residence, and academic/institutional affiliation. It also features their own words, biographies, and weblinks to their peer reviewed studies and original source materials as gathered from public statements, various news outlets, and websites in 2007. This new consensus busters report is poised to redefine the debate.

Many of the scientists featured in this report consistently stated that numerous colleagues shared their views, but they will not speak out publicly for fear of retribution. Atmospheric scientist Dr. Nathan Paldor, Professor of Dynamical Meteorology and Physical Oceanography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, author of almost 70 peer-reviewed studies, explains how many of his fellow scientists have been intimidated.

This new report details how teams of international scientists are dissenting from the UN IPCCs view of climate science. In such nations as Germany, Brazil, the Netherlands, Russia, New Zealand and France, scientists banded together in 2007 to oppose climate alarmism.
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http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=f80a6386-802a-23ad-40c8-3c63dc2d02cb
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 [+] submission, science, usa, fresh, slownewsday
Submitted by mlimber on Thursday December 20, @10:15AM
Do you ever find yourself in a traffic jam, thinking, "Man, there must be a bad accident up ahead," but as you plod along, you see no evidence of any crash? Some mathematicians have solved the mystery by developing a mathematical model that shows how one driver hitting the brakes a little too hard can cascade into a backup miles behind. The mathematicians' future research will investigate how automatic braking systems may alleviate the problem.
http://www.physorg.com/news117283969.html
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Submitted by xrooles on Wednesday December 19, @09:14PM
xrooles writes "Scientists at the TU Delft are working on a research programme directed towards the public transport of the future. Researchers are developing a limo-like mass transit option that picks up commuters near their homes, drives at high speeds on a dedicated track, and then slows to normal road speeds when it switches over to city streets. The creators of the streamlined Superbus say it could not only elevate the status of the bus by promising riders a relaxing, hi-tech, and luxurious environment, but could also get people where they're going in a fast, convenient, and fuel-efficient manner.
Discovery News writes that Rubber tires allow Superbus to drive on conventional roads — thereby offering near-home pickup — and a low-profile, racecar-like design gives it the aerodynamics to achieve speeds of 155 mph on a 10-foot concrete track — thereby offering fast service. While on the dedicated track, the vehicle's frame will zoom along just a few inches above the ground. In the city, the bus will rise up to a foot off the ground."

http://www.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=f51868f8-2bad-4f43-b22a-d864e926b389&lang=en
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  H-Prize in Energy Bill Awards Hydrogen Tech R&[->] 2007-12-19 20:37 tunacanrana

Submitted by tunacanrana on Wednesday December 19, @08:37PM
tunacanrana writes "Buried within the 800+ pages of the Energy Bill is the H-Prize, which would award prizes for advancements in hydrogen technology. Slashdot first reported on this idea in 2006. Bill sponsors claim it would work as a fixed-price research contract, generating more private investment than the government spends. Best of all, if no one achieves the metrics, no taxpayer money is spent."
http://www.thestate.com/business/story/261678.html
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 [+] submission, science, government

  Single VS Dual GPU... 2007-04-27 02:22

Journal by chondo on Friday April 27 2007, @02:22AM
hi there, i'm about to purchase a gaming desktop, and when i got to the part where i had to choose the gpu, a question came to me... which would be better, a single *768MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX* or *Dual 320MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS* ??? any help would be appreciated
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  VMware is going public 2007-04-27 02:08 enki700

Submitted by enki700 on Friday April 27 2007, @02:08AM
enki700 writes "VMware "today announced that VMware has filed a Form S-1 Registration Statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the initial public offering ("IPO") of Class A Common Stock of VMware." http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/S1.htm l"
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 [+] submission, it, business
From feed by engfeed on Friday April 27 2007, @01:32AM

Filed under: Laptops


Just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about the OLPC, Negroponte, and the Sugar interface, in comes the man himself using the "W" word in an open-sourced conversation. Curiously enough, Nik Neg has not only stated that the present is "perhaps the most critical stage of the OLPC's life," but he also blurted out a quasi-firm $176 pricetag that would be attached to them. Additionally, he went so far as to admit that "XO's developers have been working with Microsoft so a version of Windows can run on the machines," and while no direct linkages were drawn to the recent $3 software package that the firm had announced, the writing is somewhat on the wall. Furthermore, a whopping 19 state governors have reportedly shown interest in grabbing a few of the inexpensive machines for their own schoolkids, and while the creator initially stated that the XOs were "designed for a totally different situation," he was also quoted as saying that business in the US "couldn't be ignored." C'mon guys and gals, how about a little less conversation and a little more action?

Read - Hints of Windows on OLPC
Read - US schools could adopt OLPC

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!


http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/112341953/
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Submitted by theodp on Friday April 27 2007, @01:13AM
theodp writes "Marilee Jones, who crusaded against the pressure on students to build resumes for elite colleges, resigned as dean of admissions at MIT after acknowledging she had faked her own academic credentials. Despite Jones' claims of having degrees from Union College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Albany Medical College, an MIT inquiry did not find that Jones had any undergraduate or graduate degree."
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  IBM researchers push MRI imaging to nanoscale 2007-04-27 00:14 TheCybernator

Submitted by TheCybernator on Friday April 27 2007, @12:14AM
TheCybernator writes "Researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center have developed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques to visualize nanoscale objects. The new techniques are a major milestone in the quest to build a microscope that could "see" individual atoms in three dimensions. Using Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy (MRFM), IBM researchers have captured two-dimensional images of objects as small as 90 nanometers. (A nanometer is one billionth of a meter; a human hair is roughly 100,000 nanometers in diameter.) "Our ultimate goal is to perform three-dimensional imaging of complex structures such as molecules with atomic resolution," said Dan Rugar, manager, Nanoscale Studies, IBM Research. "This would allow scientists to study the atomic structures of molecules — such as proteins — which would represent a huge breakthrough in structural molecular biology." MRFM offers imaging 60,000 times more sensitive than current MRI technology. MRFM uses what is known as force detection to extend the limits of conventional MRI and view structures that would otherwise be too small to be detected. The imaging breakthrough could eventually have major impact on the study of materials ranging from proteins and pharmaceuticals to integrated circuits — that required detailed understanding of the atomic structure. Knowing the exact location of specific atoms within tiny nanoelectronic structures, for example, would improve designers' insight into manufacture and performance. The ability to directly image the detailed atomic structure of proteins would aid the development of new drugs."
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 [+] submission, science, ibm

  Cringely .on VA shootings 2007-04-26 21:27 JonnyQabbala

Submitted by JonnyQabbala on Thursday April 26 2007, @09:27PM
JonnyQabbala writes "Drawing on his personal experience with University stalkers, Cringely takes a look at the VA shootings and asks it search technology can help us to create a social barometer for our time. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_200 70426_001994.html"
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Submitted by yonp on Thursday April 26 2007, @09:23PM
yonp writes "Today the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) in the presence of the International Olympic Committee, unveiled the Lenovo-designed Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch and announced Lenovo’s role as a Worldwide Partner of the Olympic Torch Relay. Lenovo's design team spent more than 10 months on the design of the torch. Altogether, more than 30 Lenovo design specialists were involved in the torch project including the core team of 10. An international team that includes designers from Germany, Singapore, US, Japan, New Zealand, Italy and China."
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  Science, Nature Reject Office 2007 2007-04-26 21:06 Microsoft Schill

Submitted by Microsoft Schill on Thursday April 26 2007, @09:06PM
Microsoft Schill writes "Although Microsoft bills its Office 2007 software suite as fully backwards compatible, it seems that Science and Nature disagree and neither journal will accept articles authored in Office 2007 for publication. Part of the problem is that the new format cannot be processed by their existing tools, but the other problem is that it makes the equations incomprehensible. Instead of rendering equations in the standard MathML format, Office 2007 puts them in a proprietary Microsoft format which leaves them even more unintelligible than usual."
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 [+] submission, science, microsoft

  2.5 inch drives cross the 15K RPM threshold 2007-01-17 01:06 devilsbrigade

Submitted by devilsbrigade on Wednesday January 17 2007, @01:06AM
devilsbrigade writes "Seagate announced a new, faster class of 2.5-inch hard drives on Tuesday, an important part of the effort to get the smaller devices to replace the 3.5-inch drives that currently prevail in much of the server market."
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 [+] submission, hardware, storage