Ben Sullivan - Slashdot User

Comment Some tech, much brain (Score 5, Informative) 119

by Ben Sullivan on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @09:02PM (#54564801) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do News Organizations Keep Track of So Much Information?

Newsrooms depend on well-informed editors and reporters who are often notoriously paper-based. I've worked in six newspaper and magazine newsrooms and it's generally a central CMS/publishing/workflow system, plus a person-by-person armory of solutions (reporter's notebooks, things like Evernote, spreadsheets, etc.) There are systems used in intelligence that could find use, but journalists are kind of sensitive about doing things their own way -- in my experience. The real lifeblood of a newsroom is the channels of incoming info: wires, cable tv, Google News, etc.

Submission + - Technology Burns Natural Gas with No CO2 Emissions (scienceblog.com)

Submitted by Ben Sullivan on Thursday May 25, 2017 @06:40PM

Ben Sullivan writes: Researchers and engineers in Vienna have developed a way to burn natural gas without releasing CO2 into the air through a combustion method called chemical looping combustion (CLC). In this process, CO2 can be isolated during combustion without having to use any additional energy, which means it can then go on to be stored. The method had already been applied successfully in a test environment, and has now been upscaled to allow use in up to a 10 MW facility.

Submission + - Controlling fear by modifying DNA (scienceblog.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @09:14AM

An anonymous reader writes: The fear of flying or of skittering spiders can for some mean more than just a momentary increase in heart rate and a pair of sweaty palms. A hard-core phobia can lead to crippling anxiety. Now an international team of researchers says it believes it has found a way to silence the gene that feeds phobic fear, via a novel mechanism of gene regulation associated with fear extinction. The notion appears to be that phobias arise from experiences that have left an outsized imprint on gene expression, and that undoing this can undo the anxiety itself. The study was published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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