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Comment Quite Amazing! (Score 1) 1

by Duke of Earll on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @03:35PM (#19734609) Attached to: Cancer Researcher turns salt water into fuel.

Quite Amazing - take a look at the YouTube video. Essentially he passes extremely high intensity radio waves thru a beaker of salt water, and it ignites and burns Hydrogen at approx 1400 degrees. He's currently looking for a buyer... He is exploring how to use radio waves to target cancer. Somehow he plans on injecting metals into the body and have them migrate to the cancer cells. Then he plans to zap them with the same radio waves and burn them up. Only problem I see with that plan is how to get the metals to migrate to the cancer cells...

Submission + - Ohio audit reveals more Diebold problems

Submitted by armb on Thursday April 26, 2007 @07:47AM

armb writes: From http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/04/diebold_v ote_da.html "Problems found in an audit of Diebold tabulation records from an Ohio November 2006 election raise questions about whether the database got corrupted during the tabulation of election results" They were using the Microsoft Jet engine, which Microsoft do not recommend for serious use with concurrent updates. Perhaps most surprising of all, Diebold initially claimed that the raw election results were a protected trade secret.

Journal Journal: A Modest Proposal: Prevent Copycats 12

Journal by pudge on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @02:10PM

Everyone from Hugh Hewitt to Sarah Brady have said that the news should not have published the pictures and audio and video from Cho, the VT shooter, because it might encourage "copycats."

I think this principle should be generalized. All news about crazy people harming others should be suppressed, that others do not follow in their footsteps.

Hence, from this day forth, I propose that the news media do not report on anything government is doing.

Nanotubes May Improve Solar Energy Harvesting 93

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @12:02PM from the just-put-in-a-direct-nuclear-tap dept.

eldavojohn writes "Scientists are hoping that the 'coaxial cable' style nanotube they developed will resolve energy issues that come with converting sunlight to energy. The plants currently have us beat in this department but research is discovering new ways to eliminate inefficiencies in transferring photons to energy. Traditional methods involve exciting electrons to the point of jumping to a higher state which leaves 'holes.' Unfortunately, these electrons and holes remain in the same regions and therefore tend to recombine. The new nanotubes hope to route these excited electrons off in the same way a coaxial cable allows a return route for electrons. End result is fewer electrons settling back into their holes once they are elevated out of them yielding a higher return in energy."

Feed New Genes Identified In Childhood Fever-related Seizures (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Monday April 23, 2007 @10:12PM

Researchers have localized two new genes that are associated with fever-related seizures that occur in infancy and childhood, according to a recent study.

Feed Drug Company Sales Visits Influenced Doctors, Study Finds (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Monday April 23, 2007 @09:13PM

Almost half of sales visits by pharmaceutical company representatives advocating the use of the drug gabapentin led to doctors stating that they intended to increase their prescription of the drug or recommend it to colleagues, according to an analysis of a survey completed by the doctors shortly after the visits.

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