Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
Earth

Japanese Researchers Make Plastic Out of Water 117

Posted by timothy from the what's-kanji-for-boffin? dept.
greenrainbow writes with this excerpt from Inhabit: "The material shown in the picture above is just ice, right? Look again. Elastic water, a new substance invented by researchers at Tokyo University, is a jelly-like substance made up of 95% water along with two grams of clay and a small amount of organic materials. As is, the all-natural substance is perfect for medical procedures, because it's made of water, poses no harm to people, and is perfect for mending tissue. And, if the research team can increase the density of this exciting new substance, it could be used in place of our current oil-based plastics for a host of other things."
Image

Disputed Island Disappears Into Sea 460

Posted by samzenpus from the say-hi-to-atlantis dept.
RawJoe writes "India and Bangladesh have argued for almost 30 years over control of a tiny island in the Bay of Bengal. Now rising sea levels have ended the argument for them: the island's gone. From the article: 'New Moore Island, in the Sunderbans, has been completely submerged, said oceanographer Sugata Hazra, a professor at Jadavpur University in Calcutta. Its disappearance has been confirmed by satellite imagery and sea patrols, he said. "What these two countries could not achieve from years of talking, has been resolved by global warming," said Hazra.'"
Music

Journal Journal: RIAA tells YouTube to remove free guitar lessons 341

Journal by Bushido Hacks
Is it so wrong to learn how to play the guitar? According to RIAA: Yes. According to NPR, a record company ordered YouTube to remove videos of a man who offered to show people how to play the guitar because the songs he was teaching violated copyright infringement rules. How could this constitute as infringement if most musicians usually experiement to find something that sounds familiar? I've never had a guitar less

Comment Re:Funny you bring up Japan (Score 0, Offtopic) 492

by Scumbag Tracker (#12209099) Attached to: New York Computerizes its Subway System
> On the other hand, China and Korea can't let go what happened almost 70 years ago (20 years earlier than the bombs) and are rioting and staging protests against Japan's "whitewashing" of history.

I used to think the way you do as well, before I actually moved to Japan and have seen the way the LDP party continues to piss off their Asian neighbours (island disputes -- not just disputing the land, but also doing things like issuing postal stamps showing the disputed lands with Japanese names, Yasukuni shrine visits, textbook omissions, attempts to remilitarize, etc. ad nauseum. Not to mention the fact that while Germany has apologized for its wartime atrocities, Japan has played the victim mentality card.

Maybe some day the LDP will be booted out of the power they have held onto for decades and things will change, but I am not holding my breath.

Slashdot Top Deals

Happiness is twin floppies.

Close