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Feed Science Daily: Physicists Establish 'Spooky' Quantum Communication (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Wednesday September 05, 2007 @02:12PM

Physicists have coaxed two separate atoms to communicate with a sort of quantum intuition that Albert Einstein called "spooky." In doing so, the researchers have made an advance toward super-fast quantum computing. The research could also be a building block for a quantum internet.

Feed Science Daily: Parasitic Battles Can Involve Gene Transfer That Aids Evolution (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Wednesday September 05, 2007 @02:12PM

Scientists have recorded the entire genomic expression of a host bacterium and infecting virus over the eight-hour course of infection. Their study leads them to speculate that the meeting between a marine bacterial host and its virus may be not just a battle between individuals, but an evolutionarily significant exchange that helps both species become more fit for life in the harsh ocean environment.

Feed Science Daily: Sugary Drinks, Not Fruit Juice, May Be Linked To Insulin (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Wednesday September 05, 2007 @11:13AM

Consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks, not including 100 percent fruit juice, may be associated with insulin resistance, even in otherwise healthy adults, according to nutritional experts.

Feed Science Daily: Right Breakfast Bread Keeps Blood Sugar In Check All Day (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Wednesday September 05, 2007 @11:13AM

If you eat the right grains for breakfast, such as whole-grain barley or rye, the regulation of your blood sugar is facilitated after breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It was previously not known that certain whole-grain products have this effect all day. This is due to a combination of low GI (glycemic index) and certain type of indigestible carbohydrates that occur in certain grain products.

Submission + - Forensics Expert says Al-Qaeda Images Altered

Submitted by WerewolfOfVulcan on Thursday August 02, 2007 @04:33PM

WerewolfOfVulcan writes: Wired reports that researcher Neal Krawetz revealed some veeeeeery interesting things about the Al-Qaeda images that our government loves to show off.

From the article: "Krawetz was also able to determine that the writing on the banner behind al-Zawahiri's head was added to the image afterward. In the second picture above showing the results of the error level analysis, the light clusters on the image indicate areas of the image that were added or changed. The subtitles and logos in the upper right and lower left corners (IntelCenter is an organization that monitors terrorist activity and As-Sahab is the video production branch of al Qaeda) were all added at the same time, while the banner writing was added at a different time, likely around the same time that al-Zawahiri was added, Krawetz says." Why would Al-Qaeda add an IntelCenter logo to their video? Why would IntelCenter add an Al-Qaeda logo? Methinks we have bigger fish to fry than Gonzo and his fired attorneys... }:-) The article contains links to Krawetz's presentation and the source code he used to analyze the photos.

Feed news.com: Solar cell maker moves into wafers (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Thursday August 02, 2007 @04:32PM

Blog: cells, wafers and silicon, oh my

Comment Re:Israel is a democracy like Apartheid South Afri (Score 1) 572

by mdinowitz on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @12:43PM (#19493047) Attached to: Can Statistics Predict the Outcome of a War?

It is not separate. The Arab parties many times have been a deciding coalition member in Israeli governments. To say they have no real power is to ignore the actual political situation there. Would a police officer in South Africa be jailed for beating a Black? The answer is no. But when an Israeli police officer beats and Arab, he's put on trial and jailed. BIG difference. Now you say equal rights. Define them. What rights need to be equal? Right to speak? Right to worship? Right to travel? Right to work at whatever job they want? All possible.

Journal Journal: Visual RegEx

Journal by mdinowitz on Tuesday July 15, 2003 @10:59PM

So I finally got what I wanted. I found the programmer who did the Visual RegEx editor in KDE and asked him to port it to windows. He gave me a very fair price to do all the work and I gathered up sponsors from the ColdFusion community to help pay for it. Now it's done and released at www.cfregex.com. Lets see if this'll help grow the use of RegEx outside of Perl.

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