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Comment Re:3 edu-sites already. (Score 1) 88

by usb47 on Sunday March 18, 2012 @11:50AM (#39396197) Attached to: TED Education — Video Lessons For Students

TedEd, Khan, et alis are not enough.

http://fnoschese.wordpress.com/ (current post)
http://www.techsavvyed.net/archives/1866 (refers to older posts of Frank)

Here's why Khan other video lessons may *worsen* the problems:
http://fnoschese.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/khan-academy-and-the-effectiveness-of-science-videos/
http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/pdfs/research/super/PhD(Muller).pdf

Possible Treatment For Ebola 157

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 25, 2010 @05:59PM from the there's-a-pill-for-that dept.

RedEaredSlider writes "Researchers at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases have found a class of drugs that could provide treatment for Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fever. The new drugs are called 'antisense' compounds, and they allow the immune system to attack the viruses before they can do enough damage to kill the patient. Travis Warren, research scientist at USAMRIID, said while the work is still preliminary -— the drugs have been tested only on primates — the results are so far promising. In the case of Ebola, five of eight monkeys infected with the virus lived, and with Marburg, all survived. The drugs were developed as part of a program to deal with possible bioterrorist threats, in partnership with AVI Biopharma."

Comment Re:More power - buy a diesel (Score 1) 457

by usb47 on Saturday August 31, 2002 @12:20PM (#4176792) Attached to: Ford Pulls The Plug on Electric Cars

Try a diesel. Yep, diesel. Cleaner burning, better mileage. With the new ultra low sulfur fuels becoming more available in the US (not required until 2006, I think, but new emissions regulations enter in 2004... go figure).

Run some biodiesel (http://www.biodiesel.org) and you have a no sulfur fuel. You have a clean car running on renewable fuel, no dependency on Middle East oil. Burning biodiesel smells like popcorn out the tail pipe.

Currently the only diesel engine we Americans can buy in a passenger car is a 90 hp/155 ftlb Volkswagen TDi (Jetta, Golf, Beetle).

Do some chiptuning (http://www.upsolute.com) and you have one heck of a fun car.

FYI, I get 43 mpg city and 52 mpg freeway.

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