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KURZWEILAI.NET NEWSLETTER

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Google tools to power virtual
worlds
CNET News.Com October 9, 2007
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Virtual-worlds platform developer
Multiverse Network is set to
announce a partnership Tuesday that
will allow anyone to create a new
online interactive 3D environment
with just about any model from
Google's online repository of 3D
models, its 3D Warehouse, as well as
terrain from Google Earth. Another
project is SceneCaster, a new
technology...
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How Baboons Think (Yes, Think)
New York Times Oct. 9, 2007
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A new book titled "Baboon
Metaphysics: concludes, based on
extensive experiments, that baboons'
minds are specialized for social
interaction, for understanding the
structure of their complex society
and for navigating their way within
it. Although the baboon and human
lines of descent split apart some 30
million years ago, the species have
much...
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Scientists developing clean energy
systems from micro-algae
PhysOrg.com Oct. 8, 2007
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An international consortium
established by Associate Professor
Ben Hankamer at The University of
Queensland is developing a clean
source of energy that could see some
of our future fuel and possibly
water needs being generated by
solar-powered bioreactors and
microalgae while absorbing...
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Researchers create system to build
transplant tissue
PhysOrg.com Oct. 8, 2007
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Cornell engineers have engineered
tiny channels within a water-based
gel that mimic a vascular system at
the cellular scale and can supply
oxygen, essential nutrients and
growth factors to feed individual
cells. The "gel scaffold" can hold
tens of millions of living cells per
milliliter in a 3-D arrangement,
such as in the shape of a knee...
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Weaving Batteries into Clothes
Technology Review Oct. 9, 2007
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A new machine that makes
nanostructured fibers could turn
soldiers' uniforms into power
supplies. Among the machine's many
potential uses is assembling fibers
in regular, nanoscale patterns that
combine battery electrodes with a
polymer separator and electrolyte to
form a complete...
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