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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:00:10 -0400
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Want to Remember Everything You'll
Ever Learn?
Wired April 21, 2008
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a software program called SuperMemo
is based on the insight that there
is an ideal moment to practice what
you've learned. The right time to
practice is just at the moment
you're about to forget. SuperMemo is
the result of his research. It
predicts the future state of a
person's memory and schedules
information reviews at the optimal...
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Evolution: 24 myths and
misconceptions
New Scientist news service April 16, 2008
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Evolution is as firmly established
a scientific fact as the roundness
of the Earth, yet despite an
ever-growing mountain of evidence,
most people around the world are not
taught the truth about evolution, if
they are taught about it at all. So
New Scientist has compiled a guide
to some of the most common myths and
misconceptions about...
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Microsoft Reveals a Web-Based
Software System
New York Times April 23, 2008
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Microsoft announced on Tuesday a
data storage and Web software
system, called Live Mesh, intended
to blur the distinction between
software running on the Windows
operating system and an elaborate
array of cloud computing services
that will be delivered to a growing
collection of electronic gadgets via
the Internet....
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Europe Turns to Coal Again, Raising
Alarms on Climate
New York Times April 23, 2008
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Driven by rising demand, record
high oil and natural gas prices,
concerns over energy security and an
aversion to nuclear energy, European
countries are expected to put into
operation about 50 coal-fired plants
over the next five years, plants
that will be in use for the next
five...
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Trees in Your Tank? The Future of
Green Gasoline
Popular Mechanics April 22, 2008
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Researchers at UMass Amherst
recently published a new method of
refining hydrocarbons from
cellulose, paving the way to turn
wood scraps into gasoline, diesel
fuel, Tupperware&#151;anything,
essentially, that's normally refined
from petroleum. Using a catalyst
commonly employed in the petroleum
industry, they heated small amounts
of cellulose...
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Storing data for the next 1000
years
TG Daily April 22, 2008
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Researchers from the University of
California Santa Cruz have developed
the idea of Pergamum, a new
disk-based approach for archiving
data. Pergamum uses both intra-disk
and inter-disk redundancy to guard
against data loss, relying on hash
tree-like structures of algebraic
signatures to efficiently verify the
correctness of stored data. They...
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'Flammable ice' could be mined for
fuel
New Scientist news service April 23, 2008
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"Fammable ice" could be the world's
last great source of carbon-based
fuel, assuming we can mine methane
hydrates, crystal lattices of ice
that trap methane beneath ocean beds
and permafrost. There are fears that
disturbing the hydrates could
trigger blowouts that might release
huge volumes of...
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Get Smarter: 12 Hacks That Will Amp
Up Your Brainpower
Wired April 21, 2008
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Wired magazine's guide to better
brainpower shows you "how to boost
your memory, sharpen your
concentration skills, and even pop
the right combination of drugs and...
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Photoluminescence in nano-needles
PhysOrg.com April 22, 2008
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Scientists at the University of
California, Berkeley have grown
gallium-arsenide structures into the
shape of narrow needles which, when
optically pumped, emit light with
high brightness. In addition to
optoelectronic devices, the needles
could be valuable in such
applications as atomic force
microscopy (AFM), where the sharp
tips can be grown...
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First atomic-level look at a
protein that causes brain disease
PhysOrg.com April 22, 2008
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For the first time, researchers
have peered deeply at the atomic
level into the protein that causes
hereditary cerebral amyloid
angiopathy (CAA) -- a disease
thought to cause stroke and
dementia. The study pinpointed a
tiny portion of the human prion
protein molecule that is key to the
formation by amyloid fibrils of
plaques in blood vessels...
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Training a Generation of
Neuroengineers
Ed Boyden's blog/Technology Review April 22, 2008
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MIT has begun experimenting with a
hands-on neuroengineering curriculum
at MIT, in which undergraduate and
graduate students actively engage in
the process of becoming
neuroengineers, learning to solve
intractable problems of the brain by
actually doing it, says MIT
Department of Biological Engineering
professor Ed Boyden. Neurological
and...
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'Fluidhand': Each finger can be
moved separately
PhysOrg.com April 22, 2008
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"Fluidhand," a prosthetic hand from
Karlsruhe that can move each finger
separately and has a wide range of
grip configurations, is being tested
at Orthopedic University Hospital in
Heidelberg. (Orthopedic University
Hospital in Heidelberg) It can close
around objects, even those with
irregular surfaces. A large contact
surface and soft,...
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Buckyballs give flash a boost
Nature News April 22, 2008
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Flash memory could be made more
efficient by using buckyballs, which
would allow flash memory to operate
at a lower voltage and save on
power, Cornell University
researchers have reported. (Victor
Habbick Visions/SPL) By adding
buckyballs to the barrier layer, the
Cornell engineers create resonances
that amplify the current during the...
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To defeat a malicious botnet, build
a friendly one
New Scientist news service April 22, 2008
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A team at the University of
Washington wants to marshal swarms
of good computers to neutralize the
bad ones. They say their plan would
be cheap to implement and could cope
with botnets of any size. To shield
the protected server, their system,
called Phalanx, uses a large network
of computers, such as content
distribution networks. Instead of...
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Complete 'cookbook' for running a
genome published
NewScientist.com news service April 21, 2008
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Salk Institute researchers and
colleagues have sequenced the first
full plant epigenome--the rules for
how genes are used and when they are
switched on and off, based on
methylation. The researchers
sequenced this "methylome" of the
cress Arabidopsis for every letter
of its genetic code, and they have
begun to use their sequencing
process on...
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Exercise changes structure and
function of heart
KurzweilAI.net April 23, 2008
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Harvard University Health Services
and Massachusetts General Hospital
researchers have found that just 90
days of vigorous athletic training
produce significant changes in the
heart's structure and function, and
that the type of change varies with
the type of exercise performed. Both
strength athletes (football players)
and endurance athletes...
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