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Nano-sized 'trojan horse' to aid
nutrition
PhysOrg.com Aug 25, 2008
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Researchers from Monash University
have designed a sponge-like chitosan
biopolymeric nanoparticle "trojan
horse" particle that protects
antioxidants from being destroyed in
the gut, ensuring a better chance of
being absorbed in the digestive
tract. The longer-term aim is to
include similarly treated
nanoparticles into food items....
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Wireless sensors learn from life
PhysOrg.com Aug. 25, 2008
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In the WINSOC project, European and
Indian researchers are applying
principles learned from living
organisms to design self-organizing
networks of wireless sensors
suitable for a wide range of
environmental monitoring
purposes,robust against node
failures and capable of being
implemented on large scales. They
developed mathematical models of...
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Technology That Outthinks Us: A
Partner or a Master?
New York Times Aug. 25, 2008
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Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End"
science-fiction novel portrays a
world in 2025 when the Singularity
seems near, based on intelligence
amplification (IA), in which humans
get steadily smarter by pooling
their knowledge with one another and
with computers, possibly even wiring
the machines directly into their
brains. The alternative to IA, he...
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Very Long-Term Backup
Kevin Kelly's Lifestream Aug. 20, 2008
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The Long Now Foundation has
developed a modern Rosetta Stone --
a backup of human languages that
future generations might cherish --
etched on a 3-inch nickel disc with
an estimated lifespan of 2,000 to
10,000 years. The disc contains an
archive of 13,500 scanned pages in
more than 1,500 human languages with
human-readable scripts, text,...
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