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Puncturing an Ancient Supervolcano : Discovery News

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:20:34 -0800

From the page: "You have to wonder about the wisdom of drilling an active volcano. But at Italy's Campi Flegrei, that's exactly what scientists are planning to do, in an effort to learn about an ancient volcanic monster that could one day blow again. "

NASA - NASA Reproduces a Building Block of Life in Laboratory

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:49:27 -0800

From the page: "NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory. They discovered that an ice sample containing pyrimidine exposed to ultraviolet radiation under space-like conditions produces this essential ingredient of life. "

Astronomy Question of the Week: How far into outer space have space probes penetrated? | International Space Fellowship

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:24:03 -0800

From the page: "Outer space, a place of enormous distances: for more than 30 years, unmanned spacecraft have journeyed to learn more about the depths of space, its planets and the nature of interplanetary space. Now, billions of kilometres from Earth, space probes are entering areas never before explored by humankind."

Novelties - How an Engineer Turned a Cellphone Into a Microscope - NYTimes.com

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:05:55 -0800

From the page: "Now an engineer, using software that he developed and about $10 worth of off-the-shelf hardware, has adapted cellphones to substitute for microscopes."

Bettween Makes Tracking And Sharing Twitter Conversations A Breeze

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:29:02 -0800

From the page: "With Twitter rolling out its own retweet functionality soon, people will be pointing their followers to more users they may not be engaging with yet, which will spark users to follow more people and hence increase the amount of conversations on Twitter. At least, that�s what I think."

Online advertising stats round up | Blog | Econsultancy

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:11:31 -0800

From the page: "Here's a selection of recent social media stats, taken from a range of sources, including Econsultancy's Internet Advertising Statistics document, which forms part of the Internet Statistics Compendium, and other reports... "

Theoretical Supernova Actually Exists | International Space Fellowship

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:57:17 -0800

From the page: "Astronomers have identified a type of supernova that appears to be a type predicted in theory but never actually observed before. Two years ago Lars Bildsten from UC Santa Barbara and his colleagues predicted a new type of supernova in distant galaxies which they dubbed the �oe.Ia” (point one a) mechanism, involving a helium detonation on a white dwarf, ejecting a small envelope of material. "

Google Dashboard: Control Panel for Your Data - BusinessWeek

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:03:46 -0800

From the page: "Early this morning, Google is launching a new feature that lets you view what data is being stored on a range of Google services. Google Dashboard also will let you control at least some of that data and how it�s used by Google and even delete it."

Custom contact form and mailing list database for web designers - simpleContact Pro

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:34:39 -0800

From the page: "Your contact form, done. Add a custom contact form and mailing list opt-in to your website, in minutes."

The myth of human consciousness and accidental AI

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:26:50 -0800

From the page: What decisions we make are ours to make. Their outcome often reflects only upon the lives of the people making those decisions. But there are those amongst us whose decisions affect us all. And it is to these people we entrust our lives and hope that their decisions are made in good conscience, above all other things...