Science Centric | News | Tires made from trees – better, cheaper …
Automobile owners around the world may some day soon be driving on tires that are partly made out of trees – which could cost less, perform better and save on fuel and energy.
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IBM and The Internet of Things
In the Web world, you know that a trend has major traction when IBM is all over it. Like any large Internet company, Big Blue is careful about …
Online Poster Printing Giveaway – Ends – 07-30-2009
http://simplysweethome.blogspot.com/2009/07/uprinting-online-poster- printing .html. You will need to leave a comment to enter the contest at the link above. Check post on how you can gain extra entries into this contest.
Science Media Centre » Blog Archive » Kate McGrath: Let's get …
Science should be a great career choice and scientists have much to contribute to New Zealand’s future prosperity – pity about the low morale, resulting from past promotion of aggressive competition between research providers, …
Brad Abrams : Science Fiction Book Review: Accelerando by Charles …
I recently finished reading Accelerando by Charles Stross and I thought it was a great book… it does exactly what I want from a future-focused science fiction book… it takes plausible advances from today and takes them to their logical …
IntelliBriefs: Can Computers Decipher a 5000-Year-Old Language?
Can Computers Decipher a 5000-Year-Old Language? A computer scientist is helping to uncover the secrets of the inscribed symbols of the Indus By David Zax (Smithsonian mag) Smithsonian.com, July 19, 2009 …
DopplerPad: Music Remixing and Sampling on the iPhone
We knew you could make great music on the iPhone. With instrument apps such as Smule’s Ocarina and Leaf Trombone. Still, while they’re cool and surprisingly.
PlayStation 3 gets game-plus-film 'hybrid' discs, first one comes …
Though this collectible package comes on two discs, the ultimate idea is to have both the game and film on the same disc. At present, you’re not saving anything by going this route, but should somebody at Sony HQ wake up and offer a …
Classic video games reimagined as backyard "off your butt" games …
Brian Crecente over at Kotaku has a terrific post up about backyard adaptations of classic video games . I can imagine playing them for lulz myself, but they’re particularly cool for parents with bored kids at home on summer break: …
Have Gun, Will Travel | Crooks and Liars
From Bowling for Columbine (2002) There goes the steadfast and dripping-with-integrity GOP and Blue Dog Dems once again. Tomorrow at noon, we get the Thune Amendment–as in John Thune from South Dakota–which assaults both the …