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If We Could Talk to the Animals, It Would Apparently Be By Cell

June 22nd, 2005 at 11:38 pm » Comments (0)

W Bruce Cameron:
Last month a South Korean company began offering a service that will enable dog owners to communicate with their pets via cell phones.

Feel free to read the above sentence as many times as you need to.



Survey finds Most Doctors Religious

June 22nd, 2005 at 11:04 pm » Comments (0)

A University of Chicago survey suggests 76 percent of physicians believe in God and 59 percent believe in some sort of afterlife.



Lord of the Stellar Rings

June 22nd, 2005 at 10:59 pm » Comments (0)

A spectacular, luminous ring offers the best evidence yet that a nearby star is circled by a newly formed solar system. Check out this amazing photo.



Working Muscle Grown from Scratch

June 22nd, 2005 at 10:43 pm » Comments (0)

New muscle, complete with blood vessels, has been grown from scratch in the laboratory and implanted into a living mouse.



Supercomputers Kick It Up a Notch

June 22nd, 2005 at 10:33 pm » Comments (0)

The BlueGene/L machine currently under construction at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US was crowned top number-cruncher.



Dial R for Cellphone Radio

June 22nd, 2005 at 10:23 pm » Comments (0)

Scores of companies are betting that delivering audio content of all kinds to handsets could be bigger than camera phones and ringtones.



Boy ‘Starts Having Periods’

June 22nd, 2005 at 8:50 am » Comments (0)

Doctors in India are baffled by a teenage boy who appears to have started having periods.



Why You Should be Ignoring Your Search Results

June 22nd, 2005 at 8:41 am » Comments (0)

Dave Taylor:
Today I’m attending a search engine research workshop run by Brad Fallon in Atlanta, Georgia. My part of this workshop is to talk about how blogging can help your search engine placement, but what I’m actually talking about is whether search engine results placement (SERP) is a meaningful measure of whether […]



Urban Underground Farming

June 22nd, 2005 at 8:12 am » Comments (0)

Using computer-controlled temperature and LEDs , an underground rice and vegetable farm called Pasona O2 in Tokyo hopes to have its first harvest this summer (2005). Great photos.



Remote Controlled Golf Ball

June 22nd, 2005 at 8:07 am » Comments (0)

This is a radio-controlled gold ball that acts like a normal ball until you press a button.



‘Flying Eyeball’ Designed to Inspect Spacecraft

June 22nd, 2005 at 7:56 am » Comments (0)

A little spherical spacecraft may soon be buzzing around the exterior of the International Space Station and the space shuttles to inspect for any damage.



More Music Listeners Using Legal Downloads

June 22nd, 2005 at 12:20 am » Comments (0)

Around 35% of music consumers now download tracks legally via the Internet and the percentage will soon pass the 40% who have pirated music, according to a new survey released Monday by Entertainment Media Research.