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Thomas Frey - Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute

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The BizWire Blogging Panel

July 17th, 2005 at 11:23 pm » Comments (0)

Amy Gahran: This morning I participated in an early-morning panel on blogging hosted at the Denver Press Club by Business Wire. The audience was about 40 or so PR professionals from the Denver area. Listen here.



Primate Brain Experiments Tests Moral Ground

July 17th, 2005 at 9:53 pm » Comments (0)

An expert panel assembled to review stem cell research on nonhuman primates has concluded that implanting or grafting human stem cells into their brains could alter their moral status.



History of the Laugh Track

July 17th, 2005 at 8:20 pm » Comments (0)

Much of the “canned laughter” used on the soundtracks of sitcoms is
said to have come from tapes that were originally recorded during
broadcasts of “The Red Skelton Show” in the late 1950s and early ’60s.



Giant Baby Girl Born in Kentucy

July 17th, 2005 at 8:07 pm » Comments (0)

A baby girl weighing a whopping 14 pounds, 3 ounces was born in Kentucky.



20 Unusual Things Your PC Can Do

July 17th, 2005 at 7:35 pm » Comments (0)

Just for laughs, rip an LP with your scanner. This one may be a little nutty, but you have to admit nobody knew PCs could do it.



Tabletop Nuclear Fusion

July 17th, 2005 at 7:10 pm » Comments (0)

Researchers at Purdue University have new evidence supporting earlier findings by other scientists who designed an inexpensive “tabletop” device that uses sound waves to produce nuclear fusion reactions.