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South Korea Creates Female Android

May 4th, 2006 at 10:19 pm » Comments (0)

South Korean scientists say they have created the world’s second android — a female named EveR-1.



Study: Molecular Electronics Prove Reliable

May 4th, 2006 at 10:14 pm » Comments (0)

Dutch researchers say they’ve developed a technique for making molecular electronics devices consistent, reliable and with stable properties.



H5N1 Vaccine Trials Starts in Europe

May 4th, 2006 at 10:10 pm » Comments (0)

Hospitals in seven European nations have started an international phase III clinical trial of H5N1 influenza pandemic vaccine.



Top 10 Sci-Fi Films as Voted by Scientists

May 4th, 2006 at 6:29 pm » Comments (1)

Here are British scientist’s views on the best science fiction films of all times.  This is a good list.



Five Big Lies in Business

May 4th, 2006 at 5:41 pm » Comments (0)

There are as many lies in business as there are people in business.  Here are the five most common lies:



‘Sex Commandos’ Targeting Porn Sites

May 4th, 2006 at 4:45 pm » Comments (0)

A group of Jewish ultra-Orthodox hackers is waging a war against pornographic websites, replacing their content with nothing but the picture of a revered rabbi, an Israeli paper reported.



Creating the World’s First ‘Cloaking Device’

May 4th, 2006 at 4:23 pm » Comments (0)

The cloaking devices that are used to render spacecraft invisible in Star Trek might be close to reality according to two researchers.



China has 40% of Parkinson’s Cases

May 4th, 2006 at 9:04 am » Comments (0)

Of the world’s 4 million patients who suffer from Parkinson’s disease, nearly 1.7 million are in China, a survey by Chinese experts shows.



Introducing the Guitar Tab Search Engine

May 4th, 2006 at 8:12 am » Comments (0)

Tab Robot is an online search engine designed to access the largest number of Guitar and Bass Tabs on the Web. It increases by several times the number of Tab files in the well-known, but now inactive, On Line Guitar Archive (OLGA). In fact, this search engine, in effect, turns the entire Web into a [...]



Price-Coordinated Markets

May 4th, 2006 at 7:56 am » Comments (0)

Thomas Sowell:  One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it to work.



Achieving 100% Transparency

May 4th, 2006 at 7:41 am » Comments (0)

In a breakthrough that could benefit fields as diverse as networking, photography, and astronomy, reasearchers at Japan’s Institute of Physical and Chemical Research have unveiled their prototype of a glass-like material that they claim to be 100% transparent. Unlike normal glass, which reflects some of the incoming light.



Danish Royals Hounded over Dog Meat Comment

May 4th, 2006 at 7:14 am » Comments (0)

Princess Mary of Denmark has been urged to educate the Danish Royal Family after her father-in-law revealed he had a penchant for eating dogs.



Please Go Away (Angry)

May 4th, 2006 at 12:05 am » Comments (0)

Seth Godin:  If you’ve got more than one person in your organization, you probably have a policy or two.  And those policies have certainly made someone angry. Now what?