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The Fate of BC's Carbon Tax - World Changing, September 05, 2008 11:17 PM

NASA To Explore "Secret Layer" of the Sun - Science@Slashdot, September 05, 2008 11:03 PM

Ubiquitous Computing: An Interiview with Adam Greenfield - World Changing, September 05, 2008 10:43 PM

Update on CIA drug plane owned by “Donna Blue Aircraft, Inc” - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 10:18 PM

Ecopunkt: Points of Environmental Vulnerability - World Changing, September 05, 2008 10:18 PM

Sampling from Superfund Sites - World Changing, September 05, 2008 10:01 PM

Ecological Economics: An Interview with Joshua Farley - World Changing, September 05, 2008 09:38 PM

SF artist makes a temple to science - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 09:36 PM

Green Leadership Overcomes Greenwashing - World Changing, September 05, 2008 09:06 PM

Simplified spelling lesson from former president of the American Literacy Council - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 08:54 PM

Mr. Bus' bus buzzer collection - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 08:53 PM

Mars lander to squirrel away soil in advance of winter - New Scientist, September 05, 2008 08:36 PM

Addressing Coal Fires - World Changing, September 05, 2008 07:58 PM

Stories from the Travelogue of Alex Steffen - World Changing, September 05, 2008 07:44 PM

Kevin Kelly on the history of Wired - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 07:31 PM

Help design a cipher for my crypto wedding-rings! - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 07:27 PM

MAD About Star Wars: more than your average MAD anthology - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 07:24 PM

Wrapping Our Heads Around the Global Food System - World Changing, September 05, 2008 07:17 PM

Blab! art show in Los Angeles, Sept. 6, 2008 - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 07:16 PM

Is Peak Oil the New Y2K? - World Changing, September 05, 2008 07:08 PM

Worldchanging Retrospective: Day 4 - World Changing, September 05, 2008 07:03 PM

Baby Tattooville artist and collectors retreat, Oct. 3-5, 2008 - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 06:57 PM

Making the Sixth Extinction More Visible - World Changing, September 05, 2008 06:49 PM

You suck at Photoshop #16 - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 06:46 PM

Returning to India: Why NRIs Are Heading Home - World Changing, September 05, 2008 06:40 PM

Learning the Gandhian Approach to Sustainability at the Barefoot College - World Changing, September 05, 2008 06:25 PM

Ruby was Angry: A Short Story - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 06:09 PM

BBtv: Russell Porter interviews The Rumble Strips (music) - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 05:53 PM

New robot legs have a spring in their step - New Scientist, September 05, 2008 05:53 PM

First Microsoft ad with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 05:19 PM

Climate change could stop corals fixing themselves - New Scientist, September 05, 2008 05:15 PM

Europe's first cargo ship to undock from space station - New Scientist, September 05, 2008 05:12 PM

Christian Ska band performs "Jesus is My Friend" - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 05:10 PM

Interest in Neuropolicy Grows - Brain Waves, September 05, 2008 04:33 PM

Ars Electronica snapshot of the day - WMMNA, September 05, 2008 04:00 PM

Snap-happy dieters reap benefits - New Scientist, September 05, 2008 03:30 PM

Message to readers - WMMNA, September 05, 2008 02:00 PM

UN aims to protect Iraqi wetlands - New Scientist, September 05, 2008 02:00 PM

Every Satellite Tracked In Realtime Via Google Earth - Science@Slashdot, September 05, 2008 01:12 PM

Eric Joyner's new show of robot paintings - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 12:48 PM

Bumblebees left paranoid by disguised spiders - New Scientist, September 05, 2008 11:00 AM

Sea level rise limited to two metres - New Scientist, September 05, 2008 10:45 AM

Study to determine what happens to nanotechnology materials released to the environment - Foresight Institute, September 05, 2008 08:58 AM

Doug Rushkoff The Hate Party - IEET, September 05, 2008 07:16 AM

Miraculous radio-controlled milking-machine of 1931 - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 06:49 AM

Space Invaders flexible keyboard - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 06:47 AM

Place-settings that look like model-kits - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 06:45 AM

Amazon will sell OLPC laptops - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 06:43 AM

Mythbusters host: credit-card companies DIDN'T kill segment on RFID vulnerabiliies - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 06:38 AM

Michael Moore's next movie will be a free download - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 06:37 AM

Dan Hillier's new tentacle horrors - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 06:31 AM

LHC will not destroy the universe in 5 days - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 05:58 AM

Brain Cells Observed Summoning a Memory - Science@Slashdot, September 05, 2008 05:29 AM

Macropayments: Why I don't take tips for my books - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 05:18 AM

Junkie elephant gets clean - Boing Boing, September 05, 2008 05:13 AM

Do 68 molecules hold the key to understanding disease? - KurzweilAI, September 05, 2008 05:07 AM

U.S. Edges Western Europe In 3G Adoption - KurzweilAI, September 05, 2008 04:54 AM

Interstellar 'slowball' could have carried seeds of life - KurzweilAI, September 05, 2008 04:34 AM

Robot builders seek a little help from sci-fi - KurzweilAI, September 05, 2008 04:29 AM

Cancer Redefined - KurzweilAI, September 05, 2008 04:19 AM

A Better Way to Spot Disease - KurzweilAI, September 05, 2008 04:16 AM

For the Brain, Remembering Is Like Reliving - KurzweilAI, September 05, 2008 04:01 AM

A Better Way to Spot Disease - Technology Review, September 05, 2008 04:00 AM

Cancer Redefined - Technology Review, September 05, 2008 04:00 AM

A Better Way to Spot Disease - Technology Review, September 05, 2008 04:00 AM

Cancer Redefined - Technology Review, September 05, 2008 04:00 AM

A Better Way to Spot Disease - Technology Review, September 05, 2008 04:00 AM

Cancer Redefined - Technology Review, September 05, 2008 04:00 AM

Today on TokyoMango - Boing Boing, September 04, 2008 11:38 PM

Distant object found orbiting Sun backwards - New Scientist, September 04, 2008 11:35 PM

What Will it Mean to be Human in the Future? - World Changing, September 04, 2008 11:23 PM

Mats!? show in Oakland, CA opens Friday, Sep. 5, 2008 - Boing Boing, September 04, 2008 10:57 PM

80s Japanese comic strip about Wozniak, Jobs, and Apple - Boing Boing, September 04, 2008 10:37 PM

Accused toll-evader rigged license plate? - Boing Boing, September 04, 2008 09:50 PM

Robot builders seek a little help from sci-fi - New Scientist, September 04, 2008 07:39 PM

Laser 'comb' used to disentangle Sun's light - New Scientist, September 04, 2008 07:08 PM

Junk DNA may have handed us a gripping future - New Scientist, September 04, 2008 06:00 PM

Brain cancer genes reveal clues to drug resistance - New Scientist, September 04, 2008 06:00 PM

Rosetta probe prepares to buzz tiny asteroid - New Scientist, September 04, 2008 05:09 PM

Oldest Skeleton In New World Discovered - Science@Slashdot, September 04, 2008 04:25 PM

Resilient American mammoths returned to rule Asia - New Scientist, September 04, 2008 04:18 PM

Bronze Age mouse offers clues to royal shipwreck - New Scientist, September 04, 2008 03:39 PM

Mobile fish farms could soon navigate the oceans - New Scientist, September 04, 2008 03:11 PM

Insects May Have Had a Hand In Dinosaur Extinction - Science@Slashdot, September 04, 2008 03:00 PM

C-sections may weaken bonding with baby - New Scientist, September 04, 2008 01:29 PM

Physicists Discover "Doubly Strange" Particle - Science@Slashdot, September 04, 2008 01:28 PM

Links for 2008-09-03 [del.icio.us] - WMMNA, September 04, 2008 01:00 PM

Earth's windiest region confirmed by crewed flight - New Scientist, September 04, 2008 10:21 AM

Interstellar 'slowball' could have carried seeds of life - New Scientist, September 04, 2008 10:01 AM

Nanowire network may provide hydrogen for fuel via nanotechnology - Foresight Institute, September 04, 2008 09:59 AM

Strongest tropical cyclones get more extreme - New Scientist, September 04, 2008 09:30 AM

Shadow analysis could spot terrorists by their walk - New Scientist, September 04, 2008 09:20 AM

Virtual Telescope Zooms In On Milky Way Black Hole - Science@Slashdot, September 04, 2008 07:04 AM

Microbes for Off-the-Grid Electricity - KurzweilAI, September 04, 2008 05:40 AM

Zen training speeds the mind's return after distraction, brain scans reveal - KurzweilAI, September 04, 2008 05:37 AM

New nano device detects immune system cell signaling - KurzweilAI, September 04, 2008 05:30 AM

Internet traffic grows 53 percent from mid-2007 - KurzweilAI, September 04, 2008 05:26 AM

Fatal protein interactions may explain neurological diseases - KurzweilAI, September 04, 2008 05:18 AM

New probe could aid quantum computing - KurzweilAI, September 04, 2008 05:06 AM

Serious Potential in Google's Browser - KurzweilAI, September 04, 2008 04:54 AM

Massive $208 million petascale computer gets green light - KurzweilAI, September 04, 2008 04:39 AM

'Knockout' rats could aid study of psychiatric illness - KurzweilAI, September 04, 2008 04:16 AM

Microbes for Off-the-Grid Electricity - Technology Review, September 04, 2008 04:00 AM

A Way to Find Hidden Fingerprints - Technology Review, September 04, 2008 04:00 AM

A Way to Find Hidden Fingerprints - Technology Review Feed - Infotech Top Stories, September 04, 2008 04:00 AM

Microbes for Off-the-Grid Electricity - Technology Review, September 04, 2008 04:00 AM

A Way to Find Hidden Fingerprints - Technology Review, September 04, 2008 04:00 AM

Huge Arctic Ice Shelf Breaks Off - Science@Slashdot, September 03, 2008 11:09 PM

Guns in the home may increase suicide risk - New Scientist, September 03, 2008 09:00 PM

Milky Way's black hole gets extreme close-up - New Scientist, September 03, 2008 06:16 PM

Anti-cloak gives vision to the invisible - New Scientist, September 03, 2008 05:16 PM

Universal childhood virus is inherited in DNA - New Scientist, September 03, 2008 04:43 PM

Exonemo solo exhibition at [plug.in] in Basel - WMMNA, September 03, 2008 03:00 PM

Massive Canadian Arctic ice shelf breaks away - New Scientist, September 03, 2008 01:57 PM

How chandelier cells light up human thought - New Scientist, September 03, 2008 01:51 PM

'Knockout' rats could aid study of psychiatric illness - New Scientist, September 03, 2008 10:58 AM

Loss Of Sleep, Even For A Single Night, Increases Inflammation In The Body - KurzweilAI, September 03, 2008 08:49 AM

B-vitamin Deficiency May Cause Vascular Cognitive Impairment - KurzweilAI, September 03, 2008 08:40 AM

Scientists Grow 'Nanonets' Able To Snare Added Energy Transfer - KurzweilAI, September 03, 2008 08:32 AM

'Invisibility Cloak' Undone - KurzweilAI, September 03, 2008 08:26 AM

Nanotechnology concentrates drug in cancer cell mitochondria - Foresight Institute, September 03, 2008 08:11 AM

How big can a black hole grow? - KurzweilAI, September 03, 2008 07:33 AM

Links for 2008-09-02 [del.icio.us] - WMMNA, September 03, 2008 07:00 AM

A Network That Builds Itself - Technology Review, September 03, 2008 04:00 AM

A Gene Map of Europe - Technology Review, September 03, 2008 04:00 AM

Google Rewires the Browser - Technology Review, September 03, 2008 04:00 AM

A Gene Map of Europe - Technology Review, September 03, 2008 04:00 AM

Presented By: - Technology Review, September 03, 2008 04:00 AM

A Network That Builds Itself - Technology Review Feed - Infotech Top Stories, September 03, 2008 04:00 AM

Presented By: - Technology Review Feed - Infotech Top Stories, September 03, 2008 04:00 AM

Google Rewires the Browser - Technology Review Feed - Infotech Top Stories, September 03, 2008 04:00 AM

A Network That Builds Itself - Technology Review, September 03, 2008 04:00 AM

A Gene Map of Europe - Technology Review, September 03, 2008 04:00 AM

Google Rewires the Browser - Technology Review, September 03, 2008 04:00 AM

"Perfect" Mirrors Cast For LSST - Science@Slashdot, September 03, 2008 12:25 AM

Graphene provides extraordinarily stiff beams for nanotechnology - Foresight Institute, September 02, 2008 10:35 PM

"Google Satellite" To Be Launched This Week - Science@Slashdot, September 02, 2008 09:53 PM

Emergence - IEET News for Sept 2, 2008 - IEET, September 02, 2008 09:21 PM

Scientists Fear Impact of Asian Pollutants On US - Science@Slashdot, September 02, 2008 09:07 PM

Possible Monogamy Gene Found In People - Science@Slashdot, September 02, 2008 06:56 PM

Want to Start a Neurotech Venture? - Brain Waves, September 02, 2008 06:31 PM

Manifesta: in the disused tobacco factory - WMMNA, September 02, 2008 04:00 PM

Manifesta: Form and Function Follow Climate - WMMNA, September 02, 2008 04:00 PM

How NASA Prepares To Rescue Hubble, In Photos - Science@Slashdot, September 02, 2008 03:27 PM

The Sun Has First Spotless Month Since 1913 - Science@Slashdot, September 02, 2008 02:26 PM

The Shift in Disasters - Anders Sandberg, September 02, 2008 09:53 AM

New Study Shows Solar System Is Uncommon - Science@Slashdot, September 02, 2008 09:13 AM

Google Enters the Browser Wars - KurzweilAI, September 02, 2008 08:43 AM

Stanford's 'autonomous' helicopters teach themselves to fly - KurzweilAI, September 02, 2008 08:06 AM

Links for 2008-09-01 [del.icio.us] - WMMNA, September 02, 2008 08:00 AM

Book Excerpt: The Numerati by Stephen Baker - KurzweilAI, September 02, 2008 07:49 AM

New Study Shows Solar System is Unique - KurzweilAI, September 02, 2008 07:33 AM

A Chinese Challenge to Intel - KurzweilAI, September 02, 2008 07:27 AM

Gaming Evolves - KurzweilAI, September 02, 2008 07:26 AM

The Odds It Will Kill You? See New Charts - KurzweilAI, September 02, 2008 06:58 AM

Cyberwar fears grow after Georgia websites attacked - KurzweilAI, September 02, 2008 06:49 AM

Genetic data withdrawn amid privacy concerns - KurzweilAI, September 02, 2008 06:44 AM

Turning Visitors into Customers - Technology Review, September 02, 2008 04:00 AM

A Chinese Challenge to Intel - Technology Review, September 02, 2008 04:00 AM

Turning Visitors into Customers - Technology Review, September 02, 2008 04:00 AM

Presented By: BuyDomains.com, get the domain name you want! - Technology Review, September 02, 2008 04:00 AM

A Chinese Challenge to Intel - Technology Review Feed - Infotech Top Stories, September 02, 2008 04:00 AM

Turning Visitors into Customers - Technology Review, September 02, 2008 04:00 AM

A Chinese Challenge to Intel - Technology Review, September 02, 2008 04:00 AM

Support the IEET Fund Drive - IEET, September 02, 2008 03:57 AM

Doug Rushkoff’s Testament series is complete - IEET, September 02, 2008 03:44 AM

Russell turns in his dissertation - IEET, September 02, 2008 03:28 AM

links for 2008-09-01 - IFTF, September 01, 2008 01:01 PM

DNA nanotubes of programmed circumference for nanotechnology - Foresight Institute, September 01, 2008 09:30 AM

Study says eyes evolved for X-Ray vision - KurzweilAI, September 01, 2008 06:45 AM

New master switch found in the brain that regulates appetite and reproduction - KurzweilAI, September 01, 2008 06:42 AM

Physicists Rule Out the Production of Dangerous Black Holes at the LHC - KurzweilAI, September 01, 2008 06:36 AM

Introducing the Twiller - KurzweilAI, September 01, 2008 06:21 AM

Lines and Bubbles and Bars, Oh My! New Ways to Sift Data - KurzweilAI, September 01, 2008 06:19 AM

Another Voice Warns of an Innovation Slowdown - KurzweilAI, September 01, 2008 06:10 AM

Re-sampling Ornament at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel (CH) - WMMNA, September 01, 2008 06:00 AM

Links for 2008-08-31 [del.icio.us] - WMMNA, September 01, 2008 06:00 AM

MIT scientists create virus-based microbatteries - KurzweilAI, September 01, 2008 05:55 AM

Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. - KurzweilAI, September 01, 2008 05:43 AM

NASA's 'electronic nose' could sniff out cancer - KurzweilAI, September 01, 2008 05:27 AM

New brain cells are essential for learning - KurzweilAI, September 01, 2008 05:23 AM

GeoEye signs deal to provide imagery to Google - KurzweilAI, September 01, 2008 05:16 AM

Links for 2008-08-30 [del.icio.us] - WMMNA, August 31, 2008 11:00 AM

Problems with Utopias - IEET, August 31, 2008 07:17 AM

More Views on Geoengineering - CRN, August 30, 2008 07:11 AM

Manifesta: the Chernobyl'd Matrioska - WMMNA, August 30, 2008 07:00 AM

Manifesta: caring for fungi and pollution - WMMNA, August 30, 2008 07:00 AM

Links for 2008-08-29 [del.icio.us] - WMMNA, August 30, 2008 07:00 AM

Perspectives on Geoengineering - CRN, August 29, 2008 06:46 PM

links for 2008-08-29 - IFTF, August 29, 2008 02:30 PM

Intel CTO and Ray Kurzweil Among Visionaries Headlining Singularity Summit 2008 - KurzweilAI, August 29, 2008 08:47 AM

Circadian rhythms boost cancer therapies (subscription requred) - KurzweilAI, August 29, 2008 08:13 AM

Meme that machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence gathers support - Foresight Institute, August 29, 2008 08:04 AM

'Space Cube' could be world's smallest PC - KurzweilAI, August 29, 2008 07:40 AM

Two-egg diet cracks cholesterol issue - KurzweilAI, August 29, 2008 07:30 AM

USC's 'print-a-house' construction technology - KurzweilAI, August 29, 2008 07:24 AM

Neutralizing Fluorocarbons - KurzweilAI, August 29, 2008 06:54 AM

Tiny Drug Transporters - KurzweilAI, August 29, 2008 06:49 AM

Solar Map: More Than 30 Utility-Scale Solar Plants in the U.S. - KurzweilAI, August 29, 2008 06:39 AM

Nanosolar Boosts Funds to Massive Half Billion Dollars - KurzweilAI, August 29, 2008 06:31 AM

Links for 2008-08-28 [del.icio.us] - WMMNA, August 29, 2008 06:00 AM

Tiny Drug Transporters - Technology Review, August 29, 2008 04:00 AM

Tiny Drug Transporters - Technology Review, August 29, 2008 04:00 AM

Tiny Drug Transporters - Technology Review, August 29, 2008 04:00 AM

Act today to nominate undergraduate aging research project for $1.5 M award - Foresight Institute, August 28, 2008 10:56 PM

US and European approaches to advanced nanotechnology implications compared - Foresight Institute, August 28, 2008 10:46 AM

The unusual suspects of Manifesta: The Pirate Bay and David Adjaye - WMMNA, August 28, 2008 07:00 AM

Big step in tiny technology - KurzweilAI, August 28, 2008 06:10 AM

Gene therapy for ultimate human running speed and strength - KurzweilAI, August 28, 2008 05:42 AM

Wind Energy Bumps Into Power Grid's Limits - KurzweilAI, August 28, 2008 05:33 AM

Researchers Report Advances in Cell Conversion Technique - KurzweilAI, August 28, 2008 05:20 AM

Textured graphics can be captured in a flash - KurzweilAI, August 28, 2008 05:07 AM

Milestone reached in search for deafness cure - KurzweilAI, August 28, 2008 04:51 AM

Neutralizing Fluorocarbons - Technology Review, August 28, 2008 04:00 AM

A Helping Hand for Surgery - Technology Review, August 28, 2008 04:00 AM

A Helping Hand for Surgery - Technology Review, August 28, 2008 04:00 AM

Neutralizing Fluorocarbons - Technology Review, August 28, 2008 04:00 AM

A Helping Hand for Surgery - Technology Review, August 28, 2008 04:00 AM

Why you should go with your gut feeling - KurzweilAI, August 28, 2008 03:43 AM

A Helping Hand for Surgery - KurzweilAI, August 28, 2008 03:20 AM

A Genetic Link for Vision Loss - KurzweilAI, August 28, 2008 03:14 AM

links for 2008-08-27 - IFTF, August 27, 2008 01:30 PM

Lining up proteins for nanotechnology - Foresight Institute, August 27, 2008 09:12 AM

Mozilla Extension Would Tap Into Typed Commands - KurzweilAI, August 27, 2008 07:56 AM

Air Storage Is Explored for Energy - KurzweilAI, August 27, 2008 07:44 AM

A Stem-Cell Revolution - KurzweilAI, August 27, 2008 07:35 AM

Scientists unmask brain's hidden potential - KurzweilAI, August 27, 2008 07:27 AM

Google Rolls Out Tool That Suggests Search Queries - KurzweilAI, August 27, 2008 06:29 AM

Ayurvedic medicines laden with toxic heavy metals - KurzweilAI, August 27, 2008 06:17 AM

'Autistic' mice offer hope of genetic clues - KurzweilAI, August 27, 2008 06:13 AM

How to vote for anti-aging research - KurzweilAI, August 27, 2008 05:47 AM

A Genetic Link for Vision Loss - Technology Review, August 27, 2008 04:00 AM

A Stem-Cell Revolution - Technology Review, August 27, 2008 04:00 AM

A Genetic Link for Vision Loss - Technology Review, August 27, 2008 04:00 AM

A Stem-Cell Revolution - Technology Review, August 27, 2008 04:00 AM

A Genetic Link for Vision Loss - Technology Review, August 27, 2008 04:00 AM

A Stem-Cell Revolution - Technology Review, August 27, 2008 04:00 AM

Manifesta 7: Tantalum Memorial - Residue - WMMNA, August 26, 2008 05:00 PM

Neurotech Innovation to be Analyzed - Brain Waves, August 26, 2008 03:35 PM

Casa per Tutti / House for Everyone - WMMNA, August 26, 2008 02:00 PM