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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