A team of researchers led by brain scientist John Yeomans at the University of Toronto in Canada used special microphones to eavesdrop on mice during sex. When they let a male mouse into a female’s cage, he approached her with a series of whistle calls and then, during intercourse, sang more complex chirp songs until [...]
Read more →Nim Chimpsky was a chimp raised in the 1970s in a way close to humans, in the hope he would develop language. The results were ambiguous on the language front. But something else happened. The former graduate students in New York believe that Nim had no idea he was a chimpanzee. One of them suggested [...]
Read more →SANTIAGO, Chile — When military forces loyal to Gen. Augusto Pinochet staged a coup here in September 1973, they made a surprising discovery. Salvador Allende’s Socialist government had quietly embarked on a novel experiment to manage Chile’s economy using a clunky mainframe computer and a network of telex machines. Enlarge This Image Joao Pina for [...]
Read more →http://gas2.org/2008/03/29/first-algae-biodiesel-plant-goes-online-april-1-2008/ Looks good, haven’t dug into the technology yet.
Read more →“My favorite example in comparing energy storage options is on your desktop,” said John O’Donnell. “If you have a laptop computer and a thermos of coffee on your desk, the battery in your laptop and the thermos store about the same amount of energy. One of them costs about $150 and the other one costs [...]
Read more →http://www.ornl.gov/info/ridgelines/dec10/iodine.htm another damn hard question
Read more →http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080322.RMILK22/TPStory/Business Have I mentioned recently that I love wal-mart? Fuel efficient trucks, electricity efficient stores… they actually listen to what Amory & RMI tell them… go Wal-Mart!
Read more →http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=543994&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow What’s interesting is that the shots are *social* – the animals involved are interacting with the elephant, not just wandering around in some cases.
Read more →Three years ago, Lee Spievack sliced off the tip of his finger in the propeller of a hobby shop airplane. What happened next, Andrews reports, propelled him into the future of medicine. Spievack’s brother, Alan, a medical research scientist, sent him a special powder and told him to sprinkle it on the wound. “I powdered [...]
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