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26 December 2007

My Faves for Tuesday, December 25, 2007

[tags: health]

Quoted: Learn the key strategies to prevent treat and slow down the progress of Alzheimer's disease including diet, lifestyle changes, and treatment options.

[tags: health]

[tags: mac, software]

Quoted: Your place for good, concise, Mac keystrokes, tips and tricks.

[tags: mac, keyboard shortcuts]

Quoted: So Santa left a brand new computer under the tree this year eh Lucky you If you're spending the holiday

[tags: windows, mac]

Quoted: Scientists have shown that mice suffering from a depletion of the antioxidant glutathione in dopamine-producing neurons developed nerve damage and symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) in humans. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter produced in the mid-brain which facilitates many critical functions, including motor skills. Past studies have shown that depletion of the naturally occurring antioxidant in the affected area of the brain is one of the earliest signs of PD, but this study shows that glutathione depletion may be a causal factor in the disorder.

[tags: pd]

The Michael J. Fox Foundation Funds DiaGenic's Development of First Parkinson's Blood Test

[tags: pd]

The Chevrolet Volt is a plug-in hybrid concept car created by General Motors. However, the company has avoided the use of the term "hybrid," preferring to call it an electric vehicle with a "range extender" due to its design.[2] The vehicle is designed to run purely on electricity from on-board batteries for up to 40 miles (64 km) —which is a large enough distance to cover the daily commutes of most Americans, which is around 25 miles (40 km). With use of a small internal combustion engine hooked to a generator to resupply the batteries, the vehicle's range is potentially increased to 640 miles (1,030 km) on the highway. General Motors Corp. may build as many as 60,000 of its Volt electric cars for their inaugural year on the market, twelve times the sales of Toyota Motor Corp.'s hybrid Prius, for their inaugural year.

[tags: automotive, batteries, technology]

Leet (written as 31337, 1337, and l33t), or Leetspeak, is a written argot used primarily on the Internet, which uses various combinations of alphanumerics to replace Latinate letters. The term is derived from the word "elite", and the usage it describes is a specialized form of shorthand.

[tags: internet, language]

Welcome to the OLPC Wiki, a collaborative site about the One Laptop per Child project and related communities.

[tags: wiki, OLPC project]

[tags: solar]

Quoted: http://documents.google.com - Create and share documents, spreadsheets and presentations online.

[tags: video, google]

NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead. Superficially, it seems much like a "Who's Who" where a noted person's curriculum vitae is available (the usual information such as date of birth, a biography, and other essential facts.)

[tags: aggregator, tracking, people]

Lovers know that dimming the lights can create a romantic setting.
But an emerging type of lighting called high-intensity LED uses shades of white and color changes to help create dozens of different moods, while using a fraction of the energy needed by today's lighting systems.

[tags: LED]

Quoted: It's dumb to test the Amazon Kindle by sitting at a desk pressing a lot of buttons The real judgment

[tags: ebook, amazon]

Technology for a Greener Future

[tags: EnergyTechnologies, environment]

Quoted: MagWind Magnetically Levitated Vertical Wind Turbine

[tags: wind, EnergyTechnologies]

Apparently it uses airfoils, similar to airplane wings, that surround the turbine's curved, vertical blades. The interaction between the airfoils and blades produces low pressure which actually accelerates wind flow.

[tags: EnergyTechnologies, wind]

Night-time travel is a necessary part of the busy world in which we live, but due to decreased visibility, traveling in the dark can be dangerous. The British have shed some light on night driving with the invention of the Astucia SolarLite flush road stud. The stud emits LED light, which is powered by small solar panels.

[tags: solar, led]

When Internet search major Google Inc decided to power its “Googleplex” in Mountain View with one of the largest solar panel installations in the world last year, it was a big vote for solar energy, which presently provides less than 1 per cent of the energy generated worldwide.

[tags: solar]

The energy captured by space-based photovoltaic arrays would be converted into microwaves for transmission to Earth, where it would be transformed into direct-current electricity.

[tags: solar]

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