Quoted: Tomatoes are again safe to eat, the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday, weeks after the food was blamed as a source of a salmonella outbreak in the United States and Canada.
[tags: health]
19 July 2008
My Faves for Friday, July 18, 2008
18 July 2008
My Faves for Thursday, July 17, 2008
Quoted: For a generation, most people accepted the idea that the core of what makes America tick was an economy governed by free markets. And whatever combination of goods, services and jobs the market cooked up was presumed to be fine for the nation and for its citizens -- certainly better than government meddling.
Quoted:
If you want to know how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have survived scandal and crisis, consider this: Over the past decade, they have spent nearly $200 million on lobbying and campaign contributions.
But the political tentacles of the mortgage giants extend far beyond their checkbooks.
Quoted: He was remembered Thursday for "love given and love received," at what amounted to a state funeral.
Quoted: The dangerous face of ordinary life has been captured by Iraqis on their mobile phones – reaching the places Western photographers can no longer go. Robert Fisk reports
[tags: middle east, iraq, politics]
Quoted: Robert Fisk: 'Europe has a duty to educate the US about Middle East'
[tags: middle east, politics]
Quoted: Yesterday was the last day of the 2006 Lebanon war, the final chapter of Israel's folly and Hizbollah's hubris, a grisly day of corpse-swapping and refrigerated body parts and coffin after bleak wooden coffin on trucks crossing the Israeli border, which left old Ali Ahmed al-Sfeir and his wife, Wahde, stooped and broken with grief. Ali had a grizzled grey beard and stood propped on a stick while Wahde held a grey-tinged photograph of a young man – her son Ahmed, born in 1970.
[tags: politics, middle east]
Quoted: New technology could turn your windows into solar panels or improve the efficiency of existing solar cells, reducing the cost of solar power, says a new report.
[tags: solar]
Quoted: Tests that look for genetic variations linked to a number of common diseases are now available over the Internet. But a patient who walks into the doctor's office with a thick file of genetic information will probably find that the doctor has no idea what to do with it. A new project, launched in December by the Coriell Institute for Medical Research, in Camden, NJ, aims to change that.
Quoted: According to Tegmark, “there is only mathematics; that is all that exists.” In his theory, the mathematical universe hypothesis, he updates quantum physics and cosmology with the concept of many parallel universes inhabiting multiple levels of space and time. By posing his hypothesis at the crossroads of philosophy and physics, Tegmark is harking back to the ancient Greeks with the oldest of the old questions: What is real?
[tags: universe, mathematics]
Quoted: Flavonoids are thought to help protect the body from cancer because of their antioxidant properties. They help the body neutralize certain free radicals that can trigger the cellular activity that may lead to cancer.
Melatonin — a substance present in red wine and some foods and that humans naturally produce in small amounts — is thought to delay the oxidative damage and inflammatory processes typical of old age.
Resveratrol is produced naturally by grape skins during red wine's fermentation process. Several studies have suggested that resveratrol may explain the "French paradox" — why the French appear to be able to consume a diet higher in fat than the norm while enjoying a comparatively lower incidence of heart disease.
Quoted: An implantable device that blocks a stomach nerve has shown promise in treating obesity in a less invasive way than traditional surgery, a study has found.
The device is implanted under the skin in the abdomen and is regulated by patients through a switch.
It emits a low-level electrical charge that blocks the vagal nerve, which signals a person when to eat. This blocking causes obese patients to feel full after a normal-sized meal rather than to continue eating.
Quoted: “Every culture and subculture gets the drugs that it deserves,” writes Douglas Rushkoff in his forward to Tim Pilcher’s e: The Incredibly Strange History of Ecstasy, “In fact, almost every major cultural movement in history can be traced back to the chemicals it did or did not have.” This is a profound point -- it makes sense that the Thirty Years War was fought by people who had beer soup with a side of beer from breakfast, lunch and supper from the time they were three, and that the English Romantic poets were drowning in opium dreams, and that today’s Los Angeles scenesters are enjoying a Molotov cocktail of ketamine and crystal meth. The human hunger for altered states of consciousness runs the gamut from beautiful to destructive, with a good dose of the pathetic and banal thrown in along the way.
Quoted: "The theory is an evolutionary and cognitive explanation of how and why any individual finds anything funny. Effectively it explains that humor occurs when the brain recognizes a pattern that surprises it, and that recognition of this sort is rewarded with the experience of the humorous response, an element of which is broadcast as laughter," explained author Alastair Clarke, a British science writer.
Quoted: Humans can already form social bonds with robots, but the real trick may be getting AI equally interested in us
[tags: AI, artificial intelligence]
Quoted: A new method for efficient embryonic stem cell differentiation may contribute to the development of techniques for using stem cells as ‘spare parts’ for body organs and tissues. In a study conducted at the Georgia Tech University, researchers found a way to control the differentiation of stem cells into specific cell types by incorporating the proteins needed for this process directly into the cell aggregates, instead of into the cell's culture dish. The scientists hope this new approach will improve differentiation methods and will eventually lead to the development of cell replacement therapies.
Quoted: Alberto Morpurgo and his team of researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands recently attached a micrometer-thick crystal of an organic polymer to a similarly thin organic crystal of a second polymer creating a thin but strongly conducting channel along the junction that acts like a metal. The discovery could lead to a whole new way of making electronics from non-metallic materials, and even new superconductors.
[tags: electronics]
Quoted: Scientists from the California NanoSystems Institute and Northwestern University have developed a nanovalve that releases drugs under certain conditions, like different pH levels. The valve can be used for targeted drug delivery to cells differing in their physiological characters or to cells expressing certain enzymes. Potentially, the nanovalve could be used as a "smart weapon" in the fight against a host of diseases including cancer.
[tags: health]
Quoted: Scientists at the University of Sydney have developed a switch that would allow the internet to become 60 times faster than current networks. Taking four years to complete, the switch is created using a small scratch on a piece of glass. The scratch will mean almost instantaneous error free access to the internet anywhere in the world, announced by Centre for Ultra-high bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) at the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC) held in Sydney this July.
[tags: internet]
17 July 2008
My Faves for Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Swedish Blog
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Quoted: Swedish Language and Culture
Quoted: “NBC’s Today Show Features Air Vehicle
Our compressed air vehicle grabbed some prime time exposure this week on NBC’s Thursday, March 20, Today Show. Today Show’s Meredith Vieira and Phil LeBeau introduced the economy/utility vehicle that ZPM and MDI unveiled at the New York Auto Show and are entering into the Automotive X PRIZE’s Alternative Class competition. We are also entering the larger family-size vehicle we are manufacturing for the U.S. market in the Mainstream Class competition.
[tags: mdi, automotive, technology]
Quoted: Compressed-Air Powered cars could take you over 800 miles on a single fill-up, at speeds of up to 96 mph. They should refuel in less than 3 minutes, and at speeds over 35 mph emit about half the CO2 of a Toyota Prius. Best part? You could see them in the US at the end of next year.
[tags: automotive, mdi]
16 July 2008
My Faves for Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Quoted: With Crises in Fuel, Food, Housing and Banking, What Gvt. Policies Are Being Pushed Through? Naomi Klein Reexamines “The Shock Doctrine”
As the country and the world reel from crises ranging from skyrocketing oil prices and global food shortages to housing and climate change, how best to understand the government policies being pushed through? We spend the hour with Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Klein also discusses Barack Obama’s economic advisory team, whom she calls “Obama’s Chicago Boys”; why she’s suing the US government for spying on journalists like her; as well as her recent trip to China, where she says the government is building a high-tech police state with the help of US military contractors. [includes rush transcript–partial]
Quoted: International : Ban Ki-moon : «Paris contribue beaucoup à la paix»
Quoted: Google has added speech recognition capability in YouTube videos that enables you to search for text spoken in these videos.
Quoted: EBay Inc. scored an important victory in court Monday as a federal judge said companies such as jeweler Tiffany & Co. are responsible for policing their trademarks online, not auction platforms like eBay.
[tags: news, ebay, trademarks]
15 July 2008
My Faves for Monday, July 14, 2008
Quoted: Without a shadow of a doubt, renewable energy is the way to go towards a green future that is both clean and sustainable. If the world had any doubts about it then even those doubts have been dispelled by the recent agreement at the G8. Even if that was not very substantial, it still tells us the direction in which we need to be going. Solar Tree is one such green option for a future filled with solar goodness that is being brought to you for the first time exclusively by Ecofriend. Designed to replace the traditional solar roof, it makes solar energy a lot more profitable and sustainable for use!
[tags: solar]
Quoted: This Google Docs hack will help you know if people are reading your documents. You will also learn more details about your Google Docs traffic like where the visitors are coming from, how long they read your documents, etc.
14 July 2008
My Faves for Sunday, July 13, 2008
MyJugaad.in is a slideshow for webpages, which are sourced either from popular websites such as del.icio.us (for best webpages), digg (for most entertaining stories), google news (for latest news), etc. or from a list provided by you or from your RSS feed(s).
RSS and a personalized widget tool have been added to iterasi, giving our community new ways to share and publish the pages they save with our personal web archiving service.
Quoted: What’s the toughest thing to remember? For me, it’s websites. Everyday, I visit tons of sites: blogs, shopping, news, recipes, and travel. It’s too much. I’ve actually stopped bookmarking because it’s so hard to find anything in the sea of links, and when I do go back, the page is often gone or changed. Since Evernote is a single place for all of your memories, (websites you visit are memories too, you know) we thought we could do better.
How would you like a car, or truck, that ran on air? For real. No more gasoline. No more air pollution.
[tags: automotive, mdi]
This tutorial will show you how to use Google Docs word processor for blogging a live event.
13 July 2008
My Faves for Saturday, July 12, 2008
Quoted: MyJugaad allows anyone to create slideshows of webpages, videos, and images that they like and then to share them with their friends. You’ll have to register to get started and then simply create a title for your slide show, select whether to make it a feed-based slideshow or a website-based one, and then enter the links along with a description. You can also make del.icio.us slideshows by selecting whether to include most popular or most recent del.icio.us bookmarks, and then entering tags to search for. You can also make slide shows by adding a del.icio.us username and generating slide shows in that format. This is a great way to make fun slideshows from all of your favorite web content.
[tags: website slideshows]
Quoted:The compressed air vehicle is a new generation of vehicle that finally solves the motorist’s dilemma: how to drive and not pollute at a cost that is affordable!
[tags: automotive, mdi]
Quoted: A car based on the concept is scheduled to see a production run of up to 6,000 units starting early next year in India. Known as the Air Car (concept pictured), the small runabout was developed with cooperation from ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre and a French company known as MDI, and is capable of travelling up to 108km/h with a range of 200km.
[tags: automotive, mdi]
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