] Once prion diseases infect a body, the proteins change
] shape and, with a kiss of death, turn their neighbors
] into clones of themselves. Clumps of misshapen proteins
] form, overwhelming neurons and poking holes in the brain.
] Death is inevitable.

Wired News: Prions: When Proteins Attack

Cognitive Systems is a multi-disciplinary undergraduate program involving four departments: Computer Science, Linguistics, Philosophy, and Psychology. It provides students with a thorough grounding in the principles and techniques used by intelligent systems (both natural and artificial) to interact with the world around them.

Cognitive Systems at the University of British Columbia

] Why flying cars, jetpacks
]
] haven't taken hold ... yet

Seven flights of fancy that fizzled

Researchers say it is "absolutely not" a reason to kill cats, but suggest they might be quarantined with their owners during outbreaks.

hahahaha! Die kitty die!

Cats can catch SARS - and pass it on

] As of late October, sources indicate that a central
] recommendation is likely, but not certainly to be
] resumption of manned lunar flights to develop advanced
] technologies that can support U.S. astronauts working
] beyond Earth orbit to not only the Moon, but eventually
] on near-Earth asteroids and Mars.

Holy shit... to be delivered on 17Dec, the Centennial of Flight?

I'm not going to get into anything about Bush space policy right now, but I'm interested to see how the political fires burn around this, if indeed this is the announcement made.

Presidential review on space policy heading to closure | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference

] The team created a glass block, two centimetres in diameter
] and three millimetres thick, containing about 400,000 to
] 500,000 individual channels.
]
] Thanks to a phenomenon called the electric double layer,
] when water flows through these 10-micron-diameter-wide
] channels, a positive charge is created at one end of the
] block and a negative charge at the other - just like a
] conventional battery.

Canadian team invents new power source, no moving parts, may be useful for powering nanotech devices.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Water sparks new power source

inignoct wrote:
lots of neat stuff in this article, but this is especially cool :

] DuPont Textiles & Interiors and Outlast Technologies are
] rolling out Phase Change Materials (PCMs) that respond to
] your changing body temperature. The fabric coating
] consists of the materials encapsulated into microscopic
] spheres. As you body warms up, the PCM me

Odor free sox? Does that mean you only ever need one pair that never needs washing?

STAIN-RESISTANT PANTS ARE SO ‘LAST WEEK’; TRY THE ODOR-FREE SOCKS

The official website of the X Prize competition. The chairman suggests that the Prize could be won in the next few months.

X P R I Z E

cool

Antibiotic Laced Nanoballs Could Improve Infection Treatment

Global warming or local warming, it's still probably not too super...

CNN.com - Report: Giant Arctic ice shelf breaks up - Sep. 22, 2003