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Yahoo! News - Man Grows 1,245-Pound Pumpkin |
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11:39 am EDT, Oct 4, 2002 |
"An upstate New York man's pumpkin patch only yielded three pumpkins this year. But that was more than enough. One weighed 450 pounds, another about 800 pounds, and the third came in at 1,245 pounds, just 17 pounds shy of the world record.
Tim Bailey said he grew the large orange fruits from "Atlantic Giant" seeds, and gave them a lot of water and "organic matter." " Marie, contact this guy for seeds!!! :) [I mean...damn! These pumpkins are on crack! - Nano] Yahoo! News - Man Grows 1,245-Pound Pumpkin |
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Dialtones (A Telesymphony) - Mobile Phone Concert |
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11:18 pm EDT, Oct 2, 2002 |
"Dialtones is a large-scale concert performance whose sounds are wholly produced through the carefully choreographed dialing and ringing of the audience's own mobile phones" Ahh...Technology and art....they work so well together sometimes Dialtones (A Telesymphony) - Mobile Phone Concert |
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Nanotechnology in Biomedical Research |
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1:20 am EDT, Oct 2, 2002 |
Presented by the UMDNJ Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Newark Division Show up at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (on South Orange Ave in Newark) to attend a free one-day symposium. The keynote speaker will be Eric Drexler, founder of the Foresight Institute. Lecture topics include: Nanotechnology and the Future of Medicine
Structural DNA Nanotechnology
Making Things Move Using Nanotechnology - Nanomagnets
Tumor Therapy with Actinium-225 Labeled Nanogenerators [Uhhh....I really, really, really want to go to this. If only it wasn't all the way in NJ. My fall break starts the next day. wow.-Nano] Nanotechnology in Biomedical Research |
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oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: Mac OS X for Unix Geeks |
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9:06 pm EDT, Sep 29, 2002 |
"If you're one of the many Unix developers drawn to Mac OS X for its BSD core, you'll find yourself in surprisingly unfamiliar territory. Even if you're an experienced Mac user, Mac OS X is unlike earlier Macs, and it's radically different from the Unix you've used before, too. " [sweet! - Nano] oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: Mac OS X for Unix Geeks |
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Memphis Rock Band Sheltered Life |
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3:49 pm EDT, Sep 29, 2002 |
This is a memphis rock band...."Inside my Head" is pretty good:) Memphis Rock Band Sheltered Life |
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Sharing / Distribution Wars |
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11:36 am EDT, Sep 27, 2002 |
It's a matter of competition. A manufactured CD for $1.40 can compete with a bootleg copy: Manufactured CDs generally play better and come with nice packages and liner notes. The industry can still make millions of dollars, just not billions. And many artists can go back to making money the old-fashioned wayby working harder and performing more. Things change, folks! The gravy train has left the station. The U.S. government should not be corrupted by the Recording Industry Association of America and should instead do more about price fixing. And let's stop lecturing people about legality and morality. Students in particular are not moral reprobates, nor are they fools. They are pragmatists, and they stretch the rules along with their budgets. This is a crowd that worships the fake ID and is taught to question authority. So you're going to lecture them about copyrights? Give up. Rethink your business model. The problem will be solved. ... An interesting take on why the RIAA needs to evolve or die. Sharing / Distribution Wars |
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Missing Limb? Salamander May Have Answer |
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5:22 pm EDT, Sep 26, 2002 |
"Regenerative medicine, regrowing or repairing damaged organs, has become a hot topic. Almost all the attention has focused on stem cells. The idea is to grow stem cells outside the body, turn them into particular types of tissue and transplant them into patients. But a few scientists theorize that a better approach is to induce the same regeneration in people that occurs in salamanders and some other animals. Natural regeneration, which might be accomplished with drugs or genes, would be easier than transplanting, they say. And the tissue would be the patient's own, doing away with the problem of rejection. Even if salamanders' feats cannot be reproduced in humans, those scientists say, studying regenerating animals will at least provide clues for stem cell scientists." Sooooo cool! - Nano Missing Limb? Salamander May Have Answer |
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