"Microbes that thrive on nuclear waste, that can scrub greenhouse gases from the air and turn toxic soil pure again are the targets of new federal research funds"

Tom: do you remember when I was telling you that idea (about a year ago) I had about the box that goes on the exhaust pipe of everyone's car that contains microbes or nano-bots that convert the pollution into something clean? This is so going to be it:)

Yahoo! News - New Research to Find Environment-Cleansing Bugs

"In South Africa, the African honeybee is being devastated by invasions of self-replicating clones all descendants of a single, long-deceased individual from another honeybee subspecies. "

Economist.com | African honeybees

"US President George W Bush has signed a congressional resolution paving the way for the building of a giant nuclear waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert. "

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Bush approves nuclear dump

""I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to the nation-states, on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals."
Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, April 2000"

Disarmament Diplomacy

"Light can be turned into a glowing stream of liquid that splits into droplets and splatters off surfaces just like water. The researchers who've worked out how to do this say "liquid light" would be the ideal lifeblood for optical computing, where chips send light around optical "circuits" to process data. "

so cool

New Scientist

"In the year 2000, when they look back at this age, they will wonder why it was not until the year 1960 that anybody began seriously to move in this direction."

Richard Feynman's talk on what we call nanotechnology. Most of you have probably already seen this, but its just a good read:)

Feynman's Talk

Kewl.

[this is fun...and cool....and annoying at times;) - Nano]

[ ..:: wu :: riddles(intro) ::..]

"A team from Emory University in Atlanta says they have resolved a question philosophers have been debating for centuries: Why do people cooperate with one another even when it is not in their best interests to do so? "

Is this why using MemeStreams is so much fun?

I've been having conversations for years the people about this very problem. Everyone has philisophical convictions, and they differ. Are humans fundamentally good or evil?

[ Originally from Decius. And, of course, the answer is that they are fundamentally good or, at the very least, neutral and "nurture" can be used to assure their eventual goodness. --Rek ]

Study: Brains Want to Cooperate

"The sexual politics of Star Trek are pretty blunt: the men run the technology and the ship, and the women are caretakers (a doctor and a counselor). Note the sexual tensions on the bridge of the Enterprise: the women, in skin tight uniforms, and with luxuriant, flowing hair. The men, often balding, and sporting some sort of permanently attached computer auxiliary. "

This is hillarious...

A Girl's Guide to Geek Guys

"The molecule that triggers the fertilisation of a mammalian egg and prompts it to begin growing and dividing has been discovered."

New Scientist- Molecular 'spark of life' discovered