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| "...the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like the fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..."
- Jack Kerouac |
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AlterNet: TECHSPLOITATION: Nanophobia |
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7:03 pm EDT, Aug 21, 2003 |
]Instead of quibbling over whether nanotech is antihuman, we need to
]be asking how we can use it to benefit the greatest number of
]people. An analysis of (well, more accurately, a preemptive strike against) the coming wave of anti-nanotech sentiment. Nanotechnologists vs Luddites! Round 1! FIGHT! [I love Annalee Newitz....her writing is awesome - Nano] AlterNet: TECHSPLOITATION: Nanophobia |
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Lice genes date first human clothes |
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10:36 pm EDT, Aug 20, 2003 |
] We started wearing clothes about 70,000 years ago - at least
] according to our lice genes. ] At that time the body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus) evolved
] from the head louse (P. humanus capitis), say Mark Stoneking and
] his colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
] Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. The split should correspond to
] the time when the body louse's habitat - clothes - became
] widespread. Lice genes date first human clothes |
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| Topic: Society |
10:35 pm EDT, Aug 20, 2003 |
] Little by little, we're turning into a planet of techies.
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] Which should come as no surprise. It has happened before.
] Time and again, attractive new technologies have trickled
] out of the labs and into homes and offices, forcing
] ordinary users to develop skills that once would have
] seemed far too advanced for them. Early automobiles were
] so unreliable that drivers carried tool kits and learned
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]
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] to fix the balky machines. Early radio sets were
] handbuilt by avid hobbyists. "This is all part of a
] fairly predictable pattern," said Harvard Business School
] professor Debora Spar, author of "Ruling the Waves," We're all geeks now |
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TheWBALChannel.com - Health Alert - Florida Bar Concocts Nicotine Drink |
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1:20 am EDT, Aug 20, 2003 |
] It took a year of testing and tasting to create the
] concoction.
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] The Nicotini -- in regular and menthol -- was ready for
] routine consumption just as the smoking ban went into
] effect.
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] "We made an announcement, picked up all the ashtrays and
] said: 'Sorry there's no more smoking, but we have this.'
] And [we] bought everybody in the house a drink," Wald
] said.
]
] The Nicotini is made by soaking tobacco leaves in vodka
] and then adding five different liqueurs to tame the
] tobacco flavor. OMG......Nicotine AND alcohol? wow. Sounds like a party to me. TheWBALChannel.com - Health Alert - Florida Bar Concocts Nicotine Drink |
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RE: Skippy the Goth Kangaroo |
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1:19 am EDT, Aug 20, 2003 |
Hijexx wrote:
] Strange... yet more evidence of the rampant drug problem that the world is facing:) RE: Skippy the Goth Kangaroo |
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New Scientist - First game-playing DNA computer revealed |
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8:15 pm EDT, Aug 18, 2003 |
] The first game-playing DNA computer has been revealed -
] an enzyme-powered tic-tac-toe machine that cannot be
] beaten.
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] The human player makes his or her moves by dropping DNA
] into 3 by 3 square of wells that make up the board. The
] device then uses a complex mixture of DNA enzymes to
] determine where it should place its nought or cross, and
] signals its move with a green glow.
]
] The device, dubbed MAYA, was developed by Milan
] Stojanovic, at Columbia University in New York, and Darko
] Stefanovic, at the University of New Mexico in
] Albuquerque. Kobi Benenson, who works on other DNA
] approaches at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, says the
] work demonstrates the most complex use of molecules as
] logic gates to date, and "represents a significant
] advance in DNA computing." New Scientist - First game-playing DNA computer revealed |
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How India's Mother of Invention Built an Industry |
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11:36 pm EDT, Aug 17, 2003 |
In the 1970's, she set out to become a brew master just as her father had been. She left India to train in Australia, then returned home to find that daughters were not welcome in India's breweries. That door closing for her opened another one for India. Unemployed, she followed a love of biology and a chance referral to an Irish biotechnology company. At 25, she started their Indian operation from her garage, successfully extracting from papaya an enzyme used to tenderize meat, among other things, and from the swim bladders of tropical fish a collagen that helps clear beer. It was the beginning of India's biotechnology industry. Awesome How India's Mother of Invention Built an Industry |
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New Scientist - Human-rabbit embryos intensify stem cell debate |
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10:21 am EDT, Aug 17, 2003 |
] But the immediate reception of Sheng's paper suggests it
] is unlikely to calm the fierce debate. It has already
] been hailed as an important advance, questioned for its
] scientific rigour and sensationalised as a bizarre mixing
] of human and animal parts. More on the human-rabbit embryos. New Scientist - Human-rabbit embryos intensify stem cell debate |
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CNN.com - 'Healthy' peanuts to hit stores next year - Aug. 14, 2003 |
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10:14 am EDT, Aug 17, 2003 |
] Two new kinds of peanuts that can help keep hearts in
] good shape offer new food for thought for the
] health-conscious.
]
] The peanuts are high in oleic acid, a type of unsaturated
] fat that raises levels of good cholesterol to prevent
] arteries from clogging. They also lower the bad
] cholesterol that damages the heart. CNN.com - 'Healthy' peanuts to hit stores next year - Aug. 14, 2003 |
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