“Do wrinkled fingers help us grip?”
Apparently so.
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Topics pertaining to science and technology, current or future.
“Detecting Cheaters”
It seems that the human brain may have some built-in hardware for detecting cheating.
“Surgeons carry out first synthetic windpipe transplant”
This is probably the first really tangible benefit of any form of nanotechnology. It won’t be the last. I expect that replacements for most body parts will be able to be fashioned and seeded this way within a decade, and that it will become common practice within twenty years. So much for the SF/horror scenario …
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How Not To Answer E-Mail: A Four-Line Tutorial
While researching a programming problem yesterday, I found a wonderful signature block on a message from someone named Alf P. Steinbach: A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in …
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New Battery Technologies
Wow… three new battery technologies that sound awesome. If they all pan out, rechargeable batteries could charge up to 90% capacity in two minutes, have three times their current battery life (six times for “mobile gadgets”!), and be lighter as well! Imagine a full-powered laptop that’s lighter and would last several work days on a …
“Boffins take REMOTE CONTROL of HUMAN HAND”
I like this idea, at least for learning musical instruments. I almost hope that it doesn’t advance much further for now though, I’d hate to see the result of getting a virus in the controlling computer. 😉
“Wooden spaceship descends into Moscow sandpit”
When we did this sort of thing as children, it was called playing… 😉 (Nice to see that humanity is still working toward interplanetary exploration, though.) EDIT, same day: Here‘s an article that coincidentally appeared today, on the entire facility that houses the Mars 500 project. There’s a lot more there than was mentioned in …
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“Team IDs, looks to block gene that spreads cancer”
Cancer is now the leading cause of death, but if these guys have their way, that will change in the next decade. There will come a time when suicide is the most common cause of death. You’ll be able to live as long as you wish to. The only good excuse for death right now …
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“Latest boffinry: Feeding TNT to sheep”
You know, if you tried to make up something like this, you’d be laughed out of the room, but somehow it becomes perfectly acceptable when someone really does it.
“Little kids and memory”
What’s your earliest memory? It has always struck me as curious that no one remembers anything from when they were really young. I have vivid memories from when I was six years old on, but only a handful from before that, most tied to strong emotions or discomfort, or (strangely enough) the layouts of the …