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MotoCzysz Puts the Sizzle in Electric Motorcycles
Strange name. Sexy bike. And it’s headed for the racetrack. , Original article Go to the feed source of this article Go to Wired.com This article appeared on Wired.com and the author and/or the publisher are to be accredited explicitly for the content. Alphaverse.com is not affiliated with the publisher of this article and uses its content purely for educational purposes. … Read entire article »
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Mach 6 Cruise Missile, Ready for Prime Time?
This spring, the Air Force was preparing for a groundbreaking test of the X-51 WaveRider, a hypersonic cruise missile that would reach speeds of up to Mach 6. But it looks like the WaveRider’s debut flight will have to wait while some technical issues are addressed. , Original article Go to the feed source of this article Go to Wired.com This article appeared on Wired.com and the author and/or the publisher are to be accredited explicitly for the content. Alphaverse.com is not affiliated with the publisher of this article and uses its content purely for educational purposes. … Read entire article »
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10 Movies That Should Never, Ever Be Converted to 3D
Why, really, did the 3D movie trend start? Does anybody remember, before the trend began, thinking ‘You know the problem with movies? They’re too two-dimensional?’ Anyway, some work, and some don’t and some would be bad ideas. Here are 10 that should never be attempted. , Original article Go to the feed source of this article Go to Wired.com This article appeared on Wired.com and the author and/or the publisher are to be accredited explicitly for the content. Alphaverse.com is not affiliated with the publisher of this article and uses its content purely for educational purposes. … Read entire article »
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Call Me Google. (And Call Me, Google)
Google’s announcement that it intends to build and test super fast fiber-optic broadband networks in a few communities around the US has a few communities in the US pulling out all the stops to be selected with some attention-getting stunts that scream to the search giant “Pick me! Pick ME!” , Original article Go to the feed source of this article Go to Wired.com This article appeared on Wired.com and the author and/or the publisher are to be accredited explicitly for the content. Alphaverse.com is not affiliated with the publisher of this article and uses its content purely for educational purposes. … Read entire article »
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Brain Scans Depict Gulf War Syndrome Damage
SALT LAKE CITY — Nearly two decades after vets began returning from the Middle East complaining of Gulf War Syndrome, the federal government has yet to formally accept that their vague jumble of symptoms constitutes a legitimate illness. Here, at the Society of Toxicology annual meeting, yesterday, researchers rolled out a host of brain images — various types of magnetic-resonance scans and brain-wave measurements — that they say graphically and unambiguously depict Gulf War Syndrome. Or syndromes. Because Robert Haley of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and the research team he heads have identified three discrete subtypes. Each is characterized by a different suite of symptoms. And the new imaging linked each illness with a distinct — and different — series of abnormalities in the brain. Men with … Read entire article »
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Half-Cocked? Hermaphrochickens Challenge Gender Determination
Chicken sex doesn’t work like ours. No, not that sex — but the process by which an embryo becomes a recognizably male or female animal. Unlike mammals, it’s not hormones that dictate a chicken’s sex. It’s a fundamental property of the cells themselves. But this only became apparent when biologists investigated several odd chickens that were half male and half female, as if a line were drawn down the center of their bodies. “We assumed this was caused by one side of the body having some kind of sex chromosome anomaly,” said Michael Clinton, a University of Edinburgh developmental biologist and co-author of the study, described March 10 in Nature. “But when we looked at them closely, they were composed of entirely normal cells. We realized that birds don’t follow the … Read entire article »
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A History of the Sky
Art project in progress A History of the Sky features lots and lots of time-lapse videos of the sky that are synchronized so that they’re all showing the same time of day. Ken Murphy is the artist that created it and he hopes to one day manifest all the data he’s collecting as a video installation that’s always displaying the skies of the last 365 days. The project was recently featured at the Exploratorium, but it’s still in a need of a home for the installation. Here’s how it works. If you’d like to see an installation in person, here are several upcoming opportunities: Maker Faire UK, at the Life Science Centre Planetarium, Newcastle UK: March 13-14, 2010 Google I/O Conference After Hours Party, at Moscone West, San Francisco: May 19, 2010 Bay Area Maker … Read entire article »
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- 5of5 — Modern Marvels – E.T. Tech
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- 3of5 — Modern Marvels – E.T. Tech
- 2of5 — Modern Marvels – E.T. Tech
- 1of5 — Modern Marvels – E.T. Tech
- 5of5–Einstein And The Mind of God.mpg
- 4of5–Einstein And The Mind of God
- 3of5–Einstein And The Mind of God
- 2of5–Einstein And The Mind of God
- 1of5–Einstein And The Mind of God
- 3of3–Sci Fi Science- How to Become a Superhero
- 2of3–Sci Fi Science- How to Become a Superhero
- 1of3–Sci Fi Science- How to Become a Superhero
- 4of5–Seeing Black Holes
- 3of5–Seeing Black Holes
- 2of5–Seeing Black Holes
- 1of5–Seeing Black Holes
- 3of3–Physics of The Impossible-Designing a Light Saber with Michio Kaku.mpg