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Is It a Bathtub, or Is It Sculpture? - New York Times

Taking a page from Marcel Duchamp, Davis & Warshow will display its toilets, bathtubs and other kitchen and bath accessories as artworks in a gallery.

Next to Downsize on Wall Street? The Exchange Floor - New York Times

As computerized trading reduces the need for face-to-face transactions, the New York Stock Exchange plans to shut two trading rooms.

Retro Medicine: Doctors Making House Calls (for a Price) - New York Times

A new kind of medical practice is flourishing nationwide that offers to go to where the patients are — whether a home, an office or a hotel.

Rising Seas Likely to Flood U.S. History

PhysOrg news: Rising Seas Likely to Flood U.S. History

New model could improve some drugs' effectiveness

PhysOrg news: New model could improve some drugs' effectiveness

Googles Cables Make Unnecessary Waves - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

Bits is a blog about technology, innovation and society from The New York Times.

In Tiny Particles, a Big Link in Jerusalem - New York Times

The Nanotechnology Research Laboratory is the first nanotech center in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

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Will China Beat the United States Back to the Moon? - Associated Content

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Software That Fills a Cellphone Gap - New York Times

Software radio could offer an elegant solution to a vexing problem: how to have a single handset communicate across multiple networks.

Algorithms | Business by numbers | Economist.com

Consumers and companies increasingly depend on a hidden mathematical world

IndustryWeek : New Low Cost Solar Panels Ready for Mass Production

Colorado's State Univ.'s panels will cost less than $1 per watt.

Artificial Intelligence - Computers and the Internet - Technology - Science - New York Times

When the human brain mates with the computer’s, we get the automation of judgment.

‘The Big Con’ - New York Times

“American politics has been hijacked by a tiny coterie of right-wing economic extremists, some of them ideological zealots, others merely greedy, a few of them possibly insane.”