Thursday, April 10, 2008

Sorry about the slim link list this post they will be that way for awhile exam season is upon us. I have quite a few movie lined up for a few of my readers to be delivered on my return to zero city, I'll give a list of a few of them next post.

How strong is a hurricane? Just listen
PhysOrg news: How strong is a hurricane? Just listen

Popcorn-ball design doubles efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells
PhysOrg news: Popcorn-ball design doubles efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells

Just like penguins and other primates, people trade sex for resources
PhysOrg news: Just like penguins and other primates, people trade sex for resources

Industrial Control Systems Killed Once and Will Again, Experts Warn | Threat Level from Wired.com
A control-system station screen at Olympic Pipeline the day of a deadly 1999 pipeline break. Image: NTSB On June 10th, 1999 a 16-inch diameter steel pipeline operated by the now-defunct

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ancient serpent shows its leg
Scientists use X-rays to find the lost rear limb of a fossil snake locked in 92-million-year-old Lebanese limestone.

Increase in Trade Deficit Raises Concern: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
Increase in Trade Deficit Raises Concern. - WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly increased for a second straight month in February, raising concerns that the economy's one standout performer could be starting to flag.

Ben Stein's Expelled: No Integrity Displayed: Scientific American
A shameful antievolution film tries to blame Darwin for the Holocaust

Experts hack power grid in no time - Network World
Cracking a power company network and gaining access to supervisory, control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems that could shut down the grid is simple, security expert and penetration-testing consultant Ira Winkler told an RSA audience, and he has done so in less than a day.

Cognitive Dissonance in Monkeys - The Monty Hall Problem - New York Times
Some experiments that purport to show cognitive-dissonance effects might be explainable by statistics alone.

What Emancipation Didn’t Prevent: Douglas A. Blackmon’s ‘Slavery by Another Name’ - New York Times
Douglas A. Blackmon's book eviscerates one of our most basic assumptions: that slavery in America ended with the Civil War.

Technology Review: Self-assembling Nanofibers Heal Spinal Cords
Injected directly into the spinal cords of paralyzed mice, a new material restores use of the animals' hind legs.

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