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U.S. Inflation to Approach Zimbabwe Level, Faber Says (Update2) - Bloomberg.com
The U.S. economy will enter
“hyperinflation” approaching the levels in Zimbabwe because
the Federal Reserve will be reluctant to raise interest rates,
investor [bn:PRSN=1] Marc Faber [] said.
Richard K. Bank — What the Merchant Marine Can Teach the Auto Industry - washingtonpost.com
Once, the U.S. merchant marine included hundreds of ships that regularly transported a significant portion of U.S. imports and exports and employed tens of thousands of Americans at sea and on land. Today, only a handful of such liner vessels plying regularly scheduled routes still fly the Stars and...
YouTube - Pentagon Reports Army Mascot 'Liberty' Killed in Iraq [via claudio]
Appointed by Bush in 2003 to distract from the horrors of war, Liberty's antics turned fatal yesterday when he cart-wheeled into a roadside bomb.
YouTube - Special Boy With Freakishly Large Brain Wins Spelling Bee [via claudio]
On Today Now!, Jim and Tracy meet James Kimura, a 12-year-old afflicted with the ability to spell long words normal kids don't even care about.
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Technology Review: Getting Arsenic Out of Water
IBM is developing a membrane that is more effective at ridding drinking water of arsenic contaminants.
Technology Review: Gene Defect Corrected in Human Stem Cells
New research outlines a path toward new therapies with induced pluripotent stem cells.
Hoe één man een verschil maakte | Flabber
Eén man en zijn pilletje veranderde die mooie dag op een festival de toeschouwers in een krioelende mensenmassa.
Models’ Projections for Flu Miss Mark by Wide Margin - NYTimes.com
Expert’s modest predictions regarding the spread of the swine flu in the U.S. were quite off, and now the CDC estimates that there are “upwards of 100,000” cases in the U.S.
Remember Pearl Harbor? This Lock Breaker Does
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The Ultimate Lock Picker Hacks Pentagon, Beats Corporate Security for Fun and Profit
Get Wired's take on technology business news and the Silicon Valley scene including IT, media, mobility, broadband, video, design, security, software, networking and internet startups on Wired.com
Findings - In That Tucked Tail, Real Pangs of Regret? - NYTimes.com
From brain scans and other data, more signs of animal ruefulness.
Wood Bridge In Netherlands As Strong as Steel and a Lot Prettier : TreeHugger
Images via Contemporist Have I mentioned that I love wood as a building material? If sustainably harvested it provides a strong, beautiful material that can last for centuries and sequester CO2 the whole time. People have built bridges from
Technology Review: Brewing Spandex
A startup uses strains of <i>E. coli</i> bacteria to convert sugar into valuable chemicals for textiles and other products.
Chinese Company Buying G.M.’s Hummer Brand - NYTimes.com
A machinery company with ambitions to become a carmaker is the prospective owner, at an undisclosed price.
Ethanol production could jeopardize soil productivity
There is growing interest in using crop residues as the feedstock of choice for the production of cellulosic-based ethanol because of the more favorable energy output relative to grain-based ethanol. This would also help provide a solution to the debate of food versus fuel, because less of the grain ...
Scientists create metal that pumps liquid uphill
(PhysOrg.com) -- In nature, trees pull vast amounts of water from their roots up to their leaves hundreds of feet above the ground through capillary action, but now scientists at the University of Rochester have created a simple slab of metal that lifts liquid using the same principle—but does so at ...
Teaching Computers To Recognize Objects
Recognizing objects and groups of objects is something we humans take for granted. For computers, this is far from straightforward. A European project has come up with novel solutions to this conundrum.
Gittes,
ReplyDeleteI came into work to quietly review your blog links, no such luck today.
A mature student in the "second career" path is here trying to prepare for tomorrow's "Dynamics" lecture test.
I am pleased to say that I was able to solve an assigned problem for him. I am mildly pleased as I last solved such a problem (by type)in April 1986.
I really solved it by using "The Law of Conservation of Energy". It is the application of first principles, the most basic engineering truths that is the key to producing consistently correct answers.
I was also able to help a student with the concepts of curve sketching related to the first and second derivatives (and second derivative test),etc. It appeared that the student achieved a breakthrough during our discussion.
claudio