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DailyTech - Auto Execs Urge Government to Tax Fuel up to $8/Gallon to Increase Fuel EfficiencyAuto Auto Execs Urge Government to Tax Fuel up to $8/Gallon to Increase Fuel Efficiency - CEO at leading parts supplier: "Energy independence...ultimately means that fuel has to be more expensive" It's no secret that when gas prices dropped early in the year and with the recession in ...
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New Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Clinic Offers Noninvasive Treatment For Major DepressionNew Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Clinic Offers Noninvasive Treatment For Major Depression ScienceDaily (Nov. 7, 2009) — Rush University Medical Center has opened the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Clinic to offer patients suffering from major depression a safe, effective, ...
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First Look at Carbon Capture and Storage in a West Virginia Coal-Fired Power Plant [Slide Show]: Scientific AmericanNEW HAVEN, W.Va.—A 100-story smokestack belches a roiling, white cloud of water vapor, carbon dioxide and other leftover gases after burning daily as much as 12,000 tons of coal at the Mountaineer Power Plant —a total of 3.5 million tons a year. The facility just outside the town of New Haven ...
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Winner in Contest Involving Space Elevator - NYTimes.comWinner in Contest Involving Space Elevator A start-up company from the Seattle area won $900,000 on Friday in a NASA contest to build a miniature prototype of a machine that could one day climb from Earth to outer space. The idea of a space elevator — passengers and cargo traveling up and ...
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Futurists' report reviews dangers of smart robots - Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewScientists are preparing to publish a report this month that examines, in part, whether robots could eventually become so smart they pose a threat to society. The report will include concerns some researchers have voiced about the legal and ethical use of artificial intelligence. Most computer ...
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2Researchers unlock the 'sound of learning' by linking sensory and motor systemsDUH. Nice that what we already pretty much intuitively knew is not proven though ...JDP added 4 days ago
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2Hyenas Surprisingly Good at Cooperative Tasks | LiveScienceIntelligence, including cooperation, continues to "spread" - actually be shown to be more WIDE spread than previously supposed.JDP added 5 weeks ago
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Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine"The whole point of the doomsday machine is lost if you keep it a secret!" cries Dr. Strangelove. "Why didn't you tell the world?" After all, such a device works as a deterrent only if the enemy is aware of its existence. In the movie, the Soviet ambassador can only lamely respond, "It was to be ...alettriste added 6 weeks ago
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2Study: Regular drinkers get more exercise - Fitness- msnbc.comThis MAY also be an age related "quirk" (I know I drank more when I was younger AND also go more exercise!)JDP added 2 months ago
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2BBC NEWS | Health | 'Organic has no health benefits'And of course, this study did NOT apparently look at contaminants - which can be both "chemical" (man-made) AND "organic". Some "natural" fungi and bacteria (think E Coli) ARE more "poisonous" / dangerous than many pesticides! Nor was environmental impact (including that on humans) apparently ...JDP added 3 months ago
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