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Japanese fishing trawler sunk by giant jellyfish - TelegraphBy Julian Ryall in Tokyo Published: 7:00AM GMT 02 Nov 2009 The trawler, the Diasan Shinsho-maru, capsized off Chiba`as its three-man crew was trying to haul in a net containing dozens of huge Nomura's jellyfish. Each of the jellyfish can weigh up to 200 kg and waters around Japan have ...
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NSA to store yottabytes of surveillance data in Utah megarepositoryNSA to store yottabytes of surveillance data in Utah megarepository by Devin Coldewey on November 1, 2009 There’s an interesting article in the current New York Review of books (predictably, a book review) detailing the history of the National Security Agency, that shadowy ...
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N.Y.P.D. to Shake Things Up With the Rumbler Super Siren - Wheels Blog - NYTimes.comN.Y.P.D. to Shake Things Up With the Rumbler Super Siren If you’re in Manhattan and suddenly feeling some not-so-good vibrations, it could be the effects of the New York Police Department’s latest siren, called the Rumbler. “It emits vibrations that can be felt, so drivers, even with their ...
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‘Impossible’ Device Could Propel Flying Cars, Stealth Missiles | Danger Room | Wired.com‘Impossible’ Device Could Propel Flying Cars, Stealth Missiles The Emdrive is an electromagnetic drive that would generate thrust from a closed system — “impossible” say some experts. To critics, it’s flat-out junk science, not even worth thinking about. But its inventor, Roger Shawyer, has ...
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Cord Blood Bank, Cord Blood Banking, and Storing Your Baby?s Umbilical Cord BloodYour baby’s umbilical cord blood is a valuable source of noncontroversial stem cells. Cord blood has already saved thousands of lives and medical researchers are now exploring potential new uses for conditions like diabetes and heart disease. Learn ...
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Eating animals is making us sick - CNN.comEating animals is making us sick Editor's note: Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the critically acclaimed novels "Everything is Illuminated" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close." His latest book, the nonfiction "Eating Animals," (Little, Brown and Co.) will be published November 2. ...
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Facebook Launches A New Hub For World PeaceFacebook Launches A New Hub For World Peace by Jason Kincaid on October 27, 2009 Facebook has just launched a new portal at peace.Facebook.com that highlights the site’s desire to promote “peace by building technology that helps people better understand each other”. The site appears to ...
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Minding the Planet: What's After the Real Time Web?In typical Web-industry style we're all focused minutely on the leading trend-of-the-year, the real-time Web. But in this obsession we have become a bit myopic. The real-time Web, or what some of us call "The Stream," is not an end in itself, it's a means to an end. So what will it enable, ...
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Magnetic mixing creates quite a stir (w/ Video)Magnetic mixing creates quite a stir (w/ Video) Kyle Solis, a graduate student intern in Nanomaterials Sciences, prepares a sample for mixing using a new approach called vortex field mixing. Credit: Photo by Randy Montoya Sandia researchers have developed a process that can mix tiny volumes ...
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Researchers bring noise to virtual worlds
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