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Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: New Model of the Universe Says Past Crystallizes out of the FutureTuesday, December 08, 2009 New Model of the Universe Says Past Crystallizes out of the Future What do you get when the past crystallizes out of the future? According to a new model of the universe that combines relativity and quantum mechanics, the answer is: the present. What's the ...
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Toward home-brewed electricity with 'personalized solar energy'rank ...
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Of girls and geeks: Environment may be why women don't like computer scienceOf girls and geeks: Environment may be why women don't like computer science Just the appearance of science fiction memorabilia, computer game boxes and junk food in a classroom or workplace is enough to create an environment that makes computer science an unattractive field to many women. ...
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Why your boss is incompetent - life - 17 December 2009 - New ScientistIN THIS season of goodwill, spare a thought for that much-maligned bunch, the men and women at the top of the management tree. Yes, the murky machinations of the banking bosses might have needlessly plunged millions into penury. Yes, the actions of our political leaders might seem to be ...
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Richard Wrangham: Cooking is what made us human - life - 21 December 2009 - New ScientistWhat was the central mystery of human evolution that you were trying to solve? I was sitting next to the fire in my living room and I started asking the question, when did our ancestors last live without fire? Out of this came a paradox: it seemed to me that no human with our body form could ...
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2010 preview: Tooth-mounted hearing aid for the masses - health - 19 December 2009 - New ScientistBeethoven is said to have overcome his deafness by attaching a rod to his piano and clenching it between his teeth, enabling the musical vibrations to travel through his jawbone to his inner ear. Next year, a similar but less unwieldy approach might restore hearing to people with a common form ...
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Five laws of human nature - life - 17 December 2009 - New ScientistYou're so predictable. Offended? We're used to the idea that nature is governed by laws that spell out how things work. But the idea that human nature is governed by such laws raises hackles. Perhaps because of this, they have often been proposed with tongue in cheek – which makes it all the ...
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Beware humans bearing gifts - opinion - 20 December 2009 - New ScientistTHERE'S a Latin proverb, per angusta ad augusta , which translates as "through trial to triumph". Literally speaking, "angusta" refers to a narrow passageway. It gives us the English word "anxious", signalling a place that presses against you, where the walls are tight, and you might be too big ...
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Fake blood cells so agile they can carry drugs - health - 14 December 2009 - New ScientistYou can't get blood from a stone, but it seems you can make imitation red blood cells from polymers. Just like real blood cells the pretenders can squeeze through spaces much smaller than their own diameter and absorb and release substances to order, including oxygen. They could be used to ...
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Glenn Greenwald - Salon.comThe underlying divisions in the healthcare debate
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