10/11/2008
HHO: Using water to run your car (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)
MATTOON — The notion of the “water car” has been around at least since the 1970s, although it has usually varied somewhere between hoax and scam.
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10/09/2008
GOING DOWN (New York Post)
OF THE five million visitors to the Grand Canyon each year, 99 percent of them will view it from the rim only. They gaze into that yawning chasm, snap a family photo and then have lunch at the El Tovar Lodge. The average visit to the Grand Canyon...
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10/07/2008
Professor Sir Brian Pippard: Physicist who proved the existence of the Fermi surface and was the first President of ... (Independent)
Brian Pippard was a distinguished physicist and university teacher, a talented classical pianist, a historian of science and an able administrator. He enjoyed discussion and debate and he had an impressive knowledge and understanding of classical physics, quantum physics and statistical thermodynamics. He was the Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge University from 1971 to 1982 and the ...
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10/09/2008
Time traveling, in film and in love (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
The cuteness of the title of this new play by Nicholas Wardigo sells both the script and Straw Flower's production short. Intriguing and substantial, The Do's and Don'ts of Time Travel, now at the Adrienne, is an impressive premiere from a company dedicated to discovering hidden talent.
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10/09/2008
Post a Comment (Stuff)
"wats left". Way to stick it to them. Oh and James, you wouldn't know what democracy was if it bit you in the bum. The EFA is about reducing the disproportionate level of lobbying that comes from people with more money.
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10/08/2008
Pulitzer winner, four others win Cross medals (Yale Daily News)
Wilbur Lucius Cross 1885 GRD 1889 was a man of many talents: He was a professor of English, the first dean of the Yale Graduate School and a governor of Connecticut.
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10/02/2008
Researchers Re-Examine Second Law of Thermodynamics (Slashdot)
Many readers have written to tell us that researchers are examining the possibility of using Brownian ratchets to help combat the problem of heat dissipation in miniaturized electronics. "Currently, devices are engineered to operate near thermal equilibrium, in accordance with the Second Law of Thermodynamics which states that heat tends to transfer from a hotter unit to a cooler one. However, ...
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10/06/2008
Scientists create new kind of CO2 scrubber (UPI)
CALGARY, Alberta, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Scientists at the University of Calgary say they have developed a technology to capture carbon dioxide gas directly from the air.
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10/06/2008
Scientists create new kind of CO2 scrubber (Moldova.org)
Scientists at the University of Calgary say they have developed a technology to capture carbon dioxide gas directly from the air.David Keith, director of the university's Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy, said he and his team have demonstrated it's possible to reduce carbon dioxide -- the main greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming -- using a relatively simple ...
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10/06/2008
Physics first approach creates K-12 conceptual links (Washington University in St. Louis)
Sept. 2, 2008 -- Always use caution when entering a room filled with physics teachers. You're liable to get hit with flying marbles, step on an out-of-control toy car, or hear the strange buzzing of strings vibrating in harmonic patterns.
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