Jan 21 2009

Images of NASA’s Future [slide show]

The next-generation system of space vehicles at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been called “Apollo on steroids” because of its resemblance to vehicles from the early days of the United States space program.

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Jan 21 2009

Real-Life Invisibility Generator Passes Preliminary Tests!

Fiction inches closer to fact as an invisibility generator passes preliminary tests

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Jan 21 2009

Seagate Offers Free Data Recovery, Considers Drive Recall

What can customer say? “Thank you for recovering my data off that faulty drive you sold me.”

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Jan 21 2009

13 Greatest Old School Board Games

Board games. Do you remember these? Do you even remember what board games are?

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Jan 21 2009

RIAA Fears ‘Manipulation’ of Courtroom Web Broadcast

The Recording Industry Association of America is objecting to the webcasting of pretrial arguments in an upcoming file-sharing trial.The RIAA claims that the re-runs “will be readily subject to editing and manipulation by any reasonably tech-savvy individual.”

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Jan 21 2009

Google CEO: "Renewable Energy Is Cheaper, Not Nuclear"

Google CEO Eric Schmidt says despite the political debate, we should consider renewable energy over nuclear because “it’s cheaper.” He goes on to highlight new innovations in wind and solar thermal production.

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Jan 21 2009

Trials for Parents Who Chose Faith Over Medicine

Kara Neumann, 11, had grown so weak that she could not walk or speak. Her parents, who believe that God alone has the ability to heal the sick, prayed for her recovery but did not take her to a doctor.

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Jan 21 2009

Ravenous Clock Runs Backward, Scares Children

“I wanted a clock that would play with you,” designer John Taylor says. How steampunkeriffic.

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Jan 21 2009

Obama Promises Science-Centric, Eco-Friendly Presidency

President Obama’s Inaugural speech included a clutch of promises and observations that will have scientists, medical researchers and environmentalists in the US and around the world breathing a sigh of relief.

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Jan 21 2009

Iceland is burning

While Americans were watching the historic inauguration of Barack Obama as successor to the deeply unpopular conservative George W. Bush, thousands of Iceland’s citizens were fighting riot police around the Icelandic parliament building Althingi to try to prevent the world’s oldest parliament from meeting.

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