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Julian Borger on Obama's plans to slash nuclear arsenal
10 Oct, 2009 | CATEGORY: Nuclear ArmamentsSustainable CultureOne Future | SOURCE: Guardian | Comments
Obama nuclear cuts: 'A multilateral process in which weapons states agree to radical disarmament'
Are Coral Reefs Doomed?
03 Sep, 2009 | CATEGORY: Climate changeState of the planet | SOURCE: Guardian | Comments
Article in the Guardian painting a bleak picture for the future of coral reefs - based upon a recent report from Australia.
Get Your Dog Cloned for $130,000
02 Jan, 2009 | CATEGORY: Biotechnology | SOURCE: NY Times | Comments
Yikes. This was a concept in a Arnold Schwarzeneggar movie 10 years back. Now it's real. Found this buried in a subsection of the NY Times - just another thing to your average New Yorker...
Winners of the TED 2009 Prize
29 Dec, 2008 | CATEGORY: One Future | SOURCE: TED | Comments
Three truly inspiring people.
Amateurs Trying Genetic Engineering at Home
27 Dec, 2008 | CATEGORY: Biotechnology | SOURCE: Yahoo News | Comments
I'm sure they said "Don't try this at home, folks".
I personally have been trying splice a bar of chocolate with one of my pot plants. Didn't work, that one.
Best in Data Visualisation 2008
27 Dec, 2008 | CATEGORY: Computing and Info TechDigital Age | SOURCE: Flowing Data | Comments
Something every data visualising man or woman should know...
Check out "I Want You to Want Me", very amazing work commissioned by New York's Museum of Modern Art and created by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar.
The Year in Biomedicine
27 Dec, 2008 | CATEGORY: Biotechnology | SOURCE: Technology Review | Comments
Included the first detailed map of the network of connections in the human cortex.
Kangaroo Burgers Could Save the Planet
27 Dec, 2008 | CATEGORY: Climate change | SOURCE: New Scientist | Comments
Mammal ruminents like sheep and cattle produce significant quantities of Methane - a greenhouse gas. Kangaroos produce no methane - possibly making them a greenhouse friendly option for mass meat production.
The Top Ten New Organisms of 2008
27 Dec, 2008 | CATEGORY: Life on Earth | SOURCE: WIRED | Comments
...including a new species of extinct Penguin.
NASA Outsources Resupply Missions to the ISS
27 Dec, 2008 | CATEGORY: Space Travel | SOURCE: NASA | Comments
SpaceX vehicles will make twelve trips to the space station and and second contractor, Orbital Sciences Corporation will have vehicles making eight trips between 2010 and 2016. And here's me thinking these so called private space companies just got their rockets flying in a straight line.
Turns out I'm right. They don't actually have the vehicles to do it just yet:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/24/0151211
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