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Putting Corn to Work in Plastics Continued effort, as with ethanol, to replace petroleum with corn 
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Researchers Figure Out How to Build a Fuel Cell Without a Membrane Basically, it removes a part from the process, making the whole system potentially more reliable and better-performing
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NIH Concludes It's Spending Too Much Time Telling Researchers What to Do Acknowledgment that they need to loosen up the rules and let scientists start experimenting more a welcome conclusion
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Research Says Humans Can Handle About Four Variables at a Time More than that, especially when it's a new or unfamiliar task that prevents us from grouping variables together, and we're just not able to do it. Get up to five variables and your chances of getting things right are virtually no better than throwing darts.
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Summary of American Chemical Society Annual Meeting Highlights: Using bacteria to create drugs, apples as heart-health tool, recovering broken vocal cords, using herpes simplex (cold sores) to treat cancer 
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Interview with Bob Moog Creator of the Moog Synthesizer 
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Government Promotes Study Saying College Drinking is a Big Risk to Public Health Unfortunately, their conclusion calls for "greater enforcement of the legal drinking age of 21 and zero tolerance laws, increases in alcohol taxes," and other measures. The problem is that those only reinforce the prohibitionary approach to alcohol that clearly doesn't work. What's really needed is a smarter approach to raising kids to think of alcohol in a certain framework of relationships and responsibilities. A policy that says "don't even think about it until an arbitrary age three years beyond the date at which you are qualified to vote" doesn't make a lot of sense. What of introducing kids to alcohol in moderation under parental supervision well before it becomes a tantalizing treat unto itself? If prohibition really worked so well, the US would do itself a lot of good to make math illegal -- then all the kids would be trying to learn some. 
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Yahoo Plans to Offer 1 Gb Mailboxes Starting in April Will put them in head-to-head competition with Gmail. Google's spam-filtering is considerably better for now. 
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Seismologists Worried that More Big Quakes Could Hit Indian Ocean
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E-Mail Authentication as Solution to Spam
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Do You See the Light? Blues Brothers line comes to astronomy; researchers detect glow coming from planets around other stars. We found the first planets outside our solar system just a decade ago; the count is now almost 150.
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Utah Law Appears to Make ISPs Liable for Content They Don't Create If the characterizations are true, it's a bad move and a step away from thinking of the Internet like a bookstore in a free society
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Yahoo Buys Flickr; May Be Planning Challenge to Google By investing in meta-tags and community organization of data, Yahoo may be betting on human categorization of the web in a way that Google's automated algorithms can't top. But there also might just be far too much Web to handle. The return to hand-managed data is a throwback to the old days of Yahoo. Meantime, others are trying to put search technology to work on resumes, and IBM researchers are trying to figure out how to make computers think like living organisms by copying the natural structure of the brain.
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DNA May Be Able to Skip Generations If the analysis is correct, Mendelian genetics could be feeling the same pinch that Newtonian physics did when Einstein put pen to paper. Purdue researchers find that about 10% of the offspring of a certain mutated plant "fix" the mutation, even though they're purebred genetically to contain it. Initial hypothesis suggests it could be related to deep-encoded RNA templates.
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Microsoft Funds Study Saying Microsoft is More Secure for Web Servers than Linux Whether the research is fair or not misses a much larger point: Large-scale networks (like the Internet) can only be truly secure if there are at least two or three major operating systems sharing the market. Homogeneity among networks that are in extremely close and frequent contact would be like raising millions of people from the same small gene pool, then putting them all in a very small confined space: Once something goes wrong (the right virus, for instance), the results turn catastrophic in a hurry. Some level of diversity is urgently needed to build in a certain set of safeguards against cataclysm.
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Some European Countries, On Average, Fatter than US Some obesity rates in places like Greece, Finland, Germany, Czech Republic are above the US rate (from Future Pundit) 
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What Regional Press Say About Lebanese Situation Lots of worried language -- especially concerns that politics may spill over into violence
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"Total Eclipse of the Heart" Using Appliances for Drums (Video) There are times when one can only wonder how people can do some things and keep a straight face throughout |
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