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Hacker Con Submits to Spychips
One thousand attendees of the Chaos Communication Congress voluntarily wire themselves up to RFID location-tracking devices. Just because they can. Quinn Norton reports from Berlin. Researchers Discover A Good Side To Cholesterol In Controlling Cell Si
Cholesterol, often stigmatized for its role in heart disease, has long been known to be essential for the health of the fat-laden membranes that surround individual cells. New findings by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center highlight a novel role for cholesterol inside the cell itself - anchoring a signaling pathway linked to cell division and cancer. Earth From Space
Companion to 2006-2010 traveling exhibition featuring satellite imagery of Earth from space. Provides images of vegetation, tropical forests, oceans, floods and storms, mountains and volcanoes, agriculture, urban areas, and more. Includes material about remote sensing and satellite technology. From the Smithsonian Institution. National Retail Federation: Super Bowl
"The Retail Advertising and Marketing Association's 2005 Super Bowl Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey was designed to gauge consumer behavior and shopping trends related to the Super Bowl."The site provides charts of consumers' plans for Super Bowl Sunday, the most important aspect of the event to consumers (such as the game, commercials, and getting together with friends) by age or region, and what consumers plan to spend for Super Bowl-related activities. Mutant Gene Shatters Nerves: Was Abe Lincoln Affected?
If you bend a knee or an elbow, the nerves in your limbs stretch but do not break. A University of Utah study suggests why: A gene produces a springy protein that keeps nerve cells flexible. When the gene was disabled in tiny nematode worms, their nerve cells literally broke. The discovery may provide a new explanation for spinocerebellar ataxia type 5 (SCA5) -- a disease previously tied to a human version of the gene and identified in 11 generations of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's family, starting with his paternal grandparents. SCA5 may have afflicted Lincoln himself. The new study suggests how. Judge: RIAA Owes Defendant Legal Fees
The RIAA must pay P2P defendant Debbie Foster more than $68,000 for accusing her of sharing copyrighted music over the Kazaa network, by order of Oklahoma Judge Lee R. West. Department of Veterans Affairs Facility Directory
This site from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) offers a searchable directory of VA facilities throughout the United States. The directory provides information and Web site links for VA central and benefits offices, VA cemeteries, and VA medical facilities that include hospitals, outpatient clinics, Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) offices, and vet centers. Facilities can be browsed by state or searched for by facility type and zip code. Frontline: The Storm
This Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Frontline program "examines how and why government at every level -- local, state and federal -- was unprepared, uncoordinated and overwhelmed in dealing with the Hurricane Katrina disaster."The website features interviews, analysis, a timeline of the warnings leading up to the hurricane, excerpts from home videos, video of the program, readings and links, and a teacher's guide. EBSCOhost Database: Library, Information Science &Technology Abstracts
This database offers free abstracts (but not full text) of books, magazine articles, and reports, and other resources on "subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more."From EBSCO Publishing. Screening For Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms In Women May Save Lives
In nine out of 10 cases, a burst abdominal aortic artery is quickly fatal for its most common victim: elderly males. A new study -- the largest yet performed -- now confirms that women over 65 with a history of smoking or heart disease are also at high risk for an abdominal aortic aneurysm -- supporting the notion that they should also receive ultrasound screening to help spot and correct the dangerous condition.
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