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Wi-Fi TV Not Ready for Prime Time
Sharp's Aquos Wi-Fi TV is a neat gadget for television fanatics who just can't bear to miss one second of their favorite programs. But its cost and glitches offset the cool factor. A review by Elisa Batista. The Independents: The Ashcan School &Their Circle From Florida Collect
Essay about this group of early 20th century painters, who worked in "a style of realism that was later, imprecisely, designated 'The Ashcan School.'"Includes information about their genesis as "The Eight,"their involvement in the Armory Show of 1913, and links to information about individual artists, such as Robert Henri, George Bellows, and Maurice Prendergast. By a curator of American art at the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan. Preposterous Headdresses and Feathered Ladies: Hair, Wigs, Barbers, an
This companion to a 2003 exhibit at the Yale University's Lewis Walpole Library features "a selection of prints [from the second half of the 18th century] focused on hair and wigs, and on the hairdressers and barbers who created and tended them."Includes images of prints such as "A Doleful Disaster, or Miss Fubby Fatarmin's Wig Caught Fire"and "A French Hair Dresser Running through the Streets to his Customers." Big Picture: 570-Megapixel, Intergalactic Camera
Physicists and astronomers at Fermilab join forces to build a 570-megapixel (and the biggest ever) digital camera to answer one of the greatest mysteries of the cosmos: What is dark energy?
 Review: BlackBerry 8700c Electron
Will the new BlackBerry hold its ground? See what this latest mobile data center has in store for the next round of competitors. Plus: New controller turns cell phones into tiny video-game consoles. From the Wired News blog Gear Factor. Study Confirms ICDs More Effective In Preventing Sudden Cardiac Death
Alan Kadish, M.D., associate chief of Cardiology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and associate director of the Northwestern Cardiovascular Institute, authors an editorial entitled "Prophylactic Defibrillator Implantation -- Toward Evidence-Based Approach,"which accompanies the Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial (SCD-HeFT) reported in the January 20 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. New Secret ToCastor Bean's Awesome Oil Revealed
Castor plants, source of one of the world's best industrial oils, are gradually revealing the secrets of how they make this prized substance. Scientists with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Albany, Calif., are delving into the mostly-mysterious mechanisms. Mind Over Matter: SH2B1 In The Brain Regulates Obesity
Obesity is one of the main risk factors for developing type II diabetes. Previous studies have shown that mice lacking a protein known as SH2B1 throughout their body are obese and develop diabetes. However, researchers from the University of Michigan have now shown that replacing SH2B1 only in the brain of these mice rescues them from obesity, indicating that targeting SH2B1 in the brain might be a new avenue of research for the development of treatments for obesity and type II diabetes. Genetic Defenders Protect Crops From Fungal Disease
A handful of genetic defenders cooperate to protect Arabidopsis cells against powdery mildew disease, according to a new study from the Carnegie Institution and the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding. Powdery mildew, a common fungal infection, attacks more than 9,000 species of plants including barley, wheat, and horticultural plants such as roses and cucumbers. The discovery could help combat fungal parasites that devastate crops and cost growers billions of dollars in pesticides every year. [Funny] A referee has sent himself off in an English amateur league ma
Andy Wain had to abandon the Sunday league match between Peterborough North End and a Royal Mail side in the 63rd minute after throwing down his whistle and marching up to confront North End's keeper.
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