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Diary of a Mad Scalper
Street hawkers are history. Savvy resellers use the web to turn tickets into cash. By Steve Knopper from Wired magazine. Bare Down There or Square
When Darpa created the internet, its engineers probably did not envision how the web would affect our most intimate grooming rituals. Commentary by Regina Lynn. Maritime Security Enhanced With Ship And Satellite Data Integrated
Data from ERS-2, ESA's veteran spacecraft, is experiencing an increasing demand as the 12-year-old mission's products and services are playing a vital role in the Maritime Security Service project which addresses the European concern of illegal marine trafficking. The service integrates near real time satellite Earth Observation data with conventional vessel tracking data to deliver an understanding of the maritime situation to coast guards, navies and border police forces in Europe. [Ironic] LONDON: A jailed cocaine dealer is working as Santa Claus on
John Tams, who dons beard, boots and red suit to work in a cafe's Christmas grotto, said he wanted to give something back to the community... Hacking My Child's Brain, Part 1
When pondering how to help a son with SPD -- his brain can't handle all the sensory input from his body -- a software engineer looks to neuro-tech experts and recalibration. In Bodyhack. Optics and Silicon Elope
Chipmakers meet to unveil breakthroughs in putting optics into super-fast hybrid chips. By Mark Anderson. World's First Carbon Management MBA Launched
The University of East Anglia is launching the world's first MBA targeted at leading the business world into the low carbon economy. Fine-tuning Calf Nutrition Could Reduce Nitrogen Pollution
Milk prices dairy farmers received in 2004 were higher than in recent years but dairying, like all forms of agriculture is a vicious treadmill, demanding ever more increased efficiency to stay in place, said a dairy nutritionist with the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. Asleep In The Deep: Model Helps Assess Ocean-injection Strategy For Co
In searching for ways to counteract the greenhouse effect, some scientists have proposed capturing the culprit--carbon dioxide--as it is emitted from power plants, then liquefying the gas and injecting it into the ocean. But there are pitfalls in that plan. Doing Nature One Better: Expanding The Genetic Code In Living Mammalia
Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a novel strategy to expand the natural repertoire of 20 amino acids in mammalian cells, including neurons, and successfully inserted tailor-made amino acids into proteins in these cells. In a powerful demonstration of the method's versatility, they then used unnatural amino acids to determine the operating mechanism of the "molecular gates"that regulate the movement of potassium ions in and out of nerve cells.
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