Tristans Daily Link Review; 21 August 2010

* Neither Ray Kurzweil nor PZ Myers Understand the Brain >>
* NASA Managers Approve Additional Shuttle Flight >>
* Sony unveils ‘Single Wire Interface Technology’ >>

* Scienceblogging aggregator >>

* Researchers make magnetic fields breakthrough >>
* Researchers Zero in on Protein that Destroys HIV >>
* Research on cancer vaccine begins to pay off >>

* Power line inspecting robot isn’t afraid of getting juiced >>
* Toshiba’s breakthrough could lead to 25TB 3.5-inch drives >>
* We’ll run out of helium in 25 years, and were using it for party balloons. >>

* Recession hits smart phone makers in the chips >>
* Laser Jet Preps for Saturday Missile Shootdown >>
* U.S. military to covertly deliver payloads with robot rockets >>

* Neptune will soon complete first orbit around the sun since its discovery in 1846 >>
* Yoga protects the brain from depression >>

* 48-Million-Year Fossil of Zombie Ants Unearthed >>
* How collapsing bubbles could shoot cancer cells dead >>
* Moon Is Shrinking, but Just a Little >>
* Google Offers Cloud-Based Learning Engine >>

* The Wildcat2030 Daily is out >> >>
* Xixidu News for 2010-08-20 >>
* TristansDaily Link Review; 20 August 2010 >>

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TristansDaily Link Review; 20 August 2010

* Hydrogen bonds are caught on camera >>
* Virtual reality asks tough questions >>
* Virtual reality you can touch (w/ Video) >>
* Augmented Reality: iphone Magazine >>

* Dissolving your earthly remains will protect the Earth >>
* Lockheed Martin’s VARIOUS UAVs >>
* We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Sharkboat [Sharkboat] >>

* A ‘Kill Switch’ for Rogue Microbes >>
* What’s Wrong With Dark Energy? >>
* Video: Powering the Future >>

* Evolutionary Psychologists Sex Up Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs >>
* Ray Kurzweil Responds to “Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain” | KurzweilAI >>
* A Trip to Mars Could Reduce Astronauts’ Muscles to Spaghetti >>

* Thanks to Video, 10G Fiber To The Home May Come Soon >>
* ISP’s top data hog gobbles 2.7TB of data in a month >>

* Brain network links cognition, motivation >> >>
* You Could Own A Pool-Shooting, Beer-Fetching Willow Garage Robot >>
* Virus-Busting Chips! Why Intel Paid Billions for McAfee. [Intel] >>

* The Titanic Gets Its Most Thorough Scan Ever [Expeditions] >>
* Check Out This Incredible Video Of A Bull Jumping Into A Crowd In Spain >>
* Urine could be renewable source >>

* Universe ‘likely to grow forever’ >>
* The Next 10 Years of Exoplanets >>

* GM shows updated versions of the Segway Followup PUMA now Called the En-V >>
* Anti-aging by blocking a gene — without restricting food intake? >>
* Roller coaster superconductivity discovered >>

* The Craig Venter Interview You Have to Read Gives a New Perspective on Genetics >>
* Restoring lost muscle helps animal models live a lot longer with cancer >>
* Xixidu News for 2010-08-19 >>
* Tristans Daily Link Review; 19 August 2010 >>

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Tristans Daily Link Review; 19 August 2010

* Sign Language Over Video Phones Becoming Practical >>
* Visualising a Robust Biomass Network >>
* Scientists one step closer to mimicking caloric restriction with anti-aging drugs >>
* Bayes Chip >>

* How an 1,800-year-old herbal mix heals the gut >>
* Phones, TVs, Cars Leading the Way to 22 Billion Internet-Connected Things >>
* Peter Molyneux brings Milo, Kinect, and snails to the TED stage >>

* What Does ‘P vs. NP’ Mean for the Rest of Us? >>
* What Will Get NASA to Space Next? The Many Possibilities >>
* Will a Commercial Flight be First To Mars? >>

* Scientists detect TB genetic signature >>
* Amplifying Our Brain Power Through Better Interactive Holographics >>
* Lawnmower Robots Get Millions in Funding, Heading Towards the Golfing Green >>
* Mother of all humans lived 200,000 years ago >>

* A cure for HIV could be all in the ‘mix’ >>
* Probing the nanoparticle: Predicting how nanoparticles will react in the human body >>
* Closing in on the inflaton, mother of the universe >>

* Potential HIV drug keeps virus out of cells >>
* She Blinded Me With… A Nova? >>
* Xixidu News for 2010-08-18 >>
* Tristans Daily Link Review; 18 August 2010 >>

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Tristans Daily Link Review; 18 August 2010

* 1978 Cryptosystem Resists Quantum Attack >>
* Building the Brain: From Simplicity to Complexity >>
* Quantum Computing Takes a Giant Step Closer to Reality >>
* Through the Wormhole >>

* 12 Essential TED Talks for Writers >>
* 17. CAN MINDCLONES GET MARRIED AND HAVE CHILDREN? >>
* More on a Space Elevator in <7 >>

* Medicine may be key to cloning’s future >>
* Five Billionth Device About To Plug Into Internet >>

* Toshiba Hard-Drive Breakthrough: density equivalent to 2.5 terabits per square inch >>
* World record data density for ferroelectric recording >>
* 7-Inch iPad Could Be Bigger Than the Original >>

* Slide the bar to see comparative Scale of the Universe: >>
* Can cloned plants live forever? >>
* Vimeo adds HTML5 embeds for viewing on iPad, iPhone >>

* Myers: Kurzweil is a pseudo-scientific dingbat who does not understand the brain >>
* New drugs to treat chronic pain without numbing may be possible >>
* Found: World’s oldest animal fossils >>

* Forget 1’s and 0’s—The Microchip Gets Rethunk Using Probability >>
* Lasers could make virtual particles real >>
* How to Make Justin Bieber Sound Incredible: Slow Him Down 800 Percent [Whoa] >>

* The Future of Interfaces is Mobile, Screen-less and Invisible >>
* The Open Source Virtual Brain >>
* Tristans Daily Link Review; 17 August 2010 >>

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Tristans Daily Link Review; 17 August 2010

* Who Wouldn’t Buy Ice Cream From A Cute Japanese Robot? >>
* Power Line Inspecting Robots Can Get Around Obstacles >>
* What is the next bubble? >>

* Watch a 747 Put On Its War Paint [Video] >>
* Report: Cancer is the world’s costliest disease >>
* Who Wouldn’t Buy Ice Cream From A Cute Japanese Robot? >>

* Doubts continue on claim to have solved P vs NP mathematical question >>
* Leaked Intel Roadmap Shows 600GB SSD >>
* The Sun’s ‘Quiet Period’ Explained >>

* GScientists successfully use human stem cells to treat Parkinson’s in rodents >>
* Reverse-Engineering of Human Brain Likely by 2020 [Brains] >>
* Sentient Developments: The ‘Create the Future’ myth” >>

* Google CEO Suggests You Change Your Name to Escape a Permanent Record >>
* Social economic networks and the new intangibles >>

* Voxel Fabbing, Nanosphere Lithography and Microspheres, Personal Portable 3D Printer and At Home Laser Cutting >>
* Xixidu News for 2010-08-16 >>

* Thieving parrots hatch a plan to unlock food >>
* Navigating 50 years of philosophical debate—Robert Horn’s Seven Can Computers Think? maps >>

* Watson, Turing, and extreme machine learning >>
* Singularity Summit 10 Evening >>
* AIs, Superflies, and the Path to Immortality | h+ Magazine” >>

* Singularity Summit 10 Afternoon >>
* Singularity Summit 10 Mid-Day >>
* Kris Notaro Can We Be Happy Forever In Robot Bodies? By Andrew Cvercko and Kris Notaro >>
* AI for Increased Human Healthspan (Dr Ben Goertzel) >>

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Tristans Daily Link Review; 14 August 2010

* Dual-core smartphones on the horizon >>
* Dark Energy, Exoplanets Top List of Astronomy Priorities >>
* A toothpaste-like gel that can heal wounds six times faster than normal >>
* Video: Heartbeats at the Speed of Light >>
* How a 16-yo Kid Made His First Million Dollars Following His Hero Steve Jobs >>

* $1.6 Billion Telescope Would Search Alien Planets and Probe Dark Energy >>
* Robot Ethics and Human Ethics >>
* Real time selection in humans >>

* Rare Sharing of Data Led To Results In Alzheimer’s Research >>
* Having Too Much Information Can Narrow Your Focus >>
* Nanotech tea bag creates safe drinking water instantly, for less than a penny >>
* What Does Technology Want? Change, and Lots of It >>

* China to Create a State-Controlled Search Engine >>
* Can hyperlinks be libellous? >>
* Facebook launches live video channel >>
* Space elevator dream hits 50-year mark >>

* 3D Printing: What Comes Next? >>
* The Limits of Understanding >>
* Tide turns against million-dollar maths proof >>
* Bigthink: The Fountain of Youth & Living Forever (Part 2 of 2) >>

* Robot Teaches Children How To Use Wheelchair At Their Own Pace >>
* Singapore Researchers Unveil Social Robot Olivia >>
* The Reinvention of Marriage >>
* Happy Employees May Be the Key to Success for Organizations >>

* Flexible tubes could bring wall-sized TV price crash >>
* Arp 286: Trio in Virgo >>
* Tristans Daily Link Review; 13 August 2010 >>

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Tristans Daily Link Review; 13 August 2010

* Robotic Wheelchair Can Be Set to Automatically Follow A Human >>
* Parrot AR.Drone vs Bull >>
* Monitor Your House or Business From an iPhone – >>
* Software’s Rage, running on iPhone at 60fps with ‘megatextured’ >>

* Just speak it: introducing Voice Actions for Android >>
* Race to launch Moon landing probe >>
* Transposons: DNA that May Contribute to Each Person’s Uniqueness >>
* Fermi detects ‘shocking’ surprise from supernova’s little cousin >>

* Foundation elements for modern businesses >>
* Website Lets You Bet On Your Grades >>
* New nanoscale transistors allow sensitive probing inside cells >>

* Extended solar minimum linked to changes in sun’s conveyor belt >>
* Jupiter swallowed a super-Earth >>
* Asteroid found in space graveyard >>

* Research could change course of treatment for cancer that spreads to bones >>
* Seeing Cancer With Sound Made By Light >>

* New Titi Monkey Species Discovered In Amazon >>

* Oracle sues Google over Java patent infringement in Android >>
* Making Smart Windows that Are Also Cheap >>
* Google Chrome to Phone Connects Your Desktop to Your Android [Chrome] >>

* Mutant mouse reveals potential genetic pathway for alcoholism >>
* Will geeks inherit the earth? >>

* Video quality less important when you’re enjoying what you’re watching >>
* Future on display: Long-lasting images save on power >>

* First plastic computer memory device the spin of electrons to read and write data >>
* MRI scans show brain’s response to actions of others >>

* App Lets You Make a Phone Call With Your Mind (Video) >>
* Xixidu News for 2010-08-12 >>
* New evidence that matter and antimatter may behave differently >>

* The End of Outsourcing (As We Know It) – BusinessWeek >>
* Richard Dawkins talks to Craig Venter, Julian Savulescu, and other leading…” >>
* Tristans Daily Link Review; 12 August 2010 >>

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Tristans Daily Link Review; 12 August 2010

* Scientists identify DNA that may contribute to each person’s uniqueness >>
* Dual Antennas Would Boost Cell-Phone Signals >>
* Who Owns You? 20% of the Genes in Your Body are Patented >>
* The Growing Robot Culture: Home-made R2D2 Droids from Star Wars (video) >>

* Part of space station could go to asteroid >>
* Camcorder with Picoprojector >>
* Minority Report advertising arrives >>

* Map of the Future 2010 >>
* Watch an Interview With the World’s First Cyborg >>
* Mike Treder How much do politics really matter? >>
* Fund Manager Tries To Figure Out if Microsoft’s Business Will Collapse >>

* How salmonella helps kill cancer cells >>
* Human ancestors carved meat with stone tools million years earlier than expected >>
* Where do Meteor Showers come from? [Starts With A Bang] >>

* Spontaneous order on the road >>
* What Do You Need to Make Cold Atoms? Part 1: Vacuum Hardware >>

* Laser backpack creates instant 3D maps (video) >>
* Firefox 4 Beta Adds Multi-touch Support >>
* Electric Sheep new client released v2.7b28: >>
* US military to attack Moore’s Law for future computers >>
* PERMANENT PENCIL: Sharpie’s new Liquid Pencil contains liquid graphite. >>

* Cancer-Sniffing E-Nose Can Differentiate Between Various Forms of the Disease >>
* Erler: There’s no point in worrying about immortality >>

* What Happened to Yahoo: In technology, once you have bad programmers, you’re doomed. >>
* Pets Vital to Human Evolution >> >>

* Xixidu News for 2010-08-11 >>
* Robin Hanson Interviewed by Sander Olson >>
* Fractals promise higher-temperature superconductors >>

* Me, Myself and I: How the Brain Maintains a Sense of Self >>
* Hydrogen bombshell: Rewriting life’s history >>
* Tristans Daily Link Review; 11 August 2010 >>

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Tristans Daily Link Review; 11 August 2010

* Brain works more like internet than ‘top down’ company >>
* Check Out Kawada’s Humanoid Walking HRP-2 Robot (video) >>
* P ? NP? It’s bad news for the power of computing >>

* Op-Ed Contributor – The First Church of Robotics – NYTimes.com” >>
* Antibiotic era threatened by gut gene >>
* Scientists regrow section of bone >>
* LHC – First Inverse Picobarn! >>

* University of Calgary Develops a Neurochip >>
* Human cells can copy not only DNA, but also RNA >>
* Researchers find clues to gut immunity evolution, reveal similarities between fish and humans >>

* First Spintronic Computer Memory Device Successfully Built in Lab >>
* MIT Researchers Use Raman Spectroscopy for Noninvasive Blood Glucose Measurements >>

* Non-Human Objects Are Now Outpacing New Human Subscribers On The Internet [Internet] >>
* Dattoos: The ultimate wearable computer >>
* Five Reasons Neuroscience is not Ready for the Courtroom >>
* A Revised Taxonomy of Social Networking Data >>

* Xixudu News for 2010-08-10 >>

* This Fall, Don’t Forget Your DNA on Your Way to College >>
* An oversimplified guide to the human mind >>
* Tristans Daily Link Review; 10 August 2010 >>

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Tristans Daily Link Review; 10 August 2010

* Rethinking Einstein: The end of space-time >>
* Mind-controlled app calls your friends with the power of thought >>
* Realistic 3D projection on a building. [VIDEO] >>
* Hiding files in Flickr pics will fool web censors >>

* Every position on Rubik’s Cube can be solved in 20 moves or less – now proved: >>
* The Brain’s Secret to Sleeping Like a Log >>
* Why the Big Bang Won’t Work” Won’t Work [Starts With A Bang] >>
* Gene Mutation Caused 2009 H1N1 Virus Spread >>

* Spinal-Fluid Test Confirmed To Predict Alzheimer’s >>
* Share Your Blood Pressure Chart Online (Free Web App) >>
* Showtime: Mandelbox Zoom by Hömpörg? >>

* The Next Silicon Valley >>
* Wireless Car Sensors Vulnerable to Hackers >>
* Robots Have Needs Too >>
* Why some people can sleep through anything >>

* Owlcam! >>
* Do You Know Where Your Children Are? Your Phone Does. Geo-Tracking Heats Up. >>
* Brain Has Backup Circuit for Fear >>
* Brain’s wiring: More network than pyramid? >>

* Special Forces’ Robocopter Spotted in Belize >>
* 5-hour Europe flight step closer -NZ Herald News >>
* The Personality Paradox-By Jonah Lehrer >>
* Scientists map all mammalian gene interactions >>

* Tan Le Demos Headset That Reads Brainwaves (video) >>
* New ‘dentist’ test to detect oral cancer will save lives >>
* Better understanding of mapmaking in the brain >>
* 475 – The Day the Earth Stood Still >>

* Particle Accelerators Could Work As Power Generators >>
* Recreate life to understand how life began >>
* Did Life Originate in Galactic Nebula? Some Experts Say “Yes” >>
* Tristans Daily Link Review; 9 August 2010 >>

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