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Tristans Daily Link Review; 30 September 2010

September 30, 2010 Leave a comment

* Earth like Planet in the Habitable Zone has been found >>
* Monkeys See Selves in Mirror, Open a Barrel of Questions >>
* Video: Journalism In The Age of Data: Visually Stunning Documentary >>

* 3 genes led to jaws >>
* Biologists say species accumulate on Earth at slower rates than in the past >>
* Hate Your Height? Scientists Uncover Genes You Can Blame >>

* Feature: There is no Plan B: why the IPv4-to-IPv6 transition will be ugly >>
* Sky 3D: The next big thing? >>
* Jaguar creates electric supercar with jet engine >>
* How much can a baby understand? >>

* Congress Approves Bill for NASA’s New Space Plan (SPACE.com) >>
* StartTalking lets drivers send texts by voice >>
* Self-Assembled Organic Nanostructures with Metallic-Like Stiffness >>

* Ultrafast Laser Pulse Makes Desktop Black Hole Glow >>
* A Robot Chair Makes You Sit Up Straight >>
* 44 carbon atoms of polyyne carbon made, polyyne can be 40 times harder than diamond >>

* Researchers Test Space Beer >>
* Most complete beer ‘proteome’ finding could lead to engineered brews >>

* Pre-Crime Comes To the HR Dept. >>
* Dirty hands, dirty mouths: Study finds a need to clean the body part that lies >>
* Demon Drone Makes First Flapless Flight >>

* Smart, Power-Producing Material Could Spawn Microrobots >>
* Sodium Spurs a Tadpole to Regenerate Its Tail >>
* 50 years of futuristic concept cars >> >>
* Gamers pay to play with girls >>

* Plan for space hotel unveiled >>
* Singularitarianisms, Particle Accelerator Cancer Therapy >>
* Xixidu News for 2010-09-29 >>

* How To Build A Warp Drive Using Metamaterials >>
* Will robotics be the next big growth industry for the United States? >>
* Will DNA Prove to be a Cosmic Constant? >>
* SETI: The Red Giant Factor >>

* Technique to reattach teeth using stem cells developed >>
* Giant step toward explaining differences in height among people >>
* I, Monkey: Test Subjects Recognize Their Mirror Images >>

* Milky Way sidelined in galactic tug-of-war, computer simulation shows >>
* Nanostructuring Technology Creates Energy-Efficient, Ultra-Small Displays >>
* Willow Garage Teaches Robot Not To Crush Puny Humans (Video) >>
* Tristans Daily Link Review; 29 September 2010 >>

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Tristans Daily Link Review; 29 September 2010

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* Nokia Stretchable Electronic Skin: Future of mobile? (Video) >>
* The Levytator – escalators go freeform >>
* Google sees future of cloud computers empowering smartphones to augment your brain >>

* Hot New Thing in Biometric Security is… Ears >>
* Robots: Object Detection in Crowded Workspaces >>
* Carrots Used to Be Purple Before the 17th Century >>

* Star Wars films to be re-released in 3D >>
* Internet disconnection like being imprisoned, says Sir Tim Berners-Lee >>
* Space plane that takes off from runway ready in 10 years >>
* Sizing Up Consciousness by Its Bits >>

* Twitter 140 characters each, all those characters add up.to 12 terabytes every day. >>
* Iron Man-style power suits ‘will be in war zones in five years’ >>
* Big lasers make electrons stick together in tiny bunches >>

* Aristotle on Household Robots >>
* Stephen Hawking [COMIC] >>
* Parallel Physics: Do “Uber Laws” Vary Across a Multitude of Universes? >>

* Listen: Microscopic Instrument Produces Tones Humans Can Hear >>
* Smartphones and Broadband Are Making Our Homes Smarter >>
* Sony’s LiveView Is the Dick Tracy Watch Apple Should’ve Made >>
* Executing on Innovation >>

* Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome | Video on TED.com >>
* IP Webcam Turns Your Android Phone into a Wireless Camera [Video] >>
* Why GroupMe Could Get Huge, Fast: Normal People Love It >>

* Quantum Entanglement from Feedback Control >>
* Better surgery with new surgical robot with force feedback >>
* Cancer-fighting Viagra, the drug that keeps on giving >>
* Cosmic accidents: Tipping the antimatter balance >>

* EU Confronts Transhumanism With Technolife Project (video) >>
* Striding towards a new dawn for electronics >>
* Firefly stem cells may help repair damaged hearts >>

* Project Icarus: Finding the Fuel >>
* Quadrotors Learn New Dance >>
* Robotic legs to help people walk again >>

* Magnetic anomalies shield the Moon >>
* The New Internet-TV Boxes Arrive: From Roku to Apple TV >>
* Physicist Says Extraterrestrials “Could Exist in Forms We Can’t Conceive” >>
* A complex Emergent System of Systems – Earth >>

* Xixidu News for 2010-09-28 >>
* Tristans Daily Link Review; 28 September 2010 >>

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Tristans Daily Link Review; 28 September 2010

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* Robotic Vaginas Make Childbirth Look More Horrifying Than Ever >>
* Swiss Researchers Test Largest-Ever Swarm of Aerial Robots (Video) >>
* Lasers Made of Sound >>

* Why Aren’t Monkeys Still Evolving? >>
* Second Generation Exoskeleton – Raytheon XOS 2 >>
* Beyond God and atheism: Why I am a ‘possibilian’ >>

* Single electron reader opens path for quantum computing >>
* Scientists use plasmonic nanobubbles to detect, eliminate prostate cancer cells >>
* Scientists discover gene linked to a common form of migraine >>

* Scanning the ape fecome >>
* Addicts to get no kick from cocaine >>
* How to widen the hunt for targeted cancer therapy >>
* Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Will Miss Earth by 4 Million Miles >>
* The New Nu News! [Starts With A Bang] >>

* Stephen Meyer Explains Modern Evolution >>
* Volvo pedestrian avoidance test goes horribly, comically wrong (video) >>
* Now You Can Code Without Knowing Code >>

* It’s Not About What You Do, But Why You Do It [Video] >>
* You either disrupt or you get disrupted” -scott cook #tcdisrupt >>
* Hacking Work: The Social Network Hack >>
* An Ungodly 24 GB of RAM in One Desktop-Whipping Notebook >>
* Fabric Video Wants To Change The Way You Search For Videos >>

* Physicists Claim to Have Spotted Sought-After Hawking Radiation >>
* Time Likely To End Within Earth’s Lifespan, Say Physicists >>
* E = mc2: The Unforgettable Equation of Einstein’s Miracle Year >>

* Rewiring a Damaged Brain >>
* Mapping the Brain on a Massive Scale >>
* You can switch from right-handed to left-handed through the power of magnets >>

* Solar cells thinner than wavelengths of light hold huge power potential >>
* Is Canada’s 3D Girl ‘Speed Bump’ A Stupid Idea? (video) >>
* God or Darwin? Randomness of life reminder may drive the decision >>

* Khan Academy and FIRST Among Winners of $10M from Google >>
* Early Interstellar Missions and Energy >>
* MIT,Yale, USC have better max-flow algorithm which improve networks and logistics >>

* Why the Stuxnet worm is like nothing seen before >>
* Genetic clues to evolution of jaws in vertebrates unearthed >>
* Fungi generate their own mini wind to go the distance >>
* Rocketon sends avatars crawling all over web pages >>

* Whole periodic table geeky videos. >>
* Researcher builds machines that daydream >>
* How Modern Life Affects the Brain >>

* Curiosity Rocks Obstacle Course >>
* Xixidu News for 2010-09-27 >>
* Tristans Daily Link Review; 27 September 2010 >>

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Tristans Daily Link Review; 27 September 2010

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* Patients to be frozen into state of suspended animation for surgery >>
* UN to appoint space ambassador to greet alien visitors >>
* Cyborg Professor Looks to Future of Bionic Technology >>

* China vs US: Their Moon Shot and Ours >>
* Study: Wind May Have Helped Moses Part Red Sea >>
* What will future generations condemn us for? >>

* Painless laser ‘can spot disease’ >>
* Air Force Launches Satellite to Track Space Junk Around Earth >>
* Point iPhone At Sky, See Augmented Reality Info As Planes Fly >>
* Panasonic unleashes 16-finger, hair washing robot >>

* Genetic “Light Switches” Control Muscle Movement >>
* QC: Researchers convert signals to telecom wavelengths, increase memory times >>
* Was Complex Life on Earth Chemically Jump Started? New Findings Say “Yes” >>

* Scientists Make Atom-Trapping Breakthrough >>
* The temptation of equilibrium >>

* The Next Revolution in Medical Devices: Self-Design and Prototyping >>
* They Keep Getting Smaller… And More Powerful >>
* Measuring Atomic Memory with Nano Precision >>

* The problems in our world aren’t technical, but social -… >>
* Olfactory-like signaling in mammalian sperm >>
* Boyden: Helping brains and machines work together >>

* Iris Scanning Set To Secure City in Mexico, Then the World (video) >>
* Nobel Laureate explains carbon nanotubes >>
* Biometric identification faces real-world hurdles >>

* Xixidu News for 2010-09-26 >>
* Future Art >>
* Tristans Daily Link Review; 26 September 2010 >>

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Tristans Daily Link Review; 26 September 2010

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* GeorgeDvorsky: Searching for Kardashev III civilizations >>
* Bigger brain for those who self-reflect >>
* Robots could improve everyday life at home or work >>
* Xixidu News for 2010-09-25 >>
* The Troubles With Modern Sleep: Myths, Memory, and Mortality >>

* ARM Cortex A15 MPCore for quadcore smartphones up to 2.5 GHz in 2013 >>
* Searching for Kardashev III civilizations >>
* mashable: How Are You Watching the Fall TV Lineup? [POLL] – >> >>
* $10 million for Project 10^100 winners >>

* The Future Of Robotic Grip Revealed >>
* Windoro robot climbs and cleans windows >>
* Mimicking nature, water-based ‘artificial leaf’ produces electricity >>
* Low Libido? The Latest Lowdown on Lust >>

* Genetic clues to evolution of jaws in vertebrates unearthed >>
* The End of the World >>
* Wirelessly Connected Cars Could Act As Traffic Sensors >>
* How to build a brain with neural networks [Madscience] >>

* From brain to language to accent >>
* Startup working on Internet-aware hardware for toymakers. >>
* Blood test identifies organ transplant rejection >>
* The Hospital Robot With a Bedside Manner (video) >>

* Researchers create first molecule-blocks key component of cancer genes’ on-off switch >>
* Brian Wang: Molecular Nanotechnology Was Explicitly Excluded from Funding… You Get What You Pay For” >>
* Human proteome fully mapped >>
* Panasonic announces hair washing robot >>
* Researcher Builds Machines That Daydream >>

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Tristans Daily Link Review; 24 September 2010

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* iCub Learns Archery >>
* How Adobe Will Let You Take Perfectly Focused Images Every Time >>
* The shape-shifting future of the mobile phone: Fabian Hemmert on TED.com >>
* Robotic arm’s big flaw: Patients in wheelchairs say it’s ‘too easy’ >>

* Non-stick coating of a protein found in semen reduces HIV infection >>
* Kuiper Belt Dust Could Tell Aliens We’re Here >>
* Ancient Fossil Flower Is Father of Sunflower Family >>

* What Is “Super Wi-Fi”? >>
* Is the Web Heading Toward Redirect Hell? >>
* The Future of Autonomous Mars Rovers >>

* Artificial human brain being built in a lab >>
* Man Prevented From Finding Chipped Pet Under Data Protection Act >>
* The history of nude psychotherapy >>

* Cosmic accidents: 10 lucky breaks for humanity >>
* Andrea Kuszewski Solutions for a Creativity Crisis: Technological Disobedience >>
* (Virtual) Employment Open Thread >>

* Scientists Find New Target For Alzhiemer’s >>
* Melinda Gates’ talk from #TEDxChange >> #TEDx

* Honey bees can get drunk, just like humans >>
* Oldest man in the world sheds light on 100 years of technology >>
* Facebook Is Not Worth $33,000,000,000 >>

* IBM breakthrough could measure rapid changes to atoms >>
* Armadillo Aerospace Super Mod rocket free flight >>
* Ingredient in soap points toward new drugs for infection that affects two billion >>
* iPhone App Uses Image Recognition to Help You Master Wine Selection – >>

* Standing on a stepladder makes you age faster >>
* Xixidu News for 2010-09-23 >>
* Avatar therapy: From couch to cyberspace >>

* Robots on TV: Rescue bot knows, um, what you mean >>
* Salim Ismail: How Will Accelerating Technologies Affect You? (video) >>
* Man With Blood Disease Free from Life of Transfusions Thanks to Gene Therapy >>

* Reverse Combustion: Can CO2 Be Turned Back into Fuel? [Video] >>
* An Alien’s View of Our Solar System >>
* Extreme conditions deep in Earth’s interior recreated >>
* Tristans Daily Link Review; 23 September 2010 >>

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Tristans Daily Link Review; 23 September 2010

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* First Human to Fly By Flapping Wings (Video) >>
* MIT neuroscientists reveal how the brain learns to recognize objects >>
* Large Hadron Collider signal may show big bang conditions >>
* Physicists: What would happen if you stuck your hand in the Large Hadron Collider? >>

* 7mm Thick Pico Projector Can Produce a 70 inch Image (video) >>
* Exposing Subtle Physiology & Behavior in Virtual Humans >>
* Deceptive robots hint at machine self-awareness >>

* Titanium foams replace injured bones >>
* Toward the first nose drops to treat brain cancer >>
* Ultra-high-speed process makes 6-petabits discs practical >>

* Brain Coprocessors >>
* How To Turn Carbon Onions Into Oysters >>
* New computer-tomography method visualizes nano-structure of bones >>

* Electricity collected from the air could become the newest alternative energy source >>
* Turning Thoughts into Words >>
* Are Quantum ETs Possible? (Today’s Most Popular) >>

* Smartphone app for genes on Earth is tool for scientists and entertaining for all >>
* Can explosions move faster than the speed of light? [Starts With A Bang] >>
* Evercookie: the browser cookie that won’t die >>

* When the Senate Tried To Ban Dial Telephones >>
* YouTubeSocial Lets You Simultaneously Watch Videos With Friends >>
* Testing Your Blood Sugar with Your iPhone | Singularity Hub >>

* Mobile Indoor Positioning is Coming, But Incompatible Standards Stand in the Way >>
* New Process Genetically Modifies Yeast to Turn Carbon Dioxide Emissions Into Bricks >>
* Researchers engineer adult stem cells that do not age >>

* Losing your religion may be unhealthy, research suggests >>
* UTexas researchers develop organic battery, aim for week-long use in smartphones >>

* Brain scans may help fix criminal responsibility >>
* A physician reflects on a sliver of neurological evidence against the human soul. >>
* Xixidu News for 2010-09-22 >>
* Tristans Daily Link Review; 22 September 2010 >>

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Tristans Daily Link Review; 22 September 2010

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* How Molecular Motors Drive Cellular Locomotion >>
* Sizing Up Consciousness by Its Bits >>
* Stroke gene discovered >>
* Wake up your brain >>

* Complex brain landscape controls speech >>
* Why Can’t Companies Teach? >>
* Life on Earth May Have Had an Icy Start >>
* Hormone oxytocin improves social cognition but only in less socially proficient individuals >>

* AT&T Introduces Satellite-Enabled Smart Phone >>
* Dreams of a consciousness measuring device « Mind Hacks >>
* World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Video Was Filmed With a Nokia N8 Phone >>
* Do you actually care about privacy? >>

* Bowel cancer pill treatment hopes >>
* Eye check-up with a phone camera >>
* Scientists to drill 13,000ft into active volcano in test that could cause earthquake >>
* Genomic ‘haircut’ makes world’s tiniest genome even smaller >>

* Retinal cone cells transplanted into blind mice >>
* Cortical synchronization of neuron firing in multiple brain regions >>
* Genomic ‘haircut’ makes world’s tiniest genome even smaller >>

* How Social Networks Can Predict Epidemics And Control the World (video) >>
* Five Entirely New Emotions the Internet Has Given Us >>
* Robots could improve everyday life, do chores >>

* Magical BEANs: New nano-sized particles could provide mega-sized data storage >>
* Futureseek Daily Paper is out: view it at >>

* TEDxChange: The Future We Make – Webcast >>
* Brain’s impulse control center located >>
* Xixidu News for 2010-09-21 >>
* Tristans Daily Link Review; 21 September 2010 >>

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Tristans Daily Link Review; 21 September 2010

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* Found: A Part of the Brain That Knows When the Brain Is Wrong >>
* Scientists using lasers to cool and control molecules >>

* Where Does Music Come From? >>
* Is there a Moore’s law for science? >>
* Online digital logic simulator. >>

* HIV Used To Cure Genetic Blood Disorder >>
* Miniature device could allow a cell phone to project images on a wall >>
* Spaceplane that takes off from airport runway could be ready in 10 years >>

* The forever recession >>
* How to spot quantum quackery >>
* Robots on TV: AI goes back to baby basics >>

* Can Caffeine Really Cause Insanity? >>
* Computer scientists to develop smart vision machines >>
* Dementia cost ‘to top 1% of GDP’ >>

* How long can a human live unprotected in space? >>
* Intel Threatens DMCA Using HDCP Crack >>

* Designing Wireless Sensors To Be Dropped Into Volcanoes >>
* Airbus Planning Transparent Planes >>

* Why No Second Internet Bubble? >>
* Bipedal molecular workers could build a world, starting at the quantum level >>
* You too can own a Stargate for $100,000! [Auctions] >>

* What Do We Look at While Asleep? >>
* First microwave image of the complete Moon >>
* Quadcopter UAVs – the Aeryon Scout and AR Drone >>
* The Essential Psychopathology Of Creativity >>

* Robots on TV: Five glimpses of future machines >>
* Xixidu News for 2010-09-20 >>
* Einstein brings Newton OS to the iPhone, handwriting recognition and all >>
* Tristans Daily Link Review; 20 September 2010 >>

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Tristans Daily Link Review; 20 September 2010

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* Looxcie, a Camera Recording Everything You See >>
* Badass Quadrotor Flies Through Hoops, Hauls Wood, and Spies On You >>

* Single Brain Cell Can Hold a Memory >> >>
* How Gene Circuits Store Information >>
* Found: genes that make kids smart >>

* One step closer to technologically assisted telepathy >>
* Professor Christopher Dye: Are Humans Still Evolving? >>
* Martine Rothblatt on Reconstructing Minds from Software Mindfiles, Teleplace teleXLR8 >>

* Telling time on the moon >>
* The Politics and Ethics of the Hall Weather Machine >>
* Top ten ‘unanswerable’ questions >>

* pod: What the brain can and can’t do; Are we reaching the end of discovery? >>
* The language of bats >>
* Here’s Why Facebook Is Building A Phone: It Needs To Be A Platform, Not Just A Service >>

* Scientists prune list of the world’s plant species >>
* Divorce Insurance: Get Unhitched, Get a Pay-Out >>

* Scientists decode genomes of precocious fruit flies >>
* Biologists discover biochemical link between biological clock and diabetes >>
* Xixidu News for 2010-09-19 >>

* Interstellar Propulsion Shielding | Shields for Icarus Part1: The Impact Hazard >>
* Children as young as four can understand irony >>
* Tristans Daily Link Review; 19 September 2010 >>

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