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Which Digital Camera? I'm looking for a small (will always live in Amanda's purse) point and shoot camera and have so far narrowed the choices down to the following. Anybody have any advice on which one I should get (or an alternative, if you'd like to suggest one)?...
Wave Google Wave Good Bye From Google Wave: More than a year ago, we announced that Google Wave would no longer be developed as a separate product. At the time, we committed to maintaining the site at least through to the end of 2010. Today, we are sharing the specific...
The Information Diet - five ways to improve your data consumption Last week I had a visit from a friend of mine, who was on something of a farewell tour. After several years of planning, he'd packed in his dependable but much-begrudged corporate job, and was setting sail for Asia, to...
The Long Island Solar Farm at Brookhaven Lab is Generating Electricity The Long Island Solar Farm (LISF) -- the largest solar power plant in the eastern United States -- is now generating electricity. Located on the property of Brookhaven National Laboratory, LISF will power as many as 4,500 homes for the Long Island Power Authority.
President Obama Honors Nation's Top Scientists and Innovators Each year, 12 of the nation's top scientists and engineers are awarded with the nation's highest honors, America's Nobel Prize. The National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation represent the highest honors for achievement in science & technology bestowed by the President of the United States.
Energy Efficiency Question: Water Heaters The water heater for Chateau Steelypips is significantly older than the usual useful life for such devices, and it's really started to show. I'm getting pretty sick of lukewarm showers, so we probably need to replace it. As a good...
Say Good Bye to Net Neutrality, and More PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo....
Second Call For DiscoverE Educator Awards Nominees - Deadline Is December 1! Apply today for the The DiscoverE Educator Awards! The DiscoverE Educator Awards are shining a spotlight on the educators who are inspiring tomorrow's innovation generation. By honoring the teachers who are hard at work in our classrooms, the engineering profession wants to show its appreciation and respect for the educators who are helping students discover engineering.
DiscoverE Educator Awards - Deadline is December 1 Apply today for the The DiscoverE Educator Awards! The DiscoverE Educator Awards are shining a spotlight on the educators who are inspiring tomorrow's innovation generation. By honoring the teachers who are hard at work in our classrooms, the engineering profession wants to show its appreciation and respect for the educators who are helping students discover engineering.
Here Comes Solar Energy - NYTimes.com Paul Krugman has some optimistic economic commentary on solar energy in the NYT today, titled "Here comes solar energy". It can not be emphasized enough, his points about indirect subsidies to dirty energy sources in the form of shifting the...
Help Me With My New Toy I sent in the page proofs for How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog this week, and by way of celebration, I went out and helped boost the economy by buying some consumer electronics: Yes, I now have an iPad....
Chickenpox parties--just a Facebook friend away Facebook--catch up with friends, trade viruses?
Genome-scale Network of Rice Genes to Speed the Development of Improved Crops The ability to identify key genes that control simple or complex traits in rice has important biological, agricultural, and economic consequences. RiceNet offers an attractive and potentially rapid route for focusing crop engineering efforts on the small sets of genes that are deemed most likely to affect the traits of interest.
Raise a glass to Laika Fifty-four years ago today, a plucky little mongrel became the world's first space pilot, taking a one-way trip aboard Sputnik 2. Here's to you, Laika. Image: Detail of "Laika", by Phineras X Jones. Prints available from the artist....
Pierre Lassonde, York University and renaissance engineers It's a big day here at York University, especially for us science & engineering types both within the Faculty of Science and Engineering and those of us who support their teaching and research missions. There's a big announcement about the...
Productivity Future Vision (2011) What they say we get: What we actually get: 1) 35% of every viewable surface of everything is an ad. Including the sky and the moon. 2) The technology pauses for several seconds every now and then because, well, it never works like on the...
NA/SA: New Art/Science Affinities "I read this book. It's pretty good even if they made it in a week. Worth the fifty bucks, easy." — Bruce Sterling In February of this year, I had the distinct pleasure of being invited to the STUDIO...
A Test for Neutrinos: Put Up or Shut Up "Where there is no patrol car, there is no speed limit." -Peter Beckmann You've of course heard the news that the OPERA collaboration in Italy has measured what appears to be neutrinos moving faster than the speed of light. (Image...
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Coloring Ancient Animals Image Credit: The Scientist; R. Hartley, Univ of Manchester; T. Larson, Black Hills Inst.; G. Stewart; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory I just read the neatest article in Science Magazine on how a team led by researchers from the University...
Land Of Lisp Book Giveaway You will recall that I recently reviewed the book Land of Lisp. It turns out I've got two copies of it, and would like to give one away. To you. As a bounty....
"A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark." Footage of child hit by car, and ignored
Game Over for Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos? "If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German...
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Some engineers use cranes and steel to make their designs reality, but synthetic biologists engineer using tools on a different scale: DNA and the other molecular components of living cells. Synthetic biology uses cellular systems and structures to produce artificial models based on natural order. Read these posts from the ScienceBlogs archives for more:
Pharyngula May 30, 2007
The Loom January 31, 2008
Discovering Biology in a Digital World July 2, 2006