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Smoking is like giving head to dirty businessmen

Just when it looked like the war against teen smoking was turning... yellow. Here comes French firm BDDP & Fils with their new "...
The Smarter You Are, The Less You Click

If the latest numbers from online ad network Chitika are anything to go by, then we may well be on our way...
The culture that is Japan, snow removal edition

Robot Snowplow from Japan Eats Up Snow, Poops Out Bricks.
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New Sunspots Could Produce Space Storms

A new group of sunspots has produced moderate (M-class) solar flares, but forecasters say it could unleash a large (X-class) flare.
Synthetic design of strong promoters [Genetics]

We have taken a synthetic biology approach to the generation and screening of transcription factor binding sites for activity in...
Predicting the reaction coordinates of millisecond light-induced conformational changes in photoactive yellow protein [Biochemistry]

Understanding the dynamics of large-scale conformational changes in proteins still poses a challenge for molecular simulations. We employ transition path...
zoomMediaPlus announces SD card reader for iPhone

Mobile applications company zoomMediaPlus has announced the zoomIt SD card reader for Apple's iPhone or iPod. Files including photos, videos, music and documents can be transferred in both...
PeteSearch: How to split up the US

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US social graph
As I've been digging deeper into the data I've gathered on 210 million public Facebook profiles, I've been fascinated by some of the patterns that...
Nikon releases 24mm f/1.4 G ED fast wideangle lens

Nikon has released the AF-S Nikkor 24mm F/1.4G ED wide aperture prime lens for full-frame DSLRs. It features an anti-reflective Nano Crystal coating and both ED and aspherical lens elements to...
Nikon 16-35mm f/4 G ED VR stabilized ultra-wide zoom

Nikon has announced the worlds first image stabilized ultra-wide angle zoom for full frame cameras. The AF-S Nikkor 16-35mm f/4G ED VR lens includes a Silent Wave autofocus motor and VR II...
Paul Romer | Prospect | 27 January 2010

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Economist argues for "charter cities" to accelerate development—enclaves within poor countries, governed...
Open source means freedom from 'anti-features'

'Anti-features' serve the interests of the vendor, not the user, MIT man tells Linux conference
Internet NZ rejects government internet filter

Internet NZ has released a position paper (PDF) that rejects the governments’s planned internet...
Cot death victims make less serotonin

Mysterious infant deaths linked to chemical deficiency.
Are Transportation Planners Smarter Than Mold?

Transportation planners are a noble and advanced species; all I have met have opposable thumbs, walk upright, and have a reasonable command of fire and language. But the results of a fascinating...
Naughty Bits in the Bible

From a review of...
How to fall six miles and survive

I found this article fascinating throughout, here is one excerpt:

Granted, the odds of surviving a 6-mile...
Deconfliction

This is well worth watching....
David Reilly | Bloomberg | 29 January 2010

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Conspiracy theorists think a secret banking cabal controls America. After this week's congressional...
Robert Cottrell | 29 January 2010

What We're Reading

1 Self-described wolf woman severed lost dog's head. This one...
Tim Coldwell | 29 January 2010

What We're Reading

1 France stuck to its ideals while the US and...
Automated design of genomic Southern blot probes

Background:
Southern blotting is a DNA analysis technique that has found widespread application in molecular biology. It has been used for gene discovery and mapping and has diagnostic and...
The scientist and the smartphone

The scientist and the smartphone

Nature Methods 7, 87 (2010). doi:10.1038/nmeth0210-87

Mobile computing platforms such as the...
One paragraph plus a sentence

Mr. Salinger was controlling and sexually manipulative, Ms. Maynard wrote, and a health nut obsessed with homeopathic medicine and with his diet (frozen peas for breakfast, undercooked lamb burger...
Literature mining: Speed reading

Scientists are struggling to make sense of the expanding scientific literature. Corie Lok asks whether computational tools can do the hard work for them.