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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 19 2008 | science, humanity, endangered species
    Are men on the verge of extinction?-Trends-Lifestyle-The Times of India

    Yes, insists a leading Aussie expert, who says men are much ahead in the queue of becoming extinct.

    In a speech titled ‘Should Human Beings Have Sex’, Dr Robert Sparrow told the Australian Medical Students Association convention that females could soon rule the world as hermaphrodites without the biological use of men.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 18 2008 | science, technology
    Plastics unite to make unexpected 'metal' - tech - 15 June 2008 - New Scientist Tech

    Quoted: Jamming the right two pieces of plastic together creates a thin but strongly conducting channel along the junction that acts like a metal, say Dutch researchers. The discovery could lead to a whole new way of making electronics from non-metallic materials, and even new superconductors.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 17 2008 | health, environment, science
    toxicology: Definition and Much More from Answers.com

    Quoted: The study of the nature, effects, and detection of poisons and the treatment of poisoning

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 13 2008 | science, project, microwave, water
    Microwaved Water and Plants

    Below is a science fair project that my granddaughter did for 2006. In it she took filtered water and divided it into two parts. The first part she heated to boiling in a pan on the stove, and the second part she heated to boiling in a microwave. Then after cooling she used the water to water two identical plants to see if there would be any difference in the growth between the normal boiled water and the water boiled in a microwave. She was thinking that the structure or energy of the water may be compromised by microwave. As it turned out, even she was amazed at the difference.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 10 2008 | science, nanotech, health
    Stripes key to nanoparticle drug delivery - MIT News Office

    Quoted: In work that could at the same time impact the delivery of drugs and explain a biological mystery, MIT engineers have created the first synthetic nanoparticles that can penetrate a cell without poking a hole in its protective membrane and killing it.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 06 2008 | collaboration, community, knowledge, science
    WikiProfessional Concept Web

    Wikiprofessional's Concept Web Initiative is a global collaboration to innovate how knowledge is represented and expanded on the Internet.

    The Internet embodies an enormous information space that continues to expand exponentially in page count but not proportionally in new knowledge. Redundancy of the same facts and opinions within a myriad of web-pages has artificially inflated the size of the Internet. To get a million search results on a query without the ability to separate redundancy of the same information from the incremental knowledge expansions on that query concept is highly inefficient. Within the Concept Web, information is converted to streamlined knowledge where redundancy and newness of idea expansion are properly represented.

    In the Concept Web, knowledge representation and expansion is accomplished with the aid of two revolutionary technologies: Knowlet and a new professional Wiki.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 01 2008 | nature, Science, history, archaeology
    Unexpected origin of an early Eskimo : Nature News

    Quoted: An early wave of migration into the New World and the Arctic has been identified by sequencing a genome from a frozen hair excavated in Greenland.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - May 26 2008 | science, physics, future, author
    Michio Kaku - Wikipedia

    Quoted: Michio Kaku (加來 道雄 Kaku Michio) (b. January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, specializing in string field theory, and a futurist. He is a popularizer of science, host of two radio programs, and a best-selling author.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - May 26 2008 | physics, string theory, science
    String theory - Wikipedia

    String theory is a still-developing mathematical approach to theoretical physics, whose original building blocks are one-dimensional extended objects called strings. Unlike the point particles in quantum field theories like the standard model of particle physics, strings interact in a way that is almost uniquely specified by mathematical self-consistency, forming an apparently valid quantum theory of gravity.