17 July 01 ------------------------------------------------------------------
An inspiring view of Earth from the Space Station - courtesy
Linda Abrams.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg
(click on 'Expand')
The latest on Quantum Computers
http://www.engineering.ucsb.edu/Announce/spin-qc.html
An amazing new technology that can potentially sequence a complete particular genome in a few minutes! A CD-ROM with your DNA profile while you wait
http://golgi.harvard.edu/branton/nanopore.html
Some reports are coming through hat humans may have a lot more than 30000 genes - this would be quite an embarrassment to science
http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?id=010612000142
Biological neuronal circuit grown in Pitri dish
http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news.html?id%3D336
And another human-machine interface
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20010521/flight.html
Suspended animation in vertebrate
http://www.fhcrc.org/news/science/2001/06/11/suspended.html
Another clue to cellular aging
http://irweb.swmed.edu/newspub/newsdetl.asp?story_id=318
Regeneration of adult neurons
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/07/010702084939.htm
More optimistic views on Global Warming
http://www.observer.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4201558,00.html
and
http://www.msnbc.com/news/600567.asp
And some fun (?) - Our destiny in the length of our fingers
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-000056104jul08.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dscience
31 Aug 00 ------------------------------------------------------------------
Amazing practical new technology to scan body (heart, colon, etc.)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/health/general/lhgen075.htm
Nerve cells made from bone marrow (from Linda Abrams)
http://www.optimal.org/peter/technews3.htm
Britain allows cloning research
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/cloning_000816.html
NYU neuroscientists find long-term memories are surprisingly unstable and impermanent
http://www.optimal.org/peter/technews1.htm
Some autistic people have memory advantage for certain tasks
http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/units/research/archive/autism.htm
Women become less clever after the menopause?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Health/2000-08/clever090800.shtml
Genes for Intelligence
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_850000/850358.stm
A 'bacterium-in-a-chip' as transistor?
http://www.optimal.org/peter/technews2.htm
Lucy the robot ape takes a swing at being first thinking machine
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/08/27/stinwenws03002.html
The first Robocop?
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns225425
Germans' sour faces blamed on language
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/away25.html
Moderate Aggression May Lead to Stronger Immune Systems
http://www.newswise.com/articles/2000/8/IMMUNE.HHD.html
A century later, 'lost' Amazon tribe reappears
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/08/29/fp7s2-csm.shtml
8 Aug 00 ------------------------------------------------------------------
Cool MEMS application: Silicon Micro-Needles for Painless Blood Glucose Monitoring
http://www.kumetrix.com/aboutkumetrix.html
Testosterone does not make men aggressive or attracted to
women...
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/07/30/stirevnws02006.html
CEREBRAL ROMANCE: What happens inside your skull when you're falling in love.....
http://www.beyond2000.com/news/Jul_00/story_704.html
How Culture Molds Habits of Thought
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/health/080800hth-behavior-culture.html
RATS OPERATE ROBOTIC ARM VIA BRAIN ACTIVITY
http://www.txtwriter.com/Onscience/Articles/ratrobot.html
Nanotube nonvolatile
addressable memory
http://nanodot.org/articles/00/08/02/2348242.shtml
Scientists Build Nano-Robotic "Arm" Prototype From Synthetic DNA
http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/nyu-bnr080199.html
THE GLOBAL IDEAS BANK (from Johann)
http://www.globalideasbank.org/
Buy or sell spare PC capacity:
Flesh-eating robot! What next?
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_224823.html
4 Jul 00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Scientists find gene that
causes twins
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001652968606417&rtmo=V6q3MggK&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/00/7/4/wtwin04.html
A human-shaped robot has been unveiled by the Japanese car
maker Honda.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_814000/814433.stm
Eating Less Seems To Fend Off Brain Diseases
http://unisci.com/stories/20002/0627002.htm
Canadian scientists have successfully harvested eggs from human ovarian tissue 'incubated' on the back muscles of mice...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_800000/800062.stm
Experimental cancer treatment makes mice lose dramatic amounts of weight...
http://hopkins.med.jhu.edu/press/2000/JUNE/000629A.HTM
1 Jul 00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Scientists think they now know which gene allows you to recognise your own mother
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4034822,00.html
Fuss about the human genome
just hides the brutality of global capitalism (scary anti capitalism rave -
'the poor are suffering because the rich have decoded the genome'!)
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4034828,00.html
Britain has Europe's worst
road rage. British drivers love rock songs
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/07/01/timtgotgo01002.html
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA SCIENTIST MAPS BRAIN REACTIONS TO FOOD
http://www.napa.ufl.edu/2000news/eating.htm
IBM Christens The Brawniest Supercomputer Yet
http://www.forbes.com/tool/html/00/Jun/0629/mu6.htm
More on supercomputer (from
John Bortz)
http://www.pcworld.com/pcwtoday/article/0,1510,11336+1+0,00.html
http://www.pcworld.com/pcwtoday/article/0,1510,11336+1+1,00.html
Microrobots Plunge into
Biotech (from Mike Korns)
