LovingSpirit

Takahashi: A future of embedded chips, networks
Mercury News August 23, 2007

Vernor Vinge can foresee a rosy scenario where everything around us has electronic awareness built into it. But he also sees four scenarios that can get in the way of such a...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=7186&m=3532

Study: Martian soil may contain life
Reuters August 23, 2007

The soil on Mars may contain microbial "extremophile" life based on hydrogen peroxide, according to a new interpretation of data first collected more than 30 years...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=7185&m=3532

America's Hackable Backbone Forbes August 22, 2007

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition software, or SCADA, used around the country to control infrastructure like nuclear power plants, water filtration and distribution, trains and subways, dams, manufacturing, and natural gas and oil pipelines, are increasingly connected to the Internet, leaving large parts of America's critical infrastructure...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=7184&m=3532

'World's fattest mouse' appears immune to diabetes
NewScientist.com news service August 23, 2007

The "world's fattest mice," genetically engineered to overproduce a key hormone, weigh five times as much as normal mice do, but bizarrely do not develop diabetes, reveals a new study by University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center scientists. (Image: Ja-Young Kim/Dave Gresham) The findings shed light on how current diabetes medications...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=7183&m=3532

Huge Hole Found in the Universe
Space.com August 23, 2007

The universe has a huge hole in it,nearly a billion light-years across, that dwarfs anything else of its kind. Astronomers don't know why the hole is...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=7182&m=3532

Sony Powers Walkman With Sugar-Based Battery
PC World August 23, 2007

Sony has created an eco-friendly battery that produces electricity by breaking down sugar. The bio cell, which measures 39 cubic millimeters, delivers 50mW -- a world record for such a cell, according to the company. In the bio cell sugar-digesting enzymes at the anode extract electrons and hydrogen ions from the glucose. The hydrogen...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=7181&m=3532

Studies Report Inducing Out-of-Body Experience
New York Times August 24, 2007

Using virtual-reality goggles, a camera and a stick, scientists have induced out-of-body experiences -- the sensation of drifting outside of one's own body -- in ordinary, healthy people, according to studies being published today in the journal Science. The research reveals that "the sense of having a body, of being in a bodily self," is...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=7180&m=3532

Warp drive and wormholes could be used for time travel, says physicist
KurzweilAI.net August 24, 2007

Warp drive and stargate wormholes could be used for time travel to the past. That's the surprising conclusion that controversial theoretical physicist and author Dr. Jack Sarfatti has reached from his research into dark energy and dark matter. Hubble image of dark matter ring in galaxy cluster Sarfatti, who was the inspiration for "Doc" in...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=7179&m=3532

Love,
starduster
http://totherow.tripod.com/