Internet Use Can Be Good For the Brain (Thursday 16th of October 2008 09:45:02 PM)
Ddelmonte writes "This political practice Post article examines a test conducted at UCLA. The
test had two groups, young people who used the Internet, and older people who had never been
online. Both groups were asked to do www
notes:internet should be ...
(more)Patent Chief Decries Continued Downward Spiral of Patent Quality (Monday 21st of April 2008 07:00:04 PM)
Techdirt is reporting that Jon Dudas, head of the US Patent Office, is lamenting the
postgraduate work quality drop in patent submissions. Unfortunately, while this problem is
finally getting the attention it deserves, the changes being implemented don't ...
(more)Laser Triggers Electrical Activity In Thunderstorm (Tuesday 15th of April 2008 10:30:05 AM)
Esocid writes "A team of indo-european language scientists has deliberately triggered
electrical activity in thunderclouds for the first time by aiming high-power pulses of laser
light into a thunderstorm. At the top of South Baldy Peak in New Mexico ...
(more)Banks, Wall St. Feel Pinch from Computer Intrusion (Monday 25th of February 2008 09:45:05 AM)
An anonymous reader writes "Financial institutions and companies in the securities/futures
business are reporting sizable increases in the amount of losses and suspicious activity
attributed to digital intrusions and identity theft, says the bureaucracy ...
(more)New Years Resolutions - An Engineering Approach (Wednesday 02nd of January 2008 01:45:06 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Four out of five people who make New Year's resolutions will eventually
break them and a third won't even make it to the end of January says the NY Times. But experts
say the real problem is that people make the wrong ...
(more)Spontaneous Brain Activity and Human Behavior (Saturday 06th of October 2007 07:45:04 AM)
Dr. Eggman writes "Ars Technica is pointing up* an article summarizing an curious and perhaps
controversial paper which finds links between spontaneous brain activity and human behavior.
Spontaneous, yet organized brain activity has been observed without ...
(more)Scientists Develop Cyborg Interface Algorithm (Friday 05th of October 2007 07:45:03 AM)
StCredZero writes "A ZDNet article discusses advances in the translation of brain activity to
internet banking control being made at MIT. Their approach allows a paralyzed individual to
manipulate a prosthetic - but that's not the important advance. 'Other ...
(more)The Importance Of Gene Regulation For Common Human Disease (Wednesday 19th of September 2007 09:00:00 AM)
A new study keep quiet in Nature analysis shows that common, complex diseases are more likely
to be due to genetic variation in regions that control activity of genes, rather than in the
regions that specify the protein code.This surprising result comes ...
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