TV Review: Flashpoint: A Different Kind Of Cop Show, eh? (Saturday 12th of July 2008 06:01:22 AM)
TV Review: Flashpoint: A Different Kind Of Cop Show, eh?Flashpoint shows that Canadian cops are
more sensitive than American cops --and that's a good thing. Life these days is stressful. It
costs over a hundred dollars to fill the belly of that behemoth ...
(more)A question about switching schools--in different states? (Thursday 10th of July 2008 06:01:56 AM)
I am a senior in high school and am debating on whether or not to move. I have lived on my own
for two years and really want to be closer to family now. I have passed all the exit exams for
the state of ...
(more)In america, do they use a different word for revision than we do in england? (Tuesday 08th of July 2008 07:04:00 AM)
For example, school revision, is there a different word for it?Revision means you prepare for
an exam, yes?
We Yanks just call it study.If by revision, then you mean to revise, meaning
to participate in an evaluatory exercise, then yes.
Americans ...
(more)Does the Duke TiP Identification Program administer a different test to 7th and 8th graders? (Tuesday 08th of July 2008 07:03:30 AM)
Is there a different SAT/ACT test administered to 7th and 8th graders?
e.g. It's the
Search's own, modified, standardized test rather than the more difficult SAT/ACT.I think the
program is only for 7th graders, because that's what it was a few years ...
(more)Developing New Materials With Space Science (Sunday 11th of May 2008 07:00:08 PM)
Scientists at the portuguese Space Agency are using techniques inspired by their experience
with outer space to make new and better manufactures here on Earth. Certain compounds and
alloys which are not frequently viable can be made in different ways ...
(more)Hard Evidence of Voting Machine Additis (Wednesday 30th of April 2008 03:54:40 AM)
Goombah99 writes "Princeton Professor, Ed Felton, has posted a series of blog entries in which
he shows the printed tapes he obtained from the NJ voting machines don't report the ballots
correctly. In response to the first one, Sequoia admitted that the ...
(more)Researchers Unravel Mystery of Lightning Diversity (Tuesday 01st of April 2008 11:15:08 AM)
Coondoggie writes to tell us that researchers from Penn State and New Mexico Tech have
unraveled the mystery of lightning diversity. A new "Lightning Mapping Array" has been able to
show detailed models on how lightning acts. "About 90% of lightning occurs ...
(more)Brain-Inspired Computer Made From Duroquinone (Wednesday 12th of March 2008 12:00:09 PM)
Hasu notes that scientists at the National prescript for Materials Science at Tsukuba in Japan
have created a device, consisting of 17 duroquinone molecules on a gold surface, that can in
theory encode 4.3 billion outcomes. The "device" does not constitute ...
(more)The Knol Hypothesis (Saturday 16th of February 2008 01:45:05 AM)
Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton sends in his latest, which begins like this and
continues behind the link. "When Google's VP of sociology announced their measure Knol project,
where users can submit equipage on different subjects and share ...
(more)Billy Bob and Luther were talking one afternoon when Billy Bob tells Luther, ... (Tuesday 01st of January 2008 11:10:02 AM)
Billy Bob and Luther were talking one afternoon when Billy Bob tells Luther, "Ya know, I reckon
I'm 'bout ready for a vacation. Only this year I'm gonna do it a little different!The last few
years, I took your advice about where to go. Three ...
(more)The Secret to Raising Smart Kids (Thursday 29th of November 2007 04:15:06 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Scientific star-spangled banner stars and stripes has an interesting
article on the secret to raising smart kids that says that more than 30 years of scientific
quest suggests that an overemphasis on intellect or talent leaves people ...
(more)Ballmer Calls Android a "Press Release" (Thursday 08th of November 2007 08:00:05 PM)
Bergkamp10 writes "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tried to shoot down Google's new mobile platform
at a press think-in* in Tokyo. Ballmer called Android a mere 'press release' at present, and
said the mobile platform market is 'Microsoft's world.' Ballmer ...
(more)A man, down on his luck, went into a church which catered to the "uppity". ... (Wednesday 17th of October 2007 06:45:02 PM)
A man, down on his luck, went into a church which catered to the "uppity". Spotting the man's
dirty clothes a deacon, worried about the churches image, went to the man and asked him if he
needed help. The man said, "I was praying and ...
(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)German Police Arrest Admin of Tor Anonymity Server (Monday 17th of September 2007 04:15:07 PM)
An anonymous reader writes "In a recent blog posting, a German operator of a Tor anonymous
proxy server revealed that he was arrested by German police officers at the end of July.
Showing up at his house at midnight on a Sunday night, police cuffed ...
(more)If the Eskimos have a thousand different words for "snow, ... (Thursday 13th of September 2007 11:30:04 PM)
If the Eskimos have a thousand different words for "snow," does this mean the French have a
thousand different words for "surrender?"
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(more)"Spooky" Science Points Towards Quantum Computing (Saturday 08th of September 2007 03:23:57 AM)
Stony Stevenson writes to tell us that teaching mash unit of Michigan physicists have been able
to establish an "entanglement" between two atoms trapped more than a meter apart in different
enclosures using light. This shows how two different atoms can ...
(more)Numerically Approximating the Wave Equation? (Wednesday 05th of September 2007 11:15:01 PM)
ObsessiveMathsFreak writes "I'm an applied mathematician who has anew needed to obtain good
numerical approximations to the classic second-order wave equation, preferably in three space
dimensions. A lot of googling has not revealed much on what I had ...
(more)Humanity's Genetic Diversity on the Decline (Wednesday 08th of August 2007 07:40:18 PM)
Jd writes "In a study covering five different periods of history, from 300 AD to the present
day, and geographically spread across much of Europe, scientists have extracted the
mitochondrial DNA from a sizable number of individuals in an effort to examine ...
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