VASIMR Plasma Thruster To Be Tested Aboard ISS (Sunday 14th of December 2008 10:45:01 AM)
Toren Altair brings news that NASA and the Ad Astra Rocket Company finalized a Space Act
Agreement earlier this week to test the unpredictable set Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR)
on the International Space Station. The agreement hinges on a series ...
(more)Increases in imaging tests widespread: study (Monday 10th of November 2008 07:54:32 AM)
Use of diagnostic imaging tests in the United States has increased across the board in recent
years, with more clientele getting the tests and more tests being ordered per patient,
researchers said on Monday.
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(more)Free Wireless Band Gets FCC OK (Tuesday 14th of October 2008 07:30:01 PM)
Narramissic writes "Last month the FCC conducted tests to bound whether mobile devices using a
new US radio band (2,155 to 2,175 MHz) with free car call up service would cause
substantial
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(more)Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Tuesday 30th of September 2008 03:15:02 AM)
Merlin42 writes "I just now took a Test-Driven-Development (TDD) coaching course and the
teacher food pyramid that I read "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers.
First things first, a note about the title. Feathers defines "Legacy ...
(more)FCC Aims To End Debate With Wireless Tests (Saturday 06th of September 2008 02:00:01 AM)
Narramissic writes "Engineers from T-Mobile, AT&T, M2Z Networks, Nokia, Metro PCS, CTIA and XM
Sirius have convened at a Boeing facility in Seattle this to watch as the FCC performs tests it
hopes will quiet debate over a measure electromagnetic spectrum ...
(more)Let the Games Be Doped (Wednesday 13th of August 2008 10:45:01 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "John Tierney poses the query in the New York Times 'what if we let
athletes do some they wanted to excel?' Before you dismiss the notion, consider what we're
stuck with today — a system designed to create a level playing field, ...
(more)Phoenix Mars Lander To Begin Rasping Ice Shavings (Wednesday 16th of July 2008 05:35:28 PM)
Rob writes with an excerpt from an article at spacefellowship.com: "A powered rasp on the back
of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is being tested for the first time on
Mars in gathering sample shavings of ice. The lander has used ...
(more)SAT subject tests at end of senior year? (Thursday 10th of July 2008 06:01:28 AM)
im going to be a senior in high school and i took the SAT subject tests in lit, math 2 and chem
this past june ..
chem - 650 (prob retaking in october)
lit- 480 (deserved it, i didnt
study at all)
math 2 - 610 (GENEROUS ...
(more)I just got a 5 on four of my AP Tests and a 2360 on the SAT. Is that good enough for Harvard and Cornell? (Thursday 10th of July 2008 06:01:11 AM)
I also have a 97 average - above a 4.0 GPA. Im in debate club and do a bunck of volunteer work
in my community hopsital. Is that good enough for like other Ivy League School? Im also
valedictorian. People tell me its good and ...
(more)Collaborative effort by FDA and EMEA expected to yield additional safety data when assessing new drugs (Sunday 15th of June 2008 11:12:00 AM)
In the first use of a root allowing surrender of a single form to the two agencies, the Food
and Drug polity (FDA) and the italian Medicines Agency (EMEA) worked together to allow drug
companies to submit the results of seven new tests that evaluate ...
(more)Prenatal biochemical screening only detects half of chromosomal abnormalities (Monday 02nd of June 2008 02:46:00 AM)
Prenatal biochemical genetic genetic genetic screening tests are widely used to look for
chromosomal abnormalities in the fetus which can lead to serious handicap, or even death during
gestation or in the first few days after birth. But these tests are ...
(more)Next-Generation CAPTCHA Exploits the Semantic Gap (Wednesday 23rd of April 2008 09:15:02 PM)
Captcha_fun writes "Researchers at Penn State have ripe a patent-pending image-based CAPTCHA
automation for next-generation adding machine authentication. A user is asked to pass two
tests: (1) click the geometric center of an image within a composite ...
(more)MMR Doctor Denies Submitting Kids To Painful Tests Just To Prove His Theories (Sunday 30th of March 2008 02:00:00 PM)
Dr. Andrew Wakefield told a General Medical Council (GMC) counteracting panel he did not
submit young travail to painful tests just to further his unified field theory linking
vaccinations to autism. He stressed that the tests were clinically necessary ...
(more)Fun Website (Friday 03rd of August 2007 02:51:00 PM)
Here's a fun one: www.typingtest.com You choose from about five different topics and then are
presented with an essay to type. You also choose the length of the test: 1, 2, or 3 min. The
first time I tried it and did abominably, ...
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