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2008′s Best Science

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Wired’s 2008 Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs are pretty impressive indeed. Scientists had plenty of reasons to celebrate in 2008. The Large Hadron Collider fired up for the first time, a temple of science opened its doors, several companies promised cheap genome sequencing and President-elect Obama hired a fantastic team of science advisers. After decades of [...]

Moon Watch

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

Maybe I’ll get one of these for the holidays:               Very cool…

Congress to FCC: Spend Taxpayer Dollars to Make IT Marketing Budgets Redundant

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

To further demonstrate their profound ignorance about the workings of the market: The United States Senate has unanimously passed a bill that requires the Federal Communications Commission to explore what “advanced blocking technologies” are available to parents to help filter out “indecent or objectionable programming.” The “Child Safe Viewing Act” (S. 602) was sponsored by [...]

Will Purple Tomatoes Kill Cancer?

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

This is fascinating: A new study has shown that, with a little help from science, some fruit may even cure cancer, CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips reports.  The trick for genetic scientists was to take the natural cancer-fighting dark pigment that exists in blueberries and cranberries, for example, and produce it in more commonly available fruit … [...]

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