Friday, November 06, 2009

Science and Technology Links for the Week of 10/19/09

Popular Science-

Physicists Calculate Exact Number of Alternate Universes

iRobot's Cronenbergian Blob Bot is Ready to Roll, or Rather Ooze

Video: Play Dungeons and Dragons on Microsoft's Surface Table

Apple's Magic Mouse Mates a Multitouch Trackpad With Traditional Pointer

A Hammer Is No Match For a Flexible OLED Display

New Neurological Evidence That the Internet Makes People Smarter

Ten Young Geniuses Shaking Up Science Today

Popular Mechanics-

4 Things the Barnes & Noble Nook Does Right, and 5 It Does Wrong

The Key to the Battery-Powered House: Q&A With Ceramatec

Exclusive Interview With Nintendo Gaming Mastermind Shigeru Miyamoto

PM Takes Project Natal For A Test Drive (With Video!)

New Drill Bit for F-35 Planes has Bonded Home-Grown Diamonds

Discover Magazine-

Who Killed All Those Honeybees? We Did

How Invaders Break Through the Brain's Great Wall

Is Alzheimer's Like a Strange Form of Brain Cancer?

Moon Plume Detected! NASA's Lunar Crash Wasn't a Flop, After All

The Sneaky Pain That Fooled 6 Experts

Scientific American-

Two Eyes, Two Views: Your Brain and Depth Perception

Editing Scientists: Science and Policy at the White House

How much are coral ecosystems worth? Try $172 billion--A year

Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn

Rare Procedure Pinpoints the Location, Speed and Sequence of the Brain's Language Processes

It's all Chinese to me: Dyslexia has big differences in English and Chinese

Technology Review-

Artificial Black Hole Created in Chinese Lab

Nanopatterns Improve Thin-Film Solar Cells

Next Stop: Ultracapacitor Buses

Dye-Sensitized Solar to Go

Intelligence Explained - Actually, this particular article is about the use of MRI with a technique called diffusion tensor imaging to map out the circuits of the brain's white matter, and how that circuitry might correspond to intelligence.

Ars Technica-

Windows 7 is here

LHC reaches operational temps, collisions start in 5 weeks

Magic Mouse: Oh my God-it's full of capacitive sensors! - This relates to Apples new multi-touch mouse for the Mac.

30 years of failure: the username/password combination

DRAM study turns assumptions about errors upside down

Modeling a black hole with a 300 GigaWatt laser

Permanence in motion: electrons rock around the clock

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