Leaked Conversation Suggests EEStor's Battery-Killing Ultracapacitor Is Nearly Complete
Experiment Looks to Bridge Classical Physics and Quantum Mechanics
Test Drive: Nissan's Leaf, The Electric Car's First Shot at the Mainstream
NASA Panel To Recommend Manned MIssions To Asteroids, Venus Fly-Bys
Clippy Enlists - I still say "Clippy must die."
Laser-Powered Lightcraft "At the Cusp of Commercial Reality" - Robert Heinlein actually referred to this in a story where a straight-talking black lady becomes president by a fluke of fate. This is one of the projects she pushes. Now what I'm interested in are the power requirements and relative noisiness of a pulsed detonation based system.
Discover Magazine:
Hail the Spleen: An Underappreciated Organ Gets the Credit It Deserves
Ripped From the Journals: The Biggest Discoveries of the Week
Comets Not So Likely to Smash Into Earth and Kill Us All - Good.
How Much of Your Memory Is True?
Scientific American:
Stuck Mars rover passing its time as an observatory
Are Contaminants Silencing Our Genes?
Colorado power company wants to ratchet up fees on solar freeloaders- that is, people generating power of their own through solar panels on their roofs. I know, it's as dumb as it sounds.
Popular Mechanics
5 Extremely Dumb Military Designs from G.I. Joe
CSI Myths: The Shaky Science Behind Forensics
The Key to the Battery-Powered House
Collision Course: The Need for Better Space Junk Regulations
Technology Review
A Better Way to Rank Expertise Online
A New Approach to Fusion - Seems fascinating, but I'm conflicted about the whole moving (and colliding) parts element of the reactor.
Crowdsourcing Closer Government Scrutiny
How to Land Safely Back on the Moon
Smoothing the Way for Light - computing using Plasmons, 2-Dimensional waves of light moving over a surface.
Solar Industry: No Breakthroughs Needed - Solar industry is arguing that solar power is cost efficient enough as it is now to compete with fossil fuel industries.
Five Futuristic Interfaces on Display at SIGGRAPH - The first and last seem to me to be the ones with greatest potential.
How Dragon Kings Could Trump Black Swans - Sounds like the setup for an anime series, but its really about something more interesting!
Ars Technica
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 release dates
The prospects of Microsoft Word in the wiki-based world- I'm not quite as convinced as this guy of the poor prospects of word. What people are looking for in a format like words is some kind of permanence, and richness of content. As an editor of content who both writes prose and screenplay in the medium, it helps that Word can do all kinds of work in making discrete files of its kind. I find that inputs in wikis and other such media often lack the kind of editing tools that allow you to create good looking text and quality writing. So in my opinion, there's not much good in burying Word just yet.
Reports: US' best source of carbon-free energy is efficiency
Network neutrality in Congress, round 3: Fight!
Google reveals plans for Chrome cloud synchronization
Microsoft's Seadragon helps you share large images
My Kindle ate my homework: lawsuit filed over 1984 deletion
