Monday, September 21, 2009

Science and Technology Links for 9/21/09

Popular Science

Algorithm Generates a Virtual Rome in 3D from 150,000 Flickr Users' Photos

Scientists Create First Ever Magnetic Gas

Moon May Beat Pluto as Coldest Place in Solar System

Panasonic's Robotic Bed Transforms into a Mobile Chair, Makes Standing Up Obsolete

DARPA Wants A Few Good Space Debris Cleaners

New from Boeing: Flying Bot Swarms You Control With Body Language

New Material Brings IBM's Super-High-Density Memory Closer to Market

Popular Mechanics

The Guide to Home Geothermal Energy

5 Realistic Lessons in Radical Consumption From No Impact Man

Behind Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs' 3D Food FX (With Video!)

Weird Stories of Objects Falling From the Sky-Explained

The Flying Future for America's Missile Shield

Top 8 Next-Gen, Alt Fuel Cars at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show

Top 10 Most Dangerous Plants in the World

Discover Magazine

What does 3.6 million pounds of thrust look like?

Planck First Light

How Long Would It Take a Physics Lecture to Actually Kill You?

The Real Problem With a Human Trip to Mars: Radiation

How to Make Water Drops Bounce Off Each Other Like Beach Balls

Body Attacks Self; Body Protects Self

Scientific American

Algaeus lives! A modified Prius goes cross-country on fuel from algae

NASA's moon orbiter returns promising early data in the hunt for lunar water ice

Torture Interferes with Memory

Better Materials Could Build a Green Construction Industry

Conditional Consciousness: Patients in Vegetative States Can Learn, Predicting Recovery

Technology Review

Laser-Triggered Chemical Reactions

A Silver Lining for the Government's Cloud

Geoengineering May Be Necessary, Despite Its Perils

Games Company Declares War on Gold Farmers

Blueprint for a Quantum Electric Motor

Riding a Slingshot into Space

Ars Technica

If spectrum isn't scarce anymore, can you say $#!% on TV?

DOJ: Google book settlement needs major rewrite

FCC Chairman wants network neutrality, wired and wireless

A trip down memory lane and beyond at Vintage Computer Fest

IE program manager endorses HTML 5 multimedia tags