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- Saving Gas Via Underpowered Death Traps
Harperdog writes with this excerpt from a story at Miller-McCune: "Yes, it's true that the fuel-economy standards the U.S. has been using cost lives. Economist Mark Jacobson has estimated that for every mile-per-gallon we raise the standards, 149 traf ...
Feed Item - 5 August 2011
- Video Game-Like Programs Could Treat Schizophrenia
derGoldstein writes "Discovery is pointing to an ongoing study by Sophia Vinogradov, professor of psychiatry at UC-San Francisco, who is 'trying to determine whether computer-based cognitive remediation, a type of brain training through video game-like ...
Feed Item - 5 August 2011
- Infographics Summary for 2011-07-26
Plane Travel The Healthy Way Reach out to the community of Visualization and Graphics Experts by Advertising on VizWorld.com Related posts: Infographics Summary for 2011-05-23 Infographics Summary for 2011-06-14 Infographi ...
Feed Item - 26 July 2011
- The History of Invisible Ink
As a kid I had a minor obsession with invisible ink after learning about it in a science club. An impressive stack of vinegar and lemon scented papers filled my desk, but the history of invisible ink is much more interesting than a summer enrichment pro ...
Feed Item - 5 August 2011
- NASA's Juno Blasts Off To Investigate Jupiter
coondoggie writes "NASA shot its 4-ton Juno spacecraft into the cosmos today with the ultimate goal of learning everything we can about the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter. Juno, once described as a flying armored tank, will take five years ...
Feed Item - 5 August 2011
- Why Some People Don't Have Fingerprints
sciencehabit writes "A small number of people in the world don't have fingerprints. The condition is known as adermatoglyphia, and one scientist has dubbed it the 'immigration delay disease' because sufferers have such a hard time entering foreign count ...
Feed Item - 5 August 2011
- Alaskan Healthcare IT Lessons Learned
I'm back from Alaska and I'll post several blogs about my Healthcare IT and personal experiences in the 49th state. Sorry for the gap in blog posting last week. Per the photo to the right, I was " Into the Wild " with my wife and daughter, cel ...
Feed Item - 5 July 2011
- HPC Center Traces Storage Selection Experience
We often hear about national labs and universities settling on a particular vendor for server and storage solutions, but details about the full evaluation process behind that selection are often sparse. The Utah Center for High Performance Computing's s ...
Feed Item - 6 July 2011
- A New Model For Data Centers In The Era Of “Big Data”?
The current model of a data center managing data sets generated by a mission in a local computer room and serving data to astronomers, who download and work with them on their desktops, will break down in the coming years when PB-scale data sets become ...
Feed Item - 6 June 2011
- Probing Insulin Pumps For Vulnerabilities
Several readers have sent in news of a presentation at the Black Hat security conference from a diabetic security researcher, Jerome Radcliffe, who is looking into the security of automated insulin pumps. While most of the headlines are sensationalist, ...
Feed Item - 5 August 2011
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