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Better than Blood?

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This white substance carries oxygen 50 times more effectively than our blood. It is composed of tiny particles that can pass through injured vessels, where the red blood cells can’t squeeze through. It seems to have already been used on some persons and the results appear to be quite impressive. You can read a very comprehensive article here .

Fire Rainbow

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This is a real photograph of an atmospheric phenomenon known as a circumhorizon(tal) arc , the example shown above was captured on camera as it hung for about an hour across a several-hundred square mile area of sky above northern Idaho (near the Washington border) on 3 June 2006. In general, a circumhorizontal arc (or "fire rainbow") appears when the sun is high in the sky (i.e., higher than 58 degrees above the horizon), and its light passes through diaphasous, high altitude cirrus clouds made up of hexagonal plate crystals . Sunlight entering the crystals' vertical side faces and leaving through their bottom faces is refacted (as through a prism) and separated into an array of visible colors. When the plate crystals in cirrus clouds are aligned optimally (i.e., with their faces parallel to the ground), the resulting display is a brilliant spectrum of colors reminiscent of a rainbow.

50 terabyte flash drive made of bug protein

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A prototype USB drive using bug protein to store data in the neighborhood of around 50 terabytes worth of data could be here in less then 18 months. This idea first started out by coating DVDs with a layer of protein so that one day solid state memory could hold so much information that storing data on your computer hard drive will be obsolete, says Professor V Renugopalakrishnan of the Harvard Medical School in Boston while reporting on his findings at the International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Brisbane this week. “What this will do eventually is eliminate the need for hard drive memory completely,” he says. Renugopalakrishnan says high-capacity storage devices like the new protein-based DVDs will be essential to the defense, medical and entertainment industries. These trade in terabytes of information with the transfer of information such as satellite images, imaging scans and movies. “You have a compelling need that is not going to be met with the existing mag...

Mitt Romney cannot be President

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The Media has touted that Romney is a MORMON, if it is so, it is a grievous thing And may cost him the election When the scandal laden Olympics was embarrassing our nation, Romney stepped in and turned it into a showcase-Yet Romney is a MORMON, and surely a MORMON cannot be president. Romney won the governorship of Massachusetts as a REPUBLICAN, yes, in the state that gives us Senator Kennedy? He showed the ability to work with all people of all political backgrounds.-Yet Romney is a MORMON, and surely a MORMON cannot be president. Romney saved a state government facing fiscal disaster, bringing economic expansion and staving off unemployment, something this nation could use.-Yet Romney is a MORMON, and surely a MORMON cannot be president. Mitt Romney understands health care. He established a comprehensive health care plan for the people of his state.-Yet Romney is a MORMON, and surely a MORMON cannot be president. Unlike many politicians, Romney has remained faithful to his wedding vo...

Intelligent Agents

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I have always been intrigued with the idea of creating an array of intelligent agents to do my biding. Here are some links I found this morning that I will be reading and doing some playing in Java with. By far, these are not complete; but a place to get me started. I sort of envision a Bloomberg of my interesting data - such as the rents on various properties where I invest, changes to my bank balance, and price changes on items I am planning on purchasing to name a few. I'm sure I could think of many others. Anyway, here are the links: JADE Jadex http://www.agent-software.com/shared/resources/tech-reports/tr9904.pdf http://www.pcai.com/web/ai_info/intelligent_agents.html http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/busetta99jack.html http://www.research.ibm.com/iagents/ibm_iagents.html