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Me, My Site, My Ad Here

John C. Dvorak, an often-provocative writer who comments on computer and Internet technology, has a piece at PC Magazine's site this week titled, "Why Social Networks Stink." Dvorak complains that social networking--all that sharing of your personal life on MySpace...

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November 30, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (9)

Hurricane Post-Mortem

The 2007 hurricane season ends Friday night, and -- what, you didn't notice it? Neither did most people in the U.S. There was only one hurricane--Humberto, on the morning of September 13--that made landfall on the Texas-Louisiana border. Otherwise, if...

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November 29, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (19)

U.S. Greenhouse Gases Dropping? No, But....

ABC's Clayton Sandell reports: Are the amounts of greenhouse gases coming from the United States dropping? The short answer is "no." But read on. The Energy Information Administration (part of the Department of Energy) today released its final report on...

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November 28, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (11)

Fuel Spill in the Antarctic?

Passengers from the M/S Explorer, the cruise ship that sank last week off the Antarctic coast, are safely in warmer climates. But depending in which report you see, there may be other victims. Helen Hughes, who reports for us from...

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November 28, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (5)

A Nuclear Reactor that Fits on a Truck

A company in New Mexico says it is developing a nuclear reactor about the size of a hot tub. The firm, Hyperion Power Generation, is using technology developed at Los Alamos National Lab. Hyperion's chief scientist, Otis Peterson, filed a...

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November 27, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (25)

Good News for Worms

Scientists have been giving antidepressants to roundworms--but wait, please keep reading anyhow. This may lengthen your life. It turned out that when the worms--C. elegans, a tiny species often used in biology experiments--were given the antidepressant mianserin, they lived about...

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November 21, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (9)

Manhunt 2: This Post Rated M

As video games go, "Manhunt 2" is--oh, let's say, on the violent end. The game, if you're not a gamer, allows you to play the role of a sociopath who has escaped from a mental institution. The game has a...

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November 20, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (20)

Warming: What to do Now?

Coming right after this weekend's climate report from the IPCC, a paper from MIT and Boston University says greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. could increase more quickly over the next 50 years than over the last, and new technology--often...

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November 19, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (8)

The Riddle of Bottled Water

The website for Equa, a new brand of bottled water, looks as fresh and pure as the wilderness it describes. "Deep below the world’s largest remaining expanse of undisturbed tropical rainforest, lies an aquifer formed billions of years ago and...

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November 9, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (21)

A Nice Shade of Mauve Would Do....

Gina Sunseri reports that the computer printer on board the shuttle Discovery has run out of black ink. So Commander Pam Melroy asked mission control to please send up new messages in BLUE, since there is no place to pull...

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November 6, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (14)