Månad: februari 2005
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”How I Feed My Cats with Linux”
How I Feed My Cats with Linux Give your Linux box the power to control real-world events with an inexpensive microcontroller from Parallax, a Python program and some serial port magic. Automatiseringen fortsätter. Hur många arbeten som försvinner p.g.a denna uppfinning är okänt, men kattälskare världen över borde kunna spara några minuter om dagen. erikstarckframtidstanken.com
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Coffee Halves Liver Cancer Risk
Coffee Halves Liver Cancer Risk Daily coffee consumption halves the risk of a form of liver cancer, and the greater the consumption the greater the protection. erikstarckframtidstanken.com
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Fågelinfluensan – världens ände?
O, hvilken sorg och jämmer, o, hvilka massor af sorgklädda! Hvem kan räkna alla de hjärtekval, all den förtviflan, som uppfyller 10,000-tals hem i vårt land! Så stod det i Hälsovännen 1918 i en text om Spanska Sjukan som samtidigt red över landet. Sjukan kunde slå till snabbt. Rapporter beskrev hur man kunde insjukna på…
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HIV Transformed Into Cancer Seeking Missile
HIV Transformed Into Cancer Seeking Missile Researchers in the U.S. have transformed HIV into a harmless virus that can seek out cancer cells. The next step would be to insert a gene that could destroy cancer cells on contact. HIV-viruset kan få en nyttig användning genom att användas som transportmedel för cancercellsdödande gener. erikstarckframtidstanken.com
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Google – Serving the long tail
Memet om the long tail sprider sig. Google säger sig kunna serving the long tail med en tjusig bild. erikstarckframtidstanken.com
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Mini Helicopter Thinks for Itself
Mini Helicopter Thinks for Itself Researchers from several partner institutions and organizations have helped to successfully build, test and fly the first rotary wing UAV, a helicopter called GTMax, with capabilities of flight control fault identification and reconfiguration, adaptive control and agile maneuvering — all operating on a single vehicle and under a single software…
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The Doctor Will See Your Prototype Now
The Doctor Will See Your Prototype Now Rather than focusing on one treatment, your physician can test various scenarios on your digital doppelgänger – surgery, radiation, chemotherapy – and watch how your system reacts. The cure is the simulation that doesn’t kill the virtual you. Wired skriver lite kort om datorsimuleringar av kroppsfunktioner för medicinskt…
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Prince drar in kosing – utan stort skivbolag
Den gamle 80-talspopikonen Prince toppar inkomstligan för artister 2004 enligt musikmagasinet Rolling Stone. 400 miljoner kronor har han lyckats dra in, främst genom sitt turnerande. Då ska man komma ihåg att hans skivförsäljning varit tämligen blygsam (1.9 miljoner exemplar av senaste skivan, varav en stor del som gratis-CD vid biljettförsäljning för hans konserter) och att…
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Trade Openness, Foreign Direct Investment and Child Labor
Trade Openness, Foreign Direct Investment and Child Labor The skeptics of globalization argue that increased trade openness and foreign direct investment induce developing countries to keep labor costs low, for example, by letting children work. This article argues that there are good theoretical reasons why globalization might actually have the opposite effect. We test this…
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Chatting freely with animated historical characters
Chatting freely with animated historical characters Walk into the Hans Christian Andersen museum and you might see and hear the man himself. Though only virtual, he can hold visitors’ attention for up to 15 minutes, chatting with them about himself and telling his fairy-tales. En virtuell HC Andersen möter dig på museet som bär hans…