Monthly Archives: February 2010

Free to Good Home: One Top Secret Stealth Ship

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Maybe if i'm good this year, santa will bring me one of these!

Our friends over at SF Citizen picked up on our recent post about the Great Mothball Fleet at Suisun Bay to call attention to one resident of the fleet that's in ...

Scaring the Senate Intelligence Committee

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Obviously, these people never saw or have forgotten the lessons from Jurassic Park...Life finds a way.
This is unconscionable: At Tuesday's hearing, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California and chairwoman of the Senate Intelli...

Call for a Convention | Call a Convention

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Love it. I think Lessig is right on that if congress is allowed to work on policy and ignore fundraising, we'd get more bang from our buck.
From the Tea Party Right to the Progressive Left, there is agreement that something fundamental...

Quantum biology

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Dams You Plants!! We have so much to learn!
Oh wow. Photosynthesis depends on quantum effects for its amazing efficiency:
The quantum wizardry appears to occur in each of a photosynthetic cell’s millions of antenna proteins. These ...

Cnn.com – Kamen on future innovations

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Nice reminder from Dean Kamen that projections of the future don't include the innovations that will invariably change our lives.
His example is that diabetes accounts for some 30% of our health care dollars and if we're able to cure/reduce its impact, that will not only help our budgets but our lives.

Cnn.com – Kamen on future innovations

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Nice reminder from Dean Kamen that projections of the future don't include the innovations that will invariably change our lives.
His example is that diabetes accounts for some 30% of our health care dollars and if we're able to cure/reduce its impact, that will not only help our budgets but our lives.

10 reasons why gay marriage should be illegal

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They make some pretty good points in there.

10 reasons why gay marriage should be illegal

Shared by Ian

They make some pretty good points in there.

The Sunshine Coliseum : Discovery News

Here's an idea for a power plant: the solar-powered sports coliseum. What if you skinned an entire stadium with solar such that it could satisfy its own ginormous appetite for power when filled with spectators, but when idle (which is usually often) it...

The Sunshine Coliseum : Discovery News

Here's an idea for a power plant: the solar-powered sports coliseum. What if you skinned an entire stadium with solar such that it could satisfy its own ginormous appetite for power when filled with spectators, but when idle (which is usually often) it...