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international / sci-tech / other press Thursday February 22, 2007 20:37 by R. Isible
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Current Biology reports on a population of monkeys which have been observed to use spears in their hunting of bush babies. It seems the tool use is primarily by female chimpanzees. AP have a report that captures most of the info at the link at the bottom of the page. There's also a National Geographic summary and linked video available here: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070222-chimps-spears.html read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Thursday February 22, 2007 17:11 by R. Isible
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Microsoft is often described as "evil" and accused of dirty tactics. Many people assume that these descriptions are inaccurate and that it's "just business" and competition. Perhaps it is, but when you actually read the internal documents that occasionally come to light you realise that they're hell bent on doing whatever they can to squash rivals. One such collection of material came out of the Comes vs. Microsoft case recently. Now, however, that material is disappearing and public internet archives e.g. WaybackMachine/Archive.org have also "cleansed" their records. The moral? If there's something really important then don't rely on private businesses to keep it around for you. Make your own copies, or work with others do do so. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Sunday February 18, 2007 23:56 by R. Isible
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6 minutes. Requires evil Flash player plugin. Lampoons Dawkins' arguments from "The God Delusion". Amusing if you dislike both religion and Dawkins. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Monday February 12, 2007 15:19 by R. Isible
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Gillian McKeith is a popular TV quack whose books on health and nutrition are avidly consumed by a gullible public in the UK. Due to a grassroots efforts by bloggers the author of the book most borrowed from UK libraries in 2005/6 "Dr. Gillian McKeith's You Are What You Eat Cookbook", has been forced to stop misleadingly calling herself a doctor. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Tuesday February 06, 2007 15:58 by R. Isible
The independent documentary Loose Change [1] is doing the rounds in screenings and downloads (over 4 million apparently for just this version on Google Videos) [2]. Despite overwhelming testimony from independent scientific experts as publicised by Counterpunch [3], Popular Mechanics [4] and South Park [5] the documentary is spreading a pall of confusion and misinformation about 9/11. George Monbiot takes it on in his latest column: read full story / add a comment 
national / sci-tech / news report Wednesday November 29, 2006 15:16 by TestTubeBoy
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Contract researchers are forming an association to improve their lot read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech / news report Saturday November 25, 2006 03:03 by Steve Peacock
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Over 17 metric tons of highly enriched uranium (HEU) are slated for transfer into the hands of private contractors, whom under the auspices of the U.S. Dept. of Energy program will "down-blend" the weapons-grade material into nuclear reactor-friendly low-enriched uranium (LEU) -- which would then be shipped to foreign nations. read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech / opinion/analysis Sunday November 19, 2006 16:57 by Ezra Niesen
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Scientists who study human evolution have discovered the evolutionary origins of morality. The concept of morality exists in every culture on Earth, but the morals themselves are different, which causes a lot of conflict in the world. Now that the Democrats own the U.S. Congress, I’m sure that conflict is about to get very interesting… read full story / add a comment
dublin / sci-tech / event notice Tuesday September 19, 2006 23:46 by Star buff
This is part of the continuing series of montly public lectures hosted by Astronomy Ireland This lecture is titled: "NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration and ESA's Aurora Program" Speaker: Kevin Nolan of the Planetary Society Date/Time: Monday October 09 2006 at 8:00pm read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / news report Wednesday September 13, 2006 22:02 by o as if
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On this day 50 years ago IBM unveiled its RAMAC (Random Access Memory Accounting Machine). A computer machine which weighed several tonnes & occupied the same space as a bunch of fridge freezers. It was the first hard drive which could be searched & accessed without starting from the "beginning" of the data flow & running to the end, such as one must do with a magnetic tape. Between 13/9/56 and its withdrawl from the market in the mid 1960's IBM sold over 6,000 of the units each of which could store 5 megabytes of information. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Sunday September 10, 2006 22:02 by R. Isible
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Alexander Cockburn (eminence grise of the most exciting US political magazine) has a good 9/11 piece pointing out that the simple venality and inefficiency of Rudy Giuliani's local administration and Bush's national administration are being hidden behind a smokescreen created by illogical conspiracy nuts. read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech / other press Friday September 01, 2006 14:50 by sofia
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Vincent Paquette & Mario Beauregard are tippy toppy scientists based in Canada who have built their reputation scanning happy brains. Meaning, they have paid their mortage, put their kids through school, gone on holidays & generally got on with it all thanks to ample government & some small corporate funding. During which they've selected small groups of "happy individuals" & put them through brain scans to discover what really kicks that happiness switch". Having had wonderful results on their neural scans of men at orgasm they have now recruited no less than 15 Carmelite nuns (who belong to the order founded by the very happy Teresa in today's illustration) to go through functional magnetic resonance whislt they remember the most intense..... read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech / other press Thursday August 24, 2006 23:11 by redjade
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and who elected the 'International Astronomical Union' anyway?! read full story / add a comment
national / sci-tech / other press Monday August 21, 2006 21:26 by R. Isible
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For years people have been claiming to have discovered perpetual motion engines, "free" energy and other contraventions of the laws of physics as we understand them. An Irish company has now joined the throngs of utopianists and has "challenged scientists to test its claims" read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech / other press Sunday August 20, 2006 02:13 by Ezra Niesen
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Scientists who study human evolution have made great discoveries into the origins of human emotions and how they affect people and interpersonal relationships. People can put these discoveries to use in their everyday lives—if they learn about them. read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech / other press Tuesday August 08, 2006 07:35 by o as if
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Google yesterday announced that they are now offering a warning to their browser users if they are about to access a site associated with spyware, malware or malicious advertising who have been reported to the organisation "stopbadware". This is the latest initiative to come from an association between the group "Stopbadware" and Google. & it has met with positive reactions across the internet related media. read full story / add a comment
national / sci-tech / opinion/analysis Monday August 07, 2006 13:23 by Anon
Geologist view on Oil Exploration in Ireland read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / event notice Monday August 07, 2006 12:24 by Britta Haseneder
International Conference Ocean Energy From Innovation to Industry Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum Bremerhaven, Germany, October 23rd/24th, 2006 EC Contractors´ Meeting Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum Bremerhaven, Germany, October 25th, 2006 read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Monday August 07, 2006 09:55 by o as if
European German speakers appear to be leading the way in combatting internet addiction. The Swiss canton of Zurich has just joined with some of the German states and one Austrian province to draw up plans to combat "cyber addiction". The Swiss estimate at least 3% of surfers in their country suffer from "excessive" internet use. Suffering surfers are most likely male, aged between 20 and 30 and have grown up with computer games and other entertainment systems such as "playstation" and "gameboy". read full story / add a comment 
dublin / sci-tech / event notice Wednesday August 02, 2006 20:13 by Shane Devane
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For those who have not been to a computer fair before, a computer fair is no different from any other market in that it is composed of stalls run by various vendors. Each vendor pays a small fee for the space they occupy and uses it to display and sell their goods. The sale that takes place is a transaction between the vendor and the customer and has nothing to do with the organizer of the fair. read full story / add a comment |
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