55 seconds of the official broadcast of the Olympics Opening Ceremony fireworks display was computer generated, according to a report filed on Monday by the Beijing Times. Thousands of indignant bloggers want their...
"Danish civil aviation administration SLV is awaiting a detailed statement from regional airline Cimber Air after suspecting that one of its ATR 42-500 turboprops exceeded flight limits by performing a 360° longitudinal roll. Investigations began when the Danish...
"Lucas offered a glimpse into the latest creation in his sci-fi universe at the theatre-owners' convention ShoWest on Thursday, showing a sequence from Star Wars: The Clone Wars, a computer-animated movie due in...
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What's amazing about the Radiohead juggernaut is that, in the midst of confounding conventional industry revenue models and maintaining their status as darlings of the music blogosphere, they've gone ahead and...
"It's easy to see who are the losers. It's harder to see if there are any winners. During June, there was a dramatic confrontation between Fatah and Hamas in Gaza. The sequence was as follows. President Abbas dissolved the Hamas-led government (of which Fatah was a part)....
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Music from protein? On a scale of Doh Re Mi this is pretty cool.""We converted the sequence of proteins into music and can get an auditory signal for every protein," said Jeffrey H. Miller, distinguished professor of...
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Modern-day yoga teachers will not be able to claim ownership (and, by extension, control) over yoga poses that have developed over thousands of years. "The Indian government has set up a task force to create a...
"That giant whooshing sound you folks back east heard over the weekend wasn’t just a nor’easter, whatever that is. It was the collective exhalation of breath here in Hollywood, a vast, unanimous sigh of relief that l’affaire Imus is now over and we scribes now have the...
"A new method for synthesizing specific DNA sequences could revolutionize the production of genes in the laboratory (Nature, 23 Dec 04, Vol. 432, No. 7020, pp. 1050-1054). The technique, which uses programmable 'DNA microchips', looks set to slash the current cost of gene...
Online open access/free first edition of Phillip E. Johnson's book 'Darwin on Trial' (2nd Edition: Amazon UK | US)Video: Watch (RealPlayer) Phillip Johnson's Address given at the University of California, Irvine, 1992 (running time 90 minutes approx) in which he discusses...
According to New York Daily News, Starbucks is making changes to its menu. The coffee giant got 12 percent of its $4 billion in sales through food last year, mostly with cold items like cookies, muffins and salads. ...
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