Mark Frauenfelder: A couple of years ago, Rudy Rucker posted an entry about the boy scout who tried to make a nuclear reactor in his garden shed. Years later, he’s been caught again trying to do the same thing.
Now, it seems as if he has yet to learn his lesson, as he has been busted once again, this time for stealing smoke detectors in an effort to experiment with radioactive materials.
From the “Inconvenient Truth” web site, a list of 10 things to help solve the climate crisis (don’t print it, though!)
http://images.rodale.com/readthetruth/pdfs/readthetruth-checklist.pdf
A weird treadmill is pushing people at a Baltimore research hospital into sloppy versions of Michael Jackson’s moonwalk, in hopes of training stroke survivors and others with brain injuries to walk normally again.
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via washingtonpost.com – World News and Analysis From The Washington Post by Molly Moore on Aug 06, 2007
PARIS, Aug. 6 — Five armed, masked thieves sprinted into an art museum on the French Riviera during opening hours Sunday afternoon, snatched a Claude Monet and three other masterpieces off the walls, stuffed them in bags and made their get-aways by motorcyle and car, French authorities said Monday. Visit the original item
Jamie found a nifty story about Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital coming up with new 3D Brain Imaging Software. The interesting bit is that it merges data from MRIs as well as various other types of brain scans to create a single visualization for your noodle.
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athloi writes “Social networking Web sites such as MySpace.com are increasingly juicy targets for computer hackers, who are demonstrating a pair of vulnerabilities they claim expose sensitive personal information and could be exploited by online criminals.”
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