Swarms of robots that use electromagnetic forces to cling together and assume different shapes are being developed by US researchers.
The grand goal is to create swarms of microscopic robots capable of morphing into virtually any form by clinging together.
Seth Goldstein, who leads the research project at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, in the US, admits this [...]
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Posted in My Daily Reading on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Australians make interstellar hologram
January 30th, 2008 | by KFC |
Measure the beam from a pulsar for an hour or so and you’ll see all kinds of interference fringes in amongst the noise. This intereference is caused by light scattered from the interstellar medium, probably in the form of whisps of gas and dust although nobody [...]
Posted in My Daily Reading, tagged Iran, Iraq on October 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What no body is talking about “Crocker Sees Signs of Hope in Iran”
Listening to Administration officials in Washington this week, you’d be forgiven for thinking Iran is an incorrigible hegemon, making violent mischief in every corner of the Middle East in order to drive the U.S. out of the region. Iraq is often presented as [...]
Posted in My Daily Reading, tagged Macarthyism on October 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The New McCarthyism
Meet Professor Nadia Abu El-Haj, a notorious Barnard College professor now up for tenure who:
§ claims the ancient Israelite kingdoms are a “pure political fabrication,”
§ denies the Romans destroyed Jerusalem in 70 CE and instead blames its destruction on the Jews,
§ does not speak or read Hebrew yet had the temerity to [...]
Posted in My Daily Reading on October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
’55 ‘Origin of Life’ Paper Is Retracted
In January 1955, Homer Jacobson, a chemistry professor at Brooklyn College, published a paper called “Information, Reproduction and the Origin of Life” in American Scientist, the journal of Sigma Xi, the scientific honor society.
In it, Dr. Jacobson speculated on the chemical qualities of earth in Hadean time, billions [...]
Posted in My Daily Reading, tagged Iraq, sanchez on October 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
‘A nightmare with no end in sight’
Ex-commander of coalition forces in Iraq lambastes ‘failure of leadership’
ARLINGTON, Va. – A “failure of the national political leadership” is responsible for the “nightmare” of the Iraq war, retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez said Friday.
If some of America’s political leaders were in the military they would have been relieved [...]
Posted in My Daily Reading, tagged IAEA on October 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
IAEA chief’s career shows why the nuclear agreement is not about George Bush
ElBaradei got into serious trouble for his integrity and professionalism, when the US tried to prevent him from getting a third term at the helm of the IAEA in 2005. Given the widespread support to his candidature for a rare third term [...]
Posted in My Daily Reading, tagged christian on October 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A Nation of Christians Is Not a Christian NationJOHN McCAIN was not on the campus of Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University last year for very long — the senator, who once referred to Mr. Falwell and Pat Robertson as “agents of intolerance,” was there to receive an honorary degree — but he seems to have picked [...]
Posted in My Daily Reading, tagged hammas, Iran, Palestinian on October 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hamas’s strength has been in its ability to provide social services at a time that the Palestinian Authority had failed to do so
The Al-Wurud Organization supports 130 poor families by providing food packages during holy days, feasts, and at the beginning of the school year. They hold workshops for women on social, educational and health [...]
Posted in My Daily Reading, tagged Blackwater, christian on October 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Blackwater’s chairman and the GOP
This may shock some, but it also turns out that the target of the committee’s angry questions was a 38-year-old former Navy SEAL who has donated $230,000 to federal campaigns and causes in the last decade. Almost all of that money has gone to Republicans, according to a check of Federal [...]
