August 17th, 2002
The Great Thirst. Drought and disease threaten to set off a water war in volatile Central Asia. US scientists are fighting back with a data-crunching system that could pump fresh hope into the region. Does it have any lessons for our country? Think of the Cavery water dispute. Inmy opinion our country has enough expertise to make and implement similar systems.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.09/thirst.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set=

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August 17th, 2002
The Web Lecture Archive Project is a University of Michigan - CERN project to implement electronic archival system for audio, video and slide-based presentations on physics by some of the leading experts.
http://wlap.physics.lsa.umich.edu/

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August 16th, 2002
Physicists from all over the world are racing to prove the existence of a particle that’s surmised to be at the heart of the matter. This particle is the Higgs boson a class of articles named after the famous Indian scientist Dr. S. N. Bose. It is another example of how his research was underplayed in his lifetime yet it is proving to be in the centre of modern physics from condensed-matter physics to particle physics .
Fermilab: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,54507,00.html
CERN: http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/cern/ideas/higgs.html
Video Lecture by Prof. Higgs: http://wlap.physics.lsa.umich.edu/umich/mctp/conf/2001/sto2001/higgs/
What is a boson?:
http://perso.club-internet.fr/molaire1/e_quantic3.html

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August 16th, 2002
Lindows is putting the fear of a “Windowless PCworld” into Microsoft’s heart.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,468924,00.asp

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August 15th, 2002
After much searching I have been able to find the original article by Jane’s on the hot new anti-gravity propulsion sysem being developed by Boeing. So is Warp-drive next?
http://www.janes.com/regional_news/americas/news/jdw/jdw020729_1_n.shtml

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August 15th, 2002
Gene Mutations Linked to Language Development- Researchers Believe Aberrations 200,000 Years Ago Aided Human Ability to Speak.They are even trying out the gene in mice. I think only Walt Disney will be happy hear about talking mice.
The Washington Post article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17863-2002Aug14.html
Original article in Nature:
http://www.nature.com/nsu/020812/020812-6.html

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August 15th, 2002
Voyagers Reap a Bounty of Discovery and Beauty.. read the fascinating story of the Voyager missions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/13/science/space/13VOYA.html

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August 15th, 2002
The Internet at college has been out so I have not been able to post. Now that its back. Here is an interesting link for fans of the movie “Good Will Hunting”. This is a true story about how MIT whizkids go to Las Vegas to have fun and money.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.09/vegas.html

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August 12th, 2002
Forget the PARAMs and ANUPAMs… say hello to high performance computers (the politically correct term for supercomputers) from the Red Kingdom.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4905

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August 12th, 2002
PCs are going to disappear forever … if IBM, Motorola and Sony have their way.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4906

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August 11th, 2002
Know about your drive… your hard drive that is. This tutorial from Tom’s Hardware delves into this often forgotten performance criteria.
http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/02q3/020806/index.html

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August 10th, 2002
Microsoft working to improve information security using insecure computers. Check how this oxymoron can hold the clue to data security in the future.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,431355,00.asp

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August 10th, 2002
Genetic Programming…. Is it about programming or is it about genetics. Check out this article which says “Increasingly, programming is borrowing ideas from biology.”
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,429437,00.asp

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August 10th, 2002
PC Magazine has covered the best of the future technologies and products about to be released. In-depth coverage of prototype products slated to be released in the next few years. All the technologies covered are in commercial development. Pretty cool stuff including a few of my personal favourites like fuel-cells, display technologies, etc.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,429441,00.asp

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August 9th, 2002
Just discovered this amazing place to learn. It’s an interactive reference made in flash. Esp. good for high school kids and science students.
http://www.cosmiverse.com/reflib/index.htm

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