New Scientist Tech - Breaking News - Battery electrodes self-assembled by viruses

Seeded on Thu Apr 6, 2006 5:07 PM EDT (newscientisttech.com)

Genetically modified viruses that assemble into electrodes could one day revolutionise battery manufacturing.

science, electronics, battery, virus, newscientist

The Sun Online - Bizarre online: Paris: My breasts are hot

Seeded on Thu Apr 6, 2006 5:42 AM EDT (The Sun Newspaper Online)

Todays fatuous twittering comes from Paris Hilton (surely not :ed)

entertainment, parishilton, vacuoussocialites

The prospect of runaway deficits doesn't bode well for the American people and their nation's future.

Seeded on Thu Apr 6, 2006 5:38 AM EDT (MotherJones.com)

Anyone who has visited Disney World's Haunted Mansion remembers the ride's signature beginning: Visitors enter a room, the doors close and the ceiling appears to keep rising and rising as a spooky voice intones that there is "no way out."

us, politics, government, nationaldebt, statespending

Guardian: To criticise capitalism don't try to defend the dregs of Soviet socialism

Seeded on Thu Apr 6, 2006 5:34 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

In the last century, we used to have two big arguments: one about socialism and Russia, the other about capitalism and America. This century, we're mainly left with the argument about capitalism and America, as well as some big new ones.

us, world-news, capitalism, oped, socialism

BBC NEWS | UK | Co-habiting 'makes women fatter'

Seeded on Thu Apr 6, 2006 5:31 AM EDT (BBC News)

Women tend to put on weight and eat more unhealthily when they move in with a boyfriend, a study suggests.

women, health, gender, weightgain, cohabiting, sexwars

BBC NEWS | UK | UK awaits bird flu test results

Seeded on Thu Apr 6, 2006 5:28 AM EDT (BBC News)

Health experts are to carry out more tests on a swan found dead in Scotland that tested positive for bird flu.

science, uk, birdflu

Scientists Call Fish Fossil the 'Missing Link' - IHT

Seeded on Thu Apr 6, 2006 5:26 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Scientists have discovered fossils of a 375 million-year-old fish, a large scaly creature not seen before, that they say is a long-sought "missing link" in the evolution of some fishes from water to a life walking on four limbs on land.

evolution, science, id, fossils, missinglink

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Bush told Blair we're going to war, memo reveals

Seeded on Thu Feb 2, 2006 4:48 PM EST (Guardian Unlimited)

Tony Blair told President George Bush that he was "solidly" behind US plans to invade Iraq before he sought advice about the invasion's legality and despite the absence of a second UN resolution, according to a new account of the build-up to the war published today.

bush, iraq, war, blair, wmd-middle-east

Times Online: The President is a dolt – so how can America be such a success story?

Seeded on Thu Feb 2, 2006 4:03 AM EST (The Times)

While America has been run by one of the most doltishly ineffectual governments in history, it has forged ever further ahead of Europe in terms of wealth, science, technology, artistic creativity and cultural dominance.

bush, usa, politics, government, libertarianism

Shell reports record UK profits (but it was never about oil, was it?)

Seeded on Thu Feb 2, 2006 3:18 AM EST (BBC News)

Soaring oil prices in 2005 have helped Royal Dutch Shell report a record annual profit for a UK-listed company.

business, oil, middle-east, profits

Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | It's all in the mix

Seeded on Thu Feb 2, 2006 3:13 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)

What do you get if you combine, say, the tagging system from one site with the RSS feed of another? A software mashup, one of the hits of Web 2.0, reports Jack Schofield

web2-0, rss, technology, tech, web-apps, api, mash-ups

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Israel's shooting of young girl highlights international hypocrisy, say Palestinians

Seeded on Mon Jan 30, 2006 2:00 PM EST (Guardian Unlimited)

Israeli soldiers killed twice as many Palestinians last week alone - both of them children - as the number of Israelis killed by Hamas all last year.

human-rights, israel, middle-east, palestinians, terrorism, politics, war

Exalting Sharon: A Dire Case of Collective Amnesia

Seeded on Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:22 AM EST (Scoop)

The mainstream media's lionizing and exalting of the fatally ill Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon could only be compared to that of great men and women of past years.

israel, middle-east, palestinians, politics, sharon, world-news, debunking

Department of Computer Security? It's a Joke - Mises Institute

Seeded on Fri Jan 20, 2006 10:47 AM EST (mises.org)

He tried a little experiment. He installed a new operating system on a new laptop, and disabled the firewall. He then hooked it up to a non-secure wireless network in an urban area. The first attack came in 6 minutes.

technology, security, hackers, computers, networks, crackers

Why do we carry on screening?

Seeded on Fri Jan 20, 2006 10:41 AM EST (-)

Why do we carry on screening? Yet another study has confirmed the uselessness of the test for prostate cancer, but that won't stop men trooping into my surgery asking for it: Dr Michael Fitzpatrick

cancer, health, science, prostate, screening, debunk

New Scientist - Suspended animation: putting life on hold

Seeded on Thu Jan 19, 2006 10:12 PM EST (New Scientist)

There is a strange state between being dead and alive that could one day save your life, as New Scientist discovers

health, science, suspended-animation, technology-medical-advances

Opinion: Ben Macintyre Times Online: We can't deny the deniers

Seeded on Thu Jan 19, 2006 10:05 PM EST (The Times)

Austria's action in locking up David Irving, the extremist historian, is offensive to free speech TODAY DAVID IRVING, the infamous and discredited British historian, languishes in an Austrian jail. Just writing that sentence makes me feel happy.

history, law, free-speech, world-news, bigotry, anti-semitism, holocaust-denial

BBC NEWS | Wales | North East Wales | Man jailed for going to the pub

Seeded on Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:54 PM EST (BBC News)

A judge at Mold Crown Court has jailed a 50-year-old alcoholic man for a year after he breached an anti-social behaviour order by drinking in a pub.

health, law, odd, odd-news, uk

Mobile phone cancer link debunked

Seeded on Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:43 PM EST (BBC News)

Mobile phone use does not lead to a greater risk of brain tumour, the largest study on the issue has said.

technology, cancer, health, science, mobile-phone, debunking

Gore Is Right by Paul Craig Roberts

Seeded on Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:51 AM EST (LewRockwell.com)

Former vice president Al Gore gave what I believe to be the most important political speech in my lifetime, and the New York Times, "the newspaper of record," did not report it. Not even excerpts.

media, bush, usa, politics, reporting

Toddler rescued through cat-flap

Seeded on Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:32 AM EST (BBC News)

The child's mother left the house to get the car ready for a trip out and it is thought the toddler triggered a deadlock, locking itself inside.

odd-news, uk, offbeat, rescues

SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Health | Euthanasia: doctors aid 3,000 deaths

Seeded on Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:30 PM EST (Guardian Unlimited)

Doctors in the UK were responsible for the deaths, through euthanasia, of nearly 3,000 people last year, it was revealed yesterday in the first authoritative study of the decisions they take when faced with terminally-ill patients.

death, health, ethics, dying, medicine, euthanasia, terminal-illness

This Blog Will Change Your Life

Seeded on Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:49 PM EST (365daysofhystericalliving.blogspot.com)

My year-long adventure following the daily instructions presented in This Book Will Change Your Life by Benrik Limited as closely as possible without getting arrested or dying...

blogs, odd-news, funny

How Ziggy the indiscreet parrot gave a cheating girlfriend the bird

Seeded on Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:22 AM EST (The Times)

When the African grey said: 'I love you Gary' in his partner's voice, Chris Taylor became suspicious. WhenChris Taylor's parrot repeatedly mentioned the name Gary, his suspicions were aroused. He didn't know a Gary.

odd-news, pets, funny, weird, relationships

The Bureaucrat in Your Shower - Mises Institute

Seeded on Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:19 PM EST (Mises Institute)

How the government stops you getting a decent shower. You mean they regulate how much my shower sprays? Yes indeed they do. Government believes that it has an interest in your shower? Yes it does.

human-rights, environment, libertarianism, bureacracy, nanny-state

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