Aug 14, 2009

EurekAlert! - Breaking News Solar physicists at NASA have confirmed that small, sudden bursts of heat and energy, called nanoflares, cause temperatures in the thin, translucent gas of the sun's atmosphere to reach millions of degrees. (Read More)

Aug 14, 2009

The Sydney Morning Herald World Headlines Italian energy company Enel says it's opened what it calls the world's first industrial-scale, zero-emissions power plant fueled by hydrogen. (Read More)

Apr 16, 2009

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Apr 15, 2009

Wall Street Journal Who would have thought that a Depression-era investing style could be in vogue in 2009? But a growing group of investors are digging out their old textbooks and taking refresher courses in valuing companies based on margin of safety, current asset value and a slew of other concepts perfected 75 years ago. The market’s crash (Read More)

Mar 27, 2009

wired-top-stories Kerstin Sjoden reports. Activist Christian Engström looks more like a engineer than a buccaneer. But in June he'll be one of 20 candidates running for seats in the European Parliament under the skull-and-crossbones flag of the Swedish Pirate Party. "If politicians want to prevent ordinary citizens from sharing fil (Read More)

Mar 28, 2009

paidContent.org Former AOL head Jonathan Miller told Fortune that Velocity Interactive, the VC firm he founded with Ross Levinsohn, wasn't a "parking spot" for him until he found another big corporate job. But Miller has reportedly landed an even meatier position: he'll be heading up digital at News Corp.. Nikke Finke broke the news, which (Read More)

Mar 29, 2009

Louis Gray - FriendFeed There are two major old media industries that are slowly and inextricably headed toward either radical change or demise. The first – the newspaper industry – is the one that seems to destined to be the poster child of old media heading into that long good-bye first, but I think far more deserving of this first place is the (Read More)

Mar 29, 2009

guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Comment & debate In 1819 an orang-utan would have had no problem becoming an MP. How would it fare today?A previously unknown opera by Shostakovich has been discovered in archives in Moscow, according to a BBC news report at the weekend. The plot concerns a creature, half-man and half-monkey, which rises to be secretary general of the Commu (Read More)

Mar 29, 2009

NewTeeVee Hollywood and the major record labels have always enjoyed a love-hate relationship with new media, alternating between roses and lawsuits for online entrepreneurs, if you will. Lately, it was looking a little like love was going to win. Hulu, after all, had convinced its detractors that even big dinosaurs can get things rig (Read More)

Mar 29, 2009

New York Times A new musical production adapted from “American Idiot,” the best-selling album by the punk band Green Day, is scheduled to make its debut in September at the Berkeley Repertory Theater in California. (Read More)

Mar 30, 2009

Altsounds Well for the past year and a half we have been busy taking on interns to write reviews and do interviews with bands and all that fun stuff. We have so many good people on board now it was time to find camera talent. Photographers are a VERY important part of the current music scene and whenever I am at a gig there is alwa (Read More)

Mar 29, 2009

The Guardian • Parties unite in campaign to ban sexist song • Orelsan says lyrics should not be taken seriouslyThe booming French rap industry has a long tradition of offending rightwing governments - Nicolas Sarkozy once took court action over songs he felt insulted the police. But in an unprecedented row, all political parties have jo (Read More)

Mar 24, 2009

Scientific American - Mind & Brain A magician tosses a ball into the air once, twice, three times. Suddenly, the ball vanishes in mid-flight. What happened?Don’t worry, the laws of physics haven’t been broken. Magicians do not have supernatural powers; rather, they are masters of exploiting nuances of human perception, attention, and awareness. In light of t (Read More)

Mar 24, 2009

EurekAlert! - Breaking News The activity in one brain structure can predict people's preferences, according to new research in the March 25 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. The study shows that even when people rate options similarly, they will choose the one that causes more activation in the caudate nucleus, a brain region involved in anticipat (Read More)

Mar 24, 2009

Scientific Blogging A receptor for glutamate, the most prominent neurotransmitter in the brain, plays a key role in the process of "unlearning," report researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Their findings in the Journal of Neuroscience, could eventually help scientists develop new drug therapies to treat a variety of disord (Read More)

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