{"id":707,"date":"2005-01-28T23:35:34","date_gmt":"2005-01-28T23:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:59","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:59","slug":"winds_of_discov_4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"Winds of Discovery: 2005-01-28"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome! This is the 5th edition of “Winds of Discovery”, a report by Larry Ice of Correct-Amundo!<\/A> that will take you on a wild ride across the spectrum of science and discovery.<\/p>\n

Topics this week include:<\/b> Cleveland; Brain Function; Stroke Effects; Tiny Propellors; Photovoltaic Film; Photovoltaic Polymers; Extreme Memory; Sun Patents; Humane Interface; Lab Silk; Dark Matter; Methane Rain; Hubble Scrapped; Titan Life; Smart-1; Douglas Adams; Petrified Wood; Global Warming; and 2 new ways to generate Hydrogen<\/p>\n

If YOU have a link suggestion send it to discovery, here @windsofchange.net. Regular topics include:<\/p>\n

* Biotech & Medical<\/a>
\n* Nanotech<\/a>
\n* Invention & Discovery<\/a>
\n* Space<\/a>
\n* The Environment<\/a><\/a>BIOTECH & MEDICAL<\/strong><\/p>\n

* Cleveland has the upper hand in a bid to secure funding from the National Cancer Institute<\/a> for a five year study of nanotechnology and its uses to diagnose and treat cancer.<\/p>\n

* Scientists have discovered the specific regions of the brain that determine whether someone will look you in the eye or look away<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Scientists discover that it’s not so much the Calcium ions that get into cells during a stroke, it’s the ones that don’t get out of the cell that cause the most damage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/a>NANOTECH<\/strong><\/p>\n

* Scientists have created a chemically powered nano-propellor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* This company is using the nanotechnology to develop large sheets of photovoltaic film<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/a>INVENTION & DISCOVERY<\/strong><\/p>\n

* Scientists in Canada are developing a spray on polymer based film<\/a> that they claim will convert 30 percent of the sun’s energy into electricity. Current solar cells can only convert 6 percent of the suns energy into electricity.<\/p>\n

* Rambus is pushing a new eXtreme Data Rate Memory into the market<\/a>. Will it repeat the strategic mistakes it made with the introduction of RDRAM a few years ago?<\/p>\n

* Sun Microsystems has place 1600 patents related to Open Solaris in the Public Domain<\/a>. This follows their opeing up the their source code earlier in the week.<\/p>\n

* Jef Raskin has recieved funding<\/a> for work on the Humane Interface, a way for computers to work with people, not the other way around. Expect something good from one of the original Apple employees who helped design the Mac.<\/p>\n

* Hate spiders? Stay out of this lab – Scientists have spun the first lab-made spider silk\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/a>SPACE<\/strong><\/p>\n

* A new study suggests that Dark Matter may have played an important role in the formation of the cosmos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* It doesn’t quite have the ring of the Weather Girls song, but it’s raining Methane onTitan<\/a>. <\/p>\n

* The BBC is reporting that the federal budget does not include funding for the Hubble Rescue Mission<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Scientists are studying the results of a Gas Chromatography Experiment on the Huygens Probe to determine the source of all that methane<\/a> on Titan. <\/p>\n

* Europe’s Smart-1 probe has started snapping some incredible pictures using its “Arnie”<\/a> camera. Yeah, I know, we’ve seen pictures of the moon before. But that was with 35 year old technology, not the latest digital technology. Check them out.<\/p>\n

* Astronomers have named an asteroid for Douglas Adams<\/a>, the author who penned “The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy”.<\/p>\n

<\/a>THE ENVIRONMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

* Scientists have successfully created Petrified Wood in the lab<\/a>. Thank god, I was worried we’d run out.<\/p>\n

* Scientists running a global climate model using shared time on volunteers PC’s have seen some alarming results<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Scientists have found a way to use half the energy previously used in high temperature electrolisis, a breakthrough in hydrogen production for fuel cells<\/a>. Too bad it’ll take new nuclear plant construction to supply the electricity we’re going to need to make all that hydrogen.<\/p>\n

* Fortunately, other scientists are working on ways to use sunlight to generate Hydrogen<\/a>. If successful, this is a lot less expensive way to do it.<\/p>\n

Please check back soon for another exciting edition of Winds of Discovery!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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