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Submission + - Orion Nebula Gets New Milepost Marker, Now Closer

Submitted by twilight30 on Thursday October 11, 2007 @02:31PM

twilight30 writes: Discovery News is reporting that 'One of the most famous and scrutinized heavenly objects is 10 to 20 percent closer than we thought, say two teams of radio astronomers who have made some of the most precise cosmic distance measurements ever, with a telescope nearly as big as Earth. The Orion Nebula is the closest major stellar nursery to Earth, so it has been heavily studied to learn about the lives of stars. Its distance from Earth, however, has long been a matter of uncertainty, with an estimate made about 25 years ago in need of revision.'

Submission + - Low-tech inventions that help change lives (popularmechanics.com)

Submitted by

angelaelle

on Thursday October 11, 2007 @02:26PM

angelaelle writes: "The current issue of Popular Mechanics features their Breakthrough Awards program for inventors. Some of the winning inventions help improve the living conditions for people in third world countries using low-tech materials and assembly methods like this cookstove for people in Darfur, and in the case of this Windbelt developed by Shawn Frayne, could be used to provide cheap, clean energy alternatives here. On their web site they have videos of each winner. These videos are really fascinating and inspiring because they talk about the inventor's eureka moment, instead of just talking about their inventions. Here the link to all the winners: http://www.popularmechanics.com/breakthrough07"

Comment Re:I for one (Score 1) 213

by ded_guy on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @10:54AM (#20304661) Attached to: MIT Startup Unveils New 64-Core CPU

Why did the multithreaded chicken cross the road?
other to the To side. get

Submission + - Editorial: Compiz and Beryl Merger

Submitted by

invisibastard

on Monday April 02, 2007 @12:34PM

invisibastard writes: "Linux Tech Daily has an editorial on the proceeding merger or Compiz and Beryl. LTD believes this is a good thing and the community overall will benefit. What do you think? Will it be possible for these teams to work together? One thing is certain, the 3D desktop space is drawing a lot of attention to Linux."

Submission + - Atom smasher may give birth to 'Black Saturns'

Submitted by

David Shiga

on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @04:56PM

David Shiga writes: "If we ever make black holes on Earth, they might be much stranger objects than the star-swallowing monsters known to exist in space. According to a new theory, any black hole that pops out of the Large Hadron Collider under construction in Switzerland might be surrounded by a black ring — forming a microscopic "black Saturn". If an extra dimension exists, as string theory suggests, black Saturns might be produced in the LHC. Because there are so many ways to make a black Saturn, with different sizes of ring and different spins, they might even be produced in greater numbers than 'ordinary' black holes."

Submission + - The State of Video Connections

Submitted by

mikemuch

on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @03:12PM

mikemuch writes: "Joel Durham provides a nice rundown on what's happening in video interfaces as we leave VGA behind and move through DVI flavors, visit HDMI along the way, and look forward to UDI and DisplayPort."

Submission + - Wikipedia Founder Introduces Open Source Wiki Mags

Submitted by KingJawa on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @09:57AM

KingJawa writes: Wikipedia blew away Encyclopedia Brittanica, but can the model be used to upset the magazine industry? Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, thinks so. His company, Wikia, today announced three open-source magazine-style sites where users can write about news, opinion and gossip — one magazine wiki each for politics, entertainment, and local interests. Each open-source magazine hands total editorial control to the readers, allowing them to read, write, edit, and dictate the editorial feel for each topic.

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