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Submission + - Man Controls Cybernetic Hand with Thoughts (unicampus.it)

Submitted by MaryBethP on Thursday December 03, 2009 @12:36PM

MaryBethP writes: Scientists in Italy announced Wednesday that Pierpaolo Petruzziello, a 26-year-old Italian who had lost his left forearm in a car accident, was successfully linked to an artificial limb that was neural planted in the median and ulnar nerves. He has learned to control the artificial limb with his mind. According to cnet, Petruzziello says he could feel sensations in it, as if the lost arm had grown back again.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10408139-1.html

LHC Knocked Out By Another Power Failure 338

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @12:07PM from the future-gremlins-are-watching dept.

known_ID writes "The Large Hadron Collider — the most puissant particle-punisher ever assembled by the human race — has suffered another major power failure, knocking not only the atom smasher itself but even its associated websites offline."

Journal Journal: YouTube hijacked by Pakistan, causing global outage. 1

Journal by Alien54 on Monday February 25, 2008 @01:17AM

The telecom company that carries most of Pakistan's traffic, PCCW, has found it necessary to shut Pakistan off from the Internet while they filter out the malicious routes that a Pakistani ISP, PieNet, announced earlier today. Evidently PieNet took this step to enforce a decree from the Pakistani government that ISP's must block access to YouTube becaus

Microsoft Says Free Software Violates 235 Patents 1217

Posted by Zonk on Sunday May 13, 2007 @08:26PM from the rut-roh-raggy dept.

prostoalex writes "Microsoft told Fortune magazine that various free software products violate at least 235 patents, and it's time to expect users of this software to pay up patent licensing royalties: 'Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith and licensing chief Horacio Gutierrez sat down with Fortune recently to map out their strategy for getting FOSS users to pay royalties. Revealing the precise figure for the first time, they state that FOSS infringes on no fewer than 235 Microsoft patents.'"

Comment The Article Is Wrong? (Score 1) 1856

by yls07 on Saturday March 31, 2007 @08:13PM (#18561235) Attached to: 48% of Americans Reject Evolution

According to the actual survey linked from TFA, this is the actual survey question and response data (sorry for no table formatting):

13. Do you think the scientific theory of evolution is well-supported by evidence and widely accepted within the scientific community?

Well-supported Not well-supported Don't Know
Current Total 48% 39% 13%

Evangelical Protestants 25% 63% 12%
Non-Evangelical Protestants 57% 24% 19%
Catholics 58% 33% 9%
Agnostics/Atheists 73% 18% 9%

From this information, it would appear as though 48% of Americans think evolution is BOTH well-supported AND well-accepted in the scientific community. (The question, of course, is terribly constructed because it conflates two potentially divergent beliefs.) 39% believe EITHER it's not well-supported by evidence OR it's not well-accepted in the scientific community, and it's easy to see how propaganda would make it easy to influence people on one of those two variables.

Certainly, it doesn't seem to support the proposition from TFA, that "Nearly half (48 percent) of the public rejects the scientific theory of evolution".

Is it possible MSNBC/Newsweek didn't get their facts straight? Or am I missing something?

48% of Americans Reject Evolution 1856

Posted by Zonk on Saturday March 31, 2007 @04:32PM from the we-need-just-a-touch-stronger-educational-standards- dept.

MSNBC has up an article discussing the results of a Newsweek poll on faith and religion among members of the US populace. Given the straightforward question, 'Is evolution well-supported by evidence and widely accepted within the scientific community?', some 48% of Americans said 'No'. Furthermore, 34% of college graduates said they accept the Biblical story of creation as fact. An alarmingly high number of individuals responded that they believe the earth is only 10,000 years old, and that a deity created our species in its present form at the start of that period.

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