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SPACE.com -- White House Panel Backs Commercial Alternatives to NASA's New Rocket - 1 views
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"Seeking a Human Spaceflight Program Worthy of a Great Nation" - NASA's and Lockheed Martin's 2nd thoughts of returning to the moon..
How Much More Rain Will Global Warming Bring? -- Wentz et al. 317 (5835): 233 -- Science - 2 views
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following the previous link
Global Warming To Bring More Rain To Taiwan - Science News - redOrbit - 2 views
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An interesting aspect of global warming..Was thinking of that today and apparently there are some studies but very limited.Involves a lot of satellite data to measure also moisture etc. in the atmoshpere
YouTube - Piano stairs - TheFunTheory.com - Rolighetsteorin.se - 0 views
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Changing people's behaviour through fun. Looks a bit naive, but if there are any ideas http://www.thefuntheory.com there's an ongoing competition until the 15th of Nov.
Why We Love to Hate Awards - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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[spam] Obama expressed his disappointment recently when rapper Kanye West stormed the stage at the MTV Video Music Awards to protest singer Taylor Swift's win of the "Best Female Video" trophy. Soon after, Obama himself was Swifted by critics who felt he was undeserving of his Nobel Prize win. It is obviously connected to the study of the Journal of Wine Economics that wine gold awards are given randomly http://www.wine-economics.org/journal/content/Volume4/number1/Full%20Texts/1_wine%20economics_vol%204_1_Robert%20Hodgson.pdf which also raised some controversy
Networks, Crowds, and Markets: A Book by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg - 2 views
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To be published in 2010 by Cambridge Press. Seems quite interesting (small words etc.), there's also a link to download the pre - publication version of 800 pages
Climate change and warfare: Cool heads or heated conflicts? | The Economist - 0 views
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Too warm to fight? History shows that conflicts were happening in colder periods
The S&P 500 as a Planetary System | FlowingData - 4 views
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really great visualization
BBC NEWS | Health | Juggling increases brain power - 1 views
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Oxford University scientists find that a complex skill such as juggling causes changes in the white matter of the brain. - Let's start juggling for the ideastorm!
Google Flu Trends | How does this work? - 1 views
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Learn about how Google Flu Trends uses aggregated search query data to accurately estimate current flu activity in several countries. - Lead to a Nature paper as well
The evolving face of networks |Technology |The Guardian - 3 views
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really really interesting article also referring to a Nature paper called Evolutionary dynamics on graphs
EUROPA - Press Releases - Investing in the future: Commission calls for ad... - 0 views
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an additional investment of €50 billion in energy technology research will be needed over the next 10 years. This means almost tripling the annual investment in the European Union, from €3 to €8 billion
YouNoodle startups' Scores - 1 views
Dynamic Coalition on Internet and Climate Change - 0 views
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IGF - The Internet Governance Forum. Did you know that the Internet and its usage are responsible for 5 per cent of the world's total electricity consumption
Top 100 Most Visited Articles on Wikipedia in 2009 - 2 views
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the most impressive thing about this blog, TechXav is that it is run by 14-15 year olds..... And it's not only TechXav what they are doing, wow
NASDAQ market index to track smart grid, electric infrastructure - Finance - Renewable ... - 0 views
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how about that for smartgrids etc
Seasonality of mortality: Summer vacation link? - 0 views
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Mortality rates in several Mediterranean countries decline in September, due in part to environmental factors but possibly linked to summer vacations. - What does this teach us?
China breaks ground on space launch center - Yahoo! News - 0 views
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China broke ground on its fourth space center Monday, highlighting the country's soaring space ambitions six years after it sent its first man into orbit. - .6.000 people had to be relocated for the construction
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