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Matthew Schuler

Techdirt: The Difference Between Sense And Nonsense: Trying To Make Sense Of Microsoft'... - 0 views

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  • However, there are still plenty of questions about how much money the site can really generate long term. When Yahoo apparently tried to buy Facebook last year for $1.62 billion, the math still seemed ridiculous and hard to support.
Matthew Schuler

Tree man 'who grew roots' may be cured - Telegraph - 0 views

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  • "roots" began growing out of his arms and feet after he cut his knee in a teenage accident.
Matthew Schuler

Digg - Worst Americans Ever: Using Charity to Screw Our Veterans - 0 views

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  • As the founder of a charity called Help Hospitalized Veterans, which distributes craft kits to veterans' hospitals, Roger Chapin of San Diego pays himself and his wife more than $500,000 a year in salary... Of the $70 million Help Hospitalized Veterans took in last year, only 31 percent went to the actual charitable cause.
Matthew Schuler

Targeted muscle reinnervation enables your brain to control prosthetic limbs - Engadget - 0 views

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  • The process, dubbed targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR), works by rewiring residual nerves that once carried information to the now-lost appendage to the chest; when the person thinks to move their arm, the chest muscle contracts, and with the help of an electromyogram (EMG), the signal is "directed to a microprocessor in the artificial arm which decodes the data and tells the arm what to do.
Matthew Schuler

CNN enters the virtual world of Second Life - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • CNN aims to find out by opening an I-Report hub in Second Life, a three-dimensional virtual world created entirely by its residents.
  • Just as CNN asks its real-life audience to submit I-Reports -- user-generated content submitted from cell phones, computers, cameras and other equipment for broadcast and online reports -- the network is encouraging residents of Second Life to share their own "SL I-Reports" about events occurring within the virtual world.
  • CNN's in-world I-Report hub includes a news desk where CNN producers will hold weekly editorial discussions, and an amphitheater for larger in-world events, such as training sessions and appearances by CNN anchors and correspondents.
Matthew Schuler

Smarty Plants: Inside the World's Only Plant-Intelligence Lab - 0 views

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  • "If you define intelligence as the capacity to solve problems, plants have a lot to teach us," says Mancuso, dressed in harmonizing shades of his favorite color: green. "Not only are they 'smart' in how they grow, adapt and thrive, they do it without neuroses. Intelligence isn't only about having a brain."
  • plants have a lot to contribute in fields as disparate as robotics and telecommunications. For instance, current projects at the LINV include a plant-inspired robot in development for the European Space Agency. The "plantoid" might be used to explore the Martian soil by dropping mechanical "pods" capable of communicating with a central "stem," which would send data back to Earth.
  • Mancuso decided to use the controversial term "plant neurobiology" to reinforce the idea that plants have biochemistry, cell biology and electrophysiology similar to the human nervous system.
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  • In addition to studies on the effects of music on vineyards, the center's researchers have also published papers on gravity sensing, plant synapses and long-distance signal transmission in trees.
  • "Plants communicate via chemical substances," Mancuso says. "They have a specific and fairly extensive vocabulary to convey alarms, health and a host of other things. We just have sound waves broken down into various languages, I don't see how we could bridge the gap."
Matthew Schuler

Maps + News = YourStreet - 0 views

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  • What do you get when you combine Google Maps with hyper-local news and comments?
  • The site detects where you are located and serves up news stories about events that recently occurred in your city or neighborhood, as well comments from YourStreet members who live nearby.
Matthew Schuler

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  • For each word you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.
Matthew Schuler

Brain implant, software enables patients to think out loud - Engadget - 0 views

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  • Truth be told, we've already seen instances where technology has enabled individuals to speak without speaking, but a brain implant placed into Eric Ramsey's head could certainly raise the bar in this field.
Mike Wesch

frontline: merchants of cool: watch the full program | PBS - 0 views

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YouTube - One Water in Africa - 0 views

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  • What an awe inspiring video about the human spirit. Thank you for all you do in helping to save precious lives.
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Jared Diamond on Domestication (pdf) - 0 views

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