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French scientist turns down 15,000 euros award

French scientist turns down 15,000 euros award

François Bonhomme doesn’t agree with the French government’s policy of honouring scientific excellence with financial rewards and has taken a stand by turning down a payment of €15,000 made to him last December. The 55-year-old is a (...)

16 Feb. 2010 | 4 comments | Johnny Summerton

The danger of hypnosis (Part 2)

Last month, I commented about an article and asked, if hypnosis is dangerous. The story was about a woman that sued a hypnotist on molestation charges. Today, I found this article in Asia One which initially sounds quite good. It says that more and more (...)

6 nov. 2009 | | Andreas

Nobel Scientists Agree - Stop Soot Now !

Nobel Scientists Agree - Stop Soot Now !

Last week, Ecojustice launched stopsoot.ca, a video campaign that calls on the Canadian government to stop the number two cause of global warming, black carbon emissions otherwise known as soot. That call to action is also being echoed by the man who one (...)

5 nov. 2009 | | Kori

Beware of a Facebook update email scam !

Beware of a Facebook update email scam !

So I got this email today “from Facebook”. It looked very legitimate and real. You must have realized by now that there was a major update to your Facebook’s front page with the News Feed and Live Feed. This email might fool lots of (...)

29 oct. 2009 | 3 comments | Michael R. Aulia

Taking a Walk Back in Time

The other day, a staff member brought me a laptop they had found in a closet. “No one is using this anymore,” I was told. I opened up the tiny carrying case to find a Winbook XP5 circa 1995 or so. I’m not even really sure, actually, as (...)

29 oct. 2009 | | Geek News Central

Cyberattacks: Espionage now, sabotage soon

Cyberattacks: Espionage now, sabotage soon

An analysis of recent cyberattacks on Korea and the US suggests that the nations with advanced digital sabotage capabilities have, so far, kept them in check... but it also says that we’re only a few years from this technology filtering down to (...)

28 Oct. 2009 | | J.D. LeaSure

Doing the Wave Using a Site-Specific Browser

Doing the Wave Using a Site-Specific Browser

Over the last several days, we’ve started experimenting with using Wave to track project communications at Kynetx. We have three waves now with project information in it and have invited the folks who work on those projects to each. I’m not (...)

22 oct. 2009 | | Phil Windley

BioAccelerate NYC Prize To Fund Translational Research

BioAccelerate NYC Prize To Fund Translational Research

The Partnership for New York City and the New York City Economic Development (NYCEDC) Corporation have announced that the New York City Investment Fund (NYCIF) will provide up to $1.25 million for the BioAccelerate NYC Prize. The BioAccelerate NYC Prize (...)

21 oct. 2009 | | Ruth Schaffer

US scientist charged with spying

US scientist charged with spying

An American scientist who worked for the US defence department and the space agency Nasa has been charged with attempted espionage, officials say. Stewart David Nozette tried to give classified information to a person whom he believed was an Israeli (...)

21 Oct. 2009 | | J.D. LeaSure

Is Nanotechnology the Key to Happiness ?

Is Nanotechnology the Key to Happiness ?

Nanotechnology has been called a great many things—the great leveler, the panacea to all that ails the world, the technology that will allow us to solve all of our problems from world hunger to pollution. But this month, at nanotechnow.com, Tihamer (...)

16 oct. 2009 | | Bioethics.net

Hypnosis is dangerous

A doctor named O’Connell in the Lakeside Behavioral Health Center is accused of sexually molesting a co-worker under hypnosis in her second session on smoking cessation. Court papers state the victim was hypnotized while she was lying on the bed. It (...)

13 oct. 2009 | | Andreas

Can a Tablet Succeed ?

The rumour machine is abuzz with the prospect of Apple releasing a tablet, and there are a number of other people, most notably TechCrunch and Archos, have tablet systems either out or on the planning desk. It will be interesting to see if anyone can (...)

8 oct. 2009 | 4 comments | Geek News Central

Telecom Giants jump into action at first bell

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7 Oct. 2009 | | Emma Naylor

Iran’s science minister does science the easy way : by plagiarizing

Iran's science minister does science the easy way : by plagiarizing

People complain that ministers in the cabinet Iran’s recently selected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government will say things so outlandish no one else would even think of saying them, but Declan Butler over at the Nature blog, The Great (...)

24 sep. 2009 | | Effect Measure

Water On the Moon !

Water On the Moon !

It’s official, space scientists have confirmed that they have no sense of perspective whatsoever. Carle Pieters of Brown University in Rhode Island and colleagues reviewed data from Chandrayaan-1 and found spectrographic evidence of water. The (...)

24 sep. 2009 | | Cobb

US must heed electronic terror threat

US must heed electronic terror threat

ELMA, N.Y. - A New York businessman is sounding the alarm on a potential terror threat that he says has not gotten the attention or action it deserves, despite a congressional committee’s finding that the country grows more vulnerable to it by the (...)

22 Sep. 2009 | | J.D. LeaSure

Many eyes make all bugs shallow ? especially when the eyes get smarter

My friend Diederik has been writing a number of cool posts over at his blog Network-labs.org. For example he has an awesome jetpack plugin that predicts the likelihood a bug will get fixed and a plugin that allows users to rate how badly a bug is being (...)

3 sep. 2009 | | David Eaves

Your Palm Pre May be Spying on You

Your Palm Pre May be Spying on You

Is your Palm Pre spying on you and sending your GPS coordinates and more back to the Palm mothership on a daily basis? According to mobile application developer Joey Hess, that’s exactly what is happening. He asserts on his personal blog that data (...)

20 Aug. 2009 | | J.D. LeaSure

The Most Intelligent Emissions Target, Period

The Most Intelligent Emissions Target, Period

Courtesy of the @tcktcktck, this is the most socially responsible, fair and intelligent answer to international emissions targets there is. India’s Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Jairam Rames, has laid out India’s expectations (...)

11 aoû. 2009 | | Kori

The Canadian Government’s War on Science

The Canadian Government's War on Science

For those who did not catch this excellent piece in the Toronto Star I encourage you to take a look. During the Bush era the Canadian war on science was an embarrassing side show to that of its more wildly offensive southern neighbour which regularly (...)

11 aoû. 2009 | 1 comment | David Eaves

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