Soul Searching

by Marcus Chown
DRIVING through the countryside south of Hanover, it would be easy to miss the GEO600 experiment. From the outside, it doesn’t look much: in the corner of a field stands an assortment of boxy temporary buildings, from which two long trenches emerge, at a right angle to each other, covered with corrugated iron. [...]

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Using optical brain imaging, Bloorview researchers decode preference with 80 percent accuracy

Researchers at Canada’s largest children’s rehabilitation hospital have developed a technique that uses infrared light brain imaging to decode preference – with the goal of ultimately opening the world of choice to children who can’t speak or move.
In a study published this month in [...]

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By LiveScience Staff
Star Trek transporter room - The U.S. Air Force recently took a look into teleportation.
teleportation experimental set-up

Overview of experimental setup for recent teleportation achievement. Credit: JQI/University of Maryland
Scientists have come a bit closer to achieving the “Star Trek” feat of teleportation. No one is galaxy-hopping, or even beaming people [...]

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TheStar.com | sciencetech | Turning physics on its ear via engadget.com

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Some scientist figured out a way to generate power from salt water.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07252/815920-85.stm

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ok, so i upgraded my firefox browser and the feed thing stopped working. no worries. now, if you’d like the easy way to see what’s going on with me you can simply go to my site (www.frankbutler.net), look for the orange icon in the address bar, and drag it to your bookmarks toolbar. the all [...]

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so i’m trying this new thing to post directly from my treo to my blog. let’s give it a whirl…

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I only know how to do it for Firefox so far. I’ll keep you posted on how to do it for Explorer.
In the firefox browser when you’re on www.frankbutler.net, in the lower right hand corner of the browser in an orange icon (a square with a white dot in the corner and waves radiating out [...]

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well, i’ve got a bunch of photos and posts but no one has a card reader for me to get them onto the web! as soon as i can, i will. hopefully this week.

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Sorry about the confusion. It was my intention that anyone who wants should be able to comment. I think I fixed it. Let me know if you have any trouble (by posting a comment ;^) hehehe…

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