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Seminar about Trademarks in Virtual Worlds

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:03:57 GMT

SL Bar Association Offers Free CLE Session in Second Life on Trademarks in Virtual Worlds

The SL Bar Association is offering a free California CLE seminar in Second Life Tuesday, September 9 at 12:00 Noon, Pacific, at the Association’s in-world headquarters (SLURL). The seminar will focus on trademarks, and will be presented by SLBA President-Elect Stephen Wu (SL’s ‘Legal Writer’).

Stephen Wu is a partner in the Silicon Valley law firm Cooke Kobrick & Wu LLP, and is Secretary of the American Bar Association Section of Science and Technology Law. He advises clients concerning e-discovery, electronic records retention, digital evidence, and legal matters relating to information security, privacy, and ecommerce. His litigation practice also includes trademark infringement, other intellectual property, and general commercial litigation matters.

Tags: second life, virtual law, trademarks, virtually blind

ATP Energy : Charging Our Cellular Batteries

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:30:31 GMT

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To achieve a scientific breakthrough, it often takes an iconoclast who breaks ranks with the establishment. Peter Mitchell, a British chemist, fits the profile. In the early 1960’s, Mitchell single-handedly made a discovery that previously baffled the brightest scientists. Today, his discovery points the way towards improved health for aging cells.

The ATP Energy Mystery Solved

The mystery that he solved was how cells convert food to the chemical form of energy, ATP (adenosine triphosphate). This energy-producing process was generally known to occur in the subcellular structures, the mitochondria. Mitchell was the first to put forth a theory – seen as wild at the time - to explain how the body manufactures energy. His Nobel Prize-winning insight was that the mitochondria work like storage batteries.

Tags: atp energy, cellular energy, batteries

LHC - The final countdown?

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:57:11 GMT

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Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Mankind is either at the beginning of a great era of discovery, or it's the end of the world

On Wednesday, after 20 years of work by 10,000 scientists and engineers, researchers start the hunt for the God particle, or the Higgs boson, which could help explain the origin of mass in the universe.

Enough energy will be produced to recreate the conditions that existed one trillionth of a second after the big bang. Built at a cost of £5bn, the world's largest test tube should help solve other problems that have been taxing scientists for years such as "dark matter".

Sceptics have filed a law suit in courts in Hawaii and in the European Court of Human Rights to stop the project fearing that the experiment may create quasars – a mass of energy fuelled by black holes.

One such sceptic, retired professor Otto Rössler, claims that these quasars could eat the world from within.

Tags: lhc, geneva, black hole

prawn shocktail

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:44:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: a funny tail.... experts said the creature might be, .. might be ? great experts !

Clip Source: www.thescottishsun.co.uk

Prawn shocktail

Grisly discovery ... mystery creature with prawns

HORRIFIED May Morrison threw up in disgust as she tucked into a plate of prawns — after finding this mystery sea creature on the dish.

The 53-year-old gran bought three packets of her favourite seafood from Asda, only to have the treat ruined by the sight of the ugly severed head.

Last night May, below, of Edinburgh, told how she binned the prawns — before complaining to the supermarket’s branch at The Jewel.

But she was outraged when bosses offered her just £15 of vouchers in compensation. And she revealed she had already thrown out one packet because she spotted “something black” inside.

She said: “I was sick. When I felt better, I started on the the second pack and this head was sticking out. That’s when I started to vomit.”

Experts said the creature might be a sea snake or a fish from the Agonidae family. Asda said it should have been removed.

Tags: prawns, experts

Cool Flickr pool: Susan Bien's "Beyond Tradition"

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:34:17 GMT

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Clip Source: www.flickr.com

Beyond Tradition

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wizmo (a group admin) says:

05 Sep 08 - Please add up to 3 photos a day of your most non-traditional, unique work. We're looking for emotional freshness, not any particular technique.

We also have a workshop coming up in Big Sur, California, for those who are interested. Info here

Every generation has its own artistic and emotional voice. Edward Weston and his colleagues broke away from the pictorialism that came before them and redefined photography as an art in its own right, celebrating it for its own qualities; sharp focus, depth of field, etc.

We must find fresh ways of seeing because to re-create what has already been done lacks the emotional freshness and honesty of new discovery.

Tags: photos, image, art, cool

Fractals: The Colors Of Infinity

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:35:41 GMT

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Fractals: The Colors Of Infinity

Arthur C. Clarke presents this unusual documentary on the mathematical discovery of the Mandelbrot Set (M-Set) in the visually spectacular world of fractal geometry. This show relates the science of the M-Set to nature in a way that seems to identify the hand of God in the design of the universe itself. Dr. Mandelbrot in 1980 discovered the infinitely complex geometrical shape called the Mandelbrot Set using a very simple equation with computers and graphics.

Tags: science, video, documentary, fractals

pot

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:56:48 GMT

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"The term medical marijuana took on dramatic new meaning in February, 2000 when researchers in Madrid announced they had destroyed incurable brain tumors in rats by injecting them with THC, the active ingredient in cannabis.

The Madrid study marks only the second time that THC has been administered to tumor-bearing animals; the first was a Virginia investigation 26 years ago. In both studies, the THC shrank or destroyed tumors in a majority of the test subjects.

Most Americans don't know anything about the Madrid discovery. Virtually no major U.S. newspapers carried the story, which ran only once on the AP and UPI news wires, on Feb. 29, 2000.

Ancient Beehives

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:37:15 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sciencenews.org

Honey of a discovery

An ancient Israeli site yields the oldest known archaeological example of beekeeping

The Bible refers to ancient Israel as the “land flowing with milk and honey,” so it’s fitting that one of its towns milked honey for all it was worth. Scientists have unearthed the remains of a large-scale beekeeping operation at a nearly 3,000-year-old Israeli site, which dates to the time of biblical accounts of King David and King Solomon.

Excavations in northern Israel at a huge earthen mound called Tel Rehov revealed the Iron Age settlement. From 2005 to 2007, workers at Tel Rehov uncovered the oldest known remnants of human-made beehives, excavation director Amihai Mazar and colleagues report in the September Antiquity. No evidence of beekeeping has emerged at any other archaeological sites in the Middle East or surrounding regions.

Think, but do not eat

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:28:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: well the study... i think i'll have a bite first

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Thinking People Eat Too Much: Intellectual Work Found To Induce Excessive Calorie Intake

The details of this discovery, which could go some way to explaining the current obesity epidemic

measured the spontaneous food intake of 14 students after each of three tasks: relaxing in a sitting position, reading and summarizing a text, and completing a series of memory, attention, and vigilance tests on the computer. After 45 minutes at each activity, participants were invited to eat as much as they wanted from a buffet.

The researchers had already shown that each session of intellectual work requires only three calories more than the rest period. However, despite the low energy cost of mental work, the students spontaneously consumed 203 more calories after summarizing a text and 253 more calories after the computer tests. This represents a 23.6% and 29.4 % increase, respectively, compared with the rest period.

Tags: obesity, calories, intellectual work

drug discovery

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:20:13 GMT

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Clip Source: www.amazon.com

Drugs-From Discovery to Approval (Hardcover)

50 Years Ago: Greatest Scientific Discovery is Science Itself

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:30:48 GMT

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SEPTEMBER 1958
THE CREATIVE PROCESS— “The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing. Like these earlier human creations, science is an attempt to control our surroundings by entering into them and understanding them from inside. And like them, science has surely made a critical step in human development which cannot be reversed. We cannot conceive a future society without science. —Jacob Bronowski”

Tags: just, ahead, of, unintelligent, design

Strange New Comet Explains Old Mystery

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:21:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The clip is an intro to the problem. Personally, I reckon it has something to do with toilets flushing in different hemispheres.

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Halley's comet, which lights up Earth's sky every 75 years with its glowing tail, is a bit of a scientific mystery.

So far theories have been at a loss to explain how it acquired its extremely unusual backwards orbit, but the recent discovery of another odd comet orbiting farther out in the solar system may shed light on Halley's origins.

The newly-discovered comet 2008 KV42 circles the sun at a tilt of 104 degrees compared to the main plane in which most of the planets and asteroids travel. The newfound oddball also orbits in reverse compared to almost everything else. Scientists think it might represent an intermediate point between comets like Halley's and their progenitors in the far and totally uncharted reaches of the solar system.

New fingerprint method could unlock cold cases

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:17:04 GMT

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New fingerprint method could unlock cold cases

Allows police to lift prints from bullets even if the casing has been wiped

By Michael Kahn

updated 8:04 p.m. ET, Thurs., Sept. 4, 2008

LONDON - It's a discovery that would make even Sherlock Holmes proud.

British scientists have developed a new crime-fighting technique that allows police to lift fingerprints from bullets even if a criminal has wiped down a shell casing.

Authorities in Britain and the United States used the method to re-open three cold cases, including a U.S. double murder that police are now optimistic of solving, said John Bond, the physicist who developed the technique.

"In one case there was enough evidence that could lead to an identification of an offender," said Bond, a researcher at the University of Leicester and consultant at Northamptonshire Police in Britain.

Tags: science

The Atlas of Early Printing

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:08:27 GMT

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Clip Source: atlas.lib.uiowa.edu

The Atlas of Early Printing is an interactive site designed to be used as a tool for teaching the early history of printing in Europe during the second half of the fifteenth century. While printing in Asia pre-dates European activity by several hundred years, the rapid expansion of the trade following the discovery of printing in Mainz, Germany around the middle of the fifteenth century is a topic of great importance to the history of European civilization. This website uses Flash to depict the spread of European printing in a manner that allows a user to control dates and other variables.

Alzheimers And MIT Research

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:13:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Giving more hope for discovery of cause and effect, and, perhaps the cure or major contribution

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MIT zeroes in on Alzheimer's structures

Work could lead to new drugs for the common disease

MIT engineers report a new approach to identifying protein structures key to Alzheimer's disease, an important step toward the development of new drugs that could prevent such structures from forming.

Collin M. Stultz, the leader of the work and the W.M. Keck Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, noted that the same general approach could also be applied to certain proteins associated with cancer.

Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, affecting some five million Americans, according to the Alzheimer's Association. And due to the growing elderly population, that number "is expected to reach a staggering 13.2 million by 2050," said Stultz, who is also affiliated with the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics.