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TwitterImage: Audio recordings of 40-year-old interviews with rock stars were transferred to new tape to preserve them, but the newer tapes are disintegrating. (CBS)From CBS News:As Storage Media And Software Applications Advance Or Die Out, Years Of Precious Memories Are Threatened(CBS) Sooner or later, it affects every audio recording, video recording and computer file.
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Bye, Tech: Dealing With Data Rot
March 1st, 2009 
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Comments Off‘Eye of God’: The nebula that watches our tiny world from 700 light years away
February 28th, 2009 admin The ‘eye of god’ – also known as the Helix nebula – is so huge, it would take abeam of light two-and-a-half years to cross itFrom The Daily Mail:It stares down at us from the depths of space, watching our tiny world from 700 light years away.Scientists have nicknamed the image – captured by a giant telescope on the Chilean mountains – the eye of God.In fact, it shows the death throes of a star similar to our sun, before it retires as a ‘white dwarf’ believed to be the final evolutionary state of a medium-sized star.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Beam Of Light, Chilean Mountains, Cross Daily, Daily Mail, Death Star, Death Throes, Evolutionary State, Eye Of God, Giant Telescope, Helix Nebula, Image, Light Years, Scientists, Sized Star, Stares, Sun, Tiny World, Two And A Half Years, Watches, White Dwarf Comments OffIs The Internet Warping Our Brains?
February 24th, 2009 admin Image from Esther’s SpaceFrom Live Science:The Internet is no doubt changing modern society. It has profoundly altered how we gather information, consume news, carry out war, and create and foster social bonds. But is it altering our brains? A growing number of scientists think so, and studies are providing data to show it.What remains to be seen is whether the changes are good or bad, and whether the brain is, as one neuroscientist believes, undergoing unprecedented evolution.Read more ….My Comment: I do not know about my brain …. but my hands suffer from carpel syndrome.
Posted in Science News Tags: Brain, Brains, Evolution, Image, Live Science, Neuroscientist, No Doubt, Scientists, Social Bonds Comments OffIs The Internet Warping Our Brains?
February 24th, 2009 admin Image from Esther’s SpaceFrom Live Science:The Internet is no doubt changing modern society. It has profoundly altered how we gather information, consume news, carry out war, and create and foster social bonds. But is it altering our brains? A growing number of scientists think so, and studies are providing data to show it.What remains to be seen is whether the changes are good or bad, and whether the brain is, as one neuroscientist believes, undergoing unprecedented evolution.Read more ….My Comment: I do not know about my brain …. but my hands suffer from carpel syndrome.
Posted in Science News Tags: Brain, Brains, Evolution, Image, Live Science, Neuroscientist, No Doubt, Scientists, Social Bonds Comments OffThe Browser Wars — A Graphical Depiction
February 19th, 2009 admin (Click The Above Image To Enlarge)From Cool Infographics:Great timeline infographic depicting the rise and fall of different browsers portrayed as knights marching across a field. The data set used is available here.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Browser Wars, Graphical Depiction, Image, Knights, Rise And Fall, Timeline Comments OffScientists Map the 10 Billion Neurons of Human Cerebral Cortex & Find A Central Switchboard
February 16th, 2009 admin Image from The Daily GalaxyFrom The Daily Galaxy:The study of the human brain is one of the most fascinating, and incredibly meta, subjects in existence. The almost Escherian experiments of one brain studying another brain (which is thinking about being studied by the first) have up to now been held back by one thing: the brain’s owner is kind of using it so you can’t poke too hard. Now a new scanning technique has allowed scientists to probe deeper than ever into the secrets of the mind.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Amp, Central Switchboard, Existence, Experiments, Galaxy, Human Brain, Human Cerebral Cortex, Image, Map, Meta, Neurons, Scanning Technique, Scientists, Secrets Of The Mind Comments OffStudy Takes Step Toward Erasing Bad Memories
February 15th, 2009 admin Image from The Daily Galaxy:From Zimbio:LONDON, Feb 15 (Reuters) – A widely available blood pressure pill could one day help people erase bad memories, perhaps treating some anxiety disorders and phobias, according to a Dutch study published on Sunday.The generic beta-blocker propranolol significantly weakened people’s fearful memories of spiders among a group of healthy volunteers who took it, said Merel Kindt, a psychologist at the University of Amsterdam, who led the study.”We could show that the fear response went away, which suggests the memory was weakened,” Kindt said in a telephone interview.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Anxiety Disorders, Anxiety Disorders And Phobias, Beta Blocker, Blood Pressure, Dutch Study, Erasing Bad Memories, Fear Response, Galaxy, Image, London Feb, Memory, People, Propranolol, Psychologist, Reuters, Spiders, Telephone Interview, University Of Amsterdam, Volunteers, Zimbio Comments OffCould ‘Liquid Wood’ Replace Plastic?
February 12th, 2009 admin Image from The Christian Science Monitor (Scott Wallace/Staff)From Christian Science Monitor:Germans engineer an organic alternative from a paper waste product.Almost 40 years ago, American scientists took their first steps in a quest to break the world’s dependence on plastics.But in those four decades, plastic products have become so cheap and durable that not even the forces of nature seem able to stop them.
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