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Twitter(Photograph by Kyoko Hamada)From Popular Mechanics:Why can’t a computers start up like a television? In short, it is all about the operating system. And contrary to common sense, the newer the operating system the longer it can take. But you can do something about it.
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How To Make Your Computer Boot Faster
February 26th, 2009 
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No Comments »Top 10 Ig Nobels: The Best of Science’s Strangest Prize
February 25th, 2009 admin From Popular Mechanics:A large portion of scientific research remains forever off the public radar. A select few studies deliver results that reverberate in the scientific community and make their way to textbooks. Then there are those research efforts that, as one group puts it, represent “achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced.” Every year the Annals of Improbable Research highlights this last group with the Ig Nobel, an award for the top engineering solutions, science products and peer-reviewed papers that, according to the editors, “make you laugh, then make you think.” We looked back at 18 years of the prizes to bring you our 10 favorite Ig Nobels of all time.Read more ….
On the Trail of Osama bin Laden: Scientists Use Biological Tracking Models to Pursue America’s Most Wanted
February 25th, 2009 admin Regional analysis of city islands within a 20-km radiusof bin Laden’s last known location (red dot).From Popular Mechanics:The United States military’s attempts to track down Osama bin Laden in the seven-plus years since the World Trade Center attacks have been notoriously fruitless. But a new study suggests the way to find America’s most wanted criminal is to treat him like an endangered species.
Posted in Science News Tags: America S Most Wanted, California Los Angeles, City Islands, Conservationists, Dispersal, Geographers, Hideout, John Agnew, Migration Patterns, Osama Bin Laden, Parachinar, Popular Mechanics, Red Dot, Regional Analysis, Terrorist Leader, Thomas Gillespie, Tribal Areas, United States Military, University Of California Los Angeles, World Trade Center Attacks No Comments »Top 10 Science Fiction Books, Movies And TV Shows
February 23rd, 2009 admin The 10 Most Influential UFO-Inspired Books, Movies and TV Shows — Popular MechanicsUFO culture began in the late 40’s, when a pilot’s account of a midair encounter with mysterious aircraft triggered similar reports across the United States. Authors, movie producers and a few hack journalists were quick to respond.
Posted in Science News Tags: 1950s, Aliens, Encounter, Hack, Journalists, Midair, Movie Producers, Movies Tv, Mythology, Pilot, Pop Culture, Popular Mechanics, Science Books, Science Fiction Books, Superstition, Top Movies, Tv Movies, Ufo Culture, Ufo Movies, Ufos No Comments »2009 Oscars: PM Predicts Winners for Sci/Tech Categories
February 23rd, 2009 admin From Popular Mechanics:PM takes to the red carpet to find out who movie industry experts expect to win for audio and visual achievement at the 81st annual Academy Awards, airing Feb. 22 at 8 pm on ABC. Check back Feb. 23 to see how our experts fared—and to get their assessment of why they might have been wrong.Read more ….
Inside FIRST Robotics 2009: Robots Are Now Ready To Rumble
February 20th, 2009 admin From Popular Mechanics:On Tuesday, high school robotics teams from around the country concluded the six-week build period ahead of next month’s regional FIRST Robotics Competitions. Popular Mechanics dropped in on the Pirates of George Westinghouse High, in Brooklyn, as they made their final pre-shipment adjustments.The tension brimmed outside Room 254, the home base of George Westinghouse High School’s FIRST robotics team, the Pirates.
Posted in Science News Tags: Brooklyn, Construction Deadline, Fed Ex, First Robotics Team, George Westinghouse, George Westinghouse High School, Holiday Weekend, Late Night, Nadav, Pirates, Popular Mechanics, Ready To Rumble, Regional Competition, Robot, Robotics Teams, Six Weeks, Tweaks, Westinghouse High School, Wits End, Work Sessions No Comments »Blacksmithing 101: How To Make A Forge And Start Hammering Metal
February 17th, 2009 admin PM editors Roy Berendsohn (left) and Mike Allen (right) have framed houses and built race cars—but forge steel in the garage? That was something new. From Popular Mechanics:PM’s home and auto editors took a weekend out to teach themselves how to heat and hammer metal the old-fashioned way.
Posted in Science News Tags: 1941, 19th Century, Alien, Anvil, Blacksmith Forge, Blacksmiths, Connecticut, Editors, Elbe River, Generations, Germany, Hot Steel, Metallurgist, North Sea, Popular Mechanics, Race Cars, Roy Berendsohn, Shipbuilders, Sparks, Yankee No Comments »Could Someone Really Teleport Out of Jail?: Fringe Fact vs. Fiction
February 12th, 2009 admin From Popular Mechanics:David Robert Jones is back causing mayhem. In last night’s episode of Fringe, “Ability,” the villainous mystery man tries to kill with an affliction that causes hyperactive scar tissue, which closes all the victim’s orifices, so they can’t breathe. But to execute his murderous plan, he needs to first spring himself from a German prison using a fantastically sci-fi weapon (a stolen design from our mad scientist, Walter Bishop): a disintegration-reintegration ray.
Posted in Science News Tags: Affliction, Analogue, Bank Robbers, Causing Mayhem, Disintegration, Fringe, Love Jones, Mad Scientist, Mystery Man, Orifices, Popular Mechanics, Quantum Level, Quantum Tunneling, Scar Tissue, Sci Fi, Star Trek, Star Trek Tech, Truth, Walter Bishop, Weird Phenomena No Comments »