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They Want your Brains!

Financial institutions aren't the only banks hurting these days. Brain banks—repositories for donated brains—are running low on fresh noggins for research, said a group of scientists from various institutions in the United Kingdom this week. Get past ...

From CHRISTINE CYR, Popular Science,  8 Jan 2009

Flying High on Biofuels

On January 7, Continental will test fly a Boeing 737-800 powered by biofuel partially derived from algae and jatropha blended with conventional jet fuel Despite plummeting fuel prices, airlines burned from last year's off-the-charts costs are ...

From CHRISTINE CYR, Popular Science,  11 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Boeing,  Virgin Atlantic Airways

How do you learn a dead language?

Last week, Chief Marie Smith Jones, the only remaining native speaker of the Eyak language, died in her home in Anchorage, Alaska. Chief Jones' death makes Eyak—part of the Athabascan family of languages—the first known native Alaskan tongue to go ...

From CHRISTINE CYR, Slate,  28 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Marie Smith

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