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IBM Cat Brain Computer is Me-Wow

By combining the cat-brain-sized computer system with a special algorithm, called Blue Matter (photo), that maps the human brain, the scientists are able to test how brain structure affects function. Eventually, they hope to uncover how the human brain’ ...

From TRACY STAEDTER, Discovery Channel,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: IBM

Cyborg Beetles Employed as Military Weapons

I sort of feel sorry for the little guy, especially during practice flights. Wonder how many times he hit the wall. Also, it's kind of creepy to think about a swarm of suckers (think locusts) descending on a town and dumping biological weapons. Okay, ...

From TRACY STAEDTER, Discovery Channel,  18 Nov 2009

Internet is Officially Worldwide

Unlike the World Series, which is inhabited largely by American (and one Canadian) baseball teams, the World Wide Web, is actually inhabited by people from lots of different countries. But since the Internet came online, it's domain name suffixes ...

From TRACY STAEDTER, Discovery Channel,  16 Nov 2009

Power the Planet with Renewables

If we could tap into renewable energy, really tap into it (overcome politics and naysayers), we could reduce global power demand by 30 percent and be totally green by 2030. So say civil and environmental engineering professor Mark Jacobson of Stanford ...

From TRACY STAEDTER, Discovery Channel,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Stanford University,  Scientific American,  NPR,  Ford Motor Company,  Alan R. Mulally

Find H1N1 Vaccine Through Google

I'm recovering from a cold. Some sniffling, coughing. When I first came down with the symptoms this past Monday, I thought for sure I had the flu. I was achy, had the chills. Of course, the first thing I thought was, "H1N1." I hadn't gotten the vaccine, ...

From TRACY STAEDTER, Discovery Channel,  12 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

The Relative Size of Things

Back in the 70s or 80s, IBM made a video called The Power of 10, which showed the relative size of things from the universe to the cell and the effect of adding a zero. In other words going from 1 meter to 10 meters to 100 meters and so on. See the ...

From TRACY STAEDTER, Discovery Channel,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: IBM

Spray Paint with Solar Panels

“We’re coming up with a cheap way to make solar cells. Right now, the way they’re made is in expensive, vacuum processes, using high temperature,” Korgel said. “And what we’re trying to do is develop essentially an ink or a paint that you can simply ...

From TRACY STAEDTER, Discovery Channel,  10 Nov 2009
Related Topics: American Chemical Society,  New Jersey Institute of Technology

Discovery News Has a New Look

Today marks the start of a brand new web site for and my site, . We've spent the last couple of months with our noses to the grindstones, redesigning the site and building new pages. We even have an iPhone app that you can download. The new site is ...

From TRACY STAEDTER, Discovery Channel,  9 Nov 2009

BLOG: Smart Grid Gets Investment

Today, Obama announced the largest ever investment in smart grid money. One hundred utility projects around the country will receive between $400,000 to $200 million in funding to improve the grid infrastructure and deploy smart meters, the digital ...

From TRACY STAEDTER, Discovery Channel,  27 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

BLOG: Google Wave by Invitation Only

BUT WAIT! I can't try it. I haven't been invited.  Google Wave is Google's new online communication tool. Google describes a "wave" as being "both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, ...

From TRACY STAEDTER, Discovery Channel,  15 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Newsweek

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