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NEW DELHI — Eight thousand miles from Manhattan, barefoot, shirtless, whip-thin men rippled with muscle were forging prosaic pieces of the urban jigsaw puzzle: manhole covers.
Seemingly impervious to the heat from the metal, the workers at one of West Bengal’s many foundries relied on strength and bare hands rather than machinery. Safety precautions were barely [...]
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Intel’s first next processors based on its next-generation ‘Nehalem’ architecture are due to appear a year from now, in Q4 2008. But the really interesting models will arrive during the first half of 2009: desktop and mobile CPUs with integrated graphics cores.
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Lynnfield is a quad-core part, again with HT to allow it to operate as [...]
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IBM hopes to slip commercials onto your DVDs. Big Blue has asked the US Patent Office for the exclusive rights to a “system and method of providing advertisements during DVD playback.”
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Big Blue argues that DVDs “may be a great source of advertising revenues that are not being tapped” and that “revenues from DVD advertising may [...]
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Lurking off Mexico’s eastern shore in the Sea of Cortez, these flap-jack-like creatures burst out of the water with graceful precision.
Soaring as high as two metres above the plankton-rich green water, mobula rays are a sight to behold.
Here in the Sea of Cortez four species of mobulas (tarapacana, thurstoni, munkiana, and japanica) occupy the waters [...]
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I read this guys blog a lot, and he seems to have got quite an interesting letter:
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I received a very pleasant mail today. My inbox is usually full of stupid cease & desist messages from various antipiracy organizations, but it’s mails like this one which make you happy. It’s good to see that some people [...]
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You know, every now and again, I get a little bored. When that happens I occasionally find myself hunting down obscure videos that are capable of inducing any kind of emotional response.
I think I may have found one video that shines out to me far brighter than any other. Do you know what a Tesla [...]
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It was right then that I realized a major difference between skeptics and woos, between those dedicated to using and promoting the scientific method and those whose ignorance, nihilism, and epistemological hedonism lead them to believe all kinds of total nonsense. We are interested in being justified in our beliefs and claims. They, on [...]
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Prominent secular and atheist commentators have argued lately that religion “poisons” human life and causes endless violence and suffering. But the poison isn’t religion; it’s monotheism. The polytheistic Greeks didn’t advocate killing those who worshiped different gods, and they did not pretend that their religion provided the right answers. Their religion made the ancient Greeks [...]
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I’ve had it. I get more than 300 emails a day and my problem isn’t spam (Cloudmark Desktop solves that nicely), it’s PR people. Lazy flacks send press releases to the Editor in Chief of Wired because they can’t be bothered to find out who on my staff, if anyone, might actually be interested in [...]
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