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Knowmore.org - Question Your Goods. Vote With Your Wallet.
The aim of Knowmore.org is to raise awareness of corporate abuse, and to serve as a catalyst for direct action against corporate power. Ethical Consumerism is an important movement toward corporate reform, through which individuals recognize their own role in systems of oppression, and take personal steps toward resistance and positive change.
In 1993, Peter Steiner famously wrote in the New Yorker that, "on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
In Google We Trust (Your Identity) - Search Engine Watch (#SEW)
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Three tables showing rates of lung cancer among drinkers and non-drinkers, then adjusted for smokers and non-smokers
Any set of figures needs adjusting before it can be usefully reported | Ben Goldacre | Comment is free | The Guardian
If you reload an inkjet cartridge with human cells, can you print skin? YES! : bioephemera
That's what I said - you can print skin .
Laser light used to cool object to quantum ground state
"We've taken a solid mechanical system—one made up of billions of atoms—and used optical light to put it into a state in which it behaves according to the laws of quantum mechanics.
Keeping a lid on your digital DNA - tech - 16 October 2011 - New Scientist
GENETIC sequencing will soon be cheap enough for everyone to have a digital copy of their own genome. But that also means someone could hack your hard drive or mobile device and gain access to it.
Scientists at the world's biggest scientific experiment - the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)at CERN, Geneva - are trying to answer fundamental questions about the nature of the Universe, the origin of mass, the structure of space and time, and the conditions of the early universe .
LHSee - Large Hadron Collider app - Big bang science in your pocket
Brilliant: This Android app lets blind users type on a touchscreen [Video]
Ankit Daftery is an engineering student at the Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute in Mumbai, India and he decided to take it upon himself to add the ability for the blind to type on an Android device.
In 1992, a shipping crate containing 28,000 plastic bath toys was lost at sea when it fell overboard on its way from Hong Kong to the United States. No one at the time could have guessed that those same bath toys would still be floating the world's oceans nearly 20 years later.
What can 28,000 rubber duckies lost at sea teach us about our oceans? | MNN - Mother Nature Network
The last we checked in with LittleDog, the smaller, scrappier version of BigDog and frequent resident of my worst nightmares, we took some solace in the fact that he wasn't quite as nimble as his predecessor. Now: terrifyingly nimble!
LittleDog Learns Several Terrifying New Tricks - Gizmodo
Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds Medicina 2.0
“Sacks’s writerly form is now its own literary genre.[via onlinecolleges.net ] With classes, homework, and projects–not to mention your social life–time is truly at a premium for you, so why not latch onto the wide world that Google has to offer? From super-effective search tricks to Google hacks specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time.
100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School – Eternal Code
KnujOn.com - The Internet Buck Stops Here
"3.3.1 At its expense, Registrar shall provide an interactive web page and a port 43 Whois service providing free public query-based access to up-to-date (i.e., updated at least daily) data concerning all active Registered Names sponsored by Registrar for each TLD in which it is accredited." NETFIRMSINC 80% Failure, UNIVERSO 80%, Failure, WEBWERKS 53% Failure, NAMEVIEWINC 46% Failure, FUNPEASMEDIA 33% Failure, LIMELABS 33% Failure, NAUGUSLIMITED 26% Failure, HICHINAWEBSOLUTIONS 20% Failure, NETDORMINC 20% Failure, USAWEBHOST 20%, ALANTRONBLTD 13% Failure, FABULOUSCOM 13% Failure, GLOBIXKFT 13% Failure. January 2012 Port 43 WHOIS Test ResultsThe 5.9 km² island of Aoga-shima (青ヶ島) lies near the centre of the Izu Island chain, located 64 km south from Hachijo-jima , 59 km north-northwest from the Bayonnaise Rocks and some 350 km south from Tokyo. The 2.5 x 3.5 km island is elliptical in outline, covering an area of 5.98 km².