World's tallest man saves dolphin. The world's tallest man has saved two dolphins by using his long arms to reach into their stomachs and pull out dangerous plastic shards. Mongolian herdsman Bao Xishun was called in after the dolphins swallowed plastic used around their pool at an aquarium in Fushun, north-east China. Attempts to use instruments failed as the dolphins contracted their stomachs. Guinness World Records list Mr Bao, 54, as the world's tallest living man at 2.36m (7ft 8.95in). Recovering Veterinarians turned to Mr Bao after attempts to extract the plastic shards at the aquarium in Fushun, Liaoning Province, had failed. The mammals had lost their appetite and were suffering depression, aquarium officials said. The heads of the dolphins were held back and towels wrapped around their teeth so Mr Bao could not be bitten.
He then extended his 1.06m-long arm into the mammals' stomachs. Chen Lujun, manager of Royal Jidi Ocean World, said Mr Bao was successful and the dolphins were "in very good condition now". Business - Canada gets poor grade for failing to innovate. Canada is like the gifted child who straggles near the back of the class, according to a report scheduled to be released today by the Conference Board of Canada. This country's companies don't think big enough, the economic think-tank said. Canada doesn't invest in higher and adult education and suffers an overall lack of innovation.
How Canada Performs, A Report Card on Canada ranks the country on its economy, innovation, environment, education, health and society against the performance of 16 other countries. This is the first such report to base its rankings on results, rather than the amount of money funnelled into such areas. Canada compared poorly with most other countries. "The results were very uneven and very disappointing, in some cases, shockingly disappointing," said Anne Golden, CEO of the Conference Board. "You can trace our poor performance to a failure to innovate in the broadest sense. " Switzerland, Sweden and Finland rated highly throughout the report. 12/27/2006 | Technologist focuses on media and democracy.
Digg continues to battle phony stories | CNET News.com. Top 7 Freshest Designs of 2006 » Wisdump. Be Sociable, Share! 2006 was the year of Web 2.0 design and pretty much that type of design got old real quick. Below I have listed the Top 7 Freshest Designs in my mind that I have come across this year and although these kind of lists can easily be argued, I try to provide you with enough reasoning behind my decisions. Cuban Council Why choose a site that wasn’t even designed in 2006 as a fresh design for 2006? In a year where we saw a return of the one-page layout, I still find that Cuban Council’s timeless design outdoes all-newcomers in not only providing a rewarding experience, but also a helpful one. Never one to shy away from experimentation, Inman gives us what we most want from a blog…the content. Here’s to 2007 and a whole new batch of fresh designs. Are you seeking for some cheap web site hosting plans for your newly designed web sites and also want to get free domain registration with your hosting packages?
Amp; Blog Archive & More Google Services in Russia. Survey Report Summary. Overview NewsTrust and Michigan State University conducted an online survey in December 2005. The purpose of this survey was to learn how people rate news stories, and to develop reliable online review tools for NewsTrust's news rating service. Be sure to check the independent research paper on this study, co-authored by Cliff Lampe of Michigan State University and Kelly Garrett of University of California at Irvine. Also check our test results from previous studies.
For more information about this survey, email us. Here are our key findings from this survey: Survey Design The purpose of this survey was to answer these research questions: What is the optimal review process for rating news stories? We tested each of our four review tools with two types of news: For each story type, we selected an original story ("high-quality" version), then carefully edited it to generate a second, degraded version ("low-quality").
Survey Findings Here are our key findings from this survey. Credits. A New Twist: Voting for News You Trust. JPG Magazine: User-Generated Content Moves Offline | NewAssignme. MediaCulture: Don't Trust the News? November 27, 2006 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. How can you be sure that the news you see and hear is true? Are there any journals and journalists that you can really trust and rely on? If so, how can you find them amidst the clangor and the clutter? After all, we live in an age of media scams and scandals -- from blowing it up on "Dateline" NBC to making it up in the New York Times (and the Daily News and USA Today and the Boston Globe and the New Republic and so on, ad nauseum and seemingly ad infinitum …) and from Jon Stewart's "Daily Show" to O.J. So what's a citizen to do? Enter NewsTrust, an online social news network aimed at helping people identify quality journalism -- or "news you can trust.
" At NewsTrust, anyone can submit stories and news sources for community consideration. NewsTrust is the brainchild of former journalist and brilliant digital media pioneer Fabrice Florin. So who you gonna trust? Adieu to Google Answers. Posted by Andrew Fikes and Lexi Baugher, Software Engineers Google is a company fueled by innovation, which to us means trying lots of new things all the time -- and sometimes it means reconsidering our goals for a product. Later this week, we will stop accepting new questions in Google Answers, the very first project we worked on here.
The project started with a rough idea from Larry Page, and a small 4-person team turned it into reality in less than 4 months. For two new grads, it was a crash course in building a scalable product, responding to customer requests, and discovering what questions are on people's minds. Google Answers taught us exactly how many tyrannosaurs are in a gallon of gasoline, why flies survive a good microwaving, and why you really shouldn't drink water emitted by your air conditioner.
Even closer to home, we learned one afternoon that our building might be on fire. The 5 Most Successful People-Powered News Sites - and 30 Failure. By Alan Gray, NewsBlaze Last week, a review of the top five people-powered or community news websites generated a lot of interest and questions about other players in that space. We review some of the players and find the top sites are well ahead of the pack while many others have already failed. Here is an updated analysis after undertaking extra research.
Digg inspired a lot of competition. There are literally hundreds of digg-like sites that have jumped on the people-powered news bandwagon. Which are the most successful people-powered news sites? #1 Digg #2 Reddit #3 Care2 News Network #4 Shoutwire #5 Netscape This analysis is based on the average number of votes the stories have on the front page, along with the number of votes for the most popular stories for the past month. Time to market seems to be one of the keys to success here - particularly for Digg and Reddit. Pligg / Meneame. Here's some data to back up my analysis (data from: Tue, PM, Aug 22, 2006)
About NewsBuffer. VentureBeat. Air Samples Confirm N. Korea Nuke Test - w. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that she will push for full implementation of U.N. sanctions against North Korea as punishment for its recent nuclear test when she makes a critical visit to Asia and Russia this week. The sanctions prohibit trade with North Korea in illicit materials, weapons and luxury items. "Every country in the region must share the burdens as well as the benefits of our common security," Rice said in comments aimed at China and South Korea, Pyongyang's two largest trading partners. She called on nations to "collectively isolate" North Korea, adding that it "cannot destabilize the international system and then expect to exploit elaborate financial networks built for peaceful commerce.
" Rice also warned Iran -- which faces possible U.N. sanctions over its nascent nuclear enrichment program -- that the Security Council will begin work on a resolution condemning Tehran for not suspending that effort. New Scientist SPACE - Breaking News &045; Cookies on the New Scientist website close Our website uses cookies, which are small text files that are widely used in order to make websites work more effectively. To continue using our website and consent to the use of cookies, click away from this box or click 'Close' Find out about our cookies and how to change them Space Log in Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password close My New Scientist Look for Science Jobs Earth's love handles keep satellites from falling Big bang, no boom: Did Planck pop inflation bubble?
Ringed asteroid will make a star blink out over Africa TODAY: 12:19 10 April 2014 The first known asteroid with Saturn-like rings will cross in front of a star this month, perhaps revealing clues to how the thin rings stay in shape NASA 'flying saucer' for Mars to land in Hawaii TODAY: 20:46 09 April 2014 The test flight will use an inflatable system designed to get heavy loads – and perhaps people – safely on the Martian surface TODAY: 19:30 09 April 2014 Where am I?
A spot in the sun | the Daily Mail. By This Is Money Updated: 14:56 GMT, 22 March 2006 DEAR Chancellor, I am the owner of a small business, making car air fresheners in Croydon. We employ 23 people and I implore you not to add any further regulations to our wages bill in the forthcoming budget. You and the Prime Minister have always sung the praises of SME's but the continuing regulations are strangling the life out of our 46 year-old company. In 1998, Tony Blair wrote 'The burdens on business must be reduced' and a year later in Bristol he told a business audience 'Small businesses are where the growth is going to be in terms of jobs and we must constantly look at ways to improve their situation.' But that just hasn't happened. By 2002, the annual cost to business of employment legislation implemented by the DTI was estimated by Alan Johnson to be approximately £5 billion a year, and that has continued to rise over the past five years.
Yours Sincerely, David Franklin. Today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx. Technology Review: Emerging Technologies a. A painstakingly constructed network map of yeast’s molecular responses to DNA damage is providing a glimpse into how cells might thwart cancer. Since most cancer is caused by the failure of cells to repair DNA damage due to aging, toxins, radiation, and other exposures, researchers can now turn to this new map to help pinpoint which cancer networks to target for therapeutics. The map, which documents interactions between genes and regulatory proteins involved in repairing DNA, was prepared by Trey Ideker, assistant professor of bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego (see “Comparative Interactomics”). Ideker’s group exposed yeast cells to a DNA-damaging substance and carefully mapped the ensuing interactions between regulatory proteins and genes.
[For a diagram of the complex reactions of yeast cells to DNA damage, click here.] Most large-scale systems biology studies would stop at this point. Studio Daily | Cellular Visions: The Inner. What can character animators learn from those who render microscopic worlds in 3D? Plenty. The Inner Life of a Cell, an eight-minute animation created in NewTek LightWave 3D and Adobe After Effects for Harvard biology students, won't draw the kind of box office crowds that more ferocious—and furrier—digital creations did last Christmas. But it will share a place along side them in SIGGRAPH's Electronic Theatre show, which will run for three days during the 33rd annual exhibition and conference in Boston next month. Created by XVIVO, a scientific animation company near Hartford, CT, the animation illustrates unseen molecular mechanisms and the ones they trigger, specifically how white blood cells sense and respond to their surroundings and external stimuli.
Nuclei, proteins and lipids move with bug-like authority, slithering, gliding and twisting through 3D space. In some instances, that meant sacrificing literal accuracy for visual effect. Luckily, Harvard's Dr. Dr. Stansberry &Associates - Matt Badialis Oil. Shiny Shiny: Robot Guinea Pig with animatr. Self-healing material also pinpoints damag. Cookies on the New Scientist website close Our website uses cookies, which are small text files that are widely used in order to make websites work more effectively. To continue using our website and consent to the use of cookies, click away from this box or click 'Close' Find out about our cookies and how to change them Tech Log in Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password close My New Scientist Look for Science Jobs Dolphin whistle instantly translated by computer When software writes the news Why a hacker got paid for finding the Heartbleed bug TODAY: 16:14 11 April 2014 The payment this week for spotting a major bug that damages web security is meant to set a trend, rewarding those who report bugs rather than exploit them Start-ups fuel boom in small-scale nuclear power INSIGHT: 16:00 11 April 2014 A new wave of nuclear scientists aims to build small-scale reactors that provide carbon-free power more cheaply and safely than today's huge power plants NEWS: 13:00 11 April 2014 Most read.
Scientists probe 2,000-year-old Greek comp. High performance access to file storage A bronze Greek device constructed in around 80BC could be the world's oldest computer, joint British-Greek research seems to suggest. The "Antikythera Mechanism" - consisting more than 30 bronze dials and wheels - was recovered from the wreck of a cargo ship off the Greek island of Antikythera in 1900, the Scotsman reports. Its exact purpose was unknown, although a previous theory centred on it being used to calculate the movement of the planets then known to the Greeks: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. The researchers from the universities of Cardiff, Athens and Thessalonika now believe they are close to cracking the mystery, by bringing to bear very modern X-ray technology which has revealed a previously-hidden Greek inscriptions which may confirm the planetary hypothesis.
The imaging was done by the X-Tek Group using a "unique" and snappily-named "400kV microfocus Computed Tomography System". Science & Theology News - What makes nice. Researchers use corn waste to generate ele. After the corn harvest, whether for cattle feed or corn on the cob, farmers usually leave the stalks and stems in the field, but now, a team of Penn State researchers thinks corn stover can be used not only to manufacture ethanol, but to generate electricity directly. "People are looking at using cellulose to make ethanol," said Bruce E. Logan, the Kappe professor of environmental engineering. "You can make ethanol from exploded corn stover, but once you have the sugars, you can make electricity directly.
" Logan's process uses a microbial fuel cell to convert organic material into electricity. Corn stalks and leaves, amassing 250 million tons a year, make up a third of the total solid waste produced in the United States. The microbial fuel cells contain two electrodes and anaerobic bacteria -- bacteria that do not need oxygen -- that consume the sugars and other organic material and release electrons. Source: Penn State. Popular Science. Plastic Batteries 100 Times More Powerful.
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