Sake showdown: Canada v. Japan Sake, a Japanese tradition for at least 2,000 years, is making headway in the land of beer and rye. Ontario Spring Water Sake Company, which opened in Toronto's Distillery District this spring, is just the latest brewery to produce domestic sake, joining the likes of Vancouver's Artisan Sakemaker at Granville Island and Richmond, B.C.'s Nipro Brewery. Domestic production is good news for Canadian sake aficionados, as it allows them to sample namazake, or fresh, unpasteurized sake, which is difficult to import from Japan. More than many other alcoholic beverages, sake is incredibly versatile, says Yuuji Nagaoka, who designed the ample sake menu at Toronto's acclaimed Kaiseki Sakura restaurant. Made primarily from rice, water and the all-important koji, or rice malt, sake can be consumed cold, room temperature, even hot. Sake is best sampled in a specific order. Think you know your ginjo from your honjozo? 1. Vital Stats: $8.45/300mL at LCBO. Mr. Mr. 2. Vital Stats: $9.95/180mL at LCBO.
New solution can help 'permanently get rid of germs' 6 July 2011Last updated at 11:45 By Katia Moskvitch Technology reporter, BBC News The solution does not wash away even after multiple hot laundry cycles, according to its inventor Dr Jason Locklin. A new anti-microbial treatment that can make clothing - including smelly socks - permanently germ-free has been developed by US scientists. The spray-on solution can be applied to existing garments, according to the team from the University of Georgia. It is designed to offer low cost protection for healthcare facilities, such as hospitals. Chemical impregnated materials already exist, but have to be added during the manufacturing process. The new solution can be applied to natural and synthetic textiles including clothes, home carpets, shoes and even plastics. The inventor (centre) says the product can be useful in the medical field Many of these can cause disease, break down fabrics, create stains and produce odours. And the solution did not degrade even after multiple hot water laundry cycles.
Icann increases web domain suffixes Posted by Anonymous on June 20, 2011 A global internet body has voted to allow the creation of new website domain suffixes, the biggest change for the online world in years.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) plans to dramatically increase the number of domain endings from the current 22.Internet address names will end with almost any word and be in any language.Icann will begin taking applications next year, with corporations and cities expected to be among the first.“Icann has opened the internet’s addressing system to the limitless possibilities of the human imagination,” said Rod Beckstrom, president and chief executive officer for Icann. If you don’t have $185,000 handy are you going to end up in the Internet slow lane? And is that guy in black the person at ICANN who made the decision to set the price that high? Like this: Like Loading...
How to Make a Clock Run for 10,000 Years | Gadget Lab Billionaire Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has a long-term plan: to build a clock that runs for 10,000 years. (Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com) High on a rocky ridge in the desert, nestled among the brush, is the topmost part of a clock that has been ticking for thousands of years. It looks out over the ruins of a spaceport, built by a rich man whose name was forgotten long ago. Most of the clock is deep inside the mountain, below the ridgeline. 'In the year 4000, you'll go see this clock and you'll wonder, "Why on Earth did they build this?"' No one knows who built it, or why. Why else would they build something that had no purpose except to mark time for thousands of years? The rich man is Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, and he has indeed started construction on a clock that he hopes will run for 10,000 years. For Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, the clock is not just the ultimate prestige timepiece. For starters, Bezos himself is taking a far, far longer view than most Fortune 500 CEOs.
Nature Publishing Group : science journals, jobs, and information Phase change memory-based 'moneta' system points to the future of computer storage A University of California, San Diego faculty-student team is about to demonstrate a first-of-its kind, phase-change memory solid state storage device that provides performance thousands of times faster than a conventional hard drive and up to seven times faster than current state-of-the-art solid-state drives (SSDs). The device was developed in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and will be on exhibit June 7-8 at DAC 2011, the world's leading technical conference and trade show on electronic design automation, with the support of several industry partners, including Micron Technology, BEEcube and Xilinx. The storage system, called "Moneta," uses phase-change memory (PCM), an emerging data storage technology that stores data in the crystal structure of a metal alloy called a chalcogenide. PCM is faster and simpler to use than flash memory – the technology that currently dominates the SSD market. PCM Memory Chips
Watch it free Watch Burzynski: Cancer Is Serious Business (Part I & 2) WATCH BURZYNSKI: CANCER IS SERIOUS BUSINESS, PART I and PART II on Hulu! Living outside of the USA? © 2010-2013 Burzynski Movie, All Rights Reserved Back to Top Cancel Syntech Research | Expert services delivering competitive advantage National Science Foundation (NSF) Discoveries - Researchers Control Collective Spin States Electrically at Room Temperature DiscoveryResearchers Control Collective Spin States Electrically at Room Temperature Breakthrough paves way to store and process information in novel spin-electronics August 16, 2010 Processing large amounts of information in today's electronics requires large amounts of power, which results in heating. Heat can ruin modern electronics by potentially damaging the stuff that makes them work--the ever smaller and denser structures in a computer's "brain," the microprocessor that incorporates all of its logic functions. So, researchers have been investigating something called "spintronics," a field of research that uses the spin state of electrons to pave the way for a future generation of advanced, fast, low-power, heat-limiting devices that perform memory and logic functions beyond today's microprocessors. Now, new lab work at the University of Nebraska Lincoln (UNL) Materials Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) may have made a significant breakthrough in the field of spintronics.