A power company in California is trying to install solar panels on rooftops around the LA area to contribute to the power grid. Though this is an expensive improvement, it is a small thing comparatively and there has been quite a bit of evidence that such incremental improvements, like rooftop gardens can make a sizable difference once they are widely implemented.
Comcast is claiming that it will stop trying to single out BitTorrent and block bandwidth when subscribers are using it. I'm not saying I believe they are telling the truth, but I think it is a positive development.
Flexible circuits have finally been created. I know these are early prototypes, but we are one step closer to the day when I can fold or roll up a laptop to put in a purse. I have been eagerly hoping for that for years. The circuits are actually made by stretching out plastic and then assembling the chip on it so that when the stretching stops the chip folds like an accordion. This means the flexibility has very firm limits, but still.
Bitter melon turns out to be helpful in treating diabetes. It's been used in Chinese medicine for hundreds of years; isn't that always the way it goes.
It turns out that a type of anesthesia can be used to dull the impact of painful memories and make them harder to recall. The studies done so far only tried this while the subjects were being exposed to the gas, so there is no verifiable evidence that it can help to "erase" recent traumatic events in the same way, but that is where the testing is going and the article gives us a picture from The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind just in case readers don't get the science fiction aspects on their own.
This is not really surprising, but it appears that the evolution of new species slows once there are multiple similar species that are competing. Though it makes intuitive sense, this demolishes one of the standard arguments from my Evangelical, anti-evolution childhood: if evolution happens why isn't it happening all the time around us (part of the answer is it does, but this fills in the other part).
My last note here has nothing to do with science, but it is funny. Burger King is about to start building Whopper Bars; you're guess is as good as mine.
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Your comments on the evolutionary "revelation" that the evolution of a species slows as competing similar species emerge.... simply is a construct by psuedo-scientists to explain away the evidence against evolution.... not a scientificly based discovery. If Ev were a natural process, scientifically happening through genetics, survival of the fittest or adaptation- then it would not slow in any manner, and the diversity would abound. If for some reason it did SLOW - then that is a "Designed" characteristic which is more of an "intelligence guided" action - unlike Physics and chemistry which are "laws of nature".... so IF it SLOWS - intellegent design, but IF Evolution in the "theory science" version you cling too is REAL - it would not.....
Some day you will need to admit that you are more close minded in your defense of certain "theories" you call science that your parents are about their belief system ----
You sound too much like the "earth is flat" crowd who finally concluded it "has an edge you can fall off of" to explain how ships sailing to far never came back!!!
I think I saw Whopper Bars in singapore - like fried snickers!!!
This is not a bad Blog.... but a little random.
Magnolia Sitter? Remind us that story - I've known you for 24 years and once seen you in a dogwood - which you may have thought was a magnolia.... I know - I didn't always notice - How about "sleep in the car in the driveway to watch the stars and fall aseep reading - that happened all the time from 13-24!!
You could be "Backseat Star Reader" or something!!
Flexible PC in your purse is a start - but haven't you seen the comercial with the Jeep that folds up into the purse? That is my dream. (Go big or stay home on dreams - but who an I to tell you that).
Your a good writer and a pretty neat KID - love you sitter... or maybe Backseat stargazing Turtle!!!
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