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POPSTag, Your It! Where is the X-Prize for the ethicists who are able to inform the public what will be the social, moral, biological, and political possiblities of this DNA tagging?
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POPSTree of Life Redo This is a summary of an research article from Nature. Science teachers and interested hobbyists will be intrigued to learn how the data base was created and new implications about various changes in relationships since it takes new research into account.
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POPSDiscovering Cool Pics & Podcasts This is part of the National Science Foundation website where you can listen to podcasts. There are also thousands of really fantastic images sent in from researchers all around Earth. You can get an rss feed.
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POPSChoosiness & Cooperativeness Historically Linked This is an scientific abstract from a research group who is studying the effect of choosing to be associated with people who cooperate and the ways that this cooperation can encourage others to choose them. It's too bad that Nature magazine couldn't have been more COOPERATIVE and released this research a free article, then more of us would have access to it and could CHOOSE to learn more about Nature and its parent organization. Hmm! Maybe that is the point the staff at Nature is choosing not to cooperate with the "great unwashed", so we will not choose to cooperate or even try to learn more about them. Maybe they fear the loss of their exclusivity?
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POPSApophis REALLY Attacks EARTH While the possibility of a real impact from this large asteroid is possible, I find it humorous that astronomers named it after Apophis, one of the doomsday gods and a Guaul system lord in Stargate (SG-1)
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POPSKiss of the Assassin Observing the habitat of the Assassin bug and counting the number of bugs noted by exterminators has been tested as a very inexpensive, yet accurate method to determine if children need to be tested for the presence of the parasite, a protozoan called Trypanosoma cruzi. Good news for the people in Peru and other South American countries plagued by Chaga's Disease.
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POPSSolar Weather Light Show Find more ways to see and collect amazing real images of Earth's magnetic field protecting us from Sun Storms. Learn more about Earth and get fabulous images from NASA and their partners. I love the interviews of the Inuit elders and the older scientists who first began the science station in the Arctic. Very cool stories.
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POPSHackers Target Wrong Guy This couple probably represents the majority of computer users, and this news clip shows what can happen if you don't protect your router, as well as your computer. What angers me about this whole situtation is that this gives ammunition to those who want to control the internet and create LEVELS for those who can afford it...the level will be very protected. I also never understood how a public entity can sue people for negative press.
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POPSManipulating Data Surprisingly, the semantic web is still not up and running. Personally, I think we have the technology to group data in varieties of ways and instances. Evidently, I have a greater confidence in scientists and programmers than is warranted. There are some cool examples of ways to constructively show data. For instance, GapMinder, a fantastic way to display important information gathered over many years, so people can see real relationships...not be wowed by propaganda or stuck in accepted, unverified ideas.
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POPSTwitterquette An interesting viewpoint of Twitter; based on surveys of twitter participants
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