The hydrogen-powered Ech2o needs just 25 Watts -- the equivalent of less than two gallons of petrol -- to complete the 25,000-mile global trip, while emitting nothing more hazardous than water, the UK's Press Association reported.

nope. you're right. there's no way that sustainable energy could be brought to the mainstream. it's too complicated. too expensive. too "pie in the sky".

Eco-car more efficient�than light bulb - Jul 5, 2005

US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years.

Wow!

Boffins create zombie dogs

Expert amateur violinists and people with no musical training participated in the study that measured their brain activity while they performed a task that cued them to use one of their fingers to press on a violin string located on a fingerboard placed in their lap.

another release from the Department of the Obvious.

Musicians' Brains Are Different

In this dawning era of genomic medicine, the concept of private health insurance, which is based on actuarially pooling risk within specified, fragmented groups, will become obsolete.

I thought this was very timely given our dinner conversation on Friday. While I don't think a single payer system is worthwhile (or will happen) in the US, I do believe that the author flirts heavily with what *is* a likely outcome: a realignment of stakeholders.

Consider that the NHIN/HIT initiatives in the US when at critical mass will allow a degree of transparency and incentive that has neverbefore been possible. It's not totally necessary to move the physician and the patient into a direct customer/provider fiduciary exchange if you can clearly see where the money is going and how service is provided by those dollars. I think that the system today is very broken and that the first inclination is to throw it out and start over with a very different architecture. But that's obviously next to impossible in today's world. What is very likely is that the system will reconfigure itself and become optimized in a way that has not been possible previously. Transparency and appropriately motivated incentives will make the system optimized.

That will eliminate a lot of the concern over genomics being used to deny and game the pool. Everyone will be able to procure healthcare just as everyone is able to procure other basic necessities. It'll just be that the richer you are, the better product you'll have access to.

Decoding Health Insurance

] Scientists now believe that there is an intrinsic logic
] to our reality, that there are absolutes, laws of nature.
] Much remains a mystery, and as one question is answered,
] many others arise. The question now facing Pennsylvania's
] Dover School District is whether or not the imposition of
] one creation belief on a multi-ethnic, secular student
] body is in keeping with the law that prohibits the
] creation of a state religion. If they allow one belief
] system to be taught, surely they must also teach others?
]
]
] To help out with this dilemma, LiveScience presents a
] list of those Creation Myths that helped define
] civilizations both past and present.

I figured you'd get a kick out of this.

The Top 10 Intelligent Designs (or Creation Myths)

"For more than a century, the study of dinosaurs has been limited to fossilized bones. Now, researchers have recovered 70-million-year-old soft tissue, including what may be blood vessels and cells, from a Tyrannosaurus rex.

If scientists can isolate proteins from the material, they may be able to learn new details of how dinosaurs lived, said lead researcher Mary Higby Schweitzer of North Carolina State University."

NEATO!

Soft tissue found in T-rex fossil

] For the 12 physics students at Stratford, the simple act
] is to remove the old batteries from a two-battery
] flashlight, install new batteries and turn the flashlight
] on.
]
] The overcomplicated part? Do it without the touch of
] human hands. In no less than 20 steps.
]
] The weeks of work to design and construct the device have
] been a revelation of how and why things work.

Finally, some good news!

Stratford's contest task tough, hands down

] It had been thought that the left half of the brain was
] responsible for language processing in right handed
] people, while the right hemisphere played the same role
] for left handed people, he said.
]
] But subsequent research had found that while 95% of right
] handed people did indeed process language in the left
] hemisphere, so did 70% of left handed people - and half
] of the rest used both hemispheres.

Left-handers have different view

COOL!!! I want to hang this in the house!

The Periodic Table like you have NEVER seen

funny and creepy at the same time. the occular cavitiy of a powerpuff girl is the size of a buick.

What Cartoon Skeletons Look Like