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Wave Without A Shore

...as Facebook attempts to play the same shell game with Wall Street as it does with its customers. I think this is very well stated. Facebook shell game not the best idea Here's a more technical link, but it has information for laymen as well: reasons for Facebook's...

If you have any anti-science types in your circle and they start yattering about sending 'all that money to Mars' remind them of the fact a crushed car bale---is around $250 a ton if it were pure steel. With plastics, not so much. That's ALL we ever send off the...

Olympic muscle tape You may have seen striped or patterned athletes in the Games. Called Kinesio tape, it promises to relieve muscle pain and strain. Some swear by it. Some don't. I got some sports tape, sort of a tape-on elastic bandage after a shoulder injury, and...

After Facebook's latest shenanigans, the Timeline stuff, and the possibility that they may 'lock' access to past files, so that, for instance, if you loaded a picture in 2011, you might not be able to remove it---a situation hinted at in the letter they gave Jane...

supernova shines again That's really traveling, that energy.... I don't know if you've been catching How the Universe Works on the Discovery networks, but it's really one of the best in a long time.

Gluten-free? Wheat is one of the most 'altered' food crops since ancient times...so hybridization is nothing new, but this is an interesting study, and points out one of the problems with genetic alteration (in this case, not genetic alteration in the lab, but a...

Lynn's given us a long one.

Lynn's given us a long one.

along with Serpent's Reach and others. I wonder how they handled the knnn transmissions, eh?

I'm turning it into a specialty site. I'm adding a Writer's Section, taking out the old progress reports---revising things that have changed. I may add sections as I think of them. But it's where I can park tolerably static info that people want to consult. And I have...

I'm turning it into a specialty site. I'm adding a Writer's Section, taking out the old progress reports---revising things that have changed. I may add sections as I think of them. But it's where I can park tolerably static info that people want to consult. And I have...

They're producing these faster than I expected.