crap you need to know about.
November 19, 2009
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ScienceWorksForUS » States - ScienceWorks
The stimulus plan passed by the US Congress earlier this year provided $21 billion for scientific R&D to be allocated through the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Energy, and other agencies. (The full text of the bill is available in this large pdf file.) The debate still rages amongst politicians and economists about just how many jobs the $787 billion bill has created. In the meantime, the government has launched an interesting website detailing where that scientific R&D money went.
November 18, 2009
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October 28, 2009
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Hopenhagen
Cool website.
October 23, 2009
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"Does it really make sense for Coke to partner with the American Academy of Family Pediatrics to develop educational material promoting “healthy” soft drink consumption?"
- Julie’s Health Club: The top 10 best-selling grocery items
October 21, 2009
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Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension - life - 21 October 2009 - New Scientist
When we look back at scary situations, they often seem to have occurred in slow motion. Eagleman wanted to know whether the brain’s clock actually accelerates - making external events appear abnormally slow in comparison with the brain’s workings - or whether the slo-mo is just an artefact of our memory.
