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“The CD is dead”, EMI Music CEO
But mostly for the excellent quality of the sound that only a CD can offer since the music has not been compressed or reduced in its frequency and dynamic range. I can not support listening to 128bit encoded mp3 files, I can simply hear how bad the resolution is.
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The highest Scrabble score in the world!
Well I win anyway, that goes to show that winning in scrabble is not necessarily all about vocabulary, but alot about having your brain “see” garbled up letters as well as being able to put those potential constructs into the right places where they make lots of points. So here is how these guys did it, read the entire story, with step by step game sequence of events.
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Phthalocyanin: Blue Jeans Dye against Cancer
“They are growing so fast that they take in and retain everything – not just nutrients needed for growth.”Nanoparticles guide the dye into cancer cellsThe use of so called photodynamic therapy is not new; the first of the four compounds that are currently in clinical use was approved in 1995.Of these all are water soluble and are used largely to treat skin cancer as they naturally accumulate in the surface of the skin where they are more easily activated by light.For some reason, phthalocyanine does not get into the skin – making it more suitable for treating solid tumours within the body…. In some people, their genetic differences mean this does not happen and for others, their cells become resistant to the effects of the drug.Photodynamic therapy bypasses this issue because it does not rely on the body to activate the drug – rather a pulse of, rather ordinary, red light.Dr Mark Wainwright, a senior lecturer in medicinal chemistry at the Liverpool John Moores University says that an improved drug design such as this should have significant advantages over the currently available photosensitive agents.He adds: “Red light can only travel through 5-6mm tissue, but activating the nanoparticles in tumours inside the body, such as in the gut, could be done by using a fibre optic cable to shine the laser on the cancer target.”So far, Dr Russell’s research, recently published in Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, has only been conducted on human cervical cells in the laboratory.But his team’s collaborators in Italy have just begun testing the approach in animal models of cancer.If all goes to plan, phthalocyanine nanoparticles could be available for human trials within five years and will be administered either by injection into the bloodstream or directly into a tumour.”
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Dubai Tower: World’s Tallest Building being constructed in Dubai, probably over 700 meters tall!
They are not saying how tall it will be and only the ones who need to know in fact do know at what story they will stop adding more…. You might have heard of “Dubai Ski”, an artificial indoor skiing ramp, or the artificial reef in the shape of a large palm tree being constructed as well as several huge airports and malls.
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Paintball, but with Tanks: woohooo!
And you have to be in a tank to not get hurt and we are talking real, full size tanks here. Tank vs. Tank paintball, sounds awesome fun, doesn’t it?
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Is Sex really necessary?
“Saving yourself” before the big game, the big business deal, the big hoedown or the big bakeoff may indeed confer some moral benefit…. In one of the most credible studies correlating overall health with sexual frequency, Queens University in Belfast tracked the mortality of about 1,000 middle-aged men over the course of a decade.
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Robot Barman and Cook at a Hong Kong Cafe
A third robot, still in production, will be no more than an articulated electronic arm that can do simple manoeuvres such as flip burgers and prepare omelettes.Due to the robots’ limited abilities, the restaurant has had to hire extra staff to take up the slack and do the actual cooking…. Adding to the ambience, meals are given themed, if somewhat clumsy, names in the menu — a ham and pineapple pizza, for instance, is rechristened “Robot Energetic Pizza” — and the floor is strewn with toy robots that variously dance and sing or attack customers as they enter.Former NASA robotics expert Mark Tilden, the creator of the hugely popular Robosapien toy robot, said he admired anyone who tried to make a business out of robots, but warned the going would be tough.
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Absolutely Stunning: Battlestar Galactica, Exodus Part 2: Atmospheric FTL Jump
This is why I love LOST and also BSGOne of the most creative and well executed scenes I have ever seen in any SciFi show or movie. The idea alone left me watching this with my mouth open.
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Macs are Coming Strong in 2007: Get ready for the Apple Invasion
In its latest survey, ChangeWave Research found a large and growing pool of consumers who say they’re more likely to buy one of the new Intel-based Macs.The survey of 3,046 members of the ChangeWave Alliance shows that 37% say they’re more likely to buy an Apple computer because of the Intel chips…. “In a world where a 1% market share change represents $2 billion in sales, we’re forecasting a historic market share shift in the PC space for laptops and desktops with these new Intel-based Macs,” said Tobin Smith, founder of ChangeWave Research and editor of ChangeWave Investing.