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From gas to solid, that's not just physics, that's green tech

From gas to solid, that's not just physics, that's green techWhy do you think it's a scam?The western US is certainly a warmer, dryer place than it was when I was a child I know that from personal experience. You may be right that human activity has little or...

Tags: Snake Oil, green technology, tailing, carbon dioxide, mineral, CaCO3, calcium

Discussion threads 2008-03-04

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From gas to solid, that's not just physics, that's green tech

Courtesy: Carbon Sciences Every inspirational speaker will tell an audience to take a negative and turn it into a positive. Politically CO2 emissions have become a negative in many parts of the world. CO2 is deemed to be one of the greenhouse gases...

Tags: Green Technology, Carbon Dioxide, CSA, CS, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-03-04

Hypertension (zip)

The program has many features that make it a useful reference in a Clinical Setting. Features: Table of Contents: Definition. Important factors in blood pressure. Symptoms of high blood pressure. Who Is More Likely to Develop Hypertension? Evaluation. Treatment Overview. DASH Diet . Lifestyle changes. Medications: ACE Inhibitors. Angiotensin II...

Tags: Blood Pressure, Amit Kshetarpal, Healthcare

Software downloads 2008-02-29

calcium: Hex4w Object Model (zip)

Calcium: Hex4w is a C# .Net 2.0 class library that enables an application programmer to generate a HSBC Hex4w UK BACS Financial model. Sample C# code is supplied in the installer. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: C#, .Net, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-02-06

Baby aspirin and the Vytorin scandal

You can't learn everything about a compound while it's patented. (Bayer Leverkusen is the only soccer team I know with a pill in its team shield.) Take aspirin. When I was a little kid my mom gave me baby aspirin for headaches. Little, orange, chewable. Delicious. On...

Tags: Patent, Media, U.S. Congress, Vytorin, Heart Attack, Mini-industry, Team Management, Benefits, Management, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-18

Becoming cyborg: Beware inequalities ahead

For the past couple of months I have been exploring a different kind of technology, the biological ones. You see, I need a new neck. Most of the big news in medical technology seems these days to revolve around genetic discoveries. Nevertheless, the first kind of...

Tags: Insurance Company, Disc, Fusion, Surgery, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-01-03

Predicting drug side effects

It would certainly be nice for the pharmaceutical industry to identify potential side effects of a drug before it starts to be tested on humans. Now, a research team at the University of California, San Diego UCSD might have found a solution. They have developed a new computational technique to...

Tags: Technology Review, Protein, Drug, Molecule, UCSD, Philip Bourne, Tamoxifen, Team Management, Productivity, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-16

Bone Health Calculator (exe)

Keep your bones healthy with this new bone health calculator software. It enables you to know how well your diet is treating your body just by following a few simple steps. After finishing, it will give you a response to what level of intake you are getting of calcium and...

Tags: Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

Software downloads 2007-12-14

1967 discovery at IBM may be about to pay off

1967 discovery at IBM may be about to pay offOne little, one big[i]So if cars ran on hydrogen we’d need drainage systems improved but wouldn’t have to worrry much about greenhouse gases from autos.[/i]Actually, water vapor is a much more effective greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. It just doesn't...

Tags: IBM Corp., aluminum, hydrogen

Discussion threads 2007-08-28

Wassup? the magic battery mystery

CNET's Michael Kanellos smashed into a tech mystery today. This isn't about the largest prime number or even the square root of George W's total budget deficit. No, this is far more elusive.What's up with EEStor?This is a company based in Texas, where so many of the current...

Tags: CNET Networks Inc., Mystery, Battery, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-08-03

A new way to print bones

Good old ink jet printers are really versatile machines. Last week, I told you they will be used to print organic transistors. Now, Canadian and German researchers are using a slightly modified version of the printer that sits on your desk to build three-dimensional bioceramic bones. They took "advantage of...

Tags: Printers, Document management, printer, bone, room temperature, three-Dimensional, printing

Blog posts 2007-03-18

Bacteria to protect against quakes

If you live near the sea, chances are high that your home is built over sandy soil. And if an earthquake strikes, deep and sandy soils can turn to liquid, with some disastrous consequences for the buildings sitting on them. But now, U.S. researchers have found a way to use...

Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Energy &, Environment, Science &, Nature

Blog posts 2007-02-25

Prediction markets and the madness of crowds

Prediction markets and the madness of crowdsEntertainmentI can see the value in your suggestion as a form of entertainment, but unless you were somehow able to convince others of the accuracy of its predictive abilities, it would remain only a curiosity. And considering how many people in the world today...

Tags: Homeland security, Advertising & Promotion, madness, entertainment

Discussion threads 2007-02-14

An 'origami lens' for your camera phone?

Your next camera phone might get a new kind of lens if researchers at the University of California at San Diego convince the cell phones makers. They have designed an origami lens which will slim high resolution cameras. Today, their 5-millimeter thick, 8-fold imager delivers images comparable in quality with...

Tags: camera, Engineering &, Innovation, Wireless &, Telecom

Blog posts 2007-01-31

Nanoengineered concrete to fight global warming

Nanoengineered concrete to fight global warmingYikesMaybe the Romans, with their extensive use of limestone actually brought about the global cooling we are now suffering by trapping so much CO2 into their extensive road systems. It's a fact that global temperatures are a few degrees cooler from when the Romans were...

Tags: Kilimanjaro, carbon dioxide, ice, bond, sea life, ice age, global warming, Limestone

Discussion threads 2007-01-30

Nanoengineered concrete to fight global warming

While hundreds of scientists are gathered in Paris to draw plans about how to fight global warming, MIT engineers are also working on the reduction of world emissions of carbon dioxide. As cement, which is the primary component of concrete, accounts for 5 to 10 percent of the worlds total...

Tags: global warming, C-S-H, cement, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Blog posts 2007-01-30

The nanoscience of art restoration

In a very informative article, Nanowerk Spotlight reports that nanotechnology is now being used to save Renaissance masterpieces. Italian researchers have successfully used nanoparticles of calcium and magnesium hydroxide and carbonate to restore ancient artworks, such as Maya paintings in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico or Italian wall paintings and...

Tags: painting, nanotechnology, CSGI

Blog posts 2006-10-23

Mice with glowing hearts to help us

In an attempt to better understand human irregular heartbeats or arrhythmias, Japanese and U.S. researchers have genetically engineered mice with glowing hearts. Every time their hearts beat, a green light is emitted. The researchers achieved this result by increasing the concentration of calcium ions within living mouse embryos. "Using this...

Tags: Mice, mouse

Blog posts 2006-03-11

Pocket Diet (exe)

Pocket Diet is a comprehensive diet analysis solution for your Pocket PC. Compare your diet to the USDA food database, and view your nutritional requirements, such as RDAs. See if your diet is balanced, what percentage of your calories come from carbohydrates, protein, and fat, and track your cholesterol, fiber,...

Tags: Analysis, Pocket Diet, Pocket PC, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2005-10-07

NutriGenie DASH Diet (zip)

The DASH diet is based on findings from the "Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension" a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-supported study that found that elevated blood pressure levels can be reduced with an eating plan low in total fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol, and rich in fruits, vegetables, and...

Tags: Blood Pressure, Healthcare

Software downloads 2005-05-31