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…or at least peoplecicles…looks a bit more likely.

This sounds promising: “Georgia Tech researchers have created a new combustor (combustion chamber where fuel is burned to power an engine or gas turbine) designed to burn fuel in a wide range of devices – with next to no emission of nitrogen oxide (NOx) and carbon monoxide (CO), two of the primary causes of air …

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Humans have always enhanced their senses with technology. We can’t hear as well as cats, or see as well as hawks, but with parabolic microphones and binoculars, we make up for it. One sense has lagged in technological enhancement: smell. In the mammalian nose, smelling takes place in tissue called the olfactory epithelium. We have …

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Robert J. Sawyer has an op-ed in the Ottawa Citizen in response to Stephen Hawking’s call for space colonization, a call, you’ll recall (is that one too many calls?) that I agreed with. We need to move into space to protect our species from the threats that could extinguish us as long as we’re confined …

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It’s intended for medical wear, but this virus-proof fabric–impervious to HIV, H5N1, and other scary letter/number combinations–could be something everyone will someday want in their closet, if the long-feared influenza pandemic arrives.

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…as if we didn’t already have enough cranks on the radio, like (insert your favorite right- or left-wing blowhard or annoying morning show host here), here comes another one. Albeit one of more practical use.

…but based on Orson Scott Card’s review (scroll down)–not to mention the fact it was written by Neil Gaiman, directed by Dave McKean, and its visual effects are by the Jim Henson Company–it’s pretty obvious I’m going to have to rent it.

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a supernova… …or is it?

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