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| General: A CYCLIC UNIVERSE |
| Posted by: Stephen on Wednesday, July 04, 2007 - 09:36 PM |
How did the universe begin? Did it have a beginning at all? These questions may have been the subject of speculation and debate for millennia, but they have not been widely discussed for the past forty years. Ever since the discovery of the cosmic background radiation in 1965, the overwhelmingly predominant view has been that our universe began about 14 billion years ago in a cosmic fireball known as the "big bang" and that it has been expanding, cooling, and evolving ever since. Recently, though, a small but growing number of theorists have begun to challenge this conventional belief and to pursue a radical new history of the universe. According to this new idea, there was a big bang, but this was not the beginning of space and time. In fact, in the version proposed by Neil Turok and myself, the big bang has occurred myriad times in our universe's past, repeating at regular intervals during which galaxies, stars, planets, and life form anew. The result is a "cyclic universe" in which cycles extend far into the past and into the future—and perhaps forever.
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| Environment: Mixed Prairie Grasses Excellent Source of Biofuel |
| Posted by: Stephen on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 04:27 PM |
Diverse mixtures of native prairie plant species have emerged as a leader in the quest to identify the best source of biomass for producing sustainable, bio-based fuel to replace petroleum.
A new study led by David Tilman, an ecologist at the University of Minnesota, shows that mixtures of native perennial grasses and other flowering plants provide more usable energy per acre than corn grain ethanol or soybean biodiesel and are far better for the environment. The research was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the University of Minnesota Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment.
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| General: AbiWord: Word Processing for Everyone |
| Posted by: Stephen on Friday, March 09, 2007 - 11:41 AM |
I can't believe we haven't talked seriously about AbiWord here since version 2.0 more than 18 months ago. Shame on us. The 2.4.x releases (they're currently on 2.4.6) have seen major upgrades to nearly all the subsystems, and a host of new features including Open Document support, image handling enhancements, grammar checking, and equation editing, to name a few.
For those of you who are unfamiliar, AbiWord is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform, open source word processor. It includes plug-in support for most document formats including Word, Open Document, Open Office Writer, Word Perfect, and even Claris Works, as well as an optional equation editor and LaTeX and DocBook support.
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| General: Calif. school district aims 5,000 desktops at Linux |
| Posted by: Stephen on Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 11:36 AM |
A school district technology director is making wholesale changes in her employer's IT system by migrating most of 5,000 Windows desktops to a new setup based primarily on Linux-powered desktop PCs and thin clients. The change aims to reduce annual costs, offer many more applications, and use less energy.
Windsor, Calif. School District IT administrator Heather Carver is migrating most of the district's 70 servers and most of its 5,000 desktop machines from a mostly-Windows environment that is quickly becoming obsolete to a new mixed environment that includes PCs running SUSE Linux, Wyse Linux thin-client terminals, and a smattering of Mac and Windows machines.
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| General: Starbucks' 'venti' problem |
| Posted by: Stephen on Monday, March 05, 2007 - 05:13 PM |
COFFEE ADDICTS WERE SHAKEN, and stirred, recently when a memo written by Starbucks Corp. founder and Chairman Howard Schultz was posted on the Internet. Noting with a mixture of pride and horror that Starbucks has gone from 1,000 to 13,000 stores in 10 years, Schultz expressed regret over a "series of decisions that, in retrospect, have led to the watering down of the Starbucks experience and what some might call the commoditization of our brand."
"Some people," Schultz wrote, "even call our stores sterile, cookie cutter, no longer reflecting the passion our partners feel about our coffee."
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| Environment: Tech Firms Go Green As E-Waste Mounts |
| Posted by: Stephen on Monday, March 05, 2007 - 03:20 PM |
This is where computers go to die a green death. Inside Hewlett-Packard Co.'s cavernous recycling plant in the Sacramento suburbs, truckloads of obsolete PCs, servers and printers collected from consumers and businesses nationwide are cracked open by goggled workers who pull out batteries, circuit boards and other potentially hazardous components.
The electronic carcasses are fed into a massive machine that noisily shreds them into tiny pieces and mechanically sorts the fragments into piles of steel, aluminum, plastic and precious metals. Those scraps are sent to smelting plants, mostly in the Sacramento area, where they are melted down for reuse.
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| General: Youth Noise |
| Posted by: Stephen on Friday, March 02, 2007 - 12:05 AM |
Youth Noise is a global network for young people aged between 16-22 where they can share and convert ideas into action to improve the world around them.
Hosted online, www.youthnoise.com has over 113,000 registered users in more than 170 countries around the world and it features 100 per cent youth-generated user content. Organised into 15 ‘channels’ it offers a platform for articles, images and discussions on issues such as War, Peace, Terrorism, Life, Art, Environment and the Media.
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| General: Australia to push for permanent end to Japanese whaling |
| Posted by: Stephen on Thursday, March 01, 2007 - 07:09 PM |
Australia has vowed to pursue its battle to ban whaling for scientific purposes after Japan cut short this year's whale hunting season in the Antarctic following a fire on its mother ship.
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The pledge came as environmental groups celebrated Tokyo's decision to cut short the 2006-2007 season, but stepped up pressure on it to abandon the controversial practice forever.
"The Australian government will continue to fight with many nations around the world to ensure that scientific whaling ceases," Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull said late Wednesday.
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