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POPSDiabetics try new 'round the clock' sensor A research director who has used the sensor since 2006, warns it is no 'magic bullet', the trials have been promising. What is being discovered, is expected to, be valuable information, in the development of an artificial pancreas. The sensor can indicate when insulin injections are needed, development is still needed to make a device that will be accurate for a longer periods. The latest sensor approved will last for 7 days
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POPSShark that walks on fins is discovered Erdmann and his team claim to have discovered 52 new species, including 24 new species of fish, 20 new species of coral and eight new species of shrimp. Among the highlights were an epaulette shark that walks on its fins, a praying mantis-like shrimp and scores of reef-building corals, he said.
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POPSToo Cool to be Kitchen Gadgets WOW! 25 pictures of real kitchen gadgets being produced today by some very innovative, yet practical companies. At first they seem fantastical, but they are real. There are links at Popular Science website for all the kitchen gadgets and their makers. Enjoy!
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POPSWord wrap bookmarklet for Firefox I keep losing this superb bookmarklet, but now it's clipped for eternity! If you've never used bookmarklets in Firefox before, copy the code above into a new bookmark, and save it to some place handy like the toolbar. Then the next time you come across a page whose text extends off the right side ( like this one ), just click the bookmarklet, and voilà ...it's reformatted on the fly. No more sidescrolling. (I tried to create a one-click install link in the comments but I couldn't get around the bullet-proof defenses of coder EricW. Curses! :) )
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POPSThe Wizard of Id Sometimes something catches my attention that I really need to share. This is one of those times.
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POPSANIMARIS RHINOCEROS TRANSPORT Simulataneously beautiful and nightmarish, Jansen has created the most amazing, enormous, creepily-lifelike walking creatures with nothing more than wind, lightweight materials, and incredible ingenuity. If nothing else, make sure to watch this video: http://strandbeest.ii.nl/movies/rhinoceros%20klaar_kort.mpg
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POPSThat's My Bro! My brother makes the news with his smart looking tractor trailer. What a guy!
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POPSDebian Operating Systems The latest release Debian 4.0r3 Etch (4.0 revision 3) was released on Feb 17. It contains a base system CD and 3 DVDs containing 18,000 free programs in 'Debian Packages' The programs in these packages can easily be installed and removed with the debian package manager. There are regular updates so packages can automatically be replaced with newer versions. When I started, the whole idea of a new operating system seemed hard to fathom, but it occurred to me that when I started with windows, I was at least as blind. The idea of having a wide range of programs at my fingertips, with the ability to try them and remove them with no catches if they were not what I wanted, was enough to make me switch, and I've been amazed at what I have found, generally developed and tested by people who wanted to contribute to an improvement. Now I have the ability to control the core of my system, and it's great motivation to learn about how a program really works.
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POPSThe ‘Useful Idiots’ Of Militant Islam
Saudi-funded publications admonish Muslims in America “to dissociate from infidels, hate them for their religion, never to rely on them for support, and always oppose them in every way according to Islamic law.” The question: how was it that among the estimated five million Muslim Americans with hugely varied institutions, the president’s advisors picked a Saudi Islamofascist ghetto as a venue? A major New York Times Magazine article argued fervently on behalf of “Islamic democrats” singing the praises of a reborn Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. An essay in Foreign Affairs, a weighty establishment publication titled “The Moderate Muslim Brotherhood.” Mild Islamism is an oxymoron. Sharia law, which sanctions beating of wives and stoning for adultery, is irreconcilable with human rights. The Muslim Brotherhood founded Hamas, calls suicide bombings a good thing, and is the 21st-century version of the organized fascism of Hitler and Mussolini in the last century.
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