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Digging out from piles of sticky notes: Computer scientists devise ways to organize details of everyday life
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Everyone has them -- little squares of colorful paper stuck on monitors, business cards strewn across desks, and to-do lists tucked away in pockets. These information scraps feature critical ...
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Recycling Food Scraps into Gardens
Sep 07, 2009 |
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Each weekday, food scraps are collected from the Maryland Food Distribution Authority in Jessup, Md., and from small local food service and marketing establishments. Materials that do not contain metal, glass, ...
Biomass as a source of raw materials
May 12, 2009 |
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For the protection of the environment, and because of the limited amount of fossil fuels available, renewable resources, such as specially cultivated plants, wood scraps, and other plant waste, are becoming the focus of considerable ...
Owners should count calories for obese pets, consider several factors for good health
Oct 08, 2009 |
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You might watch your daily calorie intake or glance over nutritional information on food packages, but do you do the same for your pet?
Putting pictures into words
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Visual images can contain a wealth of information, but they are difficult to catalogue in a searchable way. European researchers are generating and combining scraps of information to create a searchable picture.
New life given to ancient Egyptian texts stored at Stanford for decades
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 23, 2008 |
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They're torn and faded and have the woven texture of a flattened Triscuit. At first glance, the ancient Egyptian texts look like scraps of garbage. And more than 2,000 years ago, that's exactly what they were—discarded ...
Eco-friendly building techniques don't have to significantly raise construction costs
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Home builder Lance Schmidt hears it all the time: Green building costs more. But he and his colleagues are out to prove otherwise.
Scientists reveal secrets of ancient ocean in new book
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 13, 2007 |
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Call it the ocean that time forgot. About 400 million years ago, the Rheic Ocean played a big role in Earth’s history. When this massive body of water closed, the Appalachians were lifted to Himalayan heights ...
Researcher: Tools Will Help Personalize ID Theft by 2010
Apr 20, 2007 |
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A well-known security expert demonstrates a framework at the CanSecWest conference that makes it easier for criminals to steal identifying data.
Scientist refines cosmic clock to determine age of Milky Way
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Jun 29, 2005 |
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The University of Chicago's Nicolas Dauphas has developed a new way to calculate the age of the Milky Way that is free of the unvalidated assumptions that have plagued previous methods. Dauphas' method, which he reports in ...
Google providing better view of personal data
Nov 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google is offering a new privacy control that will make it easier for people to see some of the information being collected about them.
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