MajorTeach Homepage: "MajorTeach is a perlscript and some info files that can teach you how to remember things more easily. It teaches the Major memory system, and helps you practice"

Hopify Homepage: "Hopify is a perlscript and some info files that can teach you how to read faster."

A Growing Number of Video Viewers Watch From Crib: "In 1999, the year after 'Teletubbies,' a British import, arrived on American television, the American Academy of Pediatrics adopted a statement that said children under 2 should not watch television and that children of all ages should not have a television in their room.

'Maybe it should be phrased more positively, that children do best with the maximum free play, the maximum interaction and maximum face time with their parents,' said Dr. Michael Rich, a member of the academy's committee on public education."

BW Online | October 24, 2003 | Seeking a Prescription for Biogenerics: "When U.S. generic-drug laws were passed in the 1980s under the Hatch-Waxman Act, they didn't include the nascent field of biotechnology. Today, the U.S. has no regulatory process for producers to sell generic versions of biotech drugs even if the originals have lost their patent protection. "

The Stealth Computer: "Greg Sowell, built a computer with mini-ITX components, then created a case for it from Lincoln Logs."

Health - canada.com network: "Children face a future of heart disease, potentially as early as the end of their teen years, if the exploding problem of childhood obesity is not addressed, a U.S. expert warned Sunday."

Wired News: Three R's: Reading, Writing, RFID: "Stillman has gone whole-hog for radio-frequency technology, which his year-old Enterprise Charter School started using last month to record the time of day students arrive in the morning. In the next months, he plans to use RFID to track library loans, disciplinary records, cafeteria purchases and visits to the nurse's office. Eventually he'd like to expand the system to track students' punctuality (or lack thereof) for every class and to verify the time they get on and off school buses."

(Features) Integrating a Graphical User Interface into an Existing Medical Device (MEM archive, Oct 03): "New technology makes GUIs a fast and cost-effective way to add features and improve on existing designs."

Scientific American: Scientists Discover New Frog Family: "Scientists have discovered a bright purple, bloated frog in southern India that is so unique it merits the establishment of not only a new species but also a new family. The creature, described today in the journal Nature, diverged from its closest relatives during the heyday of the dinosaurs."

BBC NEWS | Technology | Net lifeline for African doctors: "They can now read up to date medical literature and over 20,000 journals.

The project is called Ptolemy after the ancient ruler of Alexandria, whose dream was to collect a library of all the worlds' literature."

Body network gains speed TRN 102203: "

The human body is capable of many things, including acting as an information conduit -- quite literally."

Forest Hill student aces SAT: "Not in some grand, global way. But still, he's reached the top. In the test-intensive atmosphere of today's educational system, Aaron went and scored a 1600 on his SAT last spring. The achievement has catapulted him to a national stage."

www.britishpathe.com: "Now you are here you can preview items from the entire 3500 hour British Pathe Film Archive which covers news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970."

: "Now you are here you can preview items from the entire 3500 hour British Pathe Film Archive which covers news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970."

New Scientist: "Monkeys can control a robot arm as naturally as their own limbs using only brain signals, a pioneering experiment has shown. The macaque monkeys could reach and grasp with the same precision as their own hand."

Hotter Log Enters the Market: "He wrote this fact down in a notebook he regularly fills with 'silly ideas' and then forgot about it. A couple of years later his wife, Joanne Johnson, was offered a contract with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The couple moved to Paris, and Mr. Sprules found himself 'a gentleman of leisure.' Mr. Sprules scoured his notebook of silly ideas for one that might be a promising basis for a business and discovered the coffee entry."

VOANews.com: "A Texas woman is safe after spending at least 13 hours in the Gulf of Mexico after falling off a shrimp boat without a life jacket.

Melinda Lopez fell overboard Tuesday and swam and floated overnight until she reached an unmanned offshore oil platform. She told a Galveston, Texas, newspaper that the water was rough and she was bumped by large fish that she feared might eat her."

: "He worked on his law degree and MBA part-time while practicing dentistry full-time. Not by any plan, he said, he obtained his most recent degree, the MBA, in 2000. He"

New Scientist: "Using lasers, or other energy beams, to power planes, missiles or even to launch satellites has been discussed for many decades. But it has not been until recently that the first tests were attempted."

A Pregnant Mother's Diet May Turn the Genes Around: "With the help of some fat yellow mice, scientists have discovered exactly how a mother's diet can permanently alter the functioning of genes in her offspring without changing the genes themselves."

Heeding Thyroid's Warnings: "Its prevalence is estimated at 1 to 10 percent of American adults. "

Sleep Appears to Rescue Memories: "The study found evidence that memories were consolidated in three stages in a process similar to storing data on a computer's hard drive. The second stage requires sleep, which the researchers also found sharpened the subjects' performance the next day."

Wired News: Music Label Cashes in by Sharing

Wired News: AAA Battery Gets a Mini-Me: "new battery -- lauded as the smallest implantable battery in the world -- may soon be powering tiny bionic neurons, devices that emit electrical micropulses to stimulate damaged nerves and muscles.

The battery measures 2.9 mm in diameter and 13 mm in length -- about the size of a pencil tip."

New Scientist: "Initial trials of a drug that reduces scar formation have produced encouraging results."

Lasers operate inside single cells: Nanosurgery vaporizes cellular components leaving rest intact.: "With pulses of intense laser light a millionth of a billionth of a second long, US researchers are vaporizing tiny structures inside living cells without killing them. The technique could help probe how cells work,
and perform super-precise surgery.

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GE Finds Its Inner Edison: "Jeffrey Immelt, a former salesman now chairman and CEO of General Electric, tells why he has a “hot button” on technological innovation—and why he’s beefing up R&D in nanotechnology, molecular imaging, hydrogen power, and more."

Technology Review: Bacteria Make More Electricity: "Researchers from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have identified a microorganism that is particularly good at converting sugars to electricity under natural conditions."

Wired News: Through the Solar Looking Glass: "These photovoltaic window shades quietly capture the sun's rays of heat and light, focusing them into the small silicon squares, also called solar chips."

liquid drive bike technology

Scientific American: Infant Study Links Antibiotics and Asthma: "About half of the subjects had received antibiotics at least once by the time they reached six months of age. The researchers found that these children were 2.5 times more likely to develop asthma as those who did not receive such treatment."