Nomad, CD-Eating Fungi, Hand-Powered Web Server, Liquid Marbles & Educational Isolationism
The new design has now been installed throughout all of 'Opinions of the Wolf', with the added bonus of new selectable dodgy colour themes.
You too can be a William Gibson cyberpunk with a tiny device called Nomad beaming holograms direct into your retina. A small wearable computer directs a laser beam into your eye so only you see the information.
Scientists are puzzled by a CD-eating fungi discovered in Central America. The fungus burrows into the edge of the CD and thrives on the thin aluminium substrate and the data-storing polycarbonate resin. So far the metal-eating fungus is restricted to Belize.
Have you ever thought it'd be cool if you could have an environmentally-friendly computer? How about a hand-powered web server?
Sometimes the wetness of liquids is inconvenient. The transport of liquid drops across a solid surface is impeded by contact forces, and some of the liquid invariably gets left behind on the surface. Now they have found a way to make water less wet. These 'liquid marbles' behave more like soft solid spheres than like liquid drops: they roll down inclined planes, instead of sliding, and leave no liquid film behind them.
Most of the US public is 'dangerously' ill-informed about the rest of the world and lacks an even basic knowledge of Asia, according to a new report published Wednesday. The damning survey by the National Commission for Asia in the Schools says that young Americans particularly are trapped by an educational isolationism which leaves them desperately under-prepared for the demands of the global economy.
You too can be a William Gibson cyberpunk with a tiny device called Nomad beaming holograms direct into your retina. A small wearable computer directs a laser beam into your eye so only you see the information.
Scientists are puzzled by a CD-eating fungi discovered in Central America. The fungus burrows into the edge of the CD and thrives on the thin aluminium substrate and the data-storing polycarbonate resin. So far the metal-eating fungus is restricted to Belize.
Have you ever thought it'd be cool if you could have an environmentally-friendly computer? How about a hand-powered web server?
Sometimes the wetness of liquids is inconvenient. The transport of liquid drops across a solid surface is impeded by contact forces, and some of the liquid invariably gets left behind on the surface. Now they have found a way to make water less wet. These 'liquid marbles' behave more like soft solid spheres than like liquid drops: they roll down inclined planes, instead of sliding, and leave no liquid film behind them.
Most of the US public is 'dangerously' ill-informed about the rest of the world and lacks an even basic knowledge of Asia, according to a new report published Wednesday. The damning survey by the National Commission for Asia in the Schools says that young Americans particularly are trapped by an educational isolationism which leaves them desperately under-prepared for the demands of the global economy.