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• In photos: Six buildings shortlisted for the 20,000 Stirling Prize

  Published: July 28, 2007, 3:41 am

  Tags: London, Young Vic Theatre, Dresden Railway Station, America S Cup Building, Casa Da Musica, Buildings, Architecture, Stirling Prize, Royal Institute Of British Architects

  for the 2007 Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba) Stirling Prize for architecture and the winner will receive a cheque for 20,000. All the buildings are unique on their own and show different approaches to contemporary design. The one pictured above is the Casa da Musica concert hall in Porto. Let s take a look at the other

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• Multitasking Robots: Multiple Speech Recognition To Make Sex Dolls More Fun

  Published: July 29, 2007, 10:45 am

  Tags: Honda Research Institute Japan, Kyoto University, Multiple Speech Recognition, Multitasking Robots, Robot Audition Project, Robovie R2

  and the Honda Research Institute Japan have collaborated to form the Robot Audition Project. They are at present making some very impressive ground; they have developed an advanced speech recognition technology that has the capability to understand multiple, unique speech inputs, whilst computing their meaning independently. The efforts of

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• Lower insulin levels cut breast cancer recurrence

  Published: August 1, 2007, 5:00 am

  Tags: Activity, Bloodstream, Boston, Breast, Cancer, Dana, Death, Exercise, Farber, Hormone, Institute, Insulin, Lean, Obese, Physical, Recurrence, Risk, Sedentary

  at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston say exercise helps combat breast cancer. Not the first time we've heard this fact. But these same researchers have something new to say -- about the reason physical activity lowers the risk of breast cancer recurrence.Jennifer Ligibel, MD, of Dana-Farber, reports that exercise lowers levels of the

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• Big cars, big bills Luxury doesn't come cheap

  Published: August 3, 2007, 6:54 am

  Tags: Bmw 3 Series, Acura Tsx, Lexus Es, Mercedes C Class, Infiniti G35, Insurance Institute For Highway Safety, Repair Bills, Luxury Cars

  survey by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has promulgated the fact that the repair bills could be as high as $14,000 in case of some luxury vehicles involved in low-speed crashes of 3 to 6 miles per hour. The institutes carried out a series of four low-speed crashes on 11 2007 luxury vehicles. The repair bill of $14,000 for

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• Looking for Girl Geeks in Public High School

  Published: August 3, 2007, 3:20 pm

  Tags: Hopper Anita Borg Institute

  Board of the Anita Borg Institute which, with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), presents the Hopper conference. This is the third year I have run a panel at Hopper (the other two were on mentoring): I recommend the conference most highly. Hopper offers many activities, panels, and talks aimed at college students as well as

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• American support of Turkish invasion of Kurdistan rooted in Neo Con relationship.

  Published: July 31, 2007, 1:17 am

  Tags: Joseph Ralston Eric Edelman Lockheed Martin Micheal Rubin Neo Cons Psychological Warfare Turkey Agents Oil Pkk American Enterprise Institute

  The revelation that the US are to aid Turkey's military attack against the Kurds are not a complete surprise to many who have been campaigning to expose the relationship between the US Neo Cons and Turkey. Here I include an article printed earlier in the year in the US Magazine, The Conservative, regarding that relationship. Written by Phillip

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• Sibel Edmonds should speak out about US Neo Cons and Turkey!

  Published: July 30, 2007, 5:19 pm

  Tags: Sibel Edmonds Micheal Rubin Neo Cons Psychological Warfare Turkey Agents Oil Pkk American Enterprise Institute Exxon Mobil George Bush

  Hevallo thinks that Sibel Edmonds should find some way of letting all the information she has on the dirty and secret relationship between the US Neo Cons and Turkey into the public domain.If that is to fly to another country, say the UK, or somewhere where else where she can speak out, then perhaps she should consider that.Robert Novaks article

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• USA to aid Turkey in secret covert attack on Kurds! Kirkuk next?

  Published: July 30, 2007, 3:07 pm

  Tags: Kurds Qubad Talabani Kurdistan Pkk Aei Turkey Usa The Hudson Institute

  funded American Enterprise Institute about the shift in policy presumably wanted by Exxon Mobil to secure Kurdish oil.The signs have been there for some time, with clues coming as early as August 2006 and the appointment of Joseph Ralston as Lockheed Martins representative (sorry, 'Special Envoy') in Ankara to secure over $15 billion worth of

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• Charity: Save Rare Films by Donating to Have Them Uploaded to the Internet Archive

  Published: August 5, 2007, 1:30 pm

  Tags: Academic Film Institute, Charity, Film, Home Entertainment, Mpaa, Portable Media

  Uploading movies to the internet doesn't always have to cause "injury that cannot be compensated or measured in money." By donating to the Academic Film Archive of North America's "Save a Film" initiative, you'll be spotting them tax-deductible support for the uploading of a rare film from their over 6000-title 16mm film archive for

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• Cigars vs. Cigarettes: Which Is Worse For Your Health?

  Published: August 8, 2007, 3:46 pm

  Tags: Health, Carcinogens, Cigarette Smokers, Cigars, Cigar Enthusiasts, Cigar Smoke, Cigar Smokers, Dangers Of Secondhand Smoke, Health Risks Of Smoking, National Cancer Institute, Risks Of Smoking, Smoke Cigarettes, Toxins

  of smoking, national cancer institute, risks of smoking, smoke cigarettes, toxinsIf you enjoyed this post invite me to drink a

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• Are Greenland's Glaciers Growing and Temperatures Cooling?

  Published: August 10, 2007, 11:21 am

  Tags: Environment, Global Warming, Weather, Al Gore, Science Public Policy Institute

  Science and Public Policy Institute stated that not only have temperatures been declining in Greenland in recent years, but also glaciers have actually expanded a bit (emphasis added): The Greenland ice sheet would appear to have experienced no net loss of mass over the last decade for which data are available. Quite to the contrary, in fact,

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• Real Autism Advice from Alan Harchik - Generalization

  Published: August 10, 2007, 8:29 pm

  Tags: Autism Disorder, Applied Behavior Analysis, Alan Harchik, May Institute, Generalization

  Operating Officer of the May Institute, offers sound advice on how to accomplish one of the most frustrating goals in educating your autistic child - encourage generalization of skills once they are acquired by an autistic child. Harchik presents five practices found to be effective by researchers and practitioners: Modify rewards: Once the

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• Researchers develop bendable, paper-based battery

  Published: August 14, 2007, 1:43 pm

  Tags: Battery, Bendable Battery, Bendablebattery, Flexible, Flexible Battery, Flexiblebattery, Nanotubes, Paper Battery, Paperbattery, Rensselaer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rensselaerpolytechnicinstitute

  at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute won't be crowned the first to develop a flexible (or paper-based, for that matter) battery, but their minuscule prototype "is an integrated device, not a combination of pieces" as others typically are. The battery uses "paper infused with an electrolyte and carbon nanotubes that are embedded in the paper,"

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• Body powered circuits developed by Fraunhofer Institute

  Published: August 17, 2007, 10:06 am

  Tags: Battery, Body Power, Bodypower, Fraunhofer Institute, Fraunhoferinstitute, Teg, Thermoelectric, Thermoelectric Generator, Thermoelectricgenerator

  over at the Fraunhofer Institute have developed "entire electronic systems" capable of operating battery-free from body heat alone. The picture above shows a wireless transmitter powered by the human hand. The 200 millivolts required to drive the device is supplied by a thermoelectric generator (TEG) which extracts electrical energy from

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• How much weight should a pregnant woman gain?

  Published: August 17, 2007, 6:02 am

  Tags: Baby, Bmi, Diet, Doctor, Eating, Eating For Two, Eatingfortwo, Fetal, Fetus, Health, Institute Of Medicine, Instituteofmedicine, Medicine, Mother, Mothers, Newborn, Obese, Obesity, Overweight, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Diet, Pregnancydiet, Weight, Weight Gain, Weightgain

  death. Since 1990, the the Institute of Medicine has recommended that women of 'normal' body mass index gain 25 to 35 pounds during pregnancy. Women with a higher BMI should only gain 15, and women with a lower BMI should gain up to 40 pounds.Many physicians, including Dr. Raul Artal of the Saint Louis University School of Medicine, say these

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