Mims's Bits

How Facebook Saved Us from Suburbia

Research suggests social networks remedy the isolation of modern life.

05/17/2012 Christopher Mims

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Potential Energy

How Will Tariffs on Solar Panels Affect Innovation?

A U.S. Commerce Department anti-dumping decision could help some U.S. companies and hurt others.

05/17/2012 Kevin Bullis

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@sault  @mdstepp you realize that the US has the cleanest coal burners and that the old communists are still completely not...

- artfldgr 01:53 PM 05/18/2012

@james_jet i meant half billion, not half million...

- artfldgr 01:48 PM 05/18/2012

@mdstepp The best steps are to implement pollution control measures like the recent rules for mercury and to stop letting the...

- sault 01:47 PM 05/18/2012

arXiv blog

Why Shutting Airports Is Not the Best Way to Halt a Global Flu Pandemic

In a deadly flu outbreak, shutting airports should reduce the spread of the disease. But networks scientists have discovered a better approach that's just as effective.

05/17/2012 kfc

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There are obvious factual problems with this article. In the paper, the alternatives considered were closing airports or...

- MontereyBayJack 02:25 PM 05/17/2012

Hey, it works if you're Madagascar!

- avery 08:49 AM 05/17/2012

the method of modeling is predicated on the idea that the source of the outbreak is known in foresight.

- S0ma 07:08 AM 05/17/2012

TR Editors' blog

DNA Sequencing Detects Residual Leukemia

Genomic method is more sensitive than other techniques looking for lingering cells post-chemotherapy.

05/16/2012 Susan Young

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Guest Blog

An Expert's View on Google's Goggles

Mark Changizi, a neurobiologist and the author of The Vision Revolution, discusses Google's augmented-reality glasses.

04/06/2012 John Pavlus

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@James A. Burt Yup u r right

- Eric21 01:02 AM 04/24/2012

@rrusson  @zumzumia Sounds like a definite possibility/likelihood. Sort of a GoogleGoggles--> glasses--> car product...

- ironhawk42 06:21 PM 04/19/2012

@zumzumia   As with everything else, if you drive with the glasses on, it's your own responsibility. Look at one of the guys...

- vnedovic 07:24 PM 04/13/2012

The Great Bio-Divide

At TEDMED - the gap is yawning between hopes and visions and reality in biomedicine

10/31/2011 David Ewing Duncan

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Without funds we have little evrywahr there are bazookas  The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) indicator is a measurement of the...

- firozalimulla 07:48 AM 02/14/2012

You can have one child only? WHY?  When you have top is  telling you how many kids you ought to have we have problem, Looks...

- firozalimulla 05:15 PM 02/10/2012

EU is falling in the same trap as others  In 1961 when Tanzania got independence, the president immediately change the Colonial...

- firozalimulla 05:18 PM 02/06/2012

Delta-V

How NASA Will Track Satellite on Collision Course with Earth

Pieces of the defunct satellite are expected to fall back to Earth, but where and when remains uncertain.

09/22/2011 Brittany Sauser

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I find it stunning that almost every single day the TR email introduces some new trick that is going to make solar  energy less...

- larrykueneman 03:41 AM 03/16/2012

No wonder I do not use Facebook. There is no privacy. This is not malice but the fact is as above. Discard anything you cannot...

- firozalimulla 12:24 AM 02/20/2012

Fences fences fences Fences Electric bombs how can one travel  Q1. Since tyrants will always be marginally crueler to win any...

- firozalimulla 12:37 AM 02/01/2012

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