The creation of long platinum nanowires at the University of Rochester could soon lead to the development of commercially viable fuel cells. Described in a paper published today in the journal Nano Letters, the new wires should provide significant increases in both the longevity and efficiency of fu...

Thứ Tư, 11/03/2009 - 3:22 PM Trên địa bàn TPHCM, có nhi�u doanh nghiệp sử dụng bộ phận lao động ngư�i nước ngoài giản đơn, theo cách tự tuyển ch�n lao động (chủ yếu lao động phổ thông từ Trung Quốc, các nước châu Phi…). Trong khi đó...

Here's an interesting question I got the other day: We are writing code to translate old mainframe business report generation code written in a BASIC-like language to C#. The original language allows "goto" branching from outside of a loop to the interior of a loop, but C# only allows branching the ...

Het aanbod van nieuwe omroepen lijkt verrassend veel op de onderwerpenkeuze op Retecool. Zo is er de spirituele omroep genaamd Vrije Omroep. Hun idee van vrijheid is niet te verwarren met PopNed, de populistische omroep. De enige overeenkomst is dat ze beiden niet levensvatbaar zijn. De Populistisch...

Lorne Gunter of the National Post disgraced himself yet again this weekend with another outrageously inaccurate column about something he apparently knows nothing about: climate science. Gunter held forward William Happer as his climate skeptic champion to put those dullards at the IPCC to shame. He...

We’re not sure if this is funny or not — no, actually, we are sure it’s not funny, at all, but it is puerile and dumb and basically nobody knows how to act like an adult. (HINT: You walk over to the kid with the fart machine and beat the shit out of him.) [Funny or Die via Gizmodo]...

Recently, upon the recommendations of a few people, I picked up a copy of the book “Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Softwareâ€�.  This book is a great read and includes essays from some of the top minds in software today.  Some of the topics covered a...

Roundup, deals, Life Sciences Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: It’s hard for any company to raise capital in this recession, but several San Diego life sciences startups disclosed last week they had done just that. A few bright spots also appeared during a local seminar on mergers and acquisitionsR...

Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Healthcare Equality Index - “a joint project of GLMA and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. The HEI provides a quality indicator for healthcare related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, beginning with the hospital industry. The survey foc...

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