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<title>Kukoola.com | Published | Technology</title>
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<description>The Best of The Web - Voted By Users</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:00:05 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[MIND  Reviews:  Changing Brains]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/mind-reviews-changing-brains/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/mind-reviews-changing-brains/</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:00:05 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jimbo</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/mind-reviews-changing-brains/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Changing Brains   www.changingbrains.org   [More]             Reviews - Brain - Arts - Social Sciences - Psychology<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Can You Control Your Dreams?]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/how-can-you-control-your-dreams/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/how-can-you-control-your-dreams/</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:00:05 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jimboze</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/how-can-you-control-your-dreams/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Some dreams feel so revelatory--if only returning to sleep would take us back there. It turns out, however, that our ability to shape our dreams is better than mere chance. In the blockbuster movie  Inception , Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his compatriots use drugs and psychological profiles to trigger specific dreams in people. Although the heavy sedation and level of detail incited are far-<br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Speaking in Tones: Music and Language Partner in the Brain (preview)]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/speaking-in-tones-music-and-language-partner-in-the-brain-preview/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/speaking-in-tones-music-and-language-partner-in-the-brain-preview/</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:00:10 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>amy</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/speaking-in-tones-music-and-language-partner-in-the-brain-preview/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[One afternoon in the summer of 1995, a curious incident occurred. I was fine-tuning my spoken commentary on a CD I was preparing about music and the brain. To detect glitches in the recording, I was looping phrases so that I could hear them over and over. At one point, when I was alone in the room, I put one of the phrases, &ldquo;sometimes behave so strangely,&rdquo; on a loop, began working on <br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Follow Your Nose: Sniff Controller Gives the Severely Disabled a New Way to Communicate and Move]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/follow-your-nose-sniff-controller-gives-the-severely-disabled-a-new-way-to-communicate-and-move/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/follow-your-nose-sniff-controller-gives-the-severely-disabled-a-new-way-to-communicate-and-move/</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:00:08 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jimbo</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/follow-your-nose-sniff-controller-gives-the-severely-disabled-a-new-way-to-communicate-and-move/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[    Assistive technology that helps severely paralyzed people navigate the world and communicate with others often taps into whatever abilities the disabled retain, such as blinking or moving the mouth and tongue. Now, for the first time, researchers have invented a device that allows the paralyzed to write, surf the Web and steer an electronic wheelchair--all by sniffing. Initial tests,  describ<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama's choice for warrior-in-chief, Gen. James Mattis, calls Iraq invasion "the dumbest thing we ever did"]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/obamas-choice-for-warrior-in-chief-gen-james-mattis-calls-iraq-invasion-the-dumbest-thing-we-ever-did/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/obamas-choice-for-warrior-in-chief-gen-james-mattis-calls-iraq-invasion-the-dumbest-thing-we-ever-did/</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:00:04 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jimboze</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/obamas-choice-for-warrior-in-chief-gen-james-mattis-calls-iraq-invasion-the-dumbest-thing-we-ever-did/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ James N. Mattis is the four-star Marine general whom Barack Obama just nominated to head the U.S. Central Command, with oversight of the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. If confirmed by the Senate (a hearing is set for today), Mattis will replace David Petraeus, who took over command of troops in Afghanistan from Stanley McChrystal after he and his staff spoke too bluntly to a  Rolling Stone  <br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Will the Smart Grid Handle Heat Waves?]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/how-will-the-smart-grid-handle-heat-waves/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/how-will-the-smart-grid-handle-heat-waves/</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:00:02 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sammy</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/how-will-the-smart-grid-handle-heat-waves/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The  heat wave in which much of the nation remains mired  comes as a handful of communities across the country take their first steps toward implementing  smart grid  technology. The new meters, electricity distribution management systems, network management software and other technologies are designed to add intelligence to the way power is generated, distributed and used.   [More]             T<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Plastic Surf (preview)]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/plastic-surf-preview/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/plastic-surf-preview/</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:00:06 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>eminaaron</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/plastic-surf-preview/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[By now even schoolchildren know that the plastics we discard every year in the millions of tons persist in the environment for hundreds of years. And we have all heard of the horrors caused by such debris in the sea: fur seals entangled by nylon nets, sea otters choking on polyethylene six-pack rings, and plastic bags or toys stuck in the guts of sea turtles. This photograph, showing plastic frag<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Robot Pills (preview)]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/robot-pills-preview/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/robot-pills-preview/</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:00:01 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>eminaaron</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/robot-pills-preview/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The movie  Fantastic Voyage , the story of a miniaturized team of doctors traveling through blood vessels to make lifesaving repairs in a patient&rsquo;s brain, was pure science fiction when it came out in 1966. By the time Hollywood remade the film in 1987 as  Innerspace , a comedy, real-world engineers had already begun building prototypes of pill-size robots that could voyage through a patient<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MIND  Reviews:  This Emotional Life]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/mind-reviews-this-emotional-life/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/mind-reviews-this-emotional-life/</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:00:08 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kathy</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/mind-reviews-this-emotional-life/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  This Emotional Life    NOVA/WGBH Science Unit&nbsp;and Vulcan Productions, Inc., 2010  [More]             This Emotional Life - Social Sciences - Psychology - Intelligence - Psychological abuse<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[When should a scientist's data be liberated for all to see?]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/when-should-a-scientists-data-be-liberated-for-all-to-see/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/when-should-a-scientists-data-be-liberated-for-all-to-see/</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:00:08 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jimboze</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/when-should-a-scientists-data-be-liberated-for-all-to-see/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ When researchers make an exciting discovery, the data behind it are often closely guarded until they can be examined, developed and then revealed--at least in part--in a peer-reviewed journal with all of the proverbial fanfare.    [More]             Scientist - Peer review - Journals - Health - Medicine<br/><br/>23 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is the cure (geoengineering) worse than the disease (global warming)?]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/is-the-cure-geoengineering-worse-than-the-disease-global-warming/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/is-the-cure-geoengineering-worse-than-the-disease-global-warming/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:00:07 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>amy</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/is-the-cure-geoengineering-worse-than-the-disease-global-warming/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ If there's one thing more potentially contentious than the international politics of global warming (which the world has spent at least the past 20-plus years dithering about), it's the politics of the most radical suggestion to solve it:  geoengineering . After all, he who  controls Earth's thermostat  may well control Earth. And what's good for one nation (Bangladesh and its shoreline prefer t<br/><br/>21 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Look Ma, No Junctions! Novel Transistor Design Reemerges After 85 Years]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/look-ma-no-junctions-novel-transistor-design-reemerges-after-85-years/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/look-ma-no-junctions-novel-transistor-design-reemerges-after-85-years/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:00:03 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jimbo</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/look-ma-no-junctions-novel-transistor-design-reemerges-after-85-years/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The transistors at the heart of every computer, today numbering in the billions on a single chip, have generally been based on the concept John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley first turned into a prototype at the Bell Labs in 1947. Physicists have now demonstrated a radically simpler transistor design, first patented by Austrian physicist Julius Edgar Lilienfeld in 1925 but never tu<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sex in Bits and Bytes]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/sex-in-bits-and-bytes/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/sex-in-bits-and-bytes/</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:00:05 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jimboze</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/sex-in-bits-and-bytes/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Is it possible to have sex with a computer? Well, not exactly, but people can use their computers to engage in a variety of online sexual activities, including hooking up with partners (both virtually and in the flesh) and finding fodder for kinky obsessions.Online porn is accessible, affordable and often anonymous, and viewing it has become a popular pastime. A survey of college students in 2008<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Magnetic Remote Control That Can Rewind A Worm's Wriggle]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/a-magnetic-remote-control-that-can-rewind-a-worms-wriggle/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/a-magnetic-remote-control-that-can-rewind-a-worms-wriggle/</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:00:02 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kathy</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/a-magnetic-remote-control-that-can-rewind-a-worms-wriggle/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The power to control living things and objects from a distance is a popular supernatural talent in science fiction and fantasy: Witches fling spells at foes and X-Men send chairs and tables flying with telekinesis, for example. But when it comes to remotely controlling biological organisms, science has a few tricks up its sleeve, too--although there's nothing metaphysical about them. Manipulating<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BP test could lead to an interim fix of 85-day leak at the Deepwater site]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/bp-test-could-lead-to-an-interim-fix-of-85-day-leak-at-the-deepwater-site/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/bp-test-could-lead-to-an-interim-fix-of-85-day-leak-at-the-deepwater-site/</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 11:00:06 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>amy</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/bp-test-could-lead-to-an-interim-fix-of-85-day-leak-at-the-deepwater-site/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ BP is a few hours away from beginning an integrity test of its leaking Macondo well Tuesday afternoon that will determine whether it's still feasible to shut off the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico from the top of the well, or if all hopes for stopping the gusher should continue to be pinned on the ongoing relief-well effort.   [More]             BP - Gulf of Mexico - Mexico - Business - Dee<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Former Vice President Dick Cheney receives artificial heart part]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/former-vice-president-dick-cheney-receives-artificial-heart-part/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/former-vice-president-dick-cheney-receives-artificial-heart-part/</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 11:00:03 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jimboze</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/former-vice-president-dick-cheney-receives-artificial-heart-part/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Former Vice President Dick Cheney's announcement this week that he has been implanted with a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) to aid his ailing heart highlights one of several technologies available to people suffering from heart failure. Earlier this week,   Scientific American  wrote about a new six-kilogram portable artificial heart driver  from SynCardia Systems, Inc. that has given thr<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Former Soviet State Incubating High-Tech Businesses at Former Nuclear Weapons Site [Slide Show]]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/former-soviet-state-incubating-high-tech-businesses-at-former-nuclear-weapons-site-slide-show/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/former-soviet-state-incubating-high-tech-businesses-at-former-nuclear-weapons-site-slide-show/</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:00:07 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jimboze</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/former-soviet-state-incubating-high-tech-businesses-at-former-nuclear-weapons-site-slide-show/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[KURCHATOV, Kazakhstan--A few years ago, the nuclear research center here was dying. Its once thriving population of 40,000 was reduced to 5,000 and appeared to be headed to zero. The town of  Kurchatov , where much of the Soviet Union's nuclear research was carried out during the Cold War in preparation for more than 400 nuclear test explosions, was returning to its origins as a place of oblivion<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Clothing That Can Record Or Produce Sound]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/clothing-that-can-record-or-produce-sound/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/clothing-that-can-record-or-produce-sound/</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:00:05 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>eminaaron</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/clothing-that-can-record-or-produce-sound/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Clothing is so yesterday. I mean, really, what can it do? It can&rsquo;t pick up sound, or beep at us if something&rsquo;s wrong. Or can it? MIT researchers say they&rsquo;ve developed a fiber that would allow clothing to eventually do those things. Their study is in the journal  Nature Materials . [Shunji Egusa et al,  http://bit.ly/cfOT6g ]   [More]             Massachusetts Institute of Techno<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Drillers Are Coming: Debate over Hydraulic Fracturing Heats Up (preview)]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/the-drillers-are-coming-debate-over-hydraulic-fracturing-heats-up-preview/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/the-drillers-are-coming-debate-over-hydraulic-fracturing-heats-up-preview/</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:00:04 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kathy</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/the-drillers-are-coming-debate-over-hydraulic-fracturing-heats-up-preview/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A single, vast shale deposit-- the Marcellus formation, stretching from Tennessee to New York--might contain enough natural gas to supply the U.S. for more than 40 years at today&rsquo;s consumption rates, according to recent estimates. Thousands of vertical wells have exploited the shale&rsquo;s easy-to-reach deposits. But newer technology and improved procedures are making horizontal drilling c<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What will it be like to own an electric car in 2011?]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/what-will-it-be-like-to-own-an-electric-car-in-2011/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/what-will-it-be-like-to-own-an-electric-car-in-2011/</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:00:03 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kathy</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/what-will-it-be-like-to-own-an-electric-car-in-2011/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Very few people really know much today about the experience of  owning an electric vehicle  of course, given that EVs are not widely available. Nissan hopes to change this by the end of the year when its fully electric Leaf debuts. However, owning an electric vehicle promises to be a lot different than owning any other type of car, different even from plug-in hybrids such as the Chevy Volt set t<br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Concerns Spread over Environmental Costs of Producing Shale Gas]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/concerns-spread-over-environmental-costs-of-producing-shale-gas/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/concerns-spread-over-environmental-costs-of-producing-shale-gas/</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:00:08 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>amy</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/concerns-spread-over-environmental-costs-of-producing-shale-gas/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[PITTSBURGH--Around suppertime on June 3 in Clearfield County, Pa., a geyser of natural gas and sludge began shooting out of a well called Punxsutawney Hunting Club 36. The toxic stew of gas, salt water, mud and chemicals went 75 feet into the air for 16 hours. Some of this mess seeped into a stream northeast of Pittsburgh.   [More]             Natural gas - Clearfield County  Pennsylvania - Penns<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Compassionate Coding: Students Compete in Microsoft Competition to Write Humanitarian Apps [Slide Show]]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/compassionate-coding-students-compete-in-microsoft-competition-to-write-humanitarian-apps-slide-show/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/compassionate-coding-students-compete-in-microsoft-competition-to-write-humanitarian-apps-slide-show/</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:00:04 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jimboze</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/compassionate-coding-students-compete-in-microsoft-competition-to-write-humanitarian-apps-slide-show/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As society's reliance on information technology surges, software has become an indispensable component of any disaster response effort. This includes programs for maneuvering robotic subs (as with the efforts to contain  BP's Deepwater oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico ) or sophisticated mapping tools for emergency-response crews using mobile devices to assess earthquake damage ( as in Haiti ). <br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[When an Electric Car Dies, What Will Happen to the Battery?]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/when-an-electric-car-dies-what-will-happen-to-the-battery/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/when-an-electric-car-dies-what-will-happen-to-the-battery/</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:00:14 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kathy</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/when-an-electric-car-dies-what-will-happen-to-the-battery/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In the race to put  1 million plug-in hybrid electric vehicles  on U.S. roads by 2015, another challenge awaits on the other side of the finish line: recycling all of those batteries.The Department of Energy recently awarded $9.5 million to a California-based  recycling  company to boost capacity for lithium-ion batteries, the kind used to power most of the new hybrid and plug-in electric vehicle<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A 360-Degree Virtual Reality Chamber Brings Researchers Face to Face with Their Data]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/a-360-degree-virtual-reality-chamber-brings-researchers-face-to-face-with-their-data/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/a-360-degree-virtual-reality-chamber-brings-researchers-face-to-face-with-their-data/</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:00:13 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>eminaaron</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/a-360-degree-virtual-reality-chamber-brings-researchers-face-to-face-with-their-data/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists often become immersed in their data, and sometimes even lost. The  AlloSphere , a unique virtual reality environment at the University of California, Santa Barbara, makes this easier by turning large data sets into immersive experiences of sight and sound. Inside its three-story metal sphere researchers can interpret and interact with their data in new and intriguing ways, including wa<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Deflated expectations: It takes more than a gust to harness wind energy]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/deflated-expectations-it-takes-more-than-a-gust-to-harness-wind-energy/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/deflated-expectations-it-takes-more-than-a-gust-to-harness-wind-energy/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:00:06 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sammy</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/deflated-expectations-it-takes-more-than-a-gust-to-harness-wind-energy/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The presence of strong gusts and flat, wide-open spaces would appear tailor-made for the production of electricity from wind energy, yet the reality of harvesting renewable energy is never that straightforward.  As  Scientific American  reported last week , Latin America is beginning to tap into the wind as a source of clean (or at least not fossil fuel-derived) energy. But further investigation<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[No Country Is an Island]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/no-country-is-an-island/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/no-country-is-an-island/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:00:03 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sammy</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/no-country-is-an-island/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This spring I was stranded in Europe for a week, a minor victim of Mother Nature, as most airports on the continent were closed after the eruption of the Eyjafjallaj&ouml;kull volcano in Iceland. This remote natural event did not result in a huge human death toll but still caused hundreds of millions of dollars of lost revenue for almost all the world&rsquo;s major airlines. More important, it di<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[100 Years Ago: Elegant Flight]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/100-years-ago-elegant-flight/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/100-years-ago-elegant-flight/</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:00:03 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sammy</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/100-years-ago-elegant-flight/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ JULY 1960   INFANT MORTALITY --&ensp;&ldquo;The death rate of U.S. infants, after a long and precipitous decline, has leveled off in the last few years, according to a study by Iwao M. Moriyama of the National Office of Vital Statistics. In some states it has even risen slightly, after reaching an all-time low of 26 per 1,000 live births in 1956. Most of the reduction in mortality of children un<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Does Sewage Treatment Work?]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/how-does-sewage-treatment-work/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/how-does-sewage-treatment-work/</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:00:02 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kathy</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/how-does-sewage-treatment-work/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The guy running the snake down our sewer looks matter-of-fact. Our sewage has been backing up. Right next to the pipe connecting our house to the sewer line running down our street stands a 70-year-old willow oak, and I worry the tree's roots have found their way, during the droughty past year, into our line. He shrugs: Maybe it's tree roots, maybe it's a collapsed pipe, maybe it's a yo-yo. The s<br/><br/>22 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Aw nuts: Plan to save endangered squirrels scuttled as too expensive]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/aw-nuts-plan-to-save-endangered-squirrels-scuttled-as-too-expensive/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/aw-nuts-plan-to-save-endangered-squirrels-scuttled-as-too-expensive/</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:00:05 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>amy</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/aw-nuts-plan-to-save-endangered-squirrels-scuttled-as-too-expensive/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ How much is too much to spend on saving an endangered species? In the case of the endangered Mount Graham red squirrel ( Tamiasciurus hudsonicus grahamensis ), $1.25 million seems to be the breaking point.The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) recently  announced  it would spend that much to protect the squirrels from cars near two dangerous roadways where several of the animals die eve<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Winds of Change Blow Renewable Energy Across Latin America [Slide Show]]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/winds-of-change-blow-renewable-energy-across-latin-america-slide-show/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/winds-of-change-blow-renewable-energy-across-latin-america-slide-show/</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:00:02 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jimbo</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/winds-of-change-blow-renewable-energy-across-latin-america-slide-show/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[On Colombia's  La Guajira Peninsula , an arid stretch of land that forms the northernmost tip of South America jutting into the Caribbean Sea, life for the indigenous  Way&uacute;u  people in many ways remains as it has for centuries. The Way&uacute;u men fish each morning, returning home to their settlements (known as &quot;rancher&iacute;as&quot;) shortly after sunrise, before the sun heats the<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Student ROV operators show they are ready for deepwater missions]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/student-rov-operators-show-they-are-ready-for-deepwater-missions/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/student-rov-operators-show-they-are-ready-for-deepwater-missions/</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:00:05 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jimbo</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/student-rov-operators-show-they-are-ready-for-deepwater-missions/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Students from across the globe  converged on the University of Hawaii at Hilo last week  to test their abilities to build and pilot remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) at the ninth annual Marine Advanced Technology Education  (MATE)  Center's 2010 International ROV Competition. A team from  Russia's Institute of Marine Technology Problems  in Vladivostok took first place in the advanced &quot;Expl<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What can a three-legged dog teach robots about resilience?]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/what-can-a-three-legged-dog-teach-robots-about-resilience/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/what-can-a-three-legged-dog-teach-robots-about-resilience/</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:00:04 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jimboze</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/what-can-a-three-legged-dog-teach-robots-about-resilience/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Anyone who's ever seen a dog move around on three limbs knows that canines are remarkably resilient creatures. Scientists are now wondering whether such adaptability could likewise be programmed into robots, in the event they experience damage or malfunction far from a repair shop (look no further than  NASA's Mars Spirit rover  to see why this is important).   [More]             NASA - Mars - S<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What happens when coal is gone?]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/what-happens-when-coal-is-gone/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/what-happens-when-coal-is-gone/</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:00:09 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jamms</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/what-happens-when-coal-is-gone/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ What&rsquo;s the best way to address a politically charged topic such as the future of energy? Remove the politics. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to skip over the politics,&rdquo; Robert P. Laughlin, who won a Nobel Prize for physics in 1998, told a rapt audience of young scientists and others at the 60th annual  Nobel Laureate Lectures at Lindau . &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not interested in now but in the ti<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Terminate the Terminators]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/terminate-the-terminators/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/terminate-the-terminators/</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:00:03 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>amy</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/terminate-the-terminators/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When U.S. forces invaded Iraq in 2003, they fought a traditional war of human on human. Since then, robots have joined the fight. Both there and in Afghanistan, thousands of &ldquo;unmanned&rdquo; systems dismantle roadside IEDs, take that first peek around the corner at a sniper&rsquo;s lair and launch missiles at Taliban hideouts. Robots are pouring onto battlefields as if a new species of mech<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Wrangling Renewables and the Smart Grid: How Can the Federal Government Change the Future of Electricity?]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/wrangling-renewables-and-the-smart-grid-how-can-the-federal-government-change-the-future-of-electricity/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/wrangling-renewables-and-the-smart-grid-how-can-the-federal-government-change-the-future-of-electricity/</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:00:06 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>amy</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/wrangling-renewables-and-the-smart-grid-how-can-the-federal-government-change-the-future-of-electricity/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Offshore wind turbines  will line the Atlantic coast;  vast solar arrays  will cover swaths of the southwestern desert;  transmission towers  will cradle high-voltage direct current lines and take electricity from the windy Great Plains to the populated coasts. That is the renewable future for the U.S. that the Obama administration seems to envision and, certainly, what Jon Wellinghoff forecasts<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/the-evolution-of-the-physicists-picture-of-nature/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/the-evolution-of-the-physicists-picture-of-nature/</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:00:03 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jimbo</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/the-evolution-of-the-physicists-picture-of-nature/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  Editor's Note: We are republishing this article by Paul Dirac from the May 1963 issue of  Scientific American , as it might be of interest to listeners to the June 24, 2010, and June 25, 2010  Science Talk  podcasts, featuring    award-winning writer and physicist Graham Farmelo discussing  The Strangest Man ,   his biography of the Nobel Prize-winning British theoretical physicist. In this art<br/><br/>22 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Detecting Digitally Altered Video]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/detecting-digitally-altered-video/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/detecting-digitally-altered-video/</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:00:14 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jamms</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/detecting-digitally-altered-video/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[[More]            Sponsored Topics: Podcast - On the Web - ITunes - Directories - Facebook<br/><br/>23 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gene therapy: An Interview with an Unfortunate Pioneer]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/gene-therapy-an-interview-with-an-unfortunate-pioneer/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/gene-therapy-an-interview-with-an-unfortunate-pioneer/</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:00:12 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jimboze</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/gene-therapy-an-interview-with-an-unfortunate-pioneer/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Philadelphia--Ten years ago this month the promise of using normal genes to cure hereditary defects crashed and burned, as Jesse Gelsinger, an 18-year-old from Tucson, Ariz., succumbed to multiorgan failure during a gene therapy trial at the University of Pennsylvania. Today the boardroom of the Translational Research Lab at the university is filled with artifacts reminiscent of the trial. Books <br/><br/>22 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Space Rock Watch: Next Generation of Near-Earth Asteroid Lookout Comes Online]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/space-rock-watch-next-generation-of-near-earth-asteroid-lookout-comes-online/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/space-rock-watch-next-generation-of-near-earth-asteroid-lookout-comes-online/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:00:06 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jimbo</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/space-rock-watch-next-generation-of-near-earth-asteroid-lookout-comes-online/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A new sentry is on guard atop the Haleakala volcano in Hawaii, scanning the skies for potentially threatening asteroids and comets. The first of four telescopes planned for the Pan-STARRS project, short for Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, began a dedicated survey of the sky May 13.   [More]             Pan-STARRS - Near-Earth object - Hawaii - Asteroid - Telescope<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Singularity Schtick: Hi-tech moguls and  The New York Times  may buy it, but you shouldn't]]></title>
<link>http://kukoola.com/technology/singularity-schtick-hi-tech-moguls-and-the-new-york-times-may-buy-it-but-you-shouldnt/</link>
<comments>http://kukoola.com/technology/singularity-schtick-hi-tech-moguls-and-the-new-york-times-may-buy-it-but-you-shouldnt/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:00:03 EDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jamms</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://kukoola.com/technology/singularity-schtick-hi-tech-moguls-and-the-new-york-times-may-buy-it-but-you-shouldnt/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  The New York Times  Sunday business section recently ran an  enormous puff piece  on Ray Kurzweil and the &quot;Singularity&quot; cult (my term, not the  Times 's). Kurzweil is a successful inventor&ndash;entrepreneur best known lately for his sci-tech prophecies. He claims that advances in AI, nanotech, biotech, computer science and neuroscience are bearing us toward a radical transformation o<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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