- NCBI ROFL: terrific blog about funny and odd scientific publications (BoingBoing)
- Scientists tour the Creationism Museum (BoingBoing)
- Microsoft ‘mega data centers’ to support Azure, Bing (CNet)
- Will ‘good enough’ virtualization topple VMware? (CNet)
- Hard disk or solid-state? Think again (CNet)
- SolarNetOne: Solar-powered networking for anyone (IBM)
- Unlocked: the secrets of schizophrenia (Independent)
- Discovery pinpoints new connection between cancer cells, stem cells (PhysOrg)
- Japanese scientists to breed ’super tuna’ (Telegraph)
- Game Design Essentials: 20 RPGs (Gamasutra)
- Browser vendor squabbles cause W3C to scrap codec requirement (InfoWorld)
- Two Centuries On, a Cryptologist Cracks a Presidential Code (WSJ)
- Open-Source Data Glove (Technology Review)
- World’s First Intelligent, Open Source Compiler Provides Automated Advice on Software Code Optimization (IBM)
- Video: D-Touch drum machine keeps heads, hands bobbing (Engadget)
- A Clock Powered by Flies? Microbial Fuel Cells Turn Poop into Power (Singularity Hub)
- World’s first in-cinema interactive 3D game inbound (The Register)
- Germany launches $19 million organic electronics project (EE Times)
- Video: Pentagon’s Robo-Hummingbird Flies Like the Real Thing (Wired)
- Computer reveals stone tablet ‘handwriting’ in a flash (NewScientist)
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Worldwide readings on Friday
- Matt Yglesias rewrites history to make Wal-Mart embrace of big government seem surprising (Washington Examiner)
- Population numbers bounce back in cities (USA Today)
- Report warns of obese baby boomers (AP)
- A Brief History Of Intellectual Property In China And India (Techdirt)
- Chris Anderson, Malcolm Gladwell And A Look At Free (Techdirt) :: see also, “Is Our Future Really $0?”
- Venture-Backed Liquidity Going Down, Down, Down (TechCrunch)
- China’s Marlboro Country: The strange, underground world of counterfeit cigarettes (Slate)
- Snitching for China leads to sorrow and exile (AP)
- Why Health Care Costs Explode (ABC)
- China FDI Faces Unprecedented Difficulties on Crisis (Bloomberg)
- India’s Rising Tide (WSJ)
From Foreign Policy:
- Think Again: Asia’s Rise, don’t believe the hype (FP)
- Prime Numbers: Sex Matters (FP)
- The Fall and Rise and Fall Again of the Baltic States (FP)
- The Death of Macho (FP)
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