Sunday, January 02, 2005

A New Script for Searching Texts Written by Hand. Search technology for images may lead to a way to search handwritten manuscripts. By By IAN AUSTEN. [NYT > Technology] 5:56:44 AM  comment []  Trackback []     How Scientists and Victims Watched Helplessly. The magnitude of the tsunami that remade the coasts of the Asian subcontinent was slowly gauged across the world. By By ANDREW C. REVKIN. [NYT > Technology] 5:55:29 AM  comment []  Trackback []     Short Stuff. Short fiction from Interzone, The Third Alternative, Nancy Jane Moore [Emerald City: science fiction and fantasy book reviews] 5:53:47 AM  comment []  Trackback []     The Best Games You Haven't Played. This year was great for gamers -- so great that many deserving games were all but buried. Chris Kohler counts down the sleeper hits of 2004. [Wired News] 5:53:20 AM  comment []  Trackback []     Materials Science And Bone Glue. Regenerative medicine encompasses many minor fields often overlooked by observers - such as how we fix broken bones. Betterhumans reports on the development of a new engineered compound that glues bones together and speeds healing. "Seliktar took fibrin, the protein in blood plasma responsible for clotting, and to it attached a synthetic material called polyethylene glycol that's a plastic used in biomedical applications ... "The result is a three-dimensional material with the biological properties of fibrin and the strength of plastic." These sorts of advances - enabled by materials science - may seem comparatively minor, but they greatly improve on natural regenerative processes and benefit many people. View the Article Under Discussion: http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2004-12-24-4 Read More Longevity Meme Commentary: http://www.longevitymeme.org/news/ [Longevity Meme News and Commentary] 5:52:34 AM  comment []  Trackback []     A Timeline For Alzheimer's Treatment. HealthDay reports that "many of the professionals who attended the ninth international conference on Alzheimer's Disease in Philadelphia this past summer predicted a viable treatment within the next 10 years." Alzheimer's research has been a priority for the NIA since the early 1990s; in many ways, the current state of public and private funding mirrors the the fight against cancer that commenced in the 1970s. The big difference is that it may take half as long and a fraction of the cost to win this war - one of many benefits of modern medical technology. Advocates for healthy life extension would like to see the same powerful engines of science, funding and public opinion turned to aging and serious anti-aging research. View the Article Under Discussion: http://www.healthday.com/view.cfm?id=523084 Read More Longevity Meme Commentary: http://www.longevitymeme.org/news/ [Longevity Meme News and Commentary] 5:51:36 AM  comment []  Trackback []     Grassroots journalism...a ray of sunshine in an increasingly dark reality. Dan Gillmor is off into the wild blue yonder of blog-based media, quitting one of the best jobs in journalism to help us all figure out this new world. He does have some high quality wingmen in Pierre Omidyar and Mitch Kapor. Dan, you are an inspiration. Good luck, we'll be watching your progress. [EdCone.com] 5:51:06 AM  comment []  Trackback []

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