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	Wednesday, 14 August 2002

Today is ... 1887: Birth of Erwin Schrödinger, one of the founders of quantum mechanics 1981: IBM introduced the personal computer 1883: Extinction of the quagga [David Harris: Science news] 12:37:25 AM

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What makes adolescents smoke? A study of over 20,000 adolescents looked for familial, interpersonal and peer influences that might encourage smoking. Peer smoking was the strongest predictor of increasing smoking by an individual. Parental smoking increased the chances of an adolescent smoking by 26%. However, mothers who smoke do not seem to create sons who smoke. Smoking was increased by a factor of 9 for those who drink alcohol over those who don't. Read the full paper [David Harris: Science news] 12:34:32 AM

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A touch more aout the child athlete. Oh dear. It's hard. I will expand. I'm fairly expanded now but you know what I mean. 12:27:26 AM

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World's smallest light-bulb Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created light bulbs from groups of 2-8 silver atoms. Just pass an electric current through the clusters of atoms and they glow... This is the first time researchers have seen electroluminescence from individual molecules. More information and pictures [David Harris: Science news] 12:24:24 AM

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New Get Your War On is out!. There's a new installment of Get Your War On out. Not as funny as prior strips, but it's still got it. Think of it as a comic form of this strip. I damned near projected my dinner through my nose when I looked more closely at the latest offerings. The included panel sits nicely right on its own. Fresh new insight from the Get Your War On guy. I had never thought of it that way. That image is screwing up the layout on my weblog page. Must add more text to improve the flow. This is so lame. [ian in toronto] 12:08:32 AM

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