October 15, 2002 -
Army finds another use for duct tape -- wart removal - Warts.
Yep, duct tape works on warts. U.S. Army researchers said Monday that
taping over a wart takes about a month to work. The growth is
effectively suffocated, and dead tissue can then be gradually rubbed off
with an emery board or pumice stone. Placing standard adhesive tape over
a wart is sometimes recommended by dermatologists and is a well-known
home remedy. Duct tape, however, may be more sticky and less likely to
unravel than some medical tapes...
October 15, 2002 -
Ten predictions to shake your
world - By Dan
Farber, ZDNet, Gartner
analysts took out their crystal
balls and came up with a list of
ten predictions that will impact
enterprise businesses. The
predictions cross over
technology, economics, and
social boundaries that will
morph during the next eight
years...
October, 2002 -
The Physics of Time Travel
- Popular Science,
Scientists tell us it's
technically possible. Here's a
how-to guide for the ambitious
tinkerer. by Michael Moyer,
Popular Science, Start with a
Black Hole ... The physical
possibility of time travel is
something of a catch-22. Any
object that's surrounded by the
twisted space-time that time
travel requires must by its very
nature be fantastically
perilous, a maelstrom that would
inevitably tear apart the
foolhardy traveler. So
physicists have labored to
create a theoretically
acceptable time machine that's
free from nasty side effects
like certain death. Their
starting point: black holes...
October 22, 2002 -
Experts ping-pong on protein
advice - Is steak a
health food or dietary traitor?
Depends on who you ask. By Linda
Carroll, MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR,
PHILADELPHIA, For years diet
doctors have criticized
Americans for yo-yo dieting. But
looking at the protein advice
given by nutrition specialists
over the past year or two, it
seems instead that it’s the
experts who’ve been bouncing
back and forth with no clear
advice for confused consumers...
October 11, 2002 -
Must-have gadgets -
ZDNet, Any technojunkie
worth his or her salt salivates
at the mere thought of having
the latest and greatest gizmos.
After all, it's all about who
has bragging rights of owning
the hottest toys. So whether
you're a gadget newbie or a
hardened technophile, there's
sure to be something that you'll
love in our picks for the best
gadgets around...
October,
31 2002 -
Dead But Awake: Is It Possible?
- By Daithi O hAnluain, WiredNews, Two
British scientists are seeking £165,000 ($256,000) to carry out a
large-scale study to discover if clinically dead people really have
out-of-body experiences. Dr. Sam Parnia, senior research fellow at the
University of Southampton, and Dr. Peter Fenwick, a consultant
neuropsychiatrist at Oxford University, are both highly respected
researchers. Near-death experiences are the most common experience and
include seeing a white light, while out-of-body experiences involve
serenely observing one's dead body while medics work frantically to
resuscitate it. The researchers have founded a charitable trust, Horizon
Research, to promote studies in the field. Last year Parnia published a
study indicating that 10 percent of clinically dead patients who were
later resuscitated reported memories while they were lifeless...
October 15, 2002 -
Hard drives taking over from VHS
tapes - By Michael Kanellos and Richard Shim,
Special to ZDNet News, There's a
replacement for VHS tape coming,
say some, and it's called the
hard drive. A growing number of
hard-drive manufacturers and
start-ups are touting a new use
for the hoary data vault that's
been one of the chief PC
components for more than two
decades. They want to see it
used as a portable storage
device for gadgets such as
set-top boxes, game consoles and
digital stereo receivers...
October 25, 2002 -
Implantable Chip, On Sale Now
- The maker of an implantable
human ID chip has launched a
national campaign to promote the
device, offering $50 discounts
to the first 100,000 people who
register to get embedded with
the microchip. Applied Digital
Solutions has coined the tagline
"Get Chipped" to market its
product, VeriChip...
October 25, 2002 -
10 Confounding Cosmic Questions
- By Joe Rao, Special to
SPACE.com, Once while
well-known astronomy lecturer
and author by George Lovi
(1939-1993) was running a public
night at the Brooklyn College
Observatory in New York, the
telescope was pointed at Venus,
displaying a delicate crescent
shape. Yes, Venus goes through
phases, just like the Moon does,
as seen from our point of
view...
October 2002 -
Did Newton Get It Wrong?
- By Matthew Maier, October
2002 Issue, Evgeny
Podkletnov's antigravity
technology may sound
far-fetched, but it's attracting
serious interest from the likes
of NASA and Boeing. Russian
scientist Evgeny Podkletnov is
challenging one of the most
sacred tenets of physics -- the
law of gravity. Podkletnov
claims that when objects are
placed above a high-temperature,
superconducting ceramic disk
rotating within an
electromagnetic field, the
objects lose as much as 2
percent of their original
weight. He calls the effect
"gravity shielding," and when
word of his research reached the
public in 1996, a brief media
circus ensued. Many in the
physics community dismissed his
effort as wishful thinking...
October 26, 2002 -
Sneaky e-card installs porn
‘worm’ - By Bob
Sullivan, MSNBC, Oct. 25 —
Card turns PCs into spam
generators, but is it a
virus? Users who try to view the
e-card are warned they must
install new software and told in
small print of the End
User License Agreement that the
program will access the
installer’s address book. It’s
part spam, part pop-up porn ad
software, part computer virus,
part e-greeting card — but a
complete nuisance. Internet
users are starting to
complain to their anti-virus
providers about a suspicious
e-mail making the rounds that
purports to be a harmless
electronic greeting card. But
trying to pick up the card has
severe consequences: a copy of
the e-card e-mail is sent to
everyone in the recipient’s
Outlook e-mail address book,
similar to the worm-like
behavior of the Melissa virus or
the LoveBug. The incident
highlights a disturbing trend:
spam advertisers taking up
tactics used by virus writers...
