~e; This week in EM newsraking

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Rena Bizios
Skeleton Recharge

Innovation  By Alexandra Stikeman   April 2002

Bringing artificial bones to life.

Itıs not quite Mary Shelleyıs image of a corpse brought to life by electricity,
but biomedical engineers have found a way of using electricity to bring
artificial bone to life. The method could one day yield bone replacement parts. 

for full article [short] please see:
http://www.techreview.com/articles/innovation50402.asp

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nice (small) chart of elementary particles
[for article about recreating the big bang/bbc]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1917000/1917040.stm


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nuke-tipped national missile defense rockets being looked into
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28866-2002Apr10.html


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robot collector in the USA (em cultural ephemera)
http://www.startribune.com/stories/789/2221895.html

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Wired on GPS: (why it is not booming as it could)
http://wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,51663,00.html


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Environmentalists take their battle to boardrooms
By Michelle Kessler, USA TODAY 

SAN FRANCISCO ‹ Environmentalists are taking their case against computer-related
toxic waste to the industry's boardrooms.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/04/09/recycle.htm

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teaching using alternative fuels
(have heard of fuel cell cars and also windmills recently)
http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,51754,00.html

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[remember looking at early computers, and knowing a gifted
young musician who was delighted composing and playing back
scores on an Commodore 64 system. always found that strange,
in that playback was hard to appreciate, yet when seeing a
synthesizer for musical instrument (versus organ or e-guitar)
the possibilities of sampling became clearer. yet it is still
difficult to get sounds into a computer, which is a bit odd].

Six Machines That Changed The Music World
By Pat Blashill

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.05/blackbox.html

The Mutant

ROLAND TB-303 synthesizer 

The Stepchild

ROLAND TR-808 DRUM MACHINE 

The Workhorse

TECHNICS SL-1200 TURNTABLE

The Screamers

NORD LEAD 1 KEYBOARD, AMEK SYSTEM 9098 EQUALIZER  

The Transformer

AKAI S950 SAMPLER 


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