~e; Electromagnetic News & Views #4
From
human being <human@electronetwork.org>
Date
Sun, 3 Nov 2002 16:04:55 -0600
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Electromagnetic News & Views -- #4
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00) Electronetwork.org Commentary (11/03/2002)
01) Links to Top Stories of Electromagnetism
02) Electromagnetic health & medicine
03) Electromagnetic trash & treasure
04) Electromagnetic security & surveillance
05) Electromagnetic power & energy
06) Electromagnetic current & human affairs
07) Electromagnetic transportation & communication
08) Electromagnetic architecture & building
09) Electromagnetic trends & inventions
10) Electromagnetic weaponry & warfare
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00) --commentary--
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from The Word Spy: electric-can-opener question
n. The recognition that some older, low-tech products are
superior to the newer, high-tech products that are supposed
to replace them.
http://www.wordspy.com/words/electric-can-openerquestion.asp
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01) --top stories--
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Scientists Say a Quest for Clean Energy Must Begin Now
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/01/science/01CLIM.html
Rules for a Complex Quantum World
An exciting new fundamental discipline of research combines
information science and quantum mechanics
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=0005C8BF-1B88-
1D9B-815A809EC5880000
Net devices arranged fractally
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2002/101602/
Net_devices_arranged_fractally_101602.html
A New View of Our Universe: Only One of Many
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/29/science/space/29COSM.html
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02-- electromagnetic health & medicine
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Display: Feeling Is Believing
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,55997,00.html
"Blind people can already surf the Web using screen access software
that translates information into synthesized speech or Braille. A new
technology could change the way they use the Web by allowing them to
"feel" electronic images and graphics."
Space station radiation shields 'disappointing'
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992956
Cancer cell study revives cellphone safety fears
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992959
Instant imaging device gives GPs safe new window into the body
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/
main.jhtml;$sessionid$3PNUV3ILKICTDQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/connected/
2002/10/09/ecnxray06.xml&sSheet=/connected/2002/10/10/ixconn.html
"A camera that can see through clothes, skin and even walls without
X-rays has been developed in what is being called one of the first
great technological breakthroughs of the 21st century.
...Unlike X-rays, it does not expose patients to potentially harmful
radiation. Instead, it detects a form of ultra-high-frequency, or
terahertz, energy waves naturally emitted by all objects."
When Sound Is Red: Making Sense of Mixed Sensations
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A15125-
2002Oct11?language=printer
"One theory is that synesthesia may be caused by "cross-wiring" between
areas of the brain that process different sensations."
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03-- electromagnetic trash & treasure
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Selling the Free Lunch
Perpetual motion has changed its name but not its methods
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?colID=7&articleID=0000A167-1A25-1D9A-
815A809EC5880000
// there's a photo somewhere online with this, as it accompanied
// the paper version, and is really amazing to see someone who
// is dressed up like a rooster doing this...
Virtual cockfighting: where grownups can play chicken
http://www.startribune.com/stories/389/3371977.html
Computer Trash Is His Treasure
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,55949,00.html
"Ismail runs VintageTech, a consultancy specializing in obsolete
computers.
The firm provides a number of services, including data conversion and
rental
of old computers to movie makers. He also organizes the Vintage Computer
Festival –- the fifth annual show is being held in Silicon Valley this
weekend."
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04-- electromagnetic security & surveillance
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Wi-Fi getting new security standard // WPA: Wi-Fi Protected Access
http://news.com.com/2100-1033-964046.html?tag=fd_top
Software heals systems while they work
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-964109.html &
IBM wants computers that help themselves
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-962623.html?tag=fd_top_1
FDA Says It Won't Regulate Implanted ID Chip
http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=healthnews&StoryID=1616178
& http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,55952,00.html
& http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,55999,00.html
How to ZAP a Camera: Using Lasers to Temporarily Neutralize Camera
Sensors
http://www.naimark.net/projects/zap/howto.html &
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/07/technology/07ZZAP.html
mCloak (commercial product)
Mobile wireless security and privacy protection,
block wireless communication to and from your wireless devices.
http://www.mobilecloak.com/
Building Online Trust Through Technology
Oracle exec Chris Baker says "making sure that internal data and
infrastructures
are secure" is more pressing than loss from online fraud. "Stopping
people
getting in with firewalls is a burglar alarm situation," he explained.
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19849.html
Eye on America, Indeed
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,55994,00.html
Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A828-2002Oct22?language=printer
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05-- electromagnetic power & energy
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U.S. Thirst For Oil Threatens Canada
http://ens-news.com/ens/oct2002/2002-10-18-09.asp
Lunar power plant would fulfill Earth's electricity needs, trio says
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1624932
political (flash) cartoon on U.S. views of hybrid energy
http://salon.com/politics/comics/2002/10/24/hybrids/index.html
// batteries are an indicator of how the future will develop...
// as with sensors, as stated, or laptops, wi-fi devices, etc.
Radioactive battery provides decades of power
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992951
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06-- electromagnetic current & human affairs
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Recycling Phones to Charities, Not Landfills
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=581&ncid=581&e=6&u=/
nm/20021026/tc_nm/column_pluggedin_dc
Man vs. Computer Bahrain Chess Clash Ends in Draw
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=581&ncid=581&e=3&u=/
nm/20021020/tc_nm/chess_dc
& http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,55912,00.html
& http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,55839,00.html
"Sounds from Space:" A Video and Audio Representation of PWS
Observations from the Galileo Ganymede Encounter G1
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/ganymede/pws.html
The Death Of The Internet
How Industry Intends To Kill The 'Net As We Know It
http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/6600
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07-- electromagnetic transportation & communication
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Touching moment 3,000 miles apart becomes a virtual reality
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/
story.jsp?story=347175 &
http://www.reuters.com/
printerfriendly.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=1645213
"The phantoms send small impulses at very high frequencies down the
Internet
using newly developed fiber optic cables and extremely high bandwidths."
E-mail over HF radio
http://www.nsrc.org/wireless/HF-radio.html
Powerline Networking Could Hit 100 Mbit/s In 2004
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,648075,00.asp
Why Not a 40-MPG SUV?
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/fischetti1102.asp?p=0
First look at the guts of GM's fuel cell Autonomy car
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/auto/article/0,12543,385005,00.html
Fliers may soon get to use cell phones
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2002-10-22-air-
cell_x.htm
How UPC Bar Codes Work -
http://www.howstuffworks.com/upc.htm
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08-- electromagnetic architecture & building
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// note: wiring kits cost US ~$2000 in price of house
House pre-wired and waiting for electronic gadgets
But will buyers flock to homes of the future?
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,415016446,00.html
The mobile home of the 21st century
R&D teams at many of the world's major tech organizations are
developing new ways for humans to interact with their digital
environment.
http://www.redherring.com/insider/2002/10/briefing-mobilehome103002.html
In Every Building, Turn, Turn, Turn
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/business/yourmoney/27TURN.html
Power Houses
Tech execs and extreme jocks are making the world safe for
plasma-screen shaving mirrors and Wi-Fi window shades.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.11/power_houses.html
Cleaning Up Clean Rooms
A new manufacturing technology promises to scrub the chipmaking
process and extend the life of Moore's law.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.11/start.html?pg=7
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09-- electromagnetic trends & inventions
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Magic pool table creates wizard potters
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992982
Light-emitting diodes: A solid future for lighting
Over the next decade, incandescent bulbs and fluorescent tubes are
likely
to give way to illumination based on solid-state semiconductors
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1365100.
"Coupled to fibre-optic cable, they could generate light centrally and
route
it through buildings. Lamps might work not with a dimmer switch, but
with a
rainbow dial that turned them from white to red, green, blue or any
shade in
between. Wallpaper that glows and twinkling table-tops also stray from
the
realm of the outlandish to become feasible notions."
Nanoscale LED debuts
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2002/103002/
Nanoscale_LED_debuts_103002.html
Chemists brew tiny wires
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2002/101602/
Chemists_brew_tiny_wires_101602.html
Light-Emitting Silicon Shines Much Brighter in New Invention
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/28/technology/28CHIP.html
A Pad That Recharges With Nubs, Not Wires
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/31/technology/circuits/31powe.html
Scientists Shrink Computing to Molecular Level
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/25/technology/25COMP.html
How Semiconductors Work -
http://www.howstuffworks.com/diode.htm
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10-- electromagnetic weaponry & warfare
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Army's secret 'people zapper' plans
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,825082,00.html
Smart Fatigues Hear Enemy Coming
http://www.wired.com/news/gizmos/0,1452,55764,00.html
"Reynolds wove about 24 strands of wire in each direction with light,
crocheted cotton thread. She wove three different layers of material:
The vertical wires are on the bottom, the horizontal wires are on the
top, and in between the two is a buffer layer. The buffer prevents the
wires from short-circuiting."
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