Duke develops nano-scale drug delivery for chemotherapy

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How American Health Care Killed My Father - The Atlantic

This is the only lucid article to date on how to fix our health care system.

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Giuliani billed obscure agencies for trips - Ben Smith - Politico.com

As New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani billed obscure city agencies for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the Hamptons, according to previously undisclosed gover …

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Close reading the White House's Presidential Advance Manual. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine

Late last week, the federal government settled a lawsuit with a pair of Texans who were arrested in 2004 for wearing anti-Bush T-shirts at a Fourth of July event in Charleston, W.Va.

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Arctic Ice Coverage Will Shrink to 2050 Projections… This Summer

Sometimes you wish records didn't get broken. A group of Japanese science agencies announced today that the area of the Arctic Sea covered by ice is at its lowest level ever recorded. It reached this low point on August 15th, and it's going to get worse.

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Why Bush Won't Ax Gonzales - TIME

Now I understand why Bush won't fire this nit-wit Gonzales. Brilliant and concise analysis here.

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globeandmail.com: Vitamin D casts cancer prevention in new light

A four-year clinical trial involving 1,200 women found those taking the vitamin had about a 60-per-cent reduction in cancer incidence, compared with those who didn't take it, a drop so large — twice the impact on cancer attributed to smoking — it almost looks like a typograph …

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George McGovern: Cheney is wrong about me, wrong about war.

This is George McGoverns stunning reply to Dick Cheney's speech in Chicago. It is a must read.

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Nanoscale 'Trees' Improve Efficiency of Cheap Plastic Solar Cells:

Now Carroll and his colleagues at Wake Forest's Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials have shown how to incorporate nanoscale polymer trees to improve the potentially revolutionary solar cell's ability to produce power.

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John McCain's MySpace Page "Enhanced"

McCain jacks Davidson's myspace template and pays!!!

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The Air Car - zero pollution and very low running costs - gizmag Article

Many respected engineers have been trying for years to bring a compressed air car to market, believing strongly that compressed air can power a viable "zero pollution" car.

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12 crackpot tech ideas that could transform the enterprise | InfoWorld | Test Center | February 19, 2007 | By InfoWorld Staff

These technologies straddle the divide between harebrained and brilliant as they promise to shake the pillars of tomorrow's enterprise

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Nanotech Battery Claims to Solve Electric Car Woes

"A123 Systems claims to have invented a Lithium Ion battery that not only can discharge at very high rates of current but can be recharged very quickly without damage to the cells or overheating.

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Cheap, Safe, Patentless Cancer Drug Discovered

The New Scientist is reporting that researchers working at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada have discovered that an existing drug called dichloroacetate (DCA) is effective in killing cancer cells, while leaving the host's healthy cells unharmed.

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Ecstasy, the new prescription drug?

This year, the drug MDMA, otherwise known as ecstasy, could take a step toward medical respectability. Researchers in South Carolina have begun experimenting with MDMA for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Ray gun makes targets feel like they're on fire - Innovation - MSNBC.com

MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Georgia - The military's new weapon is a ray gun that shoots a beam that makes people feel as if they will catch fire. The technology is supposed to be harmless — a non-lethal way to get enemies to drop their weapons.

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New All Electric Car is Amazing

I do not work for Tesla, and am feeling awkward for promoting them here on Newsvline- but I truly do beleieve what they are doing is news worthy. I had dinner by chance with one of their executives and got a chance to hear directly about what the company is up to.

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Eating trans fats may increase infertility risk

Women who want to get pregnant may want to stay away from fast food French fries not just to avoid putting on some extra pounds, a new study shows.

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HP Claims Moore's Law Breakthrough

HP says its new research might be able to yield chips that are up to eight times denser and use much less energy than chips being produced today.

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Slashdot | A Working, Winged Jetpack from Switzerland

A Swiss airline pilot and self-described adrenaline junkie named Yves Rossy has developed a working jet-pack and flown it more than 30 times.

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Spare Power Sufficient to Fuel Switch from Gas to Electric Cars -- Existing U.S. power plants could provide enough juice to switch 84 percent of the 220 million American vehicles on the road from gasoline to electricity.

Existing U.S. power plants could provide enough juice to switch 84 percent of the 220 million American vehicles on the road from gasoline to electricity.

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'Truthiness' is the word of the year - CNN.com

SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts (AP) -- After 12 months of naked partisanship on Capitol Hill, on cable TV and in the blogosphere, the word of the year for 2006 is ... "truthiness."

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Rumsfeld and a Mountain of Misery

Frederick Douglass, the renowned abolitionist, began life as a slave on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

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Amber Waves of Gas?: Gasoline Alternative May Be Found in Prairie Grass -- Diverse grassland species could become a

The jockeying for the alternative energy source of the future is like a horse race with a staggered starting order.

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