World’s Most Powerful Magnet Under Construction – “Engineers are readying a supercooled, record-setting 100-tesla magnet at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The magnet will have to withstand forces equivalent to 200 sticks of dynamite…”

Want On The Digg Home Page? That’ll Be $1,200 – “the user also claims to charge for his services. A submission is $300-$500 based on the “quality of the article,” with no additional “promotion.” If you want your article promoted it’s a flat $700 fee. An additional $500 is charged if it gets to the home page. That’s a grand total of $1,200 for a home page story, and you don’t even get guaranteed results…”

Amazing Magic Mirror Digitally Changes Fabrics On the Fly – “The best one is this stunning magic mirror, an augmented reality display that gets any piece of clothing and transforms its fabric in real time. Live, the effect was absolutely amazing, indistinguishable from a real mirror…”

20 Jobs That Are (Much) Better or Worse Than You Thought – “If you’re looking for a career change or are just interested in what other kinds of jobs are out there, start investigating the job market by taking a look at this list of 20 jobs that are either much better or much worse than you might have thought…”

Cosmic crash unmasks dark matter – “Striking evidence has been found for the enigmatic “stuff” called dark matter which makes up 23% of the Universe, yet is invisible to our eyes…”

Long-life gene that triples chance of living to 100 found – “Men who have two copies of a “long life gene” triple their odds of living nearly a century, according to a study published today…”

5 Apps For Painless Windows Reformats – “I’ve gotten pretty quick at backing up, reformatting, and finishing off Windows installs. I’ve got five core tools that I use to get the job done, and here they are…”

Prevailing theory of aging challenged in worm study – “Specific genetic instructions drive aging in worms, report researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Their discovery contradicts the prevailing theory that aging is a buildup of tissue damage akin to rust, and implies science might eventually halt or even reverse the ravages of age…”

MythBuster Adam Savage: 3 Ways to Fix U.S. Science Education – “They tell us Thursday mornings are productive because students see us doing hands-on science Wednesday nights on our show MythBusters, and they want to talk about it…”

How to Prevent Preventable Death – “While we waste a lot of worry on strangers, minorities and mustached foreigners, we do a much better job of killing ourselves than any foe ever could…”

Revamped Google Picasa site identifies photo faces – “With a face recognition feature set to launch at noon PDT Tuesday, Google’s Picasa Web Albums will help users label their photos with the names of subjects. That and other changes to the photo-sharing site are joined by a new beta version of the accompanying Picasa 3.0 photo-editing software…”

World’s Largest Marine Sanctuary – “He wants all the 15 islands in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and parts of the islands in the Pacific to be granted the national-monument status, which would lead to the world’s largest marine reserve on the planet as big as Texas and Alaska combined…”

How To Build A Great iPhone App – “Tom Thornton calls it the “wow” factor. The third-party applications built for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch have plenty of it. “It’s ‘Wow,’ I can’t believe a phone can do this now,..”

Open Source Textbooks Challenge a Paradigm – “A small, digital book startup thinks it has a solution to the age-old student lament: overpriced textbooks that have little value when the course is over. The answer? Make them open source — and give them away…”

In Our Genes, Old Fossils Take On New Roles – “It turns out that about 8 percent of the human genome is made up of viruses that once attacked our ancestors. The viruses lost. What remains are the molecular equivalents of mounted trophies, insects preserved in genomic amber, DNA fossils…”

Scientists uncover key to boosting carbon capture – “Buried under a giant stand of bamboo in northern New South Wales, two Australian soil scientists have made a discovery they believe will help save the planet…”

China planning ‘world’s fastest train’ from Beijing to Shanghai – “China is planning to build the world’s fastest bullet train, to link Beijing with the financial capital Shanghai…”

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