How I helped build the bomb that blew up Wall Street. – “I wrote the software that turned mortgages into bonds….”

Lockheed Unleashes ‘HULC’ Super-Strength Gear – “The super-strength suit attaches to the wearers’ legs, augmenting their power while shadowing their movement. According to Lockheed, HULC enables the wearer to carry up to 200 pounds without much effort — and sprint up to 10 miles per hour in short bursts. Lithium-ion batteries will keep the wearer walking at a normal pace for an hour…”

How to map the multiverse – “Greene’s transformation is emblematic of a profound change among the majority of physicists. Until recently, many were reluctant to accept this idea of the “multiverse”, or were even belligerent towards it. However, recent progress in both cosmology and string theory is bringing about a major shift in thinking…”

Student’s Wikipedia hoax quote used worldwide in newspaper obituaries – “A WIKIPEDIA hoax by a 22-year-old Dublin student resulted in a fake quote being published in newspaper obituaries around the world. The quote was attributed to French composer Maurice Jarre who died at the end of March. It was posted on the online encyclopedia shortly after his death and later appeared in obituaries published in the Guardian, the London Independent, on the BBC Music Magazine website and in Indian and Australian newspapers…”

AcademicEarth.org – Thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars

subway systems of the world, presented on the same scale – “The major subway systems of the world shown side by side so you can compare them easily…”

Breakthrough Solar Energy Technology from Israel – “One year ago professor Feiman showed us his pilot plan for an innovative solar panel based on a simple concept: Replace large areas of expensive photovoltaic cells with inexpensive glass and concentrate sunlight onto a very small area of cells. The Israeli startup Zenith Solar has now launched its first working power plan based on Feiman’s technology…”

Net neutrality and bandwidth caps don’t matter – “Basically, the cable internet usage quotas have nothing to do with the internet, they are all about protecting the cable companies TV business. With any quotas in place, it is basically impossible to watch TV in an ‘average’ way over the internet. You can’t even get half of average at barely acceptable quality…”

Think before you click: Nation’s first face transplant patient goes public – “46-year-old Ohio woman can smile again with the help of a stranger’s face…”

By Creating Market in Fakes, eBay Protects Archaeological Treasures – “”When eBay was founded ten years ago, archaeologists feared it would create a convenient global marketplace for stolen antiquities, spurring the looting of archaeological sites. Their fears proved unfounded. By creating a market for fake antiquities, the online auction giant has actually reduced looting pressures, writes UCLA archaeologist in Archaeology…”

Fly another day: The James Bond inspired ‘microcopter’ that will come in packs of three – “It is the size of a cigarette packet and it could provide soldiers of the future with battleground intelligence at the flick of a joy stick…”

a new viral flash game, pun intended… – “According to the Twitter feed of New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, the science writers at his paper are spending some quality time with an infectious little game called Sneeze in which your goal is — as you might guess — to sneeze in the right spot and infect as many people as possible with whatever virus you’re carrying…”

Interview Dr. Richard Nebel of IEC/Bussard Fusion Project by Sander Olson – “Our machine is a hybrid machine – part magnetic confinement and part electrostatic. Our approach involves holding plasma together and heating with electrostatic fields…”

Mega-Regions and High-Speed Rail – “Mega-regions are large-scale economic units of multiple large cities and their surrounding suburbs. My research team and I defined them using satellite images of the world at night to identify contiguous economic areas with more than five million people producing $100 billion or more in economic output. The world’s 40 largest mega-regions account for two-thirds of all the global economic activity and 85 percent of the world’s technological innovation while housing just 18 percent of its people…”

Windows 7 RC download goes live – “The wait is over folks, Microsoft has published the download page for the Windows 7 RC…” Go here for XP running virtual mode: Download Windows Virtual PC Beta and Windows XP Mode Beta

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