- Star Trek: The Experience in Vegas to close - I have been to Vegas many times and the only thing I ever thought worth a visit out there was Star Trek: The Experience ... it had a replica of Quarks Bar, the best cocktails I have ever had (smoking Warp Core Anyone?), some great Star Trek gift shops, a good restaurant, 2 theme park rides and a great museum of things Trek ... this is a real shame, especially with the new Movie coming out that would boost attendance, I hope CBS do keep it alive somewhere ... as for me I am crossing Vegas off my list
- Heat waves to potential kill more in future - Heat waves in the past few years have been real killers - in 2003 in Europe tens of thousands of people died as temperatures reached 104 ... by the end of this century they are predicting temperatures to rise to 120 or higher and we will get there by an incremental increase over the years ... the near future looks hot and deadly
- To stop global warming stop cows farting or just have fewer cows -OK this is more about how a new hormone can help cows produce more milk per cow therefore we need fewer cows in the world for the same milk output ... however it is also being related to global warming because the fewer cows we have on the planet the less greenhouse gases they emit (fart) to the tune of some 400,000 cars in one study ... poor cows ... of course we could use the same theory and reduce the number of humans on the planet ... wouldn't that make a bigger difference?
- New Shape of the Solar System - "It's worse than that Jim, the heliosphere is egg shaped!" ... and I like the io9 post that this may be exactly what Vernor Vinge's Fire Upon the Deep was predicting
- Intel's vision of our computing future sees Thousands of cores - The inevitable drive to make computers smarter and faster marches on
- New Heart growth Gene - For anyone with heart disease we are getting closer to the holly grail of re-growing heart tissue ... also important if the heat waves of the future are to be believed (see above) people with heart conditions and the elderly will be most at risk
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