Sunday, November 13, 2011

How it works

How it works

How Spotify Works: Pay The Majors, Use P2P Technology

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 12:28 PM PST

Spotify is fast, convenient and legal, but can it turn a profit?

Tamoxifen Resistance - and How to Defeat It

Posted: 13 Nov 2011 08:47 AM PST

In the last three decades, thousands of women with breast cancer have taken the drug tamoxifen, only to discover that the therapy doesn't work, either because their tumors do not respond to the treatment at all, or because they develop resistance to it over time. Now researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have discovered the molecular basis for tamoxifen resistance and ...

You too can be a Lowry stick-person

Posted: 13 Nov 2011 12:44 AM PST

Go shopping or sight-seeing in Manchester, and Salford University can make you part of art history Greater Manchester's profiteering from its dysfunctional but talented son L S Lowry continues apace. This weekend, you could end up being turned into a stick person while shopping or sight-seeing in Piccadilly Gardens. Salford University, which is an extremely hi-tech centre pioneering lots of ...

American Recession: How Far is it Intertwined With the European Economy?

Posted: 12 Nov 2011 02:01 AM PST

A Wall Street Journal survey of 52 economists has put the odds at 1-in-4 that the U.S. will experience a recession in the next 12 months. When the Journal put the question to the same group in September the odds were at 1-in-3.

The aliens are out to get us! | Gene Expression

Posted: 12 Nov 2011 09:03 PM PST

Several people have pointed me to Stephen Hawking's warning about 'First Contact' with aliens. Specifically that we'd be on the short end of the stick. His worry reminded me of something I read as a child which shocked me somewhat when I encountered it, as I was conditioned by a post-Cosmos optimism. Here's the author: [...]

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