Here’s something nobody has ever been able to tell me:
Do wandless ICDs (implantable cardioverter-defibrillators) employ any kind of encryption?
As far as I can tell, the answer is no.
Let me give you a little background. At the last Heart Rhythm Scientific Sessions (2005, in New Orleans) most of the big ICD companies were showing off [...]

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A lot of those homes, including my former apartment, might be turned into parks since they’re not in a good place should another hurricane hit.
City starts to raze homes hit by Katrina - Americas - International Herald Tribune
It was a moment of fearful anticipation for New Orleans, the first demolitions of flooded homes [...]

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When I realized that I was essentially a Buddhist (without even deciding to be, mind you) and a scientist something snapped and it all came together.
In my view, Buddhism and scientific inquiry are two sides of the same coin. While scientific observation and testing deals with the outside world, Buddhism deals with the world within. [...]

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This is an interesting post about the formal basis of scientific inquiry, in which it’s proven that for a sufficiently large universe of observable things, the probability of a scientific law being true is zero!
Conjectures and Refutations » Blog Archive » Falsificationism In One Lesson
Even in such situations where the range of x [...]

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There’s a nice overview (with links to abstracts) on Biosingularity about this discovery:
Biosingularity » Blog Archive » Newly discovered killer cell fights cancer
A mouse immune cell that plays dual roles as both assassin and messenger, normally the job of two separate cells, has been discovered by an international team of researchers. The discovery [...]

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