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POPSDoctor performs amputation following instructions sent by text Dr Nott was unsure that he should operate. “I had to think long and hard about whether it was right ot leave a young boy with only one arm in the middle of this fighting,” he said. “In the end he would have died without it so I took a deep breath and followed the instructions to the letter.”
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POPSThe miniature-earth project It has been online for quite a while now. Yet, the movie seems still to affect an eye opening response . Its possible to download it from the source. Viewing online is easy.
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POPSSurgical lasers to heal cuts To overcome this problem, Katzir and his colleagues developed a laser-based system with a feedback loop that prevents overheating. First, they had to determine the optimal temperature at which flesh melts but can still heal (about 65 degrees Celsius). Then the group created a pen-sized tool that incorporates optic fibers: one that channels a carbon dioxide-powered infrared laser to the wound with pinpoint precision, and another that leads from the pen to an infrared sensor, which measures the temperature and ensures that the heat remains within the ideal range, between 60 and 70 degrees. All a surgeon has to do is move the pen's tip along the cut, strengthening and sealing the weld with a solder of water-soluble protein.
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POPSUnderground Economy doing well If criminals snagged $350 worth of goods out of each credit card on offer, the potential total worth of the online market would be $5.3 billion, according to the report (.pdf). If scammers could get $40,000 out of each bank account, then some $1.7 billion worth of bank accounts were on offer.
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POPSSynthetic Viruses Could Explain Animal-to-Human Jumps The new virus did not kill mice, however. Other genetic differences between the synthetic and natural strains can now be studied to learn what makes SARS so virulent, said Denison, and the technique applied to other viruses similar to SARS. These include the Ebola, Hanta, Nipah and Chikunguya viruses, all of which originated in animals and are lethal to people. "You could get to a point where, within a couple weeks of an epidemic being identified, you've already grown and generated viruses for the study of immune response," said Denison.
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POPSResearchers 'fake' spam and learn how it makes money "After 26 days, and almost 350 million e-mail messages, only 28 sales resulted," wrote the researchers. The response rate for this campaign was less than 0.00001%. This is far below the average of 2.15% reported by legitimate direct mail organisations. "Taken together, these conversions would have resulted in revenues of $2,731.88—a bit over $100 a day for the measurement period," said the researchers. Scaling this up to the full Storm network the researchers estimate that the controllers of the vast system are netting about $7,000 (£4,430) a day or more than $2m (£1.28m) per year.
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POPSIs Clipmarks barred on certain sites? lately i often get no response (no orange lines) on certain sites, while at the same times if i move to another site, clipping works all right. Could it be possible that clipping is barred on certain sites? Anyone encounters same problem?
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POPSPledgeBank - what is it? an interesting initiative Here at PledgeBank, we’re quite proud of the actions people have taken to improve their communities. Each of the successful pledges on the site mark something significant – trees planted, books distributed, friendships formed, votes cast, money donated, letters written, and a whole host of other actions.
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