Saturday, 4. October 2008

Solar-Handys dominieren Japans verrückteste Gadget-Messe


Auf der High-Tech-Messe Ceatec in Tokio ist neben den Geräten der nächsten Saison auch viel Science-Fiction zu bewundern. Beispielsweise Konzepte für Solar-Handys in Satelliten-Form und Smartphones, die durch Wände sehen können.

spiegel.de

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CERN’s New Super Computer Links Scientists Worldwide


CERN, the world’s largest particle physics lab that created the Worldwide Web, exhibited its newest development on Friday: a computer network allowing some 7,000 scientists in 33 countries to connect and share data and processing power.

redorbit.com michaelgr.com

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Sadistic boy, 7, feeds live reptiles to crocodile


A seven-year-old boy has been filmed going on the rampage at a popular zoo in Australia, killing rare reptiles and feeding live ones to a crocodile.

Footage from the security cameras at Alice Springs Reptile Centre caught the child smiling as he killed a total of 13 animals.

During his 30-minute spree, he was seen hurling the animals over the security fence into the crocodile enclosure.

news.com.au bbc.co.uk

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Religion: why do people believe in God?


As scientists prove that faith can relieve pain, distinguished psychologist Dorothy Rowe examines the case for and against religion

I'm not religious, but I have thought about religion all of my life. My mother never attended church but she insisted that I went to St Andrew's Church, a cold, unfriendly place filled with cold, unfriendly people. At home, my father, an atheist, would read aloud to us from the essays of Robert Ingersoll, the 19th-century militant atheist.

telegraph.co.uk

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