SCIENCE
Top Story: No Sleep Means No New Brain
Cells - [BBC] Missing out on sleep may cause the
brain to stop producing new cells, a study has suggested.
The work on rats, by a team from Princeton University
found a lack of sleep affected the hippocampus, a
brain region involved in forming memories.
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TECHNOLOGY
Top Story: Intel Prototype
May Herald a New Age of Processing - [International
Herald Tribune] Intel was to demonstrate an experimental
computer chip company executives say provides a model
for commercial chips that will be used widely in standard
desktop, laptop and server computers within five years.
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BUSINESS
Top Story: Advertising
is Creeping onto Cellphones around the Globe -
[International Herald Tribune] Already, ads are creeping
onto cellphones around the globe. At this rate, experts
say, it will not be long before the 2.2 billion mobile
phone users around the world consider it natural to
tune into a 15-second spot before watching a video,
sending a message or listening to a downloaded song
in between phone conversations.
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SOCIETY
Top Story: Call
for "Neuroethics" as Brain Science Races Ahead
- [Reuters] Neuroscientists are making such rapid
progress in unlocking the brain's secrets that some
are urging colleagues to debate the ethics of their
work before it can be misused by governments, lawyers
or advertisers.
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GLOBAL POLITICS
Top Story: A
Radical Plan to Manage Globalization - [BusinessWeek]
Princeton economist Alan Blinder argues we are at
the beginning of a third industrial revolution. Blinder
says that of about 140 million U.S. jobs, between
42 million and 56 million could be moved offshore
in the next decade or two: all 14 million current
jobs in manufacturing and 28 million to 42 million
in the service sector. We will be left without any
manufacturing, which is an inalienable part of the
country's security. Education and skills may not help.
U.S. wages will go down sharply.
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ENVIRONMENT
Top Story: Far-Out
Schemes to Stop Climate Change - [New Scientist]
Following the latest report of the United Nations
climate change panel, there has been a flurry of renewed
interest in so-called geo-engineering projects to
counter the warming effects of rising CO2 levels.
Some wild-sounding schemes have been proposed over
the years.
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THE FUTURE
Top Story: Space
Historian Sees Cyborgs in Our Future - [Space.com]Fifty
years after the dawn of the space age, hundreds of
people have flown into space. A dozen of those left
their boot marks on the Moon's surface, and several
nations now are planning to send astronauts back to
the Moon and then beyond. So you would think the expansion
of humanity ever deeper into the Cosmos is a sure
bet.
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