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You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer   |  A Honda Civic With no Gas Tank (Video)     To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets  You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer  Why Ultrabooks Are Falling Well Short of Intel's Targets  A Honda Civic With no Gas Tank (Video)  Scientists Want To Keep Their Research Work Out of Court  $1 Billion Mission To Reach the Earth's Mantle  82-Year-Old Nun Breaks Into Nuclear Facility, Contractors Blamed  The History of 'Correlation Does Not Imply Causation'  Statistical Tools For Detecting Electoral Fraud  Galaxy Tab Sales Ban Lifted, Samsung Sues Apple Over iPhone 5  Apple iPad Mini Could Complicate Things For Windows 8 Tablets  What Happened To Diaspora, the Facebook Killer? It's Complicated  Super Bacteria Create Gold  Graphics Cards: the Future of Online Authentication?  The Most Important Meeting You've Never Heard of     To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets  From the so-hot-you-can-fry-brains-on-the-pavement department Hugh Pickens writes in about the detrimental effects of mandatory helmet laws (at least as applied to adults): "Elisabeth Rosenthal writes that in the United States the notion that bike helmets promote health and safety by preventing head injuries...   You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer  From the big-conspiracy-or-small-minds department FatLittleMonkey writes "You may recall Cody Wilson's project to create a 3D printed gun, mentioned previously on Slashdot. Well, the Defense Distributed project has suffered a decidedly non-technical setback, with printer manufacturer Stratasys...   Why Ultrabooks Are Falling Well Short of Intel's Targets  From the not-leveraging-enough-synergies department nk497 writes "When Paul Otellini announced Ultrabooks last year, he predicted they would grab 40% of the laptop market by this year. One analyst firm has said Ultrabooks will only make up 5% of the market this year, slashing its own sales...   A Honda Civic With no Gas Tank (Video)  From the a-car-that-will-never-get-a-rod-knock department It took Dr. Adam Blankespoor two years and $14,000 to convert his 1996 Honda Civic into an all-electric plug-in vehicle. He's an automotive engineer and researcher, but if he can do it, you can probably follow in his footsteps and create your own...   Scientists Want To Keep Their Research Work Out of Court  From the 10-million-dead-polar-bears-can't-be-wrong department concealment writes "How much privacy is the scientific process entitled to? During the course of their work, researchers produce e-mails, preliminary results, and peer reviews, all of which might be more confused or critical than the final...   $1 Billion Mission To Reach the Earth's Mantle  From the because-it's-the-closest-one department black6host writes "Humans have reached the moon and are planning to return samples from Mars, but when it comes to exploring the land deep beneath our feet, we have only scratched the surface of our planet. This may be about to change with a $1...   82-Year-Old Nun Breaks Into Nuclear Facility, Contractors Blamed  From the just-read-the-headline-again department Lasrick writes "Private security contractors strike again, this time at the Y-12 National Security Complex. A nun, a gardener, and a housepainter cut through three security fences to find themselves 20 feet away from highly dangerous nuclear...   The History of 'Correlation Does Not Imply Causation'  From the does-not-imply-godwin-either department Dr Herbert West writes "The phrase 'correlation does not imply causation' goes back to 1880 (according to Google Books). However, use of the phrase took off in the 1990s and 2000s, and is becoming a quick way to short-circuit certain kinds of...   Statistical Tools For Detecting Electoral Fraud  From the chechens-for-putin department RockDoctor writes "A recent paper published in PNAS describes statistical techniques for clearly displaying the presence of two types of electoral fraud (PDF) — 'incremental fraud' (stuffing of ballot boxes containing genuine votes with...   Galaxy Tab Sales Ban Lifted, Samsung Sues Apple Over iPhone 5  From the where-we-stop-nobody-knows department another random user sends this quote from the BBC: "A temporary sales ban on Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer in the U.S. has been lifted by a U.S. court. District Judge Lucy Koh gave a court order rescinding a ban on U.S....   Apple iPad Mini Could Complicate Things For Windows 8 Tablets  From the or-keep-them-very-very-simple department Nerval's Lobster writes "Current rumor suggests that Apple is gearing up to unveil its iPad Mini Oct. 17, with invitations to media arriving Oct. 10. That's according to Fortune, which obtained the information from an unnamed Apple investor who,...   What Happened To Diaspora, the Facebook Killer? It's Complicated  From the migrating-half-a-billion-people-is-easy department pigrabbitbear writes "Created by four New York University students, Diaspora tried to destroy the notion that one social network could completely dominate the web. Diaspora – 'the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed...   Super Bacteria Create Gold  From the thar-be-gold-in-them-bacteriums department SchrodingerZ writes "With the price of gold skyrocketing in today's market, Michigan State University researchers have discovered a bacterium that can withstand high toxicity levels that are necessary to create natural gold. '"Microbial alchemy is...   Graphics Cards: the Future of Online Authentication?  From the i-am-who-my-pc-says-i-am department Gunkerty Jeb writes "Researchers working on the 'physically unclonable functions found in standard PC components (PUFFIN) project' announced last week that widely used graphics processors could be the next step in online authentication. The...   The Most Important Meeting You've Never Heard of  From the but-only-if-you-use-the-internet department An anonymous reader writes "In December the nations of the world will gather in Dubai for the UN-convened World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT – pronounced 'wicket'). The topic of the meeting is nothing less than the...

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