Geek News Links (and MERMAIDS!) –June 22, 2011
NSA Declassifies 200-Year-Old Book [Wired] A cryptology instruction book… 202 years old. A photograph of the U.S. Army’s cypher bureau… from 1919. A breakdown of Russian electoral districts… circa...
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Shark Populations Are Plummeting in Areas Near Humans. Shark populations have recently fallen by up to 90 percent in some areas. – [Planetsave] Wind farms may have warming effect. Large wind farms...
View ArticleInteresting Articles: Banana Sex, Android for Battle, Films That Predicted...
Top 10 films that predicted the future [Listverse] The unfortunate sex life of the banana [Damn Interesting] Securing Android for the Battle Space, armed conflict has radically changed. [Wind...
View ArticleGM Unveils New All-Electric Vehicle
General Motors is giving its Chevrolet Spark a jolt of electricity. An all-electric version of the mini-car will debut this week at the Los Angeles Auto Show. It goes on sale this summer in...
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Houston, We Have Another Problem: Astronaut Alzheimer’s [Science Blogs] As if space travel was not already filled with enough dangers, a new study out today in the journal PLOS ONE shows that cosmic...
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Tiny, Logical Robots Injected into Cockroaches [Popular Mechanics] Scientists have built robots that mimic cockroaches and even implanted electronics to remote-control these bugs. Now researchers...
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Scientists Create Shatterproof Phone Screens [MDConnects]Too many of us are carrying shattered phones because screens we can’t afford new screens. However, scientists from the University of Akron may...
View ArticleLast of the ‘Navajo Code Talkers’ has died aged 93
Chester Nez, the last surviving member of the ‘Original Navajo Code Talkers’ has died at the age of 93. He was a great man. Navajo, artist, writer, Marine, graduate of University of Kansas. He was one...
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How the biggest data leak in history happened – Terrabytes of data related to shady tax-evading businesses came from a single person who used increased protection to hide his or her identity and to...
View ArticleU.S. Navy Has Patents on Tech It Says Will ‘Engineer the Fabric of Reality’
Sounds like the US Navy is reverse engineering UFO tech and patenting it? Vice has all the gory details…
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