Top 10 Mad Scientists
Posted by dimaks in Asides on 29. Sep, 2008 | 4 Comments
Top 10 Mad Scientists, do you know them? A friend came across this article at LiveScience and thought it would interest your usual curious minds. Here we go:
10. Johann Konrad Dippel – 17th-century alchemist who was noted as the inventor of Prussian Blue and was very famous in his endless quest for elixirs of immortality.
9. [...]
New Prime Number Discovered
Posted by dimaks in Asides, News on 28. Sep, 2008 | 1 Comment
The University of California Mathematicians led by Edson Smith discovered New Huge Mersenne Prime Numbers containing 13 million digits. Prime numbers by rule can only be divided by themselves and one. Smith’s team used and harnessed the unused powers of 75 interlinked computers.
For the new discovery, the California Mathematicians could be the recipient of a [...]
The 2008 Corruption Perception Index
Posted by dimaks in News on 26. Sep, 2008 | 4 Comments
On September 23, The 2008 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) was published by the TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL, The Global Coalition Against Corruption. The CPI 2008 revealed that Denmark, New Zealand and Sweden got the highest rank, scoring 9.3 each. Singapore ranked 4th, while Finland (CPI = 9.0) and Switzerland (CPI = 9.0) ranked 5th. Iceland (CPI = [...]
Cancer and your cellular phones
Posted by dimaks in Asides on 26. Sep, 2008 | 2 Comments
Are there any connections between your cellular phones and cancer? There has been postulations about this thing but enough researches seem to have not yet been conducted. What do you know about it? Are there any? Any references you know that are worth reading? Share them here.
Google’s Anti iPhone
Posted by dimaks in News, Technology on 26. Sep, 2008 | 4 Comments
On Tuesday (Sept. 23), T-Mobile rolled out Google’s said to be as the anti iPhone in the telecommunication industry line. Made by HTC Corp, the highly anticipated G1 Phone (Google iPhone) is built with a touch-sensitive screen, a computer-like keyboard plus a Wi-Fi connection and running under Google’s new Android OS.
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