High-Tech Brings Rural Towns Back To Life
The dot-com world is merging with small-town Americana. High-tech pioneers are helping small town, rural locales branch out beyond the cotton and corn fields.

Stand-alone printers giving way to all-in-ones
Sales of stand-alone ink-jet printers are fading fast, replaced by popular “all-in-one” printers that usually combine a printer, copier and scanner.
I had an idea for a combined printer, scanner, copier, and fax machine back in the early nineties.  Was I able to make a dime from the idea?  Of course not.

Scientists abuzz over more efficient Web servers
By studying the famous honeybee waggle dance that communicates the location of top-notch nectar, researchers have designed a more efficient server system that also benefits Web surfers by cutting down on frustrating delays in accessing newly popular sites. Initial tests by collaborators at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the United Kingdom’s University of Oxford showed that the bee-like way of homing in on sweet spots improved a Web-hosting company’s revenue by up to 20 percent. “It is amazing how inspiring the natural world can be,” said Craig Tovey, co-director of Georgia Tech’s Center for Biologically Inspired Design.

Facebook Apps Will Soon Be Able to Accept Online Payments (by Kristen Nicole at Mashable)
It appears that Facebook has begun private beta testing of a payment system that will let applications accept payments directly through Facebook… It will definitely have an affect on the options for monetization, leaving developers to rely less on ads placed in their applications. Used in conjunction with Beacon, it could do some damage.

Divorced Parents do a Good Job
Divorced parents do just as good a job as married couples in raising kids, a new study claims. This new research overturns a commonly held belief that families fractured by divorced parents become inferior havens for children compared with stable homes.

Brrrr: Scientists trace the roots of feeling cold
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Nerves that sense the icy slap of an arctic wind or just a cool breeze take their orders from a single protein, U.S. researchers said on Monday, shedding new light on how we experience cold.

Sperm’s Immune-protection Properties Could Provide Link To How Cancers Spread
ScienceDaily (Dec. 19, 2007) — Sugar-based markers on human sperm cells which may prevent them from being attacked by the female immune system could provide a vital clue to how some cancers spread in the human body, according to new research.
You’d think this research would also help discover treatments for autoimmune diseases.

Smokers’ Brain Centers Activate During Nicotine Cravings
Finding could lead to better smoking-cessation aids

U.S. Heart Disease Death Rates Falling
But cardiovascular disease remains America’s No. 1 killer, AHA says

Robotic Surgery Treats Tonsil Cancer
Surgeon manipulates motorized arms to snip away tumors

Intensive Training Post-spinal Cord Injury Can Stimulate Repair In Brain And Spinal Cord
ScienceDaily (Dec. 19, 2007) — Intensive rehabilitation training for patients with spinal cord injuries can stimulate new branches growing from severed nerve fibers, alongside compensatory changes in the brain, say Canadian researchers. Most importantly, it could lead to restoring hand function and the ability to walk.

Why Deep-Diving Mammals Don’t Black Out
Some seals and dolphins can hold their breath underwater for a cheek-popping hour or more without passing out from lack of oxygen… The secret to the superhero animal feat is elevated levels of special oxygen-carrying proteins found in their brains, a new study reveals. But the research leaves puzzles.

Magna Carta sells for $21.3 million
A rare 710-year-old copy of the Magna Carta was sold at auction for $21.3 million by The Perot Foundation at Sotheby’s in New York, the auction house said on Tuesday.
Why are treasures like this in private hands?

NASA eyes faulty gauge wires as source of shuttle problems
WASHINGTON (AFP) - NASA said Tuesday it is focusing on the wiring linking crucial fuel gauges into the liquid hydrogen tank as the likely cause of failures that forced the US space agency to scrub the space shuttle’s launch earlier this month.

Baffling Cosmic Explosion Comes Out of Nowhere
A cosmic explosion that seems to have come out of nowhere—thousands of light-years from the nearest collection of stars—has left astronomers baffled… “Here we have this very bright burst, yet it’s surrounded by darkness on all sides,” said team member Brad Cenko of the California Institute of Technology. “The nearest galaxy is more than 88,000 light-years away, and there’s almost no gas lying between the burst and Earth.”

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