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• Solix Biofuels Co-Founder Named to Scientific American's Top 10 for 2009

  - 2009-07-15

  Solix Biofuels, Inc. ("Solix"), an alternative energy technology company for the large-scale commercialization of microalgae-based fuels and co-products, is honored to announce that Dr. Bryan Willson, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Solix, has been named to the recent 2009 list, "Scientific American 10: Guiding Science for Humanity"....

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• Scientific American Book Club Commemorates 40th Anniversary of Man's First Landing on the Moon

  - 2009-07-08

  Club debuts five new titles celebrating the Apollo missions and American spaceflight NEW YORK, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientific American Book Club, the leading book club dedicated to exploring the best of science and technology, kicks off a tribute to the Apollo missions and spaceflight with...

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• News From BIO Annual Convention

  - 2009-05-21

  The Biotechnology Industry Organization's annual convention in Atlanta drew 20,000 scientists, industry leaders and government officials who saw the latest products and discussed progress in efforts to find cures for major disease, good substitutes for oil based plastics and fuels and provide disease-resistant, genetically engineered crops and cloned...

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• Scientific American to Release Worldview Report Surveying Bio-innovation Across the Globe

  - 2009-05-18

  Biotechnology Industry Organization BIO: [Table Omitted] About the 2009 BIO International Convention: The worldâ??s leading biotechnology industry event, the BIO International Convention, is ...

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• Climate-change denial

  - 2009-03-21

  George Hawkins, another climate-change denier, joins the paranoid chorus proclaiming it's all a hoax (Readers' Forum, March 19). He is impugning the honesty of thousands of trained climate scientists. He deplores the crisis of common sense, while exhibiting a colossal lack of that precious quality himself. If...

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• Front bat spread

  - 2008-12-01

  Sure, you're looking more and more like a superhero with every set of squats and every skinless chicken breast, but could you actually become a superhero and, if so, how long would it take? E. Paul Zehr, associate professor of kinesiology and neuroscience at the University of Victoria British Columbia,...

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• "I'm not worried about risk, I manage risk."

  - 2008-11-01

  Swiss aviator Yves Rossy after flying across the English Channel in a homemade jetpac: 22 miles: Length of Rossy's flight from Dover, England to Calais, France 186 mph: Rossy's top speed 9 minutes, 7 seconds: Time of the flight $190,000: Cost to build the jetpack ...

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• MIV Therapeutics Featured in Scientific American Online

  - 2008-06-06

  MIV Therapeutics, Inc. (OTCBB: MIVT) ( www.mivtherapeutics.com ), a leading developer of next-generation coatings and advanced drug delivery systems for cardiovascular stents and other implantable medical devices, was featured in Scientific American, a leading online science, health, and technology destination with more than 1,700,000 visitors per month. The article...

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• Gym

  - 2008-05-01

  There is safely around the smell of coffee and laughter. And a story so simply told it sounds like our story Like your life, a lie you made up as you went along- Until it stopped working, and then you are the hair Arrested in the shower and won't wash...

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• An appeal for patience and longsuffering by singing teachers in their assessment of the value of voice science

  - 2008-05-01

  RECENTLY MY READINGS IN THIS JOURNAL have led me to conclude that a number of voice pedagogues, eager at first to embrace some scientific concepts in their teaching, are reverting to the "tried and true" methods of old. There is great value in that, but not at the cost of...

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