This is another signal for Semantic web being mainstream…
Free-flying cyborg insects steered from a distance
By connecting electrodes and radio antennas to the nervous systems of beetles, the researchers were able to make them take off, dive and turn on command. The cyborg insects were created at the University of California, Berkeley, by engineers led by Hirotaka Sato and Michel Maharbiz as part of a programme funded by the Pentagon’s Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)….
The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out
“Although India possesses only five per cent of the world’s land, it happens to be a superpower of biodiversity…”
In this outlook article, K.Ullas Karanth of Wildlife Conservation Society talks a few fine points.
"A Manhattan-sized chunk of ice is set to slide off an Arctic glacier — and it’s being recorded on film. http://bit.ly/4WQZ0"
"From river deep to mountain high - @NASA releases the most complete topographic map of Earth ever http://sn.im/l8lmx and it’s free!"
An Interview with Jairam Ramesh, Environment Minister by Prerna Singh Bindra.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva yesterday signed the controversial land-grab bill and sent it back to Congress, having vetoed the clause which environmental groups most vigorously opposed (see ‘Encouraging occupations’, below). da Silva decided to reject the part which would have legitimised claims made by people who pay squatters to occupy chunks of the Amazon….
…Nobel says this amendment means the bill is tantamount to a “wholesale legalisation of criminal land grabs in the Amazon” for an area the size of Germany and Italy combined. He adds that the bill will only sustain land grabbing activities.
