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The Least Essential Albums Of 2007 | The A.V. Club "Every year produces great music and a nearly equal amount of terrible music. Then there's the not-so-creamy middle, the albums that have no real reason to exist, but nonetheless find their way to music-store shelves and online music stores." (…
Dawn of the memristor - physicsworld.com "In simple terms, a memristor "remembers" the amount of charge that has flowed through it and as a result changes its resistance. " (tags: physics materials science news) Where are all the women? - The Planetary Society Blog | The Planetary Society Venus…
You may or may not have noticed the absence of the "Links for [Date]" posts the last couple of days. There's been some sort of glitch at del.icio.us, and they didn't auto-post the way they usually do. You may or may not have missed them, but I do, so below the fold you'll find the big long list of…
Southern Baptists Back a Shift on Climate Change - New York Times '[T]he new declaration, which will be released Monday, states, "Our cautious response to these issues in the face of mounting evidence may be seen by the world as uncaring, reckless and ill-informed."' (tags: politics religion…

Gore-Tex valve stem packing also has a large negative Poisson's ratio. You pull on a length of the stuff and it visibly thickens, compress and it thins. It is not a fully connected solid but rather a severely kinked interpenetrating fibril weave at micron scales. When you pull the ends the kinks unfold outward increasing void space.