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Philo Farnsworth

The science behind Gorilla Glass can be found here.

See this article from July, 2016, about such research at Ohio State University.

Someone who's close to the actual research, Moshe Y. Vardi, editor-in-chief since 2008 of the Communications of the ACM, the flagship publication of the Association for Computing Machinery, says it will come in 30 years. See this for some background.

Noted two years ago at another web site.

Somewhat similar device (,in a beaker not floating, lower efficiency and not using a painted copper disk) noted two years ago at another web site.

TFTFY (you are correct in that both devices use sunlight and water).

Noted two years ago at another web site.

Also, anthropology is not a science.

A Century of Earthquake Prediction Possibilities and
Earthquake Prediction.

A Century of Earthquake Prediction Possibilities and
Earthquake Prediction.

Related article: Dearth of Dyson Spheres.

This is quite old news, but here's a link with some scientific information: Diamond Thread.

As discussed in this article, turbines are not required to harvest ocean energy. Some approaches can scale from small to large installations.

Space Weather.

Reports of animals reacting as such go back many years. One notable report was by Claudius Aelianus, who lived around 300 AD. His report (translated here) makes interesting reading.

...from the Tikalon Blog: Slimy Computation, September 15, 2011 and Marco Polo Physarum, October 1, 2012.

...from the Tikalon Blog: Slimy Computation, September 15, 2011 and Marco Polo Physarum, October 1, 2012.

Gravitational Waves.

Seems like an insightful analysis. No real surprise, given the ever present desire corporations have to increase profits. And increasing *profit* from slashdot while maintaining or increasing quality for the current user base would be hard. I would like to see it - the quality around here could really use a boost. But I think a Dilbertesque attempt at sacking the name for short term gains is more likely, possibly followed by a sale of the mangled corpse. Maybe we will read about it on The Daily WTF, assuming they don't suffer the same fate.

... Their current base will migrate away to more geek-friendly websites ...

So, any recommendations? I am yet to find anything that does a good job filling the gap of what slashdot should be.

Some non-replacements, but still worthwhile sites I have found:

* Electoral Vote is a great source for what is happening in US national campaigns. At least, it is when he has something to say (And I don't blame him for not always having something to say - his page must be a tough hobby as is)

* Tikalon is a cool science blog. I recently found it linked from a slashdot comment, and need to read more of it.

* Politico looks like it is worth a look if you want more US politics, but lacks the tech focus of slashdot.

So, where should the lifeboats head as they flee like rats from a sinking slashdot?

Tree Rings, July 30, 2012.

Most likely material is palmitic acid (hexadecanoic acid, CH3(CH2)14CO2H), which has a melting point of 62.8C and an enthalpy of fusion of 209.5 kJ/kg. (see Tikalon Blog). I think it's food grade. so no problems there.

...and it's been around for a while. Some background at Tikalon Blog.

Technical background: Gorilla Glass (Tikalon Blog, August 11, 2010).

Space weather

Just as white noise will mask sounds, there's an equivalent olfactory white.

Some background on antimatter antigravity from the Tikalon blog.

See, for example, this article.

Isotope Forensics, July 8, 2010 Tikalon Blog.

For example, here's some deep background from earlier this year.

WTF is with the insane links to Wikipedia throughout that article? Does he really think that the average person reading that needs immediately accessible definitions for something as common as "disco", "independent musician", and "scientist" ?! Yeesh.

For example, here's some deep background from earlier this year.

Summary of the memristor and this controversy at Memristor Identity Crisis.

Benjamin Franklin, another Founding Father of the US, was quite the technologist. Read more at Tikalon Blog.

Some background material can be found in the article, "Far Side of the Moon."

Short summary of the Top Ten can be found at http://www.tikalon.com/blog/blog.php?article=2011/K_computer.