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The Year in Technology

Posted by michael on from the year-end-filler dept.

bedessen writes "It's that time again, when we look back on the year in summary. New Scientist has an article "2002, The Year in Technology", as well as "The Year in Medicine and Biology." Popular Science brings us "The 15th Annual Best of What's New.""

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  1. Coolest one by core+plexus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "The endlessly versatile carbon nanotube was then shown also to have an explosive side in April. A laboratory accident revealed that a bundle of carbon nanotubes will explode when exposed to an ordinary camera flash." Just in time for New Years!

  2. Re:I am surprised! by Decimal · · Score: 4, Funny

    So that's why we don't WANT 1 to be a prime.

    I don't want 11 to be prime, either. Would you mind doing some of that math work and fixing this, please?

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  3. Re:Cloning #1 of course by Mononoke · · Score: 4, Funny
    That might be #1 for this decade, yes?
    And #2, and #3, and #4, and #5.

    And #8.

    Cloning's not perfect yet.

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  4. mod parent DOWN by $carab · · Score: 4, Informative

    Youve got to be kidding me. This comment should not have been modded up in the first place.

    The message text is at:
    http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/58723.htm l

    I remember having a distinctly similar conversation with my third grade teacher when we learned about things like long division and prime numbers.