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Hong Kong scientists claim 'self-charging' graphene battery

Wednesday 21st March 2012 11:12 GMT dit-dit-dit-dah

Re: IANAC but...

Actually they did say pretty much just that.

"the output voltage (Vop) generated by this device loaded a 220 kΩ resistor was around 0.35 V, which could be maintained about 25 days [...] The value dropped to about 40 mV after about one month."

-robin

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Blighty's rocketeers gather for ballistic love-in

Thursday 14th July 2011 10:58 GMT dit-dit-dit-dah

String

Twenty thousand miles of baler twine and we've got the start of the british space elevator project.

Don't give me any of that carbon nanotube nonsense. I grew up on a farm - you can tie *anything* together with baler twine.

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US Spec-Ops offered camouflage for a specific site

Monday 27th June 2011 11:17 GMT dit-dit-dit-dah

I see a business opportunity

For some kind of augmented reality iphone app that highlights parts of the landscape which have a google earth watermark.

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Women's gaydar (for men) improves when ovulating

Thursday 23rd June 2011 18:43 GMT dit-dit-dit-dah

Arguing for the sake of it...

Bleh. It was just a thought.

The research shows that ovulating women can identify gay men from a photo; presumably it's not so they can chase after them to get fashion tips, so I guess you can say they find you less sexually attractive. What do you care?

I still think that what's been shown is not an ability to identify gayness, but just the already known preference that ovulating women have for heavily masculine features associated with status and health.

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Thursday 23rd June 2011 14:50 GMT dit-dit-dit-dah

Causation / Correlation

Only if you assume that women are recognising gay features and rejecting them.

The other alternative is that women are simply rejecting men with features that indicate they're not prime mates and as a consequence, at least a proportion of those rejected men are turning to homosexuality instead.

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