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...submit a proposal to a core faculty consortium, although the faculty members making up the consortium have priority of access. “We expect that the Blue Gene system will enable new ways of thinking, generate completely new insights and enable ‘revolutionary’ or breakthrough science compared to the traditional ‘evolutionary’ science possible through use of existing platforms,” Sircar wrote. Funding for the system was provided by the DEAS. Other universities that use the Blue Gene Solution technology include MIT and Boston University, according to the supercomputer...
Mondraty and Sachdev, professor of neuropsychiatry at the University of New South Wales, saw the chance to make a small breakthrough in exploring why it is that the anorexic sees on her frame fat that isn't there. It's a puzzling, highly specific delusion: anorexic women can recognize normal weight in others and identify other anorexics as too thin, but something goes awry when they look at themselves...
That's why Honda is so eager to make the next green breakthrough, spending billions to develop everything from a new form of ethanol production that can utilize the waste parts of plants to a fuel-efficient minijet. But the design that might have the best chance of making an immediate difference is a throwback: Honda's clean diesel car engine. Diesel is the choice of fuel-guzzling 18-wheelers, but it burns as much as 30% more efficiently than gasoline. It's also dirtier. But last month Honda unveiled an engine that uses a new catalytic converter to block...
...subtracted forms, flat surfaces and shallow space. After the Tinkertoy intricacies of Cubism, this was Picasso glancing in the direction of Mondrian, arriving at something close to the railway armatures of hard-edge abstraction. In 1936, after three years of study and effort, Gorky replied with Organization, his own breakthrough into a new understanding of how soft form could coexist with hard...
...nowhere about a “shotgun surprise,” the raw impact is replaced with a soft shot of the singer looking introspective—as if there was anything subtle or sensitive or in the least bit unmanly about the song. Weezy’s breakthrough “oh snap, he’s still going” Public Enemy-style final verse is accompanied by a “humorous” interlude involving a pizza deliveryman. It’s a surprise that they didn’t put in a laugh track...