Word: chipping
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Spitzer and his colleagues were happy enough to give up the word masochism, but seemed stunned by the determination to chip away at the concept behind it. The feminists seemed surprised and indignant that the meeting descended into the usual picturesque result of successful lobbying: a bit of old-fashioned horse trading. "At one point they offered us a deal," said Walker. "If we backed off on masochism, they would create a sadistic disorder to cover wife beaters." No deal. The group began to discuss a supposed hallmark of masochism, the willingness to endure pain. "Oh, you mean, like early...
...true believers and the naysayers are many who regard SDI as a strategy that has yanked the Soviets back to the bargaining table by exploiting their greatest fear: that Uncle Sam will pull a technological rabbit out of his top hat. Some see Star Wars as the ultimate bargaining chip, to be traded away for sizable reductions in offensive weapons. Others want to take the cautious path of continuing research to see if a space shield is feasible before deciding whether to build it or negotiate with...
...links to cool, odd and interesting things happening online and off-like the bit about the engineering student who cobbled together an air conditioner using a fan and a bucket of ice water, and the Florida couple who found the image of Jesus on a Lay's potato chip. Gadget news, kitsch, digital art and disturbing consumer trends are all fair game for the Boing Boing team, which solicits, and vets, suggestions from the audience...
...bottom line is that better health care may not happen in the U.S. without better health-care information technology. Sooner or later all of us will probably be carrying around our medical history in a key-ring device or an ATM-type card or maybe even a surgically implanted chip. The benefits could be extraordinary. IBM sees opportunities to apply massive computing power to help doctors make diagnoses and treatment decisions. New standard practices could be communicated to doctors within months rather than 15 years, the current lag between discovery and practice. Pharmaceutical companies with access to anonymous health data...
...Beijing Genomics Institute researchers have decoded the rice genome and worked to find a cure for SARS. CapitalBio has already shown it also plays on the world stage. Awarded the contract to test athletes for banned substances at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, CapitalBio has designed a new chip that can screen as many as 10,000 samples a day (compared with just a few hundred under current methods). The scientific journal Nature Methods has hailed that as "a first step [toward] the advent of systematic, reliable screening for every athlete...