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Technology isn't just stealing evolution's methods and embedding them in software. Companies are poking and prodding the fundamentals of the physical world. They are slinking down from the micron scale (one-millionth of a meter) to what is known as the nano scale, inhabited by devices that are less than 100 nanometers wide, or less than one-thousandth the width of a human hair...
...with actors who just came from rehearsal or a group of teammates returning from practice. It becomes impossible to follow the conversation, as the inside jokes within the cast are told for the 25th time or the guys are airing the same old complaints about the coach for the millionth time...
...advice columns knows the only thing more inane than the dilemmas people pose are the answers they get back. What passes for social wisdom is often either anachronistic blather written by columnists who remember the lindy hop; oversexed silliness pushed by magazines headlined "Your Best Orgasm Ever!"--for the millionth issue in a row; or wishy-washy New-Ageisms...
...PREGNANT PAUSE: PW reports that Workman has just delivered the 10-millionth copy of the 17-year- old best-selling book, "What to Expect When You?re Expecting." According to USA Today, 93% of expectant mothers who read pregnancy books read the iconic work...
That turns out to be enormously important. Knowing the characteristic sizes and also the temperatures, to a millionth of a degree, of these warm and cool regions gives theoretical physicists all sorts of information about the newborn cosmos. They were already pretty sure, from the equations of nuclear physics and from measurements of the relative amounts of hydrogen, helium and lithium in the universe, that protons, neutrons and electrons (the building blocks of every atom in the cosmos) add up to only about 5% of the so-called critical density--what it would take to bring the cosmic expansion essentially...