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12.03.09
Missing Links

Happy Birthday, Web!

How the World Wide Web has changed science
By M. Farbman Posted 03.16.2009 at 10:43 am 0 Comments

It's been 20 years this month since Timothy Berners-Lee proposed the Web as a means of organizing information generated at CERN. And if science enabled its creation, the Web has likewise changed science, providing new ways to observe and analyze information.

Also in today's links: self-doping caterpillars, old buzzwords and new buzzwords, and more.

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Root Sorter

Worst Science Jobs II: Number 15
By William Speed Weed Posted 11.11.2004 at 3:00 pm 0 Comments

Take a 20-pound bag of mulch, dump it on a table, and sort its contents by size, down to the half millimeter. This is the mind-numbing task of the root sorter. “We know lots about the ecosystem above the ground,” says Ruth Yanai, a professor

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December 2009: Best of What's New

In our December issue, Popular Science names the 100 best innovations of the year: bombproof wallpaper, self-parking cars, the fastest helicopter, and 97 more. Plus inventor profiles and videos.

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