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         <title>Online Lectures on Superconductivity</title>
         <description><![CDATA[This series of lectures is provided by Cambridge University's Applied Superconductivity and Cryoscience Group. They feature contributions from leading world experts in academia and industry and are available free of charge. 
As the project continues, there are plans to add supporting text, questions, and links to further reading for each lecture. Each lecture includes several chapters, each with an accompanying video. In addition to the video lectures, the site includes links to other related educational resources, an image gallery, and a bibliography of papers and publications related to the lectures.
<a href="http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/ascg/lectures/">Visit the site for more information.</a>]]></description>
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         <title>The Green Design Institute</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Located at Carnegie Mellon, the Green Design Institute is a "major interdisciplinary education and research effort to make an impact on environmental quality through green design." The primary goal of the Institute is to form partnerships with industry, government, and other foundations in order to develop processes that "can improve environmental quality and product quality while enhancing economic development." 
Visitors to the site may wish to begin by reading the "About Us" section to learn a bit more about the Institute.  Perhaps the most useful section of the site can be found by clicking on "Education" where courses and course materials on environmental issues are available. 

<a href="http://gdi.ce.cmu.edu/">Visit the site.</a>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:30:44 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Finer Lines For Microchips</title>
         <description><![CDATA[MIT researchers have achieved a significant advance in nanoscale lithographic technology. Their new 25 nm technique could pave the way for next-generation computer memory and integrated-circuit chips, as well as advanced solar cells and other devices.

Read more at <a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/nanochips-0708.html">MIT News</a>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:32:31 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Best-Building Practices for High Wind Regions</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Professor Rima Taher, a civil/structural engineer, teaches at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and New Jersey School of Architecture.  She says building design and construction can be significantly improved to reduce wind pressures on building surfaces and to help better resist high winds and hurricanes in residential or commercial construction.
Read more about her ideas at <a href="http://www.njit.edu/news/2008/2008-266.php">NJIT News</a>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:27:06 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Flat-screen TVs is worsening climate change</title>
         <description><![CDATA[If you didn't feel guilty about your TV habits already, here's a new reason: a chemical used in making flat-screen televisions has been found to be a potent greenhouse gas, 17,000 times stronger than carbon dioxide. In a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, atmospheric chemist Michael Prather called nitrogen trifluoride, or NF3, "the missing greenhouse gas," and warned that the climate could suffer as the chemical is produced in ever greater amounts to meet soaring demand for LCD displays. If all of the NF3 produced in 2008 were released into the atmosphere, it would have as much warming effect as 67 million metric tons of carbon dioxide.  NF3 isn't covered by the Kyoto Protocol because it was only being produced in tiny amounts in 1997 when the treaty was negotiated. Ironically, NF3 was developed as an alternative to perfluorocarbons, greenhouse gases that are governed by Kyoto.

Read more about it at <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-9983744-54.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5%20">CNET News</a>
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         <link>http://www.stanford.edu/group/eng/blog/2008/07/flatscreen_tvs_is_worsening_cl.html</link>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:17:21 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Voice Controlled Mouse</title>
         <description><![CDATA[University of Washington developers are working on vocal joystick software that can direct a mouse pointer on a computer screen, making for a hands-free voice controlled mouse. Check it out in this s<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2008/0205-hands_free_computer_mouse.htm">hort article and accompanying video</a> in Science Daily.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:06:11 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Improv for Business</title>
         <description><![CDATA[In this manifesto from <a href="http://blog.changethis.com/changethis_newsletter/">Change This</a> about applying performance improvisation skills in the business world, author Randy Sabourin incorporates short commentaries from the music and sports worlds among others to support his assertion that improvisation is a cutting edge competitive advantage in business. <a href="http://changethis.com/pdf/47.05.BusinessImprovisation.pdf">Business Improvisation: The Diving Catch of the Corporate World</a>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:33:28 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Climbing Stairs to Generate Electric Power</title>
         <description><![CDATA[In Britain, a forward-thinking consultant has proposed installing generators under the stairs of a harbor viewing platform. The generators would collect the energy from heel strikes made on the stairs by those ascending to and descending from the platform to create electric power. If the idea works, it's off to other public places such as shopping centers and rail stations. The full story is <a href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/06/19/spinnaker-tower-stairs-to-generate-electricity/">here</a>.

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         <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:14:42 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>&apos;Nanoassemblies&apos; That Sense Their Environment</title>
         <description><![CDATA[In the new study, Pulickel M. Ajayan and colleagues in Texas point out that rice grain sized nanoassemblies are a step toward the development of futuristic nanomachines with practical applications in delivering medicines to patients, labs-on-a-chip, and other products.  The study, scheduled for the July 9 issue of ACS's Nano Letters, describes the development of a hybrid nanowire consisting of segments with water-repelling carbon nanotubes on one end and water-attracting metal nanowires on the other.  Read more at <a href="http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/nalefd/asap/abs/nl080407i.html">ASAP Nano Letters</a>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:38:33 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Wings of glass</title>
         <description><![CDATA[For more than 50 years most scientists have tried to understand just what glass is.  Dr Paddy Royall from the University of Bristol, with colleagues in Canberra and Tokyo, have revealed in an article in the June 22, issue of Nature Materials, that glass 'fails' to be a solid due to the special atomic structures that form in a glass when it cools.  Knowing the structure formed by atoms as a glass cools represents a major breakthrough in our understanding of meta-stable materials and will allow further development of new materials such as metallic glasses which could be suitable for a whole range of products that need to be flexible such as aircraft wings, golf clubs and engine parts.  Read more at <a href="http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2008/212017945385.html">Bristol University News</a>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:32:28 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Solar Textiles</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Sheila Kennedy, at MIT, creates designs for flexible photovoltaic materials that may change the way buildings receive and distribute energy.  Kennedy uses 3-D modeling software to design with solar textiles, generating membrane-like surfaces that can become energy-efficient cladding for roofs or walls. Solar textiles may also be draped like curtains.  A recent project, "Soft House," exhibited at the Vitra Design Museum in Essen, Germany, illustrates what Kennedy means when she says the boundaries between walls and utilities are changing.
Read more at <a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/solar-textiles-0609.html">MIT News</a>]]></description>
         <link>http://www.stanford.edu/group/eng/blog/2008/06/solar_textiles.html</link>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:29:05 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Chic Geeks</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Nerdy engineers. Beautiful women. Mutually exclusive groups of people? Not necessarily! Read about how some smart, creative, fun and very attractive women engineers are making their mark on technology. <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/140457">More </a>]]></description>
         <link>http://www.stanford.edu/group/eng/blog/2008/06/chic_geeks.html</link>
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                  <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Women in Technology</category>
        
        
         <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:45:59 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Nanotubes Used to Detect Deadly Gas</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Using carbon nanotubes, MIT chemical engineers have built the most sensitive electronic detector yet for sensing deadly gases such as the nerve agent sarin. The tiny super-sensitive detectors use  very little power. <a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/nanotube-0605.html">More</a>]]></description>
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                  <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Nanotechnology</category>
        
        
         <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:17:32 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Wireless HDTV connection kit</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The company best known for producing high-end audio and video cables may have to change its name to Monster Cable & Wireless. The company today unveiled a pair of boxes -- a transmitter and a receiver -- that allow HD video signals to travel wirelessly up to 30 feet between the devices via ultrawideband technology.  Read more at <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/wireless/2008-06-12-monster-wireless-hd-kit_N.htm">USA Today</a>.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.stanford.edu/group/eng/blog/2008/06/wireless_hdtv_connection_kit.html</link>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:29:37 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>New slim, streamlined plasma TVs</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Japanese manufacturer Shinoda Plasma Co. will demonstrate for the first time in the U.S. next week its 125-inch, curved-screen "Shipla Wall" television. The superslim TV uses plasma tube arrays, allowing for a superior picture and a tenth of the weight of a regular plasma TV.  Read more at <a href="http://www.electronichouse.com/article/super_slim_curved_display_uses_plasma_technology/">Electronic House</a>.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.stanford.edu/group/eng/blog/2008/06/new_slim_streamlined_plasma_tv.html</link>
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                  <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Innovation</category>
        
        
         <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:26:11 -0800</pubDate>
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