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Topics/URLs

 The following is a collection of URLs and other reference information sent to me by SmartNet participants. These topics may or may not have been discussed by the group, but are interesting in any event.

The intent of this page is to provide a clearing house for information and easy access to web sites that may have complicated URL's. I have included a few links of my own to get the list started.

11/19/07  

Medicine: Ham radio operator John K3TUP is working on what may become a powerful new treatment in the fight against cancer:

http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-cancer2nov02,0,4741362.story?coll=la-tot-topstories 

11/26/07

Archeology: Friends of the Hunley - a Web site dedicated to the restoration of and research into the CSS Hunley.

http://www.hunley.org/

Physics: Inertial confinement fusion is an approach to creating a fusion reaction that does not require the "brute force" confinement of hellishly-hot plasmas within magnetic bottles. This line of research, which dates back to equipment built by Philo Farnsworth (of television fame) in the 60's, was inspired by observations made as far back as the 30's. Some regard the offspring of Farnsworth's designs to be the only route to practical electrical power generation through nuclear fusion.

http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/thyd/icf/IFE.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_confinement_fusion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_electrostatic_confinement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnsworth-Hirsch_Fusor

Ham Radio:  Nunz, W4VYD shares his Ten Commandments for Repeater Operation.

12/03/07

Archeology: Israel Says Elusive Biblical Wall Found

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071129/ap_on_sc/israel_jerusalem_dig_1

Medicine: This genetically altered mouse apparently can't get cancer.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/

healthmain.html?in_article_id=496751&in_page_id=1774&ICO=HEALTH&ICL=TOPART

Robotics: Japanese developments in robots are constant and impressive, here is a robot intended as a medical/domestic assistant.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=

2007-11-27T193614Z_01_T285811_RTRUKOC_0_US-JAPAN-ROBOT.xml

Robotics: Meanwhile, American companies like Boston Dynamics build equally amazing machines. Check out this four-legged, headless, robo-mule. Be sure to click on the video links so you can see this thing in action. It's so life-like it's almost creepy.

http://www.bostondynamics.com/content/sec.php?section=BigDog

Engineering: Looks like Terry, KE7GRV, has been studying various types of engines. I recently received this interesting list of links from him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britalus_Rotary_Engine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crower_six_stroke

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trochilic_engine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiturbine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuderi_Split_Cycle_Engine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing-piston_engine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_engine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twingle_engine

(revised 12/03/2007)

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