1. Are there likely to be new practical uses for gold discovered in the coming years?
Almost certainly. There is a very active network of university researchers studying the advanced scientific properties of gold, actively supported by the gold mining industry. The last international gathering of these researchers attracted over 250 delegates from around the world, see www.gold2006.org for more details.
Scientists are looking at how gold can be used effectively for a diverse range of new applications including advanced electronics, fuel cells, cancer treatments, and chemical catalysts. In the last 10 years over 39,000 patent applications were published relating to the technical use of gold in practical applications, so new uses for gold will soon emerge based on these patented technologies.
2. Can the gold used in industrial applications be recycled?
Yes, there is no technical reason why gold used in industrial applications cannot be recycled and re-used. Gold can be reprocessed Read the entire… »
Charlie Rose, an American television interviewer and journalist who has hosted an interview show named Charlie Rose since 1991, had an hour-long conversation with CEO Eric Schmidt last Thursday.
Highlighted parts of the conversation are below. Some more considerable sections are written in bold letters and colored with red:
Charlie Rose:
Let’s just go back and do a quick history of Google. 1995, Sergey and Larry started, and they build this search engine working at Stanford. How did they get you involved in 2001?
Eric Schmidt:
Well, Larry and Sergey invented the algorithms, the lessons, if you will, the way our search works today when they were very young and in graduate school. And they founded Google and eventually needed some additional management help, Read the entire… »
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Scientists have identified new rifts on an Antarctic ice shelf that could lead to it breaking away from the Antarctic Peninsula, the European Space Agency 1 said.
The Wilkins Ice Shelf 2, a large sheet of floating ice south of South America, is connected to two Antarctic islands by a strip of ice. That ice “bridge” has lost about 2,000 square kilometers (about 772 square miles) this year, the ESA said.
A satellite image captured November 26 shows new rifts on the ice shelf that make it dangerously close to breaking away from the strip of ice — and the islands to which it’s connected, the ESA said.
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This is our first article of Annotations: series. In this series, we will combine our gathered information from respected world-wide websites such as Wikipedia, Reuters, CNN etc. to provide footnotes for a news. In Brief, we take one news article, and combine it with profile, location and definition informations. Main idea of this project is the reality that everyone has time to read one article to fully understand a matter, but nobody has time to read 10 articles successively.
(This article is a combination of 8 Wikipedia articles, 1 Reuters news and 2 external information source.)
On November 21, 2008, it was reported President-elect Barack Obama will nominate Geithner to be Treasury Secretary:
“President-elect Barack Obama on Friday moved toward nominating Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary and charging the respected head of the New York Federal Reserve with helping pull the United States out of an economic nosedive.” - Reuters.
U.S. stocks soared on the Geithner news, pushing major indices up more than 6 percent. The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 8,000. Read the entire… »
The most popular mobile phone of recent years is of course iPhone. With the brand-new iPhone 3G, Apple kept presenting easy-to-use products. Some tricks and extra specialities help us to utilize and enjoy this computer-phone combo actively. So let’s see 15 iPhone tricks you probably do not know:
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Press the top bar to scroll up to top of the page in Safari. Read the entire… »
