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Friday, August 20, 2004

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Homeland Security 101 (Making the Grade 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/school/0,1383,64608,00.html/wn_ascii
As college students return to campus this month, they'll have their
pick of courses tied to homeland security. Options range from a brief
history of Islamic jihad to instruction in how to design buildings that
can withstand acts of terrorism. By Michael Myser.
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Cloning Kerry's Friend or Foe? (Med-Tech Center 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,64603,00.html/wn_ascii
Presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry favors therapeutic cloning. If
that sounds shocking, the Republicans don't seem to mind. By Kristen
Philipkoski.
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Scientists Stumble Upon New Bird (Technology Tuesday)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64615,00.html/wn_ascii
Locals call them 'piding,' but researchers say the brown, flightless
birds with the distinctive orange-red bills may be entirely unknown to
science.
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When a Bridge Becomes a Lifeline (Technology 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64613,00.html/wn_ascii
Fifteen years after an earthquake damaged San Francisco's Bay Bridge,
engineers are attempting to replace it with a stronger span. The
project is said to be the most ambitious in state history. Part 1 of 2.
By Amit Asaravala.
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Finding Nemo by Microchip (Technology 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64626,00.html/wn_ascii
Armed with tagging devices and satellite tracking, marine scientists
follow hundreds of sea animals around the Pacific Ocean, monitoring
everything from location and depth to speed and water temperature. By
Randy Dotinga.
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Campaign Game Mimics Real Life (Joystick 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/games/0,2101,64625,00.html/wn_ascii
A new simulated election game that lets you play campaign manager to a
presidential candidate is both thrillingly and disturbingly similar to
real-world politics. A review by Jason Silverman.
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Stem Cells Rise in Public Opinion (Med-Tech Center Wednesday)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,64631,00.html/wn_ascii
More Americans know about stem cell research, and more approve of it
this year than in 2001, according to a new Harris Poll. By Kristen
Philipkoski.
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Why I Publish This Blog:

"One thing that many people do not realize is that states like Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana,
and Michigan are sitting on a gold mine of wind energy potential. Or, more properly, next to the mine.
The Great Lakes are probably the area in the USA with the third largest inland wind energy potential.
Think of just the nickname for Chicago. "The Windy City". Milwaukee is even windier, I can tell you.
Why? Because they sit on the edge of a great flat area where there is both a land-water temperature
differential, and a large flat expanse of water that is comparably shallow.
Oilrigs certainly operate in deeper waters. And you won't have to construct transmission lines all the
way from the plains of Montana to put it to use.

The Great Lakes area has an opportunity to get the jump on wind energy's future, if that fact is
recognized and exploited. Wind energy means jobs for construction and maintenance workers, thousands
of them. Wind energy means leasing rights and extra money for family farmers struggling to make it on
agriculture alone. In most cases farmers can grow crops right up to the base of a windmill. The land
footprint has a small impact on total farm acreage. Wind energy also means freedom from fluctuating
fuel prices. Wind is free. The cost of a barrel of polluting oil can be raised or lowered drastically
based on fears or political whims. The potential gains are enormous. We've all seen the flow of good
manufacturing jobs out of the area. Well, they can't tell the wind to blow in another country so it's
more "convenient" or cheaper to produce. The wind is perfectly happy to whip up opportunities for us
right around here. Most of all, because we here in the Great Lakes region have the potential to have
a huge positive impact on U.S. energy industry emissions' contribution to global warming."