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Here’s an article about how some theorists at U Penn are thinking about how to make common electronic circuit components on a nanoscale that run on light instead of big, fat electrons. Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have theorized a means of shrinking electronics so they could be run using light instead of electricity. In the search to create ...

The Second Life Relay For Life won the State of Play Design competition. I am so excited for all of the volunteers who worked their tails off to make the event happen.  The recognition only solidifies all of our efforts to expand the event next year and grow it bigger and better. Thank you again to all of the volunteers!

A new company called Scoopt helps ordinary people market their photos to news organizations. A story by Reuters posted on Yahoo News says new Internet businesses aim to get citizen shutterbugs paid for their wares, much of which were eventually splashed across newspaper and Web front pages worldwide following the London bombings. The Reuters story says that "Scoopt, a Web-based ...

The Economist commented on the changing nature of journal publishing. They say journal publishing is a $7 to $11 billion business annually. So idealistic ideas about wide dissemination of knowledge has been stalled by all the publishers with big stakes in controlled distribution. But the people who pay for research–you and me, fellow taxpayer–and nonprofit funders are putting the heat ...