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| Notice: GeekPress is back up and running, thanks to Paul! It's still a not-so-serious tech news blog, but the format is significantly looser. Diana, having given up programming for philosophy, has her own philosophical blog NoodleFood. More of her work can be found at DianaHsieh.com. |
| Negative heat capacity |
| 1:44:36 am mst / 14 February 2001 found by paul / filed in science / source Physics News Update 113 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| German physicists have created clusters of sodium atoms with the peculiar property that increasing the temperature causes their internal energy to decrease (or in reverse, adding energy causes their temperature to drop). The article notes that, "this may sound counter-intuitive, but is in agreement with theory, and no law of thermodynamics is violated." |
| I wish I could find an economic analogue, where spending more money causes my bank balance to go up... |
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| The science of love |
| 7:29:20 pm mst / 14 February 2001 found by paul / filed in science / source ABC News 83 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Scientists have discovered the anatomic and neurophysiological changes seen in peopling experiencing the intense rush of new love, and they are very similar to brain changes seen in drug addicts. |
| Favorite quote: "What else could explain the way you constantly think about a person, about the way you want to read them your bad poetry?" |
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| Power-sucking vampires |
| 7:35:21 pm mst / 14 February 2001 found by diana / filed in hardware / source ZDNet 66 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Stephan Somogyi investigates the power consumption of all manner of electricity-hungry machines, from hard disks to tape drives. Given the California power crisis, he argues that perhaps it's time for consumers to start creating demand for power-saving features. |
| I might be willing to go without heat due to the electricity crisis, but there's no way that I'm shutting down any of my Linux boxes! |
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