March 2007 Archives

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Can winning a Nobel Prize help you live longer?

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Termites do your head in! They emit poisonous naphthalene gas to keep other insects away from them. The termite toxin can cause headaches and nausea in small doses. The neurotoxin leads to organ failure in extreme cases.

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Liquid electricity may be the car fuel of the future. You can charge the liquid up with power, and then transport it by tanker to a filling station. Cars can empty their discharged liquid and refill with charged up liquid and drive using pollution-free electrical power. Pollution-producing petrol is replaced by elegant electricity.

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The Smart Semen-Triggered Vaginal Microbicidal Vehicle works a little like Vaginal Contraceptive Film, except that it also prevents AIDS.

Solar cells that are 8 times more efficient for half the cost, and lithium batteries to store 4 times more of the power they generate.

If some of your brain works in binary, is it more like a digital computer than we thought?

• Updates
• International and General
• Campaigns and Issues
• Need for Identity? - Need for Privacy?
• Blogs and Commentary
• Australian Government Websites
• Technology Sites
• Business Issues

Updates and developments:

International and General

Privacy legislation applied to businesses is substantially different from privacy legislation for government organisations.

Campaigns and Issues

Need for Identity? - Need for Privacy?

Blogs

Australian Government Websites

Technology Sites

Business Issues

The Australian government's push for an "access" card is supported by a business model which is claimed to justify the billion-dollar expenditure.

Unfortunately, the relevant sections in government publications are inaccessible "for commercial reasons" or are labelled "government in confidence".

At the same time businesses appear to be directly resisting attempts for more open access by shareholders, or - more indirectly - via a shift to "private equity" funding.