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Friday, September 26, 2008, 07:00 PM: Truthiness and Agnotology

Does the massive increase in communications technology -- the internet, cell phones, satellite and cable television, internet video like youtube, and so on -- make us more informed? Or does it do the opposite -- spead doubt, confusion, lies, mythology, crackpot conspiracy theories, and the like? Bandwidth will keep increasing and increasing, so what should we expect for the future?

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Biofuels

New Screening Method To Help Find Better Biofuel Crops

Ames Laboratory researcher using Raman imaging to probe plant cell structure chemists plan to use Raman imaging to study plant cell structure to determine which crops offer the right combination of cell wall composition and degradation to maximize the materials' conversion to ethanol. If successful, a simplified version of the test could even be used in the field to determine if plants were at the prime stage for harvest.

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