Voice of Amarillo 940 » Science and Technology http://voiceofamarillo.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:24:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Why Don't We Have Faster-Than-Light Travel Yet? http://voiceofamarillo.com/why-dont-we-have-faster-than-light-travel-yet/ http://voiceofamarillo.com/why-dont-we-have-faster-than-light-travel-yet/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:00:13 +0000 Mike Adams http://guyspeed.com/?p=98168 Traveling faster than the speed of light is a popular concept in the world of most science fiction, but still very much fiction. So why is it that with all of the technological advancements that actual science has made over the last century is faster-than-light travel nowhere within our reach?

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]]> http://voiceofamarillo.com/why-dont-we-have-faster-than-light-travel-yet/feed/ 0 Zoonar Scientists Discover Gene Responsible for Binge Drinking http://voiceofamarillo.com/scientists-discover-gene-responsible-for-binge-drinking/ http://voiceofamarillo.com/scientists-discover-gene-responsible-for-binge-drinking/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:30:46 +0000 Donald Deane http://guyspeed.com/?p=85893 We've always thought that binge drinking was just part of being a dumb teenager, but scientists say they've recently discovered a gene which could account for the risky behavior.

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]]> http://voiceofamarillo.com/scientists-discover-gene-responsible-for-binge-drinking/feed/ 0 Matt Cardy, Getty Images Beer Muscles Are a Real Thing Now, Says Science http://voiceofamarillo.com/beer-muscles-are-a-real-thing-now-says-science/ http://voiceofamarillo.com/beer-muscles-are-a-real-thing-now-says-science/#comments Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:00:57 +0000 Mike Adams http://tsminteractive.com/?p=143955 There have been countless naysayers throughout the years guilty of spewing out health-nut, anti-beer propaganda in hopes of convincing a society of two-fisted boozehounds that a drinker’s lifestyle is detrimental to his health.

However, an ambitious and heroic team of Japanese scientists has recently concluded that all of that “beer is bad for you” business is for feeble-bodied weaklings, as their research indicates that a steady regimen of good old-fashioned beer drinking can actually keep muscles strong.

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]]> http://voiceofamarillo.com/beer-muscles-are-a-real-thing-now-says-science/feed/ 0 Alexandra Beier, Getty Images New Research Reveals 'Central Link' Between Computer Use and Mental Disorders http://voiceofamarillo.com/link-computer-use-mental-disorders/ http://voiceofamarillo.com/link-computer-use-mental-disorders/#comments Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:45:40 +0000 Camilla Turner http://tsminteractive.com/?p=122957 Facebook, Twitter and Skype users, be warned. New research has found a “central link” between mental health disorders and intensive computer use.

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]]> http://voiceofamarillo.com/link-computer-use-mental-disorders/feed/ 0 Thinkstock Science May Have Finally Found a Cure for the Hangover http://voiceofamarillo.com/scientific-hangover-cure/ http://voiceofamarillo.com/scientific-hangover-cure/#comments Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:39:59 +0000 Kyle Dowling http://thefw.com/?p=134476 Thanks to some of the best minds of our time, we’re finally being given concrete tips that will help us get over those horrid headaches we experience after a night of partying.

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]]> http://voiceofamarillo.com/scientific-hangover-cure/feed/ 0 YouTube National Geographic Plans to Transmit Tweets into Space http://voiceofamarillo.com/tweets-in-space/ http://voiceofamarillo.com/tweets-in-space/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:15:43 +0000 Don Deane http://thefw.com/?p=133992 As a way to promote its show ‘Chasing UFOs’ and potentially impress aliens with our highly-advanced Twitter technology, the National Geographic Channel will broadcast tweets into the deepest recesses of space this coming August.

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]]> http://voiceofamarillo.com/tweets-in-space/feed/ 0 Getty Study: Facebook Users Access Site Through Smartphones More Than Computers http://voiceofamarillo.com/facebook-smartphones-computers/ http://voiceofamarillo.com/facebook-smartphones-computers/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 13:49:32 +0000 Danny Gallagher http://tsminteractive.com/?p=97754 Some of the world’s smallest computers now make up a big part of Facebook’s traffic.

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]]> http://voiceofamarillo.com/facebook-smartphones-computers/feed/ 0 Justin Sullivan, Getty Images Has the Internet Had a Positive Effect On Culture? — Survey of the Day http://voiceofamarillo.com/has-the-internet-had-a-positive-effect-on-culture-survey-of-the-day/ http://voiceofamarillo.com/has-the-internet-had-a-positive-effect-on-culture-survey-of-the-day/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 12:36:13 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://tsminteractive.com/?p=96390 If you are reading this, you are on the internet. The World Wide Web went commercial about 1990, and over the last couple decades it’s come to completely change the way we communicate and get information.

But is it a change for the better?

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]]> http://voiceofamarillo.com/has-the-internet-had-a-positive-effect-on-culture-survey-of-the-day/feed/ 0 yum9me, Flickr Take Facebook Offline Until They Get Rid Of The Child Pornography http://voiceofamarillo.com/take-facebook-offline-until-they-get-rid-of-the-child-pornography/ http://voiceofamarillo.com/take-facebook-offline-until-they-get-rid-of-the-child-pornography/#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 20:03:24 +0000 James G http://voiceofamarillo.com/?p=97636 It's time to take Facebook off the internet.  They've got a very disturbing problem and they don't seem to mind.  I had presumed that Facebook was rife with pedophiles.  Most social networking sites are.  What if you knew photos are readily available of naked children, being raped, sodomized and worse all over Facebook?  They are and Zuckerberg seem to be doing little about it.

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]]> http://voiceofamarillo.com/take-facebook-offline-until-they-get-rid-of-the-child-pornography/feed/ 0 Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Reports: Spammers Flooded Cell Phones with a Staggering 4.5 Billion Texts in 2011 http://voiceofamarillo.com/spammers-cell-phones-4-5-billion-texts/ http://voiceofamarillo.com/spammers-cell-phones-4-5-billion-texts/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 12:17:22 +0000 Danny Gallagher http://tsminteractive.com/?p=94988 There are few things more frustrating than learning that some spammer has wasted a few megabytes of your data plan with advertisements for male enhancement pills or cash for gold schemes.

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]]> http://voiceofamarillo.com/spammers-cell-phones-4-5-billion-texts/feed/ 0 George Frey, Getty Images Could Your Social Media Profiles Cost You a Job? http://voiceofamarillo.com/could-your-social-media-profiles-cost-you-a-job/ http://voiceofamarillo.com/could-your-social-media-profiles-cost-you-a-job/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:11:28 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=90751 A new CareerBuilder survey of 2,300 hiring managers and human resource professionals shores up the warnings many experts give job-seekers about social media — namely, what you post could wind up costing you a position.

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]]> http://voiceofamarillo.com/could-your-social-media-profiles-cost-you-a-job/feed/ 0 Justin Sullivan, Getty Images 10-Year-Old Boy Designs Video Game for His Blind Grandmother http://voiceofamarillo.com/boy-designs-video-game-for-grandmother/ http://voiceofamarillo.com/boy-designs-video-game-for-grandmother/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:09:24 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://thefw.com/?p=117401 10-year-old Dylan Viale has a very close relationship with his grandmother Sherry, who is blind. The two walk dogs and go to the movies together, and recently went to a Lego event where they helped build a giant Lego Yoda.

But because of her vision impairment, Dylan wasn’t able to share with his grandmother his love of video games. So the fifth-grader at Hidden Valley Elementary in Martinez, CA, did something about that — he developed a video game which blind and sighted people can play together.

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]]> http://voiceofamarillo.com/boy-designs-video-game-for-grandmother/feed/ 0 Patch What's Your Favorite Tech Brand? — Survey of the Day http://voiceofamarillo.com/whats-your-favorite-tech-brand-survey-of-the-day/ http://voiceofamarillo.com/whats-your-favorite-tech-brand-survey-of-the-day/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:10:21 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://tsminteractive.com/?p=87705 When it comes to tech brands, which company is king?

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]]> http://voiceofamarillo.com/whats-your-favorite-tech-brand-survey-of-the-day/feed/ 0 Google/Facebook/Twitter/David Paul Morris, Getty Images More Than Half A Million Mac Computers Worldwide Infected With Malware, Some In Amarillo http://voiceofamarillo.com/more-than-half-a-million-mac-computers-worldwide-infected-with-malware-some-in-amarillo/ http://voiceofamarillo.com/more-than-half-a-million-mac-computers-worldwide-infected-with-malware-some-in-amarillo/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:13:44 +0000 James G http://voiceofamarillo.com/?p=90475 Troubling news for Apple users locally and worldwide.  Apple products are usually seen as impervious to malware and viral attacks.  There's a big chick in that armor with news that around 600,000 Macs have malware installed worldwide.

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]]> http://voiceofamarillo.com/more-than-half-a-million-mac-computers-worldwide-infected-with-malware-some-in-amarillo/feed/ 0 Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Baby Rescued From Well Thanks to iPhone http://voiceofamarillo.com/baby-rescued-with-iphone/ http://voiceofamarillo.com/baby-rescued-with-iphone/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:45:52 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://thefw.com/?p=114065 Two-year-old stuck in a well? There’s an app for that.

Rescue workers in Mengzi City, China had the daunting task of freeing a toddler who had fallen into a 40-foot well. While they could hear the boy’s cries, they couldn’t really see him. This posed a problem when he kept slipping out of the adult-sized harness they had sent down the shaft.

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]]> http://voiceofamarillo.com/baby-rescued-with-iphone/feed/ 0 YouTube Legos! Tinkertoys! Lincoln Logs! Oh My! Build With All These Sets And More Together With Adaptor Blocks http://voiceofamarillo.com/legos-tinkertoys-lincoln-logs-oh-my-build-with-all-these-sets-and-more-together-with-adaptor-blocks/ http://voiceofamarillo.com/legos-tinkertoys-lincoln-logs-oh-my-build-with-all-these-sets-and-more-together-with-adaptor-blocks/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:44:53 +0000 James G http://voiceofamarillo.com/?p=88284 I was a big Lego kid.  Cash value of all the Legos I had was in the thousands of dollars.  I also spent a lot of time with Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys.  But I never got to play with them together.  Now it is possible.

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]]> http://voiceofamarillo.com/legos-tinkertoys-lincoln-logs-oh-my-build-with-all-these-sets-and-more-together-with-adaptor-blocks/feed/ 0 Photo by Kent Gavin/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Dutchman Claims Flight In Custom Built 'Bird Wings' In Viral Video http://voiceofamarillo.com/dutchman-claims-flight-in-custom-built-bird-wings-in-viral-video/ http://voiceofamarillo.com/dutchman-claims-flight-in-custom-built-bird-wings-in-viral-video/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:57:00 +0000 James G http://voiceofamarillo.com/?p=86936 As far back as Icarus we've trying to fashion wings like a bird to fly free as they do.  Now an Dutchman engineer has demonstrated proof-of-concept in an amazing video.

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]]> http://voiceofamarillo.com/dutchman-claims-flight-in-custom-built-bird-wings-in-viral-video/feed/ 0 Photo by Scott Halleran/Getty Images Nokia Patents Magnetic Tattoo That Vibrates When You Get A Phone Call http://voiceofamarillo.com/nokia-patents-magnetic-tattoo-that-vibrates-when-you-get-a-phone-call/ http://voiceofamarillo.com/nokia-patents-magnetic-tattoo-that-vibrates-when-you-get-a-phone-call/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:51:50 +0000 James G http://voiceofamarillo.com/?p=86932 I stand proudly un-inked.  I don't fault anybody that is.  I've just never been so committed to something I'd want to brand myself forever.  Not even my daughter or beloved Dallas Cowboys rate that kind of commitment.  But a tattoo cell phone accessory?  I might have to reconsider.

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]]> http://voiceofamarillo.com/nokia-patents-magnetic-tattoo-that-vibrates-when-you-get-a-phone-call/feed/ 0 Photo by Francois Durand/Getty Images For The Dorchester Collection Fashion Prize Albert Einstein's Archives To Be Posted Online For The World To Exploit http://voiceofamarillo.com/albert-einsteins-archives-to-be-posted-online-for-the-world-to-exploit/ http://voiceofamarillo.com/albert-einsteins-archives-to-be-posted-online-for-the-world-to-exploit/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:00:41 +0000 James G http://voiceofamarillo.com/?p=86660 If you are reading a book about physics and it only contains one formula, chances are pretty good it's the ubiquitous E=mc2.  Now that you're comfortable with matter and energy being essentially the same thing it is time to move on to his more esoteric thoughts.

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]]> http://voiceofamarillo.com/albert-einsteins-archives-to-be-posted-online-for-the-world-to-exploit/feed/ 0 Photo by Keystone/Getty Images Illegal File Sharing Site, The Pirate Bay Planning To Fly Unmmaned Server Drones http://voiceofamarillo.com/illegal-file-sharing-site-the-pirate-bay-planning-to-fly-unmmaned-server-drones/ http://voiceofamarillo.com/illegal-file-sharing-site-the-pirate-bay-planning-to-fly-unmmaned-server-drones/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:41:34 +0000 James G http://voiceofamarillo.com/?p=86432 The Pirate Bay is one of the largest BitTorrent sites in the world.  The site allows users to obtain illegal copies of all forms of media.  They are constantly under attack from authorities.  They've found a novel and new way to avoid them.

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]]> http://voiceofamarillo.com/illegal-file-sharing-site-the-pirate-bay-planning-to-fly-unmmaned-server-drones/feed/ 0 Photo Illustration by Sean Gallup/Getty Images