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Archive > October 2006
Art Deco Blog
Celebrating the Jazz Age (1920s-1930s.) On Wednesdays Art Nouveau, and on Fridays anything goes. Just click on the images to see them in a bigger version on Flickr.
It's the next best thing to a Babel fish
Imagine mouthing a phrase in English, only for the words to come out in Spanish. That is the promise of a device that will make anyone appear bilingual, by translating unvoiced words into synthetic speech in another language.
'Tower of Babel' translator made
A “Tower of Babel” device that gives the illusion of being bilingual is being developed by US scientists. Users simply have to silently mouth a word in their own language for it to be translated and read out in another.
Thanks for the Cheap Gas, Mr. Hitler!
How Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa perfected one of the world's most exciting new fuel sources.
Paying for Sins
The sexual abuse of children has had an expensive and long-lasting impact on the churches that let it happen or tried to cover it up, writes Jill Rowbotham
DEAD BACTERIA WALKING
By all accounts, they shouldn’t exist. But two bacteria are beating the odds, living despite the absence of genes considered to be essential for life.
Paving the Way Out of Poverty
Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize not for giving to the poor, but for helping them to help themselves
