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New method for creating nanofibers could improve drug delivery methods
news-medical.net, March 1st, 2012
A new method for creating nanofibers made of proteins, developed by researchers at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), promises to greatly improve drug delivery methods for the treatment of cancers, heart disorders and Alzheimer's disease, as well as aid in the regeneration...
Nanofiber Breakthrough Holds Promise for Medicine and Microprocessors
Sciencedaily.com, February 29th, 2012
A new method for creating nanofibers made of proteins, developed by researchers at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), promises to greatly improve drug delivery methods for the treatment of cancers, heart disorders and Alzheimer's disease, as well as aid in the regeneration...
ROBOT SCHOOLS FISH
By Jesse Emspak, Discovery.com, February 28th, 2012
Why stay in school? For fish, the reasons haven't been clear. On the plus side: protection from predators, conserving energy and finding mates. On the down side, though, is the competition for food. To tease out an answer, Maurizio Porfiri, an engineer at the Polytechnic Institute of New York...
Facebook Privacy in Demand: Users Don't Want You Prying
By Bianca Bosker, huffingtonpost.com, February 24th, 2012
Mark Zuckerberg asserted two years ago that privacy had become obsolete. We've entered a new age, he declared, where people are willing to share more, with more people. "People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with...
Ethical Robot Fish
By Omar Fink, Hackingtheuniverse.com, February 23rd, 2012
Researchers at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University have been studying the dynamics of fish schooling behavior and how it can be influenced. Their published results suggest that robotic fish can “steer” a school of fish in a desired direction. Fish by themselves only display...
I Want to be a Scientist
Careergirls.org, February 22nd, 2012
Watch Jin Kim Montclare, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Science at Polytechnic Institute of New York University, share exciting breakthroughs in protein engineering and her enthusiasm for exploring the fascinating intersection where biology, chemistry and engineering meet. We...
More Facebook users are hiding their friends to protect themselves
By Ted Samson, infoworld.com, February 22nd, 2012
Facebook users have become dramatically more protective of not just revealing who they are, but also who they know. Significantly fewer Facebook users make their Friends list public now compared to just a couple of years ago. The trend is driven by the increased attention Facebook has received...
Tax Philanthropists: The Rich Who Give to the Government
By Robert Frank, The Wall Street Journal: The Wealth Report, February 13th, 2012
Warren Buffett says rich people like him should pay more taxes. Senator Mitch McConnell said if Buffett wanted to pay more, all he had to do was “send in a check.” The “send in a check” argument, however, isn’t quite as simple as it seems. As Buffett recently pointed...
Buffett-Rule Charity Flops When Put to Test: Philip Maymin
By Philip Maymin, Bloomberg View, February 13th, 2012
Warren Buffett’s suggestion that the rich should pay more in taxes was greeted in some quarters with the response that he was free to do so at any time. This piqued my curiosity to find out if anyone had done so. It’s not such an outlandish suggestion. Since 1843, the U.S. government...
New website helps ‘Missed Connections’ find each other
By Kate Briquelet, The Brooklyn Paper, February 13th, 2012
Brooklyn’s version of Cupid uses e-mails instead of arrows. Luke DuBois, a digital media whiz at NYU-Poly, has created a website that tries to reunite the lonely hearts using Craigslist’s “Missed Connections” personals by matching descriptive words from their ads. “...
