An Iowa State physicist has come up with a new formula that predicts which baseball teams will be winners.

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Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher says he would have “no problem” leaving Anfield to join another club.

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A team of scientists at MIT have discovered a previously unknown phenomenon that can cause powerful waves of energy to shoot through minuscule wires known as carbon nanotubes. The discovery could lead to a new way of producing electricity, the researchers say.

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An anonymous reader writes “The Globe & Mail has an article written in response to a recent study done by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard about how far behind the rest of the world the US and Canada are with regard to broadband internet. The refutation basically tears apart Harvard’s analysis and shows why the US and Canada are actually far ahead of most European countries. ‘Canada has a true broadband penetration rate of close (more…)

storagedude writes “This article discusses using solid state disks in enterprise storage networks. A couple of problems noted by the author: wear leveling can eat up most of a drive’s bandwidth and make write performance no faster than a hard drive, and using SSDs with RAID controllers brings up its own set of problems. ‘Even the highest-performance RAID controllers today cannot support the IOPS of just three of the fastest SSDs. I am not talking (more…)