Grip Minus Grime: Consider the Gecko
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A gecko's feet, scientists have discovered, contain a self-cleaning adhesive.
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Plastic, grooved tips let drumsticks last longer yet ring true.
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Felix Geisendorfer is in the process of moving his blog from Wordpress to a customized "light-weight CakePHP replacement" he's developing to be extended later on. His post shares some of the tips he found so far.   In this post I'm simply going to throw out some snippets to show how I'm currently approaching the whole process in order to give both my insight into what works and what doesn't, while also hoping to get some people to share their insight into migrating legacy apps to CakePHP.   The tip in this post is primarily about the database side of things - his porting over of the information from the Wordpress table model to his new customized schema. His code example for the migration is included.
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By Pickett, Tim; Sonstegard, Jill; Bonkoski, Bill  Biologically treating scrubber wastewater can be an attractive alternative to physical-chemical treatment.
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This is one cleaning that could pass anybody's white-glove test. A high-tech dust rag developed by a research chemist at a nuclear weapons plant can pick up potentially deadly beryllium particles that are 20 times smaller than what can be seen with the naked eye. Its inventor, Ron Simandl, says it could be used to mop up industrial accidents or wipe down semiconductor "clean rooms."
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Scientists discover how the skin of the fingertips protects itself against a common bug that causes diarrhoea.
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Is it possible to outrun evolution? Two new lizard-behavior studies look at why it's not always just the fittest that survive.
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Scientists draw inspiration from the lizard to develop a waterproof adhesive bandage for surgical wounds.
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For an easy-to-make adhesive inspired by mussels, possible applications abound.
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The problem with building glass skyscrapers? Someone's got to clean them. We strapped ourselves into a cradle, with a bucket and cloth and got washing
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A naturally occurring hunk of magnetite in human noses helps people make their way in the world. In Bodyhack.
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Predictions from a neural network could make characters' movements less jerky.
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Tony Bibbs takes a look at an increasingly popular bit of functionality in PHP5, the SOAP extension, and notes that it still has a "ways to go".   In my latest round of web services work in PHP5 I was creating a PHP5 client that interacts with our Java-based ERP. The client needs to be a combination of a couple of WSDL's into one, nice, compact and powerful client. It should be noted this client will be distributed via the State of Iowa PEAR channel so it will undoubted by used by other project in our organization and throughout state government so the result needs to have a lot more fit-and-finish than would be typical.   He mentions his expectations for PHP's usage of the protocol, including the automatic generation of variables/methods/etc to help the developer use the remote application easier.
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By Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 10--Steve Theis says he didn't give much thought to spiny water fleas until a couple of weeks ago.
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Doctors and nurses on the go often skip soap and water in favor of an alcohol-based hand gel, thinking the quick-acting goo will kill bacteria on their hands and curb the spread of infection.
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Try these (slightly) more palatable tactics.
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By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Sep.