Looking For a Busy Beaver
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George Uhing researches capabilities of Turing machines. His findings include a five state machine that prints 1,915 ones out of two million moves in his quest for a busy beaver. Uhing used under $100 worth of equipment to make his computer, which ran for about three weeks to test the possibilities automatically.
Publication Name: Science News
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8423
Year: 1985
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Looking for alternatives
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The scientific community is considering the use of harmless benchmarking in conducting experiments, after chemist Karen E. Wetterhahn died of mercury poisoning. Wetterhahn accidentally exposed herself to dimethyl mercury which caused her death a year later.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1997
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Looking for heron
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An amateur naturalist remembers a great blue heron that often visited the salt marsh across his cabin in Vancouver Island. He sought out the bird to observe its behavior and relationship with its environment.
Publication Name: Nature Canada
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0374-9894
Year: 1995
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