Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days.
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In the U.K., the number of Bachelor of Science degrees in alternative medicine has grown over the past decade, and six institutions actually offer a degree in homeopathy.
Liberal Democrat Lord Taverne, chairman of the organisation Sense About Science, criticised universities offering bachelor of science degree courses in alternative medicines during questions on 21 December 2010.
The filmmakers were so inept in their portrayal of any kind of recognizable reality that their creations became a form of grubby science fiction, documentaries about an alternative planet.
Alan Goldberg, of the Centre for Alternatives to Animal Testing at the Johns Hopkins University School, told Science magazine that although it was not yet an acceptable alternative, it was "a significant advance".
Liberty Reserve, which conducted its transactions in dollars, euros and rubles, operates as an anonymous, no-questions-asked alternative to the global banking system, said Aditya Sood, a computer science doctoral candidate at Michigan State University who has studied the electronic currency.
Support the basic sciences and engineering programme and science policy activities in the cluster countries particularly for post-conflict countries, including practical science education in cooperation with the Education sector, promotion of access and retention of women in science and technology education, and research and development of renewable and alternative energies.
And universities in Asia--indeed, extending all the way to the Arab Gulf and the King Abdullah megaplex for science and technology in Saudi Arabia--are rising to offer an alternative.
Politicians sign up to those policies claiming that they will not hurt, that the technologies needed to make everything all right are available off the shelf, and that there is no real alternative because the decarbonisation policies currently in play are in some way ineluctable consequences of climate science.
It would also be free to innovate and expand into truly promising alternative energy sources, such as nuclear power, which has been hampered by superstition rather than science and by the resulting regulations that have unnecessarily driven up its costs.
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Kemmerer, a professor of computer science at the University of California Santa Barbara, knows too much about New Jersey's alternative: the embattled Sequoia touchscreen voting systems used throughout the state.
With the boom in global demand for alternative-fueled vehicles, now may be a good time to break out your Periodic Table of Elements from science class.
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