- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 42 minutes agoSome patients in vegetative states are showing signs of consciousness.
- posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoWho owns a meteorite? Well, it depends on who you ask. Scientists, hobbyists, governments, quacks, museum curators and unscrupulous scavengers all have their own opinion.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoI received an email from Dennis Hong, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech. He said: "Hi Tracy. Just wanted to let you know about an exciting YouTube clip that robotics people may...
- posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 3 hours ago*I am a 'climate skeptic'*, hence I am a 'lunatic', somebody to be 'ignored' etc. etc. That at least is the 'scientific' language used against climate skeptics. I smile! The *fraudsters* that are behind t...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoThe search for alien worlds -- and alien life -- just got a little easier.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoA site in Luxor, Egypt will become one of the world's largest open-air museums when part of a $11 million project is complete in March, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) said today in a statemen...
- posted by Sarah Dowdey at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoEach year in late January, an ultralight aircraft descends on Florida with a flock of young whooping cranes in tow. The birds, which are from central Wisconsin, follow the aircraft across the country to on...
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoThis new computer circuit could lead to a whole new generation of touchscreen devices that power themselves.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoA woman watching a tourist webcam in northern Germany spotted a man who was lost on the frozen North Sea and probably saved his life by alerting authorities.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoTrees are growing faster as the climate warms, but ducks may be in worse shape as wetlands dry up.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoThe remains of a 2,000-year-old skeleton found in eastern Mongolia reveal a man of multi-ethnic heritage.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoFile this under "I'll tell you where you can stick that report." Now it really will be possible to turn TPS reports into TP, thanks to a Japanese machine called the White Goat that recycles office paper in...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoBugs have some basic intelligence that makes scientists wonder whether bigger brains are better.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoTitanoboa, which measured up to 45 feet long, was the world's longest ever snake. This gigantic boa constrictor- like snake lived 60 million years ago in what is now northern Colombia. Based on a fossil fi...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoAt Discovery News this week you can learn about the record-breaking shipment of two U.S.-born giant pandas to Chengdu, China. The pandas will make the journey in record time, thanks to a new fuel-efficient...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoThe pandas' flight from Washington, D.C. to China is expected to be the fastest yet for a panda making the journey.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoGene doping could be used to modify an athlete's own genes to increase muscle mass or boost red blood cell production.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoPresident Ahmadinejad claims the launch shows Iran could defeat the West in the battle of technology.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 10 hours agoIt's so small it seems to fit entirely inside the *Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism* held in Israel in December. Speaking and chairing panels at that conference were ImmigrationMin Jason Kenney, Isr...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoIsland nations could soon drown underneath rising tides, but their people and their governments may endure.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoFor all of the hell that Indonesia's been though in the past five years, its people sure could use some good news. Unfortunately, the latest round of reports are a mixed bag, and a fairly ominous one at th...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at fotoFRONTERA - 1 day agoEl mes del amor ha iniciado y miles de personas están en la búsqueda de imágenes para el día de San Valentín. Nuestro compromiso siempre ha sido ayudarle a encontrar la mayor cantidad y la mejor calidad en...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe predominant theory of the origin of life would make a terrific setting for a space horror movie, or a particularly tense episode of Star Trek: picture early Earth, a noxious place devoid of oxygen, its...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoI’ve seen thousands of astronomical images over my career, but this is one of the few absolute jaw-droppers: A flying X-pattern with trailing streamers. At first glance it looks like a four-pointed Kohga N...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoGang members are increasingly taking to Twitter and Facebook, inadvertently providing invaluable information to law enforcement.
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThis mystery object, located 100 million miles from Earth, may really be the aftermath of a hypervelocity collision between two asteroids.
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoTurtle breeding grounds may soon become makeshift ovens.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWe can’t give machines intelligence until we can figure out what roles creativity, inspiration and curiosity should play.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe ultra hard rocks may not end up on your finger, but they could help scientists learn how to create harder diamonds in the lab.
- *It kept bugging me for days*, the many questions from new-computer users about combining Windows with (K)Ubuntu/Mint 8. To be frank from the onset: I find the pre-installation of Microsoft Windows on new...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agoThe Canadian government emphatically and categorically denied today that it is currently negotiating a $90-million payment to the Wall Street hedge fund Fortress Investment Group to bail out Intrawest in...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoMeet the Puffin, a new concept vehicle that could revolutionize the way we travel.
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoFans of ABC's Lost are eagerly waiting tonight's premiere of the final season -- and those fans include a good number of physicists, such as Sean at Cosmic Variance. Last week he wrote an entire blog post ...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoConventional hearing aids use air conduction to turn up the volume on the sound traveling to the ear. But a new device from Sonitus Medical, turns up the volume using bone conduction. The SoundBite has two...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAndrew Wakefield, the doctor whose research sparked international concern over whether or not childhood vaccines cause autism, was found guilty by a British panel of acting unethically in his research on a...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoWhen it comes to virtual communities, the biggest orchards often have the most bad apples.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoBuzz Aldrin fields questions at a Hollywood premier in 2008. Today he has issued a public statement on the realities of spaceflight (Ian O'Neill) This certainly isn't a surprise, considering Buzz Aldrin ha...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoToday at Discovery News you can find out how Native Americans domesticated turkeys, not just once, but twice, well over 1,500 years before Christopher Columbus and other Europeans set foot on American soil...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe turkeys we eat today ultimately descended from breeds raised by the Aztecs.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoOlder adults not only need less sleep, but they're also more likely to feel well rested.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoNot under construction: The Ares I will likely be sidelined (NASA) Now the rocket booster smoke is clearing, it's becoming clear that NASA's direction for manned space exploration has been re-routed. The m...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA technology that goes back to nearly the dawn of mankind isn't just enduring--it promises to clean up energy production and storage. Time to get reacquainted with the flywheel. Grid operators usually rese...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoYou've got to hand it to folks who love extreme water sports: when the weather gets nasty -- like life-threatening nasty -- they go out and play. Case in point, Patrick Lawler filming his buddy, David King...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe Obama Administration cites tough economic times and places more emphasis on boosting private space travel.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoFour college freshmen walked quietly into a Greensboro dime store in 1960, and changed the course of history.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoOne of history's greatest mysteries -- the family lineage of the boy pharaoh King Tut -- may soon be solved. Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, has announced on Sunday he would h...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA life-sized robot is now on the market for $7,000 from the firm TrueCompanion. Inventor Douglas Hines introduced Roxxxy last month at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas. Hines, who used to work...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThis just out: Pres. Obama's budget request for NASA for the year beginning Oct. 1. Please share your thoughts. Funding Highlights: *Adds $6 billion to NASA’s budget over five years and draws upon American...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoFor decades, journalists were taught to distance themselves from their stories and to remain objective about the subject matter they were covering. There were, of course, a few early memorable examples whe...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe finding of a fish in the process of evolving suggests there may be many new kinds of fish we don't yet know about -- and aren't protecting.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe Obama administration wants to tap private companies to build, launch and operate spacecraft for NASA.
- posted by Chris Davis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAir travel nowadays is all about the delay. From two conversations yesterday, tales of miserable delay. A family visiting a friend stretched a two-hour flight into twelve, getting home at 2 a.m. And then f...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoSubmitted by guest blogger Debbie Salamone of the Pew Campaign to End Overfishing in the Southeast. In the wake of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Congress cautiously banned offsho...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoArtifacts of the nearly three decade-old program are being distributed online.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoFor the first time, scientists have shot laser beams at the highest energy level ever. The results could lead to emission-free and safe nuclear fusion power.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 days ago"Your trouser zipper is open" is of course one of two examples from the "Embarrassing Situations" section of the Olympics *"Business Etiquette Protocol Manual",* the other one being "A button has come undo...
- *A dog is men's best friend*. It always was since medieval times. The way we care for them differs from culture to culture, from country to country. Dogs need people, depend on them. People need dogs for ...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoFun fact for you: scientists don't really know how the Himalayas formed. I mean yeah, they realize that the India tectonic plate is slamming into the Eurasia plate and has been for about 50 million years, ...
- Url movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5939DGwYHc Jobim's "Rains of March" (or 'Waters of March') is a classic Brazilian * Springtime-is-coming* song... Have a good weekend without rains! John É pau,...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 4 days agoGood summation of the Cons' latest attacks on 'democracy' over the last few months. That they are getting away with it is, as a protester in the vid states, pretty much our own fault. Notable how litt...
- posted by Chris Davis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoAir travel nowadays is all about the delay. From two conversations yesterday, tales of miserable delay. A family visiting a friend stretched a two hour flight into twelve, getting home at two a.m. And then...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoBrown dwarfs are curious objects. Although they can weigh up to 80 Jupiter masses, they are too small to be called stars yet too big to be called planets. Until the late 1980's they were purely theoretical...
- posted by Lori Cuthbert at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoCan't get enough of Discovery News? Want to keep your eye on cutting edge sci-tech? If you do, you'll be excited to hear that we've launched a Discovery News module that you can add to the "My Favorites" m...
- posted by James Williams at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoIf this is your first exposure to the Friday News Feedbag...we're glad to have you in the club. Welcome to Feedbag Nation, which stems from our weekly science news podcast that you can subscribe to here on...
- *Russia waited many years for it*, as do several not-NATO-aligned countries, like India. Today the new *PAK FA Sukhoi-T50* stealth fighter made its successful maiden-flight from Komsomolsk-on-Amur. This f...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoWith all the electric vehicles on deck, I wonder how recharging them all on the road will actually go. Fast and easy, or like searching an old airport terminal for a place to charge a laptop? New stations ...
- posted by Lauren Effron at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoBees can be trained to sniff out explosives and cocaine, and here's something else they can be trained to do: tell apart one human face from another, according to a study published in the February issue of...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoBlueberries contain an antioxidant that could prevent mental health decline as you age.
- posted by Jonathan Strickland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoRodney Bradford is a lucky guy. Charged with committing a robbery in Brooklyn last November, Bradford was freed when his lawyer proved that Bradford's Facebook status updated a minute before the robbery be...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at fotoFRONTERA - 5 days agoDesde hace mucho me he sentido muy atraído por la belleza felina. Me encanta ver a estos gatos gigantes que desde lejos lucen inocentes, tiernos e ingenuos. Y aunque prefiero no acercarme mucho a ellos, si...
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoThe global temperature record of the decade just ended -- the warmest on record -- is not really what a lot of climate scientists would have expected. What many of the experts want to know is, why wasn't i...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 5 days agoShorter Supremes : While it is true that the *Canadian* government violated the *Canadian*charter rights of a *Canadian* citizen when it sent *Canadian* agents to interrogate him in a foreign concentration...
- posted by Sarah Dowdey at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoAfter decades of war and internal conflict, it would be easy to assume that Afghanistan's wildlife has been as decimated as its infrastructure. Since the 1979 Soviet invasion, the country's had no systemat...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoAl-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden blames the U.S. and other industrialized countries for global warming, according to a new audiotape released Friday.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoOfficials from NASA have been namelessly warning that NASA should expect some radical changes when the president's budget is released on Monday. In a nutshell: forget the moon, get ready to help commercial...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoSqueaker catfish of all ages communicate with each other by, you guessed it, squeaking, according to a new study in the journal BMC Biology. Previously it was thought that young fish had under-developed he...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoThe long-sought aqueduct that delivered fresh, clean water to Rome nearly 2,000 years ago, is found beneath a pig pasture northwest of the Italian city.
- posted by Lori Cuthbert at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoCan't get enough of Discovery News? Want to keep your eye on cutting-edge sci-tech? If you do, you'll be excited to hear that we've launched a Discovery News module that you can add to the "My Favorites" m...
- posted by Lori Cuthbert at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoCan't get enough of Discovery News? Want to keep your eye on cutting-edge sci-tech? If you do, you'll be excited to hear that we've launched a Discovery News module that you can add to the "My Favorites" m...
- posted by Lori Cuthbert at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoCan't get enough of Discovery News? Want to keep your eye on cutting edge sci-tech? If you do, you'll be excited to hear that we've launched a Discovery News module that you can add to the "My Favorites" m...
- posted by Lori Cuthbert at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoCan't get enough of Discovery News? Want to keep your eye on the cutting edge of sci-tech reporting? If you do, you'll be excited to hear that we've launched a Discovery News module that you can add to the...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoLast month, a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that the herbal supplement Ginkgo biloba does not appear to help memory or slow the rate of cognitive decline in healthy older...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoLooking at the silvery Moon hanging in the sky, it's hard to believe that quiet, comforting night light was formed in an episode of incredible violence several billion years ago. But that's exactly what sc...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoThe newly found toothy tyrannosaur featured a hole in its skull and was recovered from a federal wilderness area.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoThe skull of one of the world's greatest artists could provide crucial clues into the identity of "Mona Lisa."
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 days agoState-sponsored hackers are a growing threat to power plants, water systems and other key public utilities around the world.
- posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 days agoWhat does 1979's "Phantasm" have to do with humanity's future amid the stars? Well, it all comes down to what we're eager to change about extraterrestrial environments, and exactly how much we're willing t...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 days agoTwo weeks ago, I saw this piece from Wired about Google and several dozen other big companies getting hacked in what is now known as "Operation Aurora." The Wired story reports, "The attackers used nearly ...
- *I like novelties* and I admit having been waiting for this one... Who doesn't know by now Linux MINT-8, also known as "Helena" on her Gnomefootprint? To my opinion the best Linux desktop from 2009. Now "H...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 days agoIf you've ever lived in a city, near a city, or been on the roof of a city building in the summer, you know the urban jungle gets hot as hell. Growing up on Long Island, it wasn't uncommon for ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 days agoThe acclaimed author and youth hero passed away at age 91.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 days agoWill this new species provide the final piece of the evolutionary puzzle that links birds to dinosaurs?
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 days agoScientific differences over the effect of global warming on hurricanes in the North Atlantic are being resolved, but the news is not so good. While a warming climate is likely to produce fewer hurricanes, ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 days agoFor the US Marines patrolling in Afghanistan, bomb-sniffing dogs can mean the difference between life and death.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 days agoLightbulb manufacturers are preparing to sell new residential light-emitting diode bulbs designed to be more efficient and last longer than compact fluorescent bulbs. I want to be excited, but I'm irritate...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 days agoMexican archaeologists have found an 1,100-year-old tomb from the end of the Maya civilization that they hope may explain what happened to the once-glorious culture.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 days agoCave formations in New Mexico and China offer clues to how climate change will affect global rainfall.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 days agoWant to keep your eye on the cutting edge of sci-tech reporting? If you do, you'll be excited to hear that we've launched a Discovery News module that you can add to the "My Favorites" menu in your persona...
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 days agoIn a finding that confronts deeply rooted beliefs about parenting, a new study suggests that same-sex couples are as effective at raising children as heterosexual couples.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 6 days agowith Peter Hallward, Anthony Fenton, and Danny Glover "As thousands of tons of desperately needed food, water, and medical supplies piled up behind the airport fences-and thousands of corpses piled up o...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 days agoThe largest dinosaur bone bed in the world may have been the glorious creatures' last stand. Researchers say they can't understand why so many animals gathered in what is today the city of Zhucheng to die....
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoCan't get enough of Discovery News? Want to keep your eye on the cutting edge of sci-tech reporting? If you do, you'll be excited to hear that we've launched a Discovery News module that you can add to the...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoCan't get enough of Discovery News? Want to keep your finger on the pulse of the cutting edge of sci-tech reporting? If you do, you'll be excited to hear that we've launched a Discovery News module that yo...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe New York Times recently reported on the arrest of Jim McCormick, head of a British company that supplied a device called ADE 651s, which he claimed detects hidden bombs. At least 800 of the detectors w...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoWhat do redheads and this meat-eating dinosaur have in common? Find out here.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoRunning barefoot places far less impact stress on the feet than running in modern running shoes, a new study concludes.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoDeadly landslides in Peru have claimed several lives and devastated the homes of thousands.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoElderly survivors of Auschwitz gathered Wednesday at the site of the former death camp to mark the 65th anniversary of its liberation.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThere's a great piece on Gizmag today about passwords. They reference a data security study completed by Imperva, which analyzed data that was hacked last December on the Web site Rockyou.com. Of the 32 mi...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoHomeless and often orphaned, Haiti's smallest survivors may pose the biggest humanitarian challenge following the devastating earthquake.
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoGrass feeding produces more greenhouse gases than feedlot beef because of increased fermentation in the gut, research concludes.
- EMBED-Woman Stripped by Mechanical Shovel - Watch more free videos *What a precision and skill* of that machinist! And what a great machine is that JCB Excavator. Now you know what to buy when she doesn't...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThis latest form of crowdsourcing, the act of outsourcing microtasks to anonymous Internet users, is revitalizing some of the world’s most impoverished communities.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe New Hampshire mountain's record 231 mph wind gust is topped by a wind recorded in Australia.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoMountain climbers, take notice: You may need to take a few more steps to make it to the top.
- *Often I wonder* what comes after the wheel? Translated to computers: what comes after mouse, menus and windows? And don't we stare too much to the Internet for future developments? Shouldn't we talk abou...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoNASA is giving up trying to get its stuck Mars rover moving again, though it hopes Spirit will have a new life as a stationary science probe -- if it survives winter. The rover, which landed on Mars six ye...
- posted by Talal Al-Khatib at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoOn Wednesday, Apple launches their much anticipated iTablet. (Or is it the iSlate? The iPad? Who knows?) While Apple has a reputation for being the kind of company that thinks of everything, we thought we'...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoA handful of major airports are switching to a free Wi-Fi business model for travelers. How can they afford it?
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoOver the past couple of years, the global economy has been in rough shape, no doubt. But as we start to pull ourselves out of this slump, have have to ask ourselves: is it a good thing to resume growing? ...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 week agoLiberal MP Gerry Byrne says he believes the federal government should investigate whether the pieing of Fisheries Minister Gail Shea by a woman opposed to the seal hunt constitutes an act of terrorism. ...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at fotoFRONTERA - 1 week agoAprovechando esta derrama de sentimientos, ponemos a tu disposición la *segunda colección de imágenes de amor*. Ahora sí que no tendrás excusas para compartir con tus seres más queridos una linda postal qu...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 week agoCANADA - The whistleblower Richard Colvin who blew the whistle on the Afghanistan torture issue (essentially Canada was knowingly giving over detainees to Afghan officials knowing they would be tortured fo...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 week agoENVIRONMENT - The photo on the right is a farm in California that has been put up for sale. Its just one of thousands of farms that are now facing desertification. California's drought is now in its 5th ye...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe world's oldest known chimpanzee twins, Golden and Glitter, are among the most successful non-human primate social networkers, with well over a thousand friends at their Facebook page alone. Born on Jul...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoBiodiesel has advantages over diesel, but one drawback is higher nitrogen oxide emissions. Fortunately, researchers at Purdue University created an engine framework that cleans up. Greg Shaver, assistant p...
- posted by Gene Charleton at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoWhen you drive down the street, you see hybrid automobiles every day.Like automobiles, the hybrid dozer is more expensive than standard diesel dozers.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIf there were a planetary nature vs. nurture debate, this latest finding scores one for nurture.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe mystery shape in the aurora over Andenes, Norway (photograph by Per-Arne Mikalsen) On Jan. 20, 2010, Per-Arne Mikalsen was photographing a vast aurora erupting over the northern Norwegian town of Anden...
- posted by Talal Al-Khatib at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoLaughter, apparently, really is a universal language. According to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, emotions that all humans share, such as anger, amusement, g...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoOut west from the destroyed city of Port-au-Prince, the small village of Petis Paradis (which translates to "Little Paradise" in English) is reeling from a tsunami that struck following the magnitude 7.0 e...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe mystery shape in the aurora over Andenes, Norway (photograph by Per-Arne Mikalsen) On Jan. 20, 2010, Per-Arne Mikalsen was photographing a vast aurora erupting over the northern Norwegian town of Anden...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIn flight tests to determine these animals' aerial abilities, researchers found these dinos were proficient gliders.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoU.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today a new law that prohibits commercial truckers and bus drivers from sending text messages while they are driving. The rule is part of a bigger effort ...
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoSiblings can influence a person's development significantly, a new body of research concludes.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoYou've heard of the floating oceanic garbage patches. Now meet the deep sea garbage dumps.
- posted by Chris Davis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoI spent my junior high years in Voltageville. Well, actually, they called it Vacaville then. Population 30,000; a little agrarian town/military base bedroom community midway between San Francisco and Sacra...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoImagine living on a South Pacific island and naming all aquatic life in your lagoon “fish.” But your definition was so specific it didn’t apply to whatever creatures lived in the rest of the ocean. This is...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe new film Creation depicts Charles Darwin (portrayed by Paul Bettany) as a semi-reclusive, frail scientist who spent much of his time watching animals and scribbling his observations in notebooks. He wa...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 week agoENVIRONMENT - Canadian scientists have discovered the reason why 23% of bee hives are dying during the winter (where previously they were fine). The reason is a tiny mite about the size of a period which i...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 week agoCANADA - The Samsung Group from South Korea is bringing 16,000 green-collar jobs to Ontario, part of a plan to manufacture green energy equipment. Part of this is because Ontario's Liberal government has b...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoYoung girls may be developing a fear of math based on the way their teachers handle the subject.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 week agoENTERTAINMENT - A prison in Wisconsin has banned the popular roleplaying game "Dungeons & Dragons", claiming it promotes "gang-related activity". Using that argument the prison in question should also ban ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoCensus Bureau officials are traveling to the coldest corners of Alaska to kick off the 2010 census.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoNASA's new infrared telescope, called WISE, has spotted its first near-Earth asteroid, a .6-mile (1 kilometer) rock recently designated 2010 AB78. The asteroid, located about 98 million miles (158 million ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoMichelle Obama is an "amazingly traditional" first lady, according to Wake Forest University Professor of Political Science Kathy Smith, who has studied first ladies over the years. "Michelle Obama offers ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoTens of millions of dollars worth of stolen, ancient artifacts were seized by authorities in Cyprus.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoOver the past three years I've told you about virgin female sharks that have been giving birth to seemingly healthy pups. This was documented in 2007 and then again in 2008. (A bonnethead shark, born in a ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoA woman attending an art class lost her balance, ripping a six-inch tear into Picasso's "The Actor."
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe world record for the highest skydive is held by Joe Kittinger, an Air Force Captain who in 1960 jumped out of a balloon from an altitude of 102,800 feet; about 20 miles up, or three times as high as ...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoScientists at the University of Vermont think they have a solution to the Mars dust problem: acoustic levitation, a method that could -- quite literally -- lift dust off any desired surface.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoWhen it comes to objects in the Kuiper Belt, the vast, icy ring that encircles our solar system, size matters.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoMany of us stay in touch with friends and keep our pulse on "what's going on," by using Facebook and Twitter. Now some reporters are undergoing a special experiment to see just how much information they ca...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoWow. What a great story. A man who became trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building in Haiti survived with the help of a first aid application on his iPhone. On January 12, Dan Woolley, who oversees i...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 week agoCANADA - Today in Brampton a female protester opposed to Canada's annual seal hunt shoved a pie in the face of the federal Minister (Fisheries and Oceans Minister Gail Shea, grandmother of 8, a Conservativ...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIf your day is filled with the sounds of keyboards clacking, copy machines spitting out paper, or general incessant office noise, try tuning into the live sounds of Antarctica for a while. Whale songs, sea...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoAfter the dinosaurs went extinct, the ancestors of some flightless birds didn't bother leaving the ground.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe Large-Billed Reed Warbler holds the unfortunate title, according to avian experts, of being the "world's least known bird." For 142 years, since its first observation in 1867, it was only seen alive th...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe finding suggests cross-species infections may be common in zoos.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe 82-year-old pontiff tells priests to get hip and start using technology to reach out.
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 1 week ago*By Michael Casey* (CP) Google News | 1-25-10 BANGKOK, Thailand — Adolf Hitler was a psychopath and a monster but rose to power thanks to big business leaders and other supporters who appreciated his vow ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoA rare and nearly complete dinosaur skeleton stolen from private property in Montana two years ago has been turned over to researchers.
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoGenetically engineered viruses injected into tobacco plants trigger the plants to grow solar cells.
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 1 week ago*Excerpt: WB Yeats and the Glittering Prizes* Irish Times | January 25, 2010 ON JANUARY 1ST this year, Yeats finally went out of copyright, 144 years after his birth. It was a long, carefully managed caree...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIf you thought the recent California storms were bad, just wait until the 'Frankenstorm' rears its ugly head.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 week agoCANADA - The following is a list of 10 reasons why Torontonians are considered the rudest city in Canada. The sad part is Toronto may deserve this reputation and that there is frankly "no good reason" for ...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 week agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy As events this week have proven, SCOTUS is too highly venerated. Their latest outrage is the decree that 'corporations are people' and may spend as much money as the...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 week ago(click photos to enlarge) . Canwest : Thousands turn out for Vancouver rally to protest PM Harper's decision to prorogue Parliament. *"Thousands",* says Canwest. *25,000 nation-wide*. ....
- *The Linux desktop is flexible*. You can easily change system-fonts, window decorations and screen backgrounds. The latter can move. On Linux distributions like Ubuntu Karmic and Linux Mint 8 and their Gn...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIn the waterway near Port Arthur, up to 450,000 gallons of crude oil spills after collision between an 800-foot tanker and towing vessel.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIn the United States, we grow and eat corn whose genes have been tweaked to make the plants more resistant to pests and pesticides. Most European countries don't, largely because the citizenry fears it isn...
- posted by Chris Davis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoChecking in on John Peterson, the excellent, well-versed skeptic of the electric vehicle, finds him increasingly strident in his criticism of plug-ins generally and lithium ion (Li-ion) in particular. He s...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoCosmology suffered a great loss yesterday with the passing of Andrew Lange, co-leader of the BOOMERang experiment, which provided the first experimental evidence that our universe is flat, and offered stro...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 week agoby len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy In the worst decision since Bush v Gore, the US Supreme Court has worked a 'miracle'. Five 'justices' --John G. Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alit...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 week agoAs I type this, a Canadian named Sarah is marching in a one-woman No Prorogue protest in Brunei, the day's first. Soon there will be others in Trafalger Square and The Hague, with New York, Dallas Texas, ...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoFor all its flaws, The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, has done more than any other book to publicize the so-called "divine proportion," "golden ratio," or in mathematical terminology, simply phi. It pops up ...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoRemember the puppy cam craze of 2008? Well, the internet and folks at the North American Bear Center in Minnesota have upped the ante. They are filming Lily, the three year-old black bear and expectant mot...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at fotoFRONTERA - 1 week agoEn vísperas de celebrar el *día del Amor y la Amistad*, Foto Frontera se complace al poder proporcionarte una excelente colección de imágenes que podrás utilizar para enviar a tus amigos y a quien tú más q...
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIf this is your first exposure to the Friday News Feedbag...we're glad to have you in the club. Welcome to Feedbag Nation, which stems from our weekly science news podcast that you can subscribe to here on...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 week agoby Jim Hightower Last September, I wrote *The Hightower Lowdown* about how the Roberts' Court could throw out over 100 years of campaign finance law. Remember their names: Alito, Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia...
- *Recently my e-friend Ellinidata* confronted me with an interesting matter. Often we take it for granted that 'embedding' movies and music in our blog posts works, or just doesn't work. At first even I di...
- posted by Talal Al-Khatib at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIs unfettered Internet access a fundamental human right? Given their recent -- and widely covered -- spat with China over censorship laws, Google appears to assert that Internet censorship is an important ...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoJapanese scientists have made a curious discovery with a fungus-like form of slime mold. Transportation planners, take note, because the mold could save us some money. Postdoc Atsushi Tero of Hokkaido Univ...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoAs if Haiti hasn't been through enough already, it looks like there is still more to come. The United States Geological Survey said yesterday that while the probability of another magnitude 7.0 earthquake ...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 1 week ago*Oracle's Connection to the CIA* Most Oracle professionals are surprised to learn that the name "Oracle" originates from the name of a CIA project. This article in Forbes Magazine notes that Oracle billio...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThere's no doubt it is getting warmer, plus 2009 clocked in as the second warmest year ever recorded.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoYou've heard of online social networking. What about social netwoofing? The toy company Mattel announced today that it is developing a product called "Puppy Tweets," which will allow your dog to send Twitt...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoToday at Discovery News you can find out why dolphins are now believed to be the world's second most intelligent animals, with only humans displaying greater brainpower. (An Atlantic white-sided dolphin; C...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoKiller ocean waves generate electric currents in the ocean that might be used to detect tsunamis quickly.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 week agoCANADA - Now if you don't know what prorogation is, you must not be too familiar with Canadian politics. Prorogation is when the Prime Minister of Canada goes to the Canadian governor general and asks the...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThese brightly-colored flowers could produce a whole lot more than just tasty seeds.
- posted by Jonathan Strickland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoI've been saying for the last few years that the Internet will become a major, if not dominant, delivery method for entertainment. I think my prediction has been pretty accurate so far. You can find televi...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoWhen human measures for intelligence are applied to other species, dolphins are second only to humans in brainpower, according to new research.
- posted by Clark Boyd at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIt's been inspiring to watch the way technologists and their technologies have played a major role in collecting, analyzing and disseminating useful information for the relief effort in Haiti. Social netwo...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 week agoFor the past six years, a heart disease group has been using this logo of a torch with a heart-shaped flame and the words "Canadian Congenital Heart Alliance - for life". . Naturally enough, the Canadian...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoOk, here's a mystery of science for you: how did lemurs get to Madagascar? From genetic analysis, we know their ancestors traversed the 250 miles separating the island from mainland Africa between 50 and 6...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe Smithsonian scientists examine the Virginia meteorite (WUSA 9 News) Usually, I'm skeptical of any reports about chunks of space rock hitting vehicles, property, people or pets, as most instances have f...
- posted by Chris Davis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoWay. It's like something you'd dream up when you're eight years old and sitting around wondering what if. Buck Rogers stuff. What if cars could just draw their power from the floor? James Bond stuff. Appar...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoWe can all agree that volcanic explosions are filled with awesome. But get too close, and you're toast. The camera monitoring Sakurajima Volcano in southern Japan was definitely well within the danger zone...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoI'd heard of the notoriously invasive plant kudzu but not tamarisk, which is spreading throughout the West. Since chemicals and even fire haven't been effective on the tamarisk shrub, camels might be a low...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 week agoby Jane Gray, via Facebook Just hours ago, the Supreme Court gave Corporate America a green light to use its immense wealth to buy elected officials. The court's shocking decision in Citizens United v. F...
- *There is ART and there is micro-art*. Or is it almost nano-art perhaps, that the British sculptor *Willard Wigan*makes? With his bare hands that is. Art fitting in a needle's eye! So, what looks like anot...
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoFrom freezing cold to pouring rains, this winter may have a topsy-turvy feel to it, but the people who keep their eyes on conditions in the oceans have no doubt about the pattern of powerful storms now blo...
- posted by Amanda Onion at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe miracle story of five-year-old Monley Elize offered some rare happy news from the earthquake-shattered ruins of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Wednesday. Trapped for seven days and 21 hours in his family's ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoSo-called "faux" fur may actually contain dog hair, according to Humane Society of the United States investigations. Inspectors for the Humane Society say fur from a canine species known as the raccoon dog...
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThese notorious energy wasters could revolutionize battery technology.
- posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoDid Stanley Kubrick film NASA's fake moon landing and then hide his veiled confession in the film adaptation of Stephen King's "The Shining" a decade later? Of course not, but this lunar conspiracy theory ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoA team of top climbers plan to penetrate Mt. Everest's so-called "death zone" to try and clear detritus.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoService companies enable funeral homes to record and stream services.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe things we do to tend to our lawns produce four times as much carbon dioxide as a lawn can soak in.
- posted by Gene Charleton at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoPhysicist are working on technology that could have us traveling in hyperspace.
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThere has been tons of Internet traffic in recent days about moviegoers supposedly getting all down in the dumps after watching the blockbuster sci-fi film "Avatar." Fans are enthralled by a beautifully cr...
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoNext generation armor could be modeled after the shell design of this iron-plated snail.
- posted by Lauren Effron at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoLook at how cute and adorable Claudia and Johnny are! Don't they just melt your heart? It's possible that how we view Claudia, Johnny and other dogs' appearances could be influencing the variation and evol...
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- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoOn July 20, 1969, Buzz Aldrin became the second man to set foot on the Moon, following mission commander Neil Armstrong. That historic moment was over 40 years ago. Today, Aldrin is celebrating another mil...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoDon't get too comfortable in that chair. Staying in your seat too long, too often could kill you.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoAnd I thought I was late to Twitter. But Bill Gates, the cofounder of Microsoft, just signed on yesterday. His @BillGates feed already has more than 225,000 followers. Man! What's his secret? You should kn...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoWondering what to get that geeky astronomy buff you're dating for Valentine's Day? How about a newly available DVD featuring breathtaking images of Saturn's rings set to an original piece of music? The mus...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 2 weeks ago*By Paul Bedard* US News | January 19, 2010 Few names make one cringe in horror like that of Josef Mengele, the Nazi concentration camp "doctor" who performed gruesome human experiments—especially on twin...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoAfter this morning's magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck outside the already ravaged Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, survivors and aid workers must be wondering "when will it end?" On this point, unfortunat...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoIt's not going to help financially strapped homeowners, but the U.S. government sweetened the pot for museums and institutions hoping to snare a space shuttle for their collections. The new asking price --...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks ago'Diets Don't Work' a Dangerous Myth It's that time of year again. The few extra holiday pounds are staring you in the mirror every day, reminding you about the second (or was it third?) helping of Thanksgi...
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoEven as local efforts to improve air quality have been making headway over western North America, increasing flows of unhealthy and agriculturally harmful emissions of ozone have been blowing in from Asia....
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoValentine's Day is right around the corner, and in honor of that, I'm going to post a Wide Angle devoted to Love and Technology. You'll be able to find it online the week of February 8. In the meantime, I'...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoEarthlings casting a wary eye for rogue asteroids may be comforted to learn that our planet is not a sitting duck.
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoExperts have started assessing how to deal with the rubble and waste left in the wake of the Haiti quake.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoThe bald eagle population in the United States is soaring, according to The National Wildlife Federation. The distinctive birds have increased in numbers thanks to successful conservation efforts over the ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoMore than a 1,000 years after she traveled to Germany for her wedding, Princess Eadgyth's body surfaces at a cathedral.
- posted by Sarah Dowdey at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoResearchers at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have found the breeding area of the elusive large-billed reed warbler. That's a big deal, because according to BirdLife International, the species is ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoU.N. climate experts say one part of a 2007 report on climate change was not backed by science.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoThe most powerful aftershock yet came as aid workers struggle to get food, water and medical help to victims.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoBritish motorists zooming down the M40 Motorway between London and Birmingham drive right past the fossilized footprints of Brachiosaurus and Tyrannosaurus, which traveled down a similar path at speeds of ...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 weeks agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy A primary focus of the Mexican revolution of 1910 was the thirty-one year Presidency of Porfirio Diaz. It was during Diaz's presidency, that power and wealth concent...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 weeks agoLast month Jason Kenney explained his government's decision to cut off funds to the church aid group KAIROS thusly: "Our government is working to dismantle the client relationship that existed between the...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoHow did the bones of two ancient Egyptian mummies -- one human, the other feline -- end up in a bottle that supposedly contained the remains of Joan of Arc?
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoOn Dec. 9, 2009, a bizarre spiral appeared above Norway. Was it a UFO? Was it a black hole? Should we start blaming the LHC? Actually, it was a failed Russian ICBM, but the story goes far deeper than a sim...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoWhen the tide comes in on the China's Qiantang River in the city of Hangzhou, something unusual happens: seawater piles up in the funnel-shaped Hangzhou Bay and roars up the river in a massive wave that ca...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoWhat happens if a stellar remnant is too massive to be a neutron star, but not massive enough to become a black hole? Actually, until recently, astrophysicists didn't think there was a grey area between ne...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 weeks agoENVIRONMENT/HEALTH - The gourde is the currency of Haiti, but the paper notes are basically worth nothing in the aftermath of last Tuesday's earthquake. Water is the new currency in Haiti, specifically cle...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoThe massive earthquake that hit Haiti last week has devastated the region, and captured the world's attention as relief efforts continue underway. Via Symmetry Breaking, I learned that the Tevatron acceler...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 weeks agoENTERTAINMENT - Ever had some confusion online or with your cellphone when someone fails to catch the sarcasm? Well now with the SarcMark you can get your point across. Launched this week by Sarcasm Inc. ...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 weeks agoRELIGION - Archaeologists in Egypt announced today that they have unearthed a Ptolemaic-era temple dedicated to the ancient cat goddess, Bastet. Egypt's SCA says the temple dates back approx. 2,100 years a...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 weeks agoTECHNOLOGY - German and French governments are recommending internet users don't use Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8 when using Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Why? Because IE has security f...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoA limestone statue of the cat goddess Bastet discovered in Alexandria, Egypt. Photo: courtesy of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. The remains of a 2,200-year-old temple dedicated to an ancient Egypt...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoTake a closer look at a painting of Edgar Allen Poe that shows the author's softer side.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoWild bearded capuchins in Brazil have been observed cracking tough palm nuts using hammer stones, with one particularly skillful monkey surpassing all others, according to a new study. (Illustration of (a)...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoSandra Stevens, a physical therapist at Middle Tennessee State University, is using an underwater treadmill to improve the lives of spinal cord patients. Some of them were only able to walk for a few minut...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoIn a trend that bucks antiquated gender roles, more men are apparently marrying into money.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoA green building called the Sustainability Base is being constructed at NASA’s Ames in Mountain View, Calif., and will serve as a testbed for intelligent systems that monitor and manage indoor conditions. ...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoThe overwhelming destruction in Haiti reminds one engineer of the shoddy buildings that collapsed during the massive 2008 quake in Sichuan, China. For him, it's not too early to think about sustainable rec...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoLast week on the 700 Club, Pat Robertson explained to his viewers that the earthquake struck Haiti, not because of geological reasons, but for spiritual reasons (or, perhaps, anti-spiritual). Robertson sai...
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoFat molecules are shown to kick-start benign tumors into forming life-threatening cancer.
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoFostering a socially accommodating environment could attract more passengers to public transit.
- posted by Clark Boyd at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoIn the aftermath of last week's earthquake in Haiti, the global tech community is actively searching for ways to aid rescue and relief operations. Over the weekend, volunteers in various US cities met for ...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 weeks agoAs more and more foreign troops pour into Haiti - * Star : Canada rides to the rescue in Haiti 2,000 more soldiers flooding into Haiti with navy ships to help with security, relief *- Doctors Without Bo...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoThe first known breeding area of one of the world's rarest birds has been found in the remote and rugged Pamir Mountains in war-torn Afghanistan.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoA scorpion-inspired pesticide could kill specific insects without harming people, the environment or beneficial animals.
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 weeks agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Every criminal thinks he will get away with it. Every criminal hides the truth. Every criminal has a cover story. 911 is Bush's 'cover story'. Inexplicably, Bush cri...
- Url movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGCX9UirY-o *I leave this* report on until *Al Jazeera* withdraws it, which appears a habit of them... So take your time to view this current news update mainly a...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 weeks agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Research repeatedly confirms that Republicans are naturally inclined to exhibit authoritarian personality traits. The research leading to this conclusion is extensiv...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 2 weeks agoThe Jakarta Post | 01/18/2010 While police are preparing to deport former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent Bob Marshall, who was arrested in January 2008 in Bogor, his motives for entering Indonesi...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoSomething awfully curious is happening 250 million miles away in the asteroid belt. Astronomers think they may be witnessing a never-before-seen collision between two asteroids. The puzzle centers on a new...
- *Award Winning in 2007...* I am talking about the Greek "demogroup" *Andromeda Software Development* that caused me some palpitations and goosebumps when watching their *LifeForce* animation package in fu...
- posted by Gene Charleton at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoPower engineers estimate that using smart meters saves Italy’s largest electric company $750 million a year and cuts customers’ energy bills by as much as half.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 weeks agoupdated below The Haitian government has signed a memorandum of understanding formally transferring control of the Port-au-Prince airport to the US. From the Guardian : "Flights seeking permission to...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoWeather data from the past 107 years have revealed a warming trend since the 1950s.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoIn the past few days, several organizations have joined forces to create the Animal Relief Coalition for Haiti (ARCH), with the goal of raising funds to help animals in the earthquake-stricken country and ...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 2 weeks ago*" ... IT’S SOMEWHAT IRONIC that a Rockwell has been caught up in such a maelstrom of controversy and conspiracy. The American illustrator is best known for his nostalgic scenes of simpler times ... " " ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoConstruction recently began on the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial, according to The Atlanta Journal Constitution. (Image: MLK at a press conference. Photo taken by Marion Trikosko in 1964. Credit...
- *Contradicting exploit messages and warnings* circulate on the Internet, about another Microsoft *Internet Explorer* vulnerability. A 'zero-day' vulnerability (again) has been discovered, which is a softw...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 weeks agoPOLITICS - WARNING! WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ IS GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING. Yesterday the man on the right was tortured, stripped naked and eventually lit on fire when police caught the man looting. The ord...
- posted by Chris Davis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoOf course: apply the same sustainability paradigm to bridges and roads that we've applied to buildings. Roads may not be as sexy as buildings, but they represent miles of opportunity to improve the way we ...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 weeks ago*Only in Canada ...* "Go searching for the last time a Westminster-style parliament was shut down to free its leaders from unwanted censure or scrutiny — and you'll end right back in Canada, where you s...
- *Sometimes innovation comes* with experiments. I consider the 'Nexus One' from *Google Inc.* an exponent of such innovations. Is it another ' smartphone', a PC-like, handheld communication device, or just a...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoSubmitted by guest blogger Debbie Salamone of the Pew Campaign to End Overfishing in the Southeast. One of the fastest fish in the sea may not be quick enough to escape a proposal that could hasten its dem...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 2 weeks agoKRAKOW, Poland, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Polish authorities say they have issued an arrest warrant for a man they describe as a Swedish neo-Nazi on charges he stole the sign above the Auschwitz gate. "We have alr...
- posted by Talal Al-Khatib at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoOn Monday, Jan. 18, 2010, the United States will commemorate the achievements of civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King, Jr. While today we look at King with great respect and admiration, any student of h...
- posted by James Williams at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoIf this is your first exposure to the Friday News Feedbag...we're glad to have you in the club. Welcome to Feedbag Nation, which stems from our weekly science news podcast that you can subscribe to here on...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoAn altar dedicated to the king of the gods was used for ritual ceremonies by the ancient Greeks.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 weeks agoThe Guardian : "Any large city in the world would have suffered extensive damage from an earthquake on the scale of the one that ravaged Haiti's capital city on Tuesday afternoon, but it's no accident th...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoRecently, new satellite imagery detected a hidden kingdom in the Amazon that had eluded explorers for nearly 500 years. An aerial picture of traces of earthworks built by a lost Amazonian civilisation. Den...
- posted by Sarah Dowdey at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoIf you're interested in trying your hand at scientific publication, you might want to check out the Open Dinosaur Project. The venture harnesses the research powers of a crowd in order to compile a databas...
- posted by Talal Al-Khatib at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoFriday is (finally) here, and while the weekend may be mostly about fun and games for many, there is real science behind it, too. First, the obvious: People feel better when the weekend arrives. If you're ...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoA recent piece in the Columbia Journalism Review (http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/hot_air.php) examined the rise in global warming denial among the ranks of TV meteorologists. It's not just that the climat...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at fotoFRONTERA - 2 weeks agoEl fondo de tu computadora de escritorio o laptop, se verá mucho mejor con una de estas lindas nenas que hoy tenemos para ti. Son *18 wallpapers en tamaño gigante* para que cambies la imagen y el estilo de...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoWith the Detroit Auto Show in full swing, this week a Chinese company touted a new all-electric vehicle that gets 205 miles on a single charge and is set to hit the U.S. market later this year. The Shenzhe...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoScientists are growing meat in petri dishes, using stem cells, but so far the product's consistency is off.
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 2 weeks ago*By Spencer Ackerman * Washington Independent | 1/13/10 It’s a question that rarely gets asked: from where does the Obama administration locate the legal authority to launch missiles from the CIA’s unmann...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoThe fate of Haiti's zoo, endangered species and other animals in the Caribbean country remains uncertain at present, with U.S. animal and veterinary organizations attempting to gather information while als...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoIf the bottle of Tylenol in your medicine cabinet smells funny, just throw it out.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoWhat would you think if we would: Eliminate all cats so that people with cat allergies wouldn't suffer anymore Cut down all trees so that people allergic to tree pollen wouldn't sneeze anymore Eradicate al...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoDuring its recent flyby of Earth, Europe's Rosetta comet probe gave its ultraviolet spectrograph a bit of a workout. The NASA-funded instrument, named ALICE, got a test run by targeting Earth. Rosetta is o...
- *Shocking images from Haiti* after the M 7.1 earthquake that hit the island January 12 about 21:53 UT are gradually appearing. We have so far only seen images from Port au Prince, which was about 25 miles...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoScientists said they warned officials in Haiti two years ago that their country was ripe for a major earthquake.
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoUsing incredible levels of pressure and temperature, scientists melt and then re-solidify a chunk of diamond and make a surprising revelation.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoThousands of people in Africa and Asia viewed an eclipse Friday as the moon crossed the sun's path blocking everything but a narrow, blazing rim of light.
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 weeks agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Europe is a life changing experience for many Americans, an important part of the 'American Experience'. The most obvious examples are famous writers from Thomas Wol...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoA comparison between the observation of the IBEX "ribbon" (left) and a Heerikhuisen et al. simulation of what the ribbon should look like considering an interstellar magnetic field (right). Credit: NASA/I...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 weeks agoHEALTH - The death toll for yesterday's earthquake in Haiti keeps rising, with current estimates over 50,000 dead. Outside Port-au-Prince's General Hospital at least 1,500 bodies were stacked and waited to...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoThe alligator's bird-like lungs may explain how the ancestors of dinosaurs breathed their way to global dominance.
- *Randy Dorman is a guitar-only man*, he says on his website. More I didn't know about him, until I discovered his "Rhythms of the Night" in a better quality than YouTube offers. Randy has a distinct jazzy...
- *Yes!* A tiny asteroid passed Earth this morning at about 80.000 km distance, or 0.3 lunar distances. Astronomers were surprised about its late discovery on January 10th. The Austrian astronomer *Gerhard D...
- *People often laugh about* the unexpected, the surprise and things they don't understand. Particularly the latter is significant these days. No wonder some 'experts' laugh about the weather predictions fr...
- posted by Clark Boyd at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoThe scenes of destruction emerging from Haiti are, I think you will agree, heartbreaking. Amid the ongoing horror, we're hearing the usual litany of post-disaster needs: food, clean water, medicine, and sa...
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoIron-poor oceans may cause phytoplankton -- a critical base of the marine food chain -- to decline.
- posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoAlthough this parasitic wasp can kill insects, it could help save human lives.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoThis blog post brings together two of my favorite things: Pat Metheny and robots. Metheny's new album Orchestrion, due out January 25, is technically a solo act. That's because the members aren't human. Ea...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoAfter earthquakes and tsunamis, stories often circulate of animals acting strangely or seeming to know of the disaster long before humans. Following the Dec. 26, 2004, Asian tsunami, some (erroneous) news ...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoText “Haiti” to the number 90999 and donate $10 to the Red Cross. The donations are being managed by mGive, a foundation established in 2005. So far, the foundation, which has partnered with the State Depa...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoAt least one species of stingray demonstrates the animal can be a clever problem-solver.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoAs Google gains public support both in China and abroad, the Communist Party warns other Internet companies.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoProfessionally trained "sniffer" search dogs from around the world have been recruited this week to aid rescue operations in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. The effort appears to be unprecedented in scale, match...
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoHallowed grounds the world over are becoming refuges for a variety of threatened species.
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 2 weeks agoBy: cocktailhag seminal.firedoglake.com | January 13, 2010 Not long after Nixon’s “last press conference” upon losing the California governorship in 1962, that memorably disturbing rant which prompted an ...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoAs dutifully reported by my Discovery News colleague Ian O’Neill, a mysterious space visitor streaked past Earth at 21,000 mph yesterday. (In fact the object was moving slightly slower than the returning A...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoSmall, hybrid and electric cars took center stage at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show.
- posted by James Williams at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoA market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, appears in the above photo, which was taken between 1909 and 1920. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, which makes the devastation caused by yesterday...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 3 weeks ago*University to Address Pacifica Controversy* *Students plan demonstration to coincide with Forum meeting at 3 p.m. today in the EMU* *By CJ Ciaramella* January 8, 2010 | Oregon Daily Emerald University ad...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoThe magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck just outside Port-au-Prince, Haiti last night could be just the beginning. According to geologists monitoring the region, the quake could have primed faults crisscr...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoThe explosions of massive stars may be responsible for the formation of light-weight galaxies.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoAfter a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the capital of Haiti yesterday, I watched the aftermath unfold in the news with horror. Yet something mentioned in passing during a Doctors Without Borders press confer...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoArtist impression of the Venus Express spacecraft separating from the Soyuz Fregat upper stage rocket after launch (ESA) The cosmos threw a curve ball at us, but a near-Earth object (NEO) called 2010 AL30 ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoThe first direct capture of a spectrum of light from a planet outside the solar system has been obtained, in what is a landmark discovery in the search for extra-terrestrial life.
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 3 weeks ago*The CIA Misspells Al Qaeda Terrorists Names and Bypasses TSA to Let Terrorists Fly – A DCBureau.org Exclusive * 11 Jan 2010 DCBureau.org Press Release WASHINGTON - (Business Wire) One of the 9/11 hijacke...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 3 weeks ago"Vigilance is at a medium level. This is not 9/11, but the information we have received is of concern and we need to have heightened vigilance," said Mr. Baird. But the attempted airliner bombing on Chr...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoA tourist enjoying a swim yesterday off of Fish Hoek beach in Cape Town, South Africa, was suddenly pulled under the surf and dragged out to sea by what onlookers have called a "dinosaur-sized shark," acco...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoThis is the first time scientists have seen a cricket pollinating a flower and it represents rapid adaptation.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoDestroyed communications made it impossible to estimate how many died in Tuesday's quake, but the numbers are likely to be unbearably high.
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoFrom out of the western forest comes a new study that challenges one of the more comforting assumptions about our changing climate -- as carbon dioxide increases in the atmosphere, trees will absorb more o...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 3 weeks ago*by Randy Shaw* www.beyondchron.org | Jan. 07‚ 2010 As newspaper book review sections shrink or disappear, editors must make tough choices. In the case of the *Sunday New York Times Book Review*, this ha...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 weeks agoCARS - A Swiss multi-millionaire who was speeding in a Ferrari was slapped recently with a fine of 203,181 Euros (approx. $300,321 CDN). The punishment was not based on the actual speed he was going, but r...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoIranian scientist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, a particle physicist at the University of Tehran, was assassinated today, according to multiple media reports. The Guardian said that "the manner of his death was a...
- posted by Talal Al-Khatib at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoHow much longer does humanity have before total destruction? Five minutes, according to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the group responsible for the infamous Doomsday Clock. Figuratively speaking, of c...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoUPDATED (21:00 Eastern): A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti just ten miles from the country's capital city, Port-au-Prince, this evening. This is a strong one, folks, and its proximity to a major popu...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at fotoFRONTERA - 3 weeks agoPensando en todos los *usuarios de Apple Mac*, he decidido el día de hoy hacerles llegar *10 hermosos wallpapers* de 1600x1000px que contrastan con su admirable fidelidad a esta plataforma del Sr. Steve Jo...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoA magnitude 7.0 quake struck near the capital of Port-au-Prince.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoA recently discovered set of tombs outside of Cairo is believed to be the final resting place for many who built Egypt’s Great Pyramids. The workers’ skeletons were discovered with their heads pointing Wes...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoRecently at Discovery News I told you about Neanderthal-made shell jewelry that suggests these hominids were as smart and creative as modern humans were at the time the jewelry was made, 50,000 years ago. ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoHanging on to a little extra winter weight could keep you healthy.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoTune in to find out how yet another of life's simple pleasures could lead to an early grave.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoA cobra venom ointment to treat arthritis could soon hit store shelves.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 3 weeks ago~Recalibratin' Economic Action Plan Pt 2 but not making any changes ~Time out to go to burning stick festival* ~We got nearly everything we wanted passed anyway ~Busy busy busy back home on winter barbie cir...
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoThe tiny transistor could lead the way to cooler computers that waste less energy.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoThe nation's one-child policy could leave 24 million bachelors by 2020.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoMiep Gies, the office secretary who defied the Nazi occupiers to hide Anne Frank and her family for two years and saved the teenager's diary, has died.
- posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoThese desert lizards' accelerated evolution could provide researchers with new insights into how species form.
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoApparently there is a halo of dark matter surrounding the Milky Way galaxy -- as there is, indeed, surrounding many other galaxies -- and it bears the improbable shape of a giant beach ball that's been par...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks ago2010 AL30 as imaged remotely from Australia on Jan. 11, 2010 (Ernesto Guido & Giovanni Sostero) On Wednesday (Jan. 13), an object called 2010 AL30 will fly by Earth at a distance of just 130,000 km (80,000...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoTo some astronomy enthusiasts the phrase "big bang" seems awfully superfluous. It's the shortest of shorthands for describing the origin of everything: stars, planets, people and petunias. Astronomers thin...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoUm, yuck. A new study has found that a little less than half of sodas poured from fountains in the Roanoke, Virginia area are contaminated with coliform bacteria, an indicator of fecal contamination. Accor...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoMove over Cape Canaveral. There's a new player in town able to launch people into space. Jacksonville, Florida's Cecil Field became the country's eighth commercial spaceport on Monday, after a four-year ef...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoOne of the world's most controversial paintings, "La Belle Ferronnière," will go on the Sotheby's auction block in New York on January 28. Many viewers are wondering: Is she or isn't she? A Leonardo, that ...
- posted by Lauren Effron at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoJanuary is National Stalking Awareness Month and 2010 marks the 15th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act. To commemorate both events, the Department of Justice held a panel discussion today on ho...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 weeks agoENVIRONMENT - Its expensive to buy a $20,000 solar system for your home... even though you know its worth it in the long run because you end up saving money. The problem is the initial start up cash. Cali...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 weeks agoCARS - While there are lots of hybrids out there available, there's only one manufacturer who is actually known for them: Toyota. And for anyone who is still a naysayer of hybrid technology here is some i...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 3 weeks ago*During the Third Reich, Germany had a small black community, yet relatively little is known about their life in the Nazi era. Deutsche Welle takes a look at survival strategies under Hitler's oppressive r...
- posted by Talal Al-Khatib at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoAre men in the job market being hit harder in this recession than in previous economic downturns? On Friday, the Labor Department reported that 85,000 jobs were lost in the United States for the month of D...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 weeks agoPOLITICS - In addition to being the world's biggest economy, China is now the world's biggest exporter. China is also the biggest auto market and steel maker. According to figures released yesterday by Ch...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoThe recent Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas made a splash with 3-D TV. Oh to have seen it. But, probably much like you, I was bundled up for winter instead. Here's green tech from the show that will haun...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoThese are the remains of the earliest building ever found in Tel Aviv, according to Israel's Antiquities Authority. Located on the northern bank of the Yarkon River, the building consists of at least three...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoDecide for yourself whether James Cameron's blockbuster conveys an underlying prejudice.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoFlorida locals are already calling it the 2010 Fish Kill. Ponds, rivers and even commercial fishery operations in Florida are full of dead or dying fish, victims of this month's unusually long cold spell, ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoTools left behind by these Stone Age seafarers suggest human ancestors really got around.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoThe tombs of ancient Egyptian pyramid builders suggest these artisans were respected -- and paid -- for their work.
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoA couple of weeks ago, I had the chance to interview Avatar director James Cameron about the science and technology he developed to make his new 3-D sci-fi epic as realistic as possible. Uh oh. This articl...
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoAs more and more kids consume greater quantities of caffeine, the finding assesses who is most vulnerable -- and how.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoEver since the image of Dick Tracy first talked into his wrist first graced the comic pages the watch-phone has been a longed for fantasy. But, I hate to tell them, while the fantasy image of the watch pho...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoLinothorax, a highly effective type of body armor, was created by laminating together layers of linen.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoOver the holidays, an Ohio man named Dennis Bort cut a potato in half and was surprised to find the image of a cross inside. Any other time this might not have been remarkable, but during the Christmas sea...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoOver the holidays, an Ohio man named Dennis Bort cut a potato in half and was surprised to find the image of a cross inside. Any other time this might not have been remarkable, but during the Christmas sea...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoEarlier this week, research published in the peer-reviewed medical journal Pediatrics found no evidence that special diets have any influence on autistic children. This was a blow to some parents of autist...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoSaturday afternoon, residents of northern California were violently shaken by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake not far offshore in the Pacific Ocean. Much of the area is without power after electrical lines snap...
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoPeople who study the behavior of Earth's climate have been pondering a mystery of the last ice age. Why did the size of the Northern ice sheets fluctuate so dramatically, pushing global sea level up and do...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 3 weeks agoWhen Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament started up on Facebook last week, supporters of last year's Canadians Against a Liberal/NDP Coalition Gov't were all very dissy about it : We got 127,000 member...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 3 weeks ago*" ... The director ... said his intention was to broaden minds, delving into the funding of the Nazi party and how American corporations were involved in it. ... "* *Oliver Stone, the controversial fil...
- posted by Chris Davis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoLess is more; let the music show you how. We've witnessed the progression: albums to compact discs to digital files a la iTunes, where each step takes less material and less effort to get the music to the ...
- *Suddenly my article from July 26, 2008* regained actuality seeing the current Las Vegas "Consumer Electronics Show". No revolution can be expected from electronic gadget makers, rather some dusting off a...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 3 weeks agoI don't claim to be any kind of authority on Wiebo Ludwig - for that you can read Andrew Nikiforuk's *Saboteurs* - but in all the considerable coverage of Ludwig's arrest today in connection with six case...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoWhat do you get when you cross aboriginal wisdom with Google Maps? Newly discovered meteor impact craters, of course! Duane Hamacher studies aboriginal astronomy as MacQuarie University in Sydney; already ...
- posted by James Williams at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoIf this is your first exposure to the Friday News Feedbag...we're glad to have you in the club. Welcome to Feedbag Nation, which stems from our weekly science news podcast that you can subscribe to here on...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoEven Neanderthals knew how to accessorize.
- posted by Jonathan Strickland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoI'm at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show covering all things tech this week. I've seen dozens of awesome (and sometimes odd) gadgets. I've examined computers ranging from blisteringly fast desktop machine...
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- posted by James Williams at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoIn early December 2009, Super Typhoon Nida was dying in the North Pacific (that's her in her prime below). She was a real beaut - 175 mph winds, lots of energy. Some of that energy ended up in what could ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoElvis Presley, who would have celebrated his 75th birthday today, famously sang about a hound dog. But his true animal passion was for horses, suggests Priscilla Presley and multiple other sources. You'll ...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks ago"We now have a real whale war on our hands," said Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd after a collision between his vessel, the Ady Gil, and the Japanese whaling ship Shonan Maru No.2 tore the bow off the former a...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoThe discovery of an Earth-like, extrasolar planet could happen sooner than you think.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoIt turns out ants have group strategies for avoiding famine and poisoning that humans could borrow from.
- *Hopefully I can stay on-line!* Winter has arrived with snow now... *We'll try to stay warm*. Heavy winds and rain came first, now snow sets in... Winter has caught most of West-Europe, still hitting the ...
- posted by Gene Charleton at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoNASA engineers are working on an ultra-compact nuclear power plant that should generate enough electricity to run an average American house.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoAlexander The Great Wear patterns on one of the most celebrated mosaics of antiquity have allowed researchers to reconstruct exactly how ancient Romans viewed the artwork. Found during the 1831 excavations...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoIt may not seem like it now, but satellite maps show a sharp decline in late winter and early spring snow cover.
- posted by Josh Clark at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoAlthough a new study on autism cannot pin down the causes of the disability, researchers have just recognized a new trend among parents of autistic children.
- posted by Diane at Lilith News - 3 weeks ago*Friday Night at 6PM Eastern Time, WWL Radio relaunches for 2010!* The Holiday Break/Vacation is over! I am pleased and excited to rejoin Gottlieb on air in this New Year. It is always an honor to run wit...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 3 weeks agoWe would like to thank Con MP Brent Rathgeber for that lovely explanation of Steve's dismissal of parliament - first ignoring its will and then proroguing it - and move on to how the media props up that c...
- posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoIf you love science fiction, there's a good chance you love escape pods. Just try and tell a space opera without one. But what about the real-life space escape and rescue vehicles? Let's abandon ship toget...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoSearching for alien worlds using the cutting-edge Kepler space telescope would be the pinnacle of anyone's career, but what does it take to be an exoplanet hunter? We ask Kepler co-investigator Ted Dunham ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoRecords show that reefs are key sources for the appearance of new species.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoThis diamond in the sky could help scientists to deflect future asteroids on a collision course with Earth.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoKiller Whales in the in the North Atlantic Ocean come in two different flavors, and could be in the process of splitting into two species, according to new research by a team of European scientists. Orcas ...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoA new dairy in Texas promises to green the farming process and put more money in farmers' pockets at a time when they are feeling the greatest pinch. The demonstration dairy facility under construction at ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoHovering silently a few feet off the ground it looks like a flying saucer out of a Steven Spielberg film. The AR.Drone can be used for "augmented reality gaming" -- allowing "real world objects and conditi...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoIf you're thinking about taking up running to burn off those holiday pounds, you might want to set aside the running shoes. A study published in American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation rep...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoSo called "non-avian theropod" dinosaurs from the Cretaceous had feathers, nests, laid eggs and roosted like birds. If they were so much like birds, why don't we just say they were birds? A paper in the Fe...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoIt's just like the movie "Avatar" -- well, sort of. Starfish, sea urchins, and their brethren are rising up to fight humanity's greatest wrong to the Earth: global warming. Together they are sucking around...
- posted by Sarah Dowdey at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoIn New Bedford, Mass., a shuttered plant that once rolled out Polaroid film is up and running again. Except this time, the plant isn't producing film -- it's making extremely thin flexible solar panels. Ba...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoOut of nowhere, a very quiet Silicon Valley startup called Neato Robotics announced the official release of the XV-11, a robotic vacuum cleaner, which promises to challenge Roomba.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoWho would've thought deforestation had an upside? Satellite flyovers of newly cleared land in the Amazon have uncovered a vanished civilization that could rival the Incans or Aztecs in sophistication. Rese...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoOver the winter holidays I bought a bug vacuum, one that promised to suck up insects without harming them, so they could be easily deposited outside. It didn't work and was returned, but I wish I'd have se...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoCES has barely started, but it has already come into focus: Everything's coming up 3D.
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoFind out how the rhythms of Wall Street could help to predict patterns of enemy combatant attacks, potentially saving the lives of both soldiers and civilians.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoA Japanese craft sniffs the moon's thin atmosphere and provides details that could help future explorers.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 3 weeks agoCANADIANS AGAINST PROROGUING PARLIAMENT On Facebook . Meanwhile, Alberta Con MP Brent Rathgeber, who sits on both the Justice and Human Rights Committee and the Public Safety and National Security Commit...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 3 weeks ago*"Is there hope for the future? ... "* *Seeger/Byrds cover by Alex Constantine* [image: MailBoxDrive] Oh What will you give me? Say the sad bells of Rhymney Is there hope for the future? Say the bro...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 weeks agoBesides his Calabash pipe, Sherlock Holmes is always caricatured as having a huge magnifying glass to hunt for clues. Astronomers attending the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Washington D.C. say ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 weeks agoThe female cane toad doesn't let her smaller, male counterparts get fresh with her.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 weeks agoIt's very easy to get worried when you hear that a star could explode "with the force of 20 billion billion billion megatons of TNT" and the explosion is going to detonate so close to us that it "could str...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 weeks agoDespite frigid weather, NASA on Wednesday hauled space shuttle Endeavour to its seaside launch pad in preparation for the first mission of the new year next month. It was 29 degrees Fahrenheit at the launc...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 weeks agoOne of Costa Rica's most active volcanoes, Poas, erupted over Christmas, sending ash and steam thousands of feet in the air. As far as volcanoes go, it was nothing but a tiny burp. But a couple from Georgi...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 weeks agoTsutomu Yamaguchi, a double atomic bomb survivor and outspoken critic of nuclear weapons, has died.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 weeks agoThe finding of 395-million-year-old footprints in Poland turns back the clock on the evolution of tetrapods.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 weeks agoWith the movie, Avatar, reportedly pulling in more than billion in box office revenue so far, it's no surprise that 3D is capturing the attention of television broadcasting companies. My own company, Disco...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 weeks agoWilliam "Billy" May, who created the Walking with Dinosaurs arena show, died in Australia on New Year's Eve as a result of pneumonia, according to multiple media reports. He was just 56 years old. (May in ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 weeks agoNew mobile applications to assist with weight loss could help you drop those holiday pounds.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 weeks agoWell, the heroic anti-whaling activists of the Sea Shepherd (and stars of Animal Planet's "Whale Wars") have made the headlines once again. This time they claim the Japanese rammed their speed boat, the Ad...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 weeks agoThe conservationist group's boat had its bow sheared off while clashing with a Japanese whaling ship.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 weeks agoThink you have what it takes to be a meteorologist? If so, the National Weather Service wants you.
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 4 weeks ago[image: MailBoxDrive] *"Mother Nature, creator of the sky, Mother Nature, show me how to fly ... "* *All rights reserved, 2009 S. James & A. Constantine* AC's Musica Blog
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 weeks agoIf today's big news announcement from the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Washington D.C. needed a theme song, I'd borrow lyrics from "Kansas City" (from the musical "Oklahoma") i.e. "They'v...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 4 weeks agoExcerpted : "It is ironic that while our parliament has been suspended we are a nation at war. On New Year's Eve we greeted the news that five Canadians were killed in a single day with sadness but not su...
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- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 weeks agoJust when the media hysteria over doomsday scenarios relating to the Large Hadron Collider has died down, along comes a visually stunning short film from L Studio called Rift that explores just what such a...
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 weeks agoCould we be literally walking toxic compounds right into our homes? Find out here.
- posted by Clark Boyd at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 weeks agoI'll admit I'm a little out of my usual element here, writing about the oh-so-freshly released Nexus One smart phone from Google. After all, I usually leave the gadget writing to the gadget experts. In fac...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 weeks agoBack in September, a fascinating paper appeared on the arXiv about a new way to search for gravitational waves. It's called the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav), and ...
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 weeks agoJust when we might be expecting the influence of unusually high Pacific ocean temperatures to warm us up -- or for global warming to bring relief -- along comes another wave of incredibly cold storms. How ...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 weeks agoYesterday, the world's tallest building (for now) opened in Dubai. The Burj Khalifa has moved ahead of other tall buildings that have recently debuted and in the next decade or so, it will no doubt be ecli...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 weeks agoWearing a sturdy pair of denim pants may be just what the doctor ordered when it comes to preventing rattlesnake bites, according to a study recently published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. It stand...
- posted by Gene Charleton at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 weeks agoInstead of pendulums, gears or even quartz crystals, atomic clocks use the vibration between the nucleus and electrons of atoms.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 weeks agoTweeting in church. Facebooking in class. Texting in a public restroom. All of these activities are possible with a smart phone, but are they appropriate? What are the rules of smart phone etiquette?
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 weeks agoA ten-foot-high tsunami crashed ashore in the Solomon Islands on Monday following a magnitude 7.2 earthquake. Some 200 homes were destroyed and1,000 people left homeless, and yet no one has been reported i...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 4 weeks agoPOLITICS - The quickest answer is no. Not during this century at least. The issue of whether Canada should (or will ever) join the United States has been batted around for several decades, if not longer. T...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 4 weeks agoCANADA/ENTERTAINMENT - The Kids in the Hall comedy troupe is back together again in Canada and this upcoming Tuesday January 12th at 9 PM their new mini series will hit the air: When Death Comes to Town. ...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 4 weeks agoThe third Viva Palestina convoy of 198 vehicles bearing humanitarian aid is due to enter Gaza today. It was held up by Egypt, long the 2nd largest recipient of US military aid, who demanded that the conv...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 4 weeks agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Chinese rulers and the US elites partnered to enslave US workers and consumers. As a result, the US became a vassal state of China, a huge population which props up ...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 4 weeks agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The BBC had revealed that Al Qaeda is a creation of US propaganda, in fact, a term never used by Bin Laden until after 911. The implications of the BBC documentary a...
- *When Mark Shuttleworth speaks* the world falls silent. He spoke, one wondered this time: March 2010 he intends to shift positions within his organization "Canonical Ltd" and leave the helm to Jane Silber,...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 4 weeks agoVia Impolitical, who suggests a companion pic of the opposition parties showing up on Jan 25th as originally scheduled to fill the opposition benches would make a very strong statement against the missing...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at fotoFRONTERA - 4 weeks agoPor si acaso no fue suficiente la primera entrega de wallpapers relacionados con el *año nuevo 2010*, FotoFrontera se complace en hacerte llegar 10 nuevas imágenes gigantes que puedes disfrutar y compartir...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 4 weeks agoThe mirror of *AC's Blacklist* is organized by topic for researchers and writers, and it has a more efficient search engine, among other developments in the blender. Every post from the *Blacklist* is mirr...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 4 weeks agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy I did not support Obama so that the US could continue Bush's criminal policies! I most certainly did not and do not support the commission of new war crimes, aggres...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 4 weeks agoSEX - In recent years it seems like love is constantly becoming more and more connected to money. Let's cite some examples: #1. Online personals charging $XX / month. #2. Matchmaking services charging an ...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 4 weeks ago*Also see: "American Sponsorship of Global Terrorism," and "USAID Officer Arrested with Terrorists in Islamabad," also "DynCorp Sub-Contractor Inter-Risk was Behind the Oct. 10th Suicide Bombing of Pakista...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at fotoFRONTERA - 4 weeks agoPara todos los suscriptores de *FotoFrontera* y para las personas que visitan este blog desde diversos países, he escrito *un mensaje muy importante* que me gustaría que leyeran con atención. Para hacerlo,...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 4 weeks ago*" ... the ADL concluded that the claim amounted to an 'apparent campaign of misinformation' and urged Pope Benedict XVI to reject its conclusions. ... " * *By JERUSALEM POST STAFF* | Dec 31, 2009 The An...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 4 weeks ago*Decent coffee. But - atchoo! - y'know, I think it's making me sick ...* *" ... Starbucks’ large anti-union operation is headed by CEO Howard Schultz and operated in conjunction with the Akin Gump law fir...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 4 weeks agoIt's 1.2 million people marching on Mexico City in 2006 to denounce the abrogation of their right to fair democratic representation by their government. . You know why I'm posting this picture. For the s...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 4 weeks ago*By Alex Constantine* *"The first prisoner [at Guantinimo] formally charged with committing war crimes was 34 year-old Yemeni Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's driver.... His military-appointed attorney...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 4 weeks agoCANADA - To the right and below is an artist's rendition of what cable cars in Toronto might look like. According to blogger Stephen Dale (see gondolaproject.com) this is the future Torontonians might even...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 4 weeks ago* Possibility Arises that Someone Working with U.S. Forces was on the Side of the Terrorists* B*y David Martin* CBS News | Dec. 30, 2009 *Eight [Seven CIA] U.S. Civilians Killed in Afghan Bombing * (CBS...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 5 weeks agoTECHNOLOGY - Russia's space agency today issued a call for a massive planetary effort to ward off a giant asteroid named Apophis that might hit the Earth in 2029. "People's lives are at stake," says Anato...
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- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks agoRupert Murdoch's progammed "patriots" live in a world that doesn't exist. No wonder they're so thin-skinned - liberals keep burning down their most precious fascistic programmed delusions ...
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- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks agoAlso see: "American Sponsorship of Global Terrorism," and "USAID Officer Arrested with Terrorists in Islamabad," also "DynCorp Sub-Contractor Inter-Risk was Behind the Oct. 10th Suicide Bombing of Pakistan...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 5 weeks agoAfghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan ... next stop - Yemen? Since that guy who detonated his underwear on a plane on Christmas Day claimed to have been sent by the al-Qaeda network in Yemen in retaliation for US/S...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks agoTwo words, "Michael Ledeen" - an Italian fascist mole in the American intelligence bund who pretends to be Jewish - probably explain it ... - AC *U.S. Intelligence found Iran nuke document was forged* *By...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago(Newser) – Two former Guantanamo Bay inmates are believed to be behind the plot to blow up the Northwest flight to Detroit, according to officials and Defense Department documents. ... Story
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago*" ... [Andy] Martin called one federal judge a "crooked, slimy Jew, who has a history of lying and thieving common to members of his race." He also expressed sympathy to the perpetrators of the Holocaust....
- *When gale-winds blow and rain pours down* Spain goes off-line. That happened to Southern Spain between December 15th and 27th. Several parts were inundated, those typical Spanish balconies got their batt...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 5 weeks agoENTERTAINMENT - In a world of breast implants, Pamela Anderson and Paris Hilton is it at all surprising that people might start to reject the two-faced bloated consumer culture that has pervaded for the la...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago*"Is there hope for the future? ... "* *Seeger/Byrds cover by Alex Constantine* [image: MailBoxDrive] Oh What will you give me? Say the sad bells of Rhymney Is there hope for the future? Say the bro...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago*by psburton* Blogger News Network | *December 24th, 2009* In a display of political rehabilitation surpassing even Richard Nixon’s return to power, the John Birch society has been invited back into the bi...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago*Also see: "Extraditing Headley will Expose CIA"* *Manan Kumar* ExpressBuzz.Com | 16 Dec 2009 NEW DELHI: Not only did David Headley work as a double agent, but also it was perhaps he who told the CIA abou...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 5 weeks agoYet another article PR piece telling us how the Canada-US border can become 'wafer thin' again, if only we just agree to get inside a North American security perimeter ... Canada warms to the idea of a ...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago*" ... The US knows that Headley's CIA links will be exposed if he is handed over to India. This will damage its anti-terror image. ... " * *Also see: "American Sponsorship of Global Terrorism"* *By Bipi...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago*By BOB BROCKIE* The Dominion Post | 28/12/2009 *Sven Hedin* was one of Sweden's most famous scientists. Back in the early 1900s he explored Central Asia and Mongolia, and became an international cartogra...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago[image: MailBoxDrive] *By Alex Constantine* *All rights reserved, 2009* *By the time I got to Woodstock, The bottom-feeders had us in a hammerlock, Camelot was trashed, They shot it in the head. ...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago*by Michael Barker * Swans Commentary swans.com | December 28, 2009 (Swans - December 28, 2009) Government organized foreign aid has long served as a vital means by which elite policymakers have cynically...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKKKgua7wQkQ3r
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago*Blackwater uses Iraqi civilians for target practice and engages in illicit CIA assassinations, and last I checked the company was still receiving gererous federal funding. Disgraced CEO Erik Prince, even ...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago*Edited by Alex Constantine* *About Triple Canopy* "Our company was founded in Chicago in 2003 by U.S. Army Special Forces veterans. We established operations in Iraq in 2004 following the first of multi...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 5 weeks agoWithin days of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama's announcement that US cruise missiles attacked Yemen in his ever-expanding war on terror, the Christmas Day bomber shows up on a flight to Detroit in...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago[image: MailBoxDrive] *A. Constantine and J. Mysterioso* *All rights reserved, 2009*
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago[image: MailBoxDrive] By Alex Constantine All rights reserved, 2009
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks agoElmer Bobst's Early Years in the American Cancer Society According to his autobiography (Bobst: autobiography of a pharmaceutical pioneer, 1973), Bobst was doing war bond work in 1945 "when Governo...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at fotoFRONTERA - 5 weeks agoEn víspera del próximo Año Nuevo 2010, Foto Frontera tiene el privilegio y la gran oportunidad de ofrecerte una excelente colección de Imágenes Gigantes con el mensaje "*Feliz Año Nuevo 2010*". Disfruta es...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago*From:* *The Blackwater chronicles * *By Irfan Husain* Dawn.Com | 16 Dec, 2009 *A KoM ashtray* ... Among other allegations about Prince, perhaps the most bizarre relate to his connection to the Knights ...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks agoSeptember 11, 2006 *Applied Economics* Evening Bachelors program at University of San Francisco cps.usfca.edu German Resistance? *"Conservative" economist Peter Drucker popularized privatization, a key N...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago*As opposed to reports earlier this week: "Neo-Nazis 'not behind Auschwitz sign theft'"* *By William Sherman * NY Daily News | December 25th 2009 *Praszkiewicz/AP - Police question one of the suspects in ...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 5 weeks agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Always severely divided in one way or another, the U.S. has become two nations --one of the very,very rich elite on the one end and the rest of us on the other. The ...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago[image: MailBoxDrive] *By Syd James & Alex Constantine* *All rights reserved, 2009*
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago*By Linda McClure* SolveClimate | Dec 6th, 2009 The need for climate legislation is based upon a wide body of scientific evidence that shows global warming is happening now and warns of climactic changes ...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks agoBy Greg Stohr Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Supreme Court refused to revive a lawsuit against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other military leaders by four British men who said they were t...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at fotoFRONTERA - 5 weeks agoPara continuar con la celebración de Navidad y Fiestas de Fin de Año, Foto Frontera trae hasta ti la segunda colección de imágenes relacionadas con estas celebridades. Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen de l...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago[image: MailBoxDrive] *By Alex Constantine All rights reserved, 2009*
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago*By Alex Constantine* *For background on some of the parapolitical connections of the Texas Republican Party, see: FBI-Stung Terrorist Targeted Dallas Office Tower where CIA Agent/County Republican Party ...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago*Also see: Lou Dobbs' Spokesman, Knight of Malta Robert Dilenschneider* *Is CNBC prepared to Invest in Dobbs and His Record of Conspiracy Theories and Inflammatory Rhetoric?* Media Matters | December 01, 2...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 5 weeks agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Tea Baggers and on-air personalities who have threatened President Barack Obama with death are 'Domestic Terrorists' as defined by the U.S. Patriot Act. Threats agai...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago*Ideology of Fritz Kraemer at the Heart of Wartime Policy from Vietnam to the Present* *Who was Fritz Kraemer?* http://www.nixontapes.org/kraemer.htm
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago[image: MailBoxDrive] *By Alex Constantine* *All rights reserved, 2009* *By the time I got to Woodstock, The bottom-feeders had us in a hammerlock, Camelot was trashed, They shot it in the head. ...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago[image: MailBoxDrive] *By Alex Constantine* *All rights reserved, 2009*
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago*See: The Farish Family's Auschwitz Profits and Connections * *Republican money is going to Ky. Democrat* Excerpt *by Janet Patton* Lexington Herald-Leader | Dec. 02, 2009 Major Republican donors with ties...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks agoAllGov.com | December 14, 2009 WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 14: *General Barry McCaffrey (R), U.S. Army, speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol November 14, 2007 in Washington, DC. The panel discuss...
- *Blogging is delayed* for some days to come due to violent storms over our region: Andalucia. Heavy winds and rains, even thunderstorms have crashed utilities and communication systems. With great difficul...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago[image: MailBoxDrive] *By Alex Constantine* *All rights reserved, 2009* *By the time I got to Woodstock, The bottom-feeders had us in a hammerlock, Camelot was trashed, They shot it in the head. ...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago[image: MailBoxDrive] *By Alex Constantine All rights reserved, 2009*
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago*" ... Today, the oil industry receives north of $100 billion per year in subsidies and collateral support. This is the equivalent of one AIG bailout per year, every year. ... "* *By Blaine Townsend* Spec...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 5 weeks ago[image: MailBoxDrive] *By Alex Constantine All rights reserved, 2009*
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 1 month agoDecember 02, 2009 I really had to write in reference to Kevin O'Brien's ironic column of Nov. 26, in which he commented on the importance of truth in journalism, and the few letters to the editor of Nov. ...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 1 month agoThe name of the arrested USAID officer is Abid Mehmood (see second story below). - AC *Also see: American Sponsorship of Global Terrorism, and "Islamabad: Americans Dressed as Afghans Caught With Illegal ...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 1 month ago*Camp Delta at the US naval station in Guantánamo, Cuba. A joint US/UK military force is reputed to have detained hundreds of Iraqi and Afghan prisoners at the detention centre.* Photograph: Chip Somodevil...
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 1 month ago[image: MailBoxDrive] *By Alex Constantine All rights reserved, 2009*
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 1 month ago[image: MailBoxDrive] *By Alex Constantine All rights reserved, 2009*
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 1 month ago[image: MailBoxDrive] *All rights reserved, 2009 A. Constantine*
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 1 month ago*"Her name was Ursula - Or was it Caroline? ... "* [image: MailBoxDrive] *All rights reserved, 2009 Alex Constantine*
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 1 month ago*by Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff* Dissident Voice | December 22, 2009 Among the most important corporate media censored news stories of the past decade, one must be that over one million people have died...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 month agoReally, Jason, I didn't think you could make this any worse. G&M, today : In a media release issued from Jerusalem, Mr. Kenney explained his decision to cut off funds to the church aid group KAIROS : "Our...
- *The year 2009 is coming to a close* - what a year this wasn't! After the famous/infamous day in January where independent judgment and applied skills were used to save 155 lives from drowning in a cold H...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 month agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The name of a 'god' and a sacrifice associated with fire, the term 'Moloch' is found in Hebrew and Arabic and other Middle Eastern cultures --Ammonite, Canaanite and...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 month agoFormer American Enterprise Institute alumnus and currently director of communications for Immigration Minister Jason Kenney Alykhan Velshi explained the government decision to cut off funding for the Chris...
- url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQcVllWpwGs *In the Record Book of Guinness* for the most watched viral video ever. The Evian skating babies got well over 14.4 million viewers. Here you can read how i...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 month agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The GOP has been infiltrated by a kooky kult of korporatists! It is not the party of Eisenhower-like fiscal conservatives or of Progressives like Teddy Roosevelt any...
- Url movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMxJG-Mu9dc *This 'prediction' in Copenhagen by Lord Monckton * was made 2 days before the end of the UNFCCC global catastrophes conference. We now know the 'resu...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 month agoon the world stage. After the United States hammered out an agreement with 19 other major powers at an emergency meeting in Copenhagen to which Canada was not invited, Harper said Canada had been represe...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at fotoFRONTERA - 1 month agoPara quienes están buscando imágenes de Navidad, FOTOFRONTERA contribuye en su búsqueda trayendo hasta sus pantallas 8 wallpapers navideños que seguramente le serán de gran utilidad. Haz click aquí o sobre...
- *Excuse me for the smile*, but the tweet from Twitter went silent the early morning of Dec. 18th. A group of skilled hackers, presumably from Iran, hijacked the DNS 'entrance' of the Twitter system and di...
- *This may come as a shock* for some: imagine to run a "Linux" desktop and software on Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista. Well, you can. Just install * KDE* for Windows. On the other hand the 'full-blown' (L...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 month agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Obama should get off his butt and insist upon war crimes trials of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condo Rice. That Iraq had WMD was a bald faced li...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 month agoOn Airshow MacKay's attempt to discredit Colvin by accusing him of not having brought up detainee abuse the one time MacKay met with Colvin in Afghanistan : He, Colvin, had only been on the job for 10 days...
- *Fireworks at the New Years Eve parties* belong to long-standing traditions. Millions are spent to -one time a year- let the emotions go and play with fire. In many countries this is only allowed for a few...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 month agoCon Committee chair Rick Casson confirmed today's meeting with the opposition MPs but did not bother to tell them that neither he nor any of the other Con MPs would be showing up. As the committee requires...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at fotoFRONTERA - 1 month agoNota:* Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para ampliar el tamaño de este wallpaper.* Sin tanto presumir, creo que es una de las mejores fotografías que he tomado en este mes. Se trata de una imagen tipo mac...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at fotoFRONTERA - 1 month agoNota:* Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para ampliar el tamaño de este wallpaper.* Como parte de mi recorrido por la *Plaza Alexis Nihon*, tuve la oportunidad de tomar una foto de estos deliciosos conos l...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at fotoFRONTERA - 1 month agoNota:* Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para ampliar el tamaño de este wallpaper.* Bonita fotografía obtenida en *un local llamado "Dalilah" esto en la Plaza Alexis Nihon* dentro del Metro Atwater sobre l...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 month agoand those five words are "I gotta change the story", spoken by Environment Minister Jim Prentice's chief of staff Steve Kelly. Seems Jim's press people "distributed a release for a photo-op of U.S. Energy...
- *Browsing millions of websites* to just find the item you were looking for, can be a daunting task. Finding documents on a hard drive often takes its time. *"Where did I store it..., I know I have it some...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 month agoThis is classic Yes Men, who have been gaily twittering about the prank without actually, um, copping to it. First there was this morning's grand announcement from Environment Minister Jim Prentice of Can...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 month agoCANADA - Ousted governor of Kandahar Asadullah Khalid has been torturing people for years, and according to documents dating back to 2006 the Canadian government under Stephen Harper has not only defended ...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 month agoCANADA - Ontario's controversial amalgamation of the GST and PST into a harmonized sales tax (HST) is "virtually revenue neutral" and not a cash grab some people say it is, argues a new report released tod...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 month agoAn excerpt from Tucker Carlson's show: And speaking of aliens, is President Bush preparing for intergalactic war with our comrades in outer space? Former Canadian defense minister and deputy prime minist...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 month agoThe City of Vancouver ordered the removal of the above mural from the public artspace outside the Downtown Eastside's The Crying Room gallery on the grounds it is "graffiti". . Artist Jesse Corcoran works...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 month agoRichard Colvin sent Peter Mackay reports warning of torture until Peter MacKay's department told him to stop. Peter MacKay denied receiving Colvin's reports until it was proven his department did indeed re...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 month agoYou know, the one wherein just yesterday Harper imagined he was George Bush and told Parliament to go cheney itself because he is in charge and democracy is for wusses. Behold : from the front pages of fi...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 month agoPhoto snagged from Pacific Free Press Gates touts support for WHINSEC in Halifax Every November, thousands gather at Fort Benning, Georgia, to demand closure of the School of the Americas, renamed "West...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 month agoAmong the many fakeries and falsehoods foisted on the House yesterday by the Cons in their bid to maintain the most secretive and unaccountable government evah, usual frontrunners Laurie Goldie Hawn and Ch...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 month agoHEALTH/TECHNOLOGY - Frank Hrabanek lost his four fingers on his left hand in an industrial accident in 2007, but thanks to modern technology he now has a set of bionic fingers. Touch Bionics of Britain ha...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 month agoGuest Columnist, Dr. David Ray Griffin Although John Farmer's "The Ground Truth" has attracted a lot of favorable attention, it is a deeply flawed book, containing misleading claims and providing an extr...
- *Classical UFO case* or not? This was December 9 seen over Norway. *Spectacular this is* anyway and a good example of a *real* UFO phenomenon. It happened on December 9, 2009, minutes before 07:00 UTC over...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 month agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy DEA agents were photographed among first responders on 911. That's curious. What interest have drug enforcement agents in this alleged act of 'terrorism'? Connect s...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 month agoCome on - hands up. Yes, quite a few of us actually. Yet judging from the vote in the House today on a motion demanding the release of uncensored government documents to the Special Committee on Afghanista...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at fotoFRONTERA - 1 month agoNota:* Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para ampliar el tamaño de este wallpaper.* Una vez más, FOTOFRONTERA tiene el privilegio y la gran oportunidad de traer hasta sus pantallas 4 hermosos wallpapers qu...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at fotoFRONTERA - 1 month ago[image: Snow Leopard]Nota:* Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para ampliar el tamaño de este wallpaper.*
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- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 month agoby Guest Columnist, Jacob G. Hornberger One of the aspects of the Iraq War that has fascinated me the most is how CIA agents and U.S. soldiers could actually bring themselves to kill, torture, and sexual...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 month agoDavid Pugliese : "Canada is sending two surveillance aircraft to Afghanistan in a move some defence analysts see as laying the groundwork for a military mission in Kandahar beyond the announced 2011 pullo...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 month agoAnd a big tip of the cowboy hat to Mike Finnegan of Crooks and Liars. He was kind enough to share this with facebook. Pull My Finger and Say hallelujah *Why I moderate comments* - SPAM: 'comments' t...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 month agoRising to a question in the House yesterday as to why the Cons refused to act on first-hand accounts of detainee abuse in Afghan jails from troops, John Baird responded by asking why the leader of the op...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 month agoPOLITICS - Yesterday in Baghdad two suicide car bombers and another vehicle blew up near government buildings, killing over 127 people and injuring over 400 more people. A total of five coordinated attack...
- *Advanced propulsion concepts* often appear to people as science fiction. A car driving on water already is an intriguing theme. Although it offers a rather peculiar and cheap solution, water-power isn't ...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 month agoDec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he will use Canada’s co-chairmanship of next year’s Group of 20 countries meeting to urge members to put economic recovery before efforts t...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 month agoOn the opening day of COP15, Greenpeace activists scale Parliament buildings and hang two 12 x 7 meter banners : "Harper/Ignatieff - Climate inaction costs lives." Media mostly goes with the security angl...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 month agoENVIRONMENT - According to an United Nations Environment Programs report the world should emit no more than 44 billion tons of carbon dioxide by 2020 to avoid the worst consequences of climate change. We ...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 month agoPaul Koring : "In one well-documented case in the summer of 2006, Canadian soldiers captured and handed over a detainee who was so severely beaten by Afghan police that the Canadians intervened and took t...
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- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 month agoCANADA - 79,100 more Canadians found jobs in November 2009, of which approx. 21,000 were in Toronto. As such Canada's unemployment rate has dropped to 8.5%. If steady job growth is sustained it will be a ...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 month agoThen, Nov 23 : "Concerns about the treatment of Afghan prisoners prompted Canadian soldiers to halt the transfer of detainees three times over the course of the last year, says Defence Minister Peter MacK...
- *The name has it: Helena.* It reminds me of *Helena of Constantinopel*, the mother of Emperor *Constantine I*. It is a noble name indeed. Maybe that caused my high expectations when I got the opportunity ...
- *Climate related sciences have a huge problem*. 'ClimateGate', the hacking of a database from the *University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit*in the UK, exposing thousands of e-mails from academics...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 months agoToday in the House, Paul Dewar moved for an independent "Public Inquiry into the transfer of detainees in Canadian custody to Afghan authorities from 2001 to 2009." It passed 146 to 129, not that this mean...
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- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 months agoCANADA/ENVIRONMENT - The city of Toronto was snow free this Novemeber, the first time in 162 years that the city went snow-less during the 11th month of the year. Meteorologists cite global warming and cl...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 months agoShorter Harper : If you point the war crimes finger at me, I'll deflect it at the troops. Faced with mounting condemnation for government ass-covering over Richard Colvin's testimony about Afghan detaine...
- *Having worked on the first Mac OS* the phenomenon of the computer 'desktop'-travesty has always accompanied me. My involvement goes back nearly 27 years. To be frank: visually hardly anything has fundame...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 months agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Rush Limbaugh has urged that a military coup overthrow the current government in Washington. That is a prosecutable crime called 'seditious treason' and there is pro...
- *Live-CD's are boot CD's with a twist:* they comprise a host of programs and even offer you to go on-line and surf the web. When you would like to test a Linux distro just download its *.iso*, burn it on ...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 months agoHmmm ... 94% to 6% in favour of Colvin's testimony on an unfreepable one-vote-per-IP poll. Ok, just checking. I was wondering how that parade of generals appearing before the Afghan parliamentary commit...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 months agoAmy Goodman of Democracy Now was stopped at the Canada-US border on Wednesday and questioned for 90 minutes by Canadian Border Services Agency. She was on her way to the Vancouver Public Library to launch...
- *Dancing is the expression of the soul*, particularly the tango. I would I could dance it the way *Carlos Barrionuevo* and *Mayte Valdés* (link) demonstrate it. But I would have to take classes, possibly ...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 months agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The US used to boast the highest standard of living in the world. Those days are long past. Today --the US is among the most inequitable nations on earth where is al...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 months agoThen : October 19, 2009 MacKay seeks answers on torture memos "MacKay said Monday that neither he nor his deputy minister ever saw diplomat Richard Colvin's reports, which were circulated widely within t...
- *I am not sure* whether we should be glad with the discovery by hackers of *incredible emails* and documents on e-mail servers at the *University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit* (CRU) in Norwich, ...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 months agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Wingnuttery gets more absurd with each passing day. The wingnut la-la land has come un-glued and completely out of touch with reality. Found on Facebook a poignant r...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 months agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The US used to boast the highest standard of living in the world. Those days are long past. Today --the US is among the most inequitable nations on earth where is al...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 months agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Albert Einstein said: "the men who possess real power in this country have no intention of ending the cold war." It is one of the most incredible 'coincidences' in h...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 months agoMacKay : "Not a single Taliban soldier turned over by Canadian forces can be proved to have been abused. That is the crux of the issue." Ok, how about "farmers, truck drivers, and peasants" then? Afghan...
- *...or is it Windows 7 on XP?* I ran into this remarkable question when my son tried to run our ISDN internet connection. It can't be run under Windows 7. Next we ended up in a mess probing USB sticks and...
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- *Some don't like to see the truth* for a thousand reasons. Some shake their shoulders about any truth and in fact anything not touching them directly. Who cares? That our world has NOT become a safer plac...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 months agoCANADA - If you live in Canada chances are likely you eat, buy something or some service from a corporation so big its essentially a monopoly. Take Tim Hortons for example. No, I am not dissing Tim Hortons...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 months agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Despite the state Board of Pardons and Parole voting to spare Robert Lee Thompson's life, Bush Jr's successor, Rick 'Hair Club of Men' Perry voted to kill him anyway...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 months agoCommenter Stephen Phillips under this CBC poll has a question of his own : "What kind of a question is this? Mr. Colvin is a distinguished career diplomat under attack by a Government that has misled Par...
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- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 months agoDefensive Minister Peter MacKay : "A top diplomat’s account of the rampant torture and rape of Afghan detainees is not credible, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Thursday. MacKay dismissed testimony from...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 months agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Hitler scapegoated jews! The American right wing now scapegoats Obama! Why are we surprised? The GOP/right wing is just doing what psychopathic screw-ups and habitu...
- *For years I wonder* how certain sounds are propagated in nature. Not so strange, then -living in a desert-like surrounding- one can easily find some places without any sounds at all! Total silence on win...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 months agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy A nation in which about one half of the population openly pines for the murder of the only fairly elected president in some 9 years is finished. The writing is on th...
- Url movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j34gG2xR3I Dire Straits? To me its sounds super! John
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 months agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The 'bomb' did not shorten the war, nor did it affect --in any way --Japan's insistence upon retaining its emperor. Absolutely nothing was gained by the wanton murde...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 months ago... updated below ... A month ago, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time Peter MacKay , and Minister of Defence at the time Gordon O'Connor all denied ever seeing any of th...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 months agoENTERTAINMENT/TECHNOLOGY - The Kingle ebook is a wireless electronic book which allows you to download books whenever you want and read them on a wireless device that is easily portable... for a fee, of co...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 months agoCANADA/ENTERTAINMENT - Canadian broadcasters are urging the CRTC to allow "skinny cable", essentially a smaller and dramatically cheaper variation of basic cable. But cable companies don't like the idea, ...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 months agoCANADA - Have you registered your phone number with Canada's National Do Not Call List in an effort to prevent telemarketers from calling you? I know I did. I registered it over a year ago when the DNC Lis...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 months agoTailored, according to David Pugliese, for Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver? Scott Duncan, Defence Research and Development Canada in Suffield, Alta. : "If you were to refer back to the Canada First Defenc...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 months agoSo far, the cornerstone of Premier Gordon Campbell's green revolution consists of forcing the *public* utility BC Hydro to buy power at twice the market value from *private *independent* *power producers a...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at fotoFRONTERA - 2 months agoNota:* Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para ampliar el tamaño de este wallpaper.* Una vez más, *Stephen Baird* se sale con la suya y presenta a través de * www.FOTOFRONTERA.com*, 5 hermosos *wallpapers gi...
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- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at fotoFRONTERA - 2 months agoNota:* Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para ampliar el tamaño de este wallpaper.* AVISO MUY IMPORTANTE *Mantente alejado de estafas* Estoy acostumbrado a recibir llamadas de mi familia con preguntas sobre...
- *In my earlier post I referred to new desktops* for Linux. The desktop in fact is the playing field that a user sees when working with a computer. I wouldn't come back on this issue, weren't it currently ...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 months agoHEALTH/TECHNOLOGY - According to American scientist Ray Kurzweil the world "may" have the technology that immortality will be within our grasp by the year 2030, but it will only be available to people who ...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 months agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy In his essay on Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar", W.H. Auden observed that theatrical directors throughout the 30's found it quite natural to make of Caesar a great fas...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 months agoFafblog explains : Breaking Terror Update! Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four of his friends are going to stand trial!It's taken about six and a half years for this to happen, during which they were all presu...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 months agoCanada's new immigration guide is all very back to the fifties. Not the real fifties of course - more a 1950's Pleasantville chamber of commerce directive of prim paternalistic homilies about the value of...
- *Ubuntu developments go fast* these days, so do the innovations from DeskTop-Builders, like Gnome and KDE. Right there we already encounter the first and possibly most important obstacle for computer-user...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 months agoENVIRONMENT/FASHION - What is the most environmentally friendly garment you can wear? The answer is uncoloured natural leather. And fur too. Its not obvious at first, but let me explain how this is. Leat...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 months agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy If 911 had not been an inside job, it would have been investigated! The cover up that followed has only one purpose: the protection of the guilty! It is not only the...
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- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 months agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Americans live beyond their means, Asia finances it and China props up the buck so that the US can buy Chinese made stuff at Wal-Mart. Eventually the Asians/European...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 months agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy 'Islamophobia' in the U.S. is a top down phenomenon encouraged and exploited by the right wing. It is easier to whip up war fever if the populace is irrational, mind...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 months agoSuspended from the Afghan parliament in 2007 for speaking out against the warlords and drug traffickers who comprise Afghanistan's government, Malalai Joya, elected on a platform of womens rights, now liv...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 months ago. Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Walt Natynczyk : "The parliamentary motion directs that it will be the end of the military mission in July of 2011. I mean those are the words that are there. And for me ...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 months agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Only a controlled demolition looks like a controlled demolition. And WTC 7 looks like a controlled demolition because it was 'pulled' just as Silverstein himself sai...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 months agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy If the 'President' is elected to represent the people of the United states, then he/she should be elected directly by the people. The Electoral College, in which ele...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 months ago*...* the LRAD500X *CBC : Vancouver police get sonic crowd control device* Vancouver police have a new crowd control device capable of emitting painfully loud blasts of sound, just in time for the 2010 Wi...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 months agoThis full page ad from B'nai Brith was on the back page of the National Post's A section yesterday (h/t Big City Lib) Click to enlarge : . I guess we'll be seeing a Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Com...
- Url movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9iq9gdeIE4 May I wonder? Nothing better to do...? Try a real companion. John
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 months agoPOLITICS - 20 years ago the Berlin Wall separating East and West Berlin was opened. Within a ye
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