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Google FriendConnect. - posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours ago*Cats Leaving the Cradle * Mohawk Nation News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ * *MNN. Apr. 9, 2010. When the English defeated the French to steal Great Turtle Island, the Catholic Church started the “rev...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours agoCensored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photo: www.treehugger.com The World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth is underway online. Today's selection comes from the ...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoPluto has been suffering an identity crisis of late, but astronomers have identified dozens of small dwarf planet candidates that could make Pluto feel a little better about itself.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours agoCensored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com *US universities are now hunting grounds for vulnerables, as the CIA and Homeland Security set up shop on campuses, with global cyber spies and special agent...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 16 hours ago*Media Matters sends Murdoch more than a dozen examples of Fox News promoting the Tea Party movement * Media Matters April 8, 2010 Washington, DC - Today, Media Matters for America's Ari Rabin-Havt sen...
- posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 17 hours ago*Les Fradkin is a fascinating personality* and an excellent musician, composer, producer, guitarist and Ztarist. In my recent article on electronics for music I referred to him and his *Ztar* as part of m...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoEven the Dalai Lama isn't safe from hackers. Unknown cyber spies, most them operating from computer servers located in the People's Republic of China, used cloud computing systems, social networking platfo...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoA new thermal engine produces more energy than it consumes by tapping water temperature differences.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoAustrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner wants to attempt a record-breaking free fall from 120,000 feet above the Earth. It's not the kind of jump a person can do with a conventional sky-diving suit and helmet....
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours agoFrom: Adam GrovesEmail: adam.groves@oneworld.net Phone: +44-20-7922-7844 *OneClimate Channel enables everyone to attend World Climate Conference in Bolivia* *Media release * * *ople’s Climate Summit, whic...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoHow much does Tiger Woods dominate golf? A mathematician provides an exact answer.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA mystery surrounding drawings of dinosaurs spotted in a B-roll still for the Pixar movie "Up" has just been solved.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoNine recently discovered stone monuments in England predate Stonehenge but share similar construction and alignment with the famous megaliths.
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 day agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Richard Nixon sought the Presidency an underdog. To win he had to reshape American politics. He had to force a realignment which his strategist, Kevin Phillips, cal...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWho needs aspirin when cold, hard cash could ease your aches and pains?
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoNew research into the sharks' behavior suggests they might hunt giant squid in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAlthough it was designed to nuke cities, a Dnepr rocket launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome today carrying a critical mission into space intended to keep a close eye on the condition of Earth's "cryosphere."
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoCANADA/ENVIRONMENT - 184 new solar, wind and water "clean energy" projects will be up and running by 2012. They received the green light today. The renewable energy projects will supply almost 2,500 megawa...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAfter every national tragedy, from the Columbine school shooting to terrorist attacks to mine disasters, there is call for reform. Blame and outrage mix with sadness, spurring politicians and regulators to...
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAn early forecast for the 2010 hurricane season predicts an above average season. But it may be too soon to tell.
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 day agoZZZZZzzzzzz.....
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoTrillions of friendly bacteria live in our guts in a mutually beneficial relationship with their hosts.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPrecariously balanced rocks reveal that earthquake hazard maps often overestimate the risk of shaking.
- posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe University of Tokyo's JSK Robotics Laboratory recently unveiled Kojiro, a new humanoid robot designed to operate in a household environment. Built from lightweight, flexible material on a skeletal stru...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*Listen music and words from Comunidad Aylluñan amayumpi: **Contribution to the Harmony Work Group, at the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Bolivia* Working gr...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAt least 200 people were buried and feared dead under the latest landslide to hit a slum in Rio de Janeiro's metropolitan area.
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoWhy bother cleaning clogged arteries when you can simply grow new ones?
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA new species of human found in a South African cave lived around 1.95 million years ago, had smallish teeth and walked upright.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoWhy does warm water sometimes freezes faster than cold? A physicist says he has the answer.
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 days agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The U.S. Supreme Court has decreed: corporations are now people. They have been given rights that only real people had before. Worse --corporations remain 'privilege...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoPhysicists have created something akin to a black hole in their labs. It's on the atomic scale, that is, very, very small. But it's the first time anything like this has ever been done and the experiment c...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 days agoMilitary Police Complaints Commission told that military police had no idea what happened to Afghan prisoners after they were handed over to Afghan authorities, follow-up not part of job description. Swed...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe latest news about sea turtles makes me want to cry. Too many endangered turtles are still getting caught accidentally in fishing gear. Can environmental activists, engineers, the government, and fisher...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe Wildlife Conservation Society has just released a list of critically endangered species dubbed the “Rarest of the Rare” – a group of animals most in danger of extinction, from primates to horses. (Imag...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoNot much is known about flocking behavior in birds. Why does a group of birds moving in one direction suddenly veer, dive and swoop all together without missing a wing beat? To find out, scientists from Br...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAstronomers have discovered the coolest brown dwarf to date with some peculiar characteristics. Has a new class of brown dwarf been discovered right on our interstellar doorstep?
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days agoBy Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ It is spring, a time for less words and more beauty. Today's contribution is from the working group Referendum, which is underway online...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoClimate change has claimed two more of the moving icefields at this national park, reducing their numbers to 25.
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 days agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy There is not a shred of credible and/or admissible evidence to support the Bush administration's official conspiracy theory of 911. The theory is ludicrous on its fa...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA young humpback whale is clinging to life on an East Hampton beach. Rescuers are debating whether or not to sedate and euthanize it, but bystanders are frustrated that more isn't being done to save the wh...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 days agoCANADA - Canada's economy is the fastest growing of all the G7 Nations according to a new report released today that estimates Canada's economic growth was 6.2% during January to March 2010. The G7 is an ...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAstronomers may have finally explained a mysterious eclipse first observed in the 19th century.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe other day, I was driving down the freeway and I noticed that more and more billboards are going digital. They're like giant LCD televisions in the sky, promoting this or that with video, animated graph...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at Fondos para tu computadora - 2 days ago[image: Colección de 13 imágenes dedicadas a los casinos]*Nota:* *Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías.* Esta es una colección de 13 wallpapers donde los juegos de casino...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoSo not to feel left out, scientists at Fermilab have released their own rap video, but will it top the famous European nerdcore "LHC Rap"?
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA young humpback whale is clinging to life on an East Hampton beach. Rescuers are debating whether or not to sedate and euthanize it, but bystanders are frustrated that more isn't being done to save the wh...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe Soviets had long laid the blame for the 22,000 murders on Nazi Germany -- a lie told for decades to the Russian people.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days agoVIDEO: Glimpses of Indigenous Struggle now available at Earthcycles, http://www.earthcycles.net/, as we prepare for the World's People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, live fr...
- *Electronic music is more then* strange hisses and blurps, computers, tone-generators and complex electronic equipment. About 1966 I had the pleasure to work for the Dutch "Philips" company, where I got a...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoOvercoming a rare antenna breakdown, space shuttle Discovery successfully docked at the International Space Station early Wednesday.
- posted by Clark Boyd at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days ago"What to do with all that CO2?" It's a question that's always vexed me, especially when I'm stuck in traffic behind five semis, two SUVs, and we're all doing 85MPH while passing a plant like the one pictur...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoAnalysis of sandals buried with the boy king suggest the sometimes elaborate footwear was made to accommodate his club foot.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoSouthwest Airlines switches over to satellite navigation for landing approaches to save money on fuel.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago*Today on Native America Calling* *Wednesday, April 07, 2010– Tweaking the NAGPRA Rules: *Last month the National Park Service published a final rule that may be the key to unlock the door for the return of...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoAs the shuttle approaches retirement, a new deal has been signed by NASA to pay Russia $55.8 million per seat for six Soyuz flights to the space station from 2013 to 2014.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe initial shock and a brief tsunami warning sent residents fleeing from their homes.
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoArctic sea ice extent is at its largest extent since 1979 entering this year's melt season. Scientists will have to wait out the summer to to see how much of the thin, newly-formed ice survives.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoIt will be some time before we know for sure how the tragic explosion happened, but the findings could affect safety laws for mines across the country.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 days agoCANADA - The RCMP has been ordered to up security around Canada's Parliament Hill following security concerns that a gunman might try to attack the center of Canada's government. Thus RCMP officers will n...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago*While searching for videos to stream on Earthcycles in advance of the Bolivia Climate Summit, I found this wonderful video of our champion Floyd Westerman. --Brenda* Floyd Red Crow Westerman and Trevy ...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 days agoCANADA - The Canadian dollar briefly hit 100.12 cents US today, despite reports that Canada's economy during 2009 was actually in a deficit. The Canadian dollar is hot right now because of high oil prices....
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days agoJoin the Yankton Sioux, and the sounds of Elk Soldier, for the Decolonization Gathering, with special guest speakers Philip Lane, Jr., Chris Matonumpa, Mary Louise Defender Wilson, Simon Sedillo and more, ...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 days agoTECHNOLOGY - Think you're safe from thieves while you go to work or on vacation? Think again. Smart thieves are using information from your Twitter and Facebook accounts to determine when you go on vacat...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 days agoCARS - Imagine if someone could hack into your car and turn your brakes on or off just by using a laptop remotely. Well it could happen and its possible Toyota has been a victim of computer hackers from r...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoA blast of solar wind is currently pummeling Earth's magnetosphere, sparking the strongest geomagnetic storm so far this year, producing some stunning aurorae.
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at Fondos para tu computadora - 3 days ago[image: Paisajes de Italia (32 wallpapers de ensueño)]*Nota:* *Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías.* Sin tantos preámbulos, esta es una hermosa colección de 32 wallpaper...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoSome folks wash their hands or take Vitamin C, zinc or echinacea to keep colds and flus at bay. But a new study shows that looking at sick people could do it. Mark Schaller, a psychologist at the Universit...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoIt's time for a musical interlude as BBC Radio 1 plays host to DJ James Zabiela who mixes an inspiring selection of tunes with a decidedly spacey theme.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago*Listen and watch the Native American environmental movement icons of this era!* Norman Patrick Brown, Navajo, says there’s over 1,000 radioactive tailings sites today on the Navajo Nation. “How does on...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoHow could a colorful, 6-foot-long lizard go undocumented for so long?
- posted by Gene Charleton at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe Internet has come a long way since it transmitted its first message, "lo," in 1969.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe Internet, GPS and state-of-the-art eye tracking technology could be combined to enhance everyday experiences.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoMost robots are programmed. But this robot learns like a child, which can teach researchers more about human cognition.
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 3 days ago* * *MORE OF THE SAME* The print edition of The Santa Cruz Comic News is a monthly journal of progressive political cartoons. Each issue features well over 100 cartoons from the nation’s leading editori...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days agoBREAKING NEWS: Former Cherokee Nation Chief Wilma Mankiller dies Former Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Wilma Mankiller died in the morning hours of April 6 at her home in rural Adair County. (Courtesy ph...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoA hairless, long-tailed animal touted as being an "Oriental yeti" may actually be a sick, common mammal.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago*The Working Group "Climate Migrants" is at work online, as part of the World's People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, April 19--23, 2010 * *CLIMATE MIGRANTS GLOBAL CONTEXT ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoJordan Romero will be attempting to summit the world's highest peak with his father and father's girlfriend.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoWithout a functioning antenna, the astronauts aboard cannot relay data to Mission Control.
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoThe common symptoms of allergies may be generated by a defense the body developed to fight off parasites.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoTwenty-five coal miners died after an explosion ripped through a West Virginia mine.
- *Earthquakes keep us busy*. Are we getting accustomed to them? Italy, exactly one year ago. l'Aquila despite promises still a ruin. Haiti, hyped, with its impact on international "help" behaviors, but aft...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoJust for fun -- and for all you 2012 Mayan calendar and Nostradamus doomsday soothsayers -- what would happen if the LHC went haywire and a permanent black hole were really made?
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 4 days ago*The following is excerpted verbatim from Wikileaks. It is an account of the murder of civilians by the U.S. military which has absolutely NO legitimate business in Iraq in the first place! Out of Iraq now...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 4 days agoWikiLeaks has acquired from whistleblowers in the US military a video and the chilling conversations between two Apache helicopter pilots as they open fire on people milling about on a street in Baghdad in...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoSix out of seven of the world's marine turtle species are at risk of extinction. Fisheries aren't helping.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoThe CITES conservation meeting last month failed to protect shark species in danger of overfishing and habitat loss. What's next for the vulnerable predators?
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoNot being one to put all my eggs in one alternative fuel basket, I've long been tracking progress in cellulosic ethanol development--the kind of biofuel made from tough, inedible plant parts including agri...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoA recent poll by Harris interactive found that 14 percent of Americans suspect that President Barack Obama may be the Antichrist. Nearly a quarter of Republicans, and 16 percent of Democrats, responded thi...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 4 days agoFederal Investigation Finds Corporate Giants Received Billions in Small Business Funds ASBL March 25, 2010 Petaluma, Calif. – The Small Business Administration Office of Inspector General (SBA IG) has...
- posted by James Williams at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 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...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoOne of the world's most beautiful tortoises, Madagascar's radiated tortoise, is on the brink of extinction because illegal pet traders covet the eye-catching reptile, which is also hunted for its meat, acc...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 days agoWatch Video: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/04/05-6 A secret video showing US air crew falsely claiming to have encountered a firefight in Baghdad and then laughing at the dead after launching an...
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