- posted by Clark Boyd at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoBeautiful, isn't it, this Icelandic volcano whose name looks like someone slammed his head repeatedly against a keyboard. Go on, look at it. Eyjafjallajökull. Now, try to wrap your tongue round it. I’ve go...
- posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 3 hours ago*Finding New Age opinions too nebulous?* Then discover in the news that a honorable cleric from Iran, ayatollah *Aziz Khoshvaqt*, has warned that 'disaster will follow sins'. Some days before ayatollah *Ka...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 hours ago*VOICES OF INDIGENOUS WOMEN: Ofelia Rivas, O'odham Voice Against the Wall, and Michelle Cook, Navajo, live from the Bolivia Climate Conference. *http://www.ustream.tv/recorded Ofelia Rivas, founder of ...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoLast summer, Miriam Goldstein led a research cruise to the North Pacific Gyre to see how much plastic there was and whether it was making its way into the food chain. What she found astounded her.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoGot a window and some time on your hands? On this Earth Day, find out how you can help researchers document climate change in action.
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoBlack holes get a bad rap, and often its deserved, especially when the supermassive behemoth at the center of your galaxy is blowing away all the star-forming fuel.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoImagine dumping a week's worth of trash into a bathtub full of water and then stirring it with a paddle. That's basically what's happening in parts of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, only worse. To figure...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours ago
*Reporters Notebook* Article and photos by Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com . COLOMI, Bolivia – While the crowds cheered and the band played on, the flags were waving. Firewor... - posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoThe stomach of a gray whale found near Seattle last week was chock full of garbage, including lots of plastic. Plastic is the most abundant form of trash in the region's waters, research has found, and it ...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoThere's little scientific evidence supporting a link between cell phones and cancer, yet hoaxes and media scares raise alarm with the public.
- posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 17 hours ago*A good wine needs its years*. Connoisseurs of that drink will agree, but so will users of *WINE*, the Windows-API for Macintosh and Linux computers. Sometimes its appears from publications that this WINE ...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoBenjamin Franklin's portrait is set to undergo a modern makeover in an attempt to keep counterfeiters at bay.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoAt least 11 workers are reported missing after the explosion sent a column of fire into the night sky.
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoRestaurants tend to serve bluefin and bigeye, which have higher mercury levels, DNA testing finds.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoPlease check out this week's Discovery News story on how male monkeys hold infants in order to make friends with other males. The basic finding is that male Barbary macaques purposefully hold infants in or...
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoThere are safety-warning labels on cigarettes and alcohol. Now some groups are advocating that similar cautions be printed on cell phones. Recently, a bill in the Maine state senate proposed a label warnin...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoAlthough they may be entertaining, brain games probably won't make you smarter.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoA garbage dump in Catalonia, Spain, has just yielded an eleven-million-year-old new primate, according to the science news service SINC. Named Pliopithecus canmatensis, after the site (Can Mata in the Val...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 23 hours ago
The Berkeley Daily Planet Cornell, TP and Yoo From Matt Cornell Tuesday April 20, 2010 According to a press release from Los Angeles artist Matt Cornell, students at UC Berkeley were surprised to disco... - posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoYes, there are water bills even in space -- especially as space shuttles stop delivering water.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoBolivian President Evo Morales speaking on the Rights of Mother Earth now in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Photo copyright Brenda Norrell/Censored News Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blog...
- posted by Gene Charleton at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoTo hear some engineers tell it, they feel a lot like Rodney Dangerfield. And because they get no respect, a lot of the top engineers are leaving the profession for jobs where they’ll be better known.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA cute infant will apparently attract attention no matter what the species.
- Url to LJzra: here and the song here. I found this very 'instructive' and full of humor... Interesting though is the reference to old Arabic words, like 'ay',and 'aya' (think of *Ire*-land) meaning island...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoI used to dream of a time when turning vehicles into plug-ins would be as easy as going to get a tuneup. While conversion companies and kits have existed for years, the risk and expense hindered large-scal...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoMelting glaciers around the world could trigger a global uptick in eruptions by the end of the century.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoBy Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com COCHABAMBA, Bolivia -- After being stranded in Peru all night at the airport, Timbisha Shoshone Chairman Joe Kennedy and Western Shoshone e...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 day agoYoutube From: wordgeezer April 19, 2010 Now, listen up you arm chair revolutionaries, this happened on G. Duhbya Bush's watch,so don't go blamin Obama. It''s true that Obama works for the same shadow g...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe U.S. military has a history of giving the world transformational technology -- and they're at it again.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoMichelle Cook, Navajo, arrives at the La Paz airport in Bolivia, along with Jose Matus, Yaqui, ready to participate as grassroots delegates to the World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoPOLITICS - There is a small but growing number of Americans who are unhappy with the direction the United States is going. First the recession, then the bank bailouts by the Bush Administration, then a bla...
- posted by Talal Al-Khatib at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe first president of the United States may not have been able to tell a lie, but he apparently had no problem dodging library fines. More than 220 years ago, George Washington walked out of the New York ...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIlliterate Maya people buried items and even relatives under their homes as a way of recording their histories.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoEarthcycles is streaming live now from Bolivia at the World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth: http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWhile a volcano eruption in Iceland has cast a cloud over Europe, North America will remain in the clear.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoDiscovery took a rare path over America's heartland as it descended to a smooth landing in Florida.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoMysterious lines on the deserts of the Near East are massive ancient hunting tools, researchers conclude.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 days agoOn CBC's *As It Happens* last night, they were interviewing someone from Kenya who was unable to ship his flowers and produce to Europe by air due to the ashfall from Iceland's unpronounceable volcano. W...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoUPDATE: This time, the shuttle did land after a U.S. flyover, read "Shuttle Discovery Glides Home" for more details. ORIGINAL POST: Much of America will have a chance to witness space shuttle Discovery's d...
- posted by Clark Boyd at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoBack in 2000, the community of Walkerton in Ontario, Canada suffered a horrific contamination of the water supply by E. coli bacteria. At least seven people died, and hundreds became sick. Industrial desig...
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe new Wild West may actually be in Eastern Europe.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA review of a new physics book with a difference: It's an adventure of global proportions, it explains complex physics in a non-threatening way, and there's humor thrown in for good measure.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe "top 40 nature photographs of all time," as selected by the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP), will be auctioned by Christie's International on April 22 in honor of Earth Day.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoOne of the top geoengineering schemes to address global warming calls for injecting aerosols into the stratosphere, similar to a ginormous volcano eruption. And look--there's a ginormous volcano erupting r...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoHominids may have evolved thumbs long before they figured out how to make tools.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAfter days of flight deadlock, European officials have designated zones for air travel to help bring stranded passengers home.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe British government recently conducted an inquiry into whether homeopathy is a scientifically valid and effective treatment. The results are in, and homeopaths won't be happy.
- posted by Talal Al-Khatib at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoApril 19 is a heavy day in history. Fifteen years ago, a truck bomb blasted through the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, claiming the lives of 168 people. Two years prior, April 19 marked the end of the ...
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 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 Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAntimicrobial molecules contained within green tea may help preserve teeth (as long as you don't add sugar).
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoNot since 9/11 has air traffic been disrupted so much. So far, the volcano in Iceland has disrupted tens of thousands of flights across Europe as it spews ash into the atmosphere. According to the European...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoHow exactly do scientists go about counting every single microbe that inhabits the oceans?
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoSpace shuttle Discovery had to skip two landing opportunities on Monday and will try again early Tuesday.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe new Texas dino featured a skull with a domed top and side bones that may have allowed its skull bones to mesh on impact.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago*Native Americans Delegations arrive in Bolivia* UPDATED Tuesday By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrrell.blogspot.com Native American delegations are now arriving in Boliva! Jose Matus, directo...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoMassive chunks of frozen water are detected within the moon's perennially shadowed polar craters.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoUPDATE: Due to poor weather over Florida, Discovery's landing has been delayed until Tuesday. NASA has updated the shuttle flight path accordingly, showing a route favoring eastern U.S. cities (see diagram...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 3 days ago(Monday night update below) On Thursday, the US Dept. of Defense issued a presser from Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates praising Colombia as an "exporter of security" and "a model for the region" in its...
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoA cooling neutron star has been probed in the hope of understanding its interior. However, using data from the Chandra X-ray Telescope, researchers have returned more questions than answers.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoAsh affects engines in strange ways, sometimes "turbocharging" them for short periods of time.
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoPresident Obama’s new direction for NASA will help us better pursue fundamental questions about the universe: are we alone? Can we avert lethal space debris?
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago"Give the people our love from the Akwesasne Warrior Society, here they are trying to "corral" the "subjects." They are trying to widen the seaway and deepen it so ocean going vessels can bring their shit ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago*Bolivia climate change talks to give poor a voice *Andres Schipani in La Paz and John Vidal Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/, Sunday 18 April 2010 19.25 BST Melting Andes glaciers pose a threat to Boliv...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoOn Monday morning, be sure to wake up early for an opportunity to see and hear the shuttle fly over North America on its approach to Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoSpace Shuttle Discovery will do a rare flyover of a large swathe of North America on Monday morning. But don't underestimate the double-sonic boom the shuttle will make during the flyover, it might wake yo...
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