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Google FriendConnect - posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoA British minister proposes health warning labels on fashion photographs, concerned about their influence on young women. But what does the science show?
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoThe oil spill in Michigan, though small compared to the Deepwater Horizon, raises questions about the country's network of oil and gas pipelines.
- posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 5 hours agoUrl movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7MVPQlYCA4 *He is everywhere on the Internet*. I'd never heard of him before..., the man from Myanmar or Burma. John
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours agoPhoto: Rain clouds over Navajoland. Photo by Brenda Norrell. Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 8 hours ago*Action Alert * ** *AMERICAN INDIAN ISSUES, THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION and UNITED NATIONS REVIEW OF THE UNITED STATES RECORD* * *By James Zion Phot...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 8 hours agoBy Charles Moffat - July 2010. HEALTH - When I went off to university in 1999 one of the things my parents decided to do (likely due to worry when they saw the size of my students loans) was sign me up fo...
- posted by Zahra Hirji at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoA surge of lava flows from Kilauea volcano are threatening the town of Kalapana. One house has already been lost and two more are in immediate danger.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoContrary to what you might believe, a clear, blue ocean isn't necessarily a good thing.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoThe leak itself may be plugged, but the long-term impact of the spill may not be felt for decades.
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- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoCatalonia's move to outlaw the centuries-old tradition may have more to do with regional identity than animal rights.
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- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoA special mold constructed from fly eyes coated in nickel could improve solar cell efficiency.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoThe buyer paid $45 for a collection worth an estimated $200 million.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoFor extreme hobbyists, the new kit offers a chance to launch personal projects into space.
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 14 hours agoThe US military covered up a reported surface-to-air missile strike by the Taliban that shot down a Chinook helicopter over Helmand in 2007 and killed seven soldiers, including a British military photograp...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 14 hours agoBy Leithen Francis Australia has discovered that an engine failure on an NH Industries MRH90 transport helicopter was caused by the compressor blades fracturing after coming into contact with the engine ca...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 15 hours agoAn Iraqi military helicopter has crashed in a sandstorm southwest of Baghdad, leaving all five of its crew dead, the commander of the country's air force says. The five-man crew of the helicopter was kille...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 17 hours agoA Russian helicopter allegedly hijacked by militants in Sudan has returned unscathed to its home base in the province of Darfur on Tuesday, a Russian aviation company said in a statement.Earlier on Tuesday...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 18 hours agoWorried by insurgent ambushes on its soldiers in Afghanistan and return fire that sometimes kills civilians or local allies, Germany last year ordered a small fleet of Israeli Heron spy drones designed to ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 18 hours agoVenezuela may soon buy several Russian military transport aircraft, a department head for Russia's state-controlled arms exporter Rosoboronexport has said.Russia has already exported Su-30MK2 Flanker-G air...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 18 hours agoA Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) commando died after he plunged to the ground when his parachute failed to open.Hasnizam Ab Wahid was training with 25 of his colleagues at the RMAF airbase in Gong Kedak ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 18 hours agoP. S. Suryanarayana Share India and Vietnam agreed in Hanoi on Tuesday to strengthen their defence cooperation. The modalities of implementing the 2009 memorandum of understanding in this domain were discu...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 18 hours agoThe Iranian Army Air Force plans to stage massive and countrywide air drills this week, a senior commander announced on Monday."The wargames to be held on Mordad 9-16 (July 31-August 7) through collective ...
- *There are people and there are heroes*. I consider WikiLeak founder *Julian Assange,* the Australian internet activist, a hero. He and his team reveal on their websites secrets deliberately kept from us, ...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoHunting for the Higgs boson isn't like trying to find one needle in a haystack (as the proverbial saying goes), it's like trying to find one needle in a Chicago-sized city filled with haystacks.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoNASA's future may be up in the air, as Congress debates a myriad of options for the U.S. human space program, but 1,394 shuttle workers are getting a concrete reminder this week of what's in store -- no job.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSome dogs may look like their owners, but all dogs imitate their human companions.
- posted by Clark Boyd at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoOne push of a button and WikiLeaks put some 91,000 documents at the public's disposal.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe technology allows wildlife managers to find dead bison hidden under thick brush and dispose of the carcass before it can pose a threat to other animals or humans.
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 day ago*Keep your eyes to the sky and your feet in the mud...G:* ZZZZZzzzzzz.....
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAstronaut foods may appear indestructible, but many crew favorites don't retain their nutrition or palatability for even a year.
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoResearcher this summer hope to answer one of the oldest mysteries in weather science: why do hurricanes form?
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThis isn't an urgent call to arms, but it's a future date to consider. In 172 years time there's the possibility that we might be hit by an asteroid with potential to cause some significant global turmoil.
- posted by Josh Clark at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAlternative medicine has proven tricky to study, and sometimes dangerous to patients. Doctors are divided as to whether or not it has any merit at all.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoPOLITICS - Credit card companies in the United States Prime Rate are recommending business owners get small business credit cards to smooth their transactions and keep track of finances easier. The US prim...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA barge crashed into an oil well, sending crude spewing some 20 feet into the air.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoU.S. copyright law was modified to make it legal to hack smart phones, tamper with electronic book readers and bypass anti-copying technology on DVDs.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoDogs quietly sneak food when we're not looking, waiting for the perfect opportunity to bite, steal and nosh.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoLoving bonds can make small children more resilient to adult life's trials and tribulations.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoScientists still aren't sure what the phenomenon is, but experiments suggest the balls of fire may not actually be lightning.
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA video by a Japanese artist captures the entire history of nuclear explosions on Earth.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAlthough efforts to skim and burn the crude contained some oil, the real difficulty is finding it rather than cleaning it up.
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 o...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoCutting-edge imaging, filming and sonar technology will aid explorers as they conduct an inventory of artifacts and examine the state of the ship.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoTwo space probes are given a new lease on life after being rerouted for a mission to unravel the composition of the moon.
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- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoAjai Shukla In adversity, the saying goes, lies opportunity. Applying that principle, India’s indigenous defence complex is at a crucial moment where a resolute decision could make it a genuine supplier of...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoU.S. and South Korean warships and helicopters staged anti-submarine maneuvers off the Korean peninsula Monday meant as a warning to Pyongyang that aggression in the region will not be tolerated.The four-d...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoAlenia Aermacchi, has signed a contracts with the UAE for the conversion, configuration acrobatic aircraft of ten MB-339 A. This contract includes the upgrade of the MB-339A aircraft for the National Aerob...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoKuwait has surprised Boeing by asking for information on the F-15 Silent Eagle, making it the first non-operator of classic F-15s to express an interest in the latest version of the fighter.Paul Oliver, Bo...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoA helicopter carrying one Romanian and six Israeli soldiers crashed Monday in mountainous terrain during joint military training, the Romanian defense ministry said.There is no information on whether there...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoUnited States have delivered the first batch of Advance Medium Range Air to Air Missiles (AMRAAM) AIM-120 C5 to the Pakistan air force for its F-16 C/D block 52+ aircrafts. This will make the AIM-120 C5 to...
- *DROPBOX is one* of the most useful applications I have on my computers. With it I share important files across systems, synchronize my Tomboy notes, have contact with friends and share a special folder wi...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agoOne of the Wikileaks war logs released yesterday contained a friendly fire report filed by the 205th RCAG U.S. military unit which states four Canadian soldiers were killed and seven other Canadians and an...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoOne day it was pet rocks, now it's Silly Bandz. But what lies behind fads, and how have they changed?
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoDuring a flight on June 22, Melissa Jun Rowley joined a team of space engineering students from the University of Michigan aboard NASA's famous Weightless Wonder aircraft to document the group's participat...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoNaturalist Mark Fraser today shares a breathtaking video on the grizzly bear.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 days agoAt a "media availability" he called this morning, Taliban Larry was blindsided with questions on the publication of the Wikileaks war logs. Echoing U.S. National Security Adviser James Jones, Cannon said :...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA Kepler co-investigator has preempted the official announcement and leaked that the exoplanet-hunting space telescope has discovered about 140 Earth-like candidate worlds orbiting other stars.
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 2 days agoBy Hanif Khalid Pakistan will possibly test-fire nuclear missile tomorrow (Tuesday).Civil and military personalities will reach the test fire range in north Punjab through helicopters to watch the test fir...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoDuring the 24-hour-long operation, he received new facial muscles, skin, nose, lips, a jaw, teeth, a palate and cheekbones.
- posted by Teresa Shipley at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe largest species of rat ever discovered was about 50 percent larger than the common black rat.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 days agoENVIRONMENT - Ontario is in a race versus 8 American states to see who will get wind power factories by wind giant Vestas from Denmark. The company is planning to build factories for building offshore wind...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 days agoJulian Assange on Wikileaks release of 91,000 classified Afghan war documents from 2004 to 2009 to The New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel. "This is the story of the war since 2004. Like most ...
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe miniature mills could power a whole new generation of nano-sized devices.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 days agoCANADA/ENTERTAINMENT - Next year on August 31st 2011 Canadian television broadcasters will switch from analog to 100% digital broadcasts. The rabbit ears on your old TV will become completely obsolete. Ca...
- posted by David Teeghman at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoLasers have a natural advantage over conventional weapons -- their ammunition doesn't easily run out.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 days agoPOLITICS - In China Tony Hayward would have been shot for gross negligence. The Chinese government has zero tolerance for companies and individuals who fail to protect the safety of the country. Remember ...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA chariot that may have witnessed King Tutankhamun’s final moments is traveling outside Egypt for the first time in three millennia to join the "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" exhibit at t...
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoFrom a ship overrun with spiders to bed bug infestations at major clothing stores, is this the time of plagues?
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 2 days agoA helicopter on Monday morning crashed in eastern part of Afghan capital Kabul, Defense Ministry spokesman Zahir Azimi said. "A helicopter crashed in Pul-e-Charkhi area east of capital city Kabul," Azimi t...
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe finely serrated teeth of sharks are fearsome enough, but now scientists say that even touching the skin of a shark could harm you -- by infection.
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 2 days agoIndia on Monday successfully test-fired its indigenously developed interceptor missile, capable of destroying any incoming hostile ballistic missile, from the Integrated Test Range at Wheeler Island off th...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoIt's been a busy few days for the Mars Science Laboratory after NASA engineers and technicians attach the rover's 'eyes' and take it for a test drive.
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 days agoBrass hats and ass hats are not happy about what is called one of the biggest 'leaks in military history', certainly the biggest expose since Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers. Wikileaks has blown...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoDo we have an ethical duty to respect and preserve the natural environments of neighboring planets and their moons?
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 2 days agoIsrael and the United States have signed an agreement to make the Arrow II ballistic shield capable of shooting down missiles at a higher altitude, the Israeli Defense Ministry said on Sunday.The Arrow III...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 2 days agoThe black box of the MiG-27 aircraft, which crashed yesterday in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district, was retrieved today as the toll rose to three, with two more persons succumbing to their injuries. The b...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 2 days agoA senior commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced on Sunday that Iran is now capable of mass-producing its home-made ballistic missiles."We have reached a never-ending point in (in...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 2 days agoTurkish defence industry company KaleKalip, a Kale Holding company, will produce F135 engines of the F35 Joint Strike Fighters, Turkey's state minister for foreign trade said. F135 engine is being built by...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 3 days agoPreparation for the test-fire of India's own interceptor missile, likely to be conducted tomorrow at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) off Orissa coast, reached its final stage today.The target, a modified s...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 days agoCANADA - Canadians are hopping mad about the scrapping of the long form census and its not just politicians, economists, researchers, scientists, university professors and academics. The general public is ...
- posted by Zahra Hirji at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoA team of Canadian archaeologists is leading an expedition to find two British vessels that shipwrecked in the Canadian Arctic more than 150 years ago.
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 3 days agoSouth Korea and the United States will establish a new roadmap to outline a broader alliance by the year’s end in tandem with a changing security environment around the Korean Peninsula, the Ministry of Na...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 3 days agoFour state-of-the-art U.S. stealth fighters will join a massive combined air and naval exercise to be held by South Korea and the United States in the East Sea later this month in a show of the allies’ str...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 3 days agoIsrael's defense ministry said July 23 it was not looking to buy a sixth submarine from Germany at this time, after a German media report that Berlin had rejected an Israeli request for a subsidy.Israel ha...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 3 days agoBy WENDELL MINNICK, JUNG SUNG-KI and PAUL KALLENDER-UMZEU The potential market in Asia for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) could be more than 500 fighters in the next two decades, with Japan, Singapore...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 3 days agoA request for proposals for the Japanese Air Force's $10 billion F-X tender is expected as early as October, and the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet and Eurofighter Typhoon are preparing to duke it out for the ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 3 days agoAn Indian state seen as a bastion of an increasingly deadly Maoist revolt said yesterday it was asking for $1bn to counter the left-wing insurgency with a development surge.Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Rama...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 3 days agoQatar has asked a number of leading manufacturers to respond with proposals for an upgrade of its fighter fleet near the end of this month.This latest battle for supremacy in the Gulf fighter market is lik...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 3 days agoBy: Daniel Kostecka The ongoing debate in China over whether or not to formalize logistical support agreements for Chinese naval forces in the Indian Ocean is a natural outgrowth of the People’s Liberation...
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