- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 52 minutes agoA piece of pristine, hot rock from the earliest years of Earth's formation is found in northern Canada.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 52 minutes agoA recently discovered gene can jump across different species of bacteria and makes infections resistant to antibiotics.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 52 minutes agoChanges in the number of plankton in the world's ocean can affect how many hurricanes form, how strong they get, and whether they hit (or don't hit) land.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 52 minutes agoSmall-brained human ancestors used stone tools to whack into large mammals 800,000 years earlier than previously thought.
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 hour agoTime for Change (Bregtje van der Haak, VPRO Backlight 2010)
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 hour agoGagged for 6 Years, Nick Merrill Speaks Out on Landmark Court Struggle Against FBI’s National Security Letters
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 hours agoENVIRONMENT - Siemens Canada's new wind turbine factory is hiring 300 new employees to build blades for wind turbines. The plant's location will likely be between Hamilton and Windsor, in Ontario's "manufa...
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ENVIRONMENT - If you didn't think climate change and global warming can hurt the economy think again. Trading on Moscow's stock exchange has dropped 25% in the past five days as bankers, bond traders, inve... - posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 4 hours agoHEALTH - Scientists have discovered a new superbug in India and Pakistan which is resistant to most antibiotics and are warning of a possible global pandemic. The bug has already spread to the U.K. after 3...
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TECHNOLOGY - Famed astro physicist Stephen Hawking says the Earth is doomed and that mankind should flee to space. (We disagree with the doomed bit.) But really, if you're at all familiar with some of his ... - posted by Clark Boyd at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoThis coffin screws into the ground vertically. Read about 5 other unconventional methods of burial.
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 4 hours agoIndia’s flagship defence export Dhruv, an Advanced Light Helicopter which the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) claims as indigenous, is 90 per cent imported, states a report by the Comptroller and Audit...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 5 hours agoVarious models of homemade aircraft that represent self-owned intellectual property right and state-of-the-art technology will make their debut at Airshow China 2010 and perform demo. flight, such as the A...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 5 hours agoRELIGION - In 1998 Reverend Bill Irwin was sent as an emissary by the Roman Catholic Church and the Congregation of St. Basil to deliver a cheque to a former student of sex-offender Reverend William Hodgso...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoSome claim taking saunas in moderation can be good for you, but the human body can only take so much heat.
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoA material used for thousands of years could be key to creating a soft, Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak.
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoGet outside and watch the annual Perseid meteor shower while participating in the global social media event: #Meteorwatch.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours ago
Wednesday, 11 August 2010 Contact: Vernon Huffman, Co-Founder Bike4Peace 541-829-9043 vernon.huffman@gmail.com Bike4Peace Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photos by Scott *Bike4Peace 2010 to... - posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 17 hours ago
Remember the guy who said that there was a massive hole in the sea floor that BP was covering up? He is now horizontal. Matt Simmons apparently drowned at his home Sunday night Perhaps he forgot his arm... - posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 18 hours agoZionism is a thorn in the world's side. Like all forms of politico-religious collective extremism, it is deceptive, cruel, and arrogantly self-righteous. Zionists have overstayed their welcome in the Middl...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoOrangutans act out meaning in a behavior that was previously thought to be uniquely human.
- posted by Zahra Hirji at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoA new study suggests that sewing biochar into fields could sequester 12 percent of the world's excess greenhouse gases.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoThe worst landslide in sixty years in China may be part of the aftermath of a devastating 2008 earthquake. Some of the country's problems with land use and over-development may also have played a role.
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoWe've seen their dazzling beauty, but what exactly is going on in this technicolor picture of the Antennae Galaxies?
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- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours 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 Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoJust what is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator looking for?
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAlthough typically a sign of an ancient, unchanged landscape, a new crater has been discovered on the Moon, reminding us that we still live in an intergalactic shooting gallery.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoTECHNOLOGY - Electricity can be stored for long periods of time inside ionized gas. Using microwaves and a glass container the process is relatively simple and scientists have known about it for decades, b...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSuch bans cut jobs, push recycling to the black market and don't address the growing number of electronics thrown away in developing countries.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoRecord heat and floods in Europe and Asia match climatologists' predictions, but experts are cautious about interpreting events as signs of man-made warming.
- posted by David Teeghman at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoTwo doors that lead into mysterious shafts deep inside the Great Pyramid have been shut for 4,500 years.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoPOLITICS - Yesterday North Korea fired an artillery barrage of approx. 120 shells off the coast of South Korea in an escalation of the ongoing feud over the sinking of the Korean ship Cheonan on March 26th...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoPfc. Manning and the Value of Truth By Ray McGovern Consortium News We are living in a liminal time, that is to say we live on the threshold. So much that we have taken for granted is passing. In times...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoPOLITICS - Fidel Castro turns 84 next week but he is as feisty as ever. In a speech before the Cuban parliament Saturday, his first official visit in 4 years, Fidel Castro accused the United States of seek...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoCARS - Honda Canada is recalling 44,000 vehicles because of a faulty ignition interlock which breaks too easily and can result in the car rolling down a hill when the parking brake is not set. The recall ...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoCANADA - Canada's largest and wealthiest city isn't immune to homelessness and crime. If anything statistics have shown the two go hand in hand. When an inmate is released from prison in Toronto they're gi...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoEverything Is A Lie: The Deliberate Intent To Deceive People Is At An All Time High ** *By Marco Torres* Prevent Disease August 10, 2010 From pollution to politics, the era of deception and duplicity ha...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoThe Government is Dealing with the Oil Spill Like the Soviets Dealt with Chernobyl By Washington's Blog The Soviet Union was famous for covering up its environmental disasters. As award-winning journalis...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*Awesome Weekend * *By James Swan, United Urban Warrior Society, SD Published with permission* *.* Greetings friends! We just got back from "Green Grass" (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe) My Rez. LOL. We left...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoResearch shows that those with idle hands are not as happy as than those with a lot to do.
- posted by Zahra Hirji at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA new theory argues that the first life on Earth got started "between the sheets" -- sheets of flaky mica minerals, that is.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWithout cats, dogs, cows and chickens, we may not have made it this far.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoChemicals like BPA that leach from plastic waste have been linked to reproductive, developmental and other health issues.
- posted by Teresa Shipley at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA Montana judge's ruling sparks heated debates between ranchers, conservationists and states' rights advocates.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agoA whale will typically repeat the same phrase over and over again for about two to four minutes. Of course it doesn't sound like ridiculous bullshit when a whale does it. . Harper : "The economy remains th...
- *Since I'll be off a few days* it left me with some concern about L2D2(Linda), who had several questions about safely partitioning her hard drives. I have written about that earlier. Partitioning a hard dri...
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- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoThree Indian private companies with ambitions in the defence sector won a major battle when they were invited to compete, on level terms with the public sector, in developing a Future Infantry Combat Vehic...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoWith most of our armour unfit to fight at night, the project is crucial. In March this year, during trials in the Rajasthan desert, the Defence R&D Organisation’s Arjun tank conclusively outperformed the R...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoA Canadian Forces Chinook helicopter was struck by small arms fire, forcing it to make an emergency landing Thursday in dangerous Panjwaii district, west of Kandahar City, Canadian Forces confirmed on Satu...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoA federal jury in Hawaii on Monday convicted a former B-2 stealth bomber engineer of selling military secrets to China.Noshir Gowadia was convicted on 14 counts, including conspiracy, violating the arms ex...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoRussia's MiG-35 multirole fighter aircraft has failed to make the short-list in a $10 billion international tender for 126 combat aircraft for the Indian air force, according to Indian media reports quoted...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 1 day ago*"We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of sava...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoExcruciating heat may already have claimed tens of thousands of lives in Russia, and pollution from rampant wildfires is adding to the death toll.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoBike4Peace press statement Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Photos by Scott, thank you! SOUTHERN UTAH -- She spent twelve years in the US Congress and a week in an Israeli jail. Now she's ...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoInfomercial king Kevin Trudeau returns to the airwaves selling a New Age idea recycled from the hit book "The Secret."
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*Navajo environmental activist Earl Tulley announces candidacy for vice president with Navajo Presidential hopeful Lynda Lovejoy* By Brenda Norrell copyright Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoThe Tears of Gaza Must Be Our Tears By Chris Hedges When I lived in Jerusalem I had a friend who confided in me that as a college student in the United States she attended events like these, wrote up rep...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoFrom ustogaza.org: Dear Friends, This is an important moment in history. In the aftermath of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla massacre and increased world-wide scrutiny of Israel’s blockade of Gaza, the Israeli...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*Armed Chilean forces set to annihilate 100s of unarmed indigenous Rapanui people *PRESS RELEASE BREAKING NEWS Contact: August 9, 2010 Santi Hitorangi (845) 596-5403 Susana Hito (845) 371-2100 *Pacific Isl...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoVolkswagen just debuted a prototype for a new vehicle lovingly dubbed the "Bio-Bug" that runs on processed sewage.
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 day agoThe Guardian Jo Adetunji guardian.co.uk, Sunday 8 August 2010 Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli whistleblower who spent 18 years in jail for exposing Israel's nuclear capabilities was released today after ...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoBest case scenario: the life-denying regimes of Iran, Israel, and America all perish, and rational citizens take back their governments from each country's corrupt oligarchy and military; all governments a...
- posted by David Teeghman at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoFly ash, a by-product from the combustion of coal, has shown promise for soaking up oil in water.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe smog from the peat and forest fires burning in the countryside outside the city has choked Moscow for days.
- posted by David Teeghman at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoScientists have recreated an imaging system to mimic a bee's field of view, which could change the way we build mobile robots and small flying vehicles.
- posted by Clark Boyd at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA digital safety deposit box lets you store the passwords to your online accounts, which a beneficiary can access.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoPlant-dwelling insects have a unique defense system that zeroes in on smelly animal breath.
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoWhat does it take to be a successful planet hunter? According to Caltech astronomer John Johnson, it requires a combination of "painstaking care in data analysis, and a lot of waiting -- patience, patience...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAn urban legend has developed over the years that the colors in modern astronomical photos are made up in a paint-by-numbers game by publicity-hungry astronomers.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 days agoFour "Rethink Alberta" billboards in Denver, Portland, Seattle and Minneapolis proclaim the "Alberta Tar Sands Oil Disaster" is worse than the Gulf Oil Spill Disaster : There's also a vid: Alberta...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 2 days agoThe Government of Iraq has signed an agreement with the U.S. for 10 Iraqi Air Force pilots to begin prerequisite F-16 training. This agreement follows the request submitted by the GoI to purchase 18 new Bl...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 2 days agoThe Obama administration plans to sell advanced F-15 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia but won't equip them with long-range weapons systems and other arms whose inclusion was strongly opposed by Israel, diploma...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe new drug could be the most promising painkiller since morphine was introduced.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoWomen commonly sacrifice comfort for fashion, but their choices in footwear may have a lasting impact.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAnimal conservationists have created a Top 10 list of "Wanted Alive" amphibians.
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 2 days agoRobert Sapolsky: The Uniqueness of Humans - Class Day Lecture 2009, Stanford University
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 days agoCANADA - When Toronto banned pesticides in 2008 they did so without thinking of the consequences. The goal of the pesticide ban was to make a group of parent activists happy, because they were upset about ...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 2 days agoIf the public can be deluded, confused, misinformed, deceived, duped, misled, terrorized, mystified, scammed, provoked, excited, agitated, appeased, subdued, restrained, repressed, charmed, betrayed, cheat...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThirty-five years after the term "global warming" was coined, a stark reminder of its symptoms reared its head in the Arctic.
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 3 days agoA MiG-21 fighter jet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed in the eastern Indian state of Assam, local media reported.The pilot lost control and the aircraft fell on a paddy field some 25 km from the city ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 3 days agoA week after an Israel Air Force helicopter crashed in Romania, the IAF again deployed overseas on Thursday, this time to Hungary where it flew two fighter jets and a transport aircraft.The deployment in H...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 3 days agoThe Defence Ministry told CAG that it had ordered for the Milan-2T missiles, despite its low range, as a stopgap till selection and induction of a third generation missile. "The fact remains that the low c...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 3 days agoThe eyeball-to-eyeball deployment of well armed forces of India and Pakistan along the Line of Control notwithstanding, the Indian Army has sounded its arch rival for some “help”. This one is for concern o...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 3 days agoIt took six days and four stops for six Pakistan Air Force pilots to fly six F-16Bs over 7,700 miles from Mushaf Air Base in northern Pakistan to Las Vegas to fly and train in Red Flag 10-4 and Green Flag ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago*San Francisco**** Indigenous Peoples Day Films **and Events* *By AIM-WEST* Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photo: Hopi Thomas Banyacya, among those who led the struggle for the UN Declarati...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 3 days agoColombian ex-Pres Alvaro Uribe has been appointed Vice Chair to the U.N.’s four-member international committee investigating the Israeli commando attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in which nine people we...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 3 days agoFidel Castro speaks against war to Cuban parliament By Rosa Tania Valdes Reuters Former President Fidel Castro addressed Cuba's parliament in his first public government act in four years Saturday, a...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 3 days agoFidel Castro speaks against war to Cuban parliament By Rosa Tania Valdes Reuters Former President Fidel Castro addressed Cuba's parliament in his first public government act in four years Saturday, and...
- *Suddenly the discussion was there*, about the Linux Gnome file manager "Nautilus". It would be a memory hog for those with small computer footprints, small memories in particular. I looked up when my Oper...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 3 days agoFederal Reserve to start the deflation fight next week, expert claims Paul Sheard, Nomura's chief global economist, argues that the current conditions are ripe for the American central bank to take affirma...
- posted by Zahra Hirji at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoGeologists disagree over when exactly the Himalayas rose up from the collision of India and Eurasia. The answer, it turns out, may lie in frog genes.
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 3 days agoHumanity is waking up. 9/11 Truth Sweden and Denmark
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 3 days agoHistorian Tony Judt died yesterday. Tony Judt - In Defense of Academic Freedom - 12 Oct 2007
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 3 days agoIs Iran, like Iraq, 'Asking for War'? By William Blum August 4, 2010 Consortium News If and when the United States and Israel bomb Iran (marking the sixth country so blessed by Barack Obama) – and this s...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 days agoCensored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Photos by Scott and Cynthia McKinney, on the road. Bike4Peace, with Cynthia McKinney, is now in Utah. They were in Cedar City yesterday, Friday, and due ...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 4 days agoPOLITICS/RELIGION - A religious war is brewing in China and its not between the usualy suspects. Christianity is growing rapidly in *China* and now is estimated to have approx. 100 million Christians, whic...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 4 days agoMilitary Aircraft, DefenseIn the same week that the Chengdu JF-17 Thunder combat aircraft made its international debut at the Farnborough airshow, the product of this co-development between China and Pakis...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 4 days agoAzerbaijan will buy Turna unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for training and target practice from Turkey, the Baku based ARA news agency reported. "Negotiations on a deal are underway with Turkey," Turkish m...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 4 days agoJapan is examining the possibility of continuing production of the Mitsubishi F-2 to bolster its fighter fleet in the face of growing Chinese capability, adding some 20 aircraft to the 94 (plus four protot...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 4 days agoSerbia has delivered the first three of 20 military training aircraft to Iraq as part of a 100-million-dollar weapons deal between two former allies, the defence ministry said Friday.Iraq was the largest e...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 4 days agoFrom self-proclaimed former economic hitman himself, John Perkins. In North America we've mostly been ok with this stuff happening to the rest of the world but gradually we are seeing more of it come ho...
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