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Senator Jeff Bingaman introduced a bill yesterday setting out proposals for a national Renewable Electricity Standard (RES). The RES would require utilities ...
By Christoph Steitz HUSUM, Germany (Reuters) - E.ON, the world's largest utility by sales, is confident it can grow operating profit at its renewables unit ...
By WILLIAM TREMAIN Six executives and a director at US Ecology Inc. bought $230000 in company stock last week with the share price near a 52-week low. ...
Fire Department hazardous materials crews from Kent, Auburn, Federal Way, Seatac, Tukwila, Renton and the Department of Ecology responded to the incident ...
But it almost certainly raises questions about whether the state Department of Ecology will issue new well permits without first requiring they be offset by ...
Dickson Company appeals the superior court's summary judgment dismissal of its negligence claims [ 1 ] against the Washington State Department of Ecology...
The two bodies of water would have come together to form a U-shaped curve. Assuming that the location existed as described, the east wind would have needed ...
By ED MITCHELL Guest commentary How to provide sustainable water for your children and grandchildren without stopping economic development was a key ...
WASHINGTON DC – Water Advocates hailed the Senate's passage Monday of the landmark Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act, which will help provide ...
PLEASANT HILL, CA (KGO) -- Crews are working to restore water service to about 40 homes in Pleasant Hill. The homes lost water service when an 8-inch water...
By SAMANTHA ABERNETHY AP Writer AP Promoting Colorado's renewable energy industry is key to generating jobs and easing dependence on foreign oil — but the ...
"The bill will help California achieve its renewable energy goals by allowing for increased solar installation, more jobs created and more renewable energy ...
Traditional renewables like wind and solar power qualify, as well as certain types of biomass and hydropower. Also eligible: retired fossil-fuel plants that ...
Earlier this month, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the principal research laboratory for the Department of Energy's Office of Energy ...
The Ecology Action Centre says the province has a history of subsidizing these kinds of projects in the belief it will create sustainable employment. ...
MADISON — Robert D. Bullard, who advocates for worldwide equality in ecological living conditions, will speak at 12 pm on Feb. 24 at Drew University in the ...
The state Department of Ecology is considering what enforcement action to take against Whatcom Waterfront Construction, which was in the process of removing ...
The panel will feature CSU experts, Jill Baron with the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Michele Betsill with the Department of Political Science, ...
By BARBARA BARRETT The Navy has agreed to pay $1.53 million for a mortality study that could show a linkage between toxic water at Camp Lejeune, NC, ...
Dianne Feinstein to temporarily move more water south from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. If passed, the measure could move an additional 10000 acre feet ...
By Jeff Barnard • AP • February 19, 2010 A century-old fight about water from Oregon's Klamath Basin ended Thursday with signed agreements that assure ...
"There is a shortage of treatment facilities that can handle this very salty water, so that's going to become a bit of a bottleneck for the industry when ...
It’s not every day that the solution to a worldwide “unexplained” mystery appears on prime time television—especially not in service of advertising potato chips. But a new television ad campaign from Pring...
I'm breaking my own informal rule and writing about yet another cool MIT innovation this week. After finding out about this off-roading wheelchair prototype, I think you'll forgive me. Amos Winter is a PhD...
It’s not every day that the solution to a worldwide “unexplained” mystery appears on prime time television—especially not in service of advertising potato chips. But a new television ad campaign from Pring...
On the February cover of The Catholic Register, the Church of the Talking Snake makes yet another desperate public plea to jetison their charitable status so that they can pay taxes just like everyone el...
The Vancouver games are in full swing by now, so it's time to check out one of the venues that led the city to boast its Olympics would be the "greenest games ever." The Vancouver Convention Centre, formal...
Even at $200,000 a ticket, the lines for a suborbital ride into space may soon be growing longer. The U.S. government is proposing to spend $75 million over the next five years to send science experiments ...
You never know what you're going to see on your way to work, but nobody expects a scene from "Jumanji." Commuters in Atlanta late Thursday afternoon must have done a double-take when a zebra trotted by the...
If you haven't heard about this new Web site yet, pull up a chair. Because you might make the next list of "new opportunities" of empty homes available for pilfering. A new Web site, called PleaseRobMe.com...
I swear I didn't make up that title as a fat joke. Honest. Last Saturday, Kevin Smith (the writer and movie director) launched a series of angry messages on Twitter directed at Southwest Air. According to ...
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Cuando estuve viviendo en la ciudad de Nashville, Tennessee, tuve la oportunidad de tomar más de 5,000 fotografías. Sin embargo, la falta de tiempo ha sido el impedimento para compartir con ustedes estas i...
Eighty clay figures depicting both animals and humans have just been excavated in Northern Ghana, according to information provided to Discovery News by the University of Manchester. Tim Insoll of the univ...
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Ronald Reagan was already a 'grandfather' figure when he came to office in 1981. It may be unfair to say that he won the election with a single phrase: 'Well....ther...
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*When you own an MS-only computer*, you are a lucky person! Then you haven't to worry about a few things you would encounter when you were collecting (!) different operating systems and desktops. You got ...
Smoke rises from the Austin, Tex. IRS offices after the attack (Alberto Martinez/Associated Press). On Thursday morning, a small plane crashed into the side of a building in Austin, Texas. But this was no ...
It's very easy to say that something is "impossible" when talking about technologies that appear to be more at home in science fiction storylines. And when it comes to warp drives -- the staple of Star Tre...
The Winter Olympics haven't just been a public test of Shaun White's hype, Lindsey Vonn's shin, and Johnny Weir's verve--they've also been a test-run for Chevy's plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, the Volt. ...
Dr. Zahi Hawass, the head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, unveiled new evidence for King Tut's lineage and cause of death at a packed press conference on Wednesday. Hawass confirmed the principa...
Since the recent discovery of abrupt climate change -- that big changes can come quickly -- researchers have been looking for "warning signs" to help us avert "regime shifts" that could suddenly alter thin...
At least 3.1 million people die of AIDS each year, reports Yale AIDS watch, and scientists have identified a comparable disease, dubbed "Koala AIDS" or "KIDS," which is spreading among the gentle, cuddly m...
Today, the British Ministry of Defence and the British National Archives released 24 files containing more than 6,000 pages of UFO-related information to the public. The material covers reports of sighting...
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*From the simplistic to the bizarre* is for astronomers and astro-physicists a rather small step. Innovative and expensive remote research about the nature of our planetary system shows it. Seeking more ...
Every great once in a while, you come across something that makes you slap your head and say, "That's...just...brilliant." No, I don't mean the soccer ball pictured here. Well, actually, I DO mean the socc...
Could interstellar gas put a speed limit on warp drive propulsion? (NASA/Ian O'Neill). If mankind ever gets off this rock and becomes an interplanetary race, what's next? If we're colonizing Mars, mining t...
The year 2010 is an interesting space nexus. Science fiction fans will wistfully think of the Arthur C. Clarke novel "2010: Odyssey Two." In this literary sequel to the 1968 seminal film classic "2001:A Sp...
"The code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules." -- Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl There's some minor rumblings in the physics blogosphere about the latest r...
There's no question the polar bear has pretty much lapped the field in the "big, furry mammals at risk from climate change" stakes. But according to a new paper in the journal Climatic Change, there is ano...
CANADA - According to retired premier Lucien Bouchard, Quebec sovereignty is dead. The statement came today as the former Parti Quebecois leader, the most popular leader in the history of the Quebec separ...
The fun-loving folks blogging on behalf of the Large Hadron Collider offered a real treat to particle physics fans this week, especially those who know their history: an entire post devoted to playing with...
Humans are no strangers to ravaging the land, but the stars have proven a good deal more elusive. So far, our ethical concerns have remained limited to the contamination of extraterrestrial environments, b...
When Mark Twain said that the coldest winter he ever spent was a summer in San Francisco, he was talking about the fog and the strong afternoon winds that are set in motion by rising pressure differences b...
Late last year, a man named Rom Houben recovered from a coma. This was not a particularly noteworthy event, except that Houben had been in what doctors call a “persistent vegetative state” since 1983. Yet ...
We generally think of trees as one of our biggest natural allies in the fight against global warming. And they are -- they suck up billions of tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide every year. But in a...
Some animals identified as being dinosaurs may have evolved from birds, according to a recent paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Creationists are already all over this ...
According to the Chinese Lunar Calendar, we are now in "The Year of the Tiger." After 1.5 million years of existence, however, tigers could become extinct during our lifetime, according to the Wildlife Con...
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and, more recently, a philanthropist tackling AIDS and malaria is now turning his attention to clean energy. Last Friday, he spoke at the TED Talks in Long Beach, CA an...
The National Wildlife Federation has just named 11 animals that deserve gold medals for their extraordinary strength, speed, agility, endurance and other athlete-associated capabilities. River Otter (Credi...
Haven't heard much about the NAFTA Superhighway Trade Corridor since it got promoted from a conspiracy theory to a US Dept of Energy plan called the Western Energy Corridor, embraced by Alberta, Saskatch...
Now we know what the ideal menu would look like on the International Space Station, what's the nastiest packets of goop that would be left at the back of the orbital pantry?
Although launching food in space is a necessity, it doesn't mean it has to be boring. Space food has come a long way since the first manned flights into orbit, so here are ten of the best items on the menu.
On Valentines Day, 2,000 to 4,000 people marched through Vancouver's Downtown Eastside in the annual Women’s March for Missing and Murdered Women. A memorial march not a protest, it is organized and led b...
Opposite sides of North America have been experiencing some unusual weather the last few weeks, with multiple snowstorms pummeling the eastern United States, and snow noticeably lacking at the Olympics in ...
Gemini III launches, carrying Grissom, Young and a hidden corned beef sandwich into space (NASA). The 1960's were pioneering years for space exploration. Driven by Cold War politics, President John Kennedy...
ENTERTAINMENT/ENVIRONMENT - If you came to the Winter Olympics in Canada you might be a bit surprised by how warm it is: A balmy 9 degrees Celsius. Its so warm visitors are wearing t-shirts and going golfi...
posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at FOTOFRONTERA - 3 days ago
En esta ocasión, le ofrecemos una excelente colección de *15 fotografías de flores, rosas y arreglos florales* para todas y cada una de las mujeres hermosas que visitan *www.FotoFrontera.Com*. No olvide ha...
CANADA - The Conservative government in Ottawa wants to build a second bridge to Detroit, bypassing the Ambassador Bridge which has been the primary source of cross-border traffic since 1929. There are 26...
Modern tools of molecular genetics and X-ray analysis have shed new light on the legendary Egyptian "boy king" Tutankhamun, commonly known as King Tut. To learn more, listen to Discovery News’ interview wi...
When dinosaurs became extinct, some birds got fat and lost their ability to fly, concludes a new study that helps to explain the existence of modern hefty birds, like ostriches, rheas, kiwis, emus, and cas...
Revealed in DNA study: King Tut's family tree King Tut, the best-known pharaoh of ancient Egypt, has been puzzling scientists ever since his mummy- and treasure-packed tomb were discovered in 1922 the Vall...
TECHNOLOGY - The number of people with cellphone subscriptions worldwide has reached 4.6 billion and is expected to reach five billion by the end of 2010. Depending on where you live in the world cellphon...
I have to hand it to Anantha Chandrakasan, an electrical engineering professor at MIT. By harnessing small changes in temperature and tiny vibrations to develop battery alternatives, he's making micro-powe...
NBC prime time coverage of the Olympics is SO disappointing. Way too many commercials, for one thing. And although I like some of the back stories on the athletes and coaches, it really cuts into the time ...
NASA's Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft this month made its closest pass yet of the odd, eyeball-shaped moon Mimas, which bears the scar of a massive, violent impact from its past. The 88-mile wide Hersc...
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*These days thinking is a rare commodity*. In my contributions on this website I try to persuade you to *think*. I know that some criticize me for not bringing the latest pastry recipes or showing more li...
Thirty years ago in 1980, Canada joined the U.S. in a 64 country boycott of the Moscow Olympics to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. . Today, under cover of wall-to-wall Olympics news, Canada has...
A sample of the Murchison meteorite, plus a test tube containing powdered meteorite material (DoE) A meteorite that hit the town of Murchison, Australia, hasn't quit giving up its secrets. The Murchison me...
For the first time, the Missile Defense Agency destroyed a ballistic missile using an airborne high-energy laser. The event occurred during a test conducted off the coast of California by the Airborne Lase...
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 4 days ago
*"There has been no global warming since 1995"* [1]! Would you believe that? Well, I do, on the basis of my own facts. I didn't need the lies from a small group of "climate-scientists" who now may well be...
With so many smart meters being installed and smart appliances in development, how are they going to talk? A handy new wireless controller could help them speak the same language, and tell you what they're...
What astronomy needs is a good road trip movie, and NOVA is happy to oblige with a new series, "The Pluto Files," which makes its debut this Tuesday, March 2, at 8 PM (ET/PT) on PBS. It's based on Neil ...
CANADA - International companies Whole Foods Markets Ltd. and Bed Bath and Beyond are boycotting Alberta because of the Alberta tar sands and their continual production of greenhouse gases. Whole Foods op...
CANADA - Stephen Harper's Conservative government has set aside $200,000 for consultant phone calls to keep the Prime Minister up to speed on changes in America's war on greenhouse gas emissions. The $200...
CARS - If you're not familiar with the Tesla Roadster here's a quick primer: The Tesla Roadster Company: Tesla Motors Price: $120,000 CDN Layout: Rear Mid-engine, Rear-wheel drive Acceleration: 0–60 mph (0–...
TECHNOLOGY - This is quite possibly one of the best inventions ever made, especially if you really hate mosquitoes. On Friday a group of scientists revealed their new invention, a "Death Star" of sorts th...
CANADA/ENVIRONMENT - 1,700 doesn't seem like a small number does it? That is the average number of smog-related deaths that happen in Toronto every year. Its a mind boggling number when you compare it to T...
A massive dark star voraciously eating matter and dark matter until it is well over 100,000 times the mass of the sun (NASA/Ian O'Neill). Approximately 200 million years after the Big Bang, the universe wa...
TECHNOLOGY - It may be a bit unbelievable when you see it, but cell phones now have the ability to not only take photos and videos but project them also. The technology required to make portable projector...
The official Olympic schedule so far : "General Electric's entire board of directors, led by CEO Jeff Immelt, is making a long-planned trip to Vancouver for the first weekend of the games, after first sto...
Contests like the X Prize use the power of prize to throw the doors open on a problem to get all of us, or some among all of us, to go to work on a solution. (The secrets of crafting ...
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 6 days ago
*What makes men to men?* Why do we live? Where are we going to? How much time have we left? Aren't these the deeper questions each of us carries around through life? They intrigue me. Haven't we all our e...
SEX - Remember a couple years ago how you got drunk after work at the office Valentines Party and ended up drunk dialing your ex using the office phone system? Please don't do that again this year. In fa...
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 week ago
*Tommy Emmanuel playing "Angelina"* in a real relaxing way. I dedicate this music to (Ellinidata) *Angeliki*, who so often surprises me with her useful suggestions, insights you read in her blog and pithy ...
If 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...
A reconstruction showing the Globe in the foreground and the Rose behind Museum of London Archaeology Tudor theatergoers snacked on seafood while enjoying plays by Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, acco...
RELIGION - The Chinese Zodiac for 2010. TIGER 1998, 1986, 1974, 1962, 1950, 1938 You are in some kind of conflict. Your money and health signs are weaker and you could be prone to illnesses or accidents. ...
FASHION - Fashion designer Alexander McQueen was confirmed dead yesterday morning. The 40 year and 4 time British Designer of the Year hung himself in his luxury apartment. According to McQueen's twitter w...
Earlier this year, the Swedish clothing chain H&M ran into some trouble over its practice of slash-and-dump. When clothes didn't sell, store employees destroyed them, ripping the fabric to dissuade any fas...
The most comprehensive and systematic analysis of the environmental impacts of a changing climate confirms what many individual studies have found -- the arrival of warmer temperatures earlier in the year ...
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El próximo domingo, será el tan esperando *Día del Amor y la Amistad*. Sin duda alguna, este *14 de febrero*, será una excelente oportunidad para demostrar a nuestros seres queridos lo mucho que los amamos...
There's a new way to eat: it's called breathing. A professor of biomedical engineering from Harvard has invented a device that lets you taste chocolate without the calories. The product, le Whif, was inven...
First of all, I think it's very cool that Sweden has an entire research center devoted to winter sports. It's called The Swedish Winter Sport Research Center, and it has a simple goal: harness all manner o...
C.S.I.: Miami went where no episode has gone before this past week: into space! Specifically, the world of commercial space tourism. Maybe you caught the preview during Sunday's Super Bowl Game. If not, he...
The future of the Winter Olympics is uncertain and I fear that no amount of green tech will be able to save the snow. Vancouver's efforts to make the current games sustainable have been laudable, but globa...
UPDATE (4:00 am ET, Feb. 12): It would appear the initial reports of a "30 meter wide" crater may have been incorrect. No photographic evidence of the location of this mystery crater has emerged and AFP jo...
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 week ago
*To the mystique from Linux* belongs the GRand Unified Bootloader, or GRUB. That at the very outer border of your hard drive sits an even more impressive, but 512 bytes long Master Boot Record, or MBR, as...
Reconstructions of four of the most unusual animals to have ever existed were publicly unveiled this week at Stony Brook University, according to a press release issued by the university. The animals inclu...
According to a national survey released today by the Girl Scouts on the eve of New York City’s legendary Fashion Week, most girls are happy with their bodies and reject thin fashion models as unrealistic. ...
A new article just out in New Scientist suggests that the lawless seas off the coast of Somalia may be in serious environmental danger, as pirates allow fishermen to resort to destructive, unregulated fish...
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy We've grown up with a Christian-Roman version of European and world history, primarily the Fall of Rome. The Romans --we are taught --created a great empire characte...
A big aspiration for astronomers is to identify life on planets orbiting other stars. Thanks to NASA's Kepler mission we will know about the statistical abundance of Earthlike worlds in our galaxy in just ...
(NASA chief Charlie Bolden, in the control room during shuttle Endeavour's launch. Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA.) Will the next generation of astronauts be sporting corporate logos on their spacesuits? Anythi...
A United Nations panel has informed the government of Japan that its treatment of two Greenpeace activists is in contravention of several articles of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The pan...
posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at FOTOFRONTERA - 1 week ago
*El día del Amor y la Amistad* está a la vuelta de la esquina y nosotros continuamos ofreciéndote *las mejores imágenes* para que disfrutes al máximo esta fecha tan especial. En esta ocasión, compartimos c...
The Huygens probe as it descended through Titan's atmosphere in 2004. Could a similar delivery method seed life on other worlds? (NASA) The speculative mechanism of panspermia could explain how life formed...
In the wake of a series of flaws, human and otherwise, found surrounding Climate Change 2007 (aka the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fourth Assessment Report), suggestions are emerging about h...
On the trunk of a gnarled, centuries-old oak tree, about 90 miles southwest of Phoenix, Ariz., are odd carvings of six-legged, lizard-like beings. The tree is located at Painted Rock, an archaeological sit...
New fossils from the Middle Jurassic period show what at least one species of spider, Eoplectreurys gertschi, looked like when dinosaurs dominated the planet. Check out the incredible detail on this fossil...
This week at Discovery News you can read how recordings of Rush Limbaugh and Guns & Roses are being used in pest control research. Scientists are trying to rid forests of excess tree-eating beetles. We're ...
Valentine's Day is just around the corner. Whether you await the day with anticipation or curse the greeting card industry for perpetuating consumerism, chances are there's someone out there who expects yo...
After a stressful day fighting the battles of the real world, you sit down at your computer for a virtual vacation with only one destination in mind: Facebook.At the end of the day Muise and her colleagues...
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*If you don't know "Old Spice"* you're not a man, or you are a woman who doesn't know what to give as a gift to a man. *Old Spice* is an iconic American brand in the growing range of male cosmetic product...
A map of the Local Cavity (white region) with the sun located in the center. Dark regions represent dense interstellar gases and the small triangles represent the locations of the stars used in the analysi...
Jason Kenney explains the difference between anti-Semitism and legitimate criticism of Israel at yesterday's session of The Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism, Feb 8 2010 : Irwin Cot...
CARS - Did you know Toyota is one of the most reliable car brands available? Thus recalls to fix the pedals from sticking is a logical safety precaution in order for Toyota to uphold their reputation for s...
Snowmageddon churns along here in the Washington, DC metro area, preparing to bring us a possible 6-16 inches more of the white stuff (argh, Snowverdose!) today and tomorrow. And as we prepare to break som...
Does human civilization need nuclear energy if it's to survive the next century? Michael Reilly chats with nuclear scientist Hae-Yong Jeong to find out.
Meteorologists would like nothing better than to be able to tell you in no uncertain terms about the causes and effects of major weather events, but the truth is, day in and day out, the system they are tr...
Over 3,000 dinosaur tracks have been discovered in a gully at Zhucheng, China, according to a recent AFP report. I haven't seen any journal studies yet on this find, but it certainly sounds like one of the...
Avalanches roared down a mountain pass north of Afghanistan's capital, killing at least 28 people and leaving hundreds more stranded in their vehicles on snow-blocked roads.
Thanks to Medicare, which wouldn’t reimburse for the cost of a help-mate robot, Roxxxy the robot is now seeking employment in the adult entertainment business.
Enceladus' icy plumes glow as the small moon passes in front of the sun from Cassini's point of view in 2007 (NASA) Saturn's moon Enceladus contains a large body of water under its surface, new research ha...
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 week ago
*Solar cycle 24* is gearing up these days and is surprising physicists. The last 30 hours the Sun puffed some x-ray clouds around, luckily causing little effect on Earth. Nevertheless after a period of abo...
Everybody dies, but even after celebrities shuffle off this mortal coil their deaths get the Hollywood gloss. The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, didn’t die of a drug overdose; he was killed. This morning, o...
Earth can do strange things to continents. Like eat them, for example. Previously, the planet's hot interior was only known to have an appetite for ocean crust, consuming it in subduction zones around the ...
The Super Bowl is over, the Saints won, but most importantly, were the commercials any good? (Is it me, or is Danica Patrick wearing less and less clothing every year?) On Friday I gave a brief rundown of ...
Ultra-Micro Urban Architectural Wind. A clumsy name for really small wind power; smaller even than the residential turbines sometimes pressed into service in the urban environment (because wind makes so mu...
I have some exciting bean news that bodes well for struggling smallholder farmers in Africa. The Rwanda Agricultural Research Institute announced that it has unveiled 15 varieties of climbing beans that pu...
If 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 address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 week ago
*About 1690 Johann Pachelbel* was as famous as Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler or Hank Marvin are today. But then for baroque organ, bass, cello and violins. *Neurenberg*, Germany, at that time didn't know 'b...
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The establishment derides conspiracies and, for awhile, it was fashionable to deny the existence of 'conspiracies'. In fact, conspiracies are how things get done. Ve...
Sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean grew by an average of 13,000 square miles a day last month. Great news, right? Well, not so much. For one thing, it was January. Mid-winter. Sea ice cover is supposed to g...
When Hubble Space Telescope first photographed the strange comet-like object p/2010 a2 I just knew it would get attention among the X-Files crowd. The "X" pattern of dust debris, presumably from an asteroi...
Canwest : "Because the president cannot rely on Congress to pass the legislation ... sources say the agreement as structured would allow the White House to use executive power to treat sectors of the Cana...
From the National Film Board of Canada and Cinema Politica : *The Coca Cola Case* directed by Carmen Garcia and German Gutierrez "a searing indictment of the Coca-Cola empire and its alleged kidnapping, ...
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 week ago
Url movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byad8cmha5s *Any questions?* This works right out of the box or from the Xtranormalwebsite... It took me 20 minutes. My Opera e-friend *Mrs. Angeliki,* "Ellinidata...
I remember well the first time I set foot on Antarctica. It was, amazing as it seems to me, almost exactly 17 years ago: February 11, 1993. I was co-leader of a Greenpeace expedition to find Japanese whali...
Boa Senior died last week, ending ancient Andaman culture Alok Das/ Survival International A tribal language thought to have existed for 65,000 years has disappeared forever in India's Andaman Islands, tak...
As the Super Bowl weekend begins, excitement (or dread) is building for the infamous Super Bowl commercials that will grace our screens at half time. I'm hoping there might be one or two space-themed ads. ...
Submitted by guest blogger Debbie Salamone of the Pew Campaign to End Overfishing in the Southeast. Polar bears won’t be the only ones paying the price as the Arctic melts. The economic impact of losing th...
There are places around the Concord woods near Walden Pond that the naturalist Henry David Thoreau probably would not recognize. As climate has warmed in the northeastern U.S., many of the native plants th...
An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of "turtle of Angola," a Late Cretaceous reptile that was one of the earliest known marine turtles from Africa. The seafaring turtle, Angolac...
Usually water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit and temperatures below that. But now scientists - reporting today in the journal Science -- have found a way to keep water in a liquid form at -40 degrees F. ...
posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at FOTOFRONTERA - 2 weeks ago
Yo creo que todos admiramos la magia de los colores en cualquiera de sus representaciones. Por eso mismo y a manera de tributo a la famosa paleta de los pantones, les traigo el día de hoy 21 imágenes de co...
One of the more interesting online efforts to spring up in the wake of the Haiti earthquake is Wired's Haiti Rewired. It's part and parcel of an outpouring of great geeky thinking about how tech can help H...
Industry Minister Tony Clement reprises George Bush's 2004 "Hard Work" performance: "There’s no question that when we reviewed the situation there is a *lot of* *work* to be done. We’re doing *work* right...
Leroy Chiao, member of the Augustine Commission, shares his excitement for the future of U.S. human spaceflight and how companies are now taking the lead.
Somehow I don't think this is what Olympic organizers meant when they promised the greenest Games ever. Temperature today at Vancouver airport - a snow-sizzling 13°C A week from now Cypress Mountain wil...
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 2 weeks ago
*The cradle of democracy is in trouble: Greece.* It is a member of the European Union and in the so-called "Euro"-zone. The country is too small to carry its gigantic debts (300 billion dollar at a GNI of ...
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the amazing sounds of Saturn's rings, and how they have inspired composers to create their own "music of the spheres." Apparently the supernovae were feeling a little l...
It's been a good long while since the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in mid-air a few minutes after launch on January 28, 1986, killing all the astronauts (and one schoolteacher) aboard. Now some new ho...
This is normal. Most of the 1,600 or so quakes since January 17 have been very mellow. Yeah, it sounds like a lot of qukes to have happen in a couple of weeks, but the vast majority of these have ...
One of the biggest, meanest El Niño episodes of the 20th Century came and went and almost nobody noticed. It was 1918, a year when many people had their hands full just staying alive. The first World War w...
Giant pandas Tai Shan and Mei Lan will soon begin their new lives in China, destined for breeding programs that hopefully will improve the population status of their endangered species. At Discovery News, ...
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The time has come to abolish the CIA --*to smash it into a thousand pieces*--as JFK had promised! Its leadership should be dismissed and investigated. Where there is...
The Universe is 13.75 billion years old, primordial helium has been spotted for the first time and key evidence for the inflationary period immediately after the Big Bang has been found. But not all the ne...
Whenever anyone asks me what my superpower of choice would be, I always tell them: teleportation. Think of all the time we waste moving from Point A to Point B, when it would be so much easier just to be ...
Here's an idea for a power plant: the solar-powered sports coliseum. What if you skinned an entire stadium with solar such that it could satisfy its own ginormous appetite for power when filled with specta...
Would you coat a living plant in glass to keep it free of fungus? What about coating a counter in glass to keep it sterile? It sounds highly unusual, but the German company, Nanopool, is about to market li...
( Odd. I detected an insistance to not being dictated to. Oh.....right. )
Geithner's Disgrace The new AIG report reveals how the Treasury secretary—and U.S. taxpayers—were fleeced by Wall Street banks. http://www.slate.com/id/2236460/?from=rss
The subway is one of the few places in a large urban center where all races and religions and most social classes are confronted with one another and the same situation.""Before the appearance of omnibuses, railroads, and street cars in the nineteenth century, men were not in a situation where for periods of minutes or hours they could or must look at each other without talking to one another."
( Funny. How do we communicate them to this one ? )
Fix Your Terrible, Insecure Passwords in Five Minutes A foolproof technique to secure your online accounts before holiday shopping season. http://www.slate.com/id/2235503/?from=rss
Since its origins, the IPCC has been open and explicit about seeking to generate a ‘scientific consensus’ around climate change and especially about the role of humans in climate change
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