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Roses are a no-show for Portland Rose Festival
Post Date: 2011-05-29 14:34:01 by Original_Intent
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Roses are a no-show for Portland Rose Festival Roses are late this year, leaving the city's signature parks like Peninsula Park Rose Garden looking more like March than nearly June."A rose! Ah, ha, ha!" whooped Hillary Joseph, bending over to inspect a button of orange, the only color bobbing in an aggressive sea of green at the International Rose Test Garden at Washington Park, where the great majority of approximately 8,500 roses are certain to be a no-show for the Portland Rose Festival. Thomas Wickboldt, Joseph's friend from San Francisco, was good-natured about missing Portland's iconic flower. "Since it's the City of Roses, it would be nice to see the ...
Scientists Detect Earth-Equivalent Amount of Water Within the Moon
Post Date: 2011-05-28 00:13:50 by farmfriend
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Scientists Detect Earth-Equivalent Amount of Water Within the Moon ScienceDaily (May 26, 2011) — There is water inside the moon -- so much, in fact, that in some places it rivals the amount of water found within Earth. The finding from a scientific team including Brown University comes from the first-ever measurements of water in lunar melt inclusions. Those measurements show that some parts of the lunar mantle have as much water as Earth's upper mantle. Lunar melt inclusions are tiny globules of molten rock trapped within crystals that are found in volcanic glass deposits formed during explosive eruptions. The new finding, published this week in Science Express, shows lunar ...
Thiel Fellowship Pays 24 Talented Students $100,000 Not to Attend College
Post Date: 2011-05-27 06:37:58 by Ada
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In a move meant to provoke thought about the value of higher education, Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal, is giving 24 students money not to attend college for two years but to develop their ideas instead. The winners were announced today for a new fellowship that has sparked heated debate in academic circles for questioning the value of higher education and suggesting that some entrepreneurial students may be better off leaving college. Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal, will pay each of the 24 winners of his Thiel Fellowship $100,000 not to attend college for two years and to develop business ideas instead. The fellows, all 20 years old or younger, will leave institutions ...
Robots invent own language
Post Date: 2011-05-27 04:22:04 by Tatarewicz
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University of Queensland (UQ) postdoctoral research fellow Dr Ruth Schulz and her colleagues have created a pair of robots that have their own language. The ‘Lingodroids' are a pair of mobile robots that communicate by developing their own words for places, and relationships between places based on distance and direction. The language sounds like a sequence of phone tones, which are easy for the robots to produce and hear in a noisy office environment, before being translated into syllables to make it easy for humans to recognise them. Dr Schulz said that the robots start by playing where-are-we games. “If they encounter an area that has not yet been named, one will ...
Electron may not be perfectly round
Post Date: 2011-05-26 04:45:41 by Tatarewicz
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The most accurate measurement yet of the shape of the electron has shown it to be almost perfectly spherical. Electrons are negatively-charged elementary particles which orbit the nuclei of atoms. The discovery is important because it may make some of the emerging theories of particle physics - such as supersymmetry - less likely. The research, by a team at Imperial College London, is published in the latest edition of Nature journal. In their scientific paper, the researchers say the electron differs from being perfectly round by a minuscule amount. "Conventionally, people think that the electron is round like a little ball. But some advanced theories of physics speculate that ...
Bacteria influence climate/weather
Post Date: 2011-05-25 07:08:52 by Tatarewicz
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A study of hailstones has found large numbers of bacteria at their cores. The find lends credence to the "bio-precipitation" idea, which suggests that bacteria are actively involved in stimulating precipitation. The bacteria have protein coatings that cause water to freeze at relatively warm temperatures. Researchers at the American Society for Microbiology meeting suggest bacteria may have evolved to use the water cycle to facilitate their own dispersal. The micro-organisms that can be found in precipitation such as snow have been studied since the 1960s. One bacterium that has appeared in many contexts is Pseudomonas syringae, which expresses a protein on its surface that ...
Mammals' large brains evolved for smell
Post Date: 2011-05-23 02:57:13 by Tatarewicz
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A highly developed sense of smell kick-started the development of mammals' big brains. Scientists used very high-resolution scanning to study the skulls of two of the earliest known mammal species. Comparing the shape of their brain cases to those of slightly earlier animals, or "pre-mammals", revealed that the first brain areas to over-develop were those associated with the sense of smell. The findings are published in Science. An improved sense of smell may have allowed our tiny, furry ancestors to hunt at night. The researchers were able to create 3D images of prehistoric animals' brains using the latest computed tomography, or CT, scanning methods. "Before ...
Best predictor yet of major earthquakes?
Post Date: 2011-05-22 04:59:24 by Tatarewicz
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Atmosphere Above Japan Heated Rapidly Before M9 Earthquake Infrared emissions above the epicenter increased dramatically in the days before the devastating earthquake in Japan, say scientists. Geologists have long puzzled over anecdotal reports of strange atmospheric phenomena in the days before big earthquakes. But good data to back up these stories has been hard to come by. In recent years, however, various teams have set up atmospheric monitoring stations in earthquake zones and a number of satellites are capable of sending back data about the state of the upper atmosphere and the ionosphere during an earthquake. Last year, we looked at some fascinating data from the DEMETER ...
Facebook and Google Join Forces to Oppose Privacy Bill
Post Date: 2011-05-19 23:35:22 by Original_Intent
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How quickly Facebook and Google made up after last week's secret smearing fiasco! Facebook, Google, Twitter, Skype and others cosigned a letter "strongly opposing" a bill introduced by California State Senator Ellen Corbett that would force sites to explain privacy settings in "plain language." Corbett is sick of social media companies duping people into sharing too much private information. Her recently introduced Social Networking Privacy Act (SB 242) would require a notice before users hand over their personal information to a site. In Sen. Corbett's own words, "You shouldn't have to sign in and give up your personal ...
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Post Date: 2011-05-19 16:43:43 by Rotara
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96 Minutes Without a Heartbeat
Post Date: 2011-05-19 07:04:31 by Tatarewicz
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Ron Winslow discusses new medical techniques that are emerging to save lives when most body functions appear to have stopped. A little-known device is shaking conventional wisdom for reviving people who suffer sudden cardiac arrest: People may be able to go much longer without a pulse than the 20 minutes previously believed. The capnograph, which measures carbon dioxide being expelled from the mouth of the patient, can tell rescuers when further efforts at cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, are futile or whether they should be continued. It is the latest effort that cardiology experts and emergency teams are devising that aim to improve a patient's odds. The American Heart ...
Free-floating' planets found with no star in sight
Post Date: 2011-05-19 03:39:17 by Tatarewicz
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By Science reporter, BBC News Japanese astronomers claim to have found free-floating planets orbiting no detectable star Continue reading the main story Japanese astronomers claim to have found free-floating "planets" which do not seem to orbit a star. Writing in Nature, they say they have found 10 Jupiter-sized objects which they could not connect to any solar system. They also believe such objects could be as common as stars are throughout the Milky Way. The objects revealed themselves by bending the light of more distant stars, an effect called "gravitational microlensing". Objects of large enough mass can bend light, as Albert Einstein predicted. If a large ...
China expanding its Compas (GPS) to cover Asia-Pacific
Post Date: 2011-05-19 02:44:01 by Tatarewicz
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SHANGHAI - The application of the Compass Navigation Satellite System, a Chinese global navigation system, will create a market as big as 400 billion yuan ($61.54 billion) by the end of 2020, the head of China's navigation management office said. Compass, also known as the Beidou system, has a similar function to the US-developed Global Positioning System (GPS), the European Union's Galileo and Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System. It provides positioning, navigational and measurement services for military and civilian use. Ran Chengqi, director of the China Satellite Navigation Management Office, said the office recently hired a third party to evaluate the ...
Japan dumps 3 million gallons of radioactive water into sea
Post Date: 2011-05-18 20:25:08 by tom007
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Japan dumps 3 million gallons of radioactive water into sea Workers pumped more than 3 million gallons of contaminated water from Japan’s nuclear-power complex into the Pacific Ocean to free storage space for even more highly radioactive water. By MARI YAMAGUCHI and YURI KAGEYAMA, The Associated Press, Originally published April 4, 2011 at 9:31 PM TOKYO — Workers pumped more than 3 million gallons of contaminated water from Japan’s tsunami-ravaged nuclear-power complex into the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, to free storage space for even more highly radioactive water that has hampered efforts to stabilize the plant’s reactors. Source: The Seattle Times
Mystery Science: More Details on the Strange Organism That Could Destroy Monsanto
Post Date: 2011-05-18 08:17:18 by Kamala
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Mystery Science: More Details on the Strange Organism That Could Destroy Monsanto By Melanie Warner | May 5, 2011 6 Comments .. Food Fight Melanie Warner Contact Author Bio Twitter.BiographyMelanie Warner Melanie Warner, a writer based in Boulder, CO, covered the food industry for The New York Times. Follow her on Twitter at @melanieruth. ..More from Commentary Best Buy Pulls the Plug on Electric Cars, and Isn't That Charged About Scooters, Either Gender Wars: Cigna Exec Claims She Was Denied Promotion Over a "Style Thing" How the U.S. Is Turning Into a Banana Republic Get to the Meat of Your Sales Message! 7 Vastly Overrated Business Books .View more .. Back in ...
Has Stephen Hawking Been Wrong For The Last 30 Years?
Post Date: 2011-05-17 21:30:59 by Armadillo
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With his cutting-edge research on black holes in the 1970s, Stephen Hawking emerged as a major player in the physics world. Then, with the 1988 publication of the bestseller, A Brief History of Time, Hawking achieved international celebrity status. As this BBC presentation shows, Hawking’s fame might rest on weaker foundations than most could have imagined. Several important physicists, including Leonard Susskind here at Stanford (see our previous references to him), zeroed in on Hawking’s major contention that, when black holes disappear, they take along with them all information that ever existed inside them, which leads to the logical conclusion that there are clear limits to ...
LED bulbs hit 100 watts as federal ban looms
Post Date: 2011-05-17 06:27:14 by Kamala
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LED bulbs hit 100 watts as federal ban looms Email Print .. AP – In this product image provided by Osram Sylvania, an ULTRA High Performance Series omni-directional LED … . Related Quotes AYI 58.40 0.00 SI 131.80 0.00 ^DJUSS 583.19 -6.30 LED bulbs hit 100 watts as federal ban looms By PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer – Mon May 16, 6:05 pm ET NEW YORK – Two leading makers of lighting products are showcasing LED bulbs that are bright enough to replace energy-guzzling 100-watt light bulbs set to disappear from stores in January. Their demonstrations at the LightFair trade show in Philadelphia this week mean that brighter ...
So we are having a Nuclear Earth Poisoning Event and nobody is talking about it.
Post Date: 2011-05-16 00:36:20 by tom007
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World poisoning is not news worthy???
The moment nuclear plant chief WEPT as Japanese finally admit that radiation leak is serious enough to kill people
Post Date: 2011-05-15 13:37:39 by tom007
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The moment nuclear plant chief WEPT as Japanese finally admit that radiation leak is serious enough to kill people By David Derbyshire Last updated at 3:54 PM on 19th March 2011 Comments (186) Videos Add to My Stories Share Officials admit they may have to bury reactors under concrete - as happened at Chernobyl Government says it was overwhelmed by the scale of twin disasters Japanese upgrade accident from level four to five - the same as Three Mile Island We will rebuild from scratch says Japanese prime minister Particles spewed from wrecked Fukushima power station arrive in California Military trucks tackle reactors with tons of water for second day Overwhelmed: Tokyo Electric Power ...
Alien Attack’ Leaves 500 Dead In Texas As UFO ‘Fleet” Nears Earth
Post Date: 2011-05-15 02:54:56 by Tatarewicz
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A shocking report prepared by the Federal Space Agency (FKA/RKA) for Prime Minister Putin states that one of the United States most important space facilities, located in Fort Worth, Texas, was attacked this past week by ‘alien forces’ intent on destroying “Vimna” technology transported their after its discovery by US Troops in Afghanistan, and as we had previously reported on in our December 21, 2010 report “World Leaders Flock To Afghanistan After Mysterious ‘Time Well’ Discovered”. According to this report, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Aviation Systems Division, located on a remote section of the giant ...
The 1931 Pierce-Arrow electric motor car that got its energy from thin air. (?) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-05-13 12:41:05 by PSUSA
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Nikola Tesla powered this all steel frame and body 1931 Pierce-Arrow with electrical energy that was harnessed from thin air. Not a drop of gasoline or diesel fuel was used. In fact the internal combustion engine was completely removed. No battery banks were used either. This vehicle was driven to speeds of 90 miles per hour with no fossil fuel and just a single 12 volt battery. This infinite and free energy source produces absolutely zero emissions. Dallas Morning News The Electric Auto that almost triumphed: Power Source of ‘31 car still a mystery by A.C. Greene, January 24th, 1931 It is a mystery car once demonstrated by Nikola Tesla, developer of alternating current, that might ...
Doyle, Cuzoom Win Annual Valdez STOL Competition
Post Date: 2011-05-12 13:55:41 by X-15
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May 12, 2011 — It’s been about a year since we last wrote about pilot Ed Doyle, EAA 474018, of Manhattan, Kansas, competitor in the annual Valdez Fly-In and Air Show STOL competition each May in Valdez, Alaska. Doyle, who flew the heavily modified experimental Super Cub Cuzoom owned by Mike Olson, of Yakima, Washington, won the wide-open alternate bush plane category in last weekend’s annual event. In a competition where less is more, Doyle’s total takeoff and landing distance was a mere 78 feet. That’s 43 feet for the takeoff and 35 feet for the landing – best of the bunch. Last year EAA’s Brady Lane attended the STOL competition and shot a video of ...
San Antonio kids' lunch trays scanned in name of science
Post Date: 2011-05-12 00:53:01 by CadetD
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SAN ANTONIO — Smile, schoolchildren. You're on calorie camera. Health officials trying to reduce obesity and improve eating habits at five San Antonio elementary schools unveiled a $2 million research project Wednesday that will photograph students' lunch trays before they sit down to eat and later take a snapshot of the leftovers. A computer program then analyzes the photos to identify every piece of food on the plate — right down to how many ounces are left in that lump of mash potatoes — and calculates the calories each student consumed. The project, funded by a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant, is the first of its kind in the nation. The cameras, about the ...
Video: Japanese Mind-Controlled Cat Ears Erect and Flatten To Reflect Your Thoughts
Post Date: 2011-05-11 23:22:13 by angK
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When you think of mind control, you know you dream of having furry cat ears of your own that you can control with your brainwaves. And why not? They're adorable. They're also the latest fashion in Japan. The ears, created by a company called Neurowear, sit on top of a headband which incorporates sensors for brainwave reading. The ears spring to attention when you focus intently, and fold down when you relax your thoughts. Neurowear designed them to act like a natural body part. We've seen a fair amount of brainwave-reading tech, but not much as cute as this. While you can't compose a symphony with the ears, it is a step toward the sort of science that may help people whose ...
Rocket Man ...
Post Date: 2011-05-11 06:10:26 by noone222
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