Sunday, March 29, 2009

Scientists Map The Brain, Gene By Gene

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"The brain is details on top of details on top of details." — Michael Hawrylycz Photo: David Clugston From Wired Magazine: The hum...

Leaving Computers On Overnight = $2.8 Billion A Year

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Vice President Gore's Office From Yahoo Tech: Admittedly I don't think much about it at all. I leave my laptop running overnight bec...

Another Volcano In Alaska Erupts?

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From Watts Up With That? : (h/t to Ron de Haan) This time it appears to be Mount Gareloi, something big is going on there seismically. The w...

The (Real!) Science Behind Lie to Me

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As the foremost deception expert in the country, Dr. Cal Lightman (Tim Roth) knows when someone is lying. He oversees The Lightman Group, a ...
Saturday, March 28, 2009

Rise Of Sea Levels Is 'The Greatest Lie Ever Told'

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From The Telegraph: The uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story...

20 Years Later: Exxon Valdez Spill Lingers

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Exxon Valdez From ScienCentral: Just after midnight on this day in 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez crashed against a reef off the coast of...

Airborne Dust Reduction Plays Larger Than Expected Role In Determining Atlantic Temperature

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A dust storm off the coast of Morocco was imaged by NASA's MODIS Aqua meteorological satellite on March 12, 2009. A new study by UW-Madi...

The World's Biggest Laser Powers Up

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Fusion central: 192 lasers will shoot through openings in this spherical chamber, focusing near the tip of the cone projecting from the rig...

How Cell Towers Work

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From Gizmodo: I recently visited a cell site shared by Clearwire and two other unnamed carriers—without frying my nuts. We've all driven...

British Engineer Blows Away Land Speed Record For Wind-Powered Vehicles After 10-Year Quest

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Record-breaker: The Greenbird clocked up 126.1mph From The Daily Mail: A British engineer has smashed the land speed record for wind powered...

Archaeologist: Oldest Cyprus Temple Discovered

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From The International Herald Tribune: NICOSIA, Cyprus: An Italian archaeologist claimed Friday to have discovered Cyprus' oldest religi...

Do Animals Enjoy Sex?

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From Live Science: Animals obviously hook up, at least during mating season. But do they like it? According to experts, there are two answer...
Friday, March 27, 2009

Erratic Black Hole Regulates Itself

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This optical and infrared image from the Digitized Sky Survey shows the crowded field around the micro-quasar GRS 1915+105 (GRS 1915 for sho...

How to Prevent the Next Pandemic

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DANGER: Wild animals can carry pathogens capable of jumping into humans—the first step toward becoming a major infectious killer—so a new p...

Space Smells Funny, Astronauts Say

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Astronaut Richard Arnold, STS-119 mission specialist, participates in the mission's first scheduled session of extravehicular activity (...

Why Certain Fishes Went Extinct 65 Million Years Ago

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Fossil herrings from the Eocene Green River Formation of the western United States where Colorado, Utah and Nevada meet. Herrings are one of...

Women Talk Three Times As Much As Men, Says Study

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Photo : Women talk almost three times as much as men, according to the research. From The Daily Mail: It is something one half of the popula...

Smart People Really Do Think Faster

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This colorful brain image is like a map of mental speed. The bright spaghetti structures represent the pathways connecting different brain c...

Thousands Of 'Cold Cases' Could Be Reopened Thanks To New DNA Technique

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From The Telegraph: Thousands of "cold cases" could be reopened thanks to a new technique to analyse DNA from crime scenes. The Fo...

The Brilliant Scientist Who Rejects Global Warming As A Problem

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The Whimsical Gaze Dyson still travels widely, giving talks at churches and colleges, reminding people how dangerous nuclear weapons are. Eu...