Sunday, April 26, 2009

Internet Users 'Could Suffer Brownouts Due To YouTube And iPlayer'

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Increased use of video-on-demand websites could hinder the internet's reliability Photo: Bloomberg From The Telegraph: Internet users w...

Swine Flu Outbreak -- News Updates For April 26, 2009

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Health nightmare...passengers on the Mexico City metro wear masks in an attempt to protect themselves after dozens of people died of swine f...

Wind Power’s Dirty Little Secret

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From The Infrastructurist: There’s a wonderful article in the current issue of Insight, the energy journal published by Platts, called “The...

Illness Raises Alarm Among U.S. Officials

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World health officials worry the swine flu outbreak in Mexico could unleash a global flu epidemic. (Guillermo Gutierrez/Associated Press) Sw...

The Geomagnetic Apocalypse — And How to Stop It

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From Wired Science: For scary speculation about the end of civilization in 2012, people usually turn to followers of cryptic Mayan prophecy,...
Saturday, April 25, 2009

CDC SWINE FLU INFECTION-CONTROL GUIDELINES.

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Interim Guidance on Antiviral Recommendations for Patients with Confirmed or Suspected Swine Influenza A (H1N1) Virus Infection and Close Co...

Antarctica’s Bipolar Disorder

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From Watts Up With That? Two days ago I questioned how Antarctic ice could be both “melting faster than expected” and “expanding” at the sam...

The Story Of X: Evolution Of A Sex Chromosome

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The neo-X (top) and neo-Y chromosomes of the fruit fly Drosophila miranda, showing how the Y has shrunken slightly through loss of genes. Th...

Nicotine Takes Edge Off Anger

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From Live Science: Smoking to relieve stress is nothing new, but now a brain imaging study shows just how nicotine can blunt our anger resp...

Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?

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From Scientific American: The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government coll...

2009 Space Oddity: 'Blob' 12.9Billion Light Years Away Baffles Astronomers

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Unknown entity: The size and substance of the Lyman-alpha blob 'Himiko' are a mystery to astronomers. From The Daily Mail: You'd...

World First For Strange Molecule

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From The BBC: A molecule that until now existed only in theory has finally been made. Known as a Rydberg molecule, it is formed through an e...

Who Discovered The North Pole?

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Frederick Cook and Robert Peary both claimed they discovered the North Pole. AGIP / Rue des Archives / The Granger Collection, New York From...
Friday, April 24, 2009

Why You May Lose That Loving Feeling After Tying The Knot

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From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Apr. 23, 2009) — Dating couples whose dreams include marriage would do well to step back and reflect upon ...

Getting Real On Wind And Solar

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A General Electric wind turbine in Ohio. (Asssociated Press/general Electric Via Cleveland Plain Dealer) From The Washington Post: Why are w...

BREAKING!!!!! Mexico City Closes Schools And Public Events Amid Swine Flu Outbreak: 61 Known Dead, Many Sick -- No Plans To Close U.S./Mexico Border

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People wear surgical masks as a precaution against infection inside a subway in Mexico City, Friday, April 24, 2009. Mexican authorities sai...

April 24, 1990: Hubble Becomes Big Eye Above Sky

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The Hubble Telescope's wide-field planetary camera took this image in 2007 of the "last hurrah" of a star like our sun. The wh...

Artificial Intelligence Cracks 4,000-Year-Old Mystery

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From Wired News: An ancient script that's defied generations of archaeologists has yielded some of its secrets to artificially intellige...

'Dark Gulping' Could Explain Black Holes

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From Space.com: No, it's not the next soft-drink campaign. "Dark gulping" is a new hypothesis about how giant black holes migh...

Mystery Of Horse Domestication Solved?

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Wild horses running in the desert mountains of Kazakhstan. (Credit: iStockphoto/Maxim Petrichuk) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Apr. 24, ...