Thursday, September 2, 2010

Double Space Strike 'Caused Dinosaur Extinction'

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From The BBC: The dinosaurs were wiped out 65 million years ago by at least two space impacts, rather than a single strike, a new study sugg...

Oxford English Dictionary 'Will Not Be Printed Again'

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The second OED was published in 1989 Photo: GETTY From The Telegraph: The next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, the world’s most...

Researchers Create Ultra-Sensitive Robotic Nose Using Frog Eggs As An Olfactory Sensor

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Detecting Molecules with Frog Eggs From Popular Science: Researchers at the University of Tokyo are using frog eggs to enhance what might se...
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Roots of Gamblers' Fallacies and Other Superstitions: Causes of Seemingly Irrational Human Decision-Making

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From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Aug. 31, 2010) — Gamblers who think they have a "hot hand," only to end up walking away with a l...

Massive Mega-Star Challenges Black Hole Theories

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This artist's impression shows the magnetar in the very rich and young star cluster Westerlund 1. This remarkable cluster contains hundr...

Loud Video: NASA Test Fires Largest-Ever Solid Rocket Motor

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From Popular Science: In Utah today, NASA completed a successful test of the world's largest, most powerful solid rocket motor, the DM-2...

Arctic Oil And Gas Drilling Ready To Take Off

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Click on Image to Enlarge From New Scientist: DRILLING for oil kicked off in Greenland's Arctic waters last week - just weeks after the ...

Can The Pentagon Be Made WikiLeak-Proof?

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Darpa’s Star Hacker Looks to WikiLeak-Proof Pentagon -- The Danger Room Tomorrow’s WikiLeakers may have to be sneakier than just dumping mil...

Early Man And Cannibalism

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A model of a homo antecessor female scooping out the brains of human head Early Man 'Butchered And Ate The Brains Of Children As Part Of...

Scheme To 'Pull Electricity From The Air' Sparks Debate

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The claim of electricity from the air as a renewable resource is controversial From The BBC: Tiny charges gathered directly from humid air c...

Does Langage Influence Culture?

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Lost In Translation -- Wall Street Journal New cognitive research suggests that language profoundly influences the way people see the world;...

Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age

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From Tech Crunch: An interesting paradox in the technology world is that there is both a shortage and a surplus of engineers in the United S...

Use Microsoft Surface to Control a Swarm of Robots With Your Fingertips

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Robot Swarm Control Mark Micire/UMass Lowell Robotics Lab From Popular Science: A sharp-looking tabletop touchscreen can be used to comman...

Ye Cannae Change The Laws Of Physics. Or Can You?

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From The Economist: RICHARD FEYNMAN, Nobel laureate and physicist extraordinaire, called it a “magic number” and its value “one of the great...

First Clear Evidence Of Organized Feasting By Early Humans

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This is a view of excavation area at Hilazon Tachtit Cave, Israel. (Credit: Naftali Hilger) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Aug. 30, 2010)...

Why Do Hurricanes Often Curve Out To Sea?

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From Live Science: The forecast path of Hurricane Earl, expected to run parallel to the U.S. East Coast before heading offshore, is a typica...

Books Are Better Without Pages

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A man browses through books at the Cecil H. Green Library on the Stanford University Campus, Dec. 17, 2004 in Stanford, Calif. (Justin Sulli...

Why Music Is Good For You

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From Scientific American: A survey of the cognitive benefits of music makes a valid case for its educational importance. But that's not ...

Conduct Virtual Explorations of Mars with New WorldWide Telescope Feature

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Screenshot showing Olympus Mons in 3-D using the World Wide Telescope. From Universe Today: Love 3-D imagery of Mars ? There's now a fi...

Earliest Fossil Evidence Of Humans In Southeast Asia?

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Archaeologists excavating Callao Cave in the Philippines. Armand Salvador Mijares From Earth Magazine: Modern humans reached the islands of ...