1. Bugged Planet - Comments
Posted By Tibor on January 24, 2012 at 5:47 pm in Miscellaneous
New Wikileaks release on the 'bugged planet' - the $5-billion mass surveillance industry selling telecoms and internet monitoring technology.
2. Internet Privacy At Stake With New Bill - Comments
Posted By Averusblack on January 21, 2012 at 11:19 am in Living World
New bill requires ISPs to retain all your online activities, IPs, name, address and credit card into. Invasion of privacy for everybody to catch the 1% of criminality..
3. Periodic Table Of Videos - Comments
Posted By Tibor on January 20, 2012 at 9:36 pm in Physics
A page with a video for each of the elements on the periodic table.
5. DNS Blocking Blocked From SOPA - Comments
Posted By Averusblack on January 15, 2012 at 10:52 am in Technology
The decision to add DNS blocking to SOPA has been delayed and condemned by the White House... For now.
6. Marie Sklodowska Curie - Comments
Posted By pdPete on January 15, 2012 at 1:21 am in Technology
Known as the discoverer of the Radioactive elements Polonium and Radium,and as the first person to win Two Nobel Prizes
7. Thousands of rare Irrawaddy dolphins found - Comments
Posted By Tibor on January 12, 2012 at 10:34 pm in Biology & Medicine
Nearly 6,000 Irrawaddy dolphins, which are related to orcas or killer whales, were found living in freshwater regions of Bangladesh's Sundarbans mangrove forest and the adjacent waters of the Bay of Bengal, the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Societ
10. SOPA - Biggest Threat To The Net - Comments
Posted By nova on December 30, 2011 at 6:56 pm in Technology
If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, especially online, you will have probably heard something about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) by now. If not, then pull your chair up, because this is a problem, and not just for Americans.
12. Self-Repairing Microchips?! No way! - Comments
Posted By Averusblack on December 22, 2011 at 9:02 am in Technology
A team of University of Illinois engineers has developed a self-healing system that restores electrical conductivity to a cracked circuit in less time than it takes to blink.
13. Is a cure for the common cold on the way? - Comments
Posted By Averusblack on December 22, 2011 at 8:30 am in Astronomy
Draco, an antiviral currently in development at MIT, could be a solution for many viruses, from the common cold to Ebola.
14. Why The Moon Is Important - Comments
Posted By nova on December 20, 2011 at 9:28 am in Astronomy
You see the thing your entire life. A lot of people take it for granted, never look at Luna.
15. Rare Fossil of Marine Reptile Unearthed in Alberta - Comments
Posted By Tibor on December 12, 2011 at 6:45 am in Living World
The fossilized remains of a prehistoric sea creature inadvertently unearthed by a Syncrude worker offers researchers new insights into the evolution of a top-of-the-food-chain reptile that swam in northern Alberta's tropical sea up to 115 million years a
16. Amazing Chernobyl Scrap Yard - Comments
Posted By Tibor on November 22, 2011 at 6:17 am in Technology
The machinery depicted in these images has participated in Chernobyl accident liquidation and is radioactive.
17. Paul Dirac: Unsung Hero - Comments
Posted By Tibor on November 16, 2011 at 7:49 am in Physics
Paul Dirac concluded that each electron had an "anti-particle". The two could be created or destroyed in matching pairs. Dirac had predicted the existence of anti-matter, which makes up, at least in principle, half the universe.
18. Intel 4004, First CPU, Is 40 Years Old - Comments
Posted By pdpete on November 16, 2011 at 7:49 am in Technology
Forty years ago today Intel launched its first single chip CPU which was the Intel 4004 4 bit 16 pin microprocessor and operated at 740KHz,capable of handling 92,600 instructions per second.
20. Does Whale Watching Hurt Whales? - Comments
Posted By nova on November 10, 2011 at 6:56 am in Living World
It is an industry worth over two billion US dollars but questions have been raised about the safety of whale watching. This is not whether it is safe for us, but whether it is safe for the whales.
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1. Muammar Gaddafi Has Fallen
1. Muammar Gaddafi Has Fallen
(For those of you who haven’t been following the events in Libya, the story (and life) of Muammar Gaddafi has finally come to a close.)
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2. Bird-Like Dinosaur Used Venom
2. Bird-Like Dinosaur Used Venom
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3. 13 Unsolved Scientific Puzzles
3. 13 Unsolved Scientific Puzzles
(Author Michael Brooks has investigated some of the most puzzling anomalies of modern science, those intractable problems that refuse to conform to the theories. Here he counts down the 13 strangest.)
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5. Mice on Drugs
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6. Space Walk Photos
6. Space Walk Photos
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7. Spider Snags a Snake
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8. Researchers Make Stem Cell Breakthrough
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9. Google Tricks
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10. Using Old Soap to Save Lives
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11. A Collapsing Carbon Market Makes Pollution Cheap
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12. Venus Brings The Heat
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13. Warships of Tomorrow
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14. Controversy Over World’s Oldest Traces Of Life
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15. Beauty: It's In The Sex of the Beholder
15. Beauty: It's In The Sex of the Beholder
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10. Periodic Table Of Videos
10. Periodic Table Of Videos
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11. Star Wars Bloopers
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12. Baseball Batting Robot
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15. Liquid Nitrogen in a Swimming Pool
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(New Wikileaks release on the 'bugged planet' - the $5-billion mass surveillance industry selling telecoms and internet monitoring technology.)
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 5:47 pm in Miscellaneous.
0 Comments. 50 Hits.
(New bill requires ISPs to retain all your online activities, IPs, name, address and credit card into. Invasion of privacy for everybody to catch the 1% of criminality..)
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 11:19 am in Living World.
0 Comments. 22 Hits.
(A page with a video for each of the elements on the periodic table.)
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 9:36 pm in Physics.
0 Comments. 33 Hits.
(Richard Dawkens and Sir David Attenborough are hailing a victory, as the United Kingdom puts laws in place to forbid schools teaching '"creation science".)
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 4:18 pm in Humanity.
0 Comments. 53 Hits.
(The decision to add DNS blocking to SOPA has been delayed and condemned by the White House... For now.)
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 10:52 am in Technology.
0 Comments. 45 Hits.
(Known as the discoverer of the Radioactive elements Polonium and Radium,and as the first person to win Two Nobel Prizes)
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 1:21 am in Technology.
1 Comments. 30 Hits.
(Nearly 6,000 Irrawaddy dolphins, which are related to orcas or killer whales, were found living in freshwater regions of Bangladesh's Sundarbans mangrove forest and the adjacent waters of the Bay of Bengal, the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Societ)
Posted on January 12, 2012 at 10:34 pm in Biology & Medicine.
0 Comments. 70 Hits.
(Researchers have released the biggest images yet detailing dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up 85% of the Universe's mass.)
Posted on January 12, 2012 at 10:33 pm in Astronomy.
0 Comments. 52 Hits.
(A crippled Russian spacecraft is likely to crash to Earth sometime on Sunday at an unspecified location.)
Posted on January 12, 2012 at 10:33 pm in Astronomy.
0 Comments. 45 Hits.
(If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, especially online, you will have probably heard something about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) by now. If not, then pull your chair up, because this is a problem, and not just for Americans.)
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 6:56 pm in Technology.
0 Comments. 83 Hits.
(For now, Facebook will continue to rule social media, but Google will continue to rule search.)
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 11:18 am in Technology.
0 Comments. 113 Hits.
(A team of University of Illinois engineers has developed a self-healing system that restores electrical conductivity to a cracked circuit in less time than it takes to blink.)
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 9:02 am in Technology.
0 Comments. 120 Hits.
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