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A study by the Tel Aviv university involved tagging vultures to track migration patterns and generally see where they went. Of course, this means attaching a transmitter to each bird in the study One of the vultures flew into Saudi Arabia, where...
Goldman Sachs and DST have just invested $500 million in Facebook which puts its value at $50 billion. Facebook is still a private company and so it will boost Mark Zuckerberg's value by quite a bit. The question is, is Facebook worth it or is it...
A new blog entry has been added: Death toll rises in Australia floods Death toll rises in Australia floods - Relief teams rushed supplies into a flood-ravaged Australian city Monday as rising waters threatened to close a highway and cut off...
Elton John and his husband http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1654959/20101228/john_elton.jhtml, a Christmas baby, delivered by a surrogate. My first thought was, holy cow, how old is Elton, anyway?! Turns out he's 63, which is actually a bit...
This was the year that was. A few remainders of what has happened in 2010 January: A magnitude 7 earthquake hit Haiti resulting in devastation. February: Winter Olympics held in Vancouver March: Healthcare reform passed in America April:...
It seems that due to the extreme weather a lot of water pipes have burst in Northern Ireland leading to a lack of fresh water of any kind. This has apparently been going on for up to 8 days in some parts. They are having to set up areas for...
A new public information film has been shown in South Africa to stop people drinking and driving over the festive season. According to them, if you drink and drive you get to go to jail and meet lots of nice men who will never let you go and are...
Looking for somewhere to avoid the oncoming apocalypse in 2012 when the Mayan Calendar ticks over then Bugarach in Southern France is apparently the best place to go to be rescued by aliens leaving the planet. Although the village has a...
An article was published in the issue of Current Biology that came out today, which is about research into the behavior of chimps. Science News posted a story about it. Deep in a Ugandan forest, Betsy Wetsy has gone wild. A new study finds...
A recent University of Washington graduate has developed a prosthetic tentacle to replace amputated arms. And, frankly, it's awesome. Instead of trying to mimic the look of a human hand, it's a different limb entirely and serves as a sort of...
Tonight at some stage, the Moon, Earth and Sun will be in perfect alignment with the Moon in the Earth's shadow causing the moon to turn pink or possibly red. The best view will be from North America, but if the skies are clear here I may see if...
As the title says Damnit! where did the 'a' go and why can't I edit it back in again.
Google used over 5 million books to create its searchable database of words and phrases over time, making it possible to search and chart trends in literature in ways never done before. The years covered are 1500 to 2008. More information here. I...
The press conference is still around two hours away, but it's been allegedly leaked to a Dutch news site that NASA will be announcing the discovery of a bacteria found in Mono Lake that utilizes arsenic instead of phosphorous and is thus different...
And for 2010, the TIME person of the year is Mark Zuckerberg the head of Facebook for changing the way we live our lives. Of course, Julian Assange was winning the online poll (wonder how that was being fixed...) So, who would be your person...
This story begins as simply a sad commentary on the way that certain people are willing to resort to violence or the threat of violence whenever things fail to go their way. Unable to return a cell phone, because of the store's 30 limit on returns...
A German man has pleaded guilty to the castration of his 17yr old daughters lover who was aged 57. The police were powerless to do anything about the situtation, and indeed it has nothing to do with them, so with the aid of two colleagues, he...
And I actually have some (very limited) sympathy for him. The long version of what's going on: Last Friday night a worker at a California Boston Market was seriously burned when a customer at the drive-thru threw a hot serving of ceamed...
A couple of BBC Radio 4's more senior presenters managed to mis-speak the Culture Secretary's surname when introducing him live on National Radio. Not so much Jeremy Hunt, but Jeremy Cunt. Now, we know the BBC doesn't like the Tories much, but...
Do you have better home insulations? If not you need to have them and will have to use electricity instead of fossil fuels, to reduce indoor pollution. This is extremely helpful in countries like India, with low-income. The case studies...
Well, it may or it may not happen, but if the financial markets push then Ireland is in a lot of trouble, Due to having the Euro as its currency and having its interest rates set in Brussels, Ireland has gone into depression with little sign of...
This story from the Baltimore Sun showcases the case of Charles Whittington, a recent US combat veteran. In part, to work through some of the adjustments he's facing upon his return to civilian life, he wrote a very evocative, honest, and...
... and so while he's in jail, himself for B&E, the dog is euthanized. Why? Because the idiot can't be arsed to either keep his dog on a leash, or to pay the $100 fine for letting it run free and harass neighbors. I don't always approve...
The Oort Cloud, the hypothesized cloud of comets orbiting the Sun at a distance of up to a light-year out, presumably remnants of the solar nebula that birthed the Sun. Currently this is a theory that hasn't been confirmed, as spotting a...
Apparently they got engaged in October in Kenya and have been keeping it quiet since. The wedding should be some time next year, so time to bring London to a halt for the celebrations. Congrats to the happy royal couple.
Lottery Winner Nigel Page has been forced to pay up £2m of his £56m lottery win to his ex-wife who left him ten years ago taking thier daughter with her. When he won the lottery, he did the decent thing and offered her £1m of the prize, which is...
No this is not a Dan Brown novel, they actually have managed to capture anti-matter in an electric field at CERN. Apparently, they managed to capture 38 particles of anti-hydrogen in an electric field for one sixth of a second. It will not be...
This story is just chock full of WTFery. First off, it begins with a sixth grade teacher sending home a memo to parents with all their students saying that: Students may not have any writing utensils on the school bus, in backpacks, on their...
Well, now we know where Dr Evil is located, it's somewhere near the California Coast. An Object was seen shooting across the sky about 35 miles west of Los Angeles leaving behind a contrail for all to see. The Pentagon and Military are...
and this time its a rat. It seems that great African pouched rats are being trained to detect the smell of the explosives in landmines and as they are not heavy enough to set them off, they can safely show where they are. Whether this is true...
Scientists have been baffled by the detection of two giant gas bubbles spreading out from the centre of the Mily Way, both 50,000 Light years across. They haven't expanded as far as our solar system yet and I wonder if they ever will. ...
When 11am comes round on the 11th day of the 11th month, spare two minutes silence for those who have died in conflict.
I mean, it kind of makes sense to me. When you're president, you expect to get criticized about your policies. No matter what you do, a large contingent is going to disagree, and they're going to call you whatever negative political labels they...
Fortunately, this was a controlled mini Big Bang, in which scientists are hoping to study the Quark-Gluon plasma soup created, instead of a large and horrific Big Bang in which the world ends. They manage to smash several Lead ions together that...
Arctic fossils mark move to land The newly discovered species from Canada is called Tiktaalik roseae. The reconstructions sort of look like if a fish and a crocodile hooked up. The skull is flat with the eyes on top, implying that it likely lived...
Interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today, comparing the negative image Wal-Mart has (as an employer) to the positive image Target has, despite the fact that Wal-Mart has BETTER employee policies than Target. The article cites the fact...
There has been a certain amount of outcry of the claim that straight women only go to bed with men "because sex is the price they are willing to pay for a relationship". The claimer being Stephen Fry, whose view on it is that if women liked sex...
But damn, when it involves teachers, they're all all over that fucking shit. http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/10/29/1400612/graham-students-suspended-for.html All suspended for five days, then the two who originated the libelous messages...
Some say "Frankenfish", others call it a sollution Genetic engineering introduces desirable traits of one living being into another, using recombinant DNA , or rDNA technology. In the case of AquAdvantage® Salmon, scientists have injected the...
Yes, they are finally here. BERCHER, Switzerland – Swiss adventurer Yves Rossy has completed two aerial loops using a custom-made jet-propelled wingsuit. I look forward to using my jetpack to fly to work every day.
Parthenogenesis has been observed in vertebrates before, but this one is a bit unique. Sex chromosomes are packages of DNA that drive the development of sexual characteristics; they essentially make animals genetically male or genetically female....
A Quantas Airbus A380, one of the superjumbos, was forced to make an emergency landing in Singapore after the failure of one of its engines midflight. There was a large explosion and parts of the engine fell away shortly after it had taken off...
It's been one of those promises that has been around forever, but now it seems that a Cambridge Laboratory has shown that the body deals with viruses in a far more expansive way than originally thought. It was assumed that once a virus has...
Greater Manchester Police carried out an experiment where they would tweet out every time they had to handle a 999 call under the hashtag of #gmp24. The point was to highlight all the work they carry out in answering emergency calls. It went...
Okay, it's not quite a serious article, but this is really amusing and does actually make some good points about why even if there were flesh-eating, walking corpses we wouldn't have to worry about them for long. Dead bodies bloat because of the...
This reptile thought it had got lucky when a baby elephant wandered down to the watering hole for a drink and it got the drop on the young calf. Fortunately, the rest of the group heard it's cries for help and came thundering down. It's not...
Wired has a feature called "This Day in Tech" where some notable historical moment is written about for every day. Today's is the creation of the universe! 4004 B.C.: It’s the beginning of time, according to 17th century Irish bishop and...
This is utterly silly and pointless, but Foursquare is a mobile app that lets people "check in" at places and compete for virtual badges for hotspots. And now it has made it to space. Far above the bars and coffee shops where Foursquare users...
I came across this article, today, talking about making a fucking registration requirement for adults convicted of animal cruelty. Considering just how much the punishment for convictions goes beyond the statutes, often leaving people with a...
Chicago's bracing for what is may be the 2nd worst storm ever to hit the Great Lakes, due to come around rush hour tomorrow morning. Yikes.
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