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New York Times
Angelina Jolie’s Carefully Orchestrated Image
21 November 2008, 11:01 am
The actress pushed for favorable coverage while negotiating magazine rights to pictures of her new twins. ...
The Lede: New York = ‘New Wild Boar Village’?
21 November 2008, 10:58 am
A new atlas traces familiar place names back to ancient linguistic roots, and then renders their meaning in modern English. So how does "The New Wild Boar Village Times" grab you?. ...
Wall Street Tries to Climb Back
21 November 2008, 10:57 am
Shares rose in early trading after two straight days of steep drops on the major exchanges. ...
No Sign of Stroke in Mukasey Collapse
21 November 2008, 10:48 am
Doctors do not believe that a stroke caused the late Thursday evening collapse of Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey. ...
Congressional Memo: Lame Duck? The Dodo Seems a More Apt Bird
21 November 2008, 10:44 am
In a typically ineffective postelection session, lawmakers approved only a modest extension of jobless benefits. ...
Protests in Baghdad on U.S. Pact
21 November 2008, 10:37 am
More than 10,000 supporters of Moktada al-Sadr gathered to protest the Iraqi plan to sign a security agreement to maintain U.S. troops for up to three years. ...
Green Inc.: Environmentalists on Auto Bailouts
21 November 2008, 9:13 am
Detroit's Big Three car companies went to Washington this week seeking $25 billion to shore up their parlous balance sheets while the European Automobile Manufacturers Association has called for a bailout that could be even larger – 40 billion euros. Now environmentalists also are stepping into the debate and proposing some criteria of their own. ...
High and Low Finance: Looking to Washington Amid Turmoil, So Far in Vain
21 November 2008, 8:31 am
With the stock market plunging and the credit market freezing, cries are being heard for quick government intervention. ...
Russian Presidential Term Approved
21 November 2008, 8:15 am
Russia’s lower parliamentary house gave final approval to a bill extending the presidential term to six years. ...
Popular Radio Host Has Drug Company Ties
21 November 2008, 8:14 am
Dr. Frederick K. Goodwin, a psychiatrist, earned income from drug makers that he didn’t report on his radio show. ...
CNN Top Stories
Woman gets new windpipe made of stem cells
19 November 2008, 6:27 am
Medical experts hailed a "milestone in medicine" Wednesday as they announced the successful transplant of a human windpipe engineered with the patient's own stem cells. ...
Pirate 'mother ship' destroyed, official says
19 November 2008, 6:21 am
An Indian warship has exchanged fire with a pirate "mother vessel" off the hijacking-plagued Horn of Africa, leaving the ship ablaze in the Gulf of Aden, an official said Wednesday. ...
Suspected U.S. strike kills 5 in Pakistan
19 November 2008, 6:10 am
A suspected U.S. missile strike in northwestern Pakistan left five dead and seven wounded early Wednesday, a local official said. ...
Boy, 8, gives taped account of day of killings
19 November 2008, 4:41 am
An 8-year-old Arizona boy suspected in the deaths of his father and another man can be heard in a videotape of his police interview telling officers that he shot both men after he came home from school. The boy, sitting cross-legged in an overstuffed armchair, initially denied involvement in the shootings but later said he shot his already wounded father "because he was suffering." ...
Disney actor booted from 'Dancing'
19 November 2008, 3:46 am
Read full story for latest details. ...
Astronaut loses tool bag during spacewalk
19 November 2008, 3:15 am
Things didn't go quite according to plan for astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper during her spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Tuesday. ...
Jonestown: 'Finally, they have a resting place'
19 November 2008, 2:25 am
Read full story for latest details. ...
Brown: Too many wrong turns for Big Three
18 November 2008, 10:41 pm
The heads of Detroit's car companies -- Ford, Chrysler, GM -- bumper to bumper, are begging Congress for a bailout. Let's start by cutting through the bull and look at how the automobile companies got into this mess. ...
Obama selects attorney general, sources say
18 November 2008, 9:13 pm
Former Clinton Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder is President-elect Barack Obama's choice for the position of attorney general, according to two prominent Democrats involved in transition matters. If confirmed, Holder would be the first African-American to lead the Justice Department. ...
'Dead' political prisoner shows up 35 years later
18 November 2008, 5:26 pm
A man who was detained during Chile's "dirty war" in 1973 and declared dead in 1995 showed up in his old hometown very much alive last week, a human rights group in Santiago has announced. An immediate investigation has been launched to determine whether the former political prisoner may have violated the law. ...
Engadget
MechRC is here to dance, not enslave
21 November 2008, 11:15 am
Say what you want about robots being our future overlords and all that, but we think they're really just here to boogie. I mean, if all you wanted to do was get your groove on but some engineer kept programming you to scare prisoners or little children, you might go looking for a little payback too, right? Thankfully there's MechRC, a 17-servo kit newly available in the Americas that, despite his menacing visage, should do wonders to soothe human-robot relations through a vast array of funky mo...
AMD overclocks the snot out of Phenom II processors
21 November 2008, 10:47 am
No, you're not looking at some high-precision, multimeter-laden kegerator; the above is a picture from a recent AMD event in which things apparently got a little out of hand. The company started by talking up its upcoming Dragon platform (Phenom II X4, Radeon 4800 graphics, and 7-series chipset), took a few moments to discuss how its new 45nm chips will use 30-50 percent less power than their predecessors, and then threw all notions of sensibility out the window in an attempt to see just how fa...
Samsung Omnia makes official Verizon appearance
21 November 2008, 10:25 am
Not that we've any reason to be shocked here, but Samsung's Omnia is indeed coming to Verizon Wireless. 'Course, most everyone with any remote affiliation to Big Red is frenzied over that other phone today, but those with a soft spot for Windows Mobile 6.1 may want to give this one a bit of attention. You know the highlight specs by now -- a 5-megapixel camera / camcorder, full HTML browser and an expansive touchscreen -- but the nitty-gritty details are still being withheld. As of now, the lin...
Solar Vertical Lamp: one more reason to close the blinds
21 November 2008, 9:57 am
Could everyone just dole out a round of golf claps for Yoon-Hui Kim and Eun-Kyung Kim? Swell, thanks. These two designers have conjured up something that any second-rate hotelier (we kid... kind of) would love, as the Solar Vertical Lamp provides an eco-friendly (and eye-catching) alternative to those drab lamps from the 1980s. With the blinds open, you'll hardly notice anything unusual, but all the while tiny solar pads are being charged up; when time comes to shut these very blinds, a lightin...
S3's Chrome 500 graphics processors handle Blu-ray, HD video
21 November 2008, 9:33 am
Movin' on up in the world, are we S3? Just a month after the VIA-owned S3 Graphics returned to the scene with its Chrome 400 line of discrete graphics cards comes this, the predictably named Chrome 500 series. The new line is capable of handling Blu-ray / streaming HD video playback and provides support for DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.0 applications. You'll also find a built-in Dolby 7.1 digital surround sound processor, GPGPU (General Purpose GPU) technology, ChromotionHD (which offloads video pr...
Better Place's $1 billion electric vehicle grid headed to Bay Area
21 November 2008, 9:06 am
Need another reason to live in America's other bastion of social liberalism and homelessness? How about a $1 billion electric vehicle re-charging infrastructure in the Bay Area? Palo Alto's Better Place is finally bringing its ambitious, city-wide electrical grid and battery exchange service home after staking plans to do the same in Israel, Denmark, and Australia. The plan just endorsed by the San Jose, Oakland, and San Francisco Mayors (without coughing up any money), is expected to result in...
Scosche Passport FireWire-to-USB iPod adapter gets reviewed
21 November 2008, 8:36 am
Okay, so this adapter doesn't directly convert a FireWire 400 socket into a USB port, but for all intents and purposes here, it does as much. You see, Scosche's Passport was designed to channel the energy from older FireWire-based iPod charging gear into the USB prongs that the newer iPhone / iPods only accept. Macworld was able to get ahold of one for review, and in testing, it found that everything worked well when toying with new iPods, and while it was designed specifically for in-car appli...
Nokia planning touch-less, gesture-controlled devices?
21 November 2008, 8:09 am
Usually when we're talking about Nokia and patents, a mention of Qualcomm can't be far behind. This time however, we're looking at something entirely less boring, fascinating even: ultra-sound sensors that detect hand gestures in the air in front of the device. Now the stretch. Nokia's chief designer, Alastair Curtis, was asked at a recent cocktail party why Nokia's N-series of multimedia devices have yet to see a multi-touch interface, Curtis replied, "We've not launched what we think is right...
Mercedes-Benz's myCOMMAND system demoed on video
21 November 2008, 7:40 am
With Chrysler pushing out an internet-connected package of its own, Mercedes-Benz is attempting to stay one step ahead with the intelligent, intuitive myCOMMAND system. Our pals at Autoblog were able to get a bit of hands-on time with the new setup at the LA Auto Show, and they were kind enough to host up a near-5 minute video showing off its most attractive features. They reiterated that what was being taped was simply a concept for now, but there's zero doubt that the automaker is looking to ...
Gigantic LED display board goes live at Walgreens in Times Square
21 November 2008, 6:44 am
Remember that LED display board that was scheduled to be lit up at Walgreens in Times Square? You know, that 17,000-square foot one touting 12 million LEDs? Sure you do. The board, which was designed by D3 LED, was finally activated in the heart of New York City, and its creators are asserting that it's one of the most complex in existence. If you're wondering if this is worth a trip up (along with having a peek at the giant tree in Rockefeller Center), you might want to hit the read link first...
Gizmodo
AMD Shows Off Phenom II Processor's Headroom, By Overclocking to 5GHz [Amd]
21 November 2008, 11:00 am
From AMD's upcoming chip roadmaps we know the Phenom II is due out early next year, and it's AMD's second 45nm chip, but in a recent show and tell session AMD demonstrated the "overhead" built into the chip by overclocking one to a crazy 5GHz. It did take a special CO2 sublimation cooling unit that carries the danger of suffocating you if you use it in a small room, but what the hey. With a liquid nitrogen cooling system the chip was easily pushed way over 5 gigs. You may think "yeah, I could ov...
Woz Really Does
Everything
On His Segway [Gyro-pee]
21 November 2008, 10:45 am
The balance, the precision aiming. The man: Woz takes a piss on his Segway. If this is Photoshopped (or the world's most convincing Woz lookalike), there truly is no God. [Macenstein] ...
iPhone 2.2 Update Review: Go Get It Now [Apple]
21 November 2008, 10:15 am
The new iPhone 2.2 is here and we've been playing with it all night and morning. Like Apple says in their documentation, the stability and performance seems to have improved, but the spotlight falls on the new and improved Maps application, which has been polished up thanks to its public transportation and walking directions, as well as the smooth, fast Street View, and many other interface details. There are a lot of unexpected new features—no, no cut and paste—and fixes as well, and we've ...
19-Year-Old Commits Suicide Live on Justin.tv While Commenters Egg Him On [Unfunny]
21 November 2008, 10:00 am
Here's a story nobody likes to see. 19-year-old Abraham K. Biggs overdosed on pills on a live webcam stream before hundreds of people on Wednesday night, all while commenters on Justin.tv and bodybuilding.com encouraged him, apparently thinking it was some kind of joke. He lay passed out on his webcam for hours until he appeared to stop breathing, at which point the people watching realized it was no joke. Sadly, this isn't the first time something like this has happened. Followers of internet l...
10 Really Cool Windows 7 Media Center Features [Windows 7]
21 November 2008, 9:30 am
A few days back, I showed you the new touch interface for Media Center PCs running Windows 7, and though I had to pull the video, I promised a walkthrough of proposed Windows 7 Media Center features. I say "proposed" because, like everything else about Windows 7, this is all alpha and subject to change. But these features are very cool, and really should be included. One more thing: These screens were projected on a wall in a well-lit room, so they look horrible, but anyone familiar with Media...
Special Forces Fireproof Modular Glove System Now For Normal Rich Guys Too [Clothing]
21 November 2008, 9:15 am
Before you ask "why would I need fireproof gloves?" it's just one feature of this glove system from Outdoor Research that's in use right now by the military in Iraq, including special forces chaps. They can also handle extremely cold and hot environments, and the outer layer is made of a specially abrasion-resistant "wolverine" material. And that just sounds cool. The inner layer is of super-stretchy nomex-based stuff that's super-stretchy for an ideal fit, and the whole idea is that you mix and...
Patent For Gesture-Controlled Phones Could Be Nokia's Answer to Touch [Nokia]
21 November 2008, 9:00 am
Nokia has always held the line that the reason their top-end N-series has yet to see any sign of a touch-based interface was because they were simply waiting to "do it the right way." (The company's first all-touch device, the 5800, was made official only a few months ago).All's fair there, but when I asked Nokia's Chief Designer Alastair Curtis this week in New York what exactly the "right way" entails for Nokia's more internationally focused phones, the answer was, of course, "wait and see!" W...
Mercedes' Web-Connected myComand Takes on BMW iDrive [Cars]
21 November 2008, 8:45 am
Mercedes-Benz new myCOMAND system has appeared at the Los Angeles Auto Show, taking on the fourth-generation BMW iDrive. Whereas the latter has an Xbox 360 feeling, this one gets some clues from Apple, especially Coverflow and the menu navigation, which reminds me of the first version of the Apple TV and Front Row. One big difference is that myCOMAND is connected to the web, grabbing information wirelessly and presenting it through their own on-screen apps. Looking at the high resolution screens...
Atomic Floyd AirJax Headphones Made of Titanium2 Look The Biz [Headphones]
21 November 2008, 7:57 am
Atomic Floyd is new to the personal audio headphones game, and their first bit of kit is actually pretty decent looking. The AirJax headphones are in-ear, but have earloops made of something they're calling Titanium2 (even better than version1?). They're also made of "acoustic steel" which is apparently specially heat-treated for maxiumum audio quality, and you can rotate the in-ear part relative to the metal frame for a custom fit. The AirJax gets a UK launch first in December for $180, putting...
17,000 Square Foot LED Billboard Flipped On at 1 Times Square, Wraps Around Entire Building [Architecture]
21 November 2008, 7:34 am
When we first wrote about this comically huge Walgreens LED sign — the largest of its kind in the world — construction was just getting under way. That was May, and now they're done. D3 LED, the firm behind the sign, finally turned on this 17,000 square foot, 340ft tall, three-sided tribute to technical and commercial excess — and what timing! But before we start challenging the rationale behind displaying 300ft moving Tampax ads, it's worth looking at the extraordinary tech in...
Ars Technica
Virtual appliances made easy with rBuilder
21 November 2008, 10:53 am
Software appliance tools maker rPath has added CentOS and Ubuntu support to rBuilder, its web-based software appliance constructor.Read More... ...
Microsoft to aid in war on terror, builds software for DHS
21 November 2008, 10:19 am
Microsoft has joined forces with GIS vendor ESRI to build a suite of collaboration tools for intelligence gathering and processing. This software will be used by the Department of Homeland Security's fusion centers.Read More... ...
Sony gets $18.5M wrist slap for PSP patent infringement
21 November 2008, 7:15 am
Sony has been found guilty of willfully infringing Agere System's patents; several of the company's devices, including the PSP, use Agere's IP. Call it a victory on principle—Sony won't be losing any sleep over an $18.5 million fine. Read More... ...
An outlet at every parking meter? Bay Area welcomes plug-ins
21 November 2008, 6:10 am
Gov. Schwarzenegger and several Bay Area mayors have joined forces with start up Better Place to transform California into an electric vehicle wonderland. Read More... ...
Google CEO touts green energy shock doctrine
20 November 2008, 11:00 pm
Google's CEO calls for a green bailout—and a more participatory, networked government.Read More... ...
Study: time kids spend online not wasted after all
20 November 2008, 9:55 pm
A large survey of studies that explore the use of the Internet by children in the second decade of their lives find that, in general, it's acting as just another social tool, while providing them new outlets for learning and creativity.Read More... ...
HP launches Touchsmart tx2, hopes to flip tablet PC market
20 November 2008, 8:50 pm
HP's newest tablet launched yesterday, with a combination of features and capabilities that might breathe new life into a product segment that's languished in niche status for nearly a decade. With multitouch rapidly ascending the list of desired features on both laptops and cell phones, Tablet PCs might finally have their day in the sun. Read More... ...
Roll your own search results with Google's new SearchWiki
20 November 2008, 7:45 pm
Google's SearchWiki—the feature that allows people to annotate, add, delete, and move around search results—will soon be available to all users logged in with a Google account. The company's not sure yet what it plans to actually do with the data, though. Read More... ...
Brightkite aggregates location content for businesses, fun
20 November 2008, 6:40 pm
Location may be the next holy grail for social networking, and plenty of startups are already chasing it. Brightkite, a location-based social network focused on meeting friends and making new ones, has just introduced a new way to show off what everyone is doing in a particular location. Businesses, meet location-based social networks.Read More... ...
High-definition videos sneaking onto YouTube
20 November 2008, 3:32 pm
YouTube is experimenting with high-definition videos on its site, and you can access the capability using a handy URL trick. If YouTube manages to score enough movie and TV content from its owners, then it might eventually give Hulu some competition.Read More... ...
Mayo Clinic Blog
Tobacco use and mental health
19 November 2008, 3:10 pm
Be aware of depression, mood disorders when you quit smoking. Sponsored by:Chemotherapy.com - http://www.chemotherapy.com...
Energizing the human spirit
19 November 2008, 9:20 am
Joy and peace come from relationships, not gadgets and gear. Sponsored by:Chemotherapy.com - http://www.chemotherapy.com...
Asthma-friendly products: Do they help reduce symptoms?
19 November 2008, 1:00 am
Evaluate whether asthma-friendly products will help keep your triggers at bay. Sponsored by:Chemotherapy.com - http://www.chemotherapy.com...
Ruptured spleen
19 November 2008, 1:00 am
Ruptured spleen — Comprehensive overview covers causes, symptoms, treatment of this source of life-threatening bleeding. Sponsored by:Chemotherapy.com - http://www.chemotherapy.com...
Asthma-friendly products: Do they help reduce symptoms?
19 November 2008, 1:00 am
Evaluate whether asthma-friendly products will help keep your triggers at bay. Sponsored by:Chemotherapy.com - http://www.chemotherapy.com...
Lazy eye (amblyopia)
19 November 2008, 1:00 am
Lazy eye — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms and treatment of this childhood vision problem. Sponsored by:Chemotherapy.com - http://www.chemotherapy.com...
Recipe: Apple berry cobbler
19 November 2008, 1:00 am
Apple berry cobbler — one of many healthy recipes from Mayo Clinic. Sponsored by:Chemotherapy.com - http://www.chemotherapy.com...
Pomegranate juice: A cure for prostate cancer?
19 November 2008, 1:00 am
Early research suggests that pomegranate juice may slow the growth of prostate cancer. Sponsored by:Chemotherapy.com - http://www.chemotherapy.com...
Video: Apple berry cobbler
19 November 2008, 1:00 am
Apple berry cobbler — See how to prepare this healthy recipe. Sponsored by:Chemotherapy.com - http://www.chemotherapy.com...
Diabetes foods: Is honey a good substitute for sugar?
19 November 2008, 1:00 am
Generally, there's no advantage to substituting honey for sugar in a diabetes eating plan. Sponsored by:Chemotherapy.com - http://www.chemotherapy.com...
WebMD Health
Fall Babies at Higher Risk for Asthma
21 November 2008, 12:18 am
A new study shows that babies born four months before the peak of winter virus season are more likely to develop childhood asthma than babies born at any other time of year....
Uncertainty Is Powerful Stress Producer
21 November 2008, 12:18 am
In a newly published study, uncertainty was found to be far more stressful for highly neurotic people than dealing with a clearly negative outcome....
Water Aerobics Reduces Pain in Childbirth
20 November 2008, 7:01 pm
Water aerobics may help reduce the pain of childbirth. A new study shows that women who take classes during pregnancy are significantly less likely to ask for pain medication during delivery....
Hib Vaccine Shortage Extended
20 November 2008, 6:04 pm
The current U.S. shortage of childhood Hib vaccine, cut off in December 2007, will continue at least until mid-2009, the CDC warns....
Happy People Get the Big Picture
20 November 2008, 5:21 pm
If you're in a bad mood, all you see is the task at hand. But in a good mood, you can see how the task fits into the grand scheme of things in your life....
Got a Complex Task? Study, Sleep on It
20 November 2008, 12:07 pm
After learning complex skills, people perform those skills better after a night's sleep, a study using video games shows....
ADHD Drugs Don't Cause Genetic Damage
19 November 2008, 6:35 pm
Ritalin, Adderall, and Concerta do not appear to cause genetic damage in children who take them for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a new government-funded study concludes....
Genetic Screening May ID Diabetes Risk
19 November 2008, 5:08 pm
Genetic screening can help identify people at risk for type 2 diabetes, but it adds little to traditional methods for determining risk, two new studies show....
Exercise: The Brain’s Fountain of Youth
19 November 2008, 1:38 pm
Daily physical exercise begun no later than middle age fights age-related brain decline, mouse studies suggest....
1st Trachea Transplant From Stem Cells
19 November 2008, 12:03 am
Doctors in Europe have performed the first trachea transplant that hinges on the patient's own stem cells....
New York Times Health
Doctor and Patient: Too Much Information
21 November 2008, 9:15 am
If a doctor over-shares, what happens to the doctor-patient bond? ...
Insurer Offers Option for Surgery in India
21 November 2008, 8:20 am
The health insurer Wellpoint is testing a new program that gives covered patients the option of going to India for elective surgery. ...
Recipes for Health: Sweet Potato and Butternut Squash Soup
21 November 2008, 3:35 am
A rich-tasting soup that doesn’t rely on cream or butter. ...
Morning Rounds: Rising Deductibles, Cancer and H.I.V., and Genital ‘Reconstruction’
21 November 2008, 3:18 am
Breaking news from around the Web. ...
Better Tracking of a Childhood Infection Needed, Officials Say
21 November 2008, 2:42 am
Federal officials urged doctors and state health agencies to be more vigilant for suspected cases of Haemophilus influenzae type B in children under 5. ...
TV Ads Contribute to Childhood Obesity, Economists Say
21 November 2008, 1:56 am
Children’s weight gain is linked to the frequency of fast food advertisements on television, according to a new study. ...
Ginkgo Biloba Ineffective Against Dementia, Researchers Find
20 November 2008, 6:28 pm
In the largest randomized trial of ginkgo biloba to date, researchers found that the extract did not prevent or delay memory loss or Alzheimer’s disease. ...
What Happy People Don’t Do
20 November 2008, 4:41 pm
Happy people spend a lot of time socializing, going to church and reading newspapers — but they don’t spend a lot of time watching television, a new study finds. ...
Skin Deep: Questions on Using Fillers Near Eyes
20 November 2008, 12:17 pm
Some doctors are concerned about the safety of "off label" under-eye injections. ...
Weight Loss Surgery Helps Obese Women Have Healthier Babies
20 November 2008, 3:39 am
A new report suggests that women who become pregnant after weight-loss surgery have easier pregnancies than do obese women who become pregnant. ...
New York Times Politics
Congressional Memo: Lame Duck? The Dodo Seems a More Apt Bird
21 November 2008, 10:44 am
In a typically ineffective postelection session, lawmakers approved only a modest extension of jobless benefits....
Change in Congress More Than a Slogan
21 November 2008, 6:20 am
Age and seniority gave way in Congress, a place where power has traditionally come from longevity....
An Option for Clinton: Enhanced Senate Role
21 November 2008, 6:19 am
Hillary Rodham Clinton is said to be in line for a Senate leadership role if she does not join the Obama cabinet....
Attorney General Collapses While Giving Speech
21 November 2008, 4:35 am
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey collapsed during a speech and was taken to the hospital, where a spokesman said he was “conscious, conversant and alert.”...
Democrats Oust Longtime Leader of House Panel
21 November 2008, 2:53 am
Henry A. Waxman’s victory over John D. Dingell is expected to accelerate passage of energy, climate and health legislation backed by Barack Obama....
Governor of Arizona Is in Line for Cabinet
21 November 2008, 2:51 am
President-elect Barack Obama is planning to choose Janet Napolitano to head the Department of Homeland Security, transition officials said....
Obama Fund-Raiser Knocks Down Cabinet Rumors
21 November 2008, 2:51 am
Penny S. Pritzker, the Obama campaign finance chairwoman, has withdrawn as a candidate for a cabinet post....
News Analysis: With Same-Sex Marriage, a Court Takes on the People’s Voice
21 November 2008, 1:23 am
Opponents of Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California, say it is a major revision of the state’s Constitution, not an amendment. The state Supreme Court will have to decide....
Campaign Stops: The ‘O’ in Obama
20 November 2008, 11:28 pm
The graphic designer Sol Sender talks about the logo he created for Barack Obama's presidential campaign....
If Clinton Chosen, Campaign Debts Would Wait
20 November 2008, 5:09 pm
Vendors still owed money from Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign could be out of luck for years should she become secretary of state....
The Huffington Post
Jamie Lynton: Obama and His Field Muscle
21 November 2008, 11:16 am
There's a good chance that the role California played in Barack Obama's victory will go unnoticed by even by the more astute political observers. After all, California was never in serious play -- it's been twenty years since it went for a Republican in a presidential election. The Obama campaign's directive to the California operation was simple: keep up a presence but don't spend money. Fewer than 20 paid staff members were hired in September (compared with 100s in battleground states), a ha...
Stevens Still Involved In Far Worse Scandals
21 November 2008, 11:14 am
In the end, failing to properly fill out a form ended the career of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), one of the most powerful senators in U.S. history -- famous, or maybe infamous, for wide-ranging scandals involving money, family and power. ... Many in Alaska see the situation as a small, petty end to the career of a man marred with far more serious scandals, which encompassed his family, friends, money and power. The largest, most flagrant scandals include funneling money to Alaska seafood compa...
Dawn Teo: Arizona Reacts: Governor Tapped for Homeland Security Secretary
21 November 2008, 11:05 am
PHOENIX -- All year, rumors have swirled about the possibility of Governor Janet Napolitano leaving Arizona for a future in Washington, DC. As an early endorser of Barack Obama during the primary season, she traveled from state to state asking voters to mark their ballots for Obama. When Obama won the Democratic primary, scuttlebutt said that Napolitano was on the short list for Obama's vice presidential pick. After Joe Biden was selected for the vice presidential nominee, speculation widened ...
Holder As Attorney General Seen Likely To Escalate War On Drugs
21 November 2008, 11:02 am
There's been plenty of right-wing hand-wringing recently over fears that Barack Obama's election will bring about a new era of 1960s liberalism. Obama's selection of Eric Holder for attorney general, however, should calm at least one of those fears, the one regarding the war on drugs. Reason magazine recently called Holder's "rhetoric on the seriousness of marijuana offenses was indistinguishable from that of the most zealous Republican drug warrior" and offered the following quotes from Hold...
Bush Signs Extension For Jobless Benefits
21 November 2008, 11:00 am
WASHINGTON — With no end in sight to economic bad news, President George W. Bush on Friday ensured that millions of laid-off workers will keep getting their unemployment checks as the year-end holidays approach. Bush signed an extension of jobless benefits into law just before 8 a.m., as he was preparing to leave the White House for a morning flight to Lima, Peru, to attend the 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. Congressional leadership rushed the bill to the White...
Obama Volunteer Steals Speech Binder, Puts It On Ebay
21 November 2008, 11:00 am
As the 2008 presidential campaign neared its final week, Democrat hopeful Barack Obama breezed through Las Vegas to give a speech at Bonanza High School. It was the usual ready-for-change-we-need stump speech, one he'd given dozens of times before and probably hardly needed the text for reference. And the usual crowd was enthusiastic and eager, as usual. ... Someone identifying themself as "a volunteer staff member" very thoughtfully "retrieved" the speech binder. And is now Photo on eBay of t...
Derek Shearer: The Shout Heard Round The World: Obama As Global Leader
21 November 2008, 10:21 am
On election night, when the TV returns made clear that Barack Obama had been elected the 44th President, a great shout of joy erupted from the hundreds of Occidental students gathered in the union. Faculty living near campus said they could hear the roar from the crowd, ecstatic that their candidate (and an alum of the college) had won. A shout of joy could also be heard around the world. In almost every country, the reaction to Obama's victory was one of rejoicing and relief that Bush ...
Lee Camp: Ten Questions That Must Be Asked of Obama Before He's Sworn In
21 November 2008, 10:13 am
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Another Dem Leadership Battle May Be Brewing
21 November 2008, 10:00 am
Henry Waxman's hard-fought capture of the House Energy and Commerce Committee chairmanship has created an opening for his soon-to-be-former seat atop the House Oversight Committee. The upset also sent a message across Capitol Hill that seniority is no longer the prime merit for a chairmanship post -- a message that could shake up the race for Waxman's old seat. The official word is that Rep. Ed Towns is the favorite to take over the post. With Waxman gone, the New York Democrat assumes the role...
David Sirota: Tuning Out the Braindead Megaphone
21 November 2008, 10:00 am
I don't know about you, but to me it feels pretty 1993 of late. The economy's in the dumps; a new president is headed into office; that new president is taking many of the same faces from that 1993 White House with him; and both Republicans and the media are trying to bait Democrats into a divisive fight over a corporate written trade deal. But out of all that news - some good, some bad - the best is that there's some pretty serious talk of universal health care in the air. As I say in my new we...
Daily Kos
Cooking the polls
21 November 2008, 11:15 am
So yesterday, in the midst of some friendly jousting between my friend Jerome Armstrong and I, he made a serious accusation against pollster Research 2000's daily tracking poll. I will give R2K the "Zogby Award" for 2008. This is the award that goes to the pollster that, given the final result, is consistently off until the final days before the election, when they poll to make it more in line with the other poll projections. So congratulations, Markos, on your R2K success. Let's look at th...
Waxman's win leaves Gov't Oversight chair vacant
21 November 2008, 10:30 am
You can't chair two committees. Them's the rules. So now that Henry Waxman has succeeded in wresting control of the Energy & Commerce Committee from John Dingell (a victory which Dingell has, in conciliatory fashion, congratulated Waxman), the chairmanship of the Oversight panel that Waxman led is up for grabs. And even though the Waxman-Dingell contest appears to have undone the seniority system, it's alive and well in other quarters (and might not be as dead as all that, anyway, given th...
Senators Pay Tribute To Convicted Felon
21 November 2008, 9:45 am
Watch the U.S. Senate give convicted felon Ted Stevens a standing ovation. And here's Harry Reid's contribution to the love-fest: I rise to say farewell to our distinguished colleague, the senior senator from the state of Alaska. For Ted Stevens, public service has been more than a career. It's really been his life's calling. Uh, Harry? Corruption is not a public service. Of course it's not too surprising that Reid would call a criminal a "distinguished colleague." After all, he calls Joe...
Musings Over Morning Coffee
21 November 2008, 7:40 am
Stories That Never Grow Old. One of the remarkable things about this gap between when Obama won – an across the board rejection of Bush, conservative and Republican politics – and when Obama takes over is the fear it engenders in those with a stake in "more of the same". Guiltier than most is the media, who can't give up the old themes and haven't wrapped their heads around the new. The new is the public has other things on their mind, like the economy, foreclosure, health reform an...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
21 November 2008, 7:10 am
TGIF! Pundits love Fridays! Paul Krugman: There are some disturbing parallels between 2008 and 1932, and one disturbing one is the gap between when the discredited Bush leaves and the new folks take over. David Brooks: And yet as much as I want to resent these overeducated Achievatrons (not to mention the incursion of a French-style government dominated by highly trained Enarchs), I find myself tremendously impressed by the Obama transition. Jonah Goldberg: Hey, bankruptcy for GM isn't so...
Open Thread for Night Owls, Early Birds & Expats
21 November 2008, 12:45 am
Had he lost this month's election to Bruce Lunsford, Mitch McConnell apparently was all set for a new career as a stand-up comedian. Because a good portion of his speech at the annual convention of the Federalist Society would have had any other group rolling the aisle. The FedSocs, however, took it all seriously. The part about how Barack Obama should be bipartisan, something McConnell has been so very good at. The part about how Obama should govern from the center, defined, of course, by McCon...
MN-Sen: Down to 136 votes
21 November 2008, 12:25 am
With 46 percent reporting, it's down to a measly 136 votes. Of the big Democratic counties, 36 percent are in St Louis County, 42% in Hennepin County, and 30% in Ramsey. If you follow that link, you'll see that a bunch of counties don't even start counting until the 24th, and a bunch are waiting until December to do their recounts. So this thing won't be over anytime soon. ...
Open Thread and Diary Rescue
20 November 2008, 11:15 pm
Tonight's Rescue Rangers are Louisiana 1976, ybruti, mem from somerville, dadanation, jennyjem, jlms qkw, and taylormattd as editor. Please enjoy reading these outstanding, ranger-selected diaries: LiberalTexan informs us that the debate over creationism vs. science will soon be resuming in Texas: Faith Based Initiative: Fundamentalist Religious Attack on Science in Texas. (Louisiana 1976) gmoke describes the life and work of a great journalist in Witness to a Century: George Seldes. (ybruti) ...
Attorney General Mukasey Collapses
20 November 2008, 11:05 pm
Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed around 10 pm EDT this evening. He was the keynote speaker tonight at the Federalist Society's annual lawyers conference at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C. According to friends in the room, emergency paramedics were there to work on him pretty quickly, but there's no sense as to how things are going. It may have been a stroke. He has been taken to the hospital. Justice Alito and former Attorney General Ashcroft we...
Ellen
20 November 2008, 10:15 pm
My wife and I bought our house in May 2006 from Ellen and Rosemary, an elderly lesbian couple. They had done beautiful work to the house, having planned on staying here the rest of their lives. But grandchildren came, and with that, they ran off to North Carolina to be closer to the little ones. I told them how exciting it was that they could help turn North Carolina Blue. This house had a lot of memories for them, including being the location of their commitment ceremony. They were intensely p...
WSJ Real-Time Economics
New Blood at Central Bankers’ Central Bank
21 November 2008, 11:25 am
The Bank for International Settlements, an important forum for central banks worldwide that’s often called the central bankers’ central bank, said Friday it’s tapped Jaime Caruana as General Manager. Mr Caruana, who headed Spain’s central bank for six years and chaired the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, now directs the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets department. His five-year term at the BIS starts next April. Mr Caruana succeeds former BIS head Malcolm...
Washington Impasse Makes Goldman Forecast Gloomier
21 November 2008, 10:07 am
Goldman Sachs economists, who had one of the most bearish forecasts around, just downgraded their estimates to show the economy sinking even further. GDP will fall an annualized 5% in the current quarter — worse than the previously forecast 3.5% decline — with a contraction continuing through the middle of next year due to “continuing signs of falling domestic and foreign demand, labor market deterioration, renewed tightening in financial conditions and an apparent impasse in f...
Secondary Sources: Lame Duck Economy, Free Borrowing, Banks
21 November 2008, 9:46 am
A roundup of economic news from around the Web. Lame-Duck Economy: In the New York Times, Paul Krugman worries about a power vacuum at the height of the crisis. “How much can go wrong in the two months before Mr. Obama takes the oath of office? The answer, unfortunately, is: a lot. Consider how much darker the economic picture has grown since the failure of Lehman Brothers, which took place just over two months ago. And the pace of deterioration seems to be accelerating.” Treasury Bo...
Fed’s Lacker Expresses More Concerns About Inflation Than Deflation
21 November 2008, 8:24 am
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Jeffrey Lacker warned Friday that economists shouldn’t count on a weak economy to automatically reduce price pressures. Lacker Lacker also outlined a relatively optimistic scenario for the U.S. economy despite the current “trying times,” saying consumer spending could rise sharply once labor market uncertainties recede and the housing drag should lessen next year. Against that backdrop, Lacker cautioned that inflation may “...
Fannie, Freddie Suspend Foreclosures Over Holidays
20 November 2008, 4:48 pm
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced today that they are suspending foreclosures from Nov. 26 through Jan. 9 in order to work on its loan modification plan. The following are the full texts of the releases from the companies: Fannie Mae statement In order to support the streamlined modification program announced on November 11, 2008, Fannie Mae today issued a notice to its loan servicing organizations and retained foreclosure attorneys directing them to suspend foreclosure sales on occupied sing...
How Valid Are Lehman-Detroit Links?
20 November 2008, 3:53 pm
As the concerns about the Big Three auto makers build, their fates have been linked to the collapse of Lehman Brothers in many ways. Some of those links are valid, but drawing the connection also might be a way for auto makers to invoke what has emerged as the great mistake of the financial crisis to bolster their case. Ford’s Mulally and GM’s Wagoner. (Associated Press) In an interview on the sidelines of the Journal’s CEO Council this week, Mike Jackson, the chief exec...
Deflation: Disaster or Just A Nice Discount?
20 November 2008, 3:28 pm
When economists think deflation, they see looming disaster in the form of Japan’s deep recession of the 1990s or even the Great Depression. But when U.S. households see deflation, they might just notice a little extra money in their pockets. Right now, deflation appears to be that latter, better, variety: Every day is a sale. What the Federal Reserve has to avoid is the kind of chain reaction that ensues when consumers and businesses expect prices to keep falling, leading to a downward s...
Fed Extends December Meeting
20 November 2008, 2:44 pm
The Federal Reserve said Thursday it would expand its next Federal Open Market Committee meeting for an additional day “to allow additional time for discussion.” Previously planned as a one-day gathering on December 16, the meeting will now start on the afternoon of Monday, December 15. (The Fed’s interest rate decision will still come out around 2:15 pm Tuesday.) The Fed didn’t disclose the new agenda, but FOMC members surely will have plenty to discuss in the few hours...
ECB Official: Price Declines Aren’t Deflation Signal
20 November 2008, 1:48 pm
Euro-zone inflation rates have fallen at unprecedented speed amid what is likely to be a protracted period of economic weakness, European Central Bank governing council member Yves Mersch said in an interview. ECB headquarters (Getty Images) Further, Mersch said he didn’t rule out consumer price index data contracting for a few months next year, given the fall from a spike in commodity prices in mid-2008. But, he said, this would be temporary and not a harbinger of deflation. “I ...
What’s So Bad About Deflation? Remembering Irving Fisher
20 November 2008, 12:01 pm
Falling prices sound good to consumers struggling to buy groceries or gas, but the work of Yale University economist Irving Fisher, whose theories were formed during the Great Depression, shows the negative effects of deflation. Fisher The drop in consumer prices reported yesterday raised concerns about whether the nation may eventually face a deflationary environment. The figures largely showed a retreat from the high inflation of the past year, making it hardly a concern right now. Bu...
Dealbreaker
Lurking Silently, Ready To Pounce
21 November 2008, 10:52 am
Whatever it is that is lurking around in the shadows can just knock it off already, ok? We get it. You're out there. Announcement timed (poorly) to avoid market reaction/panic/action/inaction/fear/hope/disrupting the weekend. How about we just cut all the foreplay and spill it. What do you say? Jump, jump, for my love....
We Don't Buy It, But Ours Is Not To Reason Why
21 November 2008, 10:23 am
Apparently, if you were at Citi yesterday, you had a hard time trading in NYSE:GS- glean from this what you will for it is but one of the totally unfounded rumors swirling around us today, all of which have the basic form of Goldman taking over a large chunk of Citi's deposits. And yes, we do think it is gauche asking how much that's going to cost. ...
Absurdly Unfounded Rumor Of The Morning
21 November 2008, 10:00 am
Supposedly Morgan Stanley is planning to close equity prop trading "globally" (whatever that means). Sounds a bit extreme, but who the hell knows? Apparently the firm is experimenting with its flare for the dramatics these days. ...
Pink Slip For Uncle Vik?
21 November 2008, 9:15 am
When we asked you this last week, only a little over half thought Vikram Pandit would be boxing his shit up and turning in his ID. Things have changed slightly since then. Charlie Gasparino is hearing talk of VP stepping down, and though the situation is fluid, let's just determine what's what now: Online Surveys & Market Research...
Vikram Pandit: "Rumor Mongering Is At The Heart Of Our Problems"
21 November 2008, 8:43 am
Charlie Gasparino reports that Vikram Pandit just held a conference call which CG "was listening in on in my robe and underwear." Apparently Count Vikula made three points: 1. The problem with stock price is based on fear mongering. 2. Our capital position is very strong. 3. We're keeping the company together. Smith Barney will not be spun off....
Opening Bell: 11.21.08
21 November 2008, 8:14 am
Citi Group Eyes Options, Including Merger (Reuters) After the losses over the last week the Citi board is looking for options, and futures are up on expectations. I don't know what there's going to be for them on the street, though, outside of liquidation and absorption into other firms. To the point of liquidation, MS has already weighed in with a resounding "no", while JP Morgan isn't saying much - but I doubt that after the WaMu integration and writedowns they're going to have a lot of capit...
Write-Offs: 11.20.08
20 November 2008, 7:00 pm
$$$ Paulson calls for regulating everyone and everything [The Deal] $$$ I'm Having A Hard Time Trusting This Guy's Logic... [WSF] $$$ Bailout Arbitrage: The Sale of National City [Deal Journal]...
Challenge Extended, Challenge Accepted
20 November 2008, 4:48 pm
GENERAL MOTORS CORP GM SAYS INTENDS TO TAKE CONGRESS' DOUBLE DOG DARE AND DELIVER PLAN THAT SHOWS VIABILITY IN EXCHANGE FOR 25 BILLION GENERAL MOTORS CORP GM SAYS WILL DELIVER SOLUTION TO PIONEER ANOMALY TUESDAY FOR EXTRA 10 BILLION GENERAL MOTORS CORP SAYS WILL PROVE COLLATZ CONJECTURE OVER WEEKEND AND HAVE ANSWER ON PRESIDENT'S DESK BY MONDAY MORNING FOR 15 BILLION FORD MOTORS CORP SAYS WILL DELIVER CONGRESS SOLUTION TO COLD FUSION IN EXCHANGE FOR 30 BILLION...
Layoffs Watch '08: JPMorgan
20 November 2008, 4:31 pm
Reuters and Bloomberg have confirmed what we told you eight-ish hours ago: Bearpont Morgan Mutual will be laying off about ten percent of its investment bank staff. Carry on....
Citi: We'll Get You Bitches To Quit If It's The Last Thing We Do
20 November 2008, 4:08 pm
To: *IB NA Business Managers Subject: New Expenses Policy - Nov 20, 2008 Please note that there was a new Citigroup Expense Management Policy published today which is located on CIBIX. Items of note and effective immediately are: 1) Late working (OT) car and taxi service has been moved to 10pm 2) Employee celebratory events and holiday parties are non-reimbursable 3) All Non Revenue Generating Travel requires pre trip approval by an exception approver 4) Spousal Travel is non-reimbursable...
Freakonomics
Are You Better for the Environment if You're Tall or Short?
21 November 2008, 10:58 am
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is increasing the space between rows of seats on its planes. I'm not surprised - the Dutch are the tallest people on earth these days, as I discovered when I had to crane my neck around the Brobdingnagians in front of me in an Amsterdam movie theater. Like many Europeans, [...] ...
Spreading the Pirate Booty Around
21 November 2008, 10:56 am
Somali pirate town Boosaaso. (Photo: Jehad Nga/The New York Times) Who's making money from the piracy that's flourishing off the coast of Somalia? The pirates themselves seem to be raking it in. As the Guardian reports, pirates have made about $30 million from ransom payments this year, according to U.N. estimates; and they are demanding $25 [...] ...
How Aggressively Will the New Administration Address Global Warming?
21 November 2008, 10:47 am
Very, it would seem. This isn't exactly a surprise. Obama campaigned hard on the subject. But a couple of personnel moves in recent days suggest that, despite the cratering economy, the administration is also eager to tackle the energy/global warming issues. The first move is the ouster of John Dingell as chairman of the House Committee on [...] ...
Ron Paul Answers Your Questions, Part Two
21 November 2008, 12:22 am
Ron Paul When we solicited your questions for Congressman Ron Paul shortly after the election, so many questions came in that we split Paul's answers into two batches, the first of which was published last week. Here is the second. Like the first batch, they are well-considered and interesting throughout; they will surely make many [...] ...
Jenkem: Bringing the Levitt Family Together
20 November 2008, 5:21 pm
I often get emails from blog readers asking me to shed light on some issue that, in the mind of the email writer, is a pressing social or economic issue. Sometimes it is a big issue like immigration or the financial crisis. More often it is something less mainstream, like election fraud or an unusual [...] ...
Spamonomics
20 November 2008, 4:48 pm
Since last Wednesday, the torrent of junk e-mail coursing through the internet has been slowed dramatically, with 40 percent or more of it cut off at the source. The source of all that spam? San Jose, California. That's where a group of servers responsible for much of the world's spam had been operating until they were [...] ...
Our Daily Bleg: Which Quotes Were Viral in 2008?
20 November 2008, 1:31 pm
Our resident quote bleggar Fred Shapiro, editor of the Yale Book of Quotations, is back with another request. If you have a bleg of your own - it needn't have anything to do with quotations - send it along here. Let me continue to solicit suggestions for The Yale Book of Quotations list of the top [...] ...
Freddie Mac and Cheese
20 November 2008, 9:43 am
It's not an entire film (and it's not in French), but two more readers, Talya and Pavle, have sent in a video of their song "Fannie Mae Eat Freddie Mac and Cheese," which uses "freakonomics" as a sort of mantra. We like. ...
What Would You Do in the Worst Case? A Freakonomics Quorum
19 November 2008, 5:05 pm
Photo: Jamesfischer These are the economic times that try men's souls, and women's too. In the past few months, a lot of people have seen their net worth fall substantially, and I'm sure more than a few have contemplated what would happen if they lost everything. So we asked a group of people - Nick Mills, [...] ...
FREAK Shots: Who Are You Calling Third-World?
19 November 2008, 12:34 pm
Blog reader Nick Turner sent along this photo of a Body Shop ad in San Francisco: Photo: Nick Turner He was surprised that the ad guarantees fair-labor conditions for workers in Italy: I thought fair-trade protections were for third-world workers. I wonder how the Italians feel about this designation. The ad didn't outright call Italy third-world; but if it had, [...] ...
New Scientist
China's disappearing land puts food supplies at risk
21 November 2008, 10:45 am
Over a third of the nation's land area is being scoured by erosion that threatens food resources and could make conflict more likely...
Bush takes aim at the environment with late rule changes
21 November 2008, 10:01 am
The US president looks set to weaken protection for endangered species and relax gun laws in national parks before leaving office...
Computer chips give new spin on saving energy
21 November 2008, 9:26 am
An exotic processor that handles information in the form of waves rather than current could lead to ultra-low-power processors...
New species of Ebola found in Uganda
21 November 2008, 8:15 am
The virus resembles no other previously discovered strains – a feature that might complicate ongoing efforts to develop a universal vaccine...
Film review:
21 November 2008, 6:58 am
A new film dramatises the relationship between a young Einstein and English astrophysicist Arthur Eddington, at a time of war and great scientific change...
Electron strobe turns atoms into movie stars
21 November 2008, 6:47 am
A microscope equipped with a strobe-like electron source can capture the movement of atoms with unprecedented clarity...
New dolphin species revealed by genetic test
21 November 2008, 6:19 am
A third species of bottlenose has been discovered in the waters off southern Australia – it is only the second new dolphin in 50 years...
Graffiti and litter lead to more street crime
21 November 2008, 5:17 am
People become more disobedient in environments where people obviously flout rules or social norms – backing up the "broken window" theory of degenerating neighbourhoods...
Galactic recluse has friends after all
20 November 2008, 7:14 pm
A revised distance for a galaxy thought to be a loner shows it actually has neighbours – a fact that explains its stellar baby boom...
Vast stores of water ice surround Martian equator
20 November 2008, 2:30 pm
Underground glaciers around the planet's midsection contain the largest deposits of ice outside the polar regions...
LiveScience
Estimating the True Costs of Invasive Species in Great Lakes
21 November 2008, 10:28 am
What is the total cost of the introduction of non-native species into the Great Lakes?...
New View Inside Bacteria Could Improve Health
21 November 2008, 9:10 am
The bacterial cell wall, a target of potent antibiotics, can now be imaged in three dimensions to show how it gives bacteria structural support and protection....
Scientists Team Up with Hollywood
20 November 2008, 3:41 pm
The worlds of science and Hollywood collide....
Buried Glaciers Found on Mars
20 November 2008, 2:20 pm
Orbiter radar reveals glaciers concealed under mid-latitude debris flows on Mars....
Graffiti Triggers Crime and Littering
20 November 2008, 2:00 pm
One form of rule-breaking can lead to more....
Scientists Say Copernicus' Remains Found
20 November 2008, 10:58 am
Researchers think they have identified the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus....
King Herod May Have Been Buried With Lavish Artwork
20 November 2008, 9:28 am
Israeli archaeologists find Roman-style paintings in possible tomb of King Herod....
The Reality of Mysterious Medical Maladies
20 November 2008, 9:02 am
Gulf War Syndrome is real, but what about chronic fatigue, multiple personalities and breast implant disorders?...
The Physics of Teardrops
20 November 2008, 8:02 am
Scientists used computer models to learn how tears travel through the eye and leave as teardrops....
Why Can't Human Beings Breathe Underwater?
19 November 2008, 3:20 pm
When you breathe in air, the air travels from your nose, down your trachea (windpipe), and into your lungs....
Digg Science
Why did the USSR build Buran - the Soviet 'space shuttle'?
21 November 2008, 11:00 am
Some 20 years ago, on 30 September 1988, many readers of the Pravda newspaper - the official mouthpiece of the Soviet communist party - could not believe their eyes. Published somewhat inconspicuously on the second page, there was a photo depicting the familiar shape of the US space shuttle, but with Soviet insignia on its wings. Why was it built?...
10 Astounding Astrophotos by Phil Hart
21 November 2008, 10:20 am
I have assembled a collection of my favourite of his works here for your enjoyment....
Compound Tied to Cognitive Deficits in Schizophrenia
21 November 2008, 9:20 am
Elevated brain levels of a compound called kynurenic acid are associated with problem-solving deficits in people with schizophrenia, according to U.S. researchers....
Amazon Debuts Frustration-Free Packaging
21 November 2008, 9:10 am
The folks at Amazon are working hard to remedy this problem with the introduction of Frustration-Free packaging. Amazon is working with manufacturers to eliminate dreadful clamshell packages for simpler brown boxes. Not only will it make wrapping and unwrapping much easier, but these boxes can broken down like any other and recycled....
New Biomass Plants Called For in Obama’s Green Agenda
21 November 2008, 7:00 am
Obama’s green agenda is clear. He campaigned on promises to create 5 million “green jobs.” In order to make these jobs and renewable energy a reality, the production tax credits may be extended for 5 years (although they were extended under the $700 billion bailout plan, they are currently set to expire one year from now)....
Prototype Generator Harnesses Vibration Power
21 November 2008, 6:10 am
Omron’s generator works with an “electret power generation system” that changes capacitance depending on the relative position of opposing electrodes. A change in capacitance generates electric current....
5 Ways to Save and Purify the World's Water Supply
21 November 2008, 3:40 am
Clean water is one thing that most Americans take for granted. But with aging infrastructure, climate change and an accelerating world population, keeping clean water running from our taps is a growing challenge, both physically and politically....
If Chevron Stopped Greenwashing, These Would be Their Ads
21 November 2008, 1:00 am
They don’t mention what they as a company have the power to do. Instead, they ask people to do things like take their golf clubs out of their trunk, replace light bulbs with CFLs, and “consider” buying a hybrid....
Phone Makers Monitor Charger Energy Consumption
21 November 2008, 12:50 am
A group of mobile manufacturers (LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung Electronics and Sony Ericsson) has launched a common energy rating system for chargers, making it easier for consumers to compare and choose the one that saves the most energy....
The Science Behind Firewalking
21 November 2008, 12:40 am
Once again, science kicks magic's ass....
