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A Cloud Filling A Mountain Valley - MUST SEE! MUST SEE!

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:28:31 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: This is EXCEPTIONALLY cool.

Clip Source: img2.moonbuggy.org

Tags: weather, topography, mountain, cloud, climate, altitiude

Micro-robot that can clear arteries

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:58:42 GMT

clipped by: shunyax

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

A microscopic robot small enough to travel through blood vessels has been built by scientists.

Less than a millimetre in size, the robot walks like a crab on six legs and has been designed to clear blocked arteries.

A microscopic robot small enough to travel through blood vessels has been built by scientists.

Less than a millimetre in size, the robot walks like a crab on six legs and has been designed to clear blocked arteries.

It was produced by researchers at Chonnam National University in Korea, who found the robot was able to travel 55 yards in a week.

Once inside a blocked artery, it is able to release drugs to dissolve blood clots, which are often the cause of heart attacks.

By attaching grafted heart muscle to the legs, the scientists found the legs would bend as the muscle cells contracted. The cells get their energy from sugar in the patient's blood.

That means the robot does not need an external power supply, which are often heavy and cumbersome, if not impractical.

Tags: medicine, health, robotics

Giant Turkey Chases Boston Woman, Pecks Bottom Repeatedly

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:24:30 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks:

When dispatched to the scene of a turkey, [Brookline police animal control officer Pierre] Verrier offers advice instead.

He tells people not to feed them, not to be intimidated by them, and to keep their distance. Still, some people cannot help themselves. They need to be near the turkeys.

Distance-shmistance, we want to be near the turkeys. I, for one, am against the city of Boston trying to regulate mutually consensual human-turkey behavior. A light ass-pecking never hurt anyone, am I right?

Even though this incident happened right near my apartment, I have not been lucky enough to experience any super-sized turkeys on my errands, sadly. Look at the size of that sucker...he's gotta be like 12 feet tall!

Clip Source: www.boston.com

Turkeys take to cities, towns

BROOKLINE - On a recent afternoon, Kettly Jean-Felix parked her car on Beacon Street in Brookline, fed the parking meter, wheeled around to go to the optician and came face to face with a wild turkey.

The turkey eyed Jean-Felix. Jean-Felix eyed the turkey. It gobbled. She gasped. Then the turkey proceeded to follow the Dorchester woman over the Green Line train tracks, across the street, through traffic, and all the way down the block, pecking at her backside as she went.

"This is so scary," Jean-Felix said, finally taking refuge inside Cambridge Eye Doctors in Brookline's bustling Washington Square. "I cannot explain it."

Tags: turkey, bottom, pecking, boston, thanksgiving, gobble, giant.turkey.uprising

Most Useful Firefox Hotkeys

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:42:40 GMT

clipped by: Jaycer17

Clip Source: www.zepy.net

Ctrl-W or Ctrl-F4 (Close Tab)
Instead of click red icon on the tab, just pres Ctrl-w.

Ctrl-Tab (Move to next Tab)
Move to the next tab use Ctrl-tab without using your mouse.

Ctrl-Shift-Tab (Move to previous Tab)
Move to the previous tab…

Ctrl-Shift-T (Undo Close Tab)
You can visit closed tab again…

Alt-D (Select Address Bar)
Alt-d and type the address..

Ctrl-K (Select Search Bar)
Like Alt-d, but this select search bar.

Ctrl-D (Bookmark current tab)
I think most of you known this hotkey

Ctrl-Shift-D (Bookmark all tabs)
Tired bookmark all tabs one by one, try this hotkey.

Ctrl-F (Search Word)
Maybe this is the most keyboard hotkeys that i used. It is very useful to find a word in a webpage.

Tags: firefox, hotkeys, useful

Test Your Vision Easily

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:30:45 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: Most clever.

Clip Source: bp2.blogger.com

Tags: eye, sight

Large dinosaur footprints found in Australia

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:34:09 GMT

clipped by: invictus

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Large, carnivorous dinosaurs roamed southern Australia 115 million years ago, when the continent was joined to the Antarctica, and were padded with body fat to survive temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius.

Standing about 12-feet tall, these hardy creatures inhabited the area close to the South Pole for at least 10 million years during the Cretaceous period, an expert said.

Palaeontologists from Australia and the United States came by their findings after uncovering three separate fossil footprints measuring about 14 inches long, each with at least two or three partial toes.

The footprints were found close to the shoreline in Victoria, Australia, in February 2006 and February 2007.

"(They are) the biggest carnivores we have from polar southeastern Australia ... in other words (large) dinosaurs could live in these unusual environments," said Thomas Rich, curator of vertebrate palaeontology at the Museum of Victoria.

Tags: dinosaurs, palaeontology, australia, science

Discovered: Artifacts from the First Temple of Solomon

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:56:18 GMT

clipped by: ouyangwulong
clipper's remarks: I think the time has come to open up these areas to tastefull, scholastic investigation, so that we can organize and preserve the relics that may be contained here in.

Religion need not be at odds with the accumulation of humanistic knowledge, in fact religious significance is often a great complement to the field of archeology, as is archeology to important aspects of ancient religious history.

Clip Source: news.nationalgeographic.com

Solomon's Temple Artifacts Found by Muslim Workers

Muslim workers have unearthed artifacts on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, says an Israeli agency.

The artifacts, which date to the First Jewish Temple period—the eighth to sixth centuries B.C.—were found by employees of the Waqf Muslim religious trust doing maintenance work, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) reported.

The artifacts may be the first physical evidence of human activity at the Temple Mount—also known as Solomon's Temple—in that time.

The findings include animal bones; ceramic bowl rims, bases, and body sherds; the base of a juglet used to pour oil; the handle of a small juglet; and the rim of a storage jar, according to the IAA.

The bowl sherds were decorated with wheel burnishing lines characteristic of the First Temple Period.

In addition, a piece of a whitewashed, handmade object was found. It may have been used to decorate a larger object or may have been the leg of an animal figurine.

Tags: archeology, temple of solomon, jerusalem, discovered

Tiny Puffer Fish [pic]

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:28:35 GMT

clipped by: bostonblogger
clipper's remarks: so cute!

Clip Source: bestpicsaround.com

Tags: puffer fish

250+ Killer Digital Libraries and Archives

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:53:21 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: loving it!

Clip Source: oedb.org

Hundreds of libraries and archives exist online, from university-supported sites to individual efforts. Each one has something to offer to researchers, students, and teachers. This list contains over 250 libraries and archives that focus mainly on localized, regional, and U.S. history, but it also includes larger collections, eText and eBook repositories, and a short list of directories to help you continue your research efforts.

The sites listed here are mainly open access, which means that the digital formats are viewable and usable by the general public. So, such sites as the Connecticut Digital Library (iCONN) are not listed, as they operate on the premise that the user has a Connecticut library card in his or her possession.

Tags: library, books, online library, archieves, readers, wonderful.

Physicists take 'snapshot' of Neutrino

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:22:23 GMT

clipped by: pokkets
clipper's remarks: The neutrino went from Switzerland to Italy in 2.4 milliseconds a distance of 730Km(530 miles) Neutrinos are hard to detect because they have no charge, and tend to pass through things undetected. They could provide clues as to the whereabouts of the puzzle of the 'missing mass' of the universe. Physicists have calculated a mass for the universe, but are having trouble finding around 90% of it. Neutrinos were once thought to be massless, but experiments suggest it has a mass albeit a very small one.

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Physicists have taken a snapshot of an elusive neutrino, in research that could one day explain why some of the universe's mass seems to be missing.

A single neutrino smashes into the detector, leaving tracks on special plates

European physicists sent a neutrino particle on a 730 kilometre trip under the earth's crust and taken a snapshot of the instant it slammed into lab detectors.

The particle zoomed from the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland to an underground laboratory at the Italian Institute for Nuclear Research at San Grasso.

The journey took about 2.4 milliseconds, with the particle travelling close to the speed of light, says France's National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Neutrinos are elementary particles that lack an electrical charge and do not appear to interact with mass, as they can travel through ordinary matter almost effortlessly.

Trillions of them pass through each of our bodies every day.

Neutrinos come in three types, or flavours

Tags: physics, science, neutrino, cern, nuclear

Glad I'm Not Republican

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:41:21 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: In a mere 6 yrs. (although it no doubt started earlier) the Repubs have been co-opted by the neo-con warmongering corporatists...it's a shameful chapter in Amurrikan politics.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Midnight in America: the Mainstreaming of the GOP's Lunatic Fringe

The most significant takeover of the past decade isn't to be found among the telecoms, the big oil companies, or in Silicon Valley. The reconfigured entity is headquartered in Washington, but we can see and hear the results everyday on your television, radio, and computer screen. And America is much the worse for it. I'm talking about the takeover of the Republican Party by its lunatic fringe.

Reagan's GOP has been replaced by the dark, moldering, putrefied party of Bush, Cheney, Rove, Limbaugh, Coulter, and Malkin. Morning in America has given way to Midnight in America.

We have a mainstream on the right that supports torture, that is backing an Attorney General nominee who is agnostic on torture, and that rallies behind a president who refuses to define what the word "torture" means.

These days, the only thing that separates the RNC and Rush Limbaugh is a prescription for OxyContin.

Tags: bush admin, mujasey, torture

Argentine's First Lady is set for a victory

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:18:07 GMT

clipped by: invictus
clipper's remarks: According to the polls, she is set for a clear victory and will be the first female President of Argentina. I also liked this picture of her. Isn't she beautiful?

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Argentine presidential candidate Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner fans herself as she attends an electoral rally in Buenos Aires in this September 19, 2007 file photo. Kirchner is set for a resounding victory in the presidential election one week away, according to 10 different polls published on Sunday. Picture taken September 19. (Marcos Brindicci/Reuters)

Tags: argentina, politics, cristina fernandez, latin america

Iraqi Car Wash

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:49:28 GMT

clipped by: syncopath
clipper's remarks: some wet news from hot spots.. can be served as a re-freshment in between ..

Clip Source: www.onejerusalem.com

This is a cute picture from AFP that caught my eye. An Iraqi kid washing a US jeep in Baakuba. It’s very very hot these days in the Middle East and so every picture which shows water and someone cooling down gets attention (even if its a Hummer)..

On a happier note for Iraqis the gunfire heard there today was actually a good thing:

“celebratory gunfire resounded across Baghdad and revelers poured into the streets after Iraq beat Saudi Arabia to clinch its first Asian Cup soccer championship on Sunday while mosques broadcast calls for the shooting to stop.” “Those heroes have shown the real Iraq. They have done something useful for the people as opposed to the politicians and lawmakers who are stealing or killing each other,” said Sabah Shaiyal, a 43-year-old policeman in Baghdad. “The players have made us proud, not the greedy politicians. Once again, our national team has shown that there is only one, united Iraq.” CNN

Tags: iraq, sport, news, asian cup

Homeless Bear.

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:48:46 GMT

clipped by: swampfoxz
clipper's remarks: Poor guy.

Clip Source: imager.cc

Tags: homeless