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Posted in Health on Mar 29th, 2005
Many Americans are so sleepy that they are having problems in their marriages, making mistakes at work and even going without sex, according to a report released on Tuesday.
The poll by the National Sleep Foundation found that 75 percent of adults frequently have a symptom of a sleep problem such as frequent waking during the [...]
Posted in Earth on Mar 28th, 2005
A great earthquake occurred at 16:09:37 (UTC) on Monday, March 28, 2005. The magnitude 8.2 event has been located in NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA.
I’m hoping this one isn’t as catastrophic as the last. Given the state of their infrastructure, I’m not very hopeful tho. Just got some headlines. The Thai government at least [...]
Posted in The Universe on Mar 25th, 2005
The headline is all over the place and reads something like this every time:
First light seen from alien planets
[Technology News] PASADENA, Calif.,, March 23 : NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has captured the first direct light from two planets orbiting stars other than the sun. Up to now, all confirmed extrasolar planets have been discovered [...]
Posted in People on Mar 24th, 2005
Wally Schirra has started a web page. He asks himself why. Because he’s Wally Schirra and no one can tell space tales better than Wally is why.
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Posted in Global Warming on Mar 20th, 2005
The study results, published today in the journal Science, indicate that even if greenhouse gas levels had stabilized five years ago, global temperatures would still increase by about half a degree by the end of the century and sea level would rise some 11 centimeters.
This is the "fact" cited in Scientific American and many [...]
Posted in Earth on Mar 18th, 2005
Bet you didn’t know that Spring is coming sooner than most everyone expected. Yup. It’ll be here Sunday, not Monday. Space.com does a great job explaining this:
A year is not an even number of days and neither are the seasons. To try and achieve a value as close as possible to the exact length of [...]
Posted in Earth on Mar 12th, 2005
Well, while I was eyeballing Alaska and Washington, to which nothing really happened, this did happen near Colima Mexico yesterday:
Pretty cool, huh?
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Posted in Animal Kingdom on Mar 12th, 2005
I was speaking of squid the other day. Mainly how I couldn’t get over the size of squid balls. Well, thanks to Discovery, I can see where they come from now.
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Posted in Global Warming on Mar 10th, 2005
THE melting of sea ice at the North Pole may be the result of a centuries-old natural cycle and not an indicator of man-made global warming, Scottish scientists have found.
After researching the log-books of Arctic explorers spanning the past 300 years, scientists believe that the outer edge of sea ice may expand and contract [...]
Posted in Technology on Mar 9th, 2005
Data broker LexisNexis on Wednesday said that identity thieves have gained access to profiles of 32,000 U.S. citizens, prompting calls for better consumer protections after a rash of similar break-ins.
Seems like I had just made a comment about this problem getting worse. Was it Choicepoint or was it T-Mobile. Or, was it both?
These companies [...]