Forget the small testicled polar bears, global warming has apparently spawned something to really worry about right now! Check this out:
According to Google, this bug has to be about 200 FEET LONG! They may have totally screwed the hurricane season. And, they might not be able to accurately predict the oceans’s temperatures. And, now this! [...]
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Posted in Global Warming on Sep 26th, 2006
Livescience blog observes a couple of comments made from both sides of the argument, namely from William Gray, who calls global warming a big scam, to James Henson, who observes "Some of this noise won’t stop until some of these scientists are dead.” Livescience blog then basically jumps right to the conclusion that: "When Hansen [...]
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Posted in Global Warming on Sep 22nd, 2006
Now, here’s the way to do it:
“We are very pleased today to be making a commitment to invest 100 percent of all future proceeds to the Virgin Group from our transportation interest, both our trains and airline businesses, into tackling global warming,” Branson told a news conference.
Branson said the profits will be invested in [...]
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Posted in Global Warming on Sep 22nd, 2006
From Livescience, again:
Despite the long term warming trend seen around the globe, the oceans have cooled in the last three years, scientists announced today.
The temperature drop, a small fraction of the total warming seen in the last 48 years, suggests that global warming trends can sometimes take little dips.
It never ceases to amaze me [...]
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Posted in Travel on Sep 19th, 2006
Shuttle Atlantis’ return has been delayed at least one day while scientists on Earth try to figure out what this is:
Not the light circle, the dark dot in the middle of the circle. Now, my first that was something along the lines of WTF? I mean, a dot? NASA’s now afraid of a dot? Well, [...]
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Posted in Technology on Sep 19th, 2006
Black holes have quite a reputation. They suck up planets, galaxies, anything that gets within their grasp. Depending on which movie you watch, they’ll propel you to another dimension or galaxy just like that. Of course, you have to ignore the fact they crush all matter ( that would include you ). Depending on which [...]
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Posted in Health on Sep 14th, 2006
A rather dramatic "claim" has arusin regarding Lance Armstrong. Basically, an article a former teammate gives in Sports Illustrated basically infers that Lance’s testicular cancer might have been caused by his use of steroids. However, Junkscience debunks this claim dead on in an article published on Foxnews:
A recent review published in the journal Current Sports [...]
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Posted in The Solar System on Sep 12th, 2006
This is pretty cool:
Don Mitchell is touching up some photos from the 1981 Venera 13 and 14 Russian Venus probes. I hadn’t even seen this in a long time, and they sure didn’t look this good. What’s just as cool, Don is blogging about his efforts and other stuff.
After checking Venus out, I think [...]
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Posted in Health on Sep 9th, 2006
Stormwarning sent me this:
Hope for men affected by one of the commonest and most embarrassing sexual problems has been raised by research showing premature ejaculation can be treated with a new drug. .
The drug, dapoxetine, more than trebled the time to ejaculation in men taking the highest dose as well as improving their sexual satisfaction [...]
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Posted in Technology on Sep 7th, 2006
This really is cool:
I’ve heard about this for a while, but seeing is definitely cooler than reading in this case. I can see all kinds of uses for this.
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