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Volcanoes wiped out Neanderthals, new study suggests

New research suggests that climate change following massive volcanic eruptions drove Neanderthals to extinction and cleared the way for modern humans to thrive in Europe and Asia.

At the Smallest Scale, Water Is a Sloppy Liquid - ScienceNOW

At the Smallest Scale, Water Is a Sloppy Liquid - ScienceNOW

Quantum dice: Simple device measures quantum noise of vacuum fluctuations and generates true random numbers

Behind every coincidence lies a plan -- in the world of classical physics, at least. In principle, every event, including the fall of dice or the outcome of a game of roulette, can be explained in mathematical terms. Researchers in Germany have constructed a device that works on the principle of tru

How rules of physics in quantum world change when applied to classical world

Researchers have discovered a potentially important piece of the quantum/classical puzzle -- learning how the rules of physics in the quantum world (think smaller than microscopic) change when applied to the classical world (think every day items, like cars and trees).

Researchers show that the big bang was followed by chaos

(PhysOrg.com) -- Seven years ago Northwestern University physicist Adilson E. Motter conjectured that the expansion of the universe at the time of the big bang was highly chaotic. Now he and a colleague have proven it using rigorous mathematical arguments.

JourneyToForever.org - Weeds, Guardians of the Soil

Small farms library: Weeds Guardians of the Soil, by Joseph A. Cocannouer, Author of Trampling Out the Vintage

Transition metal catalysts could be key to origin of life, scientists report

Scientists propose that an overlooked type of biological catalyst -- metal-ligand complexes -- could have jump-started metabolism and life itself, deep in hydrothermal ocean vents.

Cracks in the Universe: Physicists are searching for the fingerprints of cosmic strings

Physicists are hot on the trail of one of strangest theorized structures in the universe. A team of researchers have announced what they think are the first indirect observations of ancient cosmic strings, bizarre objects thought to have contributed to the arrangement of objects throughout the universe...

Most distant galaxy ever measured: Faint glow from when the universe was only 600 million years old

A European team of astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has measured the distance to the most remote galaxy so far. By carefully analyzing the very faint glow of the galaxy they have found that they are seeing it when the universe was only about 600 million years old (a redshift of 8.6).

Plants play larger role than thought in cleaning up air pollution, research shows

Vegetation plays an unexpectedly large role in cleansing the atmosphere, a new study finds. The research uses observations, gene expression studies, and computer modeling to show that deciduous plants absorb about a third more of a common class of air-polluting chemicals than previously thought.

BBC News - Private space capsule launched

A private US capsule that could soon be hauling cargo and even astronauts to the space station has launched on its first demonstration flight.

Financial meltdown scuttles dreams of Green Bay's rocket man - JSOnline

George French could have stuck to the familiar trajectory of a successful businessman. But French left his billboard business to follow his true star, into space, and the journey ultimately led to bankruptcy.

BBC News - New solar fuel machine 'mimics plant life'

A prototype solar fuel machine is unveiled which mimics plant life, transforming the sun's energy into storable fuel.

Back to the rabbit ears - JSOnline

Over-the-air television, around since the invention of TV, is far from dead and may even be on a comeback.

Computer & IT

How energy-efficient is cloud computing?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Conventionally, data storage and data processing are done at the user's own computer, using that computer's storage system and processor. An alternative to this method is cloud computing, which is Internet-based computing that enables users at home or office computers to transfer da

Disable and Turn Off Windows Vista Search Indexer and Indexing Service » My Digital Life

Vista has greatly enhanced its search algorithm where the search process is now not only...So to speed up Vista, users may want to turn off and disable the search indexer and indexing service.

Types of Internet Connections - Webopedia.com

As technology grows, so does our need for bigger, better and faster Internet connections.

US deploys 'game-changer' weapon to Afghanistan

It looks and acts like something best left in the hands of Sylvester Stallone's 'Rambo,' but this latest dream weapon is real -- and the US Army sees it becoming the Taliban's worst nightmare.

BBC News - HTML5: the language aiming to to make the web wider

The technology underlying the web is about to go through one of the biggest changes in its short 20 year history.

Peep show: inside the world of unsecured IP security cameras

Want to peer into businesses around the world, look through red light cameras in Texas, or keep an eye on a campus quad? IP-enabled security cameras make it possible, since so many are left wide open to anyone with a bit of Google-fu.

AP News - OMG, when did we start talking like txt msgs?

NEW YORK (AP) - "ILY!" Susan Maushart's 16-year-old daughter often calls out over her shoulder as she leaves the house. Sure, actual words would be better. But Mom knows not to complain. "A mother of teenagers is pathetically grateful for an 'I love you' no matter what form it takes," she observes.

Art & expressive arts

BBC News - Soul singer Solomon Burke dies aged 70

Soul singer Solomon Burke, who wrote the song Everybody Needs Somebody to Love, dies at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport aged 70.

BBC News - In pictures: Mandelbrot's fractals

Images of influential mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot and the fractal geometry principle he spent his life investigating.

AP News - The art world's Bernie Madoff, and his deceptions

The art world's Bernie Madoff, and his deceptions

AP News - 'Phantom of the Fox' fights to stay in apartment

'Phantom of the Fox' fights to stay in apartment

AP News - Artist's study of island brings the dead to life

Artist's study of island brings the dead to life

BBC News - Audio slideshow: Cross Bones

A few hundred metres from some of London's top tourist attractions lies a long-forgotten graveyard with an unusual history. For centuries Cross Bones was a burial site for outcasts.

AP News - 3rd eye: NYU artist gets camera implanted in head

NEW YORK (AP) - A New York University arts professor might not have eyes on the back of his head, but he's coming pretty close.

AP News - Solved: Teen put piano on Miami sandbar; gone now

MIAMI (AP) - The rumors can stop swirling: The baby grand piano that turned up on a Miami sandbar was burned to tatters by New Year's revelers, then brought to its new home by a television designer's teenage son who said Thursday he hoped the idea might help him get into a prestigious art school.
And now, it has been removed.

Health, medicine & medical research

BBC News - First trial of embryonic stem cells in humans

US doctors begin the first official trial of using human embryonic stem cells in patients after getting the green light from regulators to use them for spinal injuries.

Demand grows for ginseng, along with price - JSOnline

Nearly a dozen buyers from China, Hong Kong, Singapore and both U.S. coasts are camped out in Marathon County, in north-central Wisconsin, buying up the fall harvest of the ancient medicinal root.

Researcher may have contracted virus carried by monkeys

It's the stuff of doomsday movies: A new virus jumps from animals to people, with ominous possibilities. At the California National Primate Research Center at the University of California, Davis, last year, a newly identified form of virus devastated a monkey colony and sickened a researcher...

Got a cold? Study says echinacea won't help much

Got the sniffles? The largest study of the popular herbal remedy echinacea finds it won't help you get better any sooner.

Prayer can help people handle difficult emotions, study suggests

Those who choose to pray find personalized comfort during hard times, according to a sociologist. The 75 percent of Americans who pray on a weekly basis do so to manage a range of negative situations and emotions -- illness, sadness, trauma and anger -- but just how they find relief has gone unconsidered by researchers.

Revealed: Secret businesses which aimed to exploit vaccine fears

Andrew Wakefield, the disgraced doctor who claimed a link between MMR and autism, planned secret businesses intended to make huge sums of money, in Britain and America, from his now-discredited allegations.

BBC News - Negative experiences can stop painkillers working

A patient's belief that a drug will not work can become a self fulfilling prophecy, according to researchers.

Mobile phone use not related to increased brain cancer risk, UK study suggests

Radio frequency exposure from mobile phone use does not appear to increase the risk of developing brain cancers by any significant amount, a new study suggests.

Life-hacks, wellness, personal growth --

& self-improvement & more like that...

Self-help and personal development bookmarks:

Find my links for these topics on my self-healing and self-change lenses.


Is this solitary gull anti-social or individualistic? Perhaps the occasional quiet moment away from the flock is fun!

Religion, spirituality & philosophy

AP News - Pope canonizes first Australian saint, 5 others

Pope canonizes first Australian saint, 5 others

BBC News - Burundi albino boy 'dismembered'

The dismembered body of a young albino boy is found in a river on the Burundi-Tanzania border, reports say.

BBC News - Tale of gay woman forced to marry to protect 'honour'

A gay woman who was forced to marry for the sake of family "honour" is one of a number of such cases increasingly coming to the attention of the government's Forced Marriage Unit.

AP News - Catholic bloggers aim to purge dissenters

Catholic bloggers aim to purge dissenters

AP News - Ohio radio host, witch doctor try to curse LeBron

Ohio radio host, witch doctor try to curse LeBron

BBC News - Vatican warns of 'wayward' Opus Angelorum sect

The Vatican warns Catholic bishops around the world to monitor carefully members of a secretive traditionalist sect that prays to angels to combat demons.

Moved by religion: Mexican cavefish develop resistance to toxin

A centuries-old religious ceremony of an indigenous people in southern Mexico has led to small evolutionary changes in a local species of fish, according to researchers from Texas A&M University.

AP News - Scarcity of peyote means hard times for dealers

Scarcity of peyote means hard times for dealers

AP News - Hearing over Tennessee mosque puts Islam on trial

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - Islam is suddenly on trial in a booming Nashville suburb, where opponents of a new mosque have spent six days in court trying to link it to what they claim is a conspiracy to take over America by imposing restrictive religious rule.

BBC News - French village faces influx of apocalypse believers

The mayor of the French village of Bugarach says he fears an influx of New Age believers who are convinced they will escape the end of the world in 2012.

Were the Three Wise Men from China? - USATODAY.com

'Revelation of the Magi,' a new analysis of a little-known 8th-century text, uncovers an intriguing version of the Christmas story.

BBC News - Haiti mobs lynch voodoo priests over cholera fears

Voodoo priests in quake-hit Haiti are being lynched by mobs who blame them for spreading cholera, the country's government says.

BBC News - Squabbling hinders repairs to Bethlehem Nativity Church

Disagreements over how to repair Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity could damage Bethlehem's profitable nativity tourism industry, writes the BBC's Wyre Davies.

AP News - End of Days in May? Christian group spreads word

A movement of Christians loosely organized by radio broadcasts and websites, independent of churches is convinced by their reading of the Bible that the end of the world will begin May 21, 2011 and they are spreading the word.

AP News - Vatican warned Irish bishops not to report abuse

DUBLIN (AP) - A newly revealed 1997 letter from the Vatican warned Ireland's Catholic bishops not to report all suspected child-abuse cases to police - a disclosure with the potential to fuel more lawsuits worldwide against the Vatican, which has long denied any involvement in cover-ups.

My Way News - Funeral pyres an option in Colo. mountain town

CRESTONE, Colo. (AP) - Belinda Ellis' farewell went as she wanted. One by one, her family placed juniper boughs and logs about her body, covered in red cloth atop a rectangular steel grate inside a brick-lined hearth. With a torch, her husband lit the fire that consumed her, sending billows of smoke into the blue-gray sky of dawn.

BBC News - Donor 'influenced by guru centre'

A former RAF officer persuaded to give his home to a spiritual healing centre speaks out for the first time.

AP News - Pope exonerates Jews for Jesus' death in new book

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI has made a sweeping exoneration of the Jewish people for the death of Jesus Christ, tackling one of the most controversial issues in Christianity in a new book.

History, politics, culture, people & causes

BBC News - US Republican candidate Rich Iott in Nazi uniform row

Republican House candidate Rich Iott has been criticised by senior party figures after photos of him dressed in a Nazi uniform emerged on the internet.

BBC News - Sydney's Aboriginal ghetto to be bulldozed

A run-down housing estate in Sydney that has become a symbol of Aboriginal disadvantage is to be torn down in an effort to revitalise the area.

BBC News - 'Fractal' mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot dies aged 85

Benoit Mandelbrot, whose work on fractals aided understanding of the complexity of patterns in nature, has died at the age of 85.

BBC News - Rescued Chile miner plans return to the tunnels

One of the miners rescued from deep underground in Chile just days ago tells the BBC's Piers Scholfield that he plans to return to work in the mines.

My Way News - Chile miners: From world fame to humble homes

Chile miners: From world fame to humble homes

WWII Dutch intelligence leader's story inspired book, film - JSOnline

Gaston Vandermeerssche, only 18 when Nazi Germany invaded his native Belgium, joined the resistance movement and became the leader of the Dutch intelligence network in Europe.

WWII Dutch intelligence leader's story inspired book, film - JSOnline

Gaston Vandermeerssche, only 18 when Nazi Germany invaded his native Belgium, joined the resistance movement and became the leader of the Dutch intelligence network in Europe.

WWII Dutch intelligence leader's story inspired book, film - JSOnline

Gaston Vandermeerssche, only 18 when Nazi Germany invaded his native Belgium, joined the resistance movement and became the leader of the Dutch intelligence network in Europe.

A stone says more than a thousand runes

It was not necessary to be literate to be able to access rune carvings in the 11th century. At the same time, those who could read were able to glean much more information from a rune stone than merely what was written in runes.

A stone says more than a thousand runes

It was not necessary to be literate to be able to access rune carvings in the 11th century. At the same time, those who could read were able to glean much more information from a rune stone than merely what was written in runes.

AP News - Through the past, darkly: The '60s at 50, blurred

BETHEL, N.Y. (AP) - ...The 1960s have been idealized and vilified, romanticized and boiled down into a cultural demiglace with an intense taste but very little of the subtlety that the real decade offered.

BBC News - Venezuelan squatters bank on the future in office tower

With a housing shortage in the Venezuelan capital, the BBC's Will Grant meets the people who are building homes in one of Latin America's tallest office blocks.

My Way News - FACT CHECK: Obama and his imbalanced ledger

WASHINGTON (AP) - The ledger did not appear to be adding up Tuesday night when President Barack Obama urged more spending on one hand and a spending freeze on the other. Obama spoke ambitiously of putting money into roads, research, education, efficient cars, high-speed rail and other initiatives in his State of the Union speech.

Liberty, libertarian & related

Hot novel 'Atlas Shrugged' stars in Senate debate - JSOnline

U.S. Senate candidates Ron Johnson and U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold clashed sharply Monday night on Ayn Rand's famous novel "Atlas Shrugged," about an economy crumbling under the weight of government intrusion and regulations.

BBC News - The big picture: Lightning strike

After years of trying, a New York cameraman captures lightning striking the Statue of Liberty

My Way News - Discovery of GPS tracker becomes privacy issue

Discovery of GPS tracker becomes privacy issue

AP News - Advocate appeals secret Kan. case to Supreme Court

Advocate appeals secret Kan. case to Supreme Court

My Way News - Online outrage follows UK's 'Twitter Joke Trial'

LONDON (AP) - Thousands of annoyed Internet users are tweeting threats to a British airport in support of a man who was arrested and fined for threatening to blow it "sky high" if his flight was delayed.

BBC News - Twitter anger over bomb tweeter

Thousands of Twitter users are backing Paul Chambers, the man convicted and fined for sending a message threatening to blow up an airport.

AP News - TSA has met the enemy _ and they are us

How did an agency created to protect the public become the target of so much public scorn?...Travel consumer advocate Christopher Elliott: "I think at some point Americans said to themselves, maybe in their collective subconscious...there's a line here where it's not just worth it anymore. There's a growing sense that that line has been crossed."

Odd, weird & miscellaneous

AP News - Countless human bones found in pits at AZ cemetery

Countless human bones found in pits at AZ cemetery

AP News - Calif. woman killed after driving replica Indy car

Calif. woman killed after driving replica Indy car

AP News - Massive windstorm howls across nation's midsection

Massive windstorm howls across nation's midsection

AP News - State goes overseas for lethal injection drug

State goes overseas for lethal injection drug

AP News - Wild storm leaves behind damage, injuries

Wild storm leaves behind damage, injuries

BBC News - Maldives police to probe foul-mouthed wedding ceremony

Maldives police are to launch a formal investigation after a tourist couple were verbally abused during what they thought was a renewal of their wedding vows.

AP News - LA County coroner aims to revive gift shop sales

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The morgue is about the last place you would think of to go shopping, so it's perhaps unsurprising that sales at Los Angeles County's coroner gift store are next to dead.

AP EXCLUSIVE: Pilot duped AMA with fake M.D. claim

...As a cardiologist and United Airlines captain, William Hamman taught doctors and pilots ways to keep hearts and planes from crashing...He shared millions in grants, had university and hospital posts, and bragged of work for prestigious medical groups...But it turns out Hamman isn't a cardiologist or even a doctor.

AP News - Soon the government check won't be in the mail

WASHINGTON (AP) - Before too long, the government check will no longer be in the mail.
Officials have settled on the dates when millions of people will no longer be able to get their Social Security and other benefit checks by mail.

BBC News - A traditional Nativity scene, Catalan-style

Sarah Rainsford reports from Catalonia on a unique addition to the Christmas nativity scene, which is spawning celebrity spin-offs.

The Crazed Internet Rantings of Jared Loughner | The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch

POSTED BY DAN GIBSON ON SAT, JAN 8, 2011 AT 4:09 PM - It appears that this YouTube clip is of Jared Loughner, in custody for the shooting at Safeway this morning. My son is 9 years old,...

BBC News - Alien Hand Syndrome sees woman attacked by her own hand

An operation to control epilepsy leaves Karen Byrne with no control of her left hand, a condition known as Alien Hand Syndrome.

My Way News - B-17 veteran back in air aboard a WWII-era bomber

..."Wonderful," the grinning 90-year-old man kept saying during the 45-minute flight. "Wonderful."

Horrible & nightmarish news

So it can be referenced, as needed -- NO gawking!

Even after sex allegation, Mental Health Complex psychiatrist kept job - JSOnline

Milwaukee County administrators allowed psychiatrist Karl Strelnick to keep working at the Mental Health Complex for years after he was investigated for repeatedly having sex with a patient in a locked room at the hospital.

AP IMPACT: Ugly US medical experiments uncovered

ATLANTA (AP) - Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital.