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Solar Flares to Cause Widespread Devastation |
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6/17/2010 10:22:03 AM |
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Ancient skeletal remains shed new light on evolution |
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4/10/2010 12:55:49 PM |
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"Scientists may have discovered a new branch on your family tree. A
team of researchers working in South Africa has unearthed what they
believe are the remains of a previously unknown species predating modern
humans. They recently discovered a couple of partial skeletons -- an
adult female and a juvenile male -- that are nearly 2 million years old." |
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Using satellites to find skeletons |
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4/10/2010 12:54:45 PM |
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"Sometimes when you're looking for something, and you really want to find
it, the best thing you can do is step back from the situation a bit." |
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Why most weather predictions are bullsh!t |
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3/16/2010 10:40:02 AM |
This article is a great summary of why most weather predictions are completely wrong. Case in point is this little gem:
..stations get their precipitation predictions correct about 85
percent of the time one day out and decline to about 73 percent seven
days out.
On the surface, that would not seem too bad. But consider that if a
meteorologist always predicted that it would never rain, they would be
right 86.3 percent of the time.
Basically, most of the time, you're better off assuming it won't rain than ever listening to a weatherman. |
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Pictures from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory |
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3/12/2010 12:33:17 PM |
Truly amazing photographs of the sun and its various behaviors.
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Photos of the solar corona taken in 2009 |
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3/10/2010 5:28:20 PM |
Taken for scientific study near Papua New Guinea during an eclipse, the photo is amazing.
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Popular Science 137 year archive is now available for free browsing |
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3/9/2010 5:56:00 PM |
While the search requires you to know specifically what you are looking for it is cool that all of their issues are now searchable.
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The Known Universe |
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3/9/2010 12:52:15 PM |
This video takes viewers from the Himalayas through our
atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big
Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible
because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the
universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by
astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new
film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the
Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin
Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.
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Cosmic dust found by space probe |
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3/6/2010 8:07:51 AM |
Pretty much what it sounds like. Probe in space...cosmic dust...been looking for a long time and finally found some...good
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How Traffic Jams Happen |
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3/3/2010 10:26:24 AM |
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This is a great video that shows for the first time a visible reason why traffic jams can and do happen for absolutely no reason whatsoever. One person not going the speed limit causes another to slam on their breaks and another and another and another until it jams up traffic at the back even though there is no real reason for the slow down. |
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Water Officially Found on the Moon |
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11/13/2009 9:30:57 PM |
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The Universe is retardedly huge. |
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8/17/2009 4:55:03 PM |
Step 1: Point Hubble Telescope at empty space.
Step 2: Leave it on for a while
Step 3: Discover thousands and thousands of galaxies BILLIONS of light years away from us.
Step 4: Realize each galaxy is as big as the Milky Way with 100 billion plus stars each.
Step 5: You are now retarded when you start to contemplate how big that number is.
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Cosmic close-up: Sensational images of Saturn |
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4/22/2009 5:38:00 PM |
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Hangover? Have a Bacon Sandwich! |
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4/12/2009 10:44:25 PM |
Finally science has done something useful, told us how to alleviate the effects of a hangover!
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Top Ten Medical Breakthroughs of 2008 |
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2/8/2009 10:30:28 AM |
Including such winners as "scarless surgery" i.e. natural orifice surgery and gene screening for breast cancer.
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$155k to clone your pet for you! |
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2/6/2009 2:17:31 PM |
Couple spends $155k to get a cloned version of their dead dog, and it is pretty much just like their old dog.
This is at the same time asinine and bad ass.
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Darwin's Tree Idea was Wrong. |
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1/23/2009 11:41:16 AM |
Instead of a tree structure of evolution it is more like a big messy ball of branches and shoots that sometimes grow together from other sides of the tree. Pretty much picture an inbred redneck family tree and how it has lots of places where it doesn't fork or doubles back, but instead of mother marrying son or cousin marrying an uncle it is species interbreeding.
Horizontal Gene Transfer is the culprit here.
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Our Universe might be a hologram |
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1/16/2009 7:41:44 AM |
Basically holograms can display a lot of information about a 3D object while only being 2D themselves. And because of this our Universe might be a hologram.
Warning: The article contains large amounts of WTF and nerdity.
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Webcam snapshots of the HCL. |
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9/10/2008 9:44:15 AM |
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Killer Microbes |
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7/10/2008 8:22:32 AM |
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