I used to be a weather idiot. When it was going to rain, I usually found out by getting wet or by seeing everyone else holding an umbrella or rain coat on public transportation. I wanted something that informed me when it was going to rain (but not something that I had to look for). I wondered if there was a text message alert system for when it rained…
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‘Cherry’ figure. Note that red organisms predominate, but black fungus is also present.
While some rock art fades in hundreds of years, the “Bradshaw art” remains colourful after at least 40,000 years.
Jack Pettigrew of the University of Queensland in Australia has shown that the paintings have been colonized by colorful bacteria and fungi.
These “biofilms” may explain previous difficulties in dating such rock art…
Is your brain aware of more than the time right now?
Researchers have found evidence for “chronesthesia,” which is the brain’s ability to be aware of the past and future, and to mentally travel in subjective time. They found that activity in different brain regions is related to chronesthetic states when a person thinks about the same content during the past, present, or future…
Continue reading… “Scientists Find Evidence For ‘Chronesthesia,’ or Mental Time Travel”
Blood test will be able to detect one cancer cell among a billion healthy cells.
Cellphones thriving in prisons.
At a Georgia state prison, a counterfeiter ticks off the remaining days of his three-year sentence on his Facebook page. He has 91 digital “friends.” Like many of his fellow inmates, he plays the online games FarmVille and Street Wars.
Continue reading… “Smartphones Are Thriving in Prisons Despite Being Banned”
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This one is quite neat. Here’s a YouTube clip showing all of the air traffic in the world in a single day, condensed to a little over a minute:
The yellow dots are airplanes in the sky during a 24 hour period. Stay with the picture. You will see the light of the day moving from the east to the west, as the Earth spins on its axis…
Amazon Kindle book lending
Amazon has now enabled a Kindle book lending service that allows eligible Kindle books to be lent to friends and family for up to 14 days, and the borrower doesn’t need to own a Kindle reading device.
A bumblebee gathers pollen from a sunflower.
Four previously abundant species of bumblebee are close to disappearing in the United States, researchers reported Monday in a study confirming that the agriculturally important bees are being affected worldwide.
Continue reading… “Study: Alarming Decline in Bumblebees Found in U.S.”
Just ahead of CES, Netflix has announced that consumers will soon be able to access Netflix content on supported consumer electronics devices, directly from a button on their remote controls.
Netflix has partnered with several consumer electronics leaders to bring a Netflix-branded button to the remote controls for televisions,Blu-ray players and other set-top boxes that support theNetflix Watch Instantly streaming service…
Continue reading… “Netflix Buttons Coming to a TV Remote Near You”
MySpace has been suffering from tumbling traffic and revenue over the past year.
Unfortunately for the staff at Myspace the New Year might not bring great news for them, with rumors of huge layoffs taking the shine of New Year’s Eve celebrations for a social networking pioneer MySpace.
Continue reading… “MySpace May Layoff Half of It’s Workforce”
Our nation’s trust in overall food safety this past year has definitely been called into question due to a number of shameful recalls and frightening published studies. It seems the days of completely depending on the federal government to confirm the safety of the foods we eat are gone.
With the mass production of foods, when a recall happens, its repercussions are felt far and wide. Looking back to this year, we’ve seen a number of industries nose dive as a result of epidemic food safety problems. Here are some of the most dangerous foods of 2010:
Continue reading… “6 of the Most Dangerous, Health Hazard Foods of 2010”
Apple has surpassed $300 billion in market capitalization, achieving a distinction shared currently by only one other company in the world.
By Monday at 12:10 p.m. ET, the price of Apple Inc. shares has risen by more than seven points to 329.75, giving the company an approximate market capitalization of $302.47 billion…
Continue reading… “Apple Is Now Worth More Than $300 Billion”
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