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Ketamine drug use 'harms memory'
Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:09 PM EST (BBC News)
Frequent use of ketamine - a drug popular with clubbers - is being linked with memory problems, researchers say. The University College London team carried out a range of memory and psychological tests on 120 people.
Don't pack your parachute: Landing a wingsuit
Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:59 PM EST (newscientist.com)
ON A bright day in 1912, an Austrian tailor named Franz Reichelt jumped off the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. This was no suicide attempt. Reichelt was wearing a special overcoat of his own design that was supposed to let him glide gently to the ground. Sadly, it didn't work.
Sahara cocaine plane crash probed
Seeded on Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:13 PM EST (BBC News)
The UN is investigating the crash in the Sahara desert of a cargo plane, which is thought to have been carrying cocaine from Venezuela.
Is it time to privatise rugby in South Africa?
Seeded on Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:07 PM EST (sarugby.com)
It's time to privatise rugby in South Africa. Nothing has been more frustrating in the so-called "professional era" of rugby union since 1995 than to watch the sport turn into the epitome of crony corporatism.
Tim Berners-Lee launches "WWW Foundation" at IGF 2009
Seeded on Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:01 PM EST (Ars Technica)
Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the Web, showed up at the first day of the UN-backed Internet Governance Forum meeting in Egypt to announce the creation of the "World Wide Web Foundation."
Innovation: The dizzying ambition of Wolfram Alpha
Seeded on Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:52 PM EST (newscientist.com)
When the search engine Wolfram Alpha launched earlier this year, the interest was huge. Enticed by a well-oiled publicity machine, web users swamped the site and its servers were overwhelmed.
Apple's New Patent Is Patently Crazy - forced to watch ads on Apple devices?
Seeded on Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:11 PM EST (PC World)
First made public back in October, the notion is getting more attention thanks to an essay in Saturday's New York Times by Randall Stross, who has picked a few bones with Apple in the past.
A faraway planet intrigues - which way does it go round it's star?
Seeded on Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:17 PM EST (MIT)
Two teams of astronomers have found a planet outside the solar system that might be orbiting backwards compared to its star's rotation, a discovery that could shed light on how unique the relatively perfect alignment of our solar system is compared to that of other planetary sy …
Lithium clue for planet-hunters - stars with planets have less lithium
Seeded on Mon Nov 16, 2009 7:00 AM EST (BBC News)
Astronomers may have found a way to identify those Sun-like stars most likely to harbour orbiting planets. A survey of stars known to possess planets shows the vast majority to be severely depleted in lithium.
Mining the Giant Molecular Cloud at Milky Way Core for Origins of Life
Seeded on Sun Nov 15, 2009 2:15 PM EST (dailygalaxy.com)
Scientists are using the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to prospect in Sagittarius B2(N), a giant molecular cloud near the center of our Galaxy, some 25,000 light-years from Earth for new, complex molecules in interstellar space that may be precursors to life.
Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu have a problem - white people like them
Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:01 PM EST (IOL)
Former president Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu have a problem - white people like them. This "invalidates" them, in the same way that, for every white person who supports Free State University rector Jonathan Jansen, "he loses 100 blacks".
1491 - Is the Amazon the world's largest man-made garden?
Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:36 PM EST (theatlantic.com)
Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was vastly more populous and sophisticated than has been thought—an altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say, Europe.
Tomorrow's weather: Cloudy, with a chance of fractals
Seeded on Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:54 PM EST (newscientist.com)
WE'VE all watched those vast heaps of cotton wool float across the sky. Lofted and shaped by updrafts of warm air, cumulus clouds mesmerise with their constantly changing shape. Some grow ever taller, while others wither and die before our eyes.
Delawareonline - NC students can buy test grades in fundraiser
Seeded on Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:57 PM EST (content.usatoday.net)
A central North Carolina middle school is selling grades to students to raise money for the school. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Wednesday that Rosewood Middle School in Goldsboro has come up with a novel fundraising plan after last year's chocolate sale flopped.
IEA Whistleblowers Say World Oil Stats Deliberately Inflated to Avoid Financial Panic, Appease the US
Seeded on Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:27 AM EST (TreeHugger)
World oil reserves are far lower than officially reported, the situation far more serious than publicly admitted, and we're already past peak oil. That's the word from two anonymous IEA whistleblowers, The Guardian reports.
World's Freakiest Worm Gets Expanded Family Tree
Seeded on Wed Nov 11, 2009 12:16 AM EST (Wired News)
Five years after discovering some of the strangest creatures in the world — mouthless worms that live in the bones of dead whales — scientists have taken a peek into their genes. Though not complete, the glimpse shows these creatures to be far more complicated than was known.
Introducing The Pancake: A Less Annoying Way To Move Through Google Street View
Seeded on Mon Jun 8, 2009 1:02 PM EDT (TechCrunch)
Moving around in Google Street View is not always intuitive. You always end up clicking aimlessly a few times before you can really figure out how to move about.
Genetically engineered circuits can count cellular events
Seeded on Fri May 29, 2009 10:24 AM EDT (MIT)
MIT and Boston University engineers have designed cells that can count and "remember" cellular events, using simple circuits in which a series of genes are activated in a specific order.
Your Manga Collection Could Get You 15 Years in Prison for Child Porn
Seeded on Thu May 28, 2009 11:24 AM EDT ([Geeks Are Sexy])
An Iowa man recently pled guilty to one count of "possessing obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children" and to one count of mailing obscene material. He faces a maximum of 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. This obscene material? Manga.
Virtual fossils reveal how ancient creatures lived
Seeded on Thu May 28, 2009 11:13 AM EDT (newscientist.com)
BEHIND the war of words over the significance of Ida, the 47-million-year-old primate fossil unveiled last week, a quiet revolution in palaeontolgy is unfolding.
Sweet tooth drives tool use in chimpanzees
Seeded on Thu May 28, 2009 7:54 AM EDT (newscientist.com)
IF YOU'RE impressed that chimps can use tools to hunt or crack nuts, wait till you hear what they do when foraging for honey.
Turbo-evolution shows cod speeding to extinction
Seeded on Wed May 27, 2009 11:56 AM EDT (newscientist.com)
Fishing is causing cod to evolve faster than anyone had suspected it could, fisheries scientists in Iceland have discovered. This turbo-evolution may be why the world's biggest cod fishery, the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, crashed in 1992 and has yet to recover.
The Most Important Principle for Success: Don't Eat the Marshmallow Yet
Seeded on Wed May 27, 2009 11:51 AM EDT ([Geeks Are Sexy])
In the following video presentation, Joachim de Posada shares a landmark experiment on delayed gratification — and how it can predict future success. With priceless video of kids trying their hardest not to eat the marshmallow.
Mars robots may have destroyed evidence of life
Seeded on Mon May 25, 2009 10:38 AM EDT (newscientist.com)
HAVE Mars landers been destroying signs of life? Instead of identifying chemicals that could point to life, NASA's robot explorers may have been toasting them by mistake.
Scientology trial due in France
Seeded on Mon May 25, 2009 7:53 AM EDT (BBC News)
The Church of Scientology is set to go on trial in France, accused of organised fraud. The case centres on a complaint by a woman who says she was pressured into paying large sums of money after being offered a free personality test.
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