Cosmic Log: Shooting stars on the Web
Science editor Alan Boyle’s Weblog: The Internet can help you get a great view of any meteor shower, on your computer screen or in the honest-to-goodness night sky.
Brainicane
[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
Archive for November 16th, 2009
Space shuttle lifts off amid tons of tweets
With 100 Internet-savvy NASA fans cheering on the shuttle and churning out constant Twitter updates, Atlantis sailed smoothly into orbit Monday with six astronauts and a full load of spare parts for the International Space Station.
Facebook’s ‘unfriend’ is Word of the Year
There are 300 million plus users on Facebook in the United States alone. Even if you and your spell check don’t approve of the New Oxford American Dictionary’s newest verb “unfriend,” odds are, you’ve done it.
It’s prime time for colorful meteor shower
One of the best annual meteor showers will peak in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday, and for some skywatchers the show could be quite impressive.
Uninsured ER patients twice as likely to die
Uninsured patients with traumatic injuries, such as car crashes, falls and gunshot wounds, were almost twice as likely to die in the hospital as similarly injured patients with health insurance, according to a troubling new study.
Conjoined twins op ‘going well’
Doctors in Australia say a marathon operation to separate conjoined twins is going very well.
Meditation ‘eases heart disease’
Heart disease patients who practise Transcendental Meditation have reduced rates of heart attacks, stroke and death, say US researchers.
Ketamine drug use ‘harms memory’
Frequent use of ketamine - a drug becoming increasingly popular with clubbers - is being linked with memory problems.
So Much For "Hopenhagen"
World leaders give up on signing a climate-change treaty at the COP 15 talks next month
Over the weekend President Obama and other world leaders broke the news: No legally binding international climate-change treaty this year.
In the past few weeks it had become clear that sorting through the many unresolved issues (the level of greenhouse-gas […]
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The best small jet yet
The term “very light jet” (VLJ) refers to an emerging category of small jet-powered aircraft that deliver the speed and sophistication of a private jet in a less-expensive craft that requires less training to fly. In tests this year, the most capable VLJ so far, the PiperJet, reached its flight ceiling […]
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