Invasive Asian Carp are just a few miles from Lake Michigan, where they have the potential to inflict damage on native species, but scientists and the Army Corp of Engineers haven’t given up the fight against them.
Removed from Galileo’s body in the 1700s and then lost, the two fingers and tooth from the astronomer’s corpse have been recovered, found at an auction in a wooden box.
Shifting blame onto others is socially contagious, spreading within an organization when witnessed by others.
Hundreds of private e-mails from British climate change researchers, which were hacked from a server, are fueling climate change skeptics due to apparent bias and dismissive tone toward skeptics (HT Clint).
While adult brains fall for the size illusion below, children’s brains apparently don’t.
Each orange circle on the right is 2 percent larger than the one on the left
Credit: M. Doherty
Shutdown in September of 2008, the LHC is warming up circulating particles around its tunnel in preparation for another shot at the big show.
Scientists have successfully stunned nematodes with ultraviolet light, which triggered a molecular switch in the worms to paralyze them.
The Google Chrome OS has been brought out for scrutiny and it is very Cloud-intensive, so much so that it won’t support installed programs and netbooks with it installed won’t have hard drives.
What is Google Chrome OS?
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Pingback by nilessnewsite » Blog Archive » Asian Carp Army Corp of Engineers — November 21, 2009 @ 1:52 pm
I was playing with the Chrome OS earlier. It’s not bad as far as browsers go…
-BMF
Comment by BMF — November 22, 2009 @ 12:22 am
I’m jealous. I haven’t had the time to set up a virtual machine to run it, but I’m looking forward to it.
Comment by ideonexus — November 22, 2009 @ 6:14 pm
It’s interesting and I can see how it will work in the low-end netbook and mobile market. However, I don’t see this iteration working beyond that arena. I’m not seeing any obvious developer tools, or anything beyond a fast loading browser. We’ll see what pops up a year from now…
-BMF
Comment by BMF — November 22, 2009 @ 11:14 pm
This week in Google has a good discussion of Chrome OS / Chromium OS if you’re interested.
http://twit.tv/twig17
Comment by BMF — November 23, 2009 @ 1:30 pm