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The Futurist: Retro-Engineering Dinos
Discovery-News.com: Flip a genetic switch and turn a bird into a dino? Not quite, but not so far off either. James Williams gets the story from paleontologist Jack Horner. Discovery-News.com: Flip a genetic switch and turn a bird into a dino? Not quite, but not so far off either. James Williams gets the s... more
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Top 5 Science Videos!
Discovery-News.com: From fungus to falling spacecraft, James Williams finds the top 5 coolest science videos from September.
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Ze-Gen Creates Zero Emissions
Discovery-News.com: The renewable energy company Ze-gen is converting construction waste into near zero-emissions energy. Discovery News finds out how they're doing it. Discovery-News.com: The renewable energy company Ze-gen is converting construction waste into near zero-emissions energy. Discovery Ne... more
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Robotic Arm Lends A Hand
Discovery-News.com: Discovery's Tracy Staedter and Matt Danzico visit University of Massachusetts Amherst to meet a robot that interacts with foreign environments. Discovery-News.com: Discovery's Tracy Staedter and Matt Danzico visit University of Massachusetts Amherst to meet a robot that in... more
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Fossett Items Found
Discovery-News.com: Adventurer Steve Fossett's pilot license and other items have been found by a hiker. James Williams gets some details. Discovery-News.com: Adventurer Steve Fossett's pilot license and other items have been found by a hiker. James Williams gets some... more
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3 Questions :: Andy Puckett, Astrophysicist
Discovery-News.com: Astrophysicist Andy Puckett explores the universe, especially undiscovered asteroids that could one day smack into our planet. Jorge Ribas gets the odds on our survival. Discovery-News.com: Astrophysicist Andy Puckett explores the universe, especially undiscovered asteroids that could one day smack into... more
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Why? Tell Me Why! :: Skin Pigmentation
Discovery-News.com: This week, Kasey-Dee Gardner finds out what caused humans to have different skin tones.
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The Skinny On Analyzing Dinosaur Fossils
Discovery-News.com: Kasey-Dee Gardner gets a behind-the-scenes look at how information is extracted from ancient fossils.
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Il valore di Digg è di 175 milioni di dollari
Dopo i recenti investimenti per ampliare le strutture della società, il valore commerciale di Digg è stato aggiornato. Attualmente, per acquistare il sito di social bookmarking più famoso al mondo, si dovrebbe sborsare qualcosa come 153 milioni di dollari.
Negli ultimi tempi la popolarità di Digg è cresciuta sempre di più, raggiungendo i 15.7 milioni di visitatori nel mese di agosto, un dato molto più grande rispetto ai 10.1 milioni dello scorso anno. Google, in passato, è stato più volte molto vicino all’acquisto di Digg per una cifra intorno ai 200 milioni di dollari.
Attualmente, però, l’affare sembra essere sfumato, tanto che Digg ha preferito investire nuovi soldi per potenziare alcuni settori, raggiungere il mercato internazionale e, grazie ad alcuni accordi con Facebook, entrare nel settore dei social network. Dopo i recenti investimenti per ampliare le strutture della società, il valore commerciale di Digg è stato aggiornato. Attualmente, pe... more -
Top 5 Moon Mission Bloopers!
Discovery-News.com: Lunar astronauts really CAN carry a tune, as James Williams discovers in this review of our favorite filmed moments on the moon. Discovery-News.com: Lunar astronauts really CAN carry a tune, as James Williams discovers in this review of our favorite filmed moment... more
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Robotic Snail May Save Lives
Discovery-News.com: Discovery's Tracy Staedter and Matt Danzico visit MIT to learn about robotic snails that could one day be used in search and rescue. Discovery-News.com: Discovery's Tracy Staedter and Matt Danzico visit MIT to learn about robotic snails that could one day be use... more
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Heads are rolling on Digg.com
According to infofreaking.com:
"Heads are rolling on Digg.com ..
.. or it’s just site database issue.
Somewhere between 16:00h and 20:00h (PMT) more than 50 power users were removed from Digg.com. Trying to access their Digg personal profiles leads to server error page. This could mean only two things. Either users have been banned or some kind of technical error occurred.
Quick inspecting on their 48 hours activity shows that they had high level of activity, more than 300 diggs, some of them even 1000+. It’s not clear if users are banned because of their scripts usage or for some other reasons. Maybe some of them will speak out about this massive Digg ban.
It seems that Digg.com continues to upgrade its anti-cheat policies and that cheats tracking system became more sophisticated.
At the moment most diggers with the activity below 10-12 hours are still “alive” but it the following period we’ll see, if the Digg tsunami will continue.
Here is a part of the current “Missing Person” list:
diggboss —–> digg.com/users/diggboss
claybodie —–> digg.com/users/claybodie
cuzzy —–> digg.com/users/cuzzy
klop10 —–> digg.com/users/kloop10
michaelwong38 —–> digg.com/users/michaelwong38
loky —–> digg.com/users/Loky
ksiltd —–> digg.com/users/ksiltd
bgholt1970 —–> digg.com/users/bgholt1970
stephie189 —–> digg.com/users/stephie189
webaddict —–> digg.com/users/webaddict
explicitmemory —–> digg.com/users/explicitmemory
lordhuggington —–> digg.com/users/lordhuggington
kickoff22 —–> digg.com/users/kickoff22
akittenone —–> digg.com/users/akittenone
ArnoldPettibone —–> digg.com/users/ArnoldPettibone
Fangsinmybeard —–> digg.com/users/Fangsinmybeard
akpwnz —–> digg.com/users/akpwnz
superman7018 —–> digg.com/users/superman7018
MasterOfHyrule —–> digg.com/users/MasterOfHyrule
rainfosys —–> digg.com/users/rainfosys
BCCStu —–> digg.com/users/BCCStu
karjosh —–> digg.com/users/karjosh
v666 —–> digg.com/users/v666
ArnoldPettibone —–> digg.com/users/ArnoldPettibone
complicious —–> digg.com/users/complicious
GeorgeCarlin —–> digg.com/users/GeorgeCarlin
theeandrew —–> digg.com/users/theeandrew
Babblin5 —–> digg.com/users/Babblin5
KoolBreeze —–> digg.com/users/KoolBreeze
kianat —–> digg.com/users/kianat
skewl —–> digg.com/users/skewl
BornReady —–> digg.com/users/BornReady
rainfosys —–> digg.com/users/rainfosys
anchalsingh —–> digg.com/users/anchalsingh
DeathWish808 —–> digg.com/users/DeathWish808
broalexinfo —–> digg.com/users/broalexinfo
If you find someone else submit comment. Good luck!" According to infofreaking.com: "Heads are rolling on Digg.com .. .. or it’s just site database issue. ... more -
digg photoshoot outside office
10 points if you can spot kevin rose. hint: he leans alone.
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Fossil-Eating Plants!!!
Discovery-News.com: Plants love dinosaur bones as much as we do – maybe more! James Williams gets the dirt.
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Why? Tell Me Why! :: Man-Made Black Hole
Discovery-News.com: With the start of the CERN particle accelerator, Kasey-Dee Gardner eases fears and finds out why we won't get sucked into a black hole. Discovery-News.com: With the start of the CERN particle accelerator, Kasey-Dee Gardner eases fears and finds out why we won't get... more
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Real Excuse by a hardcore WoW player
Sometimes its funnier to tell the truth... Marty of datawhore.org tells his guild why he can't make it to a raid. Screenshot taken from the keepers of azeroth guild website on Dentarg (US) Sometimes its funnier to tell the truth... Marty of datawhore.org tells his guild why he can't make it to a raid. Screenshot take... more
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Mobile Lab Brings Modern Tools to Dig
Discovery-News.com: For the first time ever, paleontologists are chemically analyzing dinosaur fossils the same day they're excavated from the ground. Kasey-Dee Gardner finds out why this new technique is so important. Discovery-News.com: For the first time ever, paleontologists are chemically analyzing dinosaur fossils the same day they're excav... more
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Diggin' For Dinos
Discovery-News.com: Few things are as addictive as cutting through dirt hoping to unearth a fossil, as James Williams discovers.
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Confessions of a banned Digger
I have been banned from Digg. I have been given a Digg death sentence with no reprieve.
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Pelosi Talks Medical Marijuana
Hard to believe that the entire Democratic National Convention could go by without even one speaker paying lip service to the devastating folly that is America’s war on (some) drugs, but as NORML podcaster Russ Belville reports in his latest blog post here, the subject of marijuana law reform has been all but “invisible” in Denver.
Fortunately, thousands of Digg.com users posed the following question to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi live on CNN: “As a taxable resource, what stops marijuana from being legalized, for medical or recreational purposes, throughout the country?”
(The question comes four and a half minutes into the video.)
Pelosi’s response is candid yet disappointing. While acknowledging that scientific research clearly supports the medical use of cannabis, Pelosi acknowledges that most of Congress — including many otherwise ‘progressive’ members of the influential Congressional Black Caucus — “just isn’t there yet. … There just isn’t enough support for it.”
Of course, anyone who has followed this issue knows that the Speaker’s Congressional assessment is painfully accurate.
That said, I find myself a bit incredulous when Pelosi says: “We have important work to do outside the Congress in order for us to have success inside the Congress for [the] use of medical marijuana. … [W]e need peoples’ help to be in touch with their members of Congress to say why this should be the case.”
While I agree that it’s both important and necessary for constituents to contact their elected officials, I’m disappointed that Ms. Pelosi still believes that the ‘heavy-lifting’ needed to successfully move this issue forward federally must be engaged in outside, not inside Congress.
Pardon me, but here in the real world (outside of the Washington Beltway) public voteafter public vote illustrates that the overwhelming majority of registered voters back the legalization of medical pot, and national poll after national poll consistently shows that upwards of 70 percent of the electorate support a patient’s right to use cannabis legally.
Here in the real world, numerous health and medical organizations such as the American Public Health Association and the American College of Physicians have passed resolutions urging Congress reschedule marijuana so that a physician may prescribe it, and scientific papers indicating that cannabis can inhibit diseases ranging from multiple sclerosis to cancer to MRSA are being published virtually every week.
Given this reality, I humbly submit that those of us who work ‘outside’ the so-called ‘hallowed halls’ of Congress have done our part. It’s now time for our federally elected officials, in particular Speaker Pelosi and Democratic Presidential Nominee Obama, to pledge to do theirs. Hard to believe that the entire Democratic National Convention could go by without even one speaker paying lip service to the devastat... more
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