Hey, appy, if you read at the speed of light then no time passes and you can read as many google articles as you like!

HI ALL, just reading some of the snippits again, and enjoying them all.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2003/0210rotation.html

Suzy, found this about wobble of the earth orbit. back in 2003, NASA said weather causes a wobble . now i am wondering here in 2008, if More...

DINO, guess I should increase my reading speed then! what happens as you approach the speed of light? I never have enough time to gogle and read all I want to read!

More input, more input!

Ah ha!! Spent almost whole day in reading articles, sub articles, links..so on.Now a bit dizzy, got a feeling,that I've attended a non stop lecture on astrophysics!!!!
ok coming to the point, Dino, the article quite convincing and with not much of maths, and fancy equations, is the following More...

Dino, Digging deep into my memory banks, which is an unreliable activity for me these days, I think the 'double the speed of light' assumption comes from actual measurements made of objects moving at everyday speeds, like trains and cars. They then take those findings to 'predict' what they will More...

When you google 'speed', you get a lot of stuff about the movie and drugs.... Not very helpful here... changed to 'relative speed' and that was much more interesting, except I ended up on an 'ask a scientist' page and got stuck there for ages reading all the strange questions and answers.....

British researchers are gathering seeds from rare Australian plants to be preserved forever at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, south-west of London.
The Millennium Seed Bank Project is trying to collect seeds from 10 per cent of the world's plants - that's 24,000 species - by 2010.

I like that article MizT! The article talks about weather moving the earth, but not about the earth's movements changing the weather. It's a little chicken and egg isn't it?

Lol, Suzy. I did the same... got stuck on the 'ask a scientist' page.
Appy, thanks for the reference. Haven't yet had time to digest it. There's so much about general relativity and special relativity to put into my brain, and also the relevance of gravity.

I posted this on Easy today as well. Suzy mentioned that those of us with blue eyes are mutants, but I prefer to think of us as UNIQUE.

People with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor, according to new research.

A team of scientists has tracked down a genetic mutation that More...

'Missing Link' to Crocodile Discovered
RIO DE JANEIRO (Jan. 31) - Brazilian paleontologists said on Thursday they had found the fossil of a new species of prehistoric predator that represented a "missing link" to modern-day crocodiles.

The well-preserved fossil of More...

Bizarre New Mammal Species Caught on Film
(Jan. 31) - Sporting a trunk-like nose and a jet-black rump, a new species of a bizarre furry mammal was caught on film as it scuttled along a forest floor in Tanzania.

Researchers first sighted the elephant-shrew (Rhynchocyon udzungwensis) in More...

I saw an article on the new mammal species too Julie. Wasn't the photo amazing? Truly bizarre!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/capricorn/7219910.stm

This article about the tropic of capricorn is very interesting. It talks about the fact that it moves and why...

A female worm-like amphibian, called a caecilian, allows her young to peel off and eat her skin. The caecilian babies only eat their mother's skin for about 10 minutes, once every three days.

Spices like basil, turmeric, garlic, ginger and aloe vera seems to control the degeneration of the brain cells.It has been discovered that these plants and similar kind,acted to prevent the breakdown of neurotransmitters, improving memory and concentration in people with Alzheimer's disease - the More...

An Australian TV show called Sleek Geeks recently took to the streets with a petition to ban Dihydrogen monoxide, it was stated that DHMO was very dangerous, linked to 98% of cancers and linked to many other diseases! People were very anxious to sign the petition. There is a even a website DHMO.org. Just shows how easy it is to frighten people with science.

That DHMO is nasty stuff Lynda! I first heard about it as a verbal report submitted by a high school student. If true it is amazing that a high school student caught on before the regulators did!! Here is a warning for all...

"Each year, Dihydrogen Monoxide is a known More...

it I say!

We are suppose to be able to see a Total Lunar Elcipse this evening. There isn't a cloud in the sky right now! I believe it is suppose to happen between 8:15 and midnight.

Self-Healing Rubber Keeps on Stretching, Rip after Rip: A new stretchy material can be cut and rejoined at the same spot just by pressing the broken ends together for a few minutes. The self-healing rubber stays stretchy even after being severed five or six times, or cut and left on the countertop More...

The DMHO conspiricy runs deeper than you can imagine. After just now learning about it and reading what I could at DMHO.org, I turned to my wife and asked her what she knew about it and all I got was that look that I took to mean "If you have to ask, then you don't need to know". She is one of 'them'. After all these years, and I never knew.

aha!!
AHA...(Alpha Hydroxy Acids)
Now what the heck is that??
AHA is made from the juices of citric acid fruits.It reverses sun damage and imparts a more youthful glow to the skin.Beauty products worldwide are including them in skin creams in the highest concentration the FDA will More...

St.Patrick's day greetings...
Think got a fitting post for the day..
someting on/abt green...
Green Buildings May Be Cheapest Way to Slow Global Warming..Isnt it great to hear...By building green--and retrofitting existing buildings--the countries of North America could cut greenhouse gas More...

I thought this article in the paper was very interesting. It was titled The God Particle.
'British physicist Peter Higgs says it should soon be possible to prove the existence of a force which gives mass to the universe and makes life possible - as he first argued 40 years ago.
More...

I haven't had time to visit here much, but thought I would share this interesting Oz-based bit of information.

Ancient Tools Unearthed in Australia
By TANALEE SMITH,AP
Posted: 2008-04-07 20:41:36
Filed Under: Science News
SYDNEY, Australia (April 7) - Tools dating back at least More...

Melting ice in southern Chile caused a glacial lake to swell and then empty suddenly, sending a "tsunami" rolling through a river, a scientist said Thursday. No one was injured in the remote region.Glacier scientist Gino Casassa said the melting of the Colonia glacier, which he blamed on More...

you can read more abt the vanishing glacial lakes of south America, in the following link..
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/142439.html
an interesting perspective is discussed and once , the global warming alone is not blamed for melting glaciers and vanishing waterbodies..

One more break through in the research of identifying Alzheimers presence..A particular protein that spreads between the brain cells blocking the communication between cells has been identified to be present in the retina of human eye also.so once if it is scanned for this protien in the eye, which More...

Greensulate?
--a sustainable building material made from mushroom fibers, rice hulls and recycled paper—to resist temperature change, stop fire and repel water.With ASTM International certification, Greensulate could hit the market in early 2010, joining an array of sustainable building products More...

That dihydrogen monoxide has reared its ugly head again...

'Dihydrogen monozide' leads to one in 10 diseases and six per cent of deaths worldwide, according to estimates in a report to be published by the World Health Organisation.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=5255072&page=1

"Flabbergasted" NASA scientists said Thursday that first analysis of Martian soil appeared to contain the requirements to support life.

"It is the type of soil you would probably have in your back yard, you More...

I watched a program last night presented by "Nova." It was about a man who lived with the bears in the summertime in Alaska. He was amazing. He would lay on the ground with them, let them take things from his mouth, let them come into his house, etc. He had both Black Bear and More...

GREEK TECH: A new study of a Greek calendar calculator dating to the first century B.C. reveals how the so-called Antikythera mechanism would have worked.Divers recovered the Antikythera instrument in 1901 from a 2,000-year-old shipwreck that had sunk beneath the Mediterranean Sea.Unmatched in More...

The bird brain, though much maligned, can perform feats while sleeping of which we can only dream--namely, it can stay awake,ducks can carefully choreograph sleeping and waking states simultaneously in different regions of the brain.
Birds achieve these two states of consciousness at once by More...

Coal powers China.In addition to producing about 75 percent of its electricity, the black rock is burned everywhere from industrial boilers to home stoves.Smog cloaks cities, and as the pollution builds, it forms Brown clouds, which is visible from space.
well, now comes the fact.These clouds More...

Swiss Chard: It is a super food, one of the most nutrient-dense of all the green vegetables.One cup of swiss chard supplies 10 mg of Lutein and Zeaxanthin, along with the carotenoids, thats most essential to keep your retina intact while your age advance...

appy, that's good news for those who know what a swiss chard is..... hmmmm, will have to look it up.

Synthetic Tree.
A scientist has invented an artificial tree designed to do the job of plants.It looks like a goal post with Venetian blinds.It would draw carbon dioxide out of the air, as plants do during photosynthesis, but retain the carbon and not release oxygen.One synthetic tree could More...

Turning Bacteria into Plastic Factories.....
A new company has found a way to produce polymers from genetically engineered microbes that feed on sugars, replacing fossil-fuel based processes.
Escherichia coli (E. coli): Scientists have engineered the organism, to secrete BDO-butanediol,a More...