September 9th, 2009
Ok…so giant rats aren’t really that exciting. I just know people don’t like rats much, but this one seems more like Michael Jackson’s Ben than Williard’s rat Ben from the movie Willard, or the original Willard. A couple rats that had some sort of bioidentical hormone replacement austin.
A Smithsonian Institution biologist, working with the Natural [...]
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August 20th, 2009
Ford Motor Co., and its partners have unveiled that they are testing one of the industry’s first vehicle-to-electric grid communications and control systems, which enables electric vehicles to interface with the grid for optimal recharging.
What this means is that instead of just plugging your car in when you pop in the house after work, you [...]
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August 11th, 2009
A treasure of new species have been uncovered in the eastern Himalayas over the last decade. Such species as a “flying frog”, the world’s smallest deer, and even a 100 million year-old gecko (been doing Geico commercials that long its seems).
A decade of research carried out by scientists in remote mountain areas endangered by [...]
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June 13th, 2009
Well…more great news for those that want human life to end. The Greenland ice sheet, according to a new study led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher and published in the journal Hydrological Processes, suggests that it is melting faster than expected.
It also states that the melting may have caused almost 25 percent of [...]
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April 19th, 2009
OK on the title you would probalby think either one of two things: 1. “Winner for ‘No Kidding’ article of the day.”, or 2. “It’s about time.”
For me it was neither. Well a little of the first one, but upon reading about 2 sentences of the article I was already coming to the conclusion that [...]
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January 23rd, 2009
OK…I’m starting to trust a lot of these reports a little bit less every time. I have seen reports that melting has decreased in the North Poles this year, although that doesn’t mean it is anything more than an anomaly. Now this year we have probably the worst winter we have had in a decade, [...]
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January 6th, 2009
During the oil crisis of the 1970’s the U.S. government provided funding for research evaluating the prospects of new fuel sources derived from terrestrial plants such as corn and soybeans, as well as algae. When prices dropped, and the uproar started to die down, so did the funding for such research.
Now that we are all [...]
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December 29th, 2008
Surely you will say that this comes as no surprise, but to actually have a study with some data to make the claim is what we look for when discussing such things. Especially when it comes from somewhere like NASA. Obviously, “common sense” isn’t proof of anything. It may help you with your marketing ideas [...]
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November 30th, 2008
The 2008 hurricane season officially ends on November 30th, and since they have been keeping accurate records of the storms, this season may be one of the worst in that history. A total of 16 named storms formed this season, based on an operational estimate by NOAA’s National Hurricane Center. The storms included eight hurricanes, [...]
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November 25th, 2008
Mandatory preface to these kinds of posts requires that I say in advance this post has nothing to do with saying that global warming does not exist. The last thing I need is a bunch of greenies hopped up on Ephedrasil hardcore acting like someone just killed their family because they think that some idiot [...]
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