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Disband NSA, Impeach Obama

March 11, 2014, 6:28 pm
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olitics How a Court Secretly Evolved, Extending U.S. Spies’ Reach By CHARLIE SAVAGE and LAURA POITRASMARCH 11, 2014 WASHINGTON — Ten months after the Sept. 11 attacks, the nation’s surveillance court delivered a ruling that intelligence officials consider a milestone in the secret history of American spying and privacy law. Called the “Raw Take” order […]
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The Third Law of Thermodynamics and Absolute Energy

March 12, 2014, 2:03 pm
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    Third Law of Thermodynamics restored in thin films of spin ice   The discovery “opens up new possibilities for the control and manipulation of magnetricity and magnetic monopoles in spin ice,” the lead author says.   The State Column, Aaron Sims | March 12, 2014               Researchers […]
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HR 5171 A: the Largest Yellow Star Discovered

March 12, 2014, 2:49 pm
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Chile’s Powerful Telescope Discovers Largest Yellow Star By Cody Chan, March 12th, 2014 | Science | 1 Comment   Scientists have discovered the largest yellow star ever seen. It is called as HR 5171 A and shines 12,000 light-years from Earth. Its image was captured by a powerful telescope in Chile. The star is known […]
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Disband NSA, Impeach Obama

March 13, 2014, 12:56 am
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NSA ‘hijacks’ botnets to install spyware 2014-03-13 09:00   (File, AFP) Multimedia   ·   User Galleries   ·   News in Pictures Send us your pictures  ·  Send us your stories Related Links Report: ‘Free world’ governments worst for online spying 5 must-know data security tips Cyber crooks entrenched in Dark Web – researchers […]
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Pygmy Tyrannosaurus Rex, Nanuqsaurus hoglundi, Discovered

March 13, 2014, 11:03 am
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US & World Scientists Discover ‘Polar Bear’ Tyrannosaur in Arctic   This is not the T. rex relative in question. It’s the interior of the T-Rex restaurant in Downtown Disney. Image: Flickr, Joe Shlabotnik By Ann-Marie Alcántara13 hours ago A much smaller relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex appears to have lived as far north as […]
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Beringia to Asia

March 13, 2014, 12:46 pm
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<a href=’http://ads.plos.org/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a3ac9da4&cb=610′ target=’_top’><img src=’http://ads.plos.org/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=345&cb=555&n=a3ac9da4′ border=’0′ alt=”/> </a> plos.org create account sign in Subject Areas For Authors About Us Search Search advanced search 1,150 VIEWS 24 SHARES Open Access Peer-Reviewed Research Article Linguistic Phylogenies Support Back-Migration from Beringia to Asia Mark A. Sicoli mail,   Gary Holton   Published: March 12, 2014 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091722 Article About […]
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Cotylocara macei, Origin of toothed whale echolocation

March 13, 2014, 1:28 pm
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    Featured Research from universities, journals, and other organizations New fossil species: Origin of toothed whale echolocation Date: March 12, 2014 Source: New York Institute of Technology Summary: A new fossil species, Cotylocara macei, shows evidence of echolocation and the complex anatomy underlying this unique behavior that has evolved in toothed whales, dolphins and […]
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Happy 25th Birthday, Internet

March 13, 2014, 1:56 pm
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Report March 11, 2014 Digital Life in 2025 Experts predict the Internet will become ‘like electricity’ — less visible, yet more deeply embedded in people’s lives for good and ill By Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie About This Report This report is the latest research report in a sustained effort throughout 2014 by the Pew […]
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Zionist Movement: John B Judis

March 13, 2014, 4:03 pm
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  The Magazine In Box Zionist Movement How AIPAC is severing its historical roots — and weakening its influence. BY John B. Judis FEBRUARY 27, 2014   The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a lobby once dubbed an “800-pound gorilla” for its ability to frighten senators and representatives into supporting its efforts on behalf […]
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The Israel Lobby

March 13, 2014, 4:30 pm
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bakulaji… Opinion   Op-Ed Contributor A Lobby, Not a Conspiracy By TONY JUDT Published: April 19, 2006 IN its March 23rd issue the London Review of Books, a respected British journal, published an essay titled “The Israel Lobby.” The authors are two distinguished American academics (Stephen Walt of Harvard and John Mearsheimer of the University […]
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Crimea Crumbling

March 14, 2014, 7:45 am
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    Europe Kerry Begins Talks in London on Crimea Crisis By MICHAEL R. GORDONMARCH 14, 2014   Photo   Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov of Russia, left, and Secretary of State John Kerry before their meeting in London on Friday. Credit Pool photo by Brendan Smialowski   LONDON — Secretary of State John Kerry held […]
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Scottish Skittish

March 14, 2014, 10:26 am
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Welcome back, SiDevilIam Advanced Search Will Scotland Go Independent? Jonathan Freedland March 20, 2014 Issue Scotland’s Future: Your Guide to an Independent Scotland by the Scottish Government 649 pp., available at scotreferendum.com The Road to Independence?: Scotland in the Balance by Murray Pittock, with a foreword by Alex Salmond Reaktion/University of Chicago Press, revised and […]
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The Strange Case of Paul de Man

March 14, 2014, 12:45 pm
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Welcome back, SiDevilIam   Advanced Search   The Strange Case of Paul de Man Peter Brooks April 3, 2014 Issue The Double Life of Paul de Man by Evelyn Barish Liveright, 534 pp., $35.00 Bard College Library Archives/Hamilton Winslow Paul de Man with Renée and Theodore Weiss, Bard College, circa December 1949 In The Talented Mr. Ripley, […]
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Pakistan, Past, Present and Future

March 14, 2014, 12:57 pm
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Welcome back, SiDevilIam Advanced Search Roving thoughts and provocations A Different Pakistan Hugh Eakin Abbas/Magnum Photos The Badshahi Mosque in Lahore’s old city, Pakistan, 1988 Rarely has an event framed around books and ideas felt so urgent. A few weekends ago, a group of writers, artists, and editors gathered in Lahore, the capital of Pakistan’s […]
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Who runs the Internet?

March 14, 2014, 11:46 pm
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These six organizations secretly run the Internet By Zach Epstein on Feb 19, 2014 at 10:47 AM Email @zacharye Internet Who runs the Internet? Is it Google, the global search leader that trades fantastic free services for borderline frightening insights into user behavior? Is it Apple, whose iPhones and iPads are reportedly used to connect […]
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Happy Friday, Oops, Piday

March 15, 2014, 8:36 am
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Number Theory > Constants > Pi > Discrete Mathematics > Experimental Mathematics > History and Terminology > Mathematica Commands > More…   Pi The constant pi, denoted , is a real number defined as the ratio of a circle‘s circumference to its diameter , (1) (2) has decimal expansion given by (3) (Sloane’s A000796). Pi’s digits have many interesting properties, although not very much is known […]
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Unrepresented United Nations Charter

March 15, 2014, 1:27 pm
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2 Unrepresented United Nations (UUN) Charter Preamble International Law establishes that any territory on the planet becomes a Nation if it meets the following criteria: territory, population, and an autonomous government. That’s why recognition by the International Community has a merely political and declarative effect. Without a doubt, International Law is no particle accelerator, nor […]
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Bird Flies South and It’s a News

March 16, 2014, 5:34 am
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Trapping And Tracking The Mysterious Snowy Owl by Adam Cole and Meredith Rizzo March 11, 2014 5:30 AM 5 min 5 sec Meredith Rizzo/NPR This is Hungerford, a large female snowy owl. Last summer she was just a hatchling — a gray ball of fuzz in the middle of the Arctic tundra. In the fall, […]
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Earth’s Interior is All Wet

March 16, 2014, 6:17 am
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Rare Diamond Reveals Earth’s Interior is All Wet By Becky Oskin, Senior Writer   |   March 12, 2014 02:00pm ET A diamond from Juína, Brazil, containing a water-rich inclusion of the olivine mineral ringwoodite. Credit: Richard Siemens/University of Alberta View full size image A battered diamond that survived a trip from “hell” confirms a long-held theory: […]
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Asteroid to Black Out Bright Star Regulus

March 16, 2014, 6:46 am
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Asteroid to Black Out Bright Star Regulus Millions of lucky viewers can watch Regulus wink out late next Wednesday night. March 13, 2014 by Alan MacRobert If you’re near New York City or points north, plan to watch an asteroid cover up bright Regulus around 2:06 a.m. EDT Thursday morning, March 20th. And anywhere from […]
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