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Posts Tagged ‘Science’

ABCNews Plagiarizes Wikipedia!

My man blizzard stumbled upon a freaky article on ABCNews about a man with an embedded, parasite fetus. Gross stuff, to be sure, but take note of blizzard’s article: There’s a word-for-word copy in there straight outta wikipedia. My money’s on ABC News copying that and not the other way around. For gross content, be [...]

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Beagle 2 probe ‘spotted’ on Mars

is it… the Beagle 2? The image kind of looks like a face to me… BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Beagle 2 probe ‘spotted’ on Mars

Xena and Sidekick: The Outeroids!

We’ve got a “new” planet which our esteemed scientific community has named Xena. Our newest member of the solar system has a moon (named Gabrielle, natch) which is expected to be helpful in determining the body’s mass. Here is the BBC article. So, dria and I are watching Discovery tonight while waiting for Arrested Development [...]

Interlaced Video / Thought

This book is a collection of probes into the moment-by-moment works of the brain. It’s not a textbook—more of a buffet, really. Each hack is one probe into the operation of the brain, one small demonstration. By seeing how the brain responds, we pick up traces of the structures present and the design decision made, [...]

‘Pack ice’ suggests frozen sea on Mars

New Scientist Breaking News – ‘Pack ice’ suggests frozen sea on Mars … and from the BBC. If correct, the researchers have discovered an 800km x 900km x 45m block of ice located near the equator of Mars. This would be an ideal landing site for a manned expedition. How much water is that? If [...]