News Definition and 232 Threads

Local "news"? Sometimes I think all local news is for is telling us what the weather will be like and what's going on at elementary schools. So far I swear they went on for 5 minutes about how the air conditioning went off at an elementary school for 2 whole days! WHO CARES?!??! I'm just...

Swedish news anchor Leif Näslund takes a much needed break from the tiresome reading of news: http://www.vgtv.no/?id=31363&category=1

To all, Yesterday mid morning my Mom had a heart attack at home in Grand Junction, Colorado. Fortunately her close neighbor was there to call 911 who responded immediately. Unfortunately it was so massive there was nothing that could have saved her. I have since spoken to the neighbor...

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/In-FaultyComputer-Suit-Window-nytimes-2375403564.html?x=0 I'm a bit of a computer nerd. I often fix/build/take apart computers on a regular basis. It always irritates me when some who knows nothing about PCs tells me how awesome their Dell computer is and how I'm...

Voyager 2 Hijacked!(on news) How is this possible? is this real http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7722455/Aliens-hijack-Nasas-Voyager-2- spacecraft -claims-expert.html

I'm curious, what do you PF'ers prefer when it comes to staying up to date with science news? I.e what websites and/or subscriptions do you recommend? Currently I check physorg, sciencenews.org, and sciencedaily.

Trying to get some background for a potential news article about engineering challenges for aircraft fluid (primarily fuel and avionics cooling) systems – focusing on contrasts between designing for UAVs vs. manned aircraft. Engineers I already talked with have mentioned: designing...

Dateline March 31, 2010 Once again, the popular press serves up a pig's breakfast: From Reuters: CERN goes back to the beginning [headline] Physicists smashed subatomic particles into each other with record energy yesterday, creating thousands of mini-Big Bangs like the primeval...

Find an interesting article about a new technology, new design, and whatever else is related to things that fly? Post her here!

Catastrophic event" stopped growth of galaxy{ON News} Growth of the galaxy stopped,it exploded does this may effect our galaxy http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20100311/twl-catastrophic-event-stopped-growth-of-41f21e0.html

Does Fox News live up to the slogan "Fair and balanced"? It's tough not to try to sway people...

So, my company, has to downsize again. We had a meeting today, expecting to be given the option to take a voluntary layoff, which is a package that would include 6 months of pay and benefits, minimum, or stay and risk firing. NOPE. They told us that instead of offering us a lay off...

Dear all, Unfortunately, we have just learned of the death of one of our members, negitron. Since he was a valuable contributor in this forum, I am posting this announcement for those who might not have seen it in the General Discussion forum. Feel free to add your thoughts, if you wish...

Bad news: a young man gets a terrible lung disease. Good news: he gets a lung transplant. Bad news: the lungs he gets belonged to a heavy smoker and he dies a year later, of lung cancer. The critical question here, which I can't find in the article: did the patient know the donor was a...

MTd2 spotted this one and called our attention to it: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week280.html The brief summary announcement he put at the n-Category Café group blog says: ==quote== This Week’s Finds in Mathematical Physics (Week 280) Posted by John Baez In week280 of This Week’s Finds...

Tomorrow, you may or may not be aware, is the date of Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project, which the Fox News host http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2009/09/11/dont-tell-me-what-912-means-glenn-beck/

Fox News clearly picks a side when it comes to debates. How do you consider this fair and balance?How can they claim they are they only non-corrupt network? What did Obama gave CNN? What sides of any issue has a CNN news caster picked?

Well, at least in Bangladesh it is! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8237558.stm

http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.4031"

If you are traveling away from Earth on a spaceship near the speed of light, it is well known that the moving clocks on the ship run slower relative to stationary clocks on earth. I was wondering if while on the space ship, you could watch the news on TV and see events progress at a...

Well, President Obama has attacked an unnamed TV station for constantly attacking his administration. hmmm...i wonder which network it is:wink: http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2009/20090616181219.aspx

Futurama is coming back. http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/entertainment/A-New-Future-for-Futurama--and-Maybe-TV.html I told my wife that our youngest, Ben (That's him <== on my shoulders), is named after Benjamin Franklin. It's actually so I can call him Bender.

More baby mammoth news Trailer http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/waking-the-baby-mammoth-3630/Overview?source=banner_rmngc_103#tab-Videos/06531_00 will be aired Sun 26 April. Should be good for some discussion.

I joined this group to specifically comment on FoxNews. I watch it here in New Zealand on my cable channel. I watch it if for entertainment only. You can not watch that channel and seriously think you are getting an unbiased view of politics. One gets the impressions that their hosts think...

http://mediamatters.org/columns/200904070009 On the CNN noon broadcast today, Rick Sanchez, who IMO is not a serious journalist, is quoting a friend of Poplawski, who allegedly directly links Poplawski's killing spree to recent right-wing conspiracy rhetoric. He mentioned both Fox and hate...

"These imbeciles enjoy spreading false news." http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/06/italy-earthquake-predicted http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1889644,00.html via Slashdot http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/06/1935246&art_pos=2 I find it incredible that...

The children and relatives of politicians have been catching the news for years. Billy Carter and drinking Ferraro's son arrested for selling drugs Bush's daughters drinking Palin's daughter and pregnancy Now it's Biden's daughter and snorting cocaine...

I report. http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/434/foxnews152b.jpg You decide.

The thread title pretty much says it all. In most cases, the thread starter would post some of their favorites to get the thread started, but I don't know of any. And that's why I've come to you for some recommendations. So, post em up! :smile:

I need to hear some good news stories to cheer me up, so what good news do you have?

Here in Arizona we just had an 8 year old kid murder his dad and his dad's friend. I shouldn't say murder, allegedly murdered. This is one of the strangest cases ever. The police interviewed the boy and at first he says he came home and found them dead, but as the interview goes on he admits to...

As the news are flooded with bad things happening, I thought it was time to read of good news from the world. I'll start with this: Passenger on Finnair's flight from Bangkok to Helsinki gave birth to a healthy child. The birth took place somewhere above Kazakhstan. Unfortunately I don't have...

Should the news be sent at night/late evening only? The news are full of violence, war, killing and other misery. Should this be sent late at night to protect children from seing it? This thread is not stupid, so please don't lock it.

Hello, This morning, I was reading some stuff about DNA Computing on wiki, arstechnica, and other places.. I found it quite interesting and want to know the latest happening in the same area. If any of you is working on this new technology then please let's discuss about it. Thanks

I know who I am going to vote for now. :approve: http://www.news3online.com/index.php?code=446ytv358s4gY813XutT

The CRAZIEST news story EVER? You may think the title is sensationalist... and then you'll read the following... Watch this video... its baffling. I tried to write a description but I just can't find the words... suffice to say 2 Swedish twins run into on-coming traffic on the freeway...

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/SmartHome/story?id=5774961&page=1 I'm not too familiar with gaming , this game is supposedly going to employ a grand new concept.

How, or where, are you getting your daily news?

I've got a new job! I'm moving up...to an office almost directly above the one I'm currently in. :biggrin: Contract isn't signed yet, but I have the verbal offer and permission to start moving into my new office...one with a window finally! Actually, even better than a window, it's newly...

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/620/2 This article is about Martian ice. Why can't it be dry ice? Why are the scientists so sure that it is water ice?

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18901/1066/ This just popped up. I guess more news services will have it shortly.

i need some piece of news in the past month that contains something about a few chemical compounds. i just can't seem to find anything good. nowadays its all about global warming and green house gases and stuff can anyone help me find something other than anything having to do with global...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/3540714227/?tag=pfamazon01-20 This book goes on sale 1 July. If it is widely sold and widely read it will mark an historic watershed. It will indicate that we have gotten away from the idea of the big bang as a BEGINNING. I expect to watch the sales figures and I...

We all knew that Bush had fake news correspondents attend his press meetings. Here is a new twist. The Bush administration provided military analysts to the general media. Their excuse: It was a better way to inform the public. There was a New York Times Article on this last week, the main...

I just watched a heart-warming story on the NBC evening news about a 15-year-old girl that made a ski trip to the North Pole with her dad. They wanted to highlight the loss of sea-ice in the arctic, and she wants to give every school in the UK and the US a documentary film of the trip. So...

If you like rankings, here's the latest from "US News" http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad PHY: http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad/phy/search MAT: http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad/mat/search Of course, one should question how...

I've been looking into a career in the medical field for a long time now. I'm wondering if some of you could recommend some good medical news sites or places where I can find up to date research data that is open to the public. Thank you!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080129/hl_nm/depression_age_dc Can this realization be part of the cure?

Just seen this on sky news, quite interesting. Unfortunately the article doesn't go into much detal. http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1301940,00.html

http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071220/full/news.2007.389.html this just came out in Nature News, comment? To be sure, they are talking about how many DIMENSIONAL fundamental constants you need. The main bunch of constants that people always want to measure and to explain are the...