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It now appears that Ohio's voting machine count can be manipulated using only a PDA and a magnet. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=4008511

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071214/ap_on_re_us/all_nighters;_ylt=AnBa56jhgEzfXKamRnuhDZis0NUE "A new survey says those who never study all night have slightly higher GPAs than those who do." Um, does anyone else feel like this is more a reflection of a students understanding of material...

Dr. A. Chou of the Auger Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray detector announced today that the last three years of partial information has been analysed to show at the 95% confidence level, UHECR's are caused by protons from Active Galactic Nuclei. Dr. Chou presented his data to the conference on...

News from Claus Lammerzahl, from Bremen, on success yesterday 6 Nov. 07 of production of BEC in microgravity in a drop tower experiment: Yesterday the first BEC in free fall was produced by a team at Bremen University. A condensate of 10^4 to 10^5 atoms was created in a few milleseconds in a...

Several postings about solvable LQC--and other news AFAICS cosmology is the main prospective proving ground for quantum gravity---cosmology and astrophysical observation generally. A LQG explanation for the dark energy effect (accelerating expansion as the cumulative result of quantum...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071027.wfemafake1027/BNStory/International/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20071027.wfemafake1027 This is a new low! :smile: I'm still surprised Chertoff is going to do anything about it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6960612.stm Very interesting. Though at least one puzzle remains in explaining naturally occurring OBEs, which is to explain why people spontaneously experience shifts in visual perspective. In this experiment they create the perspective shift using cameras and...

According to the second law of TD, entropy is increasing in the whole universe. Then how could you explain the fact that from a chaotic state of dust and gas remnants of a supernova, gravity causes all them to gather together to form new stars which are less chaotic thus having less entropy...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287194,00.html "Web Time Stamps Indicate Nancy Benoit's Death Reported on Web at Least 13 Hours Before Police Found Bodies in Her Home" en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chris_Benoit&oldid=141250251 near the bottom: "On June 28, FOXNews.com reported that...

http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2007/05/22/latest-on-latest-paper-on-arxiv/

From what I have read and observed, 3 is the magic number. At this price people begin to change their habbits. At $3.00 per gallon for diesel, the local biodiesel is competitive; it sells for the same or less.

My dog Emma died this morning :cry: :frown: She took ill 3 days ago and apparently had a large tumour on her spleen that had ruptured and caused her to bleed internally. http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/2268/poochor3.th.jpg This is the only image i have on this PC. I was threatening...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070308/ap_en_tv/tv_cbs_kaplan;_ylt=AgK7GneiC..eUtWEANwwqrDMWM0F CBS has hired Rick Kaplan to try to pull CBS news out of the cellar. The boys at the top mistakenly thought that Katie Couric could haul their news division out of the doldrums, and have discovered...

http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn11200?DCMP=Matt_Sparkes&nsref=bionic-eye Title : Better 'bionic eye' offers new hope of restored vision A tiny electronic pad is placed onto the retina of one eye, so that the electrodes are in direct contact with the ganglion cells. Each of the...

News Story: "Twin Paradox Solved" This makes me even sadder than the 0/0 story a few months ago: http://www.physorg.com/news90697187.html edit: mirror: http://duggmirror.com/general_sciences/LSU_professor_resolves_Einstein_s_twin_paradox_2/

Here is the latest on GPB: http://einstein.stanford.edu/ A couple of interesting quotes: . . . In addition to analyzing the data, members of our team are now in the process of preparing scientific and engineering papers for publication in 2007, including the reporting of the first results...

A lot of news happenings today. First, the odd smell permeating New York City, now there were explosives found in a package on the Miami cruise ship and a chemical leak at plant in Sugar Land, TX. Is there any possibility that any of these are related to acts of terror? The Miami cruise...

Well, last night Katie Couric may have lost me for good with her ten minute interview with Karen James - wife of the climber found dead on Mt. Hood. I think it was Turbo1 who predicted that she would turn the news into the Today show, and it looks like he may have been correct. When I saw that...

Just read http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N19303337.htm", which conveys the message that the war in Iraq is going so badly, that the suicide rate has doubled. However, this is simply a Poisson distribution, and the values they list do not seem to indicate that the mean value has...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061206/sc_nm/blackhole_dc If this were the case as explained, wouldn't we be detecting in X-ray also?

Carl Brannen is having a real triumph in Hawaii He and the famous Japanese physicist Koide are giving talks back to back today and their slides are on line. It seems like on about half his slides (many many anyway) Koide is referring to two equations of Brannen's which Koide has named "the...

News on “Metallic water” Phase diagram of water revised by Sandia researchers - Press Release Oct 3, Sandia National Lab, Albuquerque, NM “Metallic water” alters characteristics of Neptune and impacts other physics Very interesting work in both computational and experimental physics...

This will probably once and for all put an end to my comedy badge. You might have noticed that I was missing today, until the wee hours. We got a call at 11:30 last night. Our niece's son was born at 24 weeks, 2 weeks ago. Things looked semi-promising until last night. Nothing could really...

This one surprized me. Clinton unloaded on Wallace, the Republicans, and Fox news. It was about time. This is a 15 minute video. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,215445,00.html

http://www.maynardferguson.com/ For those who don't know him, Maynard was one of the best. He was, without a doubt, the most influential jazz trumpet player on the planet for many years. My jazz band had the opportunity to open for his big band on a couple of occasions when I was in school. I...

Alright! PF is back online. I've missed it a lot the last few days, not in the least because I have new to share : I've handed in my Master's thesis! After living like a hermit the last few weeks finishing it, I can finally step into the sun (or rain, as the Belgian weather would have it)...

but it doesn't really matter because the board has no authority! http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/01/BAGLFJ5MCT1.DTL

They always say its the U.S. Navy's fault for sonar throwing them off course. I don't know much about the subject but I think that is a bunch of BS. Why couldn't have had happen, and why could that be the cause? I personally think it might have to do with rapid changes in water temperature...

Are there any good web sites I should be using :confused:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/060327/27global.htm Why so many smart folks fear that the United States is falling behind in the race for global economic leadership By Richard J. Newman - 3/27/06 The US still provides incredible educational opportunities, however the rest...

As reported by Lou Dobbs on CNN, it is required that all TVs for the VP suite be programmed for Fox News only. :smile: Talk about a closed loop!

http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/7380791/detail.html

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70015-0.html

An ECHO of Black Holes Sound waves in a fluid behave uncannily like light waves in space. Black holes even have acoustic counterparts. Could spacetime literally be a kind of fluid, like the ether of pre-Einsteinian physics? By Theodore A. Jacobson and Renaud Parentani When Albert Einstein...

I have to analyze a news program for a media technology class, and it asks me about the bumps and teases... I've searched google but I can't seem to come up with a definition of what these terms mean, could anyone help me out?

"The Battle of Los Angeles" - *Audio of original news broadcast linked* http://www.sfmuseum.net/hist9/aaf2.html Alternative interpretation [UFO] with newspaper accounts from the time. http://www.rense.com/ufo/battleofLA.htm http://www.rense.com/general28/histla.htm

Or still... (You probably know I think Diebold "helped" bush's vote tally.) Every month or so I google news: vote fraud diebold ... and I usually see a few articles, many several weeks old, etc. Today when I did that search I retrieved a larger than normal number of recent documents...

BEIJING - China said Sunday it is imposing new regulations to control content on its news Web sites and will allow the posting of only "healthy and civilized" news. The move is part of China's ongoing efforts to police the country's 100-million Internet population. Only the United States...

I hesitated to do this (for about half a second) considering the last result but I found a good commentary on ID in the NYTimes entitled Show Me The Science. To 'wet your whistle: If you need me, I'll be hiding behind that rock over there ... I know ... Some of you just said, "Under it"...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/10/air.cargo.safety/index.html

Fox News? President? Duh! So I flipped on Fox News and was watching an interview with the mother of one of the pople on the Space Shuttle a couple of hours after the flight landed ... It was a cutesy piece but then ... Fox News Alert! Rummy wants to talk ... so I start watching that and...

http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/9/7/8/1 Strangely enough, while it looks similar, the experiment is actually different than the earlier Taleyarkhan experiment. Other than that, it is still equally controversial. Stay tune for more development in this saga... Zz.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/14/iraq/main709052.shtml http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/13/iraq.main/ A suicide car bomber attacked after waiting for a crowd of children to gather around an American humvee. The act was so heinous, that Al Qaeda preemptively denied any...

I was shocked and depressed for some days after I heard about the death of my friend's bf! :rolleyes: Because someone just told me about in a terrible way.She told me "Remember we talked a lot about *'s bf and how he looked like?He died last week!" :bugeye: :cry:

So, did it hit, or didn't it ? Any news yet ? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4642845.stm http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-07-03-voa32.cfm

A small victory for whales (and a slightly positive sign for the 'humaneness' of humanity): However, Link to the International Whaling Commission's Homepage: http://www.iwcoffice.org/index.htm

An atlas of environmental change compiled by the United Nations reveals some of the dramatic transformations that are occurring to our planet. It compares and contrasts satellite images taken over the past few decades with contemporary ones. These highlight in vivid detail the striking...

I heard the news and an article is published in Science, but what exactly is the major breakthrough? To me it seems that they have improved on their technique of nuclear transfer (cloning) for extracting stem cells, not that they have created a new way of creating stem cells (the news seems to...

Will traditional television network (CBS, ABC and NBC) news survive the near-simultaneous retirements of their accustomed anchors and the continued restructuring of the information industry?

Manufacturing fake news is not easy work! Iraqis cry foul over 'hostage' mystery ((BAGHDAD (AFP) - Religious and civic leaders expressed fears of a conspiracy after a reported kidnapping siege in an Iraqi town ended without resistance and in the apparent absence of any hostages. For...