News Definition and 208 Threads

  1. robphy

    In the news: Wikipedia and the Pro Wrestler story

    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...
  2. N

    Graduate Is this the end of the Riemann Hypothesis?

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

    Great News: I paid > $3.00/gallon for gas today

    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.
  4. K

    How Do We Honor Pets After They Pass?

    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...
  5. turbo

    CBS Evening News: Rick Kaplan Tries to Revive a Dull Market

    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...
  6. T

    Medical How Does the New Bionic Eye Technology Restore Vision?

    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...
  7. A

    Graduate How Has the Twin Paradox Been Resolved?

    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/
  8. Chronos

    Graduate GPB: Latest News and Research Results

    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...
  9. L

    News Breaking News: Explosives on Miami cruise ship and more

    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...
  10. Ivan Seeking

    Where Can We Find Reliable News in Today's Media?

    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...
  11. Labguy

    Graduate Why Doesn't This Black Hole Emit X-rays?

    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?
  12. marcus

    Graduate Carl Brannen's Triumph in Hawaii: Japanese Physicist Koide Cites 2 Equations

    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...
  13. Astronuc

    Graduate Sandia Res. Reveals Impact of "Metallic Water" on Neptune & Physics

    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...
  14. Danger

    Sad Farewell: Putting an End to My Comedy Badge

    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...
  15. edward

    News Clinton on Fox News interview with Chris Wallace Video

    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
  16. F

    Walter "Maynard" Ferguson: Jazz Legend Passes Away

    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...
  17. K

    Ready for the Defense: A Look at Master's and PhD Thesis Presentations

    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)...
  18. Math Is Hard

    Exit exam news: school board defies state

    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
  19. Mk

    [AP News] Hundreds of dolphins wash up in Zanzibar

    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...
  20. D

    Where do you go for Science News?

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

    News Can America Keep Up? US News & World Report

    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...
  22. Ivan Seeking

    What news channel does Dick Chenney prefer?

    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!
  23. Ivan Seeking

    Did this player break a record in just twenty minutes?

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

    Medical LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? [Wired News]

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

    Graduate Is Spacetime a Fluid Like Ether in Black Hole Analogies?

    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...
  26. C

    Understanding "Bumps & Teases" in News Programs

    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?
  27. Ivan Seeking

    The Battle of Los Angeles - *Audio of original news broadcast linked*

    "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
  28. P

    News Is Diebold's Voting Machines One of the Greatest Threats to Democracy?

    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...
  29. R

    News China Wants Only 'Healthy' News on Web

    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...
  30. M

    News Is Air Cargo Safety a Concern for CNN in 2005?

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

    News Why is Fox News so chaotic and unorganized?

    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...
  32. ZapperZ

    Graduate Uh-oh. More Bubble Fusion News

    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.
  33. Lisa!

    How to Give Bad News: Shock & Depression After Tragic News

    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:
  34. Gokul43201

    Did the Meteorite Strike Earth? Latest News

    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
  35. A

    News Did Japan Fail in Its Bid to Resume Commercial Whaling?

    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
  36. Astronuc

    Changing planet revealed in atlas (from BBC news)

    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...
  37. Monique

    What is the Major Breakthrough in S. Korean Stem Cells Research?

    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...
  38. Loren Booda

    News Rather, Jennings, and Brokaw retirements - the demise of network news?

    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?
  39. T

    News Pictures you won't see in the news

    Found this on another site. http://www.veteranscava.org/photos_that_will_never_make_the.htm I'm glad to be back and being able to post again :)
  40. wasteofo2

    News Hillary Clinton on Fox News in 9 minutes.

    Hillary Clinton is going on Greta Van Sustren's show at 10:00pm This should be good...
  41. P

    When will the Cosmos 1 solar sail spacecraft be launched?

    http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/11/10/solar.sail.ap/index.html
  42. F

    Nature News: Surprising Findings in 2004

    http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041004/full/041004-17.html Well, I havn't been to these messageboards in . . . awhile, so maybe I don't know if everybody here has seen this. I guess I'm just posting it; comment if you'd like!
  43. Ivan Seeking

    Surprising Carbon Loss in Arctic Tundra: Study

    http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-09/uoaf-asf092404.php
  44. wasteofo2

    News Fox News to replay O'Reilly interview with Micheal Moore (it's awesome)

    Video of Bill O'reilly and Micheal Moore debating! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,127236,00.html BAM, just click the video option, follow the directions and voila, the best debate ever. No one concedes anything, nothing is changed and it rules.
  45. D

    The Big News, In Reverse UV Addiction

    The big news of the day, seems to be that tanning beds have addictive properties. Clients choose tanning beds that have some UV light to offer, because it gives them an "addictive", sense of well being. The real news is this. Due to scares regarding skin cancers, and due to the fact that...
  46. Ivan Seeking

    News G. Gordon Liddy: Still Making News After All These Years

    I can't believe this guy is still around. http://www.liddyshow.us/ Tonight Tsu and I were watching a documentary about Watergate -Watergate: Legacy of Secrets - on Discovery Times. I saw this show once before but I had missed something that Liddy says during his interview. While head of...
  47. C

    News Was Kerry to Blame for 9/11?

    Yup, here's why. Kerry was informed of security lapses at Logan International Airport. Kerry immediately forwarded the information to the Bush administration, but he should have known that the Bush administration was incompetent and would not prevent an attack. Therefore it was Kerry's...
  48. MathematicalPhysicist

    The daily show- with jon stewart (a serious news programme)

    who watches jon stewart's daily show? wouldnt you agree that he puts the news in a mature way and with that also humoristic, anyway it's a great programme.
  49. Labguy

    What Happened to Spirit Rover on Mars?

    Today's Bad News? http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20040122/ap_on_sc/mars_rover_27 Bummer
  50. Labguy

    Colliding Galaxies; Hot Gas; New News

    Another "new" release from NASA. Just click to join and you'll get these every day. So, I won't post these anymore. This subject has been discussed here on PF before, but this release should answer some of the questions asked...