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| Why won't polar bears mate? They're both female Posted: 27 Nov 2008 09:00 PM CST Puzzled Japanese zookeepers have cleared up a mystery over a lack of chemistry between a couple of polar bears as both turn out to be female, a Japanese zoo said Wednesday. |
| Should the NFL take Thanksgiving football away from Detroit? Posted: 27 Nov 2008 08:50 PM CST With the Lions entering this year's game sporting an 0-11 record, the chorus will grow louder than ever. The NFL needs to ignore it. Detroit is the home of Thanksgiving football. Changing that would rob the league of one of it's best traditions. |
| Iverson Misses Practice, Faces Hefty Fine Posted: 27 Nov 2008 08:40 PM CST Detroit Pistons guard Allen Iverson missed practice Thursday and will be levied a "hefty" fine, coach Michael Curry said. |
| 24 Beautiful and Creative Website Headers (PICS) Posted: 27 Nov 2008 08:30 PM CST Beautiful and creative website header designs from all over the world. |
| Most Expensive Speaker Cable in the World? $21,000 For 3m! Posted: 27 Nov 2008 08:20 PM CST Probably the most expensive speaker cables in the world, these things are way more expensive than the Pear Anjou. "Counter Spiralling Geometry" and "Spread Spectrum Technology" conductors....How many suckers are out there who would buy these? |
| Major North American Breakthrough For Dialysis Patients Posted: 27 Nov 2008 07:40 PM CST Suffering from end-stage renal disease (ESRD), a growing number of patients at a Montreal hospital have become the beneficiaries of a North American breakthrough: high efficacy hemodiafiltration (HDF). An extracorporeal blood purification technique, HDF is indicated for ESRD patients. |
| Pig organs: Ready for humans at last? Posted: 27 Nov 2008 07:30 PM CST IN THE not too distant future, a person in need of a heart transplant could be offered a pig's organ. That's the hope of a group that met in China last week to agree global guidelines for the first clinical trials of "xenotransplants". |
| Dodgers Owners Need A Huge Reality Check Posted: 27 Nov 2008 07:20 PM CST Fans won't forgive lack of spending, because they spend their hard-earned money to see team win. That is why McCourt's outrageous remarks linking free agents and charity have struck such a chord. |
| Silver surfers: Australia to launche seniors internet cafes Posted: 27 Nov 2008 07:10 PM CST The Broadband for Seniors initiative will spend $15 million over three years on 2,000 internet kiosks for community centres. |
| Scientists isolate gene essential to early brain development Posted: 27 Nov 2008 05:50 PM CST University of Queensland neuroscientists have discovered the crucial role a specific gene plays in forming the neural tube, the earliest identifiable structure in the developing brain and an essential precursor to the entire central nervous system. |
| The Top 10 Own Goals in Hockey History Posted: 27 Nov 2008 05:50 PM CST With Ryan O'Byrne's own goal on Monday night, RDS looks back at the Top 10 worst hockey goals scored in their own net. A few of these still pain me to watch, personally. |
| Mumbai attacks: Terrorists 'copied al-Qaeda blueprint' Posted: 27 Nov 2008 05:20 PM CST Terrorists behind co-ordinated terrorist attacks on a series of high-profile targets in Mumbai, India, followed a "blueprint" created by al-Qaeda, according to one terrorism expert. |
| The world’s fastest computers are Linux computers Posted: 27 Nov 2008 05:11 PM CST When it comes to sheer, blinding speed you can't beat supercomputers, and, once more, the fastest of the fast in the Top 500 Supercomputers, are Linux computers. |
| Esssential free apps for your web design toolkit Posted: 27 Nov 2008 04:50 PM CST From design to testing - open source programs to do it allSome of the very best web design and development tools are free. Free as in speech and as in zero pence. We take a look at the best free software you can use to build a successful, contemporary website, starting with the obvious: tools to design it with. |
| An Ode to the Fading Eye of the Hubble Telescope [PICS] Posted: 27 Nov 2008 04:50 PM CST The legendary Hubble Space Telescope is set to be decommissioned in 2010. While the new telescope on the station, set to launch only a year later, will be far more advanced, many astronomy fanatics will always remember the Hubble as a source of great joy, and sometimes, frustration. In tribute, here are the top ten shots taken, or contributed to, b |
| Electirc MINI debuts at the Los Angeles Auto Show Posted: 27 Nov 2008 04:20 PM CST Already a lot of fun to drive and fuel-efficient, the popular MINI Cooper will soon gain even more favor with environmentally conscious drivers via the electric-powered MINI E that premiered at the 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show. |
| Report: Planes Just As Afraid Of John Madden Posted: 27 Nov 2008 04:10 PM CST The Federal Aviation Administration stated Wednesday that, according to all available evidence, airplanes are just as afraid of carrying sportscaster John Madden as he is of traveling on them. |
| Why adding 3D graphics to games was a bad idea Posted: 27 Nov 2008 03:40 PM CST Are we getting a bit sick of 3D graphics? When 3D was first invented, back in the early cretaceous period, the first-person shooter, the flight sim and the RPG all got better. But platform games got worse... |
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| The 5 Most Insane Versions of Thanksgiving Around the World Posted: 27 Nov 2008 02:50 PM CST We'll stick to eating turkey and napping, thanks. |
| Navy isn't playing games with Johnston Posted: 27 Nov 2008 02:40 PM CST A man speaking broken English cried through the radio. Something about an attack. Shots fired. Grenades launched. Pirates. |
| GM Asks FAA to Bar Public Tracking of Leased Corporate Jet Posted: 27 Nov 2008 02:40 PM CST General Motors Corp., criticized by U.S. lawmakers for its use of corporate jets, asked aviation regulators to block the public's ability to track a plane it uses. Representatives at the Nov. 19 House hearing faulted Ford and Chrysler for taking private jets to Washington to plead their case. "Couldn't you all have downgraded to first class?" |
| Thanksgaming: Surviving the Holidays Posted: 27 Nov 2008 02:30 PM CST Thanksgiving's here, and for most of us that means leaving the safety of our comfortable habitats and traveling to god-knows-where to have our lifestyles passive-aggressively judged by so-called "family members" we only see during the holidays. |
| Europe tackles space ambitions amid financial crisis Posted: 27 Nov 2008 02:20 PM CST European nations met on Tuesday to decide how to carve up €10 billion of spending needed to maintain the region's activities in space and tackle new initiatives amid rising pressure on budgets. |
| Prehistoric Climate Hints At Future Changes Posted: 27 Nov 2008 02:00 PM CST The first comprehensive reconstruction of an extreme warm period shows the sensitivity of the climate system to changes in carbon dioxide (CO2) levels as well as the strong influence of ocean temperatures, heat transport from equatorial regions, and greenhouse gases on Earth's temperature. |
| Science Supersized Your Turkey Dinner Posted: 27 Nov 2008 02:00 PM CST Most everything on your plate has undergone tremendous genetic change under the intense selective pressures of industrial farming. Pilgrims and American Indians ate foods called corn and turkey, but the actual organisms they consumed didn't look or taste much at all like our modern variants do. |
| Mumbai Attacks: England's Cricket Series in India Cancelled Posted: 27 Nov 2008 02:00 PM CST The two remaining one-day internationals between England and India have been cancelled following the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. |
| RealTime Application Interface for Linux Posted: 27 Nov 2008 02:00 PM CST RTOS stands for Real Time Operating System. An embedded system is a combination of hardware and software integration, accomplished for a specific function. |
| What BlackBerry Addiction says About Obama's Brain Posted: 27 Nov 2008 01:10 PM CST Giving up the CrackBerry will make the president-elect more productive, but neuroscientist Sam Wang says that he shouldn't give it up completely. Here's why… |
| The Kit That Turns Gas Guzzlers into Plug-In Hybrids Posted: 27 Nov 2008 01:10 PM CST Ulrik Poulsen's Innovative Invention |
| Iran Fires Second Space Rocket Posted: 27 Nov 2008 01:00 PM CST Iran says it has launched its second space rocket, the Kavosh 2, in a successful follow-up to the first launch in February. |
| Google Laughs at Yahoo! and Microsoft Posted: 27 Nov 2008 01:00 PM CST The monthly domestic search-engine rankings from Nielsen Online are out, and they're as predictable as ever. Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) keeps getting stronger, and Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) keep shrinking in its rearview mirror. |
| We’re All Getting a Lump of Coal This Xmas Posted: 27 Nov 2008 01:00 PM CST Recent MIT report estimates that China's power sector has been expanding at a rate roughly equivalent to 3 to 4 new coal-fired, 500 megawatt plants coming online every week. China is hungry for energy. The US can probably absorb higher costs associated with cleaner uses of coal, but not China. What will this mean? More pollution coming from China. |
| 4 Reasons to Eat (or Drink) Pomegranates Posted: 27 Nov 2008 12:50 PM CST "Now, renowned herbalist James Duke, a former ecologist with the USDA, has published (in the April, 2008 issue of Alternative & Complementary Therapies) an exhaustive review of the scientific literature on the pomegranate..." |
| Strong, Lightweight Green Material May Replace Concrete Posted: 27 Nov 2008 12:50 PM CST Each year, coal-burning power plants, steel factories and similar facilities in the United States produce more than 125 million tons of waste, much of it fly ash and bottom ash left over from combustion. Mulalo Doyoyo has plans for that material. |
| Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Rick Roll! Posted: 27 Nov 2008 12:40 PM CST Rick Astley himself shows up for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade |
| Science Fiction’s Most Dysfunctional Families Posted: 27 Nov 2008 12:30 PM CST We list science fiction families that will have you giving thanks for the mundane problems of your own dysfunctional clan. |
| 5 Gadgets You Can't Skimp On (And How to Save Money Buying) Posted: 27 Nov 2008 12:20 PM CST we've made a list of things you can't afford to cheap out on, because doing so will bite you in the ass later. Still, since we like you, we're also sharing how to save a bit of money in the process, so the whole not-cheaping-out thing doesn't hurt as much. |
| PongOut - Pong and Breakout...at the same time! Posted: 27 Nov 2008 12:10 PM CST PongOut is a multitasker which combines two of the most legendary classic games of all time, Pong and Breakout. Do you think you can handle playing both of them simultaneously? |
| 15 New Stills from Punisher: War Zone (PICS) Posted: 27 Nov 2008 12:00 PM CST Lionsgate have provided Latino Review a batch of new stills for Marvel's new comic book film "Punisher: War Zone" starring Ray Stevenson, Dominic West, Julie Benz, and Dash Mihok. Looks awesome! Is that Newman? |
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