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Quakes of the brain? Hope for epileptics
US scientists are investigating the concept of universality, power laws, direct and inverse Omori laws and finding similarities between brain electric activity during seizures and seismological data that...
Solar tsunami data will predict Earth havoc
NASA scientists say new data provided by twin spacecraft analyzing the sun will help them more accurately predict how so-called solar tsunamis wreak havoc on our planet. " The tsunamis -- powerful explosions... 
G.O.P. Facing Tougher Battle for Congress
"WASHINGTON — The economic upheaval is threatening to topple Republican Congressional candidates, putting more Senate and House seats within Democratic reach less than a month before the elections, lawmakers and...
cows point to the north
"New weird news related to cows: Researchers discovered that cattle have a good sense of direction and tend to point in a northerly direction. It has long been observed that cows appear to have a talent for weather forecasting and are able to predict when rain is on the way,...
Consumers Predict Inflation Better than Economists
Crap! This kind of screws me since I have a degree in economics but the truth is the truth and, quite frankly, I've known this for a long time. My trust for markets has no bounds. When I have talked about who the candidates are going to pick as their running mates I always...
Huge Greenland Glacier Disintegrating
"August 22, 2008—Greenland's glaciers are breaking up at a worrisome pace, new satellite images show. A gigantic, 11-square-mile (29-square-kilometer) chunk of the Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland...
The 2,000-year-old Greek 'super computer' used to predict eclipses decades in...
" The world's oldest calculator - a box of dials, gears and cogs created by the Ancient Greeks more than 2,000 years ago - could predict eclipses decades in advance, say researchers. The Antikythera Mechanism,...
created by sweet east pearl | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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253 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
China on the lookout for earthquakes during Beijing Olympics
The memories of the horrendous earthquake that hit China’s Sichuan province on May 12th of this year, claiming the lives of nearly seventy thousand people and leaving anywhere between five to eleven million...
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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442 views | 9 recommendations | 3 comments
Bluffing Could Be Common In Prediction Markets, Study Shows
Sure you or I have bluffed once in our lives. But how far can people go on doing this so-called white lies (?). In a new study, the University of Michigan suggests that bluffing in prediction markets is a...
A Woman's Perspective on All Male Brothels
I am not much on feminist humor -period/white pants jokes have never done it for me. But when you canget beyond that there is a whole world of wonderful material tomine.And for thatyou have to love it."I read the other day that Heidi Fleiss has plans to open the firstall male...
The truth about the European Constitution, now called the Lisbon Treaty
"the European Constitution "What need we fear who knows it, When none can call our power to account?" Lady Macbeth (Macbeth, Act V Scene 1) What is the Constitution? The Constitution is a document that would define the relationship between ...
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull makes $60 million at US bo...
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has taken nearly $60 million on its opening two nights at US box offices, despite the reviews being less than impressive."Paramount studio executives hope the...
Chinese wonder if animals can predict earthquakes
"First, the water level in a pond inexplicably plunged. Then, thousands of toads appeared on streets in a nearby province. Finally, just hours before China's worst earthquake in three decades, animals at a local zoo began acting strangely."
BC First Nations face salmon shortage
This summer is predicted to be a very poor season for salmon fishing in the West Coast. First Nations fear that low catches will have a dramatic effect on their diet, of which much is based on salmon. ... 
created by cynthia yoo | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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1039 views | 20 recommendations | 14 comments
