What happened before the Big Bang?

It's the big question.  If there was a big bang, who lit the...

Level 12 Profits: World of Warcraft Fan Site Sells for a Million Bucks

Everybody knows that war is big business, but that seems to be a truism even when the war (and the world in which it takes place) isn't real. "There's a lot of buzz in the World of Warcraft fan site universe this...

Zambian Head of State Joins Africa’s Trade -vs- Aid Debate

"I guess the bigger story for beninmwangi.com could be that the The Africa Report magazine, not to be confused with the TV magazine having the same name, might be the most complete African business coverage in the magazine universe right now. The Africa Report is published by...

New Everest Records That Are NOT From The Highest Point On Earth ... :: Oblat...

".. a change in the MSM template is in order. As documented here at Oblate Spheroid, in a post at the end of March, Mount Everest is NOT the highest point on Earth … or to put it another way … the closest...

Miss Japan Wins Miss Universe: Miss USA Slips, Is Heckled

It's the second time in history a Japanese woman has won the Miss Universe Pageant -- she's Riyo Mori, a 20-year-old dancer. Natalia Guimaraes was the runner-up at the event, held in Mexico this year; the big...

Universe Prediction Suggests A 'Cosmic Humility' … The Death Of Modern Cosm...

"In an article titled “The Return of the Static Universe and the End of Cosmology", two researchers suggest that we are making our observations in a unique period of time. This time of measurement is unique in...

Does Google Still Matter?

There was a story today in Advertising Age about how McDonalds is trying to re-brand the McJob as something that doesn't suck (good luck with that). So I went to Google to see what came up in their results for...

The Guitar Video Universe

Like good guitar players? Like watching videos of the best guitarists in the world?Then check out this site: The Guitar Video Universe  It features videos of the best Guitarists in the World. It also contains an RSS feed to The Video Sense, which contains hundreds...

PBS TV Stations to Air Three-Part Documentary on Atheism

Conservative Christians are criticizing a plan by Public Broadcasting Service stations to begin showing later this week a three-part television documentary series on atheism, calling it "demagogic and propagandistic."

New 'super-Earth' found in space

"Astronomers have found the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, a world which could have water running on its surface. The planet orbits the faint star Gliese 581, which is 20.5 light-years...

Mr. Universe arrested for assault

Redwood City is a fairly quiet community somewhat south of San Francisco and is prone to gray skiesgenerally well-behaved police officers. But last night - just having read a story at Yahoo News - the cops were...

Non-Virtual Reality dating sites are so over

Singleshots.com is a New York based dating operation that now has about 1000 photos of datable people - not a very big number when compared to the monster dating boards like Lavalife. But accoring to some who...

Zero Time. Did it ever happen?

"Sorting the terms gives this simple equation: ( tv )2 - ( to )2 = ( tc )2 Using the difference of two squares, it reduces to the same form as the original hypothesised equation. When we trace back our observed time to zero at the Big Bang, universal time has the value tc,...

MEMS for Viewing Faraway Galaxies

"Efforts to peer deep into the early universe are important to understanding its formation, but this requires the gathering of very faint infrared light--which is difficult because nearer, brighter objects overwhelm the signals of darker objects that are farther away. Now...

Google to help build telescope

"Google has already planted its flag on Earth, the Moon and Mars. The universe could be next. The Internet search company has struck a partnership with scientists building a huge sky-scanning telescope, with hopes of helping the public access digital footage of asteroids,...

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