Internet in Space: I Can Has Zero G

Anybody who has ever had their cable connection chewed through by squirrels knows that Internet transmissions are far less tolerant of interference and disruption than something like terrestrial TV and cable...

Governor Schwarzenegger promises climate change summit

The Governor of California has said that he has plans to call an international climate change summit in California this November before the discussions among the United Nations Schwarzenegger said that he wll...

IAEA's legal authority is very limited : ElBaradei

  This statement from the director of UN nuclear watchdog is clear very important particularely when venzuela recently announced its nuclear ambition. Recent failure of IAEA in Iran raised the issue of its...

The failure of the NIST WTC 7 report to address concerns raised in Appendix C...

NIST WTC 7 report does not address evidence of melted steel documented by FEMA"by Tony Szamboti, M.E. The NIST WTC 7 report does not attempt to explain the “severe high-temperature corrosion attack” on apparently the only piece of WTC 7 steel which was tested, as...

Dyslexic doctor has overseen 40 executions

A 50 cent bullet to the back of the head is actually a more humane way to be executed, the condemed won't even feel the bullet enter, like they would various needles used in lethal injection. It's cheaper, totally painless and instant, unlike those botched executions you hear...

Can mobiles make you infertile?

Can the radiation emerging from mobile phones cause impotency, this subject has been debated on many occasions. There have been reports coming time to time which claims that excessive mobile usage slows down sperm...

Tampa General starts procedure on wrong patient

"TAMPA -- Staff at Tampa General Hospital mistakenly started performing a cardiac catheterization last week on the wrong patient, hospital officials said Wednesday evening.The man was not harmed, and the hospital is conducting an internal investigation. Staff members failed...

Climate change meeting marked by skepticism

"The talks were "constructive" but differences remained, said an EU representative who emerged from the talks. He refused to give details or to be named.U.S. officials said the Bush administration launched the talks in a bid to advance United Nations climate change...

RFID Primer: Learn Your RFID ABC’s, Dig Deeper

Association for RFID professionals creates a RFID reference tool     Dallas, Texas (December 26, 2007) -- After estqblishing a network of 3,500 members in more than 65 countries around the world, RFID...

EU & US in war-of-words over climate treaty

"The European Union and the US have accused each other of blocking a deal to launch negotiations on a new global warming treaty as the clock runs down on UN climate talks in Bali. The UN warned the 190-nation meeting that continuing deadlock meant there was a risk that the...

Australian PM signs onto Kyoto

This brings the count to 175 parties that have ratified the protocol, including 137 developing countries."NUSA DUA, Indonesia -- Newly elected Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd handed the United Nations his...

Australia`s Rudd hands Kyoto papers to U.N. in Bali

"Kyoto binds 36 industrialised nations to curb emissions by an average of 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-2012. Developing nations are exempt from targets under the pact's first phase and over the past 10 years emissions from nations such as India and China have...

Bali can succeed despite US, China: Nobel laureate

"China and the United States are the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases. He was speaking just hours before he was to accept the Nobel prize on behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The United Nations body of about 3,000 experts jointly won the...

Finance ministers meet on sidelines of climate talks

"Around 140 delegates were expected to attend the finance talks, about nine of which were of ministerial rank, mainly from Southeast Asia. Participants included Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan, whose government last week ended its opposition to the UNFCCC's Kyoto Protocol for...

Climate change demonstration in Dublin

"A demonstration is taking place in Dublin today to mark an international day of action on climate change. Bells from churches across the country rang at 2pm, signalling concern that global warming could soon have irreversible impacts. Today's demonstration coincides with a...

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