Science's understanding of the physics of our own solar system is due for an overhaul. Recent papers from the IBEX and Cassini teams are set to overturn existing models. Those models failed to predict significant...
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Singer Lily Allen has won damages from the Sun newspaper in London after they printed comments she made to a French Football magazine that never happened. The newspaper claimed she made...
It seems that space age instruments are now finding evidence of water-ice in the many locations we have pointed them to look. The latest to be confirmed includes asteroid 24 Themis. But is it from subsurface...
opinion by mgmirkin | 6 wks ago | updated 6 wks ago 250 views | 28 recommendations | 8 comments
All things old are new again... Hundred-year-old electrical science has finally come back into fashion! The latest results from the THEMIS satellite fleet leave no wiggle room. The auroras are powered by what...
opinion by mgmirkin | 30 wks ago | updated 10 wks ago 444 views | 68 recommendations | 9 comments
As reported here a strike has begung at the Daily Record and Sunday Mail newspaper offices HQ in Glasgow, Scotland. It follows a strike ballot that was held by the National Union of Journalists, where the 276...
Journalists at one of Scotland's biggest newspapers are to strike because of restructuring and job cuts. The newspapers, the Daily Record and Sunday Mail, owned by Trinity Mirror will strike for 2 days. It follows...
" Back in March 2008 Atlas Shrugs blog ran a story entitled “GET OFF MY BUS I NEED TO PRAY!” The title linked to a “news report” from the British tabloid news paper The Sun. According to the Sun the story went something like this: Muslim bus driver in London kicks...
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The perpetually ill Michael Jackson may now be fighting off the MRSA flesh-eating disease. Plagued by strange afflictions for over a decade these latest rumors about his ailing health come as photos of Jackson...
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Last week a Zimbabwean court remanded opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party secretary general Tendai Biti's trial for speaking out against Robert Mugabe to next month.Although two of the four charges were dropped, the charge of treason against Biti and for...
created by JackScott | 1 year ago 268 views | 4 recommendations | 1 comment
The RCMP are conducting preliminary investigations to
prepare material for their self managed, transparent, and democratic, audit of
the death of the Polish immigrant, Robert Dziekanski. It was he who was tasered by the
RCMP, and who died, at Vancouver airport. Or...
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Paul McCartney's estranged wife Heather Mills launched into angry tirades during interviews on UK television shows GMTV and This Morning - comparing herself to tragic Princess Diana.
Sir Elton John made the news today in British newspaper The Sun not because of his musical activities but for his (hopefully a provocation?) comments about closing down the Internet.
John, a self-defined "technophobe", said the Internet is damaging the world of music and...
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Angry Harry Potter Fans Disappointed
Yikes! Don't mess with the die-hard (don't wanna know the ending) Harry Potter fans. Apparently the New York Times and The Baltimore Sun have angered some fans by writing their...
created by wildstarz | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 407 views | 30 recommendations | 2 comments
"Prince Harry's girlfriend is perturbed by the fact the ranks of paparazzi photographers who previously followed Kate Middleton have now turned their attentions to Chelsy thanks to the wide-ranging media
'ban' on images of Prince William's girlfriend."