09:31 Our #intlarchitecture event at America.gov: www.america.gov/st/scitech-english/2009/November/20091123164215kcsniggih0.1622431.html # 10:18 Heard a cornbread story about Johnny Depp: he gives good muffin. He's a sweet & proud dad, no ego+ playing sexiest man alive role. # 10:26 Excited to see our Second Life #intlarchitecture work on America.gov: bit.ly/6NRU9G Save the date 12/3 9AM ...

Google explains racist results: News24: SciTech: News Washington - Google is running advertisements to explain the appearance of racist and anti-Semitic material in search results, including a picture which depicts US First Lady Michelle Obama as a monkey. "Sometimes Google search results from the internet can include disturbing content, even from innocuous queries," the Mountain View ...

Blue Destiny Records has sued both Google and Microsoft for allegedly "facilitating and enabling" distribution of copyrighted songs, illegally. The suit alleges that RapidShare runs "a distribution center for unlawful copies of copyrighted works." RapidShare is helped by Google and Microsoft, which benefit from the ad relationships, according to the suit. Blue Destiny has ...

Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, finishing its mission at our Moon, sends a last bit of information from the probe mass spectrometer on board the Indian payload near the south pole, "Carbon, Carbon, I sense Carbon." What could it mean, what could it mean? Could there be, or have been, life on the Moon? What say you? - LRK - Indian scientists ...

The latest battleground shaping up on the web is a short one. Google and Facebook yesterday dove headfirst into the market of short URLs. Google unveiled a new feature that shortens links you share via the Google toolbar using the URL and Facebook announced its plans to shorten URLs created on Facebook with read more

Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk Al Gore- whoppers and greenhouse gas Copenhagen-"Let the show go on!" Well, good ol' Al Gore never lets us down, does he? Big Al Al finally made his grand appearance in Copenhagen, and here below is what he told the 20,000 in the peanut gallery: That's right! The Arctic will be ice-free in about 5 years! Hey, who needs Hawaii when we ...

"The fishermen leaned into the nets, grunting and grumbling as they tossed the translucent jellyfish back into the bay, giants weighing up to 200 kilograms (450 pounds), marine invaders that are putting the men's livelihoods at risk. The venom of the Nomura, the world's largest jellyfish, a creature up to 2 meters (6 feet) in diameter, can ruin a whole day's catch by tainting ...

When targeting spiral galaxy bulges, astronomers often seek edge-on galaxies, as their bulges are more easily distinguishable from the disc. This exceptionally detailed edge-on view of NGC 4710 taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard Hubble reveals the galaxy's bulge in the brightly coloured centre. The luminous, elongated white plane that runs through the bulge is the galaxy ...

... scars. ;) # 18:34 @incarnated_joy Remind me never to get you angry. ;) # 19:42 IBM's Blue Gene Supercomputer Models a Cat's Entire Brain - is.gd/4Zd9Q # 19:43 Also: www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-07/computerized-rat-brain-spontaneously-develops-complex-patterns # 22:21 The #L4D2 "Hard Rain" campaign? Worth the price of admission. That was fantastic. AWESOME storm. # 22:57 @ ...

... Avenue Q at the Regal Theatre Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Dance Dialects 2009 Saturday 21 November ParkC Open Day IGA Canning Bridge Official Opening! Tim Finn – Live at the Quarry Scitech After Dark Live Pro Wrestling British India at Capitol Nickelback at Burswood Dome Tori Amos – Sinful Attraction Tour The Blackeyed Susans at the Fly By Night ‘Forever and Easy&# ...

On Saturday Keith and I took the boys to SciTech in Frisco for the Grossology Exhibit! They LOVED it! Everything was geared towards bodily functions: toots, burps, poops, snot, etc. There were games that launched balls into a giant nose (acting as dirt). When the nose is full is sneezes them back out. Slides and climbing walls that were supposed to be enlarged skin and the intestines. Hands-on ...

I gave evidence at the Parliamentary SciTech committtee today for their enquiry into whether the government had used scientific evidence properly in making their decisions about MHRA licenses for homeopathic pills, and homeopathy treatment on the NHS. This was a mini-enquiry as a result of interest expressed by the public, which is excellently democratic, you

When news came out about the discovery of the lost Persian army of Cambyses that was mentioned by Herodotus (see Hdt 3.26 f), I noticed Zahi Hawass wasn't involved. Since Hawass is ubiquitous in the area of Egyptian archaeology, this was a big red flag. Hawass subsequently called the reports misleading and the Rogue Classicist posted a "Don't Eat that Elmer" warning blog about ...

... Beijing LocationThe hotel is located in the north-eastern part of the city and offers easy access to the newly built 4th ring road, which runs to the City Center. 4-star hotels: Scitech Hotel Beijing LocationThe hotel is conveniently located within the center of Beijing's commerical and diplomatic district. Check out Shangri-La's Kerry Centre Hotel Beijing (5-star hotel) Stylish and ...

ProQuest Adds Deep Indexing for SciTech Databases, Newsbreaks (Nov 30) "ProQuest (www.proquest.com) has incorporated its patent-pending Deep Indexing technology, pioneered with the company's Illustrata offerings, into selected natural science, technology, and engineering subject-oriented databases. Deep Indexing will surface data from...