News Briefs 04-01-2013
Posted by G.C at 09:08, 04 Jan 2013“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were… But without it we go nowhere.”
- Milky Way’s gamma geyser eruption.
- Unlocking Andromeda’s dwarf galaxies.
- The red planet in blue?
- A first for Mars’ meteors.
- New study of distant galaxies reveals unexpected results.
- The healthy infallibility of failure.
- Surviving a dimly lit world.
- Will comet ISON outshine la luna?
- Ancient bacteria predates oxygen.
- To see the world in a grain of sand…
- Curing hiccups once and for all.
- Hot chocolate and orange mugs.
- Living longer and prospering.
- Cost of thinking, revealed.
- Zero˚ isn’t that cold any more.
- 2012… The year in exoplanets.
- 2013… The year we blow up the moon.
- Change… as inevitable as our resistance to it.
- Billions and billions of planets.
- Saturn’s storms in B & W.
- This week’s evidence of the looming robot uprising… Vomiting ‘bot.
With thanks to RPJ. Here's to a stellar, successful 2013 for one and all!
Quote of the Day:
“We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology…”
C. Sagan



Comments
6 April 2010
18 hours 3 min
"Digital rectal massage was then attempted using a slow circumferential motion. The frequency of hiccups immediately began to slow, with a termination of all hiccups within 30 seconds. There was no recurrence of hiccups during the next 30 minutes and the patient was discharged without further work up".
...what has been read can not be unread :/
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................