Isaac Newton. Sir Isaac Newton PRS MP (/ˈnjuːtən/;[8] 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727[1]) was an English physicist and mathematician who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"), first published in 1687, laid the foundations for classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics and shares credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the invention of infinitesimal calculus. Newton built the first practical reflecting telescope and developed a theory of colour based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into the many colours of the visible spectrum.
He also formulated an empirical law of cooling, studied the speed of sound, and introduced the notion of a Newtonian fluid. Newton was a fellow of Trinity College and the second Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. Detroit's Resurgence. Police Tie Up 62yr Old Man Then Pepper Spray Him To Death 2011. Project A - Jackie's Bicycle Scene. Details of lab-made bird flu won't be revealed. WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government paid scientists to figure out how the deadly bird flu virus might mutate to become a bigger threat to people — and two labs succeeded in creating new strains that are easier to spread. On Tuesday, federal officials took the unprecedented step of asking those scientists not to publicize all the details of how they did it.
The worry: That this research with lots of potential to help the public might also be hijacked by would-be bioterrorists. The labs found that it appears easier than scientists had thought for the so-called H5N1 bird flu to evolve in a way that lets it spread easily between at least some mammals. "It wasn't an easy decision," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, infectious diseases chief at the National Institutes of Health, which funded the original research. But biosecurity advisers to the government recommended that the journals Science and Nature publish only the general discoveries, not the full blueprint for these man-made strains.
Why America's Death Penalty Just Got Us Sanctioned by Europe - Ford Vox - International. The European Union is now blocking importation of lethal injection technology into the United States Reuters With its legislation this week limiting our access to the drugs we use to kill one another, the European Union has just proven that if America is still a superpower, that designation must carry a prominent asterisk for how easily we're humbled these days.
The EU is now blocking importation of technology into the United States that we cannot be trusted to use properly. As widely reported yesterday, the EU is cutting off our supply to the drugs we use for lethal injections, some of which we no longer have the capacity to manufacture domestically: America is now the target of a coercive technique that we've regularly used to punish Iran and North Korea. In our international diplomacy, such embargoes and sanctions are sometimes our last resort before military intervention. Responsible medical professionals have long since distanced themselves from the death penalty. A 40-year-old puzzle of superstring theory solved by supercomputer. A group of three researchers from KEK, Shizuoka University and Osaka University has for the first time revealed the way our universe was born with 3 spatial dimensions from 10-dimensional superstring theory in which spacetime has 9 spatial directions and 1 temporal direction.
This result was obtained by numerical simulation on a supercomputer. According to Big Bang cosmology, the universe originated in an explosion from an invisibly tiny point. This theory is strongly supported by observation of the cosmic microwave background and the relative abundance of elements. However, a situation in which the whole universe is a tiny point exceeds the reach of Einstein's general theory of relativity, and for that reason it has not been possible to clarify how the universe actually originated. In superstring theory, which is considered to be the "theory of everything", all the elementary particles are represented as various oscillation modes of very tiny strings.
The FDA Thinks It's Totally Cool For Us To Eat Seafood 10,000 Times Over The Contamination Limit. A new study has concluded that the FDA severely underrated the risk of contaminants in seafood following the BP oil spill of 2010, according to Environmental Health Perspectives (via Alternet). The report, conducted by non-governmental scientists, says that 53 percent of Gulf shrimp samples tested revealed "levels above concern" of carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Some cases showed carcinogenic levels up to 10,000 times more than what is considered safe. This leaves pregnant women, children and big seafood eaters at risk to develop issues stemming from the consumption of these chemicals.
Prenatal exposure to PAHs has been shown to lower IQs and increase the risk of asthma, heart malformations and low birth weight. The researchers at the Natural Resources Defense Council also included internal FDA emails — procured using the Freedom of Information Act — that showed a concerted effort to downplay the effects of the contaminants. Mass boycott leads to awkward silence at UN Kim tribute. NEW YORK: The United States, Japan, South Korea and most leading European countries have boycotted a minute's silence at the United Nations General Assembly for North Korea's late leader, Kim Jong-il. Australia's representative was in the General Assembly during the tribute. The tribute, demanded by North Korea, was the highest-profile international move yet sought by the government in Pyongyang in its quest for global recognition for the hardline leader, who died last Saturday at the age of 69. The awkward silence was a ''protocol'' move following a North Korean request, according to the UN General Assembly president, Nassir Abdulaziz al-Nasser.
Advertisement But many diplomats from countries that took part in the protest called the tribute inappropriate. They said the Security Council turned down North Korea's demand for a gesture to Mr Kim. North Korea's UN ambassador, Sin Son Ho, and another diplomat from the North Korean mission stood with their heads bowed during the silence. Trenches on the Web - Special: Harry Andrews and the Legend of Chateau La Roche. Harry Andrews and the Legend of Chateau La Roche Harry Andrews’ improbable but true World War I service began in an army hospital. The young man was one of the 7,000 soldiers at Camp Dix, New Jersey, who were cut down by an outbreak of deadly cerebrospinal meningitis. Andrews’ motionless body was moved to a morgue, and his records were marked "deceased" and sent to Washington. Harry Andrews in later lifePhoto courtesy of The Cincinnati Enquirer. Harry Andrews was on the slab for some time.
The body was then taken back to the hospital for dissection. Doctors opened the mouth, cutting away tissue from the upper palate for bacterial cultures. Andrews was blind and paralyzed, and no one expected him to live. Sometime later, Andrews found himself stationed at an army hospital at the Chateau La Roche, pres Razac-sur-l’Isle, in the Dordogne region of southwest France. The original Chateau de La Roche in France. Chateau La Roche. Chateau La Roche sits on one-and-one-half acres of land. Napoleon Dynamite. Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 comedy film co-written and directed by Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess, starring Jon Heder in the role of the title character.
Heder was paid just $1,000 to play Napoleon Dynamite, and only after the film's success re-negotiated and received a cut of its profits.[1] The film was Jared Hess's first full-length feature and is partially adapted from his earlier short film, Peluca. Napoleon Dynamite was acquired at the Sundance Film Festival by Fox Searchlight Pictures and Paramount Pictures, in association with MTV Films.
It was filmed in and near Franklin County, Idaho in the summer of 2003. It debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2004, and in June 2004 was released on a limited basis. Its widespread release followed in August. The film's total worldwide gross revenue was $46,140,956.[2] The film has acquired a cult following. Plot[edit] In a post-credits scene, Kip and LaFawnduh are married in an outdoor ceremony in Preston. Cast[edit] Background[edit] Shows - WDET's Raw Feed - What would it take to get you to move to the city of Detroit? 2,200 People Respond.
"The Detroit city/suburb hyperbole is so overwrought it overwhelms our ability to have normal conversations and has risen to the level of a regional pathology. No amount of clarifying the root causes or re-explaining why we feel the way we do will feed the thousands of kids who are living in the grips of food insecurity, help our teachers to remain motivated and effective, add a job, put a cop on the beat or fix our broken real estate market.
" - Mikel Ellcessor, WDET's General Manager As part of WDET’s Crossing the Lines series, WDET created and fielded a survey that was designed to test our hypothesis that the two sides, city/ suburb, Detroit partisan and skeptic, are speaking past each other. We put all assumptions aside and asked people: What would it take to get you to move to the city? We set a goal of 1,000 responses in seven days. So what would influence someone to move to Detroit and who is the person most likely to consider a move to the city? Survey Results & Analysis (PDF) Ozuri comments on So does *anyone* actually like the state of affairs with DLC, other than publishers? Bunnysuitman comments on Post the TL;DR of your best story, if you get 50 or more upvotes then you must post the whole story.
nHuCQ.jpg (2707×1800) 8acHz.jpg (1936×2592) 6 - microtones. Big 14 Tour - Fairy Bridge. Fairy Bridge (Xian Ren Qiao) is a meander natural bridge carved through limestone karst by the Buliu River. It is located about 40 km (as the crow flies) northwest of Fengshan in northwestern Guangxi Province, China. Very few westerners have seen this bridge. A group from the Natural Arch and Bridge Society, led by Ray Millar, visited Fairy Bridge in October 2010. During this visit measurements by Gunter Welz established that the span of the opening is 400 ± 15 feet and confirmed that the arch has the greatest known span in the world by a wide margin (see Measurement of Fairy Bridge). From the upstream side, Fairy Bridge can be reached via a rubber-raft boat trip down the Buliu River from the village of Buliu. This trip takes about three hours and goes through several minor rapids and a couple of larger rapids sufficient to get the passengers wet.
Fairy Bridge from upstream. Underneath Fairy Bridge. Fairy Bridge from downstream. More information on Fairy Bridge: Newyearsf.png. Gen Y Workers to Employers: Flexible Hours, Not 9 to 5. The traditional eight-hour workday may soon be the exception rather than the rule. New evidence shows that we’re reaching a tipping point in terms of workplace flexibility, with businesses seeing the wisdom of allowing employees — young ones especially — to work odd hours, telecommute and otherwise tweak the usual 9-to-5 grind.
One of the top 12 trends for 2012 as named by the communications firm Euro RSCG Worldwide is that employees in the Gen Y, or millennial, demographic — those born between roughly 1982 and 1993 — are overturning the traditional workday. The Business and Professional Women’s Foundation estimates that by 2025, 75% of the global workforce will be Gen Y. As early as next year, this group of younger Americans will comprise 60% of the employees at companies like Ernst & Young. And increasingly, companies are creating workplace-flexibility programs because it makes good business sense, not in the least because that’s what their employees are demanding. 1. 2. 3. Ordering the vegetarian meal? There's more animal blood on your hands.
The ethics of eating red meat have been grilled recently by critics who question its consequences for environmental health and animal welfare. But if you want to minimise animal suffering and promote more sustainable agriculture, adopting a vegetarian diet might be the worst possible thing you could do. Renowned ethicist Peter Singer says if there is a range of ways of feeding ourselves, we should choose the way that causes the least unnecessary harm to animals.
Most animal rights advocates say this means we should eat plants rather than animals. It takes somewhere between two to ten kilos of plants, depending on the type of plants involved, to produce one kilo of animal. Given the limited amount of productive land in the world, it would seem to some to make more sense to focus our culinary attentions on plants, because we would arguably get more energy per hectare for human consumption. Published figures suggest that, in Australia, producing wheat and other grains results in: Nissan says Leaf could power home for two days. December 21, 2011 at 12:39 pmDan X. McGraw in Electricity Drivers test out the Nissan Leaf electric car at the 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show (AP file photo/Damian Dovarganes) Nissan says its all-electric car could do more than drive you to and from work. The car company said the Nissan Leaf could power an owner’s home for up to two days, helping owners avoid blackouts or high electricity bills, according to a Metro news report.
But there is a slight catch. To be able to power your home, owners would have to buy a power control system box that is expected to cost nearly $6,200. With those two items, the car could hook up to the owner’s home and transfer energy back when necessary. Energy expert Alastair Ramsay told Metro how the system could work. ‘Basically, you would charge your vehicle up. Dot Dot Dot (Official Video HD) Glengarry Glen Ross (film) The world premiere of Glengarry Glen Ross was held at the Venice Film Festival, where Jack Lemmon, one of the film's stars, was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. The film was not a commercial success, making only US$10.7 million in North America, just below its $12.5 million budget. Al Pacino was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his work in the film. The film depicts two days in the lives of four real estate salesmen who are supplied with names and phone numbers of leads and regularly use underhanded and dishonest tactics to make sales.
Many of the leads rationed out by the office manager lack either the money or the desire to actually invest in land. Blake (Baldwin) is sent by Mitch and Murray, the owners of the office in which the characters work, to motivate the salesmen. The salesmen come into the office the following morning to find that there has been a burglary and the Glengarry leads have been stolen. Jack Lemmon. Early life[edit] Lemmon was born on February 8, 1925 in an elevator[1] at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston.
He was the only child of Mildred Burgess LaRue (née Noel) and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., the president of a doughnut company.[2][3] His paternal grandmother was from an Irish immigrant family.[4] Lemmon attended John Ward Elementary School in Newton and The Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. He stated that he knew he wanted to be an actor from the age of eight.[5] Lemmon attended Phillips Academy (Class of 1943) and Harvard University (Class of 1947), where he lived in Eliot House[6] and was an active member of several Drama Clubs – and president of the Hasty Pudding Club[7] – as well as a member of the Delphic Club for Gentleman, a final club at Harvard. Career[edit] Lemmon recorded an album in 1958 while filming Some Like It Hot with Marilyn Monroe. Lemmon's production company JML produced Cool Hand Luke in 1967. Personal life[edit] xUX9G.jpg (800×600)
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