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Isaac Newton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Isaac Newton PRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727 [ NS : 4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727] ) [ 1 ] was an English physicist , mathematician , astronomer , natural philosopher , alchemist , and theologian , who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived." [ 7 ] His monograph Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica , published in 1687, lays the foundations for most of classical mechanics . In this work, Newton described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion , which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. Newton showed that the motions of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws, by demonstrating the consistency between Kepler's laws of planetary motion and his theory of gravitation, thus removing the last doubts about heliocentrism and advancing the Scientific Revolution .
Detroit's Resurgence - Businessweek
Chrysler’s ( F:IM ) 2011 net profit is expected to be $600 million, just one year after posting a loss. In May, it paid back $7.6 billion in government loans, six years ahead of schedule. City Hall Detroit is still in dire straits. In November, Mayor Dave Bing said that without layoffs and drastic cuts in pension and medical costs, the city will run out of cash by April. Comerica ParkDetails of lab-made bird flu won't be revealed - Yahoo! News
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.
What's Firefox worth to Google? Nearly $1 billion | Webware - CNET
Chrome is within striking distance of Firefox for second place in worldwide browser usage, but that hasn't stopped Google from throwing its financial weight behind the non-profit browser. (Credit: Net Applications) Don't let the StatCounters and the NetApplications of the world fool you: despite stagnant and even slightly negative market share growth, Firefox and its default search box is still extremely valuable to Google. How valuable?
Why America's Death Penalty Just Got Us Sanctioned by Europe - Ford Vox - International - The Atlantic
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: The European Commission has imposed tough new restrictions on the export of anaesthetics used to execute people in the US, in a move that will exacerbate the already extreme shortage of the drugs in many of the 34 states that still practice the death penalty.A 40-year-old puzzle of superstring theory solved by 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.
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. Advertisement: Story continues below The awkward silence was a ''protocol'' move following a North Korean request, according to the UN General Assembly president, Nassir Abdulaziz al-Nasser. But many diplomats from countries that took part in the protest called the tribute inappropriate.
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 was on the slab for some time. The body was then taken back to the hospital for dissection.
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Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 comedy film co-written and directed by Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess and stars Jon Heder as the title character, Napoleon Dynamite. 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.
Napoleon Dynamite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"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.
Shows - WDET's Raw Feed - What would it take to get you to move to the city of Detroit? 2,200 People Respond
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