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http://ca.shine.yahoo.com/blogs/shine-on/teen-girl-loses-stomach-drinking-liquid-nitrogen-cocktail-180639813.html Gabby Scanlon would have died had doctors not removed her stomach after drinking a liquid nitrogen cocktail. ( … Imagine it's your daughter's birthday and she'd like to find a special way to celebrate. She and her friends head to a bar known for concocting fancy cocktails. She orders one that arrives with a plume of smoke careening off the top.

Teen girl loses stomach after drinking liquid nitrogen cocktail | Shine On

Biased but Brilliant

0 Share Synopsis In the laboratory, this is labeled confirmation bias; observed in the real world, it’s known as pigheadedness. http://www.creativitypost.com/science/biased_but_brilliant#.T2_t2Z4nQN0.twitter

Google just keeps killing it.

http://calgaryscienceschool.blogspot.com/2012/05/google-just-keeps-killing-it.html by Deirdre Bailey,

Apple's Data Centers to Be Powered by 100% Renewable Energy

Earlier today, we noted that Apple had received official approval for its 20-megawatt solar farm across the street from its data center in Maiden, North Carolina. But even more significant developments are also occurring today, with Apple posting a new page to the environmental section of its website touting that all of the company's data centers will be powered by 100% renewable energy. At the North Carolina site, the previously-annnounced 20-megawatt solar farm is being joined by a second farm of equal size a few miles away. http://www.macrumors.com/2012/05/17/apples-data-centers-to-be-powered-by-100-renewable-energy/
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The top four publicly misused chemical terms: A layman's primer

O ne of the major objectives of the International Year of Chemistry is to make sure the public has a realistic and well-informed understanding of the basic features and functions of chemistry in their world. Perhaps no other aspect of the discipline is as important in this regard as a sound appreciation of the lexicon of chemical science. As they say, you need to speak their language before you can consider becoming friends with them.