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NASA Weighs In on Mayan Apocalypse on YouTube | Fox News Latino
The title says it all, "Just Another Day."
Researchers find classical musical compositions adhere to power law
Image: Wikipedia. (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers, led by Daniel Levitin of McGill University, has found after analyzing over two thousand pieces of classical music that span four hundred years of history, that virtually all of them follow a one-over-f (1/f) power distribution equation. He and his team have published the results of their work in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences .
A rare textile made from the silk of more than a million wild spiders goes on display today at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. 1,574 diggs digg To produce this unique golden cloth, 70 people spent four years collecting golden orb spiders from telephone poles in Madagascar, while another dozen workers carefully extracted about 80 feet of silk filament from each of the arachnids. The resulting 11-foot by 4-foot textile is the only large piece of cloth made from natural spider silk existing in the world today.
1 Million Spiders Make Golden Silk for Rare Cloth | Wired Science | Wired.com
The country's new cabinet scheduled an emergency meeting for Thursday to discuss the situation while troops were deployed to Port Said to keep the peace on the streets. The violence is a telling sign of the lack of security in Egypt following last year's revolution.
Dozens killed in Egyptian football stadium riot - Telegraph
BBC News - Mansion unlocked after 100 years
This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets (CSS) if you are able to do so.One August day in 1994, while gossiping about politics over lunch on Nantucket, Richard Mellon Scaife, the Pittsburgh billionaire and patron of conservative causes, made a prediction. "We're going to get Clinton," Joan Bingham, a New York publisher present at the lunch, remembers him saying. "And you'll be much happier," he said to Bingham and another Democrat at the table, "because Al Gore will be president." Bingham was startled at the time, but in the years since – as Clinton has struggled with an onslaught from political enemies – Scaife's assertion came to seem less and less far-fetched.
Scaife: Funding Father of the Right
20 Scientifically-Proven Signs You're Smarter Than Average
Let's face it: some of us are smarter than others . But is it because of nature or nurture? Many scientific studies have been conducted to determine the cause of high IQs, and a lot of it boils down to genetics. According to researchers, psychologists and scientists, personal beliefs and physical appearance can also indicate intelligence.
Donald Trump's plea to Alex Salmond over 'ugly' wind farm | World news | The Guardian
Donald Trump has described the wind turbines as 'disastrous and environmentally irresponsible'. Photograph: Matthew Lewis/Getty Images Donald Trump has written to Alex Salmond , Scotland 's first minister, objecting to plans to build an offshore wind farm near his luxury golf resort.Former CEO Whitman's record of gross incompetence, massive waste and personal enrichment is breathtaking. That the media isn't talking about it is incredible. With the elections for governor just around the corner, most California voters probably think they have a pretty good grasp of the pros and cons of Republican candidate Meg Whitman: on the downside, she's an aloof billionaire who can't be bothered to vote or remember her own servants' names after nine years, and she's dabbled in the sort of insider double-dealing with Goldman Sachs that's brought the nation's economy to its knees. On the plus side, many still regard Whitman as one of the most effective and successful business leaders around. Three decades of relentless pro-business PR have convinced a lot of voters that our best business leaders know best, and that's been Whitman's main selling point, going back to her first campaign ad:
How Meg Whitman Failed Her Way to the Top at eBay, Collecting Billions While Nearly Destroying the Company | News & Politics | AlterNet
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Common Gliding Lizard ( Draco sumatranus ) is a lizard with elongated ribs and skin flaps on the sides of its body. When opened, these skin flaps allow it to glide between tree trunks. It is primarily a tree dweller, except that the females come down to the forest floor to lay eggs. The body length is of about 9 cm, with a slightly longer tail. The body is of a dark grey/brown colouration with stripes and patterns to help it camouflage against the tree trunks.
Common Gliding Lizard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vladimir Putin, the 58-year-old former president and current prime minister of Russia, has cultivated a swashbuckling public image over the past several years. He has piloted firefighting planes, darted whales, driven race cars, and taken a submersible 1,400 meters (4,600 ft) below the surface of Lake Baikal. Putin was forced to step down from the presidency in 2008 due to a constitutional limit on more than two consecutive terms. However, he remains the most influential figure in Russian politics, and has a strong hand in the "tandem rule" he shares with current president Dmitri Medvedev. The next presidential election takes place in March of 2012, and indications are that both Medvedev and Putin are planning to run, though neither has officially announced his candidacy.