Despite crippling rates of unemployment, increasing poverty, and a growing lack of confidence in their government the American people remain curiously complacent.
Scientists follow the movement of an unusually discrete dust-cloud, formed in a N China desert storm, as it circles the globe.
Scientists have deeper insight into the mechanics behind the current lack of sunspot activity and dismiss concerns of a prolonged solar minimum
Google pulls out some old maps, inadvertently revealing some of Japan's 'dirty linen' and catches flak for it.
DNA-hounds on the trail of humanity locate world's most ancient population, the San people, aboriginal hunters and gatherers living in Namibia (the home of man)
British caving team enters unexplored cave system in Vietnam----awesome pics
Adolescent Brit flies swine-flu home and closes down school. One victim sald it was just like a cold .
Edmund O.
Conservation group, WildEarth Guardians announces study results claiming that grazing has an increasingly destructive impact on shrinking wildlife habitat.
An isthmus of ice 100km wide in 1950 finally gives way at 1/2 km, exposing more ice to the effects of ocean currents.
French Parliament rejects music industry pressure to ban music-sharers from the internet.
Small, portable surveillance devices, despite an official ban, are popular items in China
A list of the 10 most fuel economical cars---neither the Toyota Prius nor the Honda Insight are members
What sounds like a very workable plan to foil forced ATM robberies turns out to be untrue
The evolving ability of computers to screen the 'masses' on the basis of specific characteristics and to identify specific individuals, as well.
A radical new look into the forces driving the evolutionary process.
Build your own cyborg beetle, all you need is about $5.00 in electro-mechanical components and a beetle. Implanted in the larval stage, the mechanical to living nervous system interface is internalized and not visible when the insect matures.
Despite Monsanto's assurances to the contrary, university studies consistantly show lower yields in GM crops in comparison with non-GM crops
With a growing sense of alarm, scientists start to consider drastic measures to ameliorate the impact of global warming
Yet another good thing that trees do for the environment. Not only are these dudes some hard workers, they talk to one another as well.
Still another positive thing which trees do for the environment. Not only are those dudes are some hard workers, they talk to one another. Sounds kinda Entish to me.
Another startling display of alien intelligence.
Researchers utilized rat-derived neural circuitry to build an programmable elementary organic control module for a simple robot.
Local law enforcement efforts to control illegal immigration are not only bankrupting their local community bugetary resources but impair federal efforts to effectively address this problem.
Bilbo, aka, importunate curmudgeon is not a member of any groups.
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Americans are pissed off. It's time we help them be pissed off at the right people.
Hunter dies trying save man from wounded grizzly
Americans are pissed off. It's time we help them be pissed off at the right people.
Americans are pissed off. It's time we help them be pissed off at the right people.
Americans are pissed off. It's time we help them be pissed off at the right people.