Comment Re:Fake News Awards (Score 1) 187
You are kidding, right?? This was a tweet from a reporter on his personal account, and he deleted after 20 minutes and apologized for it.
Never was a published WaPo story. The Post did _not_ report the rally was empty. But don't let facts get in the way here....
Comment RT Original FA (Score 1) 289
The article refers to the FeelSpace project as the originators of this idea. Wired wrote a more in-depth story on FeelSpace back in 2007 that is still available online.
The net of it, which I found fascinating, was the idea that brain is not "hardcoded" to the standard 5 senses of input, but rather can potentially integrate and synthesize additional sensory type data. This idea is at also the root of technologies like BrainPort, "seeing" with the tongue for the visually impaired.
Galaxy Clusters' Stunted Growth Confirms Dark Energy 167
A new study of 86 galaxy clusters in the early universe has provided independent confirmation of the existence of dark energy. In its absence, gravity's pull should have caused the number of clusters to increase by a factor of 50 over the last 5.5 billion years. What is observed is a factor of 10 increase. "Together with earlier observations... the new data strengthen the suspicion — but do not prove — that dark energy is a weird antigravity called the cosmological constant that was hypothesized and then abandoned by Albert Einstein as a 'blunder' almost a century ago. If that is true, the universe is fated to empty itself out eventually, and all but the Milky Way's closest neighbors will eventually be out of sight. ... Adam Riess of Johns Hopkins and the Space Telescope Science Institute, said: 'If this was a fox hunt and dark energy was the fox, I think they have closed off another escape route. But there is still a lot of terrain left for the fox, and we've seen little more than a glimmer of fur.'"
Aussies Hit the Streets Over Gov't Internet Filters 224
mask.of.sanity writes "Outraged aussies will hold simultaneous protests across Australia in opposition to the government's plans for mandatory ISP internet content filtering. The plan will introduce nation-wide filtered internet using blacklists operated by a government agency, away from public scrutiny. Politicians and ISPs will join protesters in the streets to voice their opposition to the government's plan, which has ploughed ahead, despite intense criticism that the technology will crippled internet speeds and infringe on free speech. Opponents said the most accurate filter chosen by the government will incorrectly block up to 10,000 Web pages out of 1 million."
Comment Re:Oh, its us evil Republicans! (Score 1) 517
OK, it is worth pointing out how we got to this threshold age of 18 for voting in the U.S.
It was the 26th Amendment that changed the voting age from 21 to 18 in the U.S. This was passed during the Vietnam War era (specifically, 1971) when 18 year old males could be drafted into and forced to serve in the military, but were not allowed to vote.
The crux of the argument to lower the voting age was: If you are old enough to fight and die for this country, you should be old enough to vote in this country.
1/3 of Amphibians Dying Out 467
Death Metal sends in a Scientific American article reporting that 2,000 of 6,000 amphibian species are endangered worldwide. A combination of environmental assaults, including global warming, seems to be responsible. "... national parks and other areas protected from pollution and development are providing no refuge. The frogs and salamanders of Yellowstone National Park have been declining since the 1980s, according to a Stanford University study, as global warming dries out seasonal ponds, leaving dried salamander corpses in their wake. Since the 1970s, nearly 75 percent of the frogs and other amphibians of La Selva Biological Station in Braulio Carrillo National Park in the Caribbean lowlands of Costa Rica have died, perhaps due to global warming. But the really bad news is that amphibians may be just the first sign of other species in trouble. Biologists at the University of California, San Diego, have shown that amphibians are the first to respond to environmental changes, thanks to their sensitivity to both air and water. What goes for amphibians may soon be true of other classes of animal, including mammals."
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