Comment Re:What's the point? (Score 1) 113
You mean like this? It's where Lucifer lives in Dante's center of hell (engraving by Gustave Dore). It's rather cold.
Looks like he's on hold, waiting for the furnace repairman.
Man With the "Golden Arm" Has Saved Lives of 2 Million Babies 97
schwit1 writes: James Harrison, known as "The Man with the Golden Arm," has donated blood plasma from his right arm nearly every week for the past 60 years. Soon after Harrison became a donor, doctors called him in. His blood, they said, could be the answer to a deadly problem. Harrison was discovered to have an unusual antibody in his blood and in the 1960s he worked with doctors to use the antibodies to develop an injection called Anti-D. It prevents women with rhesus-negative blood from developing RhD antibodies during pregnancy. "In Australia, up until about 1967, there were literally thousands of babies dying each year, doctors didn't know why, and it was awful," explains Jemma Falkenmire, of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service. "Women were having numerous miscarriages and babies were being born with brain damage." It was the result of rhesus disease — a condition where a pregnant woman's blood actually starts attacking her unborn baby's blood cells. In the worst cases it can result in brain damage, or death, for the babies. Australia was one of the first countries to discover a blood donor with this antibody, so it was quite revolutionary at the time. Last year we ran a story about another person with "golden blood" named Thomas.
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Russian 'meteor' was actually a tiny asteroid, NASA says
Los Angeles Times
At a news conference Friday, NASA scientists said the object that exploded over Russia was a “tiny asteroid” that measured roughly 45 feet across, weighed 7,000 tons and traveled about 40,000 mph. The object vaporized roughly 15 miles above the surface ...
Live Blog: Meteor Falls in Russia; Asteroid 2012 DA14 PassesABC News (blog)
In a rarity, a meteor hit and an asteroid near-miss on same dayReuters
Odds of Death by Asteroid? Lower Than Plane Crash, Higher Than LightningWired
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Los Angeles Times
At a news conference Friday, NASA scientists said the object that exploded over Russia was a “tiny asteroid” that measured roughly 45 feet across, weighed 7,000 tons and traveled about 40,000 mph. The object vaporized roughly 15 miles above the surface
Live Blog: Meteor Falls in Russia; Asteroid 2012 DA14 PassesABC News (blog)
In a rarity, a meteor hit and an asteroid near-miss on same dayReuters
Odds of Death by Asteroid? Lower Than Plane Crash, Higher Than LightningWired
The Guardian-Register-CNET
all 720 news articles
Comment Re:You're the strawman builder (Score 1) 579
Libertarian is just the US way of spellling fascist.
Someone's being a bit...liberal with their Ls.
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