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Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC 115

Posted by kdawson on Friday November 20, 2009 @05:40PM from the going-in-circles dept.

feldhaus writes "The BBC reports that the first beams for over one year have been successfully sent around the complete circumference of the Large Hadron Collider. Engineers do not yet have a stable circulating beam but they hope to by 0600 GMT on Saturday."

Submission + - Wikipedia Censored To Protect Captive Reporter (nytimes.com)

Submitted by AI on Monday June 29, 2009 @12:16PM

AI writes: For seven months, The New York Times managed to keep out of the news the fact that one of its reporters, David Rohde, had been kidnapped by the Taliban. But that was pretty straightforward compared with keeping it off Wikipedia....A dozen times, user-editors posted word of the kidnapping on Wikipedia's page on Mr. Rohde, only to have it erased. Several times the page was frozen, preventing further editing — a convoluted game of cat-and-mouse that clearly angered the people who were trying to spread the information of the kidnapping....The sanitizing was a team effort, led by Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, along with Wikipedia administrators and people at The Times.

Submission + - Being Overweight May Lead to Longer Life 3

Submitted by

Hugh Pickens

on Monday June 29, 2009 @12:04PM

Hugh Pickens writes: "Findings of a new study show that underweight people and those who are extremely obese die earlier than people of normal weight — but those who are overweight actually live longer than people of normal weight. "It's not surprising that extreme underweight and extreme obesity increase the risk of dying, but it is surprising that carrying a little extra weight may give people a longevity advantage," said one of the coauthors of the study. "It may be that a few extra pounds actually protect older people as their health declines, but that doesn't mean that people in the normal weight range should try to put on a few pounds." The study examined the relationship between body mass index and death among 11,326 adults in Canada over a 12-year period. The study showed that underweight people were 70 percent more likely than people of normal weight to die, and extremely obese people were 36 percent more likely to die. But overweight individuals defined as a body mass index of 25 to 29.9 were 17 percent less likely to die than people of a normal weight defined as a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9. The relative risk for obese people was nearly the same as for people of normal weight. The authors controlled for factors such as age, sex, physical activity, and smoking. "Overweight may not be the problem we thought it was," said Dr. David H. Feeny, a senior investigator at Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research. "Overweight was protective.""

Submission + - Sony Begins Shipping PCs With Green Dam In China (informationweek.com)

Submitted by

Dotnaught

on Monday June 29, 2009 @11:20AM

Dotnaught writes: "Sony is now shipping computers in China with Green Dam installed, in advance of the Chinese government's July 1 deadline. But the company is disclaiming responsibility for any damage caused by the Web filtering software. Documents posted by Hong Kong-based media studies professor Rebecca MacKinnon also suggest that the Chinese government is considering similar filtering requirements for mobile phones."

Submission + - Standard Cellphone Chargers for Europeans (reuters.com)

Submitted by

k33l0r

on Monday June 29, 2009 @10:23AM

k33l0r writes: "The European Commission is confident that all major cellphone companies have reached an agreement on a standard cellphone charger for consumers within the EU.

"People will not have to throw away their charger whenever they buy a new phone," said EU Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen.

Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Apple, LG, NEC, Qualcomm, Research in Motion, Samsung and Texas Instruments have all signed the agreement."

Comment Re:Wow, what a trivial concern (Score 1) 464

by aismail3 on Tuesday April 05, 2005 @10:24PM (#12150343) Attached to: Lunar Dust: A Major Worry for Moon Visitors

While you could certainly minimize the effects by doing something like leaving your space suit in the airlock, there's going to still be dust contamination. Over time, I think that the dust buildup inside the rest of the spaceship would cause problems. You could always replenish the supply of air, which is going to be necessary anyways, but msot of the dust would still be floating around, as the replacement of dirty air with fresh air would be gradual.

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