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Arkansas Earthquakes Could Be Man-Made 264

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @10:14AM from the boom-shocka-locka dept.

oxide7 writes "The small earthquakes that struck north central Arkansas could be from a combination of natural and man-made activity. Some experts think that pumping water into the ground as part of the extraction process of natural gas could cause local seismic events."

Comment Re:Milky Way, hell... (Score 1) 612

by icarus_m on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @03:10AM (#28276271) Attached to: One Fifth of World's Population Can't See Milky Way At Night

Your sentiment is shared by a quite a few people and I would really like to understand why. The costs of roads are covered by taxes from gasoline and otherwise (income, gst, etc), meaning the roads that you drive on are subsidized by non-drivers as well. However leaving the cost of roads aside, people that cycle are leaving their cars at home, reducing traffic congestion, not using fossil fuels and reducing emissions, getting healthy reducing the strain on the health system, reducing the need for parking in metropolitan areas and the only cost of this to you is the 30 seconds at the most that you'd have to slow down for before you could drive around a cyclist before speeding up again. What is it that really bothers you?

Were Neanderthals Devoured By Humans? 502

Posted by timothy on Sunday May 17, 2009 @10:22PM from the subsumed-or-consumed dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "The Guardian reports that a Neanderthal jawbone covered in cut marks similar to those left behind when flesh is stripped from deer provides crucial evidence that humans attacked Neanderthals, and sometimes killed them, bringing back their bodies to caves to eat or to use their skulls or teeth as trophies. 'For years, people have tried to hide away from the evidence of cannibalism, but I think we have to accept it took place,' says Fernando Rozzi, of Paris's Centre National de la Récherche Scientifique. According to Rozzi, a discovery at Les Rois in south-west France provides compelling support for that argument. Previous excavations revealed bones that were thought to be exclusively human. But Rozzi's team re-examined them and found one they concluded was Neanderthal." (Continued, below.)

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