Comment Talk about... (Score 1) 444
a waste of time.
Submission + - Best Buy Institutes Xtreme Flex Time
s31523 writes: "The company I work at has a flex time policy where basically, you can come in and leave within a window of time, as long as you are in the office during "core" hours (10am-2pm). Best Buy has gone extreme, they have completely banished traditional views of office hours. According to the article, there are no schedules. No mandatory meetings. No impression-management hustles. The coolest thing, apparently this "began as a covert guerrilla action that spread virally and eventually became a revolution". Maybe I ought to try this at my office!"
Submission + - NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Mars
SonicSpike writes: "According to Reuters: "Images taken by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft suggest the presence of liquid water on the Martian surface, a tantalizing find for scientists"..."The orbiting U.S. spacecraft allowed scientists to detect changes in the walls of two Martian craters that may have been caused by the recent flow of water, a team of researchers said in a paper appearing on Wednesday in the journal Science."
article:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?typ e=scienceNews&storyID=2006-12-06T180759Z_01_N06416 252_RTRUKOC_0_US-MARS.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C3-sci enceNews-2
Pictures:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/main/index. html
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/
http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/"
article:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?ty
Pictures:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/main/index
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/
http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/"
Feed Flowing Water Filmed on Mars (wired.com)
Journal Journal: Does water STILL flow on Mars?
Striking new images of the Red Planet have raised hopes life could be found on Mars after all. Scientists say they have photographic evidence that suggests liquid water may have been on the planet as little as five years ago. Experts last night said Mars now appears more active than previously thought and the latest study shows w
Submission + - A tiny particle is found!
ZonkerWilliam writes: At long last the Axion seems to have been discovered...
http://www.physorg.com/news84633896.html
All though with a lifetime of only 10-13 seconds, how do they have time to interact with anything?
Feed Hypochondriacal Electromagnetosis (wired.com)
Submission + - Lifestyle Drugs Eradicate the Need for Sleep
MattSparkes writes: "New Scientist are running an article on lifestyle drugs that claim to help you function on little or no sleep. I'm dubious, but the interviewee in the article claims they work well. "Yves (not his real name), a 31- year-old software developer from Seattle, often doesn't have time for a full night's sleep. So he swallows something to make sure he doesn't need one." I quite enjoy my 8 hours anyway, so I don't think I'll bother."
Feed MMOs Get a Bum Rap (wired.com)
Terra Nova takes on the bad press garnered by MMOs -- those addiction stories of people locking themselves in to play and forgetting the real world, or falling dead after long stretches of gameplay. Is videogame perception so fear-based that people think they could be forced to behave in bizarre ways? In Game|Life.
Bookmark Narcotic 'lollipop' is big seller despite FDA curbs (nwfdailynews.com)
Feed Anti-AIDS Enzyme for Everyone (wired.com)
Submission + - Venus's Surface May be 1 Billion Years Old
dptalia writes: "For a while scientists have believed that Venus's surface is fairly young, having recently been covered by lava from 1 to 3 kilometers deep. However, more study into photos sent back by Magellan seems to show that the cataclismic volcano theory is wrong. Now scientists are postulating that Venus's surface may be a billion years old and could be probed to determine the history of the planet."
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