The Puyehue volcano in Chile was dormant for decades but it recently made its presence known, covering Lake Nahuel Huapi in Argentina with ash. 6-mile high plumes. And this guy is diving in it.
A federal judge has approved a request by prosecutors to officially dismiss all criminal charges against Osama bin Laden. This makes sense - declaring terrorists criminals is what candidates do, not presidents. Presidents kill them and get re-elected. If you are curious, Pres. Obama's predecessor George W. Bush did not file the criminal charges, that was done in 1998 by President Clinton. Obviously hoping police arrest him did not pan out so Obama did the right thing having him shot.
40% of the California budget goes toward education but it's not enough. I can confirm that, at least in our schools. My wife helped my son's Kindergarten teacher move out of her old classroom to go to a new school and the whole truck full of stuff was all things the teacher bought herself.But where does the money disappear between taxes and teachers? If you guessed fat salaries for Democratic-voting University of California and California State employees, you would be right; their rolls increased 300% since 1998 and now have to be furloughed. But there is a lot more waste at all levels yet neither the administration nor the unions nor the government wants to accept any part in the problem.
San Francisco, always at the avant-garde of kooky, pointless gestures that annoy many and help few, thinks the worst problem it faces today are 'impulse' buys of goldfish, so they want to ban them.Gotta put an end to the inhumane conditions perpetuated by the Big Goldfish military-industrial complex; their homes are completely underwater and they only get fed once a day. Meanwhile, the pollution and slave labor of Apple barely gets noticed. It helps that few activists own goldfish but all of them own iPhones.
Neutrinos are elementary particles that are fundamental building blocks of nature. Neutrinos come in three types - muon, electron and tau - generally travel at the speed of light and can easily pass pass through ordinary matter, like Earth's crust. Researchers with the Tokai to Kamioka experiment (T2K) at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex have discovered that muon neutrinos can spontaneously change their "flavor" to electron neutrinos. Scientists had previously measured the change of muon neutrinos to tau neutrinos and electron neutrinos to muon neutrinos or tau neutrinos, she said.
In psychology, the increase in Autism diagnoses has three possible explanations; Autism is over-diagnosed because it is a fad, like ADD in the 1990s, more diagnoses are now made because it is better understood and therefore more accurate, or external things are creating more Autism.So it goes with hurricanes and tropical storms. There seem to be more of them. At least with the third possibility, external events creating more of them, a new report in Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres says there is no evidence climate change is responsible. Instead, better detection means shorter storms, those lasting two days or less, are being counted now and were not in the past.
The
U.S. Green Building Council (not affiliated with the US government)
corporation and its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program is the biggest name in green-energy standards. It's member-driven, so doesn't need to sell a product, it sells good intentions instead.That may be part of the problem; it's "green" standards may not be helping much at all.
We first saw Sean Bean as the best bad guy in the best Pierce Brosnan, James Bond film, "GoldenEye" and he just gets better with age. He also loves the sword and sorcery stuff, as witnessed by his turn in "The Lord of the Rings" and now "Game of Thrones".But who knew he was so tough in real life also?Bean was apparently smoking in front of a London pub
Sunday evening
with a stripper (or whatever) when someone walking by made a lewd comment about her, so Bean took off after him and the guy ran but when Bean went back out for another cigarette the guy was waiting and stabbed him.Did he to a hospital? Nope, he threw a band-aid (or whatever) on it and ordered another drink.
Woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) roamed the planet for more than a million years, ranging from Europe to Asia to North America. Nearly all of these giants vanished from Siberia by about 10,000 years ago.The Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) preferred the more temperate regions of southern and central North America. The Columbians were much larger than woollies, with Columbian males reaching one-and-a-half to two times that of woolly males.Researchers have discovered the mitochondrial genome of the Columbian mammoth was nearly indiscernible from that of its northern woolly counterparts. Woolly mammoth may have interbred with elephants.
Did the Chinese come to East Africa before the Europeans?China says yes and, to prove it, Chinese and Kenyan archeologists are now searching the African coast for the fabled wreck of a Ming dynasty junk, an ancient Chinese sailing vessel, from the fleet of legendary 15th-century explorer Zheng He. Researchers have identified several shipwrecks of interest off the Kenyan coast near the World Heritage site of Lamu but after years of excitable hype by China’s state media, the underwater archaeologists involved in the search are warning that the newly discovered wrecks could be from any era or country — and even if a sunken Chinese ship is found, it may no longer be intact or even identifiable.
