August 2011 Geology highlightsWednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 2:15PM( Geological Society of America ) Topics in the August Geology include banded iron formations, the San Andreas fault, the Jan. 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake, a shorter "dead interval" for marine organisms after the end-Permian mass extinction, fossil reef framework-forming cold-water corals, the Holocene sea-level history for the U.S. Atlantic coast, digital image correlation and the 1980 Mount St ...
Long-Distance OperatorsTuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 3:19PMAre you a GPS golfer or a laser-rangefinder golfer?
Who next for Sepp Blatter's Fifa brains trust – Cheryl Cole? | Marina HydeMonday, June 13, 2011 @ 6:39AMPlacido Domingo, Louis Freeh, Henry Kissinger. You have to hand it to the Fifa president – he has an extraordinary talent for exhuming blasts from the past Say what you will about Sepp Blatter – and I think we all have – his gift for absurdist political theatre means Fifa is now officially a more effective satire on itself than anything an outsider could concoct. Intriguingly, this gift is also ...
Virtual natural environments and benefits to healthMonday, May 30, 2011 @ 2:44AMA new position paper by researchers at the European Centre for the Environment and Human Health (ECEHH - part of the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry) and the University of Birmingham has compared the benefits of interaction with actual and virtual natural environments and concluded that the development of accurate simulations are likely to be beneficial to those who cannot interact ...
Make more of a small space with five decorating tipsTuesday, May 17, 2011 @ 11:00PMDon't let a tight space cramp your style. Versatile accessories and signature art can breathe life into a pint-sized pad
The Fall & Rise of Drapham DzongWednesday, May 4, 2011 @ 10:49AM29 April, 2011 - Amid battle cries and shrieks, crawled soldiers of both sides, bellowing in agony from the wounds they inflicted on one another.
Months of planning led U.S. team to Pakistan, bin LadenMonday, May 2, 2011 @ 7:00PMWASHINGTON — Even as the Navy SEALs slid down ropes from their hovering helicopters, there still was some uncertainty that the man they were after was inside the massive, night-shrouded compound on the edge of the sleeping city in northeastern Pakistan.
New Japan quake fear as nuclear crisis growsSunday, March 13, 2011 @ 4:27AM• Up to 10,000 feared dead in Miyagi prefecture alone • Cooling system fails at a second nuclear plant • Japan PM: "worst crisis since WWII" • 190 people exposed to radiation • Original quake upgraded to magnitude 9 • Over 250 aftershocks so far • NEWS: Japan nuclear crisis worsens 12.51pm: One piece of clarification. Although the Japanese authorities have updated the size of the quake to ...
Japan fears meltdown at crippled nuclear reactorsSaturday, March 12, 2011 @ 11:10PMJapan mobilizes a nationwide rescue effort to pluck survivors from collapsed buildings and rush food and water to thousands in an earthquake and tsunami zone under siege.