http://www.historybuff.com/newsletter/oct-11.html

Contains:

The Shocking History of Thomas Edison

A Tragic Mistranslation at the End of World War II

Contests

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http://cutelildrow.livejournal.com/2347317.html

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Lighting up poverty-stricken areas ( Read more... )

I notice all sorts of warnings on AOL about nuclear energy in the US, especially along financial lines. They moan over who'd have to pay to clean up the mess if we ever had a reactor accident as bad as what Japan's going through now, saying the Superfund and the industry wouldn't cover it -- the taxpayers would have to ( Read more... )

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The Wireless Revolution is Here… and It’s Killing Us! | Personal Liberty DigestWe are being deluged in alarmist assertions from emails and websites thats, that, and the other thing are killing us, slowly or quickly, giving us everything from runaway cancer to general embarrassment of the everything, and by now, the credibility of such alarums and ( Read more... )

Oct. 26, 2010: Every hundred years or so, a solar storm comes along so potent it fills the skies of Earth with blood-red auroras, makes compass needles point in the wrong direction, and sends electric currents coursing through the planet's topsoil. The most famous such storm, the Carrington Event of 1859, actually shocked telegraph operators and ( Read more... )

Bacteria Become Living Biological Circuits in Experiment | LiveScience

http://www.livescience.com/animals/bacteria-electric-hair-nanowires-101011.html

Bacteria can grow nanowires that resemble electrically conducting hairs to share ( Read more... )

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On September 1, 1859, a vast coronal mass ejection from the Sun hit the Earth. It was so powerful that telegraph equipment caught fire from the induced electromagnetic flux, and people merely standing near metal objects received serious electrical shocks. It could happen again at any time -- and this time, it could shut down our high-tech ( Read more... )