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Solar Flare Erupts Directly At The Earth, Should Hit Early Tuesday Morning (15 Feb 2011)
linkage :: http://www.astronomyreport.com/research/Solar_Flare_Erupts_Directly_At_The_Earth_Should_Hit_Early_Tuesday_Morning.asp
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Other notes
- I believe that Facebook may, in fact, be a leading thread towards the Singularity. I find that extremely interesting and mildly disturbing at the same Time.
- The current trend of tee-shirt design consumerism reminds me, strongly, of the "Shoe Event Horizon" story segment of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy stories, as featured in ( Read more... )
- I believe that Facebook may, in fact, be a leading thread towards the Singularity. I find that extremely interesting and mildly disturbing at the same Time.
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I can now say I've read DC's "Watchmen" in it's entirety
... which is a good thing, too, as I happen to work at a comic book store, and people keep asking me about it.
The following is copied & cross-posted from my Facebook "status" and ensuing commentary... 'cause it seemed to fit more as a Journal entry than a "comment"...
FB - 9:39pm February 6, 2009I just finished reading the epic graphic novel " ( Read more... ) -
Good Sperm = Good Smarts. (Dammit...Yet another thing to factor! lol)
( Just how, exactly, am I s'posed to be able to tell if I've caughts me some quality shizzle, eh?? Seriously! )
linkage :: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/16/semen-intelligence.html
(there's a pretty-colored swimmy-sperm pict there, too! nifty!)
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because Catherine's quotes are teh shite
No sensible decision can be made any longer
without taking into account
not only the world as it is,
but the world
as it will be.
- Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)
Absolutely true.
*snagged from tenthz, as always.*
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Just in case you don't have it 'Friend'ed....
I posted an interesting BBC News article in my Travel account, gogglesgirl .
Subject ::
"Sedentary life 'speeds up ageing' "
Leading a sedentary lifestyle may make us genetically old before our time, a study suggests.
You can check it out at ::
http://gogglesgirl.livejournal.com/26574.html
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Sorta "girly", but - Interesting.... ::news::
BBC World News online :: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7090300.stm
Curvy women may be a clever bet
Women with curvy figures are likely to be brighter than waif-like counterparts and may well produce more intelligent offspring, a US study suggests.Researchers studied ( Read more... ) -
Close Encounters of .... Our Own Kind :P :: news ::
from Saturday 10 November 2007 headlines
BBC World News online :: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7088754.stm
Asteroid 'is actually spacecraft'A supposed asteroid, which it was feared was going to have a near-miss with Earth next ( Read more... ) -
Mollusc the Olde, Mollusc the Wise
BBC World News Online :: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7066389.stm
Ming the clam is 'oldest animal'
A clam dredged up off the coast of Iceland is thought to have been the longest-lived creature discovered ( Read more... ) -
Stuff from SPACE!!!!!! ::news::
BBC World News Online :: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7001897.stm
Scores ill in Peru 'meteor crash'
Some 600 people in Peru have required treatment after an object from space - said to be a meteorite - plummeted to Earth in a remote area, officials say.
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