Astronomers have used a high-energy burst of light from a distant galaxy to test the fabric of space and time. The work is the best test yet of attempts to create a 'theory of everything'. More Articles

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Obama's new position on medical marijuana is a step in the right direction.

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excerPt: "" Led by Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA) last night, lawmakers convened for a special session of floor speeches urging a repeal of Don't Act Don't Tell. Rather than participate positively in the discussion, Rep.

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Quick question: how many Marxists, Communists, Domestic Terrorists and raving racialists does the President get to associate with before reasonable people can assume that the president on some level shares their particular vision of America?

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On Monday the Obama administration released a 2004 CIA inspector general's report on the agency's detention and interrogation program.

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Even as high school graduates in recent years have grown increasingly better prepared for college, too many members of the class of 2009 cannot adequately perform all of the academic skills they will need to succeed, a report says.

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Augmented reality uses the device's GPS, camera and digital compass to overlay real-time data onto live video. Other possibilities include iPhone games as well as the Layar browser we've highlighted before.

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Each emitter works a bit like an tiny particle accelerator: The anode of the emitter charges the nanoparticles, which are then accelerated and then shot out a tube by a strong magnetic field generated by a stack of microchip-like components.

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What is time? No, really, what is it? A dimension of space-time, says relativity, but is it physical? Or just mental? Why does it seem to move forward and not back? Does the universe acknowledge the arrow of time that we experience? How big is time? Does our notion of "now" h …

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Sixty Symbols, a series of short video primers on all those symbols that comprise the formulae that even the most seasoned researchers forget. More Articles

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One of the challenges of working in the IT field is staying on top of emerging technologies - while letting go of those that are becoming obsolete. This Global Knowledge article lists 10 areas that are fading into obscurity.

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Hep C people are upset. Stating Ms. Cole had a national platform to push Hep C awareness. However, she stated misinformation about Hep C infection. Using the Larry King interview as a way to obtain kidney.

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..the universe underwent an unimaginably brief but enormous growth spurt immediately after birth. The baby cosmos ballooned from one billionth of a trillionth of a hydrogen atom's diameter to that of a soccer ball within just 10-35 seconds...

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In a nominating letter, Nidhal Guessoum, chair of physics at American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, wrote that d'Espagnat "has constructed a coherent body of work which shows why it is credible that the human mind is capable of perceiving deeper realities."

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.:⋅⋅⋅ SPACE ⋅⋅⋅:. Why is time so hard to comprehend? Should it be easier to comprehend than space?

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Ann Coulter almost got punched in the face on the View!

While eating lunch I was watching the View, a television show that makes you think about things from five different peoples point of view. I think all the ladies on the View are very intelligent and honest. I had never really heard of Ann Coulter.

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The biologist and writer Lewis Thomas once suggested that if we were going to send anything to the stars, we send Bach. It would be bragging, he admitted, but we are allowed to put our best foot forward.

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B is now A, and B is for Average. What's happened to the grading system? And where are the F's?

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Overall, I will cover how to call methods asynchronously, how to pass parameters to such methods, and how to find out when a method completes execution. Finally, I will show the Command Pattern in use for simplifying some of the code.

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Physicists don't like coincidences. They like even less the notion that life is somehow central to the universe, and yet recent discoveries are forcing them to confront that very idea.

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Basically, Wolpert — building on previous work by Alan Turing — formalized a description of "inference machines," i.e. machines capable of arriving at inferences about the world (human beings are one example of such machines).

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Questions: Zero-Point Energy, Quanta, DSR, c, etc.

I created comment boxes below that correspond to each numbered question/topic.

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The LHC could help scientists look behind the curtain and study the "water" in which we live: the very fabric of the Grid. If that sounds mysterious, it is. Here's an edited Q&A that dives into the depths of the Grid concept... More Articles

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I stopped by Sarah's old Pentecostal church, the Wasilla Assembly of God, and perused some books: "The Bait of Satan," "Deliverance from PMS," and "Kissed the Girls and Made them Cry: Why Women Lose When They Give In." (Author Lisa Bevere advises: "Run to the arms …

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"The light and the fibres can quite cheerfully sustain a couple of terahertz, but your electronics can't do more than a few gigahertz."

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