2 workers hurt in downtown DC electrical accident

WASHINGTON (AP) — A utility company says two men were injured while working with electrical cables in downtown Washington.

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Hybrid vehicles’ silence seen as posing peril

As the car crept up to them, the students didn’t react. It wasn’t until it was about to run them over that they even knew it was there. And that was only because it hit their white canes.

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Why this space ride won’t be so rough

- Coming back to Earth from space is never routine, but this week's descent of a Soyuz spacecraft with two Russian cosmonauts and a private space traveler from America will be more closely watched than usual — because of two rough rides that came before.

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- An MJ Electric worker who was badly burned Saturday while working on a power line has died, Florence County Sheriff Jeff Rickaby has confirmed this morning.

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A student filmmaker from New York University was electrocuted and another seriously injured in an accident while working on a movie set in Georgia, authorities said Saturday.

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The laser process creates a unique array of nano- and micro-scale structures on the surface of a regular tungsten filament—the tiny wire inside a light bulb—and theses structures make the tungsten become far more effective at radiating light. More Articles

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The lamp's filament is just 100 atoms wide. It is made from a single carbon nanotube. When lit, the itty bitty bulb can be seen with the unaided eye as a point of light, the scientists say. More Articles

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Nobody's above the law. But tiny clusters of colliding atoms may duck below the second law of thermodynamics. In simulations, researchers in Japan found that in rare cases, tiny clusters of atoms ricochet off each other faster than their approaching speeds. More Articles

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A cyber-attack on US electrical grids shows how much more must be done to protect critical systems.

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A woman locked in her car in Kissimmee called 911 on Tuesday. "It's getting very hot in here, and I'm not feeling well," the caller told the dispatcher. The woman said nothing electrical was working, so her locks wouldn't open.

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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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A new battery technology developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could lead to small, lightweight batteries for cell phones and other mobile devices that recharge in seconds instead of hours.

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Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, in Livermore, CA, have created the first carbon-nanotube devices that can detect the entire visible spectrum of light.

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A Connecticut man was so engrossed with the tunes on his iPod that he didn't realize his house was on fire - until his alarm company called.

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Fifty-five homeowners in Minneola were stunned Wednesday when a sudden power surge blew up appliances and caused fire to shoot out of outlets. It was all because of a mistake by their electric company.

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Tidal power doesn't get the attention — or the venture capital — that higher-profile renewable energy sources such as solar or biofuels do, but there's a lot of energy waiting to be tapped in the motion of the ocean.

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Fire torched an Orange County house from the inside out. It would have been even worse if a termite crew hadn't been nearby and warned the homeowner. The house is on a street with an appropriate name, Burnway Drive off Apopka-Vineland Road

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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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"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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Friction of Time

The speed of light is denoted by the symbol c. It is the speed of all electromagnetic radiation in a vacuum. Electromagnetic radiation is a wave/particle that has both electrical and magnetic properties, but no mass.

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July 18, 2008 Electrical Risks at Bases in Iraq Worse Than Previously Said By JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON — Shoddy electrical work by private contractors on United States military bases in Iraq is widespread and dangerous, causing more deaths and injuries from fires and shocks t …

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Applied scientists at Harvard University in collaboration with researchers from the German universities of Jena, Gottingen, and Bremen, have developed a new technique for fabricating nanowire photonic and electronic integrated circuits that may one day be suitable for high-volume …

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A simple quiz from the Los Angeles Fire Department can help make sure your portable electric heater is being used safely.

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USA: A law that allows unlawful practices in the "war on terror" to continue

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