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Roush giving Ragan extra engineering help

Roush Fenway Racing is hoping to give David Ragan a boost, assigning the team's engineering manager to work with the struggling NASCAR Sprint Cup driver's team for the next five weeks.

Prison for nuke engineer who took software to Iran

An Iranian-born engineer who worked at the nation's largest nuclear power plant was sentenced Tuesday to 15 months in prison for taking computer software that he obtained at the plant to Iran.

Relatives of engineer in crash want thorough probe

In the first public comments from the family of the commuter-train engineer killed in a crash that claimed 25 lives in all, the man's brother said investigators must look more closely at whether equipment problems were a factor.

Train engineer faced challenges in final years

In the years leading up to his death in the locomotive of a commuter train, engineer Robert Sanchez's life was marked by personal tragedy, jail time, and concerns about his health and job security.

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I was a student call girl like Belle de Jour - and the shame will never leave me
Source: the Mail online

This week the anonymous sex blogger Belle de Jour revealed her true identity as a scientist and claimed she enjoyed her work as a prostitute.

Indian engineer 'builds' new glaciers to stop global warming
Source: Telegraph

A retired Indian engineer is waging his own one-man battle to stop global warming melting away the Himalayan glaciers: He claims he has discovered a way to create new glaciers.

The race is on: 100 miles on just 1 gallon - The Boston Globe
Source: The Boston Globe

As part of the second Boston GreenFest, seven teams will attempt to drive their homemade cars from Greenfield to Boston City Hall Plaza, a distance of 100 miles, using just 1 gallon of gasoline.

Cat Saves Man From Burning Home
Source: BBC News

Andrew Williams who was sleeping when fire began in his home on August 1, 2009, was awakened by "his neighbor's cat Hugo."

BBC NEWS | Europe | How to dismantle a nuclear bomb
Source: BBC News

A joint mock exercise by both UK and Norway, but kept as realistic as possible, of how to disarm a nuclear bomb or verify in the dismantlement of another country's nuclear weapon. A BBC correspondent finds out.

Passenger fixes faulty airliner
Source: BBC News

Holidaymakers avoided a long delay to their flight home when a passenger fixed a mechanical problem with their plane. Passengers on Thomas Cook flight TCX9641 from Menorca were told to expect an eight-hour wait while an engineer was flown out from the UK.

Japanese man sets record for paper plane flight
Source: Telegraph

A Japanese engineer has set the world record for the longest flight for a paper airplane, keeping his design aloft for 27.9 seconds.

Jonathan Kay: An evening in Montreal with Richard Gage, 9/11 Truth Movement prophet extraordinaire
Source: National Post

Even if you are — like me — part of the majority that believes the "official theory" of 9/11, it's a mistake to ignore a movement as large and passionately championed as this one.

7 Places Where College Grads Can Find Work
Source: Smart Money

The picture isn't entirely bleak for new college grads.

Investigators: Pinellas engineer had child porn on work computer | WFTS-TV
Source: ABC Action News

Police traced images and videos to the suspect's work computer.

Rewiring the Brain: Inside the New Science of Neuroengineering
Source: Wired News

Metaphorically, the neuroengineering approach brings the study of the brain into the Age of Enlightenment. By isolating, then testing and altering individual parts of the neural system, we can, for the first time, truly understand what those components do.

IT admin plotted to erase Fannie Mae
Source: The Register (UK)

A fired computer engineer for Fannie Mae has been arrested and charged with planting a malicious software script designed to permanently destroy millions of dollars worth of data from all 4,000 servers operated by the mortgage giant.

Discovery Science Game Show Casting Inventors
Source: podcast

Anybody out there a McGyver wanna be? This looks like such fun!

Audio slideshow: Brunel's achievements revisited
Source: BBC News

It is 150 years since the death of Robert Howlett - the young photographer who took this iconic image of engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Engineer sentenced in deadly Bavarian ice rink accident
Source: thelocal.de

A civil engineer responsible for building an ice rink that collapsed and killed 15 people in Bad Reichenhall almost two years ago has been handed an 18-month suspended sentence for negligent homicide on Tuesday.

Apple Hires I.B.M. Veteran as Device Engineer
Source: The New York Times

Apple Inc. said Tuesday that it planned to hire a high-ranking I.B.M. technology executive to run its iPod and iPhone hardware engineering groups.

STJ911 Blog » Blog Archive » Scientists, Scholars, Architects & Engineers respond to NIST
Source: stj911.org

There are also several seemingly contradictory issues between the FEMA Building Performance Study Appendix C and the NIST WTC 7 Report, for which no explanations have been provided, and they are:

Live fish caught at record depth
Source: BBC News

A live deep-sea fish has been caught at a record depth of 2,300m on the hot vents of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Three shrimp species were also pulled to the surface, researchers report in the journal Deep-Sea Research.

The Bubble Bursts
Source: Science: Current Issue

A Purdue University nuclear engineer who claimed to have carried out tabletop nuclear fusion is responsible for two instances of scientific misconduct, a report made public today concludes.

Afghan Kidnapper Admits Killing German Engineer - Claims Misunderstanding
Source: SPIEGEL ONLINE

The killing in Afghanistan of German engineer Rüdiger Diedrich was a "misunderstanding," Taliban commander Mullah Nissam has told SPIEGEL. His group has used the ransom money supplied by the German government to better arm itself.

American allegedly spied for Israel, arrested
Source: msnbc.com

A U.S. Army mechanical engineer has been arrested on charges that he slipped classified documents about nuclear weapons to an employee of the Israeli Consulate, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

Top 10 Traits of a Rockstar Software Engineer
Source: Read/WriteWeb

Every company is a tech company these days. From software startups to hedge funds to pharmaceutical giants to big media, they're all increasingly in the business of software. Quality code has become not only a necessity, but a competitive differentiator.

Chinese Spy 'Slept' In U.S. for 2 Decades Before Stealing Navy Ship, Submarine, and Weapons Plans
Source: The Washington Post

Prosecutors called Chi Mak the "perfect sleeper agent," though he hardly looked the part. For two decades, the bespectacled Chinese-born engineer lived quietly with his wife in a Los Angeles suburb, buying a house and holding a steady job with a U.S.

MapReduce Explained
Source: Google Blogoscoped

Mark Chu-Carroll is a Google software engineer, and in a personal blog post this week explained the concept of one of Google's programming models: MapReduce, which splits a task onto many computers on Google's server farm (server farm, or single super computer, depending on h …

BMV - An upcoming musician from Iceland
Source: Kongoi Media Productions

Native born, independent Icelandic Recording Artist BMV,is gearing up for the 2008 release of his first solo album.

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