Home » 2011 » March (Page 2)Posted by John Malloy on 03/19/2011
Decisions made this week in the meeting rooms of a San Francisco hotel could dramatically change how the world experiences the internet. Few of us realize that many important decisions about Web policy and governance are under the control of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit located in California. [...]
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The status of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant’s Unit 4 reactor is one of the most critical aspects in determining the severity of the impending nuclear meltdown. After all, the most recent temperature readings available showed that the rods there were three times hotter than they should be, which was far worse than [...]
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One afternoon about 12 years ago, Larry Page and Sergey Brin gave John Doerr a call. A few months earlier, the Google cofounders had accepted $12.5 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Doerr’s venture-capital firm, as well as an equal amount from Sequoia Capital. When they took the cash, they agreed that they [...]
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The super-perigee moon, the largest to be seen in decades, will appear at sunset on Saturday, March 19. According to NASA, the moon will appear 14 percent larger than usual. Watch the video from NASA for the complete story. via livingstontalk.com
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Add another notch to Oregon’s growing wave power industry. The case for commercialized wave energy is enjoying another surge forward now that Columbia Power Technologies has officially deployed a prototype wave energy device and secured fresh funding from both private and government backers. Just a few months ago we reported that the [...]
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In the summer of 1994, in the tallest of Princeton University’s ivory towers, Andrew Wiles was completing one of the most extraordinary odysseys in the history of math. For more than three decades, Wiles had been obsessed with Fermat’s Last Theorem, a seemingly simple problem that had stumped mathematicians for 350 years. [...]
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It was roughly a decade ago when the infections began killing people and animals off the coast of British Columbia. Today, cases are popping up in the United States—and our doctors and hospitals have no idea what they’re up against. FOR ALL THE WONDROUS—and destructive—things fungi can do, they seem to lack the crucial [...]
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THE precise details of what has gone wrong at the nuclear power plants in north-eastern Japan following the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck the area on March 11th remain hazy. But a picture is beginning to emerge as events unfold and information is made available by the plants operators and the Japanese authorities. [...]
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book review by Dean Tudor,www.deantudor.com Grandi Vini: An opinionated tour of Italys 89 finest wines Clarkson Potter, 2010, 292 pages, ISBN 978-0-307-46303-6, $24.99 US hard covers is by Joseph Bastianich, who owns four Italian wine estates, a wine store, plus many restaurants in New York City. Shamelessly, he has four log rollers including his [...]
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NaturalNews has received information directly from an American who happened to be in Tokyo at the time of the nuclear incident and who also happens to have a background in atomic energy and nuclear reactors. He has sent us some extremely disturbing information that seems to indicate the situation with the reactors in [...]
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Wholesale prices jumped last month by the most in nearly two years due to higher energy costs and the steepest rise in food prices in 36 years. Excluding those volatile categories, inflation was tame. The Labor Department said Wednesday that the Producer Price Index rose a seasonally adjusted 1.6 percent in February [...]
