Posted in My Thoughts on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
March 20, 2008Contacts: Lee Tune, 301 405 4679 or ltune@umd.edu
Maryland Led Team Finds Oldest Known Asteroids
Sample #3509 of the CV3 meteorite Allende sawed into ~ 1 cm thick slabs (a cm-sized cube marked ‘T’ is included for scale). Refractory inclusions suitable for both thin sectioning and crushing into powders were identified as shown here for [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Web site for Dutch anti-Quran film suspended by host
The Associated Press
Published: March 23, 2008
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands: The Web site where Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders was promoting his not-yet-released anti-Quran film has been suspended by its U.S. hosting service, Network Solutions.
The site formerly showed the film’s title, “Fitna” — “Coming Soon” — and an image of a [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thermobaric, or fuel-air energy (FAE), explosives work in two stages. The shell, or container, is burst open to spread the combusting agent as a fine aerosol, then this is ignited, creating an over-pressure blast wave travelling at 3000 metres per second, and burning all available oxygen in the process.
The Global Security website describes the effect [...]
Posted in News on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Gary Cohen – March 15, 2008, 7:12PM
I just saw a special report on CNN. The reporter was asking Iraqi soldiers who they would like to see win our presidential election. Some said Hillary, others said Obama, others just said “Democrat, whoever, Democrat”. When asked why, they said they’re fighting “a Republican war, we’ve seen [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bishop James Pike on Heresy
[The word "heresy"] comes from a greek noun form (hairesis) of a verb in the middle voice (haireisthai) meaning “to take for oneself” — to choose. This concept corresponds aptly to the conviction that there can be no faith without personal decision…
There are… two principle ways people arrive at convictions. If [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on March 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Gauging Age of Universe Becomes More Precise
WMAP Science Team
WMAP cosmic microwave fluctuations over the full sky using five years of data. The colors represent tiny temperature fluctuations of the remnant glow from the infant universe: red regions are warmer and blue are cooler.
By KENNETH CHANG
Published: March 9, 2008
The universe is 13.73 billion years old, [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There were three brothers Jafar Muhammad ibn Musa ibn Shakir, Ahmad ibn Musa ibn Shakir and al-Hasan ibn Musa ibn Shakir. They are almost indistinguishable but we do know that although they often worked together, they did have their own areas of expertise.
The three links above give details specific to each of the brothers but [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The term “joystick” seems a bit frivolous for the device in front of me, but there it is, an interface that hearkens back to the days of Pac Man and Donkey Kong. Yet this joystick is special—a highly evolved example of a technology that is changing the way humans interact with machines. I’m in the [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturn’s Moon Rhea Also May Have RingsMarch 6, 2008(Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
This is an artist concept of the ring of debris that may orbit Saturn’s second-largest moon, Rhea. The suggested disk of solid material is exaggerated in density here for clarity.
PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has found evidence of material orbiting Rhea, Saturn’s second [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, David Rose reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security [...]
