• Jun
  • 27

Famous Bands Vs. Fans: The Greatest Hits

Fans run on stage, throw bottles, and scream insults?and sometimes, the band fights back. The stars on stage almost always win. Here are ten clips of Famous Band Vs. Stupid Fan violence, from the Rolling Stones to Akon.

newVideoPlayer(”/bandsvsfans2.flv”, 506, 423,”"); Country star Tim McGraw drew cheers and admiring headlines yesterday when he snatched an unruly fan out of the audience and tossed him aside like a big sack of jerkness….

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  • Jun
  • 27

Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent

It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year. The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one of the most dramatic examples of the impact of global warming on the planet

Thepolar regions are experiencing the most dramatic increasein average temperatures due to global warming and scientists fear that as more sea iceis lost, the darker, open ocean will absorb more heat and raise local temperatures even further….

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  • Jun
  • 23

Ice on Mars an important breakthrough

The prospect that life did once exist, still exists and could be sustained in the future on Mars has taken a huge step forward with the confirmation that water ice has been found on the planet.

Those missions found Mars to be a harsh, dry and sterile place, but more recent and contrasting evidence has enabled the prospect of life on Mars to grow into a mainstream theory among planetary scientists.

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  • Jun
  • 21

10 Gadgets For Air-Conditioned Summer Survival

For many of us, the first day of summer starts just before midnight tonight. That means it is time to start thinking about how to beat the heat when the temperatures soar and the air conditioning unit in your home or office inevitably breaks down. In this scenario, survival means being prepared for anything.

Insulated Evaporative Cooling Hat: Solar powered hats with fans are a dime a dozen, but if you really want to stay cool, this cap should do the trick. Just run it under a faucet and let the sun draw heat away from your head by slowly evaporating…

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  • Jun
  • 20

Drastic climate change near end of last ice age

Information gleaned from a Greenland ice core by an international science team shows that two huge Northern Hemisphere temperature spikes prior to the close of the last ice age some 11,500 years ago were tied to fundamental shifts in atmospheric circulation.

The ice core showed the Northern Hemisphere briefly emerged from the last ice age some 14,700 years ago with a 22-degree-Fahrenheit spike in just 50 years, then plunged back into icy conditions before abruptly warming again about 11,700…

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  • Jun
  • 20

“Perfect Evidence” ICE on Mars!

“It must be ice,” said Phoenix Principal Investigator Peter Smith of the University of Arizona, Tucson. “These little clumps completely disappearing over the course of a few days, that is perfect evidence that it’s ice. There had been some question whether the bright material was salt. Salt can’t do that.”

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  • Jun
  • 17

Mars team ponders whether lander sees ice or salt

Is the white stuff in the Martian soil ice or salt? That’s the question bedeviling scientists in the three weeks since the Phoenix lander began digging into Mars’ north pole region to study whether the arctic could be habitable.

New photos showed the exposed bright substance present only in the top part of the trench, suggesting it's not uniform throughout the excavation site. Phoenix will take images of the trench dubbed “Dodo-Goldilocks” over the next…

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  • Jun
  • 13

Where are the Sunspots? Are we in for a Quiet Solar Cycle?

So what’s up with our Sun? Is it going through a depression? It seems as if our closest star is experiencing a surprisingly uneventful couple of years. Solar minimum has supposedly passed and we should be seeing a lot more magnetic activity, and we certainly should be observing lots more sunspots.

As pointed out by David Hathaway, a solar physicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, the fact that sunspots have already been observed in this new cycle means that it is highly unlikely we face anything as extreme as another…

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  • Jun
  • 05

Polar bear killed after 300km trek

Graphic footage of the first polar bear seen in Iceland in 20 years being shot dead by police has been posted on the internet. The bear, an adult male weighing around 250kg, was presumed to have swum some 300km from Greenland or from a distant chunk of Arctic ice to Skagafjordur in northern Iceland.

"It is certainly hopeful that when that figure is run through the quota system of the IWC that it will be looking at the sustainable harvest possibly of tens of thousands of minke whales each year," he said.

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  • Jun
  • 03

Mars Lander Diggs In!

Soil shows white flecks that could be ice or salt, scientists say

NASA via ReutersThis color image, acquired by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander on Sunday, shows the place where the test dig was made.With the practice dig out of the way, scientists will scour the landscape for a prime spot for the lander to…

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