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Einstein Was Right, Astrophysicists Say

Researchers at McGill University's Department of Physics -- along with colleagues from several countries -- have confirmed a long-held prediction of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, via observations of a binary-pulsar star system.

7 iPhone 3G's and now I get...

Someone better wake up Apple and find out what is going on in Cupertino.. Today I went to my Apple Store to exchange my 3rd iPhone since mine was powering on by itself. So during my meeting with the Genius Bar it was determined that the unit was defective again and they would swap it out with a refurb. Well when we opened the first one it had huge speckles that were sharp on the back of the phone. Almost as if dirt was on the phone and it was painted over. So the genius (funny term) then went back and got another one and what do you know? Yup.. Defective paint. At this time he told me if I get another one with bad paint to just take it and come back a month later and swap it again. Well.. you guessed it there was a dent in the paint and I was forced to take it with me.

Fake priest caught in confessional

Confessionalblog385x185_2 Bess writes: A bizarre case of identity fraud has surfaced in the Vatican: the Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper, reports that a fake priest was caught in St Peter’s Basilica attempting to enter the confessional box. The 30-year-old man was subsequently sentenced in a special Vatican court. And, according to this morning's papers, the sentencing judge discovered he was a serial offender. Gianluigi Marrone, one a handful of judges employed at the court, explained: "He had priest's robes on but to the expert eye of our security staff he raised suspicions, He was acting strangely and so he was stopped and checked. He had an identity card which said he was a priest but a quick check established it was bogus.

Police raids net 25 Asians for trading in illegal overseas calls

KUWAIT CITY, Aug 29: An Asian expatriate was electrocuted while working in a farm in Wafra, say sources, adding “he was rushed to Jahra Hospital, but died before reaching there.” Securitymen and Criminal Evidence Department men referred the man’s remains to Forensics. A case was registered and investigations are underway. Meanwhile, A Kuwaiti man died of serious injuries when his vehicle turned turtle on Sulaibikhat Motorway near Al-Qairawan area Thursday. Criminal Evidence Department men rushed to the scene and referred the victim’s remains to Forensics while securitymen got the vehicle moved aside, say sources. A case was registered and investigations are going on to find the cause of the accident.

Alien Rumors Quelled as NASA Announces Phoenix Perchlorate Discovery

"We don't want to come to you and say 'we found chocolate on Mars,' then come back and say, 'We were wrong it was strawberry.' We don't want to do that," MECA lead scientist Michael Hecht told reporters. Over in the U.K., Stuart Atkinson was listening and responded immediately. Even before the press briefing was over, some of the Phoenix team saw it on UnmannedSpaceFlight.com, where Atkinson posted it, and were seen to be chuckling. "It was the best," Hecht said later. We, too found it amusing and with Atkinson's permission are reposting it here.

Custom Flame Painting - Lay Flames Like A Pro

I've liked flames since I was a little kid growing up in Southern California during the '50s. I can't remember if the first time I ever saw something flamed was in one of my dad's custom car magazines, or on a hot-rod driving down the street. I do remember by the time I was in elementary school I was getting in trouble with my teachers for drawing flames on all of my school papers. When old people used to ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I told them a custom painter. By the time I was 14 I was custom painting all of my friend's bicycles in the neighborhood. By age 17, I had opened up a custom paint shop out of my parent's garage.

Judd Apatow, Christian Bale, Britney Spears

A growth on a kidney removed from the conductor James Levine was malignant, but the cancer was caught early and no further treatment is needed, the Boston Symphony Orchestra said. Doctors in New York removed the right kidney last week because the growth was causing Levine, the 65-year-old music director of both the BSO and the Metropolitan Opera, pressure and discomfort. The surgery forced him to miss the remainder of the BSO's Tanglewood season. Levine's brother, Tom Levine , said that doctors found a malignant growth on the kidney, but that it was very small and confined. "Doctors reported the surgery was completely curative and no further treatment is necessary," he said.

Obama's Acceptance Speech, Palin Veep Shocker

As has been the case with every major speech of this year's Democratic National Convention, each blogger seems to have a different take on Barack Obama's speech. Liberal bloggers say that the speech either met or exceeded expectations (not an easy feat) and that Obama was "wonderfully successful" in his delivery and presentation of key themes. Chris Cillizza said it was "more substance than style," and David Kusnet at the New Republic thought it was Ronald Reaganesque. Some other liberals thought it was a bit of a letdown, "uneven in delivery," and too long. Although most bloggers noted the comprehensive and detailed nature of the speech, the AP reported "a lack of specifics," to the shock of liberal bloggers. On the conservative side, a National Review blogger had a long list of positives and negatives while another thought it was pretty

DNS Attack Writer a Victim of His Own Creation

BobB writes "HD Moore has been owned. Moore, the creator of the popular Metasploit hacking toolkit, has become the victim of a computer attack. It happened on Tuesday morning, when Moore's company, BreakingPoint, had some of its Internet traffic redirected to a fake Google page that was being run by a scammer. According to Moore, the hacker was able to do this by launching what's known as a cache poisoning attack on a DNS server on AT&T's network that was serving the Austin, Texas, area. One of BreakingPoint's servers was forwarding DNS (Domain Name System) traffic to the AT&T server, so when it was compromised, so was HD Moore's company."

Live Blogging III: Women in Poverty

This is a wonderful-written article. As the past leader of a Ivy League college pro-life group, I struggled with how to present well-reasoned articles to pro-choicers who violently objected to my position, thought it idiotic, and argued exactly from the position you've identified: that the baby was an unfair burden to some poor woman who bore no responsibility for it, or that the baby was destined for a life of "inhumane" suffering. Your arguments are a thoughtful, realistic and considerate response to those pro-choicers. I would love to know how you respond to those who argue in favor of abortion for those who have been raped. I imagine it was an issue you wrestled with yourself in your conversion. The best I could ever articulate was to argue that a further act of violence was not truly going to solve anything for these women; it was no

Texas police say 12-year-old girl drove mom to bar

LONGVIEW, Texas -- A 35-year-old Texas woman has been jailed after police say she made her 12-year-old daughter drive her to a bar. Police in Longview say they watched a minivan turn into a driveway without signaling on Wednesday and bump into a home at a low speed. They say the car was driven by Jennifer Lynn Rosenberg's daughter.

Was it a bird or was it a plane?

A new study of extinct flying reptiles called kuehneosaurs, has shown that of the of the two genera found in Britain, Kuehneosuchus was a glider while Kuehneosaurus, with much shorter "wings," was a parachutist.

You mean WinMX still Works?

There was a time when WinMX was the king of file-sharing. For a brief time, it was arguably larger than FastTrack (Kazaa, Grokster), eDonkey2000, and Gnutella. But that was a long time ago, when the P2P community actually meant something. When FrontCode Technologies, the company behind WinMX, received a “cease and desist� letter from the music industry in 2005, the entire project was abandoned.

Game Boys, Abie Rotenberg and my ride home

I was working at the radio station minding my own business when suddenly I was called to the on-air studio. The Aliyah Revolution with Go'el and Dovid was in the middle of its live broadcast. I thought maybe there was some kind of technical emergency. I rushed in the studio, only to have Dovid ask me if I ever heard of the group Game Boys. Yes, I replied, I had seen the cover of their 2006 disc Game Boys: The Album, but that was as far as I got. I didn't actually listen to it. Well Dovid had in fact listened to it and excitedly wanted to know my opinion and if I could run to the disc library and grab it for him.

Disaster: Day of Crisis lives, Classified in Australia

When it was announced earlier in the year that Disaster: Day of Crisis was pulled from the release schdule a mere month before it was due for release many thought it was heading the way of Project H.A.M.M.E.R, canncelled. But all hope may not be gone for the title which was first revealed all the way back at E3 2006. The game has just been Classified by the Australian Classification Board and given a big fresh M for Violence, themes and infrequent coarse language. So its nothing big but could Disaster be filling in a Holiday gap this year?

The DIY Dialysis Machine

Millie Kelly was born with a condition that required an immediate operation. During this operation her kidneys started to fail and since she was too small for dialysis machines, doctors told her parents that she was unlikely to live. Luckily for Millie, Dr. Malcolm Coulthard and a colleague tried to build a much smaller kidney machine on their own and they were successful. Her mother said, "It was a green metal box with a few paint marks on it with quite a few wires coming out of it into my daughter - it didn't look like a normal NHS one." The girl was hooked up to the machine over a seven day period to allow her kidneys to recover. Two years later, her mother Rebecca says she is "fit as a fiddle." You should see what Dr. Coulthard can build using a postage stamp, a tuning fork, a lawn chair and a jellyfish.

Column: Fire Flower #51

The DS was Nintendo’s biggest gamble in years: up against the PSP which is a much more powerful multimedia machine, the DS was expected by the industry to be an out and out failure. Even the company pitched it as the “Third Pillar” alongside the Game Boy Advance and the GameCube. It was supposed to be another string to the bow and a kind of stop gap between the GBA and the Game Boy Next, or Game Boy Evolution, or the Game Boy Revolution or even the Game Boy Superior. Whatever. The fact is that Nintendo could not have anticipated the success of the machine – its flagship title was a rehash of a game that was released as a system seller on another machine. Ridiculous.

Dick Motz

Motz, Richard Charles, was found dead in his flat on April 29, 2007, aged 67. In the 1960s when New Zealand were regularly beaten up by other Test teams, Dick Motz represented their best means of retaliation. He was a big strong outswing bowler with an easy action and ferocious energy. "He gave it heaps all the time," said his friend and Test skipper Graham Dowling. "He was a captain's dream." Motz was chosen for Canterbury as a 17-year-old, and took three wickets in his first three overs: a few weeks later he was talked about as a possible for New Zealand's 1958 tour of England.

Gore's Bold Plan to Save the Planet

When I caught up with Al Gore at his home in Nashville last December, the former Vice President turned green guru was in a pensive mood. I was surprised — he was just finishing his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, which he was due to give in Stockholm a few days later. For a man who had lost the Presidency in the most agonizing way possible, winning the Nobel should have offered some consolation. But when I asked Gore if he felt vindicated, he shook his head. "It's hard to celebrate recognition of an effort that has thus far failed," he said. He was referring to his work not only to awaken the world to the danger of climate change, but to get us to really do something about it. "I'm not finished, but thus far, I have failed. We have all failed.

Three Words That Could Overthrow Physics: ?What Is Magnetism??

When Pliny the Elder first beheld a magnet, he was utterly blown away. “What phenomenon is more astonishing?� he wrote later. “Where has nature shown greater audacity?� In the fifth century, St. Augustine of Hippo agreed, declaring himself “thunder­struck� by the sight of a magnet lifting several metal rings. Magnets, he announced, were proof that miracles were real and that God, therefore, existed. “Who would not be amazed,� Augustine marveled, “at this virtue of the stone?� Certainly the 4-year-old Albert Einstein was amazed. When his father showed him a compass, it was young Albert’s first clue, he later wrote, that there was “something behind things, something deeply hidden,� and he spent his life trying to find it.

Blogging about Apple pays better than practicing medicine

Arnold Kimn, MD, is quitting his medical practice to blog full-time about Apple because he found it was more profitable than practicing medicine. In 2000 while he was a fourth-year medical student, Kim launched the site MacRumors, a site devoted to news and rumors about Apple. Traffic grew over the years, and around 2003-2004, during the time he was starting his nephrology fellowship, ad revenue from the site started growing. Eventually, Kim says he was making more from MacRumors than he was from practicing nephrology and decided to quit medicine.

Vaughan happy to elaborate to get the best out of his players

In the battle of the captains, Michael Vaughan has taken the lead. There is one obvious reason for this; his players have performed better. But there may be more to it than that. Watching South Africa in the field, it was often tricky to tell who was their captain. The contrast with the Graeme Smith of 2003 was stark. Five years ago, Smith would leave the field with sore hands and a hoarse voice, having cajoled his men to greater efforts. Nor was he shy in having a few words with his opponents as he let one and all know who was the new man in charge of the South Africa side.

Tyson and Sykes Duke Out the Great Planet Debate; Flatow Almost Flattened

A debate today between astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson and planetary scientist Mark Sykes, moderated by NPR's Ira Flatow, addressed the issue of Pluto's planetary status. There was lots of arm-waving and finger-pointing, endless interruptions, disagreements on details big and small, and battling one-liners. The two scientists sat at a table with the moderator between them and Flatow was often obscured by Tyson and Sykes getting in each other's faces in eye-to-eye confrontation. At one point, Flatow was hit by Tyson's ebullient arm motions. Yes, it was heated. But it was fun, too. It ended up being not so much a debate between the Pluto-huggers and the Pluto-haters as a disagreement over the lexicon of astronomy and planetary science and, primarily, the definition of a planet.

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