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I'm an engineer, but my true passion is for pure science. First loves are: physics, astronomy, space exploration, Earth sciences, and mathematics. I currently reside in Columbus Ohio and I am a RABID Buckeye fan. Email: capncaveman1@gmail.com

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Elephant Said to Speak
This story has mostly positive ratings. 21 votes / 1 sink

Elephant Said to Speak

Pets – The Everland amusement park said Friday its 16-year-old male Asian elephant, named Kosik, can make sounds imitating up to eight Korean words, including "sit,'' "no,'' "yes,'' and "lie down.''

View Story Discuss (3) (livescience.com) 684 days ago by capn_caveman

Submitted and Voted for on September 08, 2006 03:10pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 15 votes / No sinks

Turtle Protein Shows Disease Fighting Promise

Health & Fitness – A research team from Kolkata says the eggs of a marine turtle (Caretta caretta) contain a protein with antibacterial and antiviral properties. This turtle egg-white protein, it says, showed strong activity against many different human diseases.

View Story Discuss (0) (thestatesman.net) 685 days ago by capn_caveman

Submitted and Voted for on September 07, 2006 11:44pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 18 votes / 2 sinks

Searching for a pot of gold? Try the center of the Earth.

Science – A scientist has calculated that 1.6 quadrillion tons of gold must lie in Earth's core.

View Story Discuss (2) (discover.com) 685 days ago by capn_caveman

Submitted and Voted for on September 07, 2006 11:34pm

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Is man to blame for all aspects of climate change?

Science – An increasing tendency to blame humans for ecological mysteries may indicate a bias that's shaping funding priorities and hampering attempts to better understand natural history.

View Story Discuss (18) (seedmagazine.com) 685 days ago by capn_caveman

Submitted and Voted for on September 07, 2006 11:16pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 16 votes / No sinks

Physical washing may help clean your conscience

Science – The metaphorical desire to wash away one's sins is not just wishful thinking but evidence of an innate psychological association between moral and physical cleanliness, according to a new study.

View Story Discuss (3) (newscientist.com) 685 days ago by capn_caveman

Submitted and Voted for on September 07, 2006 09:55pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 15 votes / No sinks

Video: Light Emiting Fabrics

Popular Videos – Cool video of various fabric items emitting colorful and dynamic patterns of light.

View Story Discuss (2) (youtube.com) 686 days ago by capn_caveman

Submitted and Voted for on September 06, 2006 03:52pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 16 votes / No sinks

MIT finds unique desert cloud forest

Science – Trees that live in an odd desert forest in Oman have found an unusual way to water themselves by extracting moisture from low-lying clouds, MIT scientists report.

View Story Discuss (0) (web.mit.edu) 686 days ago by capn_caveman

Submitted and Voted for on September 06, 2006 03:11pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 12 votes / 1 sink

New trigger found for volcanic eruptions

Science – New insights into what might trigger the eruption of Mount St Helens and other potentially explosive volcanoes are reported today in Nature by scientists working at the University of Bristol, UK.

View Story Discuss (1) (bris.ac.uk) 686 days ago by capn_caveman

Submitted and Voted for on September 06, 2006 03:02pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 13 votes / No sinks

Dark matter 'proof' called into doubt

Science – When Douglas Clowe of the University of Arizona in Tucson announced on 21 August that his team had "direct proof of dark matter's existence", it seemed the issue had been settled. Now proponents of the so-called modified theories of gravity, who explain the motion of stars and galaxies without resorting to dark matter, have hit back and are suggest

View Story Discuss (0) (eurekalert.org) 686 days ago by capn_caveman

Submitted and Voted for on September 06, 2006 02:24pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 19 votes / No sinks

Study: Thyroid cancer increasing in women

Women – The study found that thyroid cancer incidence rates among women increased 2.2 percent per year from 1981 to 1993, 4.6 percent per year from 1993 to 2000 and 9.1 percent per year from 2000 to 2003.

View Story Discuss (0) (cnn.com) 686 days ago by capn_caveman

Submitted and Voted for on September 06, 2006 02:21pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 15 votes / 2 sinks

Video: Mig-29 Acrobatics

Popular Videos – A Mig-29 on display in an air show.

View Story Discuss (2) (video.google.com) 687 days ago by capn_caveman

Submitted and Voted for on September 06, 2006 12:20am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 16 votes / No sinks

Ultrasound Can 'Open Doors' Into Living Cells

Science – Researchers have shown how ultrasound energy can briefly "open a door" in the protective outer membranes of living cells to allow entry of drugs and other therapeutic molecules - and how the cells themselves can then quickly close the door.

View Story Discuss (0) (gtresearchnews.gatech.edu) 687 days ago by capn_caveman

Submitted and Voted for on September 05, 2006 10:33pm

Woman Finds Possible 2,000 Year Old Coin In Grocery Change
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Woman Finds Possible 2,000 Year Old Coin In Grocery Change

News – When the coins come out of the cash drawer, they all sound the same. And when Lynn Moore picked up her change and walked out of a Sumter Bi-Lo last November, she had no reason to believe her coins were any different.

View Story Discuss (28) (wltx.com) 687 days ago by capn_caveman

Submitted and Voted for on September 05, 2006 03:18pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 20 votes / No sinks

Warning symptoms often herald sudden cardiac death

Health & Fitness – Cardiac arrest is often preceded by symptoms lasting for more than an hour, and usually occurs in cases with a known history of heart disease or risk factors, German investigators report.

View Story Discuss (1) (news.yahoo.com) 687 days ago by capn_caveman

Submitted and Voted for on September 05, 2006 03:07pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 14 votes / No sinks

Scientists crack genetic secrets of human egg

Science – Scientists at Michigan State University report this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they have identified genes unique to the human egg. The identification opens the way to understanding these genes� functions, which may lead to solving problems from infertility to degenerative diseases.

View Story Discuss (0) (newsroom.msu.edu) 687 days ago by capn_caveman

Submitted and Voted for on September 05, 2006 02:12pm

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