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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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First images of solar system's invisible frontier

Science – NASA's sun-focused STEREO spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year, allowing University of California, Berkeley, scientists to map for the first time the energized particles in the region where the hot solar wind slams into the cold interstellar medium.

View Story Discuss (0) (physorg.com) 3 days ago by ameliog

Voted for on July 03, 2008 08:55am

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

Worms do calculus to find meals or avoid unpleasantness

Science – Thanks to salt and hot chili peppers, researchers have found a calculus-computing center that tells a roundworm to go forward toward dinner or turn to broaden the search. It's a computational mechanism, they say, that is similar to what drives hungry college students to pizza.

View Story Discuss (0) (pmr.uoregon.edu) 3 days ago by capn_caveman

Voted for on July 03, 2008 08:52am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 23 votes / 2 sinks

The global warming deniers

Science – The arguments of climate skeptics have largely been molded by a far more sinister force - the US-based conservative think tanks.

View Story Discuss (0) (newstatesman.com) 3 days ago by capn_caveman

Voted for on July 03, 2008 08:41am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 46 votes / 2 sinks

10 Things You Can Like About $4 Gas

Money – The world had long assumed that Americans were just unrepentant energy pigs. If gas prices went up, well, we kept our Explorers aimed at the horizon, and little changed.

View Story Discuss (2) (time.com) 4 days ago by JessicaLaurie

Voted for on July 03, 2008 08:21am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 71 votes / 1 sink

Inmate released after 22 years on death row

News – A former death row inmate was freed from a Nashville prison on Wednesday for the first time in nearly 23 years after an anonymous donor paid his bail. Paul House, 46, is set to be retried in October in the 1985 slaying of Carolyn Muncey.

View Story Discuss (23) (msnbc.msn.com) 4 days ago by JamesMarcus

Voted for on July 02, 2008 07:12pm

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HOWTO: Get Better Fireworks Photos This Fourth of July

Art & Design – When you snap pictures at the fireworks display on Friday, you'll either wind up with immensely rewarding photos or frustration that makes you wish you'd left your camera at home and just enjoyed the show. Before you go, arm yourself with a few tips and tricks that will prepare you to capture fireworks in all their brilliant glory.

View Story Discuss (0) (lifehacker.com) 4 days ago by Wil

Voted for on July 02, 2008 03:08pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 32 votes / No sinks

US contradicts itself over its own ID theft advice

News – When it comes to the risks of identity theft, the U.S. government isn't taking its own advice. The nation's Medicare agency and the Pentagon compel at least 52 million Americans to carry their Social Security numbers in their wallets, contrary to warnings by the Federal Trade Commission that people should avoid doing so.

View Story Discuss (1) (news.yahoo.com) 4 days ago by MyWayOnNow

Voted for on July 02, 2008 02:37pm

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Space probes show solar system dented, not round

Science – When viewed from the rest of the galaxy, the edge of our solar system appears slightly dented as if a giant hand is pushing one edge of it inward, far-traveling NASA probes reveal.

View Story Discuss (0) (news.yahoo.com) 4 days ago by capn_caveman

Voted for on July 02, 2008 01:12pm

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Musgrave Renews Call For Federal Anti-Gay Amendment

Gay & Lesbian – The architect of two failed attempts to amend the US Constitution to bar same-sex marriage is throwing her support behind a new bid to advance the measure.

View Story Discuss (2) (365gay.com) 4 days ago by david_nwpa

Voted for on July 02, 2008 01:03pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 26 votes / No sinks

New Evidence Collected In 1946 Lynching Case

News – State and federal investigators said Tuesday that they spent the past two days gathering evidence in the last documented mass lynching in the United States: a grisly slaying of four people that has remained unsolved for more than six decades.

View Story Discuss (0) (cnn.com) 4 days ago by TimALoftis

Voted for on July 02, 2008 01:03pm

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Counting Monkeys Tick Off Yet Another 'Human' Ability

Science – Rhesus macaques have been shown to possess yet another numerical talent once thought unique to humans -- they can simultaneously count audible beeps and dots on a computer screen.

View Story Discuss (0) (newscientist.com) 4 days ago by Neophile

Voted for on July 02, 2008 01:02pm

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Big Trouble for Big Three Automakers

Money – America's automobile industry may be facing the biggest turnaround challenge in its history, a problem punctuated Tuesday as the carmakers released monthly sales results.

View Story Discuss (0) (csmonitor.com) 4 days ago by Neophile

Voted for on July 02, 2008 01:02pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 29 votes / No sinks

Benefits Of Green Tea In Reducing An Important Risk Factor For Heart Disease

Health & Fitness – More evidence for the beneficial effect of green tea on risk factors for heart disease has emerged in a new study.

View Story Discuss (0) (sciencedaily.com) 4 days ago by SenorCoconut

Voted for on July 02, 2008 01:01pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 203 votes / 23 sinks

Unfair and unbalanced: Fox News' coverage of Obama tops the bias scale

Television – Fox News, whose slogan is "Fair and Balanced," seems to have gone above and beyond in its anti-Obama rhetoric. Fox News seems to be the willing source of many of the smears and have displayed an unhealthy willingness to pass on as fact any unsourced or unfounded allegation that will put the Obamas in the worst light possible.

View Story Discuss (372) (spokesman-recorder.com) 4 days ago by ybdogsct

Voted for on July 02, 2008 12:56pm