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Ten thousand flowers in spring the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.

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This story has mostly positive ratings. 87 votes / 1 sink

MIT reveals the tangle under turbulence..

Science – Picture the flow of water over a rock. At very low speeds, the water looks like a smooth sheet skimming the rock's surface. As the water rushes faster, the flow turns into turbulent, roiling whitewater that can overturn your raft.

View Story Discuss (13) (web.mit.edu) 464 days ago by GregD

Submitted and Voted for on March 28, 2007 08:58pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 139 votes / 4 sinks

A Shining Example of Space Benefits..

Science – A simple NASA technology that protected Apollo and Skylab is still coming to the rescue in space and on Earth.

View Story Discuss (45) (nasa.gov) 465 days ago by GregD

Submitted and Voted for on March 27, 2007 08:22pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 67 votes / 3 sinks

9 Diet-Sabotaging Foods to Avoid.

Health & Fitness – Eating certain foods will make you so hungry that you'll feel hollow inside. We call these "appetite-stimulating foods." These include any food that has been stripped of its fiber such as white bread; foods that turn to sugar quickly in the body such as white potatoes; and foods loaded with sugar, starch, and fat.

View Story Discuss (40) (prevention.com) 467 days ago by GregD

Submitted and Voted for on March 26, 2007 08:21am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 67 votes / 4 sinks

Alternative Allergy Treatments

Health & Fitness – Every spring the clocks jump ahead, and our desires to shed the oppressive layers of winter takes hold. We breathe in the fresh spring air and it overtakes us, literally. It happens as soon as we fling open our windows.

View Story Discuss (10) (foxnews.com) 471 days ago by GregD

Submitted and Voted for on March 21, 2007 09:51pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 109 votes / No sinks

Eating less could help you live to 100.

Science – Studies in a wide range of species, from worms to mice and monkeys, have come to the same conclusion: eat all the nutrients necessary for a healthy life and cut calories to the bare minimum - half the normal daily amount - and you could extend life span by up to half..

View Story Discuss (62) (telegraph.co.uk) 487 days ago by GregD

Submitted and Voted for on March 06, 2007 07:53am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 50 votes / 3 sinks

Kissing babies could trigger peanut allergy

Health & Fitness – Kissing after eating food containing peanuts could lead to the development of nut allergies, according to a team of medical specialists...

View Story Discuss (4) (news.independent.co.uk) 489 days ago by GregD

Submitted and Voted for on March 04, 2007 10:47am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 97 votes / 4 sinks

NASA Scrambles for Alternate Mars Landing Site

Science – Scientists are scrambling to find an alternative landing site for a long-armed robot set to launch this summer on a mission to dig into Mars' icy north pole to search for signs of primitive life.

View Story Discuss (14) (foxnews.com) 515 days ago by GregD

Submitted and Voted for on February 05, 2007 11:09pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 57 votes / No sinks

Saturn backlit, Earth from a billion miles away

Science – But there's something even more amazing here than new rings. Look in the upper right quadrant of the picture. See that little dot? That's Earth.

View Story Discuss (5) (earthsky.org) 517 days ago by GregD

Submitted and Voted for on February 04, 2007 07:55am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 55 votes / 3 sinks

Teenagers aren't getting enough exercise

Health & Fitness – Most adolescents do not get enough exercise each day or maintain a healthy diet, according to researchers who analysed the diet and exercise behaviors of 878, adolescents, 11 to 15 years old, and found that nearly 80 percent had multiple physical activity and dietary risk behaviours.

View Story Discuss (12) (iol.co.za) 517 days ago by GregD

Submitted and Voted for on February 03, 2007 07:58pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 35 votes / 1 sink

Appraisers get pressure to fudge figures

Real Estate – With home prices softening and sales volumes sagging in many local markets, real-estate appraisers say that pressure on them to inflate values has reached pandemic proportions.

View Story Discuss (8) (seattletimes.nwsource.com) 518 days ago by GregD

Submitted and Voted for on February 03, 2007 07:54am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 68 votes / 2 sinks

Picture of Jupiter As Seen from Mars

Science – The HiRISE camera is the most powerful telescope to have left Earth orbit. As such, it is capable of some interesting astronomical observations.

View Story Discuss (10) (hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu) 519 days ago by GregD

Submitted and Voted for on February 02, 2007 08:51am

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

NASA to Slam Rocket into the Moon (on Purpose)!

Science – The LCROSS mission is a search for water on the moon. The LCROSS mission is going to do this by sending a rocket crashing into the moon causing a big impact and creating a crater, throwing tons of debris and potentially water ice and vapor above the lunar surface.

View Story Discuss (3) (lcross.arc.nasa.gov) 527 days ago by GregD

Submitted and Voted for on January 25, 2007 08:17am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 104 votes / 7 sinks

Earth's Moon Destined to Disintegrate

Science – The Sun is midway through its stable hydrogen burning phase known as the main sequence. But when the Sun enters the red giant phase in around 5 billion years things are going to get a lot rougher in the Earth-Moon system.

View Story Discuss (124) (space.com) 530 days ago by GregD

Submitted and Voted for on January 22, 2007 09:37am

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

Are you a giver? Brain scan finds the truth..

Science – Altruism, one of the most difficult human behaviors to define, can be detected in brain scans, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday. They found activity in a specific area of the brain could predict altruistic behavior -- and people's own reports of how selfish or giving they are.

View Story Discuss (2) (today.reuters.com) 531 days ago by GregD

Submitted and Voted for on January 21, 2007 01:59pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 62 votes / 4 sinks

MythBusters: Pirate Special!

Television – Arggghhh me hearties... Jamie and Adam have plundered the seven seas in search of pirate parables and maritime myths and the result is this 2-hour spectacular. And with four stories of hi-jinks on the high seas the action is thick and fast.

View Story Discuss (9) (dsc.discovery.com) 537 days ago by GregD

Submitted and Voted for on January 15, 2007 09:57am

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