Category: Science
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Icy Finger of Death | Frozen Planet – Discovery
I love stuff like this. Just plain incredible! [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4cX2EPt2zE] via Icy Finger of Death | Frozen Planet Premieres March 18 on Discovery – YouTube.
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TSA Nude Body Scanners Don’t Work
Controversial nude body scanners used at U.S. airports have come under fire again – after a blogger claimed he could easily smuggle explosives through them onto a plane. Engineer Jonathan Corbett has published a video where he shows how he took a small metal case through two of the TSA’s $1billion fleet in a special…
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Himalayan Glaciers Lost No Ice in 10 Years
The authors of the U.N.’s climate policy guide were red-faced two years ago when it was revealed that they had inaccurately forecast that the Himalayan glaciers would melt completely in 25 years, vanishing by the year 2035. Rajendra Pachauri, head of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and director general of the Energy…
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Fermilab’s Tevatron Shutting Down
The Tevatron at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will be shut down later this year after the Batavia-based lab failed to win additional funding from the Obama administration. Once the world’s largest atom smasher — technically, a proton-antiproton collider — the Tevatron was scheduled to cease operations this year with the recent startup of a much…
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The Body Scan Scam
Let the dance begin. Security gurus versus privacy rights advocates are starting the new year off with a very loud public argument on the use of millimeter wave body scans at U.S. airports. The problem is that they’re not even debating the right question. Like many things, this would be funny it not for the potential deadly…