Maggie - Instablogs
Jul 14 2008
Archaeologists and medical researchers are joining forces to examine human remains from Jericho in a real-life version of ‘Bonekickers’
Jul 13 2008
The Bush administration, dismissing the recommendations of its top experts, rejected regulating the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming Friday, saying it would cripple the U.S. economy.
Jul 12 2008
European retailers were sold out of the new iPhone 3G before stores in the US even opened on Friday, thanks in part to strong marketing from Apple’s mobile partners.
Jul 11 2008
Jupiter’s atmosphere has a zig-zag pattern of twelve jet streams which make up its signature pastel-toned bands. Earth, by comparison, has only two jet streams. The Great Red Spot (seen in image above from Io) is sandwiched between two of these...
Jul 11 2008
Education and Children’s Services Minister Jane Lomax-Smith made the comment to a group of protesters outside the church’s offices in Adelaide.
Jul 8 2008
Even if you don’t feel linguistically-inclined, it’s possible–with patience, diligence, and a sense of humor—to become fluent in a language in six months or less.
Jul 7 2008
A spaceship descends with a thunderous roar and deposits a futuristic probe before taking off again. The Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator (EVE) soon activates and begins flying around, scanning the barren surface for signs of life.
Jul 6 2008
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem,” Albert Camus wrote, “and that is suicide.” How to explain why, among the only species capable of pondering its own demise, whose desperate attempts to forestall mortality have spawned both...
Jul 6 2008
Women over 90 are significantly more likely to have dementia than men of the same age, according UC Irvine researchers involved with the 90 Study, one of the nation\’s largest studies of dementia and other health factors in the fastest-growing...
Jul 5 2008
Most media attention may be on Mars these days, but luckily for us (and the species as a whole) NASA is smarter than the average news network, and can actually look at more than one thing at a time