Aboard the International Space Station, an Expedition 28 crew member captured views of intensifying Hurricane Irene from an altitude of 225 miles at 3:33 p.m. EDT on Aug. 22, 2011, as the tropical system passed to the north of Hispaniola.
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It's alive! Space station's humanoid robot awake
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Ground controllers turned Robonaut on Monday for the first time aboard the International Space Station. The robot was delivered to the orbiting complex back in February. It took this long for the operating software to get up there, and for the astronauts to have enough time to help with the experiment.
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Universe Today
Views of Hurricane Irene From the International Space Station
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From clouds on Mars we move to really big and potentially dangerous clouds on Earth. These views of Hurricane Irene were captured by the crew of the International Space Station from an altitude of 225 miles at 3:33 p.m. EDT on Aug. 22, 2011, showing the tropical system intensifying as it passed to the north [...]
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NASA
Robonaut Gets To Work in Space
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Keith's note: @ AstroRobonaut is tweeting about today's activation activities aboard the International Space Station. Track his tweets as he starts to be come part of the ISS crew. Keith's update: Photo: Robonaut's View This Morning From Inside the International Space Station @AstroRobonaut "This is what I see right now. Sure wish I could move ...
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National Hurricane Center (Atlantic)
Hurricane IRENE Graphics
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5-Day Uncertainty Track last updated Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:53:21 GMT Wind Speed Probabilities last updated Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:08:30 GMT
SPACE.com
The New Space Frontier: Live Video of Earth in HD Coming Soon
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This photo of Earth from the International Space Station was taken by NASA astronaut Ron Garan, who has been blogging about the planet's beauty on his website Fragile Oasis. This image, taken on April 15, 2011, was Garan's first photo sent via Twitter.
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NASA
Product Placement on the ISS
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Keith's note: If you visit the website of author Charles Justiz you will see that a photo of an astronaut holding his latest book on the International Space Station is featured. As I mentioned last March, when this first appeared online, I was not aware that authors could get NASA astronauts to do on-orbit promotion and commercial "product ...
Christian Science Monitor
Hurricane Irene hammers Puerto Rico, where next?
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Hurricane Irene is the first hurricane of 2011 season. Irene is heading for Haiti, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, and maybe Florida, say forecasters.
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Hurricane Irene could hit U.S. as a monster
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Officials in southeast warn against complacency as forecasters say storm could grow into a killer Category 4 by Thursday
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Hurricane Irene gets steam, heads for Bahamas
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Irene now a category 2 storm and strengthening; Expected to reach category 3 strength, hit U.S. later this week
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National Hurricane Center (Atlantic)
Hurricane IRENE Public Advisory Number 12A
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000 WTNT34 KNHC 231150 TCPAT4 BULLETIN HURRICANE IRENE INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 12A NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL092011 800 AM EDT TUE AUG 23 2011 ...CORE OF IRENE HEADED TOWARD THE TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS AND THE SOUTHEASTERN BAHAMAS... SUMMARY OF 800 AM EDT...1200 UTC...INFORMATION ---------------------------------------------- ...
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Hurricane Irene getting bigger, stronger
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Hurricane Irene strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane Monday. Forecasts show it will miss Florida, but Irene may grow as it moves toward the Carolinas.
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TAIPEI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian suppliers to Apple Inc have begun manufacturing a lower-priced version of its hot-selling iPhone 4 with a smaller 8 gigabyte flash drive, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan rebels battled on Tuesday around Muammar Gaddafi's headquarters, where a son of the veteran leader had emerged overnight to confound reports of his capture and to rally cheering loyalists for a rearguard fightback.
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Comme beaucoup de joueurs, nous sommes fans de Nintendo. Aussi quand un de nos contacts chez Big N nous a alertés sur certains problèmes rencontrés par le géant du jeu vidéo, avons-nous décidé de les publier. Parce que ces révélations sonnent un peu comme un cri d'alarme.
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PhysOrg.com
(PhysOrg.com) -- Billions of tons of carbon trapped in high-latitude permafrost may be released into the atmosphere by the end of this century as the Earth’s climate changes, further accelerating global warming, a new computer modeling study indicates.
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Time to begin anticipating and adapting to climate change
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Despite the uncertainties surrounding climate change, leaders in the transportation sector agree it is time to start developing effective strategies that will keep the nation's transportation systems and other critical infrastructure running in the face of the adverse impacts that seem increasingly likely to occur.
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Gil Dodgen over at Dembski's Home for Wayward Sycophants says that one of the main influences in his conversion from an "obnoxious, nasty, self-aggrandizing, pathetically prideful atheist" to an obnoxious, nasty, self-aggrandizing, pathetically prideful Christian was Dennis Prager. And he highly recommends Prager University , Prager's sad ...
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ID and Prager University
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As many UD readers know, I was once a Richard Dawkins-style atheist. I was not just an ordinary, garden-variety atheist, but a really obnoxious, nasty, self-aggrandizing, pathetically prideful atheist like Dawkins. I prided myself in using my intellectual capacities in an attempt to destroy any belief that materialism cannot explain everything.
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“Be a fountain not a drain,” an expression used by baseball announcer Rex Hudler, is one that has motivational content particularly in terms of an individual included as part of a team. I would suggest that this expression would be appropriate when considering a basic team in medical practice: the doctor-patient relationship. It is ...
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KevinMD.com
The interests of doctors and patients sometimes conflict
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Organized American medicine would like for physicians to “speak with one voice.” If they could do so, and if that voice were in the public interest, not only in the self-interest of those physicians, it would be a very powerful voice indeed. Arnold (Bud) Relman, the esteemed former editor of the New England Journal of [...]
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KevinMD.com
Sponsored content on health sites can mislead patients
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Occasionally, my vocation of treating obesity and my avocation of health care social media intersect. This is one of those moments. This is the story of a health care social media betrayal in which obese children and e-patients are the victims. Nobody died, except medical ethics, good judgment, and trust in doctors. This is WebMD’s [...]
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Our new Scienceblogs overlords sure have great timing with their new pseudonymous blogging rules. For those who haven't run across that yet, National Geographic has decided to eliminate pseudonyms and force everyone with a blog remaining here (which is already dwindling) to blog under their real names. Meanwhile, out here in the real world, there'
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I Speak of Dreams
Keeping Up with #EpiGate
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If you are going to post or tweet about this issue, rather than using Mr. Epi's name or twitter handle, another epidemiologist, @epiApril, has suggested using #epigate. The shortest version: Mr. X (a private citizen) and Mr. Epi (an employee...
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Google is working on further integrating Google+ within its other services. One of the first steps it's taking in order to do that involves showing recent Google+ posts within Gmail.
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Google+: 10 things it does better
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Google+, Google's new social networking service, might cautiously be called a hit. With 25 million visitors at last count, Google+ may well be the fastest-growing social network to launch thus far.
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Twitter is rolling out a new feature called "user galleries" right now. It's basically a neat and organized way to view the last 100 photos you or another user tweeted — all in one place.
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KevinMD.com
How physicians can overcome social media anxiety on Twitter
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Social media holds a lot of potential for the health care professionals. Is fear of the medium inappropriately leading to professionals avoiding this “social situation”? Have we created a social media anxiety syndrome? We are aware of the social anxiety disorder or social phobia. Among its many features are (this is a ...
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Why are unproven therapies so popular, asks physician Edzard Ernst , who has spent 18 years researching alternative medicines – and thinks homeopathy works (full text available to subscribers)
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The scientists reported in an IEEE journal that the system's range is four times greater than that of a conventional antenna worn on the body. The technology could potentially be applied in a number of fields, but is primarily designed for military use.
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Dish on Monday applied for a waiver to the Federal Communications Commission that would allow it to used its recently acquired spectrum to build a wireless network, according to Credit Suisse analyst Jonathan Chaplin. The company plans to build a 4G LTE Advanced network, he said, adding that it has committed to a "realistic" buildout schedule.
This was in my mailbox upon my return from vacation. Really Lynne? 9th edition?
Nassim Taleb : The Banks are more powerful today than they were before the crisis | Nouriel Roubini Blog : - Sent using Google Toolbar
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Nassim Taleb : The Banks are more powerful today ...
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Nassim Taleb : I do not think the bad news would be the recession , the bad news is continuing to commit the same mistake , too much debt, the tumor at the center of the system that has not been removed it is when someone makes money and gets a bonus and when they lose money we pay the price , tax payers future generations , the core of the ...
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A leading astrophysicist and one of the team that produced Dolly the sheep say declining funding means science graduates should think globally Science graduates should scale back their hopes of finding work in the UK and cast their net wider, according to two of the UK's most influential scientists. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Prof Keith ...
 
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JunkScience.com
August 23, 2011, Investor’s Business Daily It won’t matter which light bulbs we use as the administration’s implementation of cross-state pollution rules shuts down coal plants across the country. Where will the jobs be when the lights go out? It’s … Continue reading →
The Opportunity rover arrives at a crater that could carry clues to ancient biology
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NASA MMO Game on Kickstarter: Astronaut: Moon, Mars and Beyond
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Play as an aspiring astronaut in Astronaut: Moon, Mars and Beyond™, the official NASA MMO game. Set in the year 2035, you will embark on an adventure into space, Mars, the asteroid belt, and the outer planets. You will uncover secrets about a threat to civilization as we know it, and build you and your team a high-tech inventory of space gear ...
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