You can teach your computer lots of things, but what can you teach your phone? We can now send people words, images and videos on our iphones–what if we could send them a moving, 3-D representation? And researchers at Fermilab are building a device that will prove that the 3-D universe we THINK we live in is nothing but a hologram. This texting is more than just fun, there’s a serious side to it as well.
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When it comes to evolution, scientists tell us that we mammals started out small and only got to be human (and human-sized) after the dinosaurs died out. And diseases have their own evolution: How did HIV (and the AIDS it leads to) migrate from monkeys to men? The reason that mammals stayed small (most of them were the size of today’s rats) during the dinosaur days was because most of the dinosaurs were herbivores (vegetarians), so they ate most of the plants that existed in that time.
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This clip from Bloomberg shows a strange figure standing in a window behind George W. Bush for the whole ten minutes of the president’s statement. It could be a distorted reflection, but it is certainly a very strange one.
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Sea World and all such attractions bear a heavy responsibility for the cruelty of capturing these beautiful creatures. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx8G71vXwnY&feature=player_embedded
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