Archive for January, 2010
Tech-savvy kids dive into robotics (Omaha World-Herald)
An event lets students apply knowledge of science, engineering and math.
Read More..>>Kathryn Bigelow nabs top award from Director’s Guild with ‘Hurt Locker’ (New York Daily News)
The “Battle of the Exes” Oscars showdown heated up over the weekend when Kathryn Bigelow scored an upset win at the Directors Guild of America over former hubby James Cameron .
Read More..>>DVDs Nuts! (Orlando Weekly)
Che Auteur Steven Soderbergh’s difficult, two-part guerrilla-style epic about a guerrilla-style revolutionary gets that much more ponderous, fascinating and, let’s face it, mind-numbing thanks to Criterion with the addition of a high-definition transfer ’supervised by Soderbergh.’
Read More..>>Too crowded to get to the top
Advanced Placement calculus students crowd into Phil Bombino’s class at Clark High. Clark Principal Jill Pendleton says, “I have students fighting to get into Mr. Bombino’s class.” Having sold thousands of students and their families on the value of …
Read More..>>NASA ends effort to free rover from Martian sand
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Mars rover Spirit has logged nearly five miles during six years of rolling around the red planet. It has driven forward, backward and uphill over plains, plateaus, and even a mountain as tall as the Statue of Liberty. No more …
Read More..>>The greatest scientific advances from the Muslim world
There is no such thing as Islamic science ‘“ for science is the most universal of human activities. But the means to facilitating scientific advances have always been dictated by culture, political will and economic wealth. What is only now becoming …
Read More..>>Egypt to announce results of DNA tests on King Tutankhamun on February …
Sunday’s statement also said a robot would be sent into the Great Pyramid of Khufu to discover the secrets of its hidden passageways. Emailing an article to friend is a simple way to share a news item. Your friend will receive an email with your name …
Read More..>>Castlen Elementary reaches out to fire victims
Jo Anne McKnight MOBILE, Ala. — On Jan. 10, a fire at Homestead Apartments in Grand Bay left several families out in the cold. Seven children in five of those families attend Castlen Elementary School. ‘These families lost everything in the fire …
Read More..>>The Hospital: a kvetcher’s paradise
I think the robotics people at Imperial College London are working on a robot to do this. Hurry is all I can say. 3. Nurses that make the blood pressure cuff so tight you could easily scream and defiantly should scream. 4. Nurses who forgot half your …
Read More..>>NASA Gives Up on Spirit Rescue, Preps Mars Rover to Hibernate
The NASA Spirit rover, which has been wandering Mars for the past six years, appears to be permanently stuck in the strange patch of Martian soil it’s been lodged in for the past several months. With winter approaching, Spirit’s handlers have …
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