(By Judie Brown)
One of my favorite magicians is Criss Angel http://www.crissangel.com/. His ability to draw the viewer into the most amazing
illusions is seconded only by his
peer, David Blaine http://www.davidblaine.com/. The kind of
"magic" they perform has earned Angel the title "the Mind
Freak."
However, as I was reading the news from the scientific community this week, I was
tempted to say that the most unbelievable mind freaks are not magicians at all,
but people who have dedicated their lives to destroying the most vulnerable
human beings while claiming that they only want to advance science. And if science can make it possible for only
disease-free people to be born or for allegedly dying people to die earlier,
why not?
The 8th annual
Corbet started his talk with a brief recap of the Linux kernel development process. According to Corbet, Linux kernels are now on a two- to three-month release cycle. The current Linux kernel version is 2.6.17.6, with 2.6.17.7 expected shortly. All 2.6.x kernels are major releases, with 2.6.x.y kernels being bug-fix releases.
Corbet says that there will not be a 2.7 kernel tree for the foreseeable future, not until there is a major, earth-shattering change that will break everything -- and thereby require an unstable kernel tree.
According NASA
officials the next generation spacesuits are going to be developed by a company
called Oceaneering International Inc.
It is interesting to note that Oceaneering is famous for creating products for oil
and gas industry and providing services for deep water operations.
NASA beat out Exploration
Systems and Technology, which is a company owned by ILC and Hamilton Sundstrand. The later is a subsidiary of United Technologies and it has been the
main contractor for creating spacesuits for Houston-based company since 1960s.
According to a report in New Scientist, Nicola Pugno of the Polytechnic
of Turin in
When held 5 micrometres apart, to keep them invisible, they would form a cable only 1 centimetre in diameter weighing a mere 10 milligrams per kilometre.
Today NASA's Glast mission is
going to launch a space telescope
the goal of which is to spot the most violent events that take place in the universe. The telescope will be launched
from Cape Canaveral air force
A number of tasks for the newest laboratory on the international space station were to be
performed today by the astronauts from space
shuttle Discovery. They had to fully extend the 33-foot robotic arm (the cost of which is about
$1 billion). It is worth mentioning that the robotic arm has already been moved
on Saturday, but only a little.
"They will do a series of motions. It will
practically extend all the way out," mentioned flight director Annette
Hasbrook.
Dramatic photographs have emerged of one of the few
remaining peoples on earth who are thought to have had no contact with the
outside world.
Indians are photographed during an over flight in May
2008, as they react to the over flight at their camp.
Made from tiny tubes of carbon standing on end, this
material is almost 30 times darker than a carbon substance used by the US
National Institute of Standards and Technology as the current benchmark of
blackness.
Willis E.
Lamb Jr., a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose work on the electron structure
of the hydrogen atom revolutionized the quantum theory of matter, has died. He
was 94.
Lamb died
in a
Lamb worked
as a physicist at various universities from the late 1930s until retiring from
the
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