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.CO Domain Names Now Available To The Public

.CO Domain Names Now Available To The Public

Jul 20 2010 | comment(s)

Overstock.com Announces Purchase Of O.CO Domain Name

Overstock.com Announces Purchase Of O.CO Domain Name

Jul 20 2010 | comment(s)

Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation's SECURE THE FUTURE(R) Works To Reduce The Impact Of HIV And Tuberculosis Epidemic In Africa

Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation's SECURE THE FUTURE(R) Works To Reduce The Impact Of HIV And Tuberculosis Epidemic In Africa

Jul 20 2010 | comment(s)

ChallengeQ - A 54 Mile Run Anyone? Raising Money For MAC-UK

ChallengeQ - A 54 Mile Run Anyone? Raising Money For MAC-UK

Jul 20 2010 | comment(s)

Bombardier Chooses Alcan's AIRWARE(TM) Technology For Its CSeries Aircraft Program In The Framework Of A Long-Term Agreement

Bombardier Chooses Alcan's AIRWARE(TM) Technology For Its CSeries Aircraft Program In The Framework Of A Long-Term Agreement

Jul 20 2010 | comment(s)

David Moreira Appointed Vice President Of Marketing, Menicon America

David Moreira Appointed Vice President Of Marketing, Menicon America

Jul 20 2010 | comment(s)

Gardens at their best - the Versailles Palace of King Louis XIV of France

Gardens at their best - the Versailles Palace of King Louis XIV of France

Jul 20 2010 | comment(s)

If you can withstand a two hour wait in the queue (on Sunday the 18th July) to purchase the ticket costing Euro 25 for the Palace and gardens there is no other place as beautiful as the garden of the palace of Versailles, just one hour from Paris . 

It has beautiful gardens spread over 5 km sq or more, with fountains running at specific times.

 

Lockheed Martin To Pursue International Airborne ISR Opportunities With Finmeccanica And L-3 Communications Systems-West

Lockheed Martin To Pursue International Airborne ISR Opportunities With Finmeccanica And L-3 Communications Systems-West

Jul 20 2010 | comment(s)

Bridges That Build Themselves

Bridges That Build Themselves

Jul 20 2010 | comment(s)

Bridges That Build Themselves

The two oldest types of bridge are the arch bridge and the corbel bridge.  It takes a lot of time and effort to build them, but they can last for thousands of years.

Rockfalls can make natural bridges over streams, but the 'design' is very inefficient.  The water channels are easily blocked, with resultant flooding of the adjacent banks.

If I told you that a tornado could pick up rocks and drop them across a river so as to form a perfect arch bridge, you wouldn't believe me.  I hope.  The only way to build a stone arch bridge is to set up a type of scaffolding, shuttering, or former - more properly known as centering.
Why Don't Science Writers Write About Science Education?

Why Don't Science Writers Write About Science Education?

Jul 19 2010 | comment(s)

I  don't get why science writers don't cover science education.

They cover whatever cool science is the flavor of the moment, they cover disasters and the science behind them, they cover scientists but they don't cover the kids who are going to replace them and what they're being taught. Call a science publication land ask it to do a story on science education - they'll tell you they do something once a year. Read them - you'll see what I mean. Read the regular national press and you'll find very little too.

Jul 19 2010 | comment(s)

Which came first, the scientist or the sensationalist?

Which came first, the scientist or the sensationalist?

Jul 19 2010 | comment(s)

Casey Rentz takes that whole chicken-egg silliness (solved! say headlines) and gets to the meat of the issue in Which came first, the scientist or the sensationalist?

It isn't just pageview-whoring journalists and media companies, Casey notes, but researchers and PIOs at institutions as well.
Web publications want flashy news. Press officers want to glorify their own institution. Scientists want to attract new funding. It's a reinforced loop that can in some situations lead to the printing of truly questionable material, as the chicken and egg article so plainly illustrates.
Healthier Pizza in Lunch Lady Land

Healthier Pizza in Lunch Lady Land

Jul 19 2010 | comment(s)

Big news, school lunch eaters - your rectangle-shaped pizza will soon be burned and served up cold1 with less sodium! Schwan's Food Service, based in the lovely state of Minnesota, is ahead of schedule by a year on reducing the sodium content of its Big Daddy line of school lunch pizzas, and by a larger percent than originally planned.
Among My Souvenirs (chem.)

Among My Souvenirs (chem.)

Jul 19 2010 | comment(s)

I expect most of you have heard this song, with its sad words.  It’s full of letters sad and blue, a photograph or two, roses, tokens ….

Not for me!  But as I am clearing out our chemical store, with materials being sent off for disposal prior to the closure of the Reading University Physics Department, some of those bottles do hold memories for me.

There, in an outside brick shed, far enough away to store large quantities of flammable chemicals, sits a jar of sodium nitrite.  But the use to which it was put was somewhat unorthodox. 
Ipreo Launches Capital Markets Application On Salesforce.com AppExchange 2

Ipreo Launches Capital Markets Application On Salesforce.com AppExchange 2

Jul 19 2010 | comment(s)

International Organizations Agree To Take Concerted Action To End Pediatric HIV/AIDS

International Organizations Agree To Take Concerted Action To End Pediatric HIV/AIDS

Jul 19 2010 | comment(s)