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Cold Fusion [Prometheus Fusion Perfection - Mark Suppes] Italian researchers Focardi and Rossi claim to have made a break even cold fusion reactor. Huge news if it is true… Worth mentioning that the device is dead simple. It would be relatively easy to replicate the experiment. science physics green_energy Probe to survey comet dented by [...]

Flashback [Talking Points Memo - Josh Marshall] I'm listening to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) on Hardball discussing the issues sounding violent political rhetoric. And she's reminding Chris how last year her opponent in her reelection campaign had one of these shooting range campaign events where he fired a gun at a silhouette marked with [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Margaret Heffernan: Science Acknowledges: Women Make Teams Smarter …what's really interesting was what did not make the teams smarter: motivation, group cohesion or satisfaction. In other words, it didn't seem to make a big difference how happy the group felt about itself. What did make a difference were these three [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Giant Waves Solve Saturn Ring Mystery [Wired: Science - Lisa Grossman] Saturn’s largest ring appears to behave like a mini spiral galaxy. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft caught enormous waves sloshing back and forth across Saturn’s B ring, similar to waves believed to give galaxies their spiral shapes… In Saturn’s rings, the [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] 10 useful new WordPress hacks – CatsWhoCode.com wordpress 50 years of cyborgs: I have not the words. [Geek Feminism Blog - guest writer Quinn Norton] science_fiction What a colony might look like on Gloaming, the newly-discovered "second Earth" [io9 - Annalee Newitz] Yesterday scientists announced the discovery of the first [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] On the Web, Children Face Intensive Tracking – WSJ.com privacy Syncing your BlackBerry on Ubuntu | Ubuntu Geek linux Dan Savage Creates YouTube Channel to Help Gay Teens lgbt California’s largest labor union backs pot legalization initiative – latimes.com war_on_inanimate_objects CrimProf Blog: "As Hours Tick Away, Lawyers Plead Case of Woman Set [...]

[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Restorative justice – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia …posits a paradigm shift that is best understood by asking the oft-quoted "three questions." The more common three questions for a system of justice to ask are "1. What [...]

[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] The Sun is changing the rate of radioactive decay, and breaking the rules of chemistry [io9 - Alasdair Wilkins] The Sun is changing the supposedly constant rates of decay of radioactive elements, and we have absolutely [...]

[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Gibbs, It’s Not About The “Professional Left”; You’re Losing Democrats [Firedoglake - Rayne] Gibbs. Dude. [...] Before you just roll your eyes and hit the back button, you need to know I’m not merely the base [...]

[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Indiana Jones? Archaeologist kills rampaging polar bear [A Blog About History - Sevaan Franks] …two archaeologists investigating Nazi meteorological stations in Greenland were attacked by a polar bear. [I am not making this up. -L] WikiLeaks [...]