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The Weiner scandal has progressed from kindergarten ("boys have a PENIS and girls have a VAGINA") into about 8th grade, with the Times writing about Weiner's friendlessness in Congress. Disinterested parties like Peter King line up to tell us that Weiner's "brash style" has alienated Wiener from the rest of the Democratic caucus, which is [...] Eilieen Gunn writes, If all goes well, the Aquarius satellite, which will map the salinity of the oceans, collecting more data in a couple of months than is contained in the entire 125-year historical record, will launch this morning (Friday. June 10) at 7:20 am, PDT. (That's 10:20 am EDT and 2:20 pm GMT.) I will watch, because this is more than just another great launch, another extension of the human mind and eye into the cosmos. This one is personal. For more than thirty years, my brother, John Gunn, has measured and analyzed ocean currents and the salinity and temperature that contribute to their function and variability. He has thrown current meters into Arctic and Antarctic waters from small vessels in frigid temperatures, recovered the meters, and analyzed the data. He has spent months in a submarine beneath the polar icecap--back when we had a permanent icecap--collecting data about how the seas function. For the past eight years, he has worked as part of a large international project involving teams of researchers from NASA, JPL, and Argentina's Comisipn Nacional de Actividades Espaciales to launch the satellite that will, he hopes, go up this morning. ... share: digg facebook twitter BONN, Germany (AP) — Climate negotiators are exploring "constructive and creative" solutions so that wealthy countries keep trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions even when binding commitments expire next year, the U.N. climate chief said Monday. The expiry in 2012 of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which bound nearly 40 countries to specific emission reductions targets, looms as delegates from 184 nations seek agreement now on combating global warming. In a sign of the complexity of the talks, the formal start of the conference was delayed by more than half a day while delegates haggled over the agenda, with several countries insisting on the inclusion of their special interests. Reports of record high greenhouse gas emissions and unprecedented carbon levels in the atmosphere added a sense of urgency to the talks. The Paris-based agency said the figures were "a serious setback" to hopes of limiting the rise in the Earth's average temperature to 2 degrees Celsius (3.8 F) above preindustrial levels. Noodling around the internet I found myself at a page of quotations from legendary Science Fiction writer Isaac Asimov. I was quite a fan of his work in my youth, but I haven't read him in years. As I was reading the quotes it seemed that he could be talking about our current crop of [...] Thanks to a Google Earth update containing two decades of data from seafloor- scanning expeditions, armchair explorers can take a virtual submarine ride into Earth's last frontier. Oceanographers say that more is known about the surface of Mars than the deep seafloor of Earth. They're right: Only a fraction of our seafloors have been studied. But with [...] More than a billion people on earth live with some kind of disability, many face tremendous barriers, stigma and discrimination The message of St Francis was uncompromising and simple: greed causes suffering for both the victims and the perpetrators We are living through cuts to services and benefits that will disproportionately affect the poor. We have also seen a hysterical response to protest and dissent from some sections of society. Concern for the poor is a central theme in the life of St Francis of Assisi. He is a saint for our time, because he stands in a tradition of powerful demands for social justice. The problems he confronted head-on are all the problems we are grappling with right now: involvement in wars, poverty, corruption in high places, social exclusion and the wealth-poverty gap. St Francis lived as one of the poorest and lowest in society, and worked as a day labourer. This was hard, menial, low-paid work, yet he never passed a collection plate when he preached, nor asked the public for money. His life and message were uncompromising and simple: greed causes suffering for both the victims and the perpetrators. St Francis's views about the perpetrators are relevant as bankers award themselves enormous undeserved bonuses, while others suffer. The indifference of the greedy and ... Every year on June 8, ocean enthusiasts celebrate World Oceans Day . Last year over 300 official events in 45 countries recognized how the Earth's largest and most complex ecosystem affects not only the rest of the planet and its inhabitants, but how the seas touch upon the essence of being human and the connectivity of the human-sphere to the ocean-sphere. The ocean is such a ubiquitous part of our world that we mostly take it for granted. Part of the disconnect between people and the ocean is explained by distance between people and the shore - even a mile can make us half-a-world away if we never make the effort to gaze out on the blue horizon. [More] The master of destruction is being sought to turn this 1979 video game into a sci-fi adventure film for Universal. [...] Since 2000, world production has risen by 9.6% and world consumption has risen by 14.1%. Here at National Geographic our mission is to "inspire people to care about the planet." Today on World Oceans Day, we help place a call to action to preserve one of the planet's most important natural resources. This ode to the ocean by our Digital Nomad, Andrew Evans- who sailed across the Atlantic aboard the… Some amazing photos of the earth from the book "The Day After Tomorrow: Images of our Earth in Crisis." The book takes readers on a journey to bear witness to the environmental destruction that is currently plaguing our planet. The Day After Tomorrow by J Henry Fair is published by powerHouse Books. A Belgian supermarket giant is trying to cut its CO2 emissions by 20% with the help of a new solar power system at one of its largest distribution centres. Delhaize has installed a system made by Solyndra International AG, a subsidiary of Solyndra LLC, at a distribution centre in Zellik, near Brussel. It has long been forecast that the number of IP addresses available in the current Internet Protocol format (IPv4) is insufficient to cope with the spectacular growth of the internet and consequent number of devices that need their own IP address. This has come into sharp relief this year, with the last remaining blocks of IPv4 addresses being allocated by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). These addresses pass down to the Regional Internet Registries (the one that applies to the UK is RIPE NCC), which then allocate them to ISPs and other companies that need them. The internet won't stop working on the day that the last IPv4 address is allocated, but a solution is required to allow the internet to continue to expand. That solution is IPv6. IPv6 provides a mind-boggling number of addresses (3.4 x 1038). It's hard to find a meaningful analogy for a number this large, but if every man, woman and child on Earth had a billion devices each with an IPv6 address, you haven't even come close to scratching the surface of the number of addresses available. Unfortunately, IPv6 is not backwards compatible with IPv4, so there's a lot of work required ... An unusual solar flare observed by a NASA space observatory could cause some disruptions to satellite communications and power on Earth over the next day or so, officials said. How might nature improve on a dinosaur? Could an adopted child of Kate and William claim the throne? The one law in life that matters **If whatever wiped out the dinosaurs hadn't happened, what kind of lifeform would they have evolved into?** Evolution viewed from the start of life on earth looks like a series of explosions in diversity followed by gradual adjustments. When something (climate, habitat, food, atmospheric content) changes, some species dwindle or become extinct, and others take advantage. The best-placed species to take advantage are often small and simple forms. By the time the dinosaurs had their catastrophic event, most of their species were too complex and large to adapt to the new conditions. Some small mammals (perhaps shrew-like) took advantage, filling the available habitats by evolving into the mammalian forms we see today. Had the dinosaurs not been wiped out it is likely that they would be very similar today, albeit with adaptations to the gradual changes in conditions, and a number of extinctions due to, for example, the evolution of more competitive forms of other species. _Dan Ware, Stockport, Ches_ This is a misreading of Darwinism: species don't have to evolve into anything. Many ... New system to eventually lead to a dramatic increase in number of addresses on World Wide Web National leader enlists further support from church to address social, economic challenges (This post was supposed to run Monday, but I advertently posted a Grammar Police followup first, so I decided just to flip them.) Monday was the 67th anniversary of D-Day. It's one of those dates we acknowledge every year, in...
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