Why Is Bush Helping Saudi Arabia Build Nukes? - WSJ.com

Why Is Bush Helping Saudi Arabia Build Nukes? - WSJ.com: "Here's a quick geopolitical quiz: What country is three times the size of Texas and has more than 300 days of blazing sun a year? What country has the world's largest oil reserves resting below miles upon miles of sand? And what country is being given nuclear power, not solar, by President George W. Bush, even when the mere assumption of nuclear possession in its region has been known to provoke pre-emptive air strikes, even wars?

If you answered Saudi Arabia to all of these questions, you're right."

Blueberries may reverse memory decline, Reading University finds - Telegraph

Blueberries may reverse memory decline, Reading University finds - Telegraph: "Scientists have found that chemicals in the fruit can reverse age-releated decline in memory."

The Raw Story | Canada's parliament votes to grant asylum to US war resisters

The Raw Story | Canada's parliament votes to grant asylum to US war resisters: "Parliament on Tuesday voted to allow US resisters of the Iraq war who fled to Canada to stay in this country, thus avoiding military court-martial in the United States."

Ancient Hair Reveals Greenland Eskimos' Roots : NPR

Ancient Hair Reveals Greenland Eskimos' Roots : NPR: "And the hair yielded something extremely rare — the DNA of some of the earliest humans to live in the Arctic. By studying that DNA, researchers say they've been able to answer a longstanding question: Are modern Eskimos descended from ancient Native Americans, or did they come from somewhere else?

The answer, according to a new study published in the current issue of the journal Science, is somewhere else — probably eastern Asia."

Scientists Cast Doubt on Kennedy Bullet Analysis - washingtonpost.com

Scientists Cast Doubt on Kennedy Bullet Analysis - washingtonpost.com: "In a collision of 21st-century science and decades-old conspiracy theories, a research team that includes a former top FBI scientist is challenging the bullet analysis used by the government to conclude that Lee Harvey Oswald alone shot the two bullets that struck and killed President John F. Kennedy in 1963.

The 'evidence used to rule out a second assassin is fundamentally flawed,' concludes a new article in the Annals of Applied Statistics written by former FBI lab metallurgist William A. Tobin and Texas A&M University researchers Cliff Spiegelman and William D. James."

Ex-Press Aide Writes That Bush Misled U.S. on Iraq - washingtonpost.com

Ex-Press Aide Writes That Bush Misled U.S. on Iraq - washingtonpost.com: "Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated 'political propaganda campaign' led by President Bush and aimed at 'manipulating sources of public opinion' and 'downplaying the major reason for going to war.'"

Tape of Air Traffic Controllers Made on 9/11 Was Destroyed - New York Times

Tape of Air Traffic Controllers Made on 9/11 Was Destroyed - New York Times: "At least six air traffic controllers who dealt with two of the hijacked airliners on Sept. 11, 2001, made a tape recording a few hours later describing the events, but the tape was destroyed by a supervisor without anyone making a transcript or even listening to it, the Transportation Department said Thursday."

Working classes are less intelligent, says evolution expert - Scotsman.com News

Working classes are less intelligent, says evolution expert - Scotsman.com News: "WORKING-CLASS students have lower IQs than those from wealthier backgrounds and should not be expected to win places at top universities, an academic has claimed."

Diet Coke to drop additive in DNA damage fear | Mail Online

Diet Coke to drop additive in DNA damage fear | Mail Online: "Coca-Cola is phasing out a controversial additive that has been linked to damage to DNA and hyperactivity in children.
Sodium benzoate, also known as E211, is used to stop fizzy drinks going mouldy.
Coca-Cola said it had begun withdrawing the additive from Diet Coke in January in response to consumer demand for more natural products.
By the end of the year no can or bottle will contain E211."

Cold Fusion: Scientist Creates Cold Fusion For the First Time In Decades

Cold Fusion: Scientist Creates Cold Fusion For the First Time In Decades: "Cold fusion, the act of producing a nuclear reaction at room temperature, has long been relegated to science fiction after researchers were unable to recreate the experiment that first 'discovered' the phenomenon. But a Japanese scientist was supposedly able to start a cold fusion reaction earlier this week, which—if the results are real—could revolutionize the way we gather energy.

Yoshiaki Arata, a highly respected physicist in Japan, demonstrated a low-energy nuclear reaction at Osaka University on Thursday. In front of a live audience, including reporters from six major newspapers and two tv studios, Arata and a co-professor Yue-Chang Zhang, produced excess heat and helium atoms from deuterium gas."

The Raw Story | Extinct Tasmanian tiger gene brought back to life: scientists

The Raw Story | Extinct Tasmanian tiger gene brought back to life: scientists: "Scientists said Tuesday they had achieved a world first by bringing back to life a gene from the extinct Tasmanian tiger after implanting it in a mouse.

Researchers from universities in Australia and the United States extracted the gene from a 100-year-old preserved specimen of the doglike marsupial -- correctly known as a thylacine -- and revived it in a mouse embryo.

'This is the first time that DNA from an extinct species has been used to induce a functional response in another living organism,' said research leader Andrew Pask of the University of Melbourne."

I Spy Your PC: Researchers Find New Ways to Steal Data - Yahoo! News

I Spy Your PC: Researchers Find New Ways to Steal Data - Yahoo! News: "In two separate pieces of research, teams at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at Saarland University in Saarbrucken, Germany, describe attacks that seem ripped from the pages of spy novels. In Saarbrucken, the researchers have read computer screens from their tiny reflections on everyday objects such as glasses, teapots, and even the human eye. The UC team has worked out a way to analyze a video of hands typing on a keyboard in order to guess what was being written."

‘Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails - Times Online

‘Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails - Times Online: "A massive government database holding details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public is being planned as part of the fight against crime and terrorism. Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecoms companies would hand over the records to the Home Office under plans put forward by officials.

The information would be held for at least 12 months and the police and security services would be able to access it if given permission from the courts."

Orthodox Jewish youths burn New Testaments in Or Yehuda - Haaretz - Israel News

Orthodox Jewish youths burn New Testaments in Or Yehuda - Haaretz - Israel News: "Orthodox Jews set fire to hundreds of copies of the New Testament in the latest act of violence against Christian missionaries in the Holy Land."

China's All-Seeing Eye : Rolling Stone

China's All-Seeing Eye : Rolling Stone: "Now, as China prepares to showcase its economic advances during the upcoming Olympics in Beijing, Shenzhen is once again serving as a laboratory, a testing ground for the next phase of this vast social experiment. Over the past two years, some 200,000 surveillance cameras have been installed throughout the city. Many are in public spaces, disguised as lampposts. The closed-circuit TV cameras will soon be connected to a single, nationwide network, an all-seeing system that will be capable of tracking and identifying anyone who comes within its range — a project driven in part by U.S. technology and investment. Over the next three years, Chinese security executives predict they will install as many as 2 million CCTVs in Shenzhen, which would make it the most watched city in the world. (Security-crazy London boasts only half a million surveillance cameras.)"

BBC NEWS | UK | Phone calls database considered

BBC NEWS | UK | Phone calls database considered: "Ministers are to consider plans for a database of electronic information holding details of every phone call and e-mail sent in the UK, it has emerged."

10-year-old takes college by storm - Education- msnbc.com

10-year-old takes college by storm - Education- msnbc.com: "DOWNEY, Calif. - With the end of another school year approaching, college sophomore Moshe Kai Cavalin is cramming for final exams in classes such as advanced mathematics, foreign languages and music.

But Cavalin is only 10 years old. And at 4-foot-7, his shoes don't quite touch the floor as he puts down a schoolbook and swivels around in his chair to greet a visitor."

UFO files from The National Archives

UFO files from The National Archives: "Newly released UFO files

The files contain a wide range of UFO-related documents covering the years 1978–2002. So if you want to find out more about lights in the sky over Waterloo Bridge, near misses by pilots, crop circles - and what the UK government thought of it all - this is the place to start. The files are in PDF format."

Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens

Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens: "VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican's chief astronomer says that believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God."

Low-energy LEDs could soon be lighting homes | Technology | The Guardian

Low-energy LEDs could soon be lighting homes | Technology | The Guardian: "Dr Faiz Rahman is putting millions of holes into light emitting diodes to make them brighter. He's not, as you might imagine, trying to increase their surface area. Instead, he's overcoming the physical properties that keep most light trapped inside. And when he's managed to scale up his hole-making process, it'll mean bright low-energy LED lightbulbs for the home."