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POPSDangerously Fun If you got board from clipping or reading other's clips, here is some fun alternatives. :-)
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POPSChess Got More Info Than Torture - Steak Dinners Helped Several of the veterans, all men in their 80s and 90s, denounced the controversial techniques. And when the time came for them to accept honors from the Army's Freedom Team Salute, one veteran refused, citing his opposition to the war in Iraq and procedures that have been used at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. "I feel like the military is using us to say, 'We did spooky stuff then, so it's okay to do it now,' " said Arno Mayer, 81, a professor of European history at Princeton University.
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POPSThe ‘Good Germans’ Among Us Instead of taxing us for Iraq, the White House bought us off with tax cuts. Instead of mobilizing the needed troops, it kept a draft off the table by quietly purchasing its auxiliary army of contractors to finesse the overstretched military’s holes. With the war’s entire weight falling on a small voluntary force, amounting to less than 1 percent of the population, the rest of us were free to look the other way at whatever went down in Iraq. “We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture,” said Henry Kolm, 90, an M.I.T. physicist whose interrogation of Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy, took place over a chessboard. George Frenkel, 87, recalled that he “never laid hands on anyone” in his many interrogations, adding, “I’m proud to say I never compromised my humanity.”
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POPSCan I Claim Clipmarks on Technorati? I can claim my blog I can claim my twitter, but can I claim my Clips? I would imagine, if I could, I would have to make a clip of the url that technorati gives you during set up? When we post a clip it is like a blog or twitter post right? Boys?! If your listening :)
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POPSMystery of the Himalayas solved Scientists can't even be sure how high the land was before India crashed into Asia, obliterating the Tethys Ocean which used to separate them. Like western South America, the coast could have been lined by mountains.Some scientists have even suggested that the rise of the Himalayas could have triggered the Ice Age by increasing the total amount of global rain and removing vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the air.By pushing the Himalayas to their current altitude, more than 8,000m above sea level, and raising the Tibetan plateau to 5,000m, the detachment of the block was responsible for both the monsoon rains that make south Asia so fertile and the Gobi desert in central Asia. Warm winds blowing from the Pacific Ocean cool as they rise over the mountains, releasing the moisture they contain as torrential rains, leaving almost no water to fall on the arid interior of the continent.
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POPSNo man is an island Chongqing, China, March 21, 2007—No man is an island. But developers in China have made one couple face an unusual type of island living after the homeowners refused to sell. Wu Ping and her husband were the only family of 281 to reject a 2004 offer of a new house or financial compensation for their property. So the developer initiated construction around the building, leaving an island of land amid the excavation, as seen in this photo taken on Wednesday. A deadline to move out set by a local district court ran out on Thursday, and authorities are not sure what steps they will take next. The conflict coincides with new laws adopted this week in China that grant legal protections for private land ownership for the first time since the Communist Party nationalized land in 1949. "I'm not stubborn or unruly, I'm just trying to protect my personal rights as a citizen. I will continue to the end," Wu reportedly told the state-run newspaper Legal Daily.
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POPSTiny Bodies In A Morgue "We pleaded with the administrators to help us,” said one mother, Chen Li, 39, who came to the morgue on Wednesday to identify her son, a sixth grader. “We yelled, ‘Where are the soldiers? Send them to help us!’ ”
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POPSFort Hunt's Quiet Men Break Silence on WWII Ah, the good old days, when you softened someone up by gaining their confidence and then stabbed them in the back. :) Of course, people are much different today. I seriously doubt a steak dinner today would get a suspected terrorist to spill his guts. Still, it goes to show that information can be obtained by more humane methods than torture.
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POPSNitrogen-fixing puzzle solved. Fixing Nitrogen is 'expensive' in organic terms, 'costing' the plant twice as much carbon as does nitrogen drawn from the soil. Phosphorous also needs to be released from organic matter and made soluble, in phosphorous poor soils. The extra nitrogen is used to do this. Other plants in the surrounding area also benefit.
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POPSChina's Push for a New Global Monetary Order The Chinese authorities find it hard to explain to its domestic public why a relatively poor developing country is lending so much to one of the world’s most affluent economies. Luo Ping, a director general at the China Banking Regulatory Commission, said “We hate you guys. Once you start issuing $1 to $2 trillion … we know the dollar is going to depreciate, so we hate you guys but there is nothing much we can do.”
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