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POPSArtificial Gravity Slows Muscle Loss Hopefully, elderly people will be able to benefit from this new knowledge, "A study in the Journal of Applied Physiology found that spinning bedridden volunteers in a centrifuge to mimic gravity stopped the muscle loss associated with weightlessness."
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POPSBernanke Defends Bail-Out Package Mistakes Should Ben Bernanke and Timothy Geitner both be called before congress to testify under oath about the huge mistakes that they made in issuing the bailout packages, and sending unaccounted money to foriegn banks last fall ?
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POPS"The DNA Code" - New Research Shows Life Hardwired in the Universe The study indicates that you don't need a miracle to arrive at the chemical cocktail for early life, just a decently large asteroid with the right components. That's all. The entire universe could be stuffed with life, from the earliest prebiotic protein-a-likes to fully DNAed descendants.
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POPSSix Indictments Against Bottled Water For years, advocacy groups have been raising concerns about bottled water: Not only do bottles end up littering the landscape, and not only are those plastic bottles derived from fossil fuels, but they also may leach chemicals into water and the quality of the water is not stringently monitored.
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POPSWildfire season ignites research and debate A study published in the journal Ecological Applications last week explored the complex relationship between global warming and wildfire risk, suggesting that the creation of dry vegetation influences a fire’s destruction more than rising temperatures themselves. A case in point would be Western shrublands and grasslands, as they require a wet year, followed by a dry one, to produce the kindling for a large wildfire.
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POPS Design and Mathematics in Nature The findings of math among nature are endless; the possibilities for future innovations prove to be the same! http://www.abc.net.au/science/photos/mathsinnature/
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POPSScientists Make Radio Waves Travel Faster Than Light A Los Alamos National Laboratory gadget, called a polarization synchrotron, combines radio waves and a rapidly spinning magnetic field, which forces radio waves to travel faster than the speed of light. The resulting phenomenon could lead to new technologies in health and communications.
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POPS36 Michael Jackson Music Videos Just click title to go to video - THRILLER - BILLIE JEAN - DIRTY DIANA - BAD - BEAT IT - BLACK OR WHITE - DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH - THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL - SCREAM - LIBERIAN GIRL - REMEMBER THE TIME - THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT US ......And Many More
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POPSRoman Cat Sanctuary Whether the cats rule themselves via Republic or recognize a cat Emperor is, as of yet, undetermined. More on Torre Argentina here.
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POPSAncient Granary Predates Agriculture In a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers announced the discovery of a granary for storing wild barley and oats, which was built well before the advent of agriculture.