Following on my Apple v. ExxonMobil post from last week, here's more fodder. Bill Gates and Sergey Brin are now financial backers of the campaign to defeat Prop 23 in California; while "68 investors managing $415 billion in assets, including venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and VantagePoint Venture Partners," have also signaled their opposition. Why so much corporate and big money opposition to a ballot initiative that is being pushed by industrial powerhouses? Simple:
[UPDATE: Launch has been delayed for a day and is now set for Tuesday, Nov.2 at 16:17 Eastern time.] If you have always wanted to watch a launch of the Shuttle that lofted Hubble into orbit, then you get one final chance: the last scheduled flight of Discovery is now set for November 1. STS-133, as that flight is designated, will thunder into space at 16:40 Eastern time (20:40 UT) from Kennedy Space Center. The six crew members will install a new module on the International Space Station, as w
Those Street View cameras aren't just collecting pictures of streets and buildings to make Google Maps better, they're also scooping up email addresses and passwords, Google admitted Friday. Back in May the company announced that its Street View cars were mistakenly collecting data from unencrypted wireless networks; now they've acknowledged that this data included emails, url addresses, and passwords from people who were sending that data over open (non-password protected) networks when a Goog
As doctors try to contain the lethal outbreak of cholera in Haiti, geologists have more bad news for the island nation. The disastrous earthquake that struck in January did not release the stress on the main east-west fault that underlies Haiti, but in fact probably originated from a separate fault line, according to separate studies out in Nature Geoscience. That means Haiti is in danger of more major earthquakes. Directly after the earthquake, some geologists said the most likely cause was Hai
Lauren Lynch reports the latest tennis news. In Doha, Francesca Schiavone plays against Samantha Stosur. Caroline Wozniacki, Elena Dementieva, Schiavone and Stosur form the Maroon Group in the eight-player, round-robin tournament. Kim Clijsters will face Vera Zvonareva in the White Group including Jelena Jankovic and Moscow champion Victoria Azarenka. Lleyton Hewitt and wife Bec Cartwright gave birth to third child, a baby girl, on October 19th in Sydney and the name is to be announced via text message. Читать дальше...
Your lungs know a bitter sensation when they taste one. Yes, taste. In a Nature Medicine study, Stephen B. Liggett and company found receptors on the smooth muscle in the lungs that respond to bitterness, similar to the bitter taste buds on the tongue. And, Liggett found, the receptors' reaction to bitterness is to relax the muscles, and therefore to expand airways. That was totally unexpected, he says, and opens intriguing possibilities for pulmonary treatment—for example, asthmatic symptoms c
Wayne Rooney signs a new £10 million-a-year contract with Manchester United. We ponder why the 'White Pele' signed.
Wayne Rooney signs a new £10 million-a-year contract with Manchester United. We ponder why the 'White Pele' signed.
The next few months will be crucial for Sudan as it prepares to hold two referenda on self-determination in January, top United Nations officials said today, urging all parties to redouble their efforts to ensure that the polls are held on time, free, fair and credible.