Isolated Cave Dwellers
Scientists have reportedly discovered blind creatures living in a cave, isolated from the outside world for untold ages.
And in a related story, Hillary Clinton kicked off her reelection campaign today...
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Scientists have reportedly discovered blind creatures living in a cave, isolated from the outside world for untold ages.
And in a related story, Hillary Clinton kicked off her reelection campaign today...
If you love cars, and you haven't watched Britain's Top Gear, you really need to check out the video segment below. It's a single segment, their coverage of the astonishing Ariel Atom, a fantastic little sports car with stats to beat cars ten times its price. (Zero to 60 in less than three seconds, anyone?)
I was introduced to Top Gear when I was in England a few years back, and caught most of a season here in the States when they were airing episodes on Discovery Channel last year. It's very enjoyable; the abandon with which the presenters tackle their subject is a joy to behold, and the producer have cooked up some very imaginative segments. The Lotus Elise Exige v. Apache attack helicopter head-to-head segment was particularly memorable, for example.
I have heard rumors someone is planning an "Americanized" version, but I'm not a fan of the idea. I think it's the presenters that make the original. While you might make a worthwhile show that happens to be called Top Gear, it won't be the Top Gear I love.
At this point, my cognitive performance must be unparalleled.
Russell predicted before the film opened that it would make at least $125 million. There's a bet he wins handily. According to BoxOfficeMojo.com, the film rang up $102 million domestically and $255 million worldwide in its first 7 days of release.
Or since 1976 anyway. (Via Buzz Out Loud.)
“At some point Hollywood is going to run out of TV shows to remake into movies.” Nah. That’ll never happen. When they run out, they’ll just cycle around and remake them a second time.
Tom Tancredo was on Hannity and Colmes last week, and there were several things he said that I thought made a lot of sense.
[Y]ou do not know how long it has been that I have been wanting to be able to be supportive of the president. ...I simply disagree with him completely and totally when it comes to this idea of marrying the idea of enforcement with the idea of — and it really is amnesty, no matter how many times he tries to say it isn't. It's amnesty. When you put those two together, it ruins it for me. ...as we speak, things are fluid around this place, as you know. But as we speak... there is no way that a bill containing amnesty will get a majority of Republicans in the House to support it.
With regard to the President's assertion that his "path to citizenship" is not amnesty:
I keep saying, you know, let's send him the dictionary. He said tonight..., "I call amnesty immediate citizenship, and my bill is not immediate citizenship for people who are here illegally." Well, Mr. President, you're the only person I know who defines amnesty that way. Amnesty is when you do not apply the penalty that the law requires when you have violated that law. And when you tell people who have come into this country illegally that they can stay, that is amnesty. There's just no two ways about it.
In reply to the question, "Congressman, do you want to deport 11 million people?":
You don't have to. It's a false dichotomy. You do not have to have either amnesty or massive deportation. ...You can have attrition... ...You enforce the law ...against employers who are hiring the folks who are here. If you do that, you will get attrition. Over time, millions of people will return home because [getting a job is] why they came to the United States. If they can't get one, they will go home.
The cloaking devices that are used to render spacecraft invisible in Star Trek might just work in reality, two mathematicians have claimed.
They have outlined their concept in a research paper published in one of the UK Royal Society's scientific journals.
Nicolae Nicorovici and Graeme Milton propose that placing certain objects close to a material called a superlens could make them appear to vanish.
It would rely on an effect known as "anomalous localised resonance".
However, the authors have so far only done the maths to verify that the concept could work. Building such a device would undoubtedly pose a significant challenge.
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