The island where people forget to die

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One day in 1976, a Greek war veteran named Stamatis Moraitis felt short of breath. Climbing stairs was a chore; he had to quit working midday. After X-rays, his doctor concluded that Moraitis had lung cancer. As he recalls, nine other doctors confirmed the diagnosis. They gave him nine months to live. He was in his mid-60s.

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Cambridge University's 'Space
Scream' Phone Experiment

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 25 October 2012 08:24:49 AM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From BBC News: Members of the Spaceflight Society (CUSF) will transmit the screams via a mobile phone on board a satellite.A sound file will be sent back to Earth "which may or may not contain the screams in the vacuum of space".A CUSF spokesman said they were not expecting much but hoped i

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Shark Falls from Sky Onto Golf Course

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From Yahoo! News:At the San Juan Hills Golf Club in southern California, course hazards include sand traps and falling sharks.Or they did on Monday (Oct. 22) afternoon, when a 2-foot-long, live leopard shark apparently plummeted from the sky and landed very close to the 12th tee box at the San J

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'Geoengineering' project was about salmon fishery

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Controversial dumping of iron into the Pacific was done to boost salmon populations, not to hack the climate, says the project's chief scientist

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is it cold fusion or just a scam, revisited

post from weird thingsweird things | exploring science, technology, the strange and the unknown on 25 October 2012 06:48:55 AM. © weird thingsweird things | exploring science, technology, the strange and the unknown

Last year, I wrote about Andrea Rossi’s claim to have created a cold fusion reactor and suffice it to say that I wasn’t very optimistic about the prospects. Not only did it seem to defy some basic laws of physics but its inventor was exceedingly cagey about how the device worked, claiming to have simply [...]

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Infrared Hotspots in a Monster Saturn Storm

post from HD - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on 25 October 2012 03:00:00 AM. © HD - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

This animation shows 'beacons' of hot air seen in the infrared that appeared during a great springtime storm on Saturn from January 2011 to March 2012.

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Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena: Color Television
Pioneer

Color television was introduced in Mexico on August 31, 1946 thanks to Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena. An active stargazer, he also built his own telescope.Camarena was born in Guadalajara on February 17, 1917 and grew up in Mexico City. His interest in inventing began in childhood when he made

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A persistent Orionid

Last weekend the Orionid meteor shower peaked. To be honest, it’s a rather weak shower, with a max of maybe 25 meteors per hour. I mentioned it on Twitter and other social media, but it’s usually a so-so shower at best so it didn’t seem[...]

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