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Movement Of Earth's North Magnetic Pole Accelerating Rapidly
After some 400 years of relative stability, Earth's North Magnetic Pole has moved nearly 1,100 kilometers out into the Arctic Ocean during the last century and at its present rate could move from northern Canada to Siberia within the next half-century. If that happens, Alaska may be in danger of losing one of its most stunning natural phenomena -- the Northern Lights. 'Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda'-- New Study Sheds Light On How We Would Have
If you're like most people, you've probably experienced a shoulda-woulda-coulda moment. New research shows that our counterfactual thinking may be markedly different when we are actually experiencing failure rather than reading about someone else's. Psychologists refer to this process, in which we evaluate how we would do things differently, as "counterfactual thinking"and while it can have a positive spin, more often than not it is a psychological mechanism that causes us to harbor feelings of disappointment and regret. Study Provides New Estimates Of The Causes Of Child Mortality Worldwid
Seventy-three percent of the 10.6 million child deaths worldwide each year are the result of six causes: pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, neonatal sepsis, preterm delivery and asphyxia at birth. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) have developed the most accurate estimates to date of the causes of death of children under age 5. Hoax: 11th Grader Gets Detention for Using Firefox
Update: A little digging shows the Pennsylvania high schooler in detention is in the doghouse for mouthing off, not for using Firefox, as reported on the web. Turns out the kid altered the scanned detention report, sparking the "punished for using Firefox" story. Look for a retraction from the culprit. The Real Adult Expo
Sex-tech is emerging from the fringe to the middle of the main convention floor. But where are the webcams? Commentary by Regina Lynn. New Year's Resolution Week: Facts and Figures
Information about New Year's traditions. Includes a brief history of New Year's resolutions, information about the celebration of new years in ancient cultures, global good luck traditions, a list of common resolutions, and the lyrics to "Auld Lang Syne"by Robert Burns. From a company that provides materials and training for performance improvement. New York State Taylor Law: Negotiating to Avoid Strikes in the Public
Article from 1998 describing the history and operation of New York state's 1967 Taylor Law (Public Employees Fair Employment Act). "The Taylor Law, permits union organizing [by public sector employees], and provides a system within which to resolve labor-management conflict short of striking"and "establishes certain mandatory bargaining issues."From a site maintained by a professor at the Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University. New Fertilizer Material Can Help Control Heavy Metal Content
A new reference material developed by NIST can help the agriculture industry and state regulators monitor the concentrations of several potentially hazardous heavy metal contaminants in fertilizers. Facts for Features Special Edition: Launch of Sputnik I and Start of t
Facts and statistics marking the 50th anniversary in 2007 of the launch "by the Soviet Union on Oct. 4, 1957 [of] Sputnik I ... the first satellite to be put into orbit. The launch ignited the 'Space Race' between the United States and Soviet Union."Data covers the aerospace industry, U.S.-Russia trade, and population of the U.S., Soviet Union and Russia, and Brevard County, Florida (home of Cape Canaveral). From the U.S. Census Bureau. Clusty
An offshoot of the Internet search tool Vivísimo, "Clusty queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking. ... [This] search engine groups similar results together in clusters."Searches can be conducted for the whole Web, and for specific areas, such as blogs and news. Click on "details"to see what was searched. Also includes a FAQ and links to news stories about the site.
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