#SciAmBlogs Thursday – Actinides, Roy Chapman Andrews, Balloons in Space, Jumping Spiders and more
By Bora Zivkovic?| January 27, 2012 |?? Share ?Email About the Author: Bora Zivkovic is the Blog Editor at Scientific American, chronobiologist, biology teacher, organizer of ScienceOnline conferences and editor of Open Laboratory anthologies of best science writing on the Web. Follow on Twitter @boraz. More?? The views [...]
MOTU sneaks in MicroBook II post-NAMM, ships this Spring for $269
Looking to add some muscle to your mobile recording kit? MOTU waited to pull the curtain back on the MicroBook II until after NAMM, revealing a revamped portable audio interface for those who fancy tracking on-the-go. The studio-quality kit plays nice with both Mac and PC, offering a compact 4-input / 6-output, bus-powered recording option [...]
Investing in Chinese Stocks: Capture Growth and Manage Risk
by Carl Delfeld, Investment U Senior AnalystThursday, January 26, 2012: Issue #1694 Soon I?ll be publishing a new book and releasing a special report with sharply different messages. New World, New Boom: Capture Growth Like the New Tycoons is a very blue-ocean optimistic book. It?s chock full of strategies and ideas to help investors grow [...]
93% Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol
I had a chance to see this on the big screen recently, and I was very, very pleased that I did. The M.I. sequels haven’t been all that memorable. I really enjoyed the first one and haven’t really been all that impressed with what came after it. Thankfully, Brad Bird has changed that with Mission: [...]
Huge asteroid may be packed with water ice
The surface of Vesta ? the second-largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ? appears to be quite dry. But water ice may lurk underground over roughly half of the huge space rock’s area, particularly near the poles, researchers said. The giant asteroid Vesta may contain a vast supply of water [...]
Inside In
Gingrich is also helped by?attacks on him by establishment figures: John McCain, Trent Lott, and a parade of former and current officials who populate the daily Romney campaign conference calls savaging Gingrich. Thursday afternoon, even Bob Dole took a swing at Gingrich. Dole is like many in Washington who?grumble about Gingrich, can’t believe he’s doing [...]
As Israeli-Palestinian talks sink, fringe ideas gain traction (The Christian Science Monitor)
Tel Aviv ? As another round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks faltered on Wednesday, a growing number of Israelis and Palestinians say that the status quo is rapidly approaching a point at which establishing a Palestinian state alongside Israel is impossible or unrealistic. “I still believe that two-state solution is the only solution and is possible,” says [...]
Arizona Gov. Brewer gets book critique from Obama (AP)
MESA, Ariz. ? Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer came to greet President Barack Obama upon his arrival outside Phoenix Wednesday. What she got was a critique. Of her book. The two leaders could be seen engaged in an intense conversation at the base of Air Force One’s steps. Both could be seen smiling, but speaking at [...]
Japan’s NEC to slash 10,000 jobs (Reuters)
TOKYO (Reuters) ? NEC Corp said on Thursday it aims to shed 10,000 jobs by the end of September, and would fail to reach a target to raise sales to 4 trillion yen ($51.13 billion) by March 2013. The job cuts, which will mean shedding almost one in 10 of its workers, are to trim [...]
Research: South Africans most active tweeters (AP)
JOHANNESBURG ? Young people tweeting from BlackBerrys and iPhones are driving the growth of Twitter in Africa, with South Africans by far the most vociferous, according to new research published Thursday. Kenya-based Portland Communications and Tweetminster published findings indicating Twitter in Africa is widely used for social conversation and is fast becoming an important source [...]