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Senate Approves Measure To Extend Jobless Benefits
By Escape The Illusion on March 10, 2010 | No Comments
The Senate voted Wednesday to extend a host of soon-to-expire elements of last year’s economic stimulus measure, including help for the jobless and money to help financially strapped states pay for health care for the poor. The 62-36 vote came over protests from conservatives who say the bill ... -
A measure for the multiverseBy Escape The Illusion on March 3, 2010 | No Comments
WHEN cosmologist George Ellis turned 70 last year, his friends held a party to celebrate. There were speeches and drinks and canapés aplenty to honour the theorist from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, who is regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on general relativity. But... -
Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees, but Biofuel DoesBy Escape The Illusion on March 2, 2010 | 3 Comments
The poplar tree has entered the crowded field of sustainable biofuel crops, and now it seems that China, Israel and the U.S. are racing to tap into its potential. Poplars have a couple of big advantages over conventional biofuel crops, especially food crops like soy and corn. For one thing, raisin... -
Republican Bunning blocks unemployment benefits; Demo...By Escape The Illusion on February 26, 2010 | No Comments
Next Monday, 3 million Americans are going to have bad day. Their unemployment benefits and COBRA health care subsidies will end. “Tough shit!” I kid you not… That’s what Republican Jim Bunning said on the Senate floor as he filibustered unemployment and COBRA benefits extens... -
200 Days After They Went Missing, Mothers of Jailed U...By Escape The Illusion on February 25, 2010 | 1 Comment
“We’ve had no contact at all … We haven’t even had a phone call.” AMY GOODMAN: We begin today with an update on the three Americans who have been held in Iran for over six months. Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal were detained on July 31st after accidentally cr... -
Video game commemorates Austin suidice pilotBy Escape The Illusion on February 20, 2010 | 1 Comment
The smoke over Austin is hardly two days settled and already, many have risen to defend the actions of Joe Stack. And now, there’s this: an 8-bit style video game called “Tax Time,” published on Newgrounds.com, commemorating his deadly attack on a Texas IRS office. In the game user... -
Even Single-Celled Organisms Feed Themselves in ̵...By Escape The Illusion on February 15, 2010 | No Comments
How does a single-celled organism, one of the simplest life forms on Earth, manage to satisfy its nutritional needs? It is by studying social amoebae, elementary organisms that are distantly related to fungi and plants, that Audrey Dussutour, CNRS researcher at the Centre de Recherche sur la Cogniti... -
THE 3 EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEACONS
By butlincat on February 15, 2010 | 2 Comments
THE 3 EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEACONS, GREENLAND = “Three Extraterrestrial Beacons, Stolen From Space and Placed on Earth, Now Returned Now it can be told. Ancient ancestors of the current Star Nations civilizations had constructed and placed in space a network of Space Beacons which would facilitate... -
Millimeter-Scale, Energy-Harvesting Sensor System Can...By Escape The Illusion on February 9, 2010 | No Comments
A 9 cubic millimeter solar-powered sensor system developed at the University of Michigan is the smallest that can harvest energy from its surroundings to operate nearly perpetually. The U-M system’s processor, solar cells, and battery are all contained in its tiny frame, which measures 2.5 by ... -
Hundreds of Quakes Are Rattling Yellowstone
By AnotherSon on February 6, 2010 | No Comments
In addition to Haiti, the sun hit us with the most solar radiation in years a few days ago. It is suggested that this impacts tectonic plate activity as well as weather. Nothing to fear, just a potential heads up (or down if you’re in the park). DENVER — In the last two weeks, more tha...
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