February 2012
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Why Astronauts Crave Tobasco Sauce →
discoverynews:
Part of the reason may be that after arriving in space, astronauts lose their sense of smell, which largely governs the pleasurable taste of food. An example of this is coffee. “If you hold your nose and sip your coffee, you’re getting just a bitter liquid,” says Jean Hunter, a food engineer at Cornell University.
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10 things you need to know today →
1. GINGRICH ATTACKS OBAMA FOR AFGHANISTAN APOLOGY GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich criticized President Obama for apologizing to the Afghan government over the burning of Muslim holy books at a U.S. military base outside Kabul. Gingrich said the president “surrendered” in a situation that has been “blown into a huge incident by various fanatics in Afghanistan.”...
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Faster-than-light neutrino results were due to a... →
And not just any mistake. A LOOSE CABLE.
“There was a good reason the measurements and reality weren’t lining up: a loose fiber optic cable was causing one of the atomic clocks used to time the neutrinos’ flight to produce spurious results.”
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'Pepper Spray Cop' Suit Filed - NPR →
brooklynmutt:
Some of those Occupy protesters who famously got face fulls of pepper spray last November on the campus of University of California Davis have now filed suit in federal court.
They allege “the university used excessive force to break up the demonstration,” The Sacramento Bee writes. “The Occupy UC Davis students were sprayed as they sat on the ground.”
The American Civil...
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“The only game changers in tonight’s debate will come on perceived gaffes...”
– Ed Morrissey, Wednesday’s season finale of American Political Gladiators
An updated list of journalists killed covering the... →
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“The unholy alliance of the bishops and the GOP threatens the party’s...”
– Robert Shrum, in his latest column
Anthony Shadid, 1968 - 2012 →
futurejournalismproject:
Sadness:
Anthony Shadid, a gifted foreign correspondent whose graceful dispatches for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The Associated Press covered nearly two decades of Middle East conflict and turmoil, died, apparently of an asthma attack, on Thursday while on a reporting assignment in Syria. Tyler Hicks, a Times photographer who was with...
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Researchers capture shark eating shark
breakingnews:
Australian researchers spotted a tasseled wobbegong shark consuming headfirst a somewhat smaller brown-banded bamboo shark on the southern Great Barrier Reef. Read more on msnbc.com.
(Photo by Tom Mannering)
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“If Santorum were to be nominated, the odds are that Obama would win in a...”
– John Cassidy, The New Yorker. Who is stronger against Obama: Santorum or Romney?
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10 things you need to know today: February 15,... →
Obama meets with China’s next leader, Iran’s nuclear program advances, and more, in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion
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“Is it silly and backward to wonder how the onslaught of nonstop input—most of it...”
– The Week’s editor, Bill Falk, reflects on how Facebook alters how we think
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