Spirit successfully completed the first step of its planned two-step motion on Sol 2090
A MAN lies comatose on an operating table. The enormous spider that hangs above him has plunged four appendages into his belly. The spider, made of white steel, probes around inside the man's abdomen then withdraws one of its arms.
Combined land and ocean temperatures across the globe were 1.03 degrees F warmer than the 20th century average of 57.1 degrees F, according to a study released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
"So if you will get into an investigation," Breitbart concluded, "we will give you the tapes, and if you don't give us the tapes [sic], we will revisit these tapes come election time."
Tracy Barker has been awarded almost $3 million by an arbitrator in assault charges against a U.S. contractor and former Halliburton subsidiary, after claiming she was raped in 2005 by a State Department employee in Iraq, the Associated Press reports.
Influential US lawmakers on Thursday called for levying a new income tax to pay for the war in Afghanistan, warning its costs pose a mortal threat to efforts like a sweeping health care overhaul.
Republican governors Thursday urged GOP candidates competing in 2010 elections to not harshly attack President Barack Obama, citing polls that show his personal popularity remaining strong despite unease over his policies.
Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks. With a strong focus on speed, the Chrome OS promises nearly instant boot times of about 7 seconds for users to login to their computers.
At birth, children with Down syndrome aren't developmentally delayed. But as they age, these kids fall behind. Memory deficits inherent in Down syndrome hinder learning, making it hard for the brain to collect experiences needed for normal cognitive development.
It's a relatively unknown fact of the U.S. power industry: energy from dismantled nuclear bombs accounts for about 10 percent of the electricity that powers our homes every day.
BM has revealed the biggest artificial brain of all time, a simulation run by a 147,456-processor supercomputer that requires millions of watts of electricity and over 150,000 gigabytes of memory.
Google is set to release the Google Chrome OS on Thursday. There is a lot of people that are excited. Even more say "it is great to get another OS choice, over linux/apple/windows. I am not so excited. I am not making room on my system to install chromeOS.
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Just as fly paper captures insects, an innovative new device with nano-sized features developed by researchers at UCLA is able to grab cancer cells in the blood that have broken off from a tumor.
Some obese individuals don't realize they have a weight problem, a new study finds. That could be an unhealthy attitude as these same people tend not to exercise and have many risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
Thier glee turned to horror as the 300lb lion firmly took the rear door handle with his teeth and pulled it open in one deft movement.
A rather odd bug in the Droid phone has been mistaken for a secret, silent, over-the-air invasion by Verizon's software-update police.
President Barack Obama gave his sternest warning yet about the need to contain rising U.S. deficits, saying on Wednesday that if government debt were to pile up too much, it could lead to a double-dip recession.
DO ALIENS pollute their planets? Let's hope they do, as this would give us a promising way of spotting where they live.
the dems pretty much beat the gop on every issue but terrorism.
Below its icy crust Jupiter's moon Europa is believed to host a global ocean up to a hundred miles (160 kilometers) deep, with no land to speak of at the surface. (See "Jupiter Moon Has Violent, Hidden Oceans, Study Suggests.")
In any case, this is a good example of the slippery slope I wrote about earlier this week.
In what will certainly be received as fantastic news by xenophobes nationwide, The New York Post is reporting [via TP] that CNN paid rabid person-hater Lou Dobbs 8 million dollars ($US) to stop telling his viewers to personally beat Mexicans they meet with a sock full of "Georg …
As part of its effort to speed up the Web, Google is experimenting with SPDY, a new application layer protocol, that it hopes will speed up the conversation between browsers and Web servers and enable Web pages to download up to twice as fast.
During the best of the times, Miguel Salcedo's son, an illegal immigrant in San Diego, would be sending home hundreds of dollars a month to support his struggling family in Mexico. But at times like these, with the American economy out of whack and his son out of work, Mr.
Regular contact with high levels of bisphenol A (BPA), a compound commonly found in plastic food and drink containers, appears to cause erectile dysfunction and other sexual performance problems in men.
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Joules, I have learned a great deal from you since I came here. I like to see you pop up, because you actually do your work. Thanks.
— RT-36
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Hello JoulesBeef :D
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Joules did you take down your article about Reagan or did it get block-voted off the vine ?
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Joules... you are too cool... but I miss the cow with the big tounge hangin out the mouth...:}
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This guy will admit he can't spell very well, but he won't tell you he is one of the most informed and intelligent members of Newsvine... but he is.
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hey dont post this, but... you need to, should start using a spell checker... you have good points, but your dyslexia, and or bad spelling knocks down your comments/arguments...
just an observation from a friend
Ak— ak47kl
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dude, you crack me up ... even tho i only figure out every other word, be my friend... i need more like you in my life!
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You're a very intelligent person! I love reading your comments here on the vine, I sent you a friend request/
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Newsvine just wouldn't be the same without Joulesbeef.
— luckydog
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Thanks for adding my to your list of friends. :)
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I, too, like JoulesBeef. Ohhh, he and I are on completely different ends of the political spectrum, and yes, he does tend to get under my skin at times, but in the end I enjoy the back and forth banter between us. He's okay...for a liberal. Love ya, Joules! :)
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Hey Joules. I think your comments are just really great. Hilarious and to the point.
You have my respect.
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Joules is the Jackson Pollock of the English language, you come away from his comments simultaneously bewildered and enlightened. Truly one of a kind.
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someone might take him as a real person if he knew how to spell
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I like you!
I can't stand Ann Coulter she/he is a bag of hot air, she/he is a hate monger of the worst kind with little to no substance or facts that only caters to the kool-aid FOX news drinkers who want to be afraid of everything .
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I love your comments--just the right mix of funny and hitting the nail on the head!
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