• Science

    Suiting Up for the Olympics

    By Posted on 2.22.2008 4 Comments

    3.11.2008 at 03:02pm - Comment by PrettyBabyLove

    I'm sure it works well but it's ugly! Girls can be geeks too! (just fashionable ones)

  • Technology

    Disabled U.S. Satellite Reportedly Shot Down

    By Posted on 2.21.2008 2 Comments

    Last night at approximately 10:26 EST, after a long buildup of preparations, the Navy took the controversial step of shooting down a dead U.S. reconnaissance satellite from its low-Earth orbit. The satellite, which is about the size of a school bus, was destroyed to prevent a potentially hazardous impact with Earth, the military has said. It was moving faster than 17,000 mph at an altitude of 133 nautical miles above the Pacific when a modified SM-3 anti-ballistic missile launched from the USS Lake Erie, a Ticonderoga-class AEGIS missile cruiser, reportedly made impact.

    2.28.2008 at 06:03pm - Comment by PrettyBabyLove

    so lame of the gov. satellites have very little fuel.

  • DIY

    Cure for the Failed Credit Card Swipe: It’s in the Bag

    By Posted on 1.22.2008 35 Comments

    If youve ever stood at a checkout line and frantically swiped your credit (debit) card again and again, only to see error messages, try this little trick: Slip your bashful card inside a plastic shopping bag (typically hanging right next to the card swipe reader). Smooth out all wrinkles and ensure that the bag is tight and taut on the magnetic stripe side of the card. Now swipe your card/bag combo through the card reader. Success! The plastic bag adds just enough thickness to your card for a persnickety card reader to accept. —Dave Prochnow

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    2.28.2008 at 05:35pm - Comment by PrettyBabyLove

    It works because when the bag is placed over the card, imperfections are smoothed out and the bag increases the car's thickness just enough on either side for it to fit.

  • Science

    The Anonymity Experiment

    By Posted on 3.3.2009 34 Comments

    In 2006, David Holtzman decided to do an experiment. Holtzman, a security consultant and former intelligence analyst, was working on a book about privacy, and he wanted to see how much he could find out about himself from sources available to any tenacious stalker. So he did background checks. He pulled his credit file. He looked at Amazon.com transactions and his credit-card and telephone bills. He got his DNA analyzed and kept a log of all the people he called and e-mailed, along with the Web sites he visited.

    2.27.2008 at 12:04am - Comment by PrettyBabyLove

    Kind of scary if you think about it.

  • Science

    Shoot to Not Kill

    By Posted on 1.22.2008 1 Comments

    Nonlethal weapons could be used to disperse crowds, repel attackers or, as readers learn in "Shoot to Not Kill" (May 2003 issue), test the pain tolerance of journalists. Nonlethal weapons can be acoustic, chemical or electrical in nature, and range from the simple to the highly complex. Here are some selected technologies, at various stages of development, that the U.S. military has considered for its nonlethal arsenal:


    Blunt Impact Projectiles: Sting balls, rubber balls, beanbag rounds, baton-shaped rubber projectiles.

    2.26.2008 at 11:55pm - Comment by PrettyBabyLove

    Cool! Now try to fight with that stuff.

  • Science

    Can This Fruit Be Saved?

    By Posted on 6.20.2008 6 Comments

    Ed Note: In 2005 Dan Koeppel traveled to Central America to begin his research on the banana—a fruit whose ubiquity, he discovered, may very well prove to be its downfall. His book, Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World, was recently published to much acclaim. Here's the feature that started it all. "A Banana," says Juan Fernando Aguilar, "is not just a banana." The bearded botanist and I are traipsing through one of the world's most unusual banana plantations, moving down row after row of towering plants and ducking into the shade of broad leaves in an attempt to avoid the Central American midday heat. In an area about the size of a U.S. shopping mall, Aguilar, 46, is growing more than 300 banana varieties. Most commercial growing facilities handle just a single banana type-the one we Americans slice into our morning cereal.

    2.26.2008 at 06:39pm - Comment by PrettyBabyLove

    I didn't know that? and the pics too lol!

  • Science

    The Worst Jobs in Science 2007

    By Posted on 1.28.2008 25 Comments

    Number 10: Whale-Feces Researcher

    2.26.2008 at 06:34pm - Comment by PrettyBabyLove

    That's so disgusting. Go vegan!

  • Science

    Pakistan Accidentally Hijacks YouTube

    By Posted on 2.26.2008 2 Comments

    All across the globe yesterday, users tried and failed to get their daily dose of yawning kittens and manic explosions. The problem? Pakistan accidentally hijacked YouTube. It started when the government of Pakistan tried to limit access to a video critical of Islam. In order to keep its citizens from playing the clip, reportedly a portion of an inflammatory film by the Danish Dutch politician Geert Wilders, Pakistan Telecom had local Internet service providers block the site by rerouting users—instead of getting the video site, they'd hit a blank page.

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    2.26.2008 at 06:26pm - Comment by PrettyBabyLove

    Oh yeah! Partygirl & I luv it! <3, Tiffy



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