gppixelworks blog.seattlepi.com NASA flies Boeing 747 with big telescope door open NASA for the first time opened the doors of its Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy in flight. The observatory, known by its acronym, SOFIA, is a modified Boeing 747 equipped with a 98-inch German-built infrared telescope and doors that open to expose the telescope in flight. The Dec. 18 flight included two minutes with the telescope doors fully opened to allow engineers to understand how air flows in and around the telescope

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The Stafford Township Walmart had been picked clean. Gone were the Emerson 32-inch HDTVs, the Rock Band special edition video games and HP laptops — all were on sale, but in limited quantities. Still, the hunt continued among those early morning Black Friday shoppers, who returned during the weekend to find equally low prices on Samsung HDTV brands and Blu-ray players. “It was a jungle yesterday,” said Melissa Wright, 21, of Stafford Township, who had scooped up $2 DVDs and discounted Miley Cyrus shirts the day before

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​ A happy thought to sustain you during the last few warm days of the year, before winter squeezes us all in its icy fist: When a tiny buzzing member of the insect order Hymenoptera decides to plunge its stinger into your tender flesh, quite often you don’t really care which particular species got you. Most people refer to them as “bees” or “that little [expletive of your choice].” But now, thanks to Justin O.

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Author Michael Connelly, whose latest mystery, “9 Dragons,” involves a missing person’s case in Hong Kong, has written an interesting commentary for CNN on the confluence of fact and fiction. He notes that a November, 2008 research trip to Hong Kong’s Chungking Mansions area coincided with a real-life mystery: the disappearance of Canadian tourist Ani Ashekian, 31.

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BY GEOFFREY ROGOW Caterpillar, American Express and several others due to post third-quarter results this week paced U.S. stocks higher, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average to another closing high for the year.

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By Michael Corkery The arrest of Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam on insider trading charges swings attention back to the hot and heavy world of technology-stock trading. These highly volatile stocks are a traders playground because share prices can swing wildly based on whether companies miss or beat earnings expectations, even by a penny or two. Analysts assign large multiples to high growth tech companies because rates of revenue increase can be immense if a product becomes a hot one

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merrie Below are the highlights ” or, in reality, the lowlights ” that lie ahead, according to Celente: The commercial real estate market will collapse; People will be unable to pay their credit cards; Crime will increase as people who feel they have nothing left to lose will begin to commit acts of violence; People will begin to revolt against taxes; and We’re going into a depression, not a recession. Buckle up, America! Looks like we’re in for a bumpy ride.

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Lexica junkfoodscience.blogspot.com Several studies have tried to explain what is being called the “obesity paradox:” the fact that most fat people actually live longer than thin people. yet another study was reported which found that fatter cardiac patients were more than two times more likely to survive hospitalization and invasive treatments than thinner ones, even when adjusting for age and other contributing factors While many may be incredulous, the largest body of evidence has found that fatness is not a risk factor for heart disease or premature death Dr. Paul Ernsberger, of Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in Cleveland , Ohio , led a review of nearly 400 studies that was published in the Journal of Obesity and Weight Regulation in 1987 which corroborated these results

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The Breast Cancer Research Foundation® was founded in 1993 by Evelyn H. Lauder as an independent, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to funding innovative clinical and translational research. A minimum of 85 cents of each dollar donated to the Foundation goes directly to breast cancer research and awareness programs. The Foundation has received the highest rating from Charity Navigator, four stars, for eight consecutive years, which means BCRF has outperformed over 99% of more than 5,400 evaluated charities in efficiently managing its finances.

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egsnyder This is an awesome idea actualized in a Taipei building. This HUGE pendulum is used as an earthquake damper in a very tall building. blog.longnow.org 728 ton pendulum June 25th, 02008 by Alexander Rose  In my research of large pendulums for the 10,000 Year Clock I came across the beautifully designed tuned mass damper in the Taipei 101 tower.  Basically really tall buildings are themselves massive pendulums, as they are built to sway in the wind and earthquakes.  However very tall buildings in earthquake zones need something to dampen this motion

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