Tuesday, March 30, 2004


Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.
Gallagher


Havoc in the Heavens: Soviet-Era Satellite's Leaky Reactor's Lethal Legacy
Old Soviet nuclear powered satellites leaked a trail of menacing radioactive droplets that have become a debris threat to other spacecraft.

This is nuts


Strike that out, Sam
This is not an exciting story: I happened to be browsing aimlessly through case studies and other publications released by Microsoft as a part of their "Get the facts" initiative. At one point, I stumbled upon a Word file I wanted to read - and as soon as I ran it through wvWare, I noticed there is a good deal of amusing change tracking information still recorded within the document.

Gene Study Suggests Early Humans Traded Mighty Bite for Bigger Brains
Of all the features that distinguish us humans from other primates, the size of our brains is arguably the most profound. At 1,350 cubic centimeters on average, the human brain is three times larger than would be expected for a nonhuman primate of our body weight. But humankind hasn't always been so cerebral.


Rare South Atlantic Hurricane

During its daytime overpass of the southeast coast of Brazil on March 26, 2004, the Terra satellite captured this surprising sight: a tropical cyclone. The South Atlantic is generally not thought of by meteorologists as a place where tropical cyclones can form.

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