Coastal Marsh Plants, Adapting To Road Salt, Increasingly Common Along Midwest Highways
January 12, 2011 No Comment
Characteristic salt marsh habitat. Image credit: Wikipedia Blasting along the Ohio Turnpike, few will notice the coastal salt marsh plants growing along the shoulder. Such plants are now common at the mid-western roadside, having adapted to a half century of road salt application. Whether the seeds were originally brought by bird droppings or vehicles, no one is certain. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …By William Pfaff The U.S. can pursue one of two courses in East Asia: Either negotiate an understanding with regional powers and redeploy American troops, or continue the dangerous drift that provokes China’s insecurities. Related Entries January 11, 2011 How Many Bullets Do You Need? January 11, 2011 A Tale of Two Sheriffs
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Pelvic-floor-muscle exercises along with other bladder control strategies, such as keeping a diary and monitoring your daily fluid intake, can help halve weekly incontinence episodes among men with prostate cancer who underwent surgery to remove their prostate gland (radical prostatectomy), a study shows.
Continue reading …In the any-publicity-is good-publicity-department: Sales of semiautomatic Glock pistols like that used in the Gabrielle Giffords shooting have spiked in Arizona and across the nation in the days following the attack, reports Bloomberg . One-day sales of the $500 Glocks were up 60% in Arizona when comparing Jan. 10 of this…
Continue reading …WVIL’s unbelievable 31 megapixel cameraphone is unbelievably fake, attempts pathetic viral campaign
January 12, 2011 No Comment
Honestly, we never thought people could get this high and drunk in Vegas, but the guys from WVIL were really pushing it. Their crime? A blatantly staged viral campaign for an “unbelievable” smartphone that sports a 31 megapixel CMOS full frame sensor. Oh, and it has an interchangeable lens, too, with which you can use the main body as a wireless viewfinder (like the Samsung SH100 paired up with an Android phone). Nice concept, WVIL, just too bad your mom called to disown you at CES. Video after the break. Gallery: WVIL’s unbelievable 31 megapixel cameraphone is unbelievably fake, attempts pathetic viral campaign Continue reading WVIL’s unbelievable 31 megapixel cameraphone is unbelievably fake, attempts pathetic viral campaign WVIL’s unbelievable 31 megapixel cameraphone is unbelievably fake, attempts pathetic viral campaign originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …British mom Penny Jarvis is determined that her 2-year-old daughter—who was born without ovaries—will be able to have children of her own someday. So much so that Jarvis plans to freeze her own eggs so daughter Mackenzie can use them to get pregnant via IVF, the Daily Mail…
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While we weren’t busy kicking up dust on the CES floors, we sat down with Taiwan-based Yantouch to have a fiddle with its latest product, the Black Diamond. When not in use, it really is just a gorgeous spherical black diamond, or at least its faceted front half is; but slip in an iPhone 4 with the Black Diamond app enabled, and you get a funky sound sensitive mood lamp. On top of that, the dock also charges up your iPhone while it shows off its colors, and somewhere at the bottom there’s some black magic that channels out amplified audio from the phone, although actual speakers would be even nicer. Ultimately, Yantouch sees the Black Diamond as a developing platform for potential applications like an outdoor temperature indicator, or some sort of caller ID color tagging tool for seeing from afar who’s calling. If all goes well, Yantouch will even consider making an Android version, but we’re not sure if the $79 price tag will immediately catch on. Anyhow, check out our hands-on video after the break. Gallery: Yantouch Black Diamond 3D ambience iPhone dock hands-on Continue reading Yantouch Black Diamond 3D ambience iPhone dock hands-on Yantouch Black Diamond 3D ambience iPhone dock hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Click here to view this media Project much Bill? Pundit calls liberal criticism of Palin a ‘disgrace,’ compares to ‘McCarthyism’ : During an appearance on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” Bill Kristol of the conservative-leaning Weekly Standard magazine called the criticism of the former Alaska governor “a disgrace.” He said there is no proof that Jared Loughner, the suspect, was a fan of Palin or went to her website, which had labeled Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and other Democrats a political target last year; it was illustrated with a graphic of crosshairs that has triggered a political debate. Federal authorities on Sunday filed murder charges against Loughner. Kristol said those who are blaming Palin, such as Paul Krugman of The New York Times, are practicing “McCarthyism.” “The attempt to exploit this tragedy is distasteful,” Kristol said. He added that both parties have used words like “targets” in seeking to win political campaigns. And Loughner doesn’t appear to have been involved in partisan politics, he said. Yeah, well Bill, they weren’t using them at the same time they were saying to “reload” either, were they?
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Image: PR Newswire Next time you see an ad for Chevrolet, it could be channeling funds directly to green projects in local communities. That’s the concept behind the newly-launched EcoAd , a project from CBS-owned EcoMedia. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Jealous Liberal Radio Hosts Join Chris Matthews in Blaming Conservative Talk Radio for Giffords Shooting
January 11, 2011 No CommentChris Matthews, joined by two liberal talk radio hosts on Tuesday's Hardball, essentially blamed the likes of conservative hosts like Mark Levin for creating the climate of hate that led to the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords with the envious MSNBC host proclaiming: “People like Mark Levin, Michael Savage…every time you listen to them are furious, furious at the left with anger that's just builds and builds in their voice and by the time they go to commercial, they're just in some rage, every night, with ugly talk…. They must have an audience. I looked at the numbers today. They have big audiences! And I guess that's the question. Why and is it ever going to stop if it keeps working?” Before that Matthews rant, Philadelphia area radio host Michael Smerconish coined a word in his attack on conservative radio as he claimed to see “A direct causal connection between all…the hatriolic comments and the shooting incident” and later, referring to a scene he saw at town hall
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