Dozens of headless skeletons excavated from a northern English building site appear to be the remains of Roman gladiators, one of whom had bites from a lion, tiger, bear or other large animal, archaeologists said Monday.
Experts said new forensic evidence suggests the bones belong to the professional fighters, who were often killed while entertaining spectators. Read more……
AP – In this image provided by Channel 4 on June 6, 2010, a skeleton unearthed at a building site in York, …
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According to Stephen Hawking it would be a bad bad idea to contact aliens. He equates this to our own Chris Columbus landing in America…you know what happened aften that don’t you? (CONTINUED)
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More eperimentation on mice reals that older mice that exercised on a running wheel developed new brain cells and learned a new task more effectively than older mice that took it easy all day, a study reports today.
The study showed that regular physical activity helped spur the production of neurons in the memory region of the mouse brain. If the findings hold true for humans, they suggest that regular workouts might give older humans a boost in brainpower and might even help forestall the forgetfulness and confusion that can plague people as they get older, says researcher Fred Gage of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif.
The findings, reported in today’s Journal of Neuroscience, also suggest that it’s never too late to get moving: The mice in the study were about 70 in human years, and they developed an edge in brainpower after exercising for just a month. (CONTINUED)
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I'm coming your way. Your city could be next. Hide your laptops and your ADD children.
You’ve got to hand it to Norton from parent company Symantec. They have figured a really easy way to get a ton of FREE publicity (you better check their stock price..you may want to invest: SYMC) by scaring the American public. What better way to wet your pants then with news of Cybercrime..AND better yet rating those cities where if you dwell there you can yell to hell because you are stuck and may run amuck with someone ripping you off.
If you don’t want to worry about something new today then you’d better not go to this link.
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Look at this guy. Mild mannered brit with a few billion to play with is zoning in on the stars. Galieo would be envious as would H.G. Wells.
Richard Branson’s dream of space travel that your everyday guy and gal can afford is one step closer to reality after his VSS Enterprise remained attached to a carrier aircraft for a duration of a 3-hour flight.
Make no mistake about it there is gold in them thar skies and Sir Richard is going spacey on us. Read on and see the video.
Kiss my Ass down there we are flying towards new profits. (Photo: The Tech Herald)
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A thought provoking video that is short and long on breathing the reality of the world we live in AND the future that it holds.
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I for one like to keep my hands clean. I’m not a obsessed with being clean it’s just that I know from everything I read that it is important to wash your hands frequently. That you should sing Happy Birthday at least until it is someones birthday. So, I also carry a small bottle of antibacterial liquid soap. After I shake someones hand…which I really am not a big fan of…I carefully when no one is looking turn around and spit out some liquid soap and cleanse by hands.
This article is founded on previously that everyone’s hands carry a unique bacterial population, researchers at the University of Colorado in Boulder have now shown that the mix of microbes left on a computer keyboard can be used to tell if a particular person had used it.
New Zealand is a wonderful country to visit and spend 4 weeks. Great windy roads and expensive food. While the exchange rate as of this writing is about $1.40 U.S. dollar to $1.00 New Zealand dollar it is a pretty good value. Or is it really?
LSJ in Milford Sound New Zealand
A typical menu in an average restaurant lists a hamburger between $14 – $18.00 NZ dollars. Convert that and it becomes around $10 – $14.00 U.S. Dollars….this is an average hamburger. There is always a separate charge for bread. The main as they call it (ala main course such as: Roast Lamb, Steak, Pork, Fish etc.) runs from $25-$60 NZ dollars. The salad is not included…so add that in. And of course if you have a sweet tooth add in dessert from $8.00 on up. We even saw some desserts as much as $16 NZ in Christchurch.
Gas? I paid anywhere from $1.72 NZ to $1.97 NZ. Convert me baby and it becomes ( US gallon = 3.78541178 liters-wait a sec let me grab my calculator): $4.55 U.S. to a high of $5.21 per U.S. gallon.
We had a hard time getting a basic motel room for less than $90 U.S. per night. We were in the heat of summer (their seasons are opposite ours)…just coming back last week – the first week in March. The daily temperatures are pleasant enough during the summer. Never causing a heat rash with average daily temperatures (we only spent the month on the South Island) running from 65-80 degrees. Some of the rooms were a little stuffy AND only one had air conditioning. So be aware of that.
I’m not going to drop the rest of the info about our trip since this is a Science/Technology blog. But, I did want you to know why I hadn’t been reporting in with According to St. John. (most accommodations charge for the Internet and it is pretty slow)
New Zealand is a beautiful country with very nice people and since this was our second time there I’d recommend being prepared for some sticker shock. It makes you appreciate the U.S. even more to see that our cost of living for food/hotels and travel throughout the U.S. is very reasonable.
In the last year in the half I have visited NZ, Australia, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Egypt and lived in Buenos Aires (most reasonable cost of living especially food) and I find the U.S. a very good bargain. Unless you travel you will never appreciate how the rest of the world lives, eats and survives with what appears to be less income in more expensive ecomomies.
By the way, my partner Cat Xander on her website..www.FreshVino.com will be reporting on her wine findings during our visit to NZ. She is a very good writer and you will also enjoy her website if you have any interest at all in wine.
Larry St. John
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