Jonathan Knight Gay Rumors
August 20, 2008
Here’s a juicy and not-so-surprising rumor for all you back-on-the-wagon New Kids On The Block fans. Citing anonymous sources, Gossip Gangster Perez Hilton has revealed Jonathan Knight is a homosexual. Whispers about the thirty-nine year old singer have surrounded him since the boy band’s heyday, but he’s still yet to make an official announcement on [...]
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Pandemonium Warden: Final Fantasy XI’s 18 Hour Boss Battle
August 20, 2008
Drawn out boss battles in massively multiplayer games are nothing new, but Final Fantasy XI’s Pandemonium Warden (pictured at right) takes the concept to a ridiculous extreme: A recent (unsuccessful) attempt on the Warden’s life raged for 18 hours.
FFXI Link Shell (think: guild or clan) BeyondTheLimitation attempted the boss a few days ago, but after [...]
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Evaluating ecosystem services
August 5, 2008
Environmental conservation efforts have traditionally focused on protecting individual species or natural resources. Scientists are discovering, however, that preserving the benefits that whole ecosystems provide to people is more economically and environmentally valuable.
At the Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), ecologists will explore the application of ecosystem services approaches to conservation.
Ecosystem [...]
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Military use of robots increases
August 5, 2008
War casualties are typically kept behind tightly closed doors, but one company keeps the mangled pieces of its first casualty on display. This is no ordinary soldier, though — it is Packbot from the iRobot Corporation.
Robots in the military are no longer the stuff of science fiction. They have left the movie screen and entered [...]
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Key to virulence protein entry into host cells discovered
August 5, 2008
Researchers from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech have identified the region of a large family of virulence proteins in oomycete plant pathogens that enables the proteins to enter the cells of their hosts.
The protein region contains the amino acid sequence motifs RXLR and dEER and has the ability to carry [...]
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NASA Denies Rumors Of Finding Life on Mars
August 5, 2008
NASA has denied media and internet speculation that the Phoenix Lander has found life on the ‘Red Planet’, Mars and has also denied that the White House in the United States has been briefed on such matters that would lead up to an announcement by NASA later this week. This comes just after NASA stated [...]
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