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10 Most Pirated TV-Shows on BitTorrent
There’s only one week to go before the new TV season starts, but here is one of the latest summer charts. Stargate Atlantis is leading the chart this week. The data is collected by TorrentFreak from a representative sample of BitTorrent sites and is for informational and educational reference only. TV shows such as “Lost” and “Heroes” can get up to 10 million downloads per episode, in only a week.
Republican Admiral: GOP 'Is No Longer Grand'
Speaking at the Democratic National Convention, a lifelong Republican and 28-year naval veteran who retired as a rear admiral endorsed Barack Obama for president.
Cattle Shown to Align Themselves North-South Using Magnetic Field
Have you ever noticed that herds of grazing animals all face the same way? Images from Google Earth have confirmed that cattle tend to align their bodies in a north-south direction, based upon the Earth's magnetic fields. Wild deer also display this behaviour - a phenomenon that has apparently gone unnoticed by herdsmen and hunters for thousands of years.
A protein for immortality?
It may take just one or two proteins to polish off a simple cellular task, but life-or-death matters, such as caring for the ends of chromosomes known as telomeres, require interacting crews of proteins, all with a common goal but each with a specialized task.
Obama Assassination Plot?
A Denver TV station is reporting authorities may have foiled an assassination plot against Barack Obama, and there's talk the suspects may be members of a white supremacy group.
NVIDIA gpu's are adding 1 PETAFLOP for processing power to Folding@Home!
NVIDIA GPUs are contributing over 1 petaflop of processing power to Stanford University’s Folding@home distributed computing application as of last week, according to the statistics published by Stanford. Active NVIDIA® GPUs deliver over 1.25 petaflops, or 42% of the total processing power of the application which seeks to understand how proteins affect the human body.
Tests Underway To Recreate The "Big Bang"
Tests have cleared the way for the start-up next month of an experiment to restage a mini-version underground of the "Big Bang" which created the universe 15 billion years ago. The final tests involved pumping a single bunch of energy particles from the project's accelerator into the 17-mile beam pipe of the collider and steering them counter-clockwise around it
The Crime That Created Superman
On the night of June 2, 1932, the world's first superhero was born not on the mythical planet of Krypton but from a little-known tragedy on the streets of Cleveland. What happened next has exploded some of the longest-held beliefs about the origins...
Commentary - The Value of Service
I learned a big lesson on service Aug. 4, 2008, when Eielson had the rare honor of hosting President Bush on a refueling stop as he traveled to Asia.