Interesting tidbit: Excuse me?! Doctor!
March 22, 2004
The Boston Globe featured an article yesterday that truly reads like a poor soap opera. A 43 year old, highly promising surgeon, had his license suspended because he left a patient on the operating table, to cash his paycheck!
With his carreer now ruined, he ended up badly.. Read the full story here
Update: Madrid: 5 arrests made
March 13, 2004
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Update: Madrid: Death toll rises again
March 11, 2004
Update: Death toll rises
March 11, 2004
  AP has just reported that the Madrid death toll has risen to 170 deaths and 500 injuries. |
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Breaking news: Madrid: 3 explosions, 131 dead
March 11, 2004
 At least three bombs have killed at least 131 people and injured over 400 this morning when they exploded in a train station in Madrid. ETA is prime suspect, but they have not claimed resonsibility. |
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Interesting tidbit: Deepest space images to date
March 9, 2004
NOTE: The images mentioned were not archived by the wayback machine, so I couldn’t reconstruct the article fully.
AP reports today that the people at the Space Telescope Science Institute have made a long-exposure snapshot with hubble of what is now the deepest-ever universe image is features “a point just a few hundred million years from the Big Bang”.
Click read more for the images and more info. The AP article is here.
These images depict about 10,000 galaxies and show what happened “just a few hundred million years from the Big Bang”, the youngest stars are shown from back then the universe was just about at 5% of it’s current age.
“For the first time, we’re looking back at stars that are forming out of the depths of the Big Bang,” Beckwith said. “We’re seeing the youngest stars within a stone’s throw of the beginning of the universe.”
The images were collected by focusing the Hubble’s instruments at a single point in the sky for 1 million seconds, an exposure that took more than 400 orbits of the space telescope.
Beckwith said finding the faintest objects in the long-term exposure, called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, is like trying to collect the light from a firefly hovering over the moon.
The images were collected over four months starting last September.
The portion in the sky imaged by the Hubble was very small and astronomers compared it to looking at the sky through an 8-foot long soda straw.
Researchers will now take the images and search for the most distant objects and study the 10,000 galaxies, some of which are in bizarre and unusual shapes.
Note: Source of pictures and story: Associated Press. Click images to enlarge
Funny: Bush in 30 seconds
March 9, 2004
 The contest: Create a 30sec ad that opposes bush; And here are the results! |
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Funny: Wanted: Spy (m/f)
March 8, 2004
Last month the Blair administration announced the expansion of MI5 with 1,000 people. To date 3,000 applications have been submitted according to ‘The Times’ tuesday. A source in the government called this “a wave of patriotism”. My my, looks more like a new wave of the spy-novel generation, and of course people who want to know what Kofi Annan is up to.
Bush Hails Jarosite as Biblical Evidence
March 3, 2004
Story contributed by “stranger”
BUSH HAILS JAROSITE AS BIBLICAL EVIDENCE
Of Parallel Parting of Red Sea on Mars
WASHINGTON (AP)
Mars-rover Opportunity has landed in area where liquid water once drenched the surface of fine, layered rock; if there had been life there, it might have flourished.
Liquid water once flowed there, changing the chemistry & composition of rocks laid down by minerals formed at the bottom of a salty lake/sea. Small voids/vugs formed when crystals of salt minerals aggregated in rocks sitting in salty water.
Random BB-sized molten droplet spherules
left from meteor impacts or volcanic action
grew inside porous rock, crossbedded by water/wind.
Bedrock in the wall of a small crater shows concentrated sulphur, rich in magnesium, iron, other sulfate salts & jarosite, an iron sulfate, as in an acid-rich lake or hot springs.
(02 MAR 04, ~3:30pm, Wellesley MA USA)
