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BBC News - World News America - The eco-friendly pigs genetically modified for food - 0 views

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"The BBC's Jeremy Cooke has been to an eco-friendly GM pig farm in Canada to find out more. "

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Journey into a Schwarzschild black hole - 0 views

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"The stereo movie has been adapted to human binocular vision. The movie does not represent what you would actually see with your two eyes if you visited a real black hole. In reality, the curved spacetime would distort wavefronts of light away from spherical, confusing your binocular perception. The conflicting visual cues might make you feel queasy. But the failure of binocular vision is merely a limitation of beings who have evolved in flat spacetime. Trinocular vision would work fine."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The stereo movie has been adapted to human binocular vision. The movie does not represent what you would actually see with your two eyes if you visited a real black hole. In reality, the curved spacetime would distort wavefronts of light away from spherical, confusing your binocular perception. The conflicting visual cues might make you feel queasy. But the failure of binocular vision is merely a limitation of beings who have evolved in flat spacetime. Trinocular vision would work fine."</div>

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American Woodworker - Trebuchet! - 4 views

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Scale model plans for a working trebuchet

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Scale model plans for a working trebuchet</div>

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YouTube - Shady Optical Illusion 2: Crazy Diamonds - 0 views

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"Watch what happens with these diamonds (no camera tricks or special effects used here)"

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YouTube - Winter Solstice - Total Lunar Eclipse 2010 - TIME-LAPSE - 0 views

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Winter Solstice - Total Lunar Eclipse 2010 - TIME-LAPSE Total eclipse on winter solstice. 4.5 hours shortened to a minute and thirty seconds.

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YouTube - Jem Melts Rock Using Sunshine - Bang Goes The Theory - Series 3, Episode 5 Pr... - 0 views

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YouTube - Lord of the Ants - 0 views

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"Every so often a giant emerges on the stage of science, someone who transcends the narrow boundaries of a particular line of research and alters our perspective on the world. E.O. Wilson is such a man."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Every so often a giant emerges on the stage of science, someone who transcends the narrow boundaries of a particular line of research and alters our perspective on the world. E.O. Wilson is such a man."</div>

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YouTube - Stuck Under Water - Bottle Cap Trick - 0 views

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CBC News - Health - Girls often lack calcium: report - 0 views

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""National surveys in both the United States and Canada indicate that most people receive enough calcium, with the exception of girls ages nine to 18, who often do not take in enough calcium," Tuesday's report reads. "In contrast, post-menopausal women taking supplements may be getting too much calcium, thereby increasing their risk for kidney stones.""

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">""National surveys in both the United States and Canada indicate that most people receive enough calcium, with the exception of girls ages nine to 18, who often do not take in enough calcium," Tuesday's report reads. "In contrast, post-menopausal women taking supplements may be getting too much calcium, thereby increasing their risk for kidney stones.""</div>

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YouTube - Gliding snake - 0 views

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Johnathan Fletcher on 28 Nov 10

"Compilation of high-speed video's of flying snakes Chrysopelea paradisi"

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Stairway To Heaven Video - Interesting Videos - 0 views

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"Take a trip with a tower worker as he "free climbs" a 1,700+ ft tower. Stair way to heaven."

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BBC News - Antimatter atom trapped for first time, say scientists - 0 views

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"The team proved that among their 10 million antiprotons and 700 million positrons, 38 stable atoms of antihydrogen were formed, lasting about two tenths of a second each."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The team proved that among their 10 million antiprotons and 700 million positrons, 38 stable atoms of antihydrogen were formed, lasting about two tenths of a second each."</div>

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BBC News - LHC researchers 'set to create a mini-Big Bang' - 0 views

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""Although the tiny fireballs will only exist for a fleeting moment (less than a trillionth of a trillionth of a second) the temperatures will reach over ten trillion degrees, a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun," said Dr Evans."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">""Although the tiny fireballs will only exist for a fleeting moment (less than a trillionth of a trillionth of a second) the temperatures will reach over ten trillion degrees, a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun," said Dr Evans."</div>

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YouTube - Laser Triggered High-Speed Photography - 0 views

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High-Speed Flash Photography using CHDK( Canon Hack Development kit), laser pointer and a simple analog circuit to capture milk drops splashes!

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CBC News - Health - Marathoners' hearts hurt in short term: study - 0 views

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Johnathan Fletcher on 25 Oct 10

"Lack of aerobic fitness may impair how the heart copes with the stress of running a marathon, Larose and his colleagues said. "This is not a permanent injury that will leave any type of scar," said Larose, a professor of medicine at Laval University at Quebec City."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Lack of aerobic fitness may impair how the heart copes with the stress of running a marathon, Larose and his colleagues said. "This is not a permanent injury that will leave any type of scar," said Larose, a professor of medicine at Laval University at Quebec City."</div>

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BBC News - The science of optical illusions - 0 views

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"Optical illusions are more than just a bit of fun. Scientist Beau Lotto is finding out what tricking the brain reveals about how our minds work. Here he explains his findings. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Optical illusions are more than just a bit of fun. Scientist Beau Lotto is finding out what tricking the brain reveals about how our minds work. Here he explains his findings. "</div>

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BBC News - How Mandelbrot's fractals changed the world - 0 views

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"In 1975, a new word came into use, when a maverick mathematician made an important discovery. So what are fractals? And why are they important? "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"In 1975, a new word came into use, when a maverick mathematician made an important discovery. So what are fractals? And why are they important? "</div>

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Newly discovered planet may be first truly habitable exoplanet - UC Santa Cruz - 0 views

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"A team of planet hunters led by astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington has announced the discovery of an Earth-sized planet (three times the mass of Earth) orbiting a nearby star at a distance that places it squarely in the middle of the star's "habitable zone," where liquid water could exist on the planet's surface. If confirmed, this would be the most Earth-like exoplanet yet discovered and the first strong case for a potentially habitable one."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"A team of planet hunters led by astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington has announced the discovery of an Earth-sized planet (three times the mass of Earth) orbiting a nearby star at a distance that places it squarely in the middle of the star's "habitable zone," where liquid water could exist on the planet's surface. If confirmed, this would be the most Earth-like exoplanet yet discovered and the first strong case for a potentially habitable one."</div>

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BBC News - Water map shows billions at risk of 'water insecurity' - 0 views

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Johnathan Fletcher on 29 Sep 10

"Writing in the journal Nature, they say that in western countries, conserving water for people through reservoirs and dams works for people, but not nature."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Writing in the journal Nature, they say that in western countries, conserving water for people through reservoirs and dams works for people, but not nature."</div>

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Human-Powered Ornithopter Becomes First Ever To Achieve - 0 views

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"Aviation history was made when the University of Toronto's human-powered aircraft with flapping wings became the first of its kind to fly continuously. The "Snowbird" performed its record-breaking flight on August 2 at the Great Lakes Gliding Club in Tottenham, Ont., witnessed by the vice-president (Canada) of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), the world-governing body for air sports and aeronautical world records."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Aviation history was made when the University of Toronto's human-powered aircraft with flapping wings became the first of its kind to fly continuously. The "Snowbird" performed its record-breaking flight on August 2 at the Great Lakes Gliding Club in Tottenham, Ont., witnessed by the vice-president (Canada) of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), the world-governing body for air sports and aeronautical world records."</div>

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