The talk-show host says he's hanging up his suspenders after 25 years at CNN.
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Planet Earth
Planet Earth
After receiving a key federal exemption, the pricey vehicle is poised to go into production.
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Miracle Spices With Huge Health Benefits
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Spice up your life with these herbs, roots, and plants that benefit your health as much as they do your taste buds: From keeping your heart healthy and your arteries clear to reducing pain and warding off cancer, these everyday flavors will add a healthy punch to all your breakfasts, lunches, and dinners.Article continues: 7 Miracle Spices With Huge Health Benefits (and Big Flavor)
A Couch Potato's Dream
Toning exercises can spur your body's ability to burn fat, and the effects will continue even after you stop.
Also: Scientific Minds Want To Know
Scientific Minds Want To Know
Fish get beer goggles
Amorous male fish on the hunt for a mate can suffer from the aquatic version of beer goggles, a new scientific study has revealed.
With a name befitting a beast from Harry Potter, mummichogs can cope with an extraordinary range of environmental extremes.
Neuroscientist Uncovers A Psychopath's Brain ... His Own!
“You see that? I’m 100 percent. I have the pattern, the risky pattern,” he says, then pauses. “In a sense, I’m a born killer.”
Fallon’s being tongue-in-cheek — sort of. He doesn’t believe his fate or anyone else’s is entirely determined by genes. They merely tip you in one direction or another.
And yet: “When I put the two together, it was frankly a little disturbing,” Fallon says with a laugh. “You start to look at yourself and you say, ‘I may be a sociopath.’ I don’t think I am, but this looks exactly like [the brains of] the psychopaths, the sociopaths, that I’ve seen before.”
I asked his wife, Diane, what she thought of the result.
“I wasn’t too concerned,” she says, laughing. “I mean, I’ve known him since I was 12.”
Diane probably does not need to worry, according to scientists who study this area. They believe that brain patterns and genetic makeup are not enough to make anyone a psychopath. You need a third ingredient: abuse or violence in one’s childhood.
A sobering reminder of why “neuroscanning” for criminals/terrorists/whatever in airports or elsewhere is a problematic idea to say the least.
Hydropower Turbines Under The Bridge
photo: Jean-François Gornet via flickr
At the opposite end of the population scale from the remote Alaskan village now powered entirely by a hydrokinetic river turbine, Paris wants in on the hydropower without dams act. As The Guardian reports, the City of Light wants a small number of those lights to be power by the Seine and has opened up bidding for developers to place river turbines (hydroliennes en français) under several bridges, with installation to be completed by next spring. Article continues: Paris Plans Hydropower Turbines Under Four Seine Bridges
Blue Jeans Hold Secret To Making Better Solar Cells
Photo via lifecreations
Researchers at Cornell University have found a seemingly simple solution to creating more efficient solar cells. It turns out that particular molecules found in blue jeans and some ink dyes can be used in a process for assembling a structure called "covalent organic framework" or COF, which can help create cheaper, flexible solar cells. While organic materials haven't proven very easy to use so far for creating solar cells, the researchers are finding that these molecules found in every-day materials might be just what we needed. Article continues: Blue Jeans Hold Secret To Making Better Solar Cells
Schoolboy makes Spiderman machine
A Cambridge schoolboy has converted two budget vacuum cleaners into a Spiderman gadget which helps him scale walls.
Hibiki Kono, 13, a big fan of the superhero, made the incredible climbing machine using the suction from two Tesco Value vacuum cleaners. The schoolboy then amazed his friends by using the giant suckerpads to climb the school wall during morning assembly.
"I used to dress up as Spiderman when I was younger and I love all the films so it's great to be able to climb walls like him," said Hibiki.
Hibiki spent five months designing and making the gadget in his design technology lessons at King's College School in Cambridge. He used two 1400 watt vacuum cleaners, bought for just £14.98 each from Tesco and attached square wooden pads to the nozzles.
Design technology teacher Angus Gent said: "I'm hugely proud of him. When he came to me with the idea at the beginning I had my doubts, but once he proved it could be done I encouraged him. He developed it himself which is amazing for someone of his age. He has spent two and a half hours a week creating it over the last five months."
Hibiki added: "My mum thinks it's brilliant but she won't let me us it in my bedroom as she is worried I may pull down the ceiling. I've climbed up the school wall but I'm not allowed too high. It's not scary and I completely trust the machine."
Hibiki Kono, 13, a big fan of the superhero, made the incredible climbing machine using the suction from two Tesco Value vacuum cleaners. The schoolboy then amazed his friends by using the giant suckerpads to climb the school wall during morning assembly.
"I used to dress up as Spiderman when I was younger and I love all the films so it's great to be able to climb walls like him," said Hibiki.
Hibiki spent five months designing and making the gadget in his design technology lessons at King's College School in Cambridge. He used two 1400 watt vacuum cleaners, bought for just £14.98 each from Tesco and attached square wooden pads to the nozzles.
Design technology teacher Angus Gent said: "I'm hugely proud of him. When he came to me with the idea at the beginning I had my doubts, but once he proved it could be done I encouraged him. He developed it himself which is amazing for someone of his age. He has spent two and a half hours a week creating it over the last five months."
Hibiki added: "My mum thinks it's brilliant but she won't let me us it in my bedroom as she is worried I may pull down the ceiling. I've climbed up the school wall but I'm not allowed too high. It's not scary and I completely trust the machine."
High school tests rife with nearly 100 errors
From the "And you wonder why our students are stupid" Department:
The school superintendent in Springfield, Mass., has taken responsibility for tests given to the district's 11th- and 12th-graders that were rife with spelling, grammatical and factual errors.
Court Sides With EPA, Upholds Agency's Superfund Authority
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For over ten years, General Electric has sought to strip the EPA of its authority to order corporations to cover the costs of Superfund sites, locations deemed extremely toxic and uninhabitable. But today the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said no way to GE, which has argued that the EPA's authority deprives corporations of due process under the law. Article continues: Court Sides With EPA, Upholds Agency's Superfund Authority
Above Average Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone Forecast by NOAA Scientists
File image of Gulf areas affected by hypoxia, NOAA
No, it has nothing directly to do with the BP oil spill, but it won't help things... Scientists supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have just announced that the northern Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone--that's the Gulf Dead Zone to you and me, where there's so little oxygen that it doesn't really support life--is likely to be of above average size this summer, though it won't set a new record (phew).Article continues: Above Average Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone Forecast by NOAA Scientists
It's Only The Environment After All
It's Only The Environment After All
Hurricane shuts down oil skimming in Gulf
It could be much worse. The hurricane could be heading straight into the spill zone.
Dozens of small skiffs, huge shrimp boats and even a swamp tour boat were tied to docks, winds whipping their flags and waves rocking them even in the sheltered marina.
Most days, the fleet would be skimming oil from the Gulf of Mexico and ferrying workers and supplies. But Hurricane Alex churning in the Gulf turned many people fighting the massive 11-week-old spill into spectators on Tuesday. And they will be for days.
"Yesterday we had redcaps instead of white caps," said Jesse Alling, a marine science technician with the Coast Guard.
It's Not Like We Don't Have Another One
Bracing for Alex
The tropical storm is expected to turn into a hurricane by the time it makes landfall on Wednesday.
Also: Police say 2-year-old killed for crying during World Cup
Police in McAllen, Texas, have arrested a man for allegedly killing his 2-year-old stepdaughter because she kept crying during the U.S.-Ghana World Cup game on Saturday. The details that police allege are horrific.
Police say Hector Castro, 28, called firefighters to his apartment because the girl swallowed a screw. But police say the screw was jammed down the throat of the girl to make the death look like an accident, and that she died because she was beaten and suffocated.
"There are no words for this," McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez said. "It makes you want to think about doing lots of things to this guy, but he will face the criminal justice system just like everybody else."
Rodriguez said Castro is an illegal immigrant and that he gave investigators a confession that implicated himself in the girl's death. Several of the girl's ribs were cracked, police said. They haven't released the name of the child. Castro was to be arraigned and is to face a capital murder charge.
Police say Hector Castro, 28, called firefighters to his apartment because the girl swallowed a screw. But police say the screw was jammed down the throat of the girl to make the death look like an accident, and that she died because she was beaten and suffocated.
"There are no words for this," McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez said. "It makes you want to think about doing lots of things to this guy, but he will face the criminal justice system just like everybody else."
Rodriguez said Castro is an illegal immigrant and that he gave investigators a confession that implicated himself in the girl's death. Several of the girl's ribs were cracked, police said. They haven't released the name of the child. Castro was to be arraigned and is to face a capital murder charge.
Crooks and Robbers
Police in Florida said they arrested a woman who allegedly swung a toilet lid at her cousin's head before stealing his wallet at gunpoint.
Police in Ohio say the fifth arrest of a "frequent flier" named Donald Duck on drunken driving charges is nothing to quack at.
It may sound like something out of a comic book, but it's for real. Police in New York City are hunting for a robber who wears an unusual disguise: a cat mask, CBS News Station WCBS-TV in New York reports .
On The Job
On The Job
These jobs offer good pay and leave time for yourself and your family.
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