Archive
Posts Tagged ‘U S Geological Survey’
Phoenix Greyhound racetrack to shut down – The Phoenix park, near Washington and 40th streets, opened in 1954 and runs live races seven days a week. The business has faced a number of challenges in recent years, including increased competition from casinos, declining revenue and dwindling visitor numbers. On-track attendance at the track dropped 14 percent last year to about 106,000 annual visitors, and has declined 56 percent since 1998, according to its annual reports.
Boulder-based Sunflower Farmers Market operating its own farm – The Denver Post – Boulder-based Sunflower is believed to be the nation's first grocery chain to own and operate a commercial-scale farm.
Focus in terror probe seems to be shifting to NYC – The Denver Post – As the multistate terrorism investigation centered on Aurora shuttle driver Najibullah Zazi continued Tuesday, authorities appeared to turn their focus to people and businesses in his one-time home of New York.
Lawsuits target chicken and its veggie substitutes | California Consumer | Los Angeles Times – Chicken, fake and real, looks to be a target of several consumer and nutrition groups. The Center for Science in the Public Interest is acting as co-counsel on a lawsuit filed today by an Arizona woman accusing Quorn Foods Inc. of not disclosing on labels the fact that some people have serious allergic reactions to the main ingredient in its Quorn line of meat substitutes.
Gender-bending bass found in Yampa River – The Denver Post – Male bass in Colorado rivers and other basins around the nation widely exhibit feminine sex traits, a federal fish study released Monday shows. This gender-bending was most common in the southeastern U.S. as well as in western Colorado, in the Yampa River, where 70 percent of male bass had eggs developing alongside their testicular organs, the U.S. Geological Survey study found.
Coding Horror: 9 Ways Marketing Weasels Will Try to Manipulate You – It's a fascinating examination of why human beings are wired and conditioned to react irrationally. We human beings are a selfish bunch, so it's all the more surprising to see how easily we can be manipulated to behave in ways that run counter to our own self-interest.
Space heater controlled by digital thermostat – This project allows you to set the room temperature according to the time of day and day of the week, giving you much needed flexibility to save energy and avoid waking up to a freezing house! You can save energy by programming the thermostat to lower the room temperature at night, but still get out of bed to a toasty room in the mornings.
Electronics ‘missing link’ united with rest of the family – tech – 14 September 2009 – New Scientist – In the 18 months since the "missing link of electronics" was discovered in Hewlett-Packard's laboratories in Silicon Valley, California, memristors have spawned a hot new area of physics and raised hope of electronics becoming more like brains.
EFF Supports JUSTICE Bill to Reform the USA PATRIOT Act and Repeal Telecom Immunity | Electronic Frontier Foundation – Today, Senators Russ Feingold and Dick Durbin — along with eight other Senators — have taken the Administration up on its offer by introducing the JUSTICE Act, which would rein in the worst excesses of PATRIOT and last year’s FISA Amendments Act (FAA). The announcement of the bill’s introduction, along with a fact sheet outlining the bill's details, is here; the text of the JUSTICE Act is here (the “JUSTICE”, if you’re wondering, stands for Judiciously Using Surveillance Tools In Counterterrorism Efforts”).
Cold War missile silos cleaned up | KBIM News 10 New Mexico – But three of them blew up during fuel loading exercises eventually causing the silos to be shut down. Decades later the Army Corps of Engineers celebrated the removal of chemicals like PCBs found at the sites.
Categories: News And Links Tags: Arizona Woman, Army Corps Of Engineers, California Consumer, Center For Science In The Public Interest, Chemicals, Cold War, Colorado Rivers, Corps Of Engineers, Counterterrorism, Decades, Denver Post, Dick Durbin, Digital Thermostat, Eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Excesses, Fact That Some People, Farm Focus, Farmers Market, Federal Fish, Fisa, Fish Study, Fuel Loading, Greyhound Racetrack, Grocery Chain, Immunity, Interest Space, Justice Act, Justice Bill, Kbim News 10, Los Angeles Times, Meat Substitutes, Missile Silos, Missing Link, New Mexico, New Scientist, Pcbs, Phoenix Park, Quorn Foods, Russ Feingold, Senators, Shuttle Driver, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley California, Space Heater, Surveillance Tools, Survey Study, Target, Track Attendance, U S Geological Survey, Usa Patriot Act, War Missile, Western Colorado, Yampa River
- Study: Cat Parasite Affects Human Culture | LiveScience – A parasitic microbe commonly found in cats might have helped shape entire human cultures by manipulating the personalities of infected individuals, according to a new study.
Infection by a Toxoplasma gondii could make some individuals more prone to some forms of neuroticism and could lead to differences among cultures if enough people are infected, says Kevin Lafferty, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Breath-test ruling jeopardizes thousands of state DWI cases – TwinCities.com – Minnesota may be forced to drop thousands of driving-while-impaired cases and change the way it prosecutes others in the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling Thursday, prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed.
The state's highest court ruled that defendants in drunken-driving cases have the right to make prosecutors turn over the computer "source code" that runs the Intoxilyzer breath-testing device to determine whether the device's results are reliable.
- This is Your Brain On Caffeine – Researchers from the University of Vermont College of Medicine and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine sought to investigate the biological mechanisms of caffeine withdrawal in a paper published recently in the online edition of the scientific journal Psychopharmacology. They looked at brain electrical activity and blood flow during caffeine withdrawal to examine what was taking place physiologically during acute caffeine abstinence, including the likely mechanism underlying the common 'caffeine withdrawal headache.'
- Apache Junction subdivision basks in solar savings – Hill and her neighbors are the prototypes for greener living, according to officials with the Habitat for Humanity of Central Arizona and Salt River Project, who celebrated on the bright day with 18 families living in homes powered by the sun.
- Star Trek: The Experience Expected To Re-open In 2010 Part 2 of ST:TE Documentary | TrekMovie.com – Star Trek The Experience closed down at the Las Vegas Hilton last September, but since October we have been reporting that it may have new life at a new location in Vegas. According to the best info we can gather, it looks like a new STTE will be back in 2010 at Neonopolis in downtown Las Vegas. More details below plus a new entry Vernon Wilmer’s STTE Documentary.
- The mantii have hatched! – Duke City Fix – After many years of trying (9 to be exact) I have finally succeeded in capturing a praying mantis hatch moments after it happened! Our yard has tons of the old egg pods all over the place — mostly under our portal and on the apple tree branches — and every year I intend to find an unhatched one and watch it for the day it hatches. Somehow I always miss it. Sure, we're able to find baby mantii all around the yard which is really cool, but I keep missing the big hatch moment — until today!
- DailyTech – Intel Invests in ASM International to Secure Nanometer Process Technologies – Intel Capital, the investment arm of Intel Corporation, has bought 4 percent of semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASM International (also known as ASMI) through open market transactions.
- Now bankrupt, Coyotes could end up in Canada – Less than an hour before the National Hockey League commissioner planned to broker a deal to sell the Phoenix Coyotes and strip team owner Jerry Moyes of his duties Tuesday, Moyes filed for bankruptcy to sell to his own buyer.
Moyes, as part of a Chapter 11 reorganization filing, agreed to sell the team for $212.5 million to a BlackBerry wireless magnate who plans to move the team to a yet-to-be determined location in southern Ontario, Canada.
- Top excuses and tactics: Why haven’t you started your own business? « I Will Teach You To Be Rich – As a coach who works with lots of corporate employees with entrepreneurial urges and an author of the book on the topic, I totally agree that starting a business is a great idea in this economy.
Today, I wanted to share some advice for those who might need a tiny bit more guidance on working through your business ideas and fears.
- Texas police shake down drivers, lawsuit claims – CNN.com – Now Daniels and other motorists who have been stopped by Tenaha police are part of a lawsuit seeking to end what plaintiff's lawyer David Guillory calls a systematic fleecing of drivers passing through the town of about 1,000.
Categories: News And Links Tags: Apache Junction, Apple Tree, Asmi, Biological Mechanisms, Blackberry Wireless, Caffeine Withdrawal Headache, California Santa Barbara, Cat Parasite, Chapter 11 Reorganization, Chapter 11 Reorganization Filing, Defense Attorneys, Duke City, Human Cultures, Intel Capital, Intel Corporation, Investment Arm, Jerry Moyes, Johns Hopkins School, Johns Hopkins School Of Medicine, Journal Psychopharmacology, Kevin Lafferty, Las Vegas Hilton, League Commissioner, National Hockey League, Neonopolis, Neuroticism, Phoenix Coyotes, Salt River Project, Semiconductor Equipment Manufacturer, Solar Savings, Star Trek The Experience, Toxoplasma Gondii, U S Geological Survey, University Of California Santa Barbara, University Of Vermont, University Of Vermont College Of Medicine, Vermont College
Recent Comments