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Google Executives Convicted in Italy for YouTube Video
by Chris Pollette | February 25, 2010
Three Google executives were convicted for invasion of privacy and sentenced in Italy yesterday to a term of six months in prison. Their crime was allowing a YouTube user-created video of some students bullying a classmate with Down’s syndrome. It all started in 2006, when the clip was posted, a Reuters article said.
The Bipartisan Health Care Summit is live on YouTube right now
by Marshall Brain | February 25, 2010
You can watch the Bipartisan Health Care Summit live on YouTube: The Bipartisan Health Care Summit
Public Service Announcement – Your chair is trying to kill you
by Marshall Brain | February 25, 2010
How could something as simple and common as a chair be your enemy? Nonetheless, this article indicates that chairs are a mortal threat to humans: Stand Up While You Read This! The basic idea: It doesn’t matter if you go running every morning, or you’re a regular at the gym. If you spend most of [...]
Your goal in this game is to get a planet into a stable orbit around a sun. Having accomplished that, you can try to get a moon orbiting the planet around the sun: My solar System 2.0 One thing to note – in our solar system, the sun’s mass (2×10^30 kg) is gigagtic compared to [...]
It’s always an adventure clicking on CNN.com or whatever your go-to online news source happens to be. Each morning I awake ready to see a list of the top ten or so things that are pretty awful here on planet E. Famine and flood, earthquakes, murder/suicides, the passing of Daddy the pit bull — it’s never a joy ride when international news is there for the digesting.
This afternoon I clicked on said Web site to read a headline that indicated a killer whale had killed a Sea World trainer in Orlando, Fla.
In part two of their series on bail, Josh and Chuck talk about bail enforcement agents, a.k.a. bounty hunters.
Good question – why would a killer whale kill a human being?
by Marshall Brain | February 24, 2010
Yesterday at Sea World in Orlando, Florida, a domesticated killer whale killed a trainer. According to Richard Ellis, this is the first time a killer whale in captivity has killed a person like this (see first video)*. In fact, according to this article, killer whales in the wild don’t kill people either: “They have never [...]
You Asked: How did they film the moon landing? — Steph, Chicago, Ill. Marshall Brain Answers: When Neil Armstrong climbed down the ladder of the Lunar Module to step onto the moon for the first time, there obviously wasn’t anyone standing on the moon to film him. So how did they get the TV images? [...]
As described in the previous post on Bloom Boxes, Bloom had its big unveiling today. Bloom boxes are in fact Solid Oxide Fuel Cells running at 800 degrees C. There were no surprises and no magic in the announcement. You can learn more about Bloom Box technology on the company’s web site: Bloom Energy What [...]
This is an older video that I don’t think I have seen before. It is called “The Story of Stuff”, which obviously lies in the HowStuffWorks sweet spot. The video explains how the products we use every day get to us, and where they go after we get done with them. It contains a pretty [...]
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