Space News
- NASA Announces Virginia Aeronautics Research Award
- NASA Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report #4764
- Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 05 Jan 2009
- NASA-Funded Study Reveals Hazards of Severe Space Weather
- NASA Seeks Concept Proposals for Ares V Heavy Lift Rocket
- NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 5 January 2009
- SPACEHAB To Support Pre-Launch Preparations for Russian Mini Research Module (MRM1)
- Dead Stars Tell Story of Planet Birth
- Baby Jupiters Must Gain Weight Fast
- NASA New Horizon Mission: The PI’s Perspective: Welcome to Mid-Cruise!
- Jupiter-like Planets Could Form Around Twin Suns
- NASA Ames Office of Education Announces New Cooperative Agreement Opportunity
- NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Monday, January 05, 2009
Huffington Post
- Israel hits UN school, nears major Gaza towns
- Spike Lee: “I’m Not Rich Rich”
- Thrifty Families “A Major Reason The Downturn May Not Soon End”: WSJ
- Gas Prices Tip $2 A Gallon As Oil Prices Rise
- Health Care Spending Increased 6.2% In 2007
- Tom Kilgore, TVA CEO, Will Testify Before Congress Over “Exaggerated Deference”
- Hyundai: Lose Your Job, Return Your Car
- Porsche Takes Majority Of Volkswagen
- Best Buy Offers Used iPhones At Discounted Price
- Toyota Suspending Production For 11 Days In Japan
- Macrovision Sells TV Guide Assets To Lions Gate For $225 Million, Scraps Shapiro Deal
- Crystal Harris: Hugh Hefner’s Other New Girlfriend
- The Blagojevich Blight: Controversy Threatens To Taint Surrounding Democrats
- Chris Gregoire Commerce Secretary? Washington Governor’s DC Trip Fuels Speculation
- Obama’s Inauguration Fund-Raising Tops $24 Million
ATS
- Israel-If This Thread Doesnt Open Youre Eyes,Then Nothing Will. (61 flags)
- Im sick of the war! And Im ashamed of my fellow ATS members. (44 flags)
- Police set to step up hacking of home PCs (29 flags)
- Iâm Sick Of The Anti Israel Sentiment Here On ATS! (28 flags)
- Must Read! Romes Jewish Chairman inadvertently exposes Zionist trick! (23 flags)
- Why does any criticism of Israel get the poster labeled an âAnti Semiteâ (23 flags)
- Gaza Civilian Genocide (22 flags)
- Some Pineal Gland Research (20 flags)
Iraq War
- 2 GIs, 2 U.S. Workers Killed In Iraq Blast
- GI Killed In Ambush Outside Baghdad
- Aussie Combat Troops Home From Iraq
- Big Oil Poised To Do Business With Iraq
- Iraqi Troops Arrest Senior Sadrist
- Baghdad Calm Shattered By Deadly Bombing
- Pentagon: Shooting Of Journalist Justified
- Iraq Turns A Corner, But Can It Last?
- Marine Cleared In Haditha Massacre
- Suicide Bomber Strikes Iraqi Soccer Fans
- U.S.-Iraq Security Talks Hit “Dead End”
- Militias Gone But Fear Remains In Basra
- U.S. Launches Airstrike In Northern Iraq
Top Science News
- Mystery Of South American Trophy Heads Solved
- Adult-onset Diabetes Slows Mental Functioning In Several Ways, With Deficits Appearing Early
- Gold Nanoparticles For Controlled Drug Delivery
- Gene Expression And Splicing Vary Widely From One Tissue To The Next
- Grazing Animals Help Spread Plant Disease
- Teens Girls Smoke Now, Pay Later With Larger Waistlines As Adults
- Stars Forming Just Beyond Black Hole’s Grasp At Galactic Center
- Obesity Linked To Elevated Risk Of Ovarian Cancer
- Amazon Deforestation Trend On The Increase
- Increased Risk Of Pneumococcal Disease In Asthma Patients
- New Methods For The Environmental Chemist’s Toolbox
- ‘Magnetic Bra’ Gives Independence Back To Disabled And Older Women
- Possible Abnormality In Fundamental Building Block Of Einstein’s Theory Of Relativity
- Defensive Protein Killed Ancient Primate Retroviruses, Research Suggests
Homeland Security
- Secretary Chertoff, D.C. Mayor, Md. and Va. Governors Plan Inauguration
- DHS Designates Malta as a Visa Waiver Program Country
- Chertoff Statement on Departure of Chief Financial Officer
- Chertoff’s Remarks at 2008 End of the Year Address
- Fact Sheet: DHS End-of-Year Accomplishments
- Remarks by Secretary Chertoff at the Cyber Strategic Inquiry 2008
- Collection of Biometrics for Visitors Expanded
- DHS Announces $48.6 Million in Driver’s License Security Grants
- DHS Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman Recommends Naturalization Oath Ceremonies
- DHS Announces $34 Million in FY 2009 Emergency Operations Center Grants
- Ready Campaign Encourages Americans to Resolve to Be Ready in 2009
- O’Dell Speaks on Importance of Businesses Developing Continuity Plans
- Secretary Chertoff’s Remarks at Armed Forces Communications, Electronics Association
- Local Leaders at the Helm of the Rebuilding Effort
- Blogger Roundtable on the State and Future of DHS
- Ground Broken for First Public Housing Since Hurricane Katrina
- DHS Issues Final EIS on Proposed NBAF
- Secretary Chertoff’s Remarks at Kean University
- Calcasieu Private and Nonprofit Sector Commended for Affordable Housing Efforts
- Remarks by Secretary Chertoff at Johns Hopkins University
Alternative News
- The Floodgates Open Wide: Obama and our Eugenical Future
- Eugenics Equals Fauxgenics: Canada’s Awful Experiment With Genetic Manipulation
- Obama’s Economic Team Does Not Bode Well for the Interests of America
- Notes for Sofia: The EU, Global Warming and the Current Economic Turmoil
- Czech Pres. Vaclav Klaus Enrages Eurocrats
- UK government’s ‘Big Brother’ database could be run by private firm
- Masonic/Jacobin/Cordelier Genocide of French Catholics
- Henry Kissinger: Eminence Noire
- Surveillance culture sneaks up on Europe, despite resistance
- ‘Magical’ Gravity Wave Weapons No Threat, Panel Says
- If War Had Not Come in Fierce and Exaggerated Form
- Panel Recommends Money for Sterilization Victims
- Mark Sanford Confronted on Bilderberg Attendance and Media Blackout 12-9-08
- CNN-Lou Dobbs- Obama Backing North American Union Agenda
- The Power Elite Playbook, Controlled Conflict and Staged Incompetence Part 20
Alternative News II
- Obama’s Perilous Compromise with Wall Street Looters
- Why Big Finance Is Laughing All the Way to the Bank
- War on Gaza: More Civilian Deaths; Olmert Lies: ‘No Humanitarian Crisis’
- Can America Clean Up from Its Worst Environmental Disaster? [Contains Photo Slideshow]
- My War Against Food Nazi Moms
- Tragedy in Gaza — Desperately Seeking Leadership from Obama
- The Long and Bloody Hypocrisy of U.S.-Israeli Acts of Terrorism
- Shopaholics, Big Spenders and People in Debt, Getting Smacked by Economic Reality
- David Sirota: Leaving Las Vegas: Are Americans Ready to Put Cataclysmic Consumption and Hedonism Behind Them?
- Deb Price: LGBT People Have Much To Be Grateful for This Thanksgiving
- Norman Solomon: Announcing the 2008 P.U.-litzer Prizes
- Mark Weisbrot: Obama Needs to Make a Clean Break on Latin America
- Amy Goodman: Israel’s Onslaught: One of Its Bloodiest Attacks on Palestinians in 60 Years
- Robert Scheer: Republicans Bring Socialism to Millionaires and Screw the Rest of Us
- Sean Gonsalves: Obama’s Opening Moves
- Jim Hightower: The Five Most Wanted Rip-off Artists from Wall Street and Washington
- Poverty Reduction? Try a New Economic Vision for the U.S.
- Are Blagojevich and Jesse Jackson Jr.’s Money Dealings with Chicago’s Indian Community Tied to the Corruption Charges?
- Why Head Shop Raids Are Unfair and Unjust
- Did You Know 200,000 Vets Are Sleeping on the Streets?
Alternative News IV
- Jerusalem Diaries: Israelis Protest the War on Gaza
- An Open Letter From Anti-Zionist Jewish Youth in Canada on the Situation in the Gaza Strip
- Ambassador Stephane Hessel: “We Must be Horrified”
- War of the TunnelsEconomic Aspects of the Israeli Attack on Gaza
- The Aggression towards Gaza and the Official European Discourse
- From Ghetto to Frontier: The Lebanonization of Gaza
- Statement on the Gaza Situation
- Pathetic? Ari Shavit, Remove the Mote from Between Your Eyes: The Answer of an “Israel …
- The Predictable Trajectory of Israeli Public Opinion
- Israeli Offensive in the Gaza Strip: Before the Next Stage
Alternative News III
- Congress taking admin to court on subpoenas…
- Judge: Why? Congress can arrest admin officials
- Terror attack a ‘big advantage’: McCain strategist
CNN’s Cafferty: ’stupidity’ - Obama camp: ‘complete disgrace’
- Feingold: ‘Farce’ FISA deal may hide impeachable offenses
- Fox’s Ingraham: Kim Jong Il supports Obama
- Bush neocons ever-present in McCain camp
- Dobson: Obama ‘distorting’ Bible, has ‘confused theology’
- Asian-American to McCain: We pay taxes, too!
- Muslims feeling shunned by Obama?
- McCain adviser: Public financing like being POW
- Obama: I’ll close ‘Enron loophole’
- Clinton, Obama rally Friday
- ‘Perfect storm’ to attack Iran coming soon: former CIA officer
- Studios: AM/FM radio ‘a form of piracy’
- EU-Russia talks tripped by Irish
- Houston enjoying high oil prices?
- Obama drops ’silly’ campaign seal
- Food-seeking crowd in WI ‘became unruly’
- Beatles explore video game venture
Digg Science
- Review: Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne
- Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2008
- Dead People Will Provide Heat to Crematorium Facilities
- True or False? The EPA Wants to Tax Cows
- Habitable Exoplanets Could be Common in Our Galaxy
- Today (January 5th) Is The Most Stressful Day Of The Year
- Biofuel Development Shifting From Soil To Sea.
- Inventor: Geo-Engineer a Worldwide Refrigerator Using Oceans
- Architectural Wind: A Cleaner Way to Keep the City Running
- Scientists Unlock Secrets Of Australia’s Giant 30kg Koalas
- Top 10 Things Launched Into Space Last Year
- Spectacular New Images Showcase Saturn’s Rings
- Remember all that “NONTOXIC” coal ash sludge?
- Military Hoping Chat Bots Will Replace Deployed Parents
- Quite Possibly the Best Panoramic Shot of the Milky Way
- Nanodiamonds point to comet catastrophe
- 60 Minutes: Mind Reading No Longer Science Fiction
- Lead for car batteries poisons an African town
- Obama Offers New Hope for Science in America
- WTF Are Lenticular Clouds? [Gallery]
Buzzle Science & Tech
- Nasa Climate Expert Makes Personal Appeal to Obama
- Nokia 5000: The ultimate gadget
- Free Ringback Tones - Is it Possible?
- How We can Recycle to Save Our Planet?
- Scope of Non Destructive Testing and its Importance
- What is Metaphysics
- Nokia N96 - Internet Technology and Culture of Always Online
- Finding the Right Green Laser Pointer for Your Needs
- BlackBerry 9500 Storm and HTC Touch HD
- Nokia N95
- Samsung U600i - A smartphone
- Melting Ice May Slow Global Warming
- UN is Told That Earth Needs an Asteroid Shield
- Install A Home Solar Power System
- Build My Own Electric Powered Car - What are the Advantages?
Fark Tech
- Scientists will perform the necropsy of a great white shark for the public, and they have no idea what they might find inside. “Maybe a seal, a penguin or some whale blubber, who knows.” [Cool]
- What 2009 looked like to mystics in 1909: “Hardly anyone will remain in the cities at night. They will be places of business only. People of every class will reside in the country or in garden towns” [Obvious]
- Australian scientists want to build fence to protect healthy Tasmanian Devils from infected animals, apparently unaware of their ability to spin around and cut through any substance [Interesting]
- Space Station’s urine recycler is on the fritz again. Astronauts advised to hold their noses and imagine they’re drinking Bud Light until ground control can get the problem corrected [Interesting]
- Turns out the Milky Way galaxy is bigger, brighter, and faster than neighboring galaxies. Suck it, Andromeda [Interesting]
- Who would have thought designing vehicle armor like swiss-cheese would actually make it stronger? [Cool]
- Three Iowans are responsible for “Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock;” as a result of this, Activision bought them out [Cool]
- U.S. agriculture produces 3900 calories per inhabitant. Primarily to feed Andy Reid in his quest to look like Michael Moore [Obvious]
- God puts giant pink iguana on Galapagos Islands to prove Darwin wrong (pic) [Interesting]
- Bill O’Reilly, Britney Spears and some guy from CNN get their twitters hacked. THE_REAL_SHAQ laughs at their Twitter suckiness [Amusing]
- “We didn’t want to make a pointless item.” So they created a bike made from plastic bottles that doesn’t actually work. And Google gave them a prize. Still no cure for cancer [Stupid]
- This year we celebrate 400 years of Galileo, 150 years of evolution, and 2009 years of religion sticking its fingers in its ears and going “LALALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU” [Interesting]
- DVD players to outsell Blu-ray, bicycles to outsell Segways, books to outsell Kindles in 2009 [Obvious]
- Steve Jobs says he’s been diagnosed with a hormone imbalance, which could affect his iMmune system [Misc]
- Today’s global warming culprit: trees [Interesting]
- Ever wonder if terrorists could use insects to spread biological weapons? Well, now you are [Scary]
- Between the laughable shortcomings of the new iPhone, problems with iTunes, system vulnerabilities and compatability issues, and Steve Jobs’ imminent death, perhaps Apple announcing its last trade show shouldn’t surprise too much [Obvious]
- Windows Media Player 12 introduces a great new feature: chopping off the beginning of your MP3 files for you [Fail]
- China begins campaign to rid internet of pornography, currently delayed by problem of getting tanks into the tubes [Unlikely]
- Scientists discover that dolphins are smarter than previously thought. It appears that the Simpsons may have been more right than we knew [Cool]