[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 2-19-10
Steve Detwiler
steveorange2003 at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 21 10:07:58 PST 2010
Good Afternoon Everyone,
Below is this week's edition. Enjoy!
Steve Detwiler
Weekly Science Report
February 19, 2010
“You’re playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in all of us, in everyone.”
Marianne Williamson
Table of Contents
News Articles 2
Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies 2
Ancient and General History 3
Archaeology 8
Egyptology 10
General Science 11
Physics, Earth and Space Sciences 12
Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources 14
Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences 16
Other 17
Additional Informational 18
News Articles
Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies
On Crete, New Evidence of Very Ancient Mariners
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/science/16archeo.html
Dire Straits Dinosaur and Devil Frog Unveiled
http://news.discovery.com/dinosaurs/dire-straits-dinosaur-and-devil-frog-unveiled.html
Protein study shows evolutionary link between plants, humans
http://www.physorg.com/news185474731.html
Earth's earliest creatures had muscles
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35446950/ns/technology_and_science-science/
The writing on the cave wall
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527481.200-the-writing-on-the-cave-wall.html
Giants Lurking In The Drawer
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2010/02/18/giants-lurking-in-the-drawer/
Dinosaur Park Open To All- Video
http://news.discovery.com/videos/dinos-dinosaur-park-open-to-all.html
Study shows how viruses changed human evolution
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100219/sc_nm/us_viruses_genes
How a hobbit is rewriting the history of the human race
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/feb/21/hobbit-rewriting-history-human-race
Ancient and General History
Are Biopics History?
http://www.newsweek.com/id/233405
Royal Palace of Ebla, Living Archive of Syria's History
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201002144792/Travel/archaeologist-royal-palace-of-ebla-living-archive-of-syrias-history.html
The Sacred Island That's Shrinking Away
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123733017
Film released of JFK arrival in Dallas
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/16/kennedy.film/index.html?hpt=Sbin
At least 1 million expected to see Shroud of Turin
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100217/ap_on_en_ot/eu_italy_holy_shroud
Pitt-led study debunks millennia-old claims of systematic infant sacrifice in ancient Carthage
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-02/uop-psd021710.php
An Ancestry of African-Native Americans
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/An-Ancestry-of-African-Native-Americans.html
A broader understanding of modern Hinduism
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-02/uog-abu021410.php
Vatican: Number of Catholics rising worldwide
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2010-02-20-vatican-catholic-numbers_N.htm
Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig dies at 85
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/20/alexander.haig.dead/index.html?hpt=T1
Ind. college lifts 116-year ban on national anthem
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100220/ap_on_re_us/us_star_spangled_college
Hollywood's Historic Buildings
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Hollywoods-Historic-Buildings.html
Demolishing Kashgar's History
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Demolishing-Kashgars-History.html
How Dolley Madison Saved the Day
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/How-Dolley-Madison-Saved-the-Day.html
'Missing in action' leaves a void
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mia21-2010feb21,0,21607.story
Gone fishing: Secret hunt for a sunken Soviet sub
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100213/ap_on_go_ot/us_soviet_sub_hunt
When presidents and slaves mingled at the White House
By Liza Mundy
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, February 15, 2010; C01
Sometime around the middle of April 1804, a slave named John Freeman wrote a letter to the president of the United States. Freeman, technically owned by a Maryland doctor, William Baker, had been contracted to work for Thomas Jefferson, who engaged him to serve in the White House and accompany Jefferson on trips to Monticello.
Now, Freeman was writing because he wanted the president to buy him outright.
"I am sorye to trubel you with a thing of this kind," he began, saying he felt obliged to do so because "I have been foolish anufe to in gage myself to Melindar."
The letter was an extraordinary feat of persuasion, heartfelt but also artful. Freeman, promising to serve Jefferson faithfully, went on to ask whether the president might even be "so good as to keep us [both]" -- that is, purchase a female slave named Melinda Colbert. On their trips to Virginia, Freeman had become enamored of Colbert, a niece of Sally Hemings who belonged to Jefferson's daughter Maria and her husband. Maria died that month, and the two slaves feared Melinda would be sold away.
The letter was one among numerous acts of resourcefulness and initiative that would result, years later, in John Freeman's being purchased and owned by not one U.S. president, but two. He would marry his beloved Melinda; gain his freedom; and, not least, purchase a piece of property on K Street in Northwest Washington, between 18th and 19th streets. There Freeman would establish a home for her and their children, taking his place among a unique, now largely forgotten community of free black residents with ties to U.S. presidents such as Jefferson, James Madison and George Washington.
In the ensuing years Freeman's neighborhood became home to by a striking number of freed slaves who also had been owned by presidents. In the middle of the 19th century, the community included men and women whose start in life was about as disadvantaged as a human being's could be, but who, through drive and intellect and that classic Washington ingredient -- influential connections -- were able to improve their prospects. They would socialize together, work together and acquire property that in some cases would allow descendants to enjoy lives easier than theirs had been.
"Wouldn't you like to have had a piece of property on K Street?" says Beth Taylor, an independent scholar and former director of education at Montpelier, the historic home of James Madison. While researching Madison slaves, Taylor has become fascinated by this area, once home to what she calls Washington's "first families of color." Their life stories testify to the bonds between freed blacks in antebellum Washington, and remind us that a number of early American presidents did indeed own other human beings.
"As I do more research on the neighborhood, I wouldn't be at all surprised if I found descendants of slaves who worked for Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Jackson," Taylor says. "These were all presidents, like Jefferson and Madison, who had slaves working for them in the White House."
In the early days of the union, she explains, presidents needed 10 or 12 people to run the domestic side of the White House. The staff was often a mix of whites, free blacks and slaves, some from their own plantations, some purchased in the city and some, like Freeman, hired from other masters.
"One aspect of it that always strikes me is how these statesmen . . . had a real tendency to talk about the slavery problem, the slavery issue," Taylor reflects. "There was this lack of understanding on their part. . . . This is not the slavery problem. These are people enslaved."
Path to freedom
The neighborhood in which many of the former White House slaves settled is the downtown area -- now office buildings, retail stores and forgettable corporate architecture -- roughly bordered by K and M streets running east and west, and 15th and 21st running north and south. Back then, Taylor says, it would have been mostly residential, with modest frame and brick dwellings and stables. It was close to the city's action -- Lafayette Square, Pennsylvania Avenue, the White House -- but far enough away to be affordable.
Freeman was one of the first to settle there, but only after years of striving. In 1804, Jefferson did buy him for $400, agreeing to his Maryland master's promise that Freeman must receive his freedom in 1815.
The president declined to buy Melinda Colbert, saying there were too many servants "in idleness" at Monticello already, and "at Washington I prefer white servants, who when they misbehave can be exchanged." But she was able to remain at Monticello, hired out as a house servant to a resident free workman. Freeman could see her on visits. Though slaves could not legally marry, they considered themselves husband and wife, and began to have children.
Freeman, a man of ability, was described by one witness as being about 5-foot-7, "straight and well made" with a "very pleasing countenance." He was extremely well regarded. "Jefferson obviously valued him very highly," says Cinder Stanton, a senior historian at Monticello.
But by 1809, two things had happened: Melinda had been given her freedom, enabling her to move to Washington. Ironically, however, Jefferson's term as president was ending, and a Virginia law stating that freed slaves must depart the state within a year of being freed meant it would be risky for her to return to Monticello, as her husband was expected to do. There was only one remedy.
"Sir i am sory to say or do anything to distress you," Freeman wrote in another letter to Jefferson. In it, he said he was willing to go to Monticello, but pointedly noted, "I shall be oblige to leave hir and the children."
The upshot was that Jefferson agreed to sell Freeman to James Madison, the incoming president. To arrive at a sales price, he calculated what he had paid for Freeman, reckoned how much time was left before 1815, and came up with a sum -- $231.81 -- that Taylor calls "so Jeffersonian" in its mathematical precision.
Freeman's life now intertwined with that of Paul Jennings, a boy of 10 who had been born into slavery at Montpelier and now came to Washington with Madison; in the White House, Freeman was a mentor to him. They were footmen, Taylor says, which means they served in the dining room, acted as messengers, and did whatever else was needed. Melinda, a free woman, did sewing for the Madisons, for which she was paid. She and Freeman lived on the White House grounds. Then in 1815, James Madison duly granted John Freeman his freedom.
Integrated neighborhood
Freeman was clearly preparing for this moment. Around this time, he and a friend bought $400 worth of belongings, including a cart and carriage, horses, and furniture. "Obviously he's getting ready to establish his own household," Taylor says. By 1821, Stanton has discovered, he had bought the lot on K Street, and by 1825 there was a two-story brick dwelling on it.
Freeman worked as a waiter at Gadsby's Hotel and as a messenger at the State Department. In this he was like many peers, who found that low-level federal government work was, as Taylor puts it, "about the highest that a free black could aspire to."
"I would say that all that these black men accomplished was in a pervasive atmosphere of impediments -- legal impediments, social impediments, psychological impediments," Taylor says.
One notable aspect of the neighborhood Freeman selected was that it was integrated. In 1840, in the city of Washington, whites outnumbered blacks, and free blacks now outnumbered slaves. It would be a far cry to say relations were harmonious. The Nat Turner rebellion of 1831 had made whites nervous, and in 1835, whites in the District made their fears known in what was called the Snow Riot. There were Black Codes, not always enforced, restricting the movement of black residents.
Even so, Taylor says, extreme, Jim-Crow type segregation was not yet the norm.
"People always assume that we've had this step by step advancing of race relationships, but that's far from true," Taylor says. "They've gone up and down, up and down. In this period I'm talking about, starting in the late 1840s, people weren't all that uptight" about the race of their neighbor.
Freeman was joined by other free African Americans. The household of John Brent was on the corner of L and 18th, where Borders bookstore is now, and by 1854 Paul Jennings had settled beside him. Like Freeman, Jennings earned a home of his own through extraordinary determination. After Madison's tenure, Jennings moved back to Montpelier, then returned to Washington with Dolley after Madison's death. Dolley, who was having financial difficulties, had promised to free Paul in her will, but he came to doubt this would happen. Taking matters into his own hands -- and taking advantage of social connections -- he arranged for Daniel Webster, through an intermediary, to lend him his purchase price of $200, Taylor says. He worked off the debt and proceeded to acquire two houses. He would later give Dolley Madison small sums of money.
Neighborhood of notables
Nor were they the only neighborhood residents with presidential connections. Just a few blocks away, in properties on M and L streets, lived William, Charles and Colbert Syphax, free brothers who belonged to what would be one of the city's most elite black families. It is Syphax family tradition -- and generally not disputed -- that these Syphaxes were the grandsons of no less than George Washington Parke Custis and a slave. Custis was himself the grandson of Martha Washington, giving the Syphaxes ties of both blood and bond to Mount Vernon, where some forebears had worked. Some Syphaxes settled on the Virginia side of the river, and rose to prominence there.
The reason these three settled in Washington, conjectures Syphax descendant Stephen Hammond may be simple: jobs. William worked for the Department of the Interior, where he achieved the title of "Chief Messenger"; he was also a community leader in education for black children. Charles worked in the pension office with Paul Jennings.
Despite living in integrated surroundings, these residents, Taylor says, clearly were made to feel unwelcome in important places, like churches. So residents established black churches to have a place to worship -- and gather -- privately. Many were involved in efforts to help other slaves. John Freeman and his sons, Stanton says, were active in efforts to raise money to help slaves buy their freedom.
In fact, it was from this neighborhood that an ambitious slave escape was plotted; in 1848, white Northern abolitionists arranged for 77 slaves to be stowed in a schooner, the Pearl, bound for the North. Assisting them were Paul Jennings, John Brent and Brent's wife Elizabeth Edmonson, who had enslaved siblings aboard.
The attempt failed, and so dangerous and secret was the endeavor that some of Paul Jennings's descendants did not know about it until fairly recent published accounts appeared. "The Pearl story was new to me," says Hugh Alexander, a Maryland resident descended from Jennings, whose late mother, a family historian, kept his daguerreotype on the wall.
Eventually, other former Montpelier slaves moved to the community. "That cannot be a coincidence," Taylor says. One of them, Ben Stewart, had been sold to an owner in Georgia, then found his way back to Washington and got a job as a guide at the U.S. Capitol. In time, many residents would marry neighbors, and properties stayed in families for generations.
Now, the houses are mostly or completely gone, and with it the known fate of the Freeman line. According to Cinder Stanton, John and Melinda -- who did legally marry -- had 10 children, one of whom, Benjamin, worked as a clerk in the patent office. Melinda outlived John, who died in 1839. Her 1857 will was witnessed by their longtime friend, Paul Jennings.
To date, Stanton has been unable to find living descendants, but she knows that one grandson, John Freeman Shorter, fought in the Civil War. Shorter rose to become a lieutenant of the 55th Massachusetts, together, coincidentally enough, with two other black men with Monticello ties.
According to the account of a white officer, this John Freeman was a well-educated man "with every soldierly quality, from scrupulous neatness to unflinching bravery." Though wounded, he re-mustered, then in 1865 set out for Ohio, where his fiancee was living. He contracted smallpox en route, and died. In that sense he was less fortunate than his grandfather, who went through so much to join a community of people who had endured the same extremes he had, and was able to live out his days in the company of the woman for love of whom he had the temerity to write a president. Twice.
Archaeology
Israel discovers large ancient wine press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hX4N6zesUPfO5v4WwfKZA_MTVXDwD9DSFGIO0
Gems find from Roman times
http://www.thisishampshire.net/news/gazettenews/5006763.Gems_find_from_Roman_times/
Dig finds medieval monk was living it up in Kilkenny 'pad'
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0216/1224264553851.html
Megalithic site found in South Sumatra
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/02/17/megalithic-site-found-south-sumatra.html
Ancient Arabic inscription found in Jerusalem
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iJfa-QD2MQYwlFeOwLk5hERiUkOAD9DTVGR00
Researchers Uncover Pictured Rocks History
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/559340/
18 ancient tombs unearthed in N China
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-02/17/c_13177979.htm
Sharks used to roam the fens, according to recent archaeological find
http://www.varsity.co.uk/news/2035
Copper men: Archaeologists uncover Stone Age copper workshop near Monk's Mound
http://www.bnd.com/homepage/story/1134050.html
Ghana dig reveals ancient society
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8518185.stm
Putative Skull of St. Bridget Probably Not Authentic
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100216113849.htm
China Discovers Old Bricks Made 7,000 Years Ago
http://english.cri.cn/6909/2010/02/20/53s551381.htm
Touching the Past
http://www.paysonroundup.com/news/2010/feb/17/touching_past/
New archaeological findings reflect historic past of Oman
http://www.timesofoman.com/innercat.asp?detail=33791&rand=
First Minoan Shipwreck
http://www.archaeology.org/1001/etc/minoan_shipwreck.html
Archaeologists pinpoint long-disputed site of Battle of Bosworth
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/feb/19/battle-of-bosworth-site-confirmed
Herodian-era aqueduct unearthed near Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1150924.html
Unearthing the splendour of Ur in Iraq
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/7270478/Unearthing-the-splendour-of-Ur-in-Iraq.html
Dig helps homeless learn about modern heritage
http://bristol.ac.uk/news/2010/6840.html
Golden Bough from Roman mythology 'found in Italy'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/7258607/Golden-Bough-from-Roman-mythology-found-in-Italy.html
Pieces of armor owned by ancient emperors unearthed+
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DUGDG82&show_article=1
Cherokees oppose Duke Energy work near sacred site
http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8545&Itemid=73
African Society Revealed in Early Animal, Human Figures
http://news.discovery.com/animals/african-society-revealed-in-early-animal-human-figures.html
Egyptology
Frail boy-king Tut died from malaria, broken leg
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_egypt_king_tut
Ancient Egypt Rises Again as Water Recedes
http://www.usaid.gov/press/frontlines/fl_decjan10/p09_luxor100122.html
General Science
Shortage of Rare Earth Elements Could Thwart Innovation
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100216/sc_livescience/shortageofrareearthelementscouldthwartinnovation
Robots To Clear Baltic Seabed Of WWII Mines
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-02/robots-clear-baltic-sea-wwii-sea-mines
Physics, Earth and Space Sciences
Space rock contains organic molecular feast
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8516319.stm
Hottest soup in the universe
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/02/15/2202227.aspx
Voyager Celebrates 20-Year-Old Valentine to Solar System
http://www.physorg.com/news185446068.html
Dusty mirrors on the moon obscure tests of relativity
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18527-dusty-mirrors-on-the-moon-obscure-tests-of-relativity.html
Astronauts Unveil New Window On World
http://www.wesh.com/news/22588057/detail.html
Sky-mapping probe serves up cosmic feast
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35446787/ns/technology_and_science-space/
80 years of Pluto
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/02/17/2204744.aspx
What makes supernovas go boom
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35449037/ns/technology_and_science-space/
The Ethics of Planetary Exploration and Colonization
http://news.discovery.com/space/the-ethics-of-planetary-exploration-and-colonization.html
The raw face of the Death Star moon
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/02/15/the-raw-face-of-the-death-star-moon/
Upside-down answer for deep Earth mystery: Clues point to 'density trap' in early mantle
http://www.physorg.com/news185644469.html
Relative values: Einstein theory proved in 21st-century test
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100217/sc_afp/sciencephysicseinstein_20100217191256
New Lasers Fight Crime, Martians
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/lasers-fight-crime/
Stray Hydrogen Atoms Become Deadly for Starships Traveling at Light Speed
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-02/stray-hydrogen-atoms-become-deadly-starships-traveling-light-speed
Warp Drives: Making the 'Impossible' Possible
http://news.discovery.com/space/warp-drives-making-the-impossible-possible.html
Marine Census Reveals Oceans' Treasures, Threats
http://news.discovery.com/earth/marine-life-census.html
Primordial giant: The star that time forgot
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527470.900-primordial-giant-the-star-that-time-forgot.html
Drake wants off-world listening post for alien messages
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527483.200-drake-wants-offworld-listening-post-for-alien-messages.html
Relativity now 10,000 times more accurate
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/3322/einsteins-theory-proven-21st-century-test
Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources
BA agrees deal for UK jet biofuel plant
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8515620.stm
Electricity From the Desert
http://news.discovery.com/tech/solar-power-saraha-desert.html
Smart Grid Comes Home Wirelessly
http://news.discovery.com/tech/smart-grid-comes-home-wirelessly.html
Diversity of Corals, Algae in Warm Indian Ocean Suggests Resilience to Future Global Warming
http://www.physorg.com/news185465333.html
Rate of ocean acidification the fastest in 65 million years
http://www.physorg.com/news185444922.html
Electric cars: put a battery in your roof
http://www.physorg.com/news185436439.html
More is merrier for wireless power supply
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18521-more-is-merrier-for-wireless-power-supply.html
Alt Power from Heat and Mini-Vibes
http://news.discovery.com/tech/alt-power-from-heat-and-mini-vibes.html
Power From A Floating Metal Donut- Video
http://news.discovery.com/videos/tech-power-from-a-floating-metal-donut.html
Chicago EV Charging Station Powered by Wind
http://www.physorg.com/news185643735.html
Can We Dispose of Radioactive Waste in Volcanoes?
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-02/can-we-dispose-radioactive-waste-volcanoes
Breakthrough Danish Enzymes to Lower Biofuel Price Point To Petroleum Levels
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-02/danish-enzymes-lower-biofuel-price-point-petroleum-levels
GE and Hitachi want to use nuclear waste as a fuel
http://www.physorg.com/news185694782.html
Orange peels, newspapers may lead to cheaper, cleaner ethanol fuel
http://www.physorg.com/news185701592.html
Europe eyes underground nuclear waste repositories
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100220/sc_afp/sciencenuclearwasteeurope_20100220032913
Are New Types of Reactors Needed for the U.S. Nuclear Renaissance?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=are-new-types-of-reactors-needed-for-nuclear-renaissance
Energizing Energy: How the Stimulus Bill Has Ignited Innovation in the Renewables Sector--A Q&A
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=stimulus-renewable-energy
America’s Wind Energy Potential Triples in New Estimate
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/better-wind-resource-maps/#ixzz0g9SfbU7K
Kenya lions, top carnivores may be wiped out by 2060: minister
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100217/sc_afp/kenyawildlifecarnivoresconservation_20100217191246
Almost half of all primates face 'imminent extinction'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/18/primates-extinction-red-list
Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences
Attacking Cancer Cells with Hydrogel Nanoparticles
http://www.physorg.com/news185474311.html
Suspended animation coming to life: researcher
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100213/sc_afp/lifestyleusitsciencehealthted_20100213235612
Genetic code 2.0: Life gets a new operating system
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18523-genetic-code-20-life-gets-a-new-operating-system.html
The Trouble With Lab-Created Stem Cells—and Why They Won’t Displace Embryonic Ones
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/02/16/the-trouble-with-adult-stem-cells%e2%80%94and-why-they-wont-displace-embryonic-ones/
Small liquid sensor may detect cancer instantly, could lead to home detection kit
http://www.physorg.com/news185630350.html
The Brain's Dark Energy
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-brains-dark-energy
Life's code rewritten in four-letter words
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527484.000-lifes-code-rewritten-in-fourletter-words.html
Healing touch: the key to regenerating bodies
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527471.100-healing-touch-the-key-to-regenerating-bodies.html
Ultrasound Beams Could Destroy Stroke-Causing Blood Clots in the Brain
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-02/ultrasound-beams-could-destroy-stroke-causing-blood-clots-brain
Power-Harvesting Prosthetic Uses Every Footstep to Power the Next
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-02/make-every-artificial-footstep-power-step
Anti-retrovirals could halt Aids spread in five years
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8526690.stm
Dolphins have diabetes off switch
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8523412.stm
Researchers Find the Genetic Fingerprint of Cancer, 1 Patient at a Time
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/02/19/researchers-find-the-genetic-fingerprint-of-cancer-1-patient-at-a-time/
Brit scientists find way to store vaccines in room temp
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Brit-scientists-find-way-to-store-vaccines-in-room-temp/articleshow/5590300.cms
U.S. "tweaks" stem cell policy
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100219/sc_nm/us_stemcells_usa
Archbishop Tutu is part Bushman, DNA study reveals
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jbCi4rOMcrKFpaByCZZrUMPzyjbQ
Other
Top 5 Science Conspiracies, Theories and Hoaxes- Video
http://news.discovery.com/videos/news-top-5-science-conspiracies-theories-and-hoaxes.html
More close encounters but UFO line is axed
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/More-close-encounters-but-UFO.6070716.jp
The Hottest Science Experiment on the Planet
http://discovermagazine.com/2010/jan-feb/15-the-hottest-science-experiment-on-the-planet
A caring god would not have designed us like this
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/02/a-caring-god-would-not-have-designed-us-like-this.php
Indonesia aims to be world's breadbasket
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100221/wl_asia_afp/indonesiafoodfarm_20100221034617
Additional Informational
The Mega Crystals of Naica Mine: Big Pics
http://news.discovery.com/earth/naica-big-pics.html
Fairy Tales from Auschwitz
http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/m/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=740&Itemid=7
At Mount Vernon for George Washington's birthday
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/02/16/GA2010021602211.html?hpid=multimedia1&hpv=national
Science, Stimulated: 7 Stimulus-Funded Research Projects (Photo Gallery)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=stimulus-science-projects
65th Anniversary of the Liberation (Auschwitz Memorial)- Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xto6p2yhKM
Photo Gallery: The Best Views from Spirit’s 6 Years of Mars Roving
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/02/19/photo-gallery-the-best-views-from-spirits-6-years-of-mars-roving/
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