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Monthly Archives: December 2005
Why Education is So Important
20051228 Why Education is So Important Angel of the Beach A French children’s magazine has named its “Child of the Year,†an 11-year-old British girl now dubbed “the Angel of the
Beach,†who saved hundreds of lives during last year’s tsunami in Southeast Asia. Tilly Smith had studied tsunamis in her geography class two weeks before taking a Christmas holiday to
Thailand. During a walk on Phuket island beach, she spotted bubbling water and what she called “foam sizzling just like in a frying pan.” She recognized them as tsunami warning signs
and told her parents, who alerted hotel staff. The beach was evacuated minutes before the giant wave crashed ashore and was Continue reading
Posted in Education, News, Science and Technology
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Tech Item of the Day: Big Money and Commercial Space
20051228 http://news.com.com/2061-11128_3-6010086.html Mark Bezos is the latest tech guru to put his money into the space exploitation business. Following in the footsteps of Paul Allen (of Microsoft fame) Burt Rutan and Richard Branson (of Virgin), Bezos is starting a … Continue reading
Posted in Science and Technology, Space
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Remembering Why We Freed Iraq
20051227 Â http://www.foxnews.com/ http://www.cnn.com/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â With unending recent debate over why the US led its invasion of Iraq, the truth of the state of affairs in the pre-Iraqi Freedom nation has become somewhat obscured. That obscurity was refocused … Continue reading
Posted in Iraq, Media, Politics, War on Terror, World Watch
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Science Item of the Day: Only in Scotland… Researching the ‘Does This Make Me Look Fat’ Phenomenon
20051227 http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=2464392005 It turns out that the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland is going to engage in true science this year. Researchers at the university’s textile school have decided to engage in a research project to determine if certain … Continue reading
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Remembering Disaster: The Indian Ocean Tsunami
20051226 The news is filled with remembrances right now of the incredible natural disaster that was the Indian Ocean Tsunami that devastated coastlines from Indonesia to Africa on 26 December 2004. There are many lessons to be learned from … Continue reading
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