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Surfing Forum &Discussions @ ABC-of-Surfing: 1:38pm 0 review surfing
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Your Brain on Ethics -- Miller 2008 (508): 1 -- ScienceNOW: May 12, 1:34pm 1 review
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/508/1?etoc; Your Brain on Ethics

A study published online in Science is one of the first to investigate
how the brain wrestles with such morally charged tradeoffs.

Nano Photos Rival Modern Art: May 8, 2:57pm 1 review
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/04/gallery_nano_art?...; At Stanford University, Zhenan Bao and her team of researchers work to make organic transistors for cutting-edge electronic devices. One of her graduate students, Zihong Liu, used a cross-polarized light microscope to examine this array of the tiny switches. For Liu, bright parts of the film look like lakes and mountains, while the gold electrodes appear to be a fence.

Silicon oxide nanowires have an amusing habit of arranging themselves into impressive patterns. When S.K. Hark, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, looked at some of them under a scanning electron microscope, he saw flowers. Unlike plants, their fertilizers were gallium and gold catalysts -- which allowed them to grow to several microns in length while maintaining a roughly 10-nanometer diameter. The physics professor colorized his award-winning crop to enhance their resemblance to real sunflowers.

Thank you Vasav

EO Natural Hazards: Cyclone Nargis Floods Myanmar (Burma): May 5, 1:30pm 1 review meteorology
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/shownh.php3?img_id=14813; "Foreign aid workers in Burma have concluded that as many as
50,000 people died in Saturday's cyclone, and two to three million are homeless,
in a disaster on a scale comparable with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami."

My heart goes out to the people of Burma whose suffering under a brutal dictatorship has
become so much worse this week. I hope we will all spare them a kind thought
as we go about our week in conditions so much more fortunate. OliviaB

Cyclone Nargis Floods Myanmar (Burma)

Flood water can be difficult to see in photo-like satellite images, particularly when the water is muddy. This pair of images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite use a combination of visible and infrared light to make floodwaters obvious. Water is blue or nearly black, vegetation is bright green, bare ground is tan, and clouds are white or light blue.

On April 15 (top), rivers and lakes are sharply defined against a backdrop of vegetation and fallow agricultural land. The Irrawaddy River flows south through the left-hand side of the image, splitting into numerous distributaries known as the Mouths of the Irrawaddy. The wetlands near the shore are a deep blue green. Cyclone Nargis came ashore across the Mouths of the Irrawaddy and followed the coastline northeast. The entire coastal plain is flooded in the May 5 image (bottom). The fallow agricultural areas appear to have been especially hard hit. For example, Rang�n (population over 4 million) is almost completely surrounded by floods. Several large cities (population 100,000-500,000) are in the affected area. Muddy runoff colors the Gulf of Martaban turquoise.

Cyclone Nargis

Cyclone Nargis passed over Myanmar (Burma) after formed in the Bay of Bengal. At one point, Nargis was a Category 4 strength typhoon, with sustained winds of 210 kilometers per hour (130 miles per hour), according to Unisys Weather.

Eta Aquarids: May 4, 11:41am 1 review astronomy
http://meteorshowersonline.com/eta_aquarids.html; Location of the Eta Aquarids meteor shower
For Northern Hemisphere Observers

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is the first of two showers that occur each year as a result of Earth passing through dust released by Halley's Comet, with the second being the Orionids. The point from where the Eta Aquarid meteors appear to radiate is located within the constellation Aquarius.

EO Natural Hazards: Record Crops in India: May 3, 4:54am 1 review agriculture
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/shownh.php3?img_id=14811; Record Crops in India

A Condoleezza Rice shortage?

Dark green blankets much of India in this vegetation image, indicating that plants were growing more densely than average between April 1 and April 10, 2008. The April harvest yielded a record corn and rice crop, said the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service. All plants, both natural and cultivated, were thriving in the wake of abundant monsoon rains. Only in northern India is the landscape brown, pointing to areas were plants were doing less well than average. These observations of vegetation conditions were taken by France's SPOT satellite.

Plant growth in India depends almost entirely on the strength of the annual monsoon. When the monsoon rains fail, so too do the country's crops. Good rains provide bumper crops. Beyond controlling the fate of agriculture in India, changes in the Indian monsoon helped scientists recognize the far-flung impact of the oscillating Pacific Ocean
phenomena El Ni�o and La Ni�a.

http://mail2.someecards.com/filestorage/tax_8.jpg: Apr 24, 4:35pm 8 reviews taxation
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Card1- Thing called life- Pondering Pool: Apr 24, 4:27pm 2 reviews arts
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Idea of the Day: Boost Federal Grants for Science and Engineering Degrees: Apr 23, 7:22am 1 review politics
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/ideas/2008/04/040908.html; Providing grants to colleges and universities that expand the number of undergraduates that receive a bachelor's degree in science and engineering could increase the size of our high-tech workforce.

Exit Iraq...

Then there is the nursing shortage...

Fewer Options Open to Pay for Costs of College...