117 posts from 2008

Cost Overruns Threaten NASA's Next-Generation Mars Rover Project [in FoxNews] The $1.5 billion NASA already has sunk into its next Mars mission could be lost in space if Congress decides to cancel the flight due to cost overruns. The space agency could decide as early as Friday whether to cancel, delay or proceed with plans to launch a nuclear-powered, SUV-size Mars Science Laboratory to the red planet...

The Top 10 List Of Word Processors For Mac Users [by Alexis Kayhill] I saw an ad on the web for yet another Mac word processor. How many ways do you need to write something on your Mac? A few dozen, apparently. I made a list of all the Mac word processors I knew, then did a search online and came up with a dozen more. Word processing is alive and well on the Mac. Here’s a list of 10 of the best, some free. Is your favorite on the list?...

African-American opposition also killed the Bailout Bill [by Ed Lasky] It is somewhat odd that we did not read about the role of the African-American community and the Congressional Black Caucus in the failure of the Bailout Bill. Instead, the media such as the New York Times focused on the role of Republicans in the failure of the bill to pass...

The Catholic Church continues to Respond Theologian Nancy Pelosi [by William D. Zeranski] Since Nancy Pelosi injected religion into Abortion politics by making erroneous remarks about Catholic teaching, the Church continues to respond  -- sharply.  Straight from the Vatican, U.S. Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, prefect of the Vatican's highest court, said, "The Democratic Party in the United States "risks transforming itself definitively into a 'party of death.'"...

The Unspoken Campaign Message of Obama [by Bruce Walker] There is a theme to the political campaign of Barack Obama.  It follows the teachings of Saul Alinksy, and it can be summed up easily:  I will do anything to win.  That was the theory of Alinsky, whose radicalism was simply radicalism for power, not for the powerless.  Obama, like Alinsky, is not so much an ideologue as a power fanatic.  "Give me power, then trust me to do something good" both men seem to say...

US consumers flock to Mac laptops [by Tony Smith] That sound you can hear is Steve Jobs laughing after reading figures from US market watcher NPD that Apple laptops accounted for 20 per cent of retail notebook sales during July and August...

Belief in God 'really can relieve pain' [by Alastair Jamieson] Research at Oxford University has found believers can draw on their religion to endure suffering with greater fortitude, suggesting Christian martyrs may have been able to reduce the agony of torture or slow death. [more]

Galaxy Clusters Have a Mysterious Motion [in PhysOrg] The stars are in motion, and on a much larger scale than can be explained with current theories, according to astronomers at NASA, the University of Hawaii and UC Davis. The finding could improve our understanding of events in the first moments after the birth of the universe. [more]