8:49 PM
A coal-colored rock from Mars has been found to be significantly different than any other meteorite from Mars. It is older than most (2 billion years old), has more water, and is quite similar to the volcanic rocks studied in Mars by the NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/01/martian-rock-sahara-desert-unlike-others
The physical meaning of temperature means that nothing can be colder than 0 Kelvin...but physicists have now created an atomic gas that has negative Kelvin values!
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/01/temperature-below-absolute-zero
Brain imaging research found that students who are really good in basic single digit math (adding and subtracting single digit numbers) score higher on the PSAT:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130106-neuroscience-study-reveals-new-link-between-basic-math-skills-and-psat-math-success
Study found that teens without Internet access are at a severe disadvantage educationally and socially. The students report that it is hard to complete school assignments and they don't feel included in social activities:
http://mashable.com/2013/01/03/teens-without-internet/
Minority investor in Clearwire is asking the FCC to stop Sprint's purchase of Clearwire as well as Softbank's purchase of Sprint:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/clearwire-investor-crest-urge-fcc-block-sprintclearwire-deal/2013-01-04
Conspiracy theorists say that Google is purposely preventing Google Maps from running on Windows Phone...but this article points out that Microsoft's refusal to allow IE to support WebKit (Safari, Chrome, Opera, and Mozilla are among those that support that open browser standard...Microsoft wants people to support Trident is the root cause of the problem:
https://www.infoworld.com/t/windows-phone/cant-access-google-maps-your-windows-phone-blame-microsoft-210168
Idiot 18-year-old posted a Facebook message about driving drunk and hitting someone's car. Two of his Facebook "friends" called police and the boy was arrested:
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2013/01/drivin_drunk_facebook_post_get.html
Prison guards in Brazil stopped a cat that walked across the prison gate and found that the cat was smuggling in a cell phone, earphone, memory card, batteries, phone charger, saw, and drill! Now they are trying to figure out which prisoner the cat was trying to get out of prison:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57562321-71/cat-tries-to-smuggle-cell-phone-into-prison/
90-year-old Saudi man married a 15-year-old girl...and the new bride locked him out of their bedroom on their first night together and also on their second night...then she ran back to her family. He's planning to sue to get back his $17,500 dowry:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/seworld20130107-90year-old-saudi-man-marries-15year-old-girl
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/01/martian-rock-sahara-desert-unlike-others
The physical meaning of temperature means that nothing can be colder than 0 Kelvin...but physicists have now created an atomic gas that has negative Kelvin values!
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/01/temperature-below-absolute-zero
Brain imaging research found that students who are really good in basic single digit math (adding and subtracting single digit numbers) score higher on the PSAT:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130106-neuroscience-study-reveals-new-link-between-basic-math-skills-and-psat-math-success
Study found that teens without Internet access are at a severe disadvantage educationally and socially. The students report that it is hard to complete school assignments and they don't feel included in social activities:
http://mashable.com/2013/01/03/teens-without-internet/
Minority investor in Clearwire is asking the FCC to stop Sprint's purchase of Clearwire as well as Softbank's purchase of Sprint:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/clearwire-investor-crest-urge-fcc-block-sprintclearwire-deal/2013-01-04
Conspiracy theorists say that Google is purposely preventing Google Maps from running on Windows Phone...but this article points out that Microsoft's refusal to allow IE to support WebKit (Safari, Chrome, Opera, and Mozilla are among those that support that open browser standard...Microsoft wants people to support Trident is the root cause of the problem:
https://www.infoworld.com/t/windows-phone/cant-access-google-maps-your-windows-phone-blame-microsoft-210168
Idiot 18-year-old posted a Facebook message about driving drunk and hitting someone's car. Two of his Facebook "friends" called police and the boy was arrested:
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2013/01/drivin_drunk_facebook_post_get.html
Prison guards in Brazil stopped a cat that walked across the prison gate and found that the cat was smuggling in a cell phone, earphone, memory card, batteries, phone charger, saw, and drill! Now they are trying to figure out which prisoner the cat was trying to get out of prison:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57562321-71/cat-tries-to-smuggle-cell-phone-into-prison/
90-year-old Saudi man married a 15-year-old girl...and the new bride locked him out of their bedroom on their first night together and also on their second night...then she ran back to her family. He's planning to sue to get back his $17,500 dowry:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/seworld20130107-90year-old-saudi-man-marries-15year-old-girl