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Thursday, February 7, 2013
Alphabet Robots Are Still The Best Way to Learn The Alphabet
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
The five biggest moments from ?The Ultimate Fighter?
Hall getting the real Chael Sonnen: Throughout the show, Hall was in his own head. He talked about how he was bullied since he came to the U.S. from Jamaica as a child, and how fears and doubts always creep into his mind. This led to a poignant conversation where Sonnen opened up about his losses, and how he learned to deal with doubts to become a better fighter. If you've ever heard Sonnen's "undefeated shtick," you realize what a big deal it was for Sonnen to open up with Hall.
Cella "doesn't need to fight." Raise your hand if this was the moment you knew Cella was the one getting knocked out. Yep, me too. Cella talked about how the rest of the guys in the house "need to fight" for the money, but he doesn't because he has a job with his family's heating and cooling business. He's not the first guy to have a plan B to fighting, but his attitude made it seem like fighting was more of a hobby.
Team Jones' finishing drill: Of the many times you've watched a TKO, have you ever imagined fighters' practicing it? Jones ran his fighters through a drill where they beat up on bags as if it was the end of the fight. Jones encouraged them to use elbows to open cuts on their opponents. "You would be surprised how many fighters haven't seen their own blood," Jones said.
Jon Jones' puppy! Jones stopped by the fighters house to hang out with his guys and he brought an adorable puppy. It was the most important image on television on Tuesday night.
That knockout. Oh my that knockout. Cella and Hall traded strikes for most of the first round. With less than 30 seconds left in the fight, Hall threw a spinning wheel kick that knocked Cella stiff. At first, Hall celebrated, but stopped when he was his opponent was still out. When Cella did come to, he asked Hall what happened. Perhaps it's best that he didn't remember.
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Sotomayor wobbles on cameras in court
But has she had a change of heart?
According to New York Magazine?s Jordan Teicher, Sotomayor seemed far more hesitant when asked about the issue during a talk at the 92Y in New York Tuesday night, the latest stop on a tour to promote her recently released memoir:
?There's no other public official who is required by the nature of their work to completely explain to the public the basis of their decision," she said, when asked about the hotly debated issue by moderator Thane Rosenbaum. "Every Supreme Court decision is rendered with a majority opinion that goes carefully through the analysis of the case and why the end result was reached. Everyone fully explains their views. Looking at oral argument is not going to give you that explanation. Oral argument is the forum in which the judge plays devil's advocate with lawyers."
She added: ?I think the process could be more misleading than helpful. It's like reading tea leaves. I think if people analyzed it, it is true that in almost every argument you can find a hint of what every judge would rule. But most justices are actually probing all the arguments."
That?s a notable shift from her comments during her 2009 confirmation hearing, when Sotomayor bluntly told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that she had no problem with cameras in the courtroom and would try to persuade fellow justices to adopt her point of view.
"I have had positive experiences with cameras," Sotomayor had said. "When I have been asked to join experiments of using cameras in the courtroom, I have participated. I have volunteered."
But while polls have shown a majority of the public supports cameras in the Supreme Court, Sotomayor's fellow justices have long been wary of the prospect. She's not, however, the first to be supportive of the idea?only to change her mind later.
According to C-SPAN, Justice Samuel Alito also spoke positively about cameras in the Supreme Court, until he was in his confirmation hearings. Before the Senate, he took a lighter tone in deflecting questions about the issue.
"If our arguments were on television, we'd face some very stiff competition because there is already a surfeit of programming for court aficionados,? Alito joked before the Senate.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/sotomayor-wavers-cameras-supreme-court-192410122--politics.html
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Monday, February 4, 2013
Two Russian hostages, one Italian freed in Syria: Moscow
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two Russians and an Italian have been freed in Syria in exchange for three captured rebels after being held hostage for nearly two months, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
The ministry said Viktor Gorelov, Abdessattar Hassun and Mario Belluomo, who were taken hostage by rebel forces on December 12, had been released on Sunday and were in good health.
"The Russians have already been brought to the Russian embassy in Damascus," the ministry statement said in a statement on its website. "An Italian citizen who was kidnapped with them, M. Belluomo, will be handed over to the Italian authorities through the Syrian Foreign Ministry."
It said the three had been seized by rebels on the way to the Syrian port of Tartus from the city of Homs.
Italian media have said that Belluomo, who was 63 when kidnapped, had been working in Syria as an engineer at a steel plant near the port city of Latakia.
The Russian Foreign Ministry did not say what the two Russians had been doing in Syria, but Russia media have suggested they also worked at the steel plant.
Russia is Syria's main arms supplier and has long been an ally of President Bashar al-Assad.
Moscow has blocked three U.N. Security Council resolutions aimed at putting pressure on Assad. It says his departure must not be a precondition for a negotiated settlement of the 22-month-old conflict that has killed more than 60,000 people.
(Reporting by Thomas Grove, Editing by Timothy Heritage)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/two-russian-hostages-one-italian-freed-syria-russia-092025500.html
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Earthworm Invaders Up Soil Greenhouse Gases
The earthworm invasion of North America is increasing carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions from the soil. David Biello reports.
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As Charles Darwin knew, earthworms enrich the soil. But they also increase greenhouse gas emissions. That's according to a meta-analysis in the journal Nature Climate Change. [Ingrid M. Lubbers et al, Greenhouse-gas emissions from soils increased by earthworms]
Soil scientists and biologists reviewed 57 studies to see how earthworms affected the soil from a climate change perspective. The issue is substantive: nearly a fifth of global carbon dioxide emissions come from soil. And earthworms are on the move, spreading anew through North America for the first time in tens of thousands of years after being brought over by European colonists.
All that soil digestion in the guts of worms means more CO2 and more nitrous oxide emanating from the dirt. The presence of earthworms increased N2O emissions by more than 40 percent. And laughing gas is also a potent greenhouse gas.
Worms also upped soil CO2 emissions, though it remains unclear whether this is a short-term effect likely to be balanced out by all the carbon that earthworms bury over the longer term. But that doesn't mean that earthworms don't play an important part in the history of the world, just as Darwin suggested, especially as the climate changes.
?David Biello
[The above text is a transcript of this podcast]?
(Scientific American is part of the Nature Publishing Group.)
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Contrary to reports, the Irish haven't legalized drunk driving
Reports concerning an Irish county council's proposal to allow rural inhabitants to drive after drinking have been greatly exaggerated.
Reported around the globe as a license to drive drunk, an Irish council's motion to permit rural pub-goers to get behind the wheel not only lacks force of law, it's also a slightly odd solution to a serious issue.
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It's not often that a vote by five county councilors in rural west Ireland makes headline news, but Danny Healy-Rae managed it this week when he and four colleagues passed a motion to allow drinkers to drive home ? albeit at a severely restricted speed and only on barely-used backroads.
The political response? The same as that of the Irish public: bafflement and embarrassment.
Leo Varadkar, minister for transport, said he disagreed with the council's motion and stressed the affect of the story spreading across the globe. "It doesn't really send out a good message internationally about Ireland," he said.
One fact that has barely been reported in the scramble to play-up rural Irish alcoholic clich?s: It's not going to happen. As a county council motion, the proposal has no legal status.
Irish people are keenly aware of the country's drink-sodden image, with many feeling Mr. Healy-Rae's motion plays to outdated prejudices about the country.
The move may not seem so out of the blue as it first sounds, though. Not quite, anyway.
Healy-Rae proposed the motion as a response to isolation in rural areas, particularly among the elderly and would help to counter "depression and suicide." He said permits could be issued allowing holders to have "two or three drinks" and then still drive home.
"They're traveling on very minor roads, often on tractors, with very little traffic and it's not right they're being treated the same as the rest of the traveling public and they have never killed anyone," he said.?"The only outlet they have then is to take home a bottle of whiskey," he says, "and they're falling into depression, and suicide for some of them is the sad way out."
To be sure, pubs in country areas of Ireland are at the center of community life and are more than just drinking dens, which is something even the motion's critics acknowledge. And going to the pub and drinking nonalcoholic drinks is already an option, as is the option of hiring a bus.
Healy-Rae is a member of a colorful County Kerry political dynasty known for rural populism ? and occasional support for strange causes including, most recently, removing the number 13 from vehicle license plates.
He is also a pub owner ? as are three more of the total five councilors who supported the idea. Three voted against the idea, seven abstained, and 12 were absent from the meeting.
Despite widespread criticism, the motion has attracted some support. Independent Galway councilor Michael Fahy says he will raise the idea at the next council meeting.
The chances of the government agreeing to the idea? Less than the amount of alcohol in a glass of tap water. The country has worked hard in recent decades to reduce road deaths, both by upgrading the road network and by stricter enforcement of the rules of the road.
Ireland's road death rate hit an all-time low in 2012, with 161 lives lost, 25 fewer than the previous year. It is has the sixth lowest road death rate the in EU.
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Sunday, February 3, 2013
Video: White House tries new birth control compromise
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