Monthly Archive: May 2007

“I expose to men the origin of their first, and perhaps second, reason for existing.” Leonardo da Vinci wrote these words above his drawing “The Copulation” in about 1493. [His] sketch shows a transparent...

Labels: dark matter, gravity lensing

Church documents … along with census, immigration and other records tracked down by U.S. genealogists, appear to show that Obama’s great-great-great-grandfather, Fulmuth Kearney, was reared in Moneygall [Ireland], then left for America in 1850,...

Internet comment, 2005 The clickwheel is the sticking point. If Apple wants to make a larger-screen iPod without making the device itself larger, then there are two very simple choices. It could copy Archos,...

Thirty-one-year-old Nicole Faller, a former exotic dancer from Pleasanton was caught on tape using methamphetamine and having sex with an unidentified man. During the act, the man suffered a heart attack and died, and...

A common virus, believed to be transmitted during oral sex, is the cause of a rare throat cancer in both men and women … Patients whose blood or saliva samples indicated that they had...

So we went to San Diego to check it out to see if moving there for UCSD was a good idea. And walking back from the car one evening we happened to pass by...