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POPSUK Children's House Of Horrors:Forensic Teams Find Teeth And Bone Fragments The former Jersey health minister Stuart Syvret said the UK Government must now step in. He said: 'The only hope for justice is if London intervenes and it sends a completely independent judiciary, prosecution and courts.' Investigations at the home started in February after a discovery of what later was found to be part of a coconut. Nonetheless scores of people came forward claiming they were drugged, raped and beaten between the early 1960s and 1980s. Police excavated four secret underground chambers at the site, referred to as punishment rooms by some victims, and found shackles and a large bloodstained bath. Three men have been charged with sex abuse offences as part of the inquiry into historical abuse.
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POPS24 Unforgettable Advertisements Just another set of weirdness that we human beings do to get attention. Marked Mature for the PETA ad as I will err on the side of caution... The Giant Prop ads remind me of the old TV shows and the movies of the 30s and 40s where they were very common... My favorite? The Mini Cooper ad... Priceless!
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POPSTrans-Atlantic MagLev -- A Magnetically Levitated Vacuum Tube Train A Maglev train floats about 10mm above the guidway on a magnetic field and is propelled by the guidway itself rather than an onboard engine by changing magnetic fields. An exotic proposal based upon this principle is the Trans Atlantic vactrain: a Maglev train in a long near-vacuum tube with speeds that allow less than one hour travel times between New York and London.
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POPS Test your eyes Try this interactive activity from Discovery Channel -- test your sight and learn how vision works at the same time.
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POPSxkcd says "boom-de-yadda!" I am a big sappy moosh who gets all teary-eyed and sniffly every time I watch the Discovery Channel ad this comic is based on. "I love the whole world - it's such a brilliant place." Boom-de-yadda!
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POPS Titanic: The Final Secret but they did want to know what had happened to their submarines.The military were anxious to know how the nuclear reactors had been affected by being submerged for so long. The oceanographer was given the funding to embark on two expeditions, one to find the wreck of Thresher in 1984 off the eastern coast of the US and another to find Scorpion in the eastern Atlantic. Thresher, the US Navy’s most advanced attack submarine at the time, sank with all her 129 crew in April 1963 while undergoing seaworthiness tests after dockyard repairs. Scorpion disappeared with 99 crew in 1968, and there had been speculation that it was sunk by Soviet forces. Dr Ballard’s visual examination of the wreck site showed that the most likely cause of its destruction was being hit by a rogue torpedo that it had fired itself. — Titanic: The Final Secret will be shown on the National Geographic Channel at 9pm on June 8.
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POPSColossal Squid Thaw to Be Webcast Live
Webcast Enjoy live video from the tank and dissection room. We are trying to make sure we record when the scientists lay out the squid for display so that Northern Hemisphere people can catch up on what has happened. > Wide angle camera http://www.r2.co.nz/20080427/camera-4.asx > Dissection table http://www.r2.co.nz/20080427/camera-2.asx > Thawing bath - fixed camera http://www.r2.co.nz/20080427/camera-3.asx > Thawing bath - scanning camera http://www.r2.co.nz/20080427/camera-1.asx > Rotating view - switches between cameras every 30 seconds http://www.r2.co.nz/20080427/rotate-1.asx > 4 cameras on the same page You will need a broadband connection to view this page. Be aware that this page is sending a lot of data and will increase your data usage.10 minutes is around 75 MB. http://www.r2.co.nz/20080427/matrix.htm The webcast is best viewed in Windows Media Player, Real Player or Mplayer under Linux or Os-X. Totem and VideoLan also work well. Apple users
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POPS100 Greatest Discoveries, Discovery Channel: Genetics Bill Nye "The Science Guy" hosts a new series that highlights the greatest scientific discoveries of all time, from the earliest time to the present day. The series features nine episodes: Evolution, Earth Sciences, Medicine, Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Genetics and Biology, plus a up episode featuring the top 10 discoveries of all time. This is a fun and instructive series, with a lot of historical re-creations, archival footage, visits to interesting scientific research facilities and interviews with present-day scientists including several Nobel laureates - all presented with the flair and humor associated with television's "Science Guy" Bill Nye. Info: http://science.discovery.com/convergence/100discoveries/big100/genetics.html Video at: http://quicksilverscreen.com/watch?video=35500
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POPSDiscovering Cool Pics & Podcasts This is part of the National Science Foundation website where you can listen to podcasts. There are also thousands of really fantastic images sent in from researchers all around Earth. You can get an rss feed.
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