Archive for January, 2008
Texas Is Biggest Carbon Polluter
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Everything is big in Texas — big pickup trucks, big sport utility vehicless and the state’s big carbon footprint, too. Texans’ fondness for SUVs and trucks has helped make the state the biggest carbon polluter in America — and seventh in the world. The headquarters state of the U.S. oil industry [...]
Cloned Milk and Meat: What’s the Beef?
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008Milk and meat from cloned cows could hit grocery shelves in a few years if the FDA approves the process soon, as is expected. But would the products be safe? Scientists and consumer advocates disagree on the answer. The Food and Drug Administration has been wrestling for more than five years with the question of [...]
NEBO CCCP – Na krishe (Clip)
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008Cosmic Blue Blobs Discovered
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008AUSTIN, Texas — Brilliant blue blobs weighing tens of thousands of solar masses have been found lurking in the seemingly barren expanse of intergalactic space. The “eyes” of the Hubble Space Telescope resolved the objects, which appear to be clusters of stars born in the swirls and eddies of a galactic smashup some 200 million [...]
Nukri Kapanadze – Gamarjoba afxazeto sheni (Clip)
Sunday, January 13th, 2008Butterfly
Sunday, January 13th, 2008US scientists have discovered that monarch butterflies’ biological clocks help them use the sun as a compass, which helps explain how the butterflies find their way from Canada to winter nesting grounds in the mountains of Mexico, according to media reports Wednesday. Since its discovery, the annual migration of eastern North American monarch butterfly has [...]
Smoking in Movies Linked to Kids Lighting Up
Sunday, January 13th, 2008HealthDay News – Young people who start smoking may be influenced to do so by movies they saw in early childhood, new research suggests. What’s more, the study found that almost 80 percent of the exposure to smoking scenes in movies came through films rated “G,” “PG” and “PG-13.” “Movies seen at the youngest ages [...]
Iveria – Concert in the New York (Clip)
Friday, January 11th, 2008Forms of Performance in Georgian Folk Music
Friday, January 11th, 2008A large number of dialects and diversity of genres originated from geographic, socio-economic, historical and religious factors as well as from various activities in the household. They have established peculiar forms of performance in Georgia. Archaic and highly artistic Georgian folklore is distinguished by the variety of performance forms. When analyzing them, the peculiarities of [...]