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Geological researchers have located a mantle reservoir based on the atypical ratio of the isotopes helium-3 to helium-4 in rocks found on an island in the canadian arctic.  Most helium-3 in Earth rocks has been outgassed over billions of years as the primitive Earth mantle that formed from space rocks got churned through volcanic processes. …

This cool site has a calculator which can compute your Body Mass Index (BMI) and Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) based on your height and weight.  Based on your amount of activity, it can then calculate the optimum amount of daily caloric intake for you.  Consuming below that amount of daily caloric intake means your diet…

Many people are not aware of mail client programs such as Thunderbird.  There used to be a time before the advent of the popular web-based e-mail systems such as gmail and yahoo mail when the only way to access e-mail was with an e-mail client program like Thuderbird.  Now, many people only know about webmail…

A story is in the news today about the European Southern Observatory (ESO) having discovered a star that is 260 times as massive as the Sun, exceeding what was thought to have been the maximum size limit of 150 solar masses for stars.  It is the largest star ever observed.  Accompanying the article is this…

Cygwin, sshd and Windows 7

Scientists have done some re-analysis of the ground-breaking Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) data which has been so important for cosmologists, and their re-assessment suggests that some of the interpretations of the data were off, thereby casting doubt on the entire standard cosmological model which includes the concept of dark energy.  In other words, this…

Imagine hearing your mother telling you this, or a school teacher.  Yet it may be the truth. I always knew this!  LOL Sitting straight ‘bad for backs’ On another note, I once heard somewhere that, in the time of Jesus, people used to eat laying on their sides, in a kind of lounging out position.…

Pronation, Explained: Info from Runner’s World Magazine.

Universal USB Installer by pendrivelinux.com is a really cool utility which automates the process of creating a live Linux USB key installation.  With this utility, you can easily transfer a Linux live CD image to a USB key.  It supports various versions of Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu, Knoppix, GParted, and many others. All you have to do is…

I had actually looked to see what was going on with solar missions with NASA and ESA, yet in my searching I had not found anything that appeared to be replacing SOHO, but then stuff on SDO has been popping up in the media lately, so maybe I missed it.  Today I found the main…