Learning for Liberty “One-on-One” with Brandon Smith, Founder Alt-Market Brandon Smith sat down with me in-studio this week for a brief interview. I hope you enjoy the production. It's our 1st 2-camera shoot, and my images were sh… Continue reading
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Libertarian stays on best to claim shock win in Dante Stakes
William Buick riding Libertarian (right) win The Betfred Dante Stakes at York. Photograph: Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images Libertarian caused a huge shock when staying on best of all to win the Betfred Dante Stakes at York. All eight runners had something of a chance two furlongs out, but the unheralded Libertarian had been off the bridle for some time Continue reading
Liberty Insurance expected to replace Guinness as hurling sponsors
Guinness will remain as a proud partner of the GAA and Croke Park stadium. Photograph: Ross Land/Getty Images Guinness has ended its 18-year association with the All-Ireland Hurling Championship but will remain a proud partner of the GAA Continue reading
Space Foundation Student Art Headed for the International Space Station
TERRAHEART Project Once again Includes Winning Art in Launch to Space COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (April 30, 2013) — Digital images of artwork honored by the Space Foundation International Student Art Contest will travel to space this summer and take up residence aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Japanese program called TERRAHEART, which sends student art, poetry and writings into space. This is the second time TERRAHEART has invited the Space Foundation to send student art and the first time the art will travel to the ISS aboard a Japanese rocket Continue reading
War medicine being used to help injured Boston bombing victims
Medical advances made during wars will help doctors treat the injured victims of the Boston bombings. Christian Science Monitor /Getty Images The bombs that made Boston look like a combat zone have also brought battlefield medicine to their civilian victims. A decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has sharpened skills and scalpels, leading to dramatic advances that are now being used to treat the 13 amputees and nearly a dozen other patients still fighting to keep damaged limbs Continue reading
NASA spacecraft may have spotted pieces of Soviet spacecraft on Mars
The bright spot in this 2007 image taken by NASA’s Mars Orbiter spacecraft may be the parachute from a 1971 Soviet mission that soft landed a spacecraft on the Red Planet. Credit: NASA JPL/University of Arizona MOSCOW, April 12 (UPI) — Russian space enthusiasts say a NASA orbiter may have captured images of pieces of a Soviet spacecraft that made a soft landing on Mars more than 40 years ago. They say the evidence of the Mars 3 mission, the first successful soft landing on the Red Planet, is in images taken in 2007 by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Continue reading
Freedom of art celebrated at Iowa State
Nowhere in the First Amendment does it say anything about the freedom of art, but does that mean that artists don’t have the same Freedom of Speech rights as everyone else? On Wednesday, April 10, 2013, in the Great Hall of Memorial Union, Brian Duffy and Heidi Wastweet spoke to a crowd of about 60 people about their unique forms of Freedom of Speech, and their struggles with the First Amendment. Heidi Wastweet is a medal sculptor, and her specialty is in bas-relief bronzes. Continue reading
NASA Sees Curiosity Rover’s Parachute Flapping in Martian Wind (Video)
NASA’s most powerful spacecraft orbiting Mars has captured amazing new images of the huge parachute used by the agency’s Curiosity rover when it safely landed on the Red Planet last August. A video of the NASA images of Curiosity’s parachute shows it billowing in the Martian wind. The views were recorded by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter currently circling the planet Continue reading
National Health Care Law Divides Mass. Senate Candidates
(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) BOSTON (AP) Three years after it split Massachusetts voters in the 2010 special U.S. Senate election, the debate over President Barack Obamas health care law has lost little of its political punch. Continue reading
NASA ‘s Webb Telescope gets its wings
Mar. 18, 2013 A massive backplane that will hold the primary mirror of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope nearly motionless while it peers into space is another step closer to completion with the recent assembly of the support structure’s wings. The wings enable the mirror, made of 18 pieces of beryllium, to fold up and fit inside a 16.4-foot (5-meter) fairing on a rocket, and then unfold to 21 feet in diameter after the telescope is delivered to space Continue reading
FIFA fears abusing of anti-inflammatory medicine
FIFA Chairman Sepp Blatter (left) and FIFA Medical Commission Chairman Michel D’Hooghe pose at a press conference last week. AFP/Getty Images BRUSSELS — The abuse of anti-inflammatory medicine by football players is a bigger problem facing the sport than doping, FIFA medical chief Michel D’Hooghe said Monday Continue reading
Facebook sweat lodge, the online resurgence of native spirituality
Smudging, sweat lodges, drum songs. Continue reading
Ticket Punched: Liberty becomes second 20-loss team ever to secure NCAA bid
Andrew Smith and Liberty earned their first NCAA bid since 2004 (USA Today Sports Images) Very few college basketball coaches get even one chance to experience the euphoria of making an out-of-nowhere run to a conference tournament title and an automatic NCAA tournament bid. Dale Layer has now accomplished it twice Continue reading
Falkland Islands to choose in referendum: Britain or Argentina?
Bill Poole stands in the Falklands capital of Stanley beside posters calling for a “yes” vote to remain British in a referendum Sunday and Monday. Great Britain has held the islands since 1833. Continue reading
Restoration to Hurricane-Hit Beaches to Begin April in NYC
By Zachary Stieber Epoch Times Staff Created: March 4, 2013 Last Updated: March 5, 2013 A front end loader cleans a still-closed beach area damaged by Hurricane Sandy on March 1 in Staten Island, a borough of New York City. The borough’s beaches will be the first to get restored, beginning in April Continue reading
Browse Images NASA – Huge UFOs near the Sun March 1, 2013 (SOHO STEREO Ahead Behind EUVI 195) – Video
Browse Images NASA – Huge UFOs near the Sun March 1, 2013 (SOHO STEREO Ahead Behind EUVI 195) Browse Images NASA – Huge UFO near the Sun March 1, 2013 (SOHO STEREO Ahead Behind EUVI 195) For full information about the UFO near the Sun, as well as the disclosure of the secrets of the sun, the aliens in the sun, read a book and watch the DVD. Information at: www.thesunproject.net Watch in HD and full screen! For full information about UFOs and paranormal phenomena, please visit http ———— (RUS)ГигантскиеНЛОиГигантскиеаномалиивозлеСолнца 1марта 2013. Continue reading
Astronomy Algorithms Help Diagnose Aggressive Tumors
Featured Article Academic Journal Main Category: Breast Cancer Also Included In: Medical Devices / Diagnostics;Cancer / Oncology;MRI / PET / Ultrasound Article Date: 22 Feb 2013 – 3:00 PST Current ratings for: Astronomy Algorithms Help Diagnose Aggressive Tumors The teams, from Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, and the Department of Oncology and the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge in the UK, describe how they adapted the astronomers’ image analysis algorithms and tested them on 2,000 breast tumors in a study published online on 19 February in the British Journal of Cancer. The current method of analyzing tumor aggressiveness relies on skilled pathologists looking down microscopes to spot subtle differences in staining of tumor samples. A computerized approach could speed up this process quite significantly Continue reading
Tropical Islands indoor resort attracts winter escapists
KRAUSNICK, GERMANY – FEBRUARY 15: Visitors lounge at the ‘South Sea’ beach at the Tropical Islands indoor resort on February 15, 2013 in Krausnick, Germany. Located on the site of a former Soviet military air base, the resort occupies a hangar built originally to house airships designed to haul long-distance cargo. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Continue reading
NASA Curiosity rover drills into Martian rock
NASA’sCuriosity rover has bored a hole in a Martian rock for the first time to collect a sample of bedrock that might offer evidence of a long-gone wet environment, the US space agency has reported. Drilling down 6.4cm into a patch of sedimentary bedrock, Curiosity collected the rock powder left by the drill and will analyze it using its own laboratory instruments, NASA said in a statement on Saturday. This is the first time a robot has drilled to collect a Martian sample Continue reading
NASA's robotic rover Curiosity drills into Martian rock
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For the first time, NASA’s rover Curiosity used its on-board drill to collect a sample of Martian bedrock that might offer evidence of a long-gone wet environment, the U.S. space agency reported on Saturday. Continue reading