For Thursday, October 9, 2008

Double Flu Jab Needed Against Bird Flu Pandemic

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081008184817.htm

'HumanCar' hits 60 mph on pure elbow grease, zero fossil fuel

http://www.yahoo.com/s/967715

States facing budget crisis

http://www.yahoo.com/s/966881

U.S. weighs buying stakes in banks

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27094961/

How Treasury pays for bail-out

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7661498.stm

'Yom Kippur riot' in Israeli city

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7660628.stm

Huge N Irish robbery trial collapses

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7661017.stm

US debt clock runs out of digits as growing deficit needs extra zeros

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7660409.stm

Nearly 1 in 6 homeowners is ‘underwater’

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27089919/

Bank savers run at the click of a mouse

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27069994/

Rescuing Retirement: Advice For All Ages

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/09/earlyshow/contributors/raymartin/main4511492.shtml

Challenges for changing America

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7657473.stm

Missing Americans 'held in Syria'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7661122.stm

Mexico unveils emergency plan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7660582.stm

Iceland halts all share trading

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7660511.stm

What happened to Iceland?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7658908.stm

£120m scheme 'funded by Iceland'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7661206.stm

Iceland’s financial debacle escalates

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27097780/

Councils fear for Icelandic cash

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7660438.stm

'Unbreakable' encryption unveiled

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7661311.stm

Q&A: The bank rescue and you

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7658596.stm

'Some firms will fail' – Paulson

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7660236.stm

US warns of further bank failures

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7660403.stm

Financial crisis may worsen mental health woes

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27098328/

Is anybody listening out there? Earth sends messages into space

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7660449.stm

How messages are sent to space

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7660710.stm

First interstellar spam broadcast

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7660449.stm

Man denies hacking Palin e-mail

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7661117.stm

Fisheries waste 'costs billions'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7660011.stm

Cosmic Eye Sheds Light On Early Galaxy

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081008151116.htm

Genome Of Relapsing Malaria Parasite Decoded

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081008151314.htm

Plasmodium vivax

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmodium_vivax

Colorful Portrait Reveals Star Birth Clues

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081008095712.htm

Arctic Soil May Pack Twice Greenhouse Gas Punch

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081008091129.htm

Scientists Genetically Enhance Scent Of Flowers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081007102847.htm

Atomic View Reveals How Eye's Retina Works

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081007120433.htm

Honey Helps To Heal Wounds, Review Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081007192524.htm

Robots: The Bizarre And The Beautiful

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081001094342.htm

EURON website

http://www.euron.org/

Researchers Discover How Infectious Bacteria Can Switch Species

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081009072716.htm

Photorhabdus asymbiotica

http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/P_asymbiotica/

Beavers: Dam Good For Songbirds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081008151316.htm

Structure Of 'Beneficial' Virus That Can Infect Cancer Cells Solved

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081008151320.htm

National Cancer Institute Definition of Seneca Valley virus-001

http://www.cancer.gov/Templates/drugdictionary.aspx?CdrID=488482

Plant Virus Research Could Lead To New Ways To Improve Crop Yields

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081001145114.htm

Flexiviridae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexiviridae

Structure of Flexible Filamentous Plant Viruses –

http://authors.library.caltech.edu/11366/

When It Comes To Galaxies, Diversity Is Everywhere

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081001094346.htm

Apollo Heat Shield Uncrated After 35 Years, Helps New Crew Vehicle Design

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081008231029.htm

Chemical Found In Plastics, Bisphenol A, Linked To Chemotherapy Resistance

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081008114401.htm

Using Algae To Convert Sunlight Into Biofuel

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081008203549.htm

Highest Power Tabletop Laser Ever Built

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081008203706.htm

Fuzziness On The Road To Physics' Grand Unification Theory

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081006130509.htm

Georgia villages "torched," satellite study shows

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4984ci-us-georgia-ossetia-satellite/

Mice overcome fear, depression with natural Prozac

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre497ajh-us-brain-fear/

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-derived_neurotrophic_factor

ConsumerMan: Beware of debit card skimmers

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27085818/

Satellites may help scientists predict outbreaks

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27090177/

Scientist warns cash woes 'devastating' to science

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27098901/

McCain runs into a planetarium problem

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/08/1518907.aspx

Fake YouTube pages used to spread viruses

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27090461/

How the turtle got its shell

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27086619/

'Acoustic smog' is major threat to whales, say researchers

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081009/sc_afp/environmentbiodiversitypollutionspecieswhales;_ylt=ArOhw.9RgMLiAjkKS6W7eEWs0NUE

CNN announces Top 10 Heroes

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/10/09/heroes.top10/index.html

Banks scolded for evicting 'innocent' renters

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/08/chicago.evictions/index.html

Turning carbon dioxide into fuel

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/10/08/co2.fuel/index.html

Court weighs sonar's impact on whales

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/10/08/sonar.whales/index.html

Phone Sex? Pillow Talk? Exclusive Account of What NSA Really Heard

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5987804&page=1

Job Hunting In A Layoff Economy

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/CareerManagement/story?id=5985211&page=1

'Zero Dollar' bill giveaway

http://www.yahoo.com/s/967629


McCain ad ties Obama to Ayers

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/14419;_ylt=ArWDfxhINe36wIidwPrrH9Ks0NUE

Report: Voter purges in 6 states may violate law

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081009/ap_on_el_ge/voter_purges;_ylt=Ap0ARh4anG0QF1kluqrRYyqs0NUE

40 laid off at software company as execs arrested

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081009/ap_on_hi_te/software_execs_charged;_ylt=Aqcd8oJJt4FKDj2dnDJEAEGs0NUE

Entellium

http://www.entellium.com/

Web Surfers Face Dangerous New Threat: “Clickjacking”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/62355;_ylt=AnjE7N5FHeSdaFkR6Rv1tQgDW7oF

Clickjacking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickjacking

Scientists find key protein helps people hear

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_hearing_protein;_ylt=AqNCLKfXBdV5DQ5nH_uRbu8DW7oF

China milk victims may have doubled to over 90,000

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_china_milk_scandal;_ylt=AlgkdAp9om_Sd3Z1zy3BysIDW7oF

For Thursday, September 18, 2008

Hong Kong recalls dairy products

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7623037.stm

Malaysia arrests second blogger

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7622437.stm

Hackers infiltrate Palin's e-mail

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7622726.stm

No plant CO2 relief in warm world

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7620921.stm

X-ray pulse seen in biggest holes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7622692.stm

Britain 'faces power cuts threat'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7618840.stm

Norway joins fight to save Amazon

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7621179.stm

Seabird chicks 'killed over food'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7619717.stm

Clampdown call on shark finning

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7618802.stm

Nasa selects Mars climate mission

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7618344.stm

Google and GE in energy deal

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7622347.stm

YouTube bans some weapons footage

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7621013.stm

San Jose wins electric car plant

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7617972.stm

Tesla Motors – (Wikipedia link)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Motors

Tesla Motors

http://www.teslamotors.com/

Bosses' insolvency data is stolen

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7621393.stm

Improving Our Ability To Peek Inside Molecules

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080916144006.htm

Significant Increase In Alien Plants In Europe

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080917145409.htm

Whale Songs Heard Around New York City Waters

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080916143906.htm

Watch And Learn: Time Teaches Us How To Recognize Visual Objects

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080911150046.htm

It’s All In The Hips: Early Whales Used Well Developed Back Legs For Swimming, Fossils Show

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080917210028.htm

Bovine Mastitis: Could A Vaccine Be On The Way?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080917145736.htm

Bovine mastitis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_mastitis

Novel Anti-cancer Mechanism Found In Long-lived Rodents

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080918081158.htm

Dark Matter Disk In Our Galaxy, Supercomputer Simulation Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080915210506.htm

First Picture Of Likely Planet Around Sun-like Star

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080915162420.htm

3-D Computer Processor: 'Rochester Cube' Points Way To More Powerful Chip Designs

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080915105733.htm

Innovative Hydrogen-powered Car Created

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080912091726.htm

Low-emission, High-performance Engine For Future Hybrids

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080915164550.htm

New Ant Species Discovered In The Amazon Likely Represents Oldest Living Lineage Of Ants

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080915174538.htm

Were Ike's missing washed away?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26765035/

Poker site cheating plot a high-stakes whodunit

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26563848/

New Mozart piece found in French library

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26772717/

FDA eyes mandatory tracking program for food

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26763265/

1,000-year-old Viking shield found in Denmark

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26772763/

Cactus goo can clean up drinking water

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26759259/

Mucilage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucilage

Could inner zombie be controlling your brain?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26742742/

One fish, two fish ... glowing-red fish

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26741465/

Enneapterygius pusillus

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=16979&genusname=Enneapterygius&speciesname=pusillus

Grizzly bears rebound from near extinction

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/16/grizzly.bears.montana.ap/index.html

Ursus arctos horribilis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly_Bear

Plants make own painkillers

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080918/sc_livescience/plantsmakeownpainkillers;_ylt=Agb4W6wmwCqzeTgTXrHc5Qus0NUE

FDA to review genetically engineered animals

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_he_me/super_chicken;_ylt=AvmYN06ZrR_HLR4eoKsg25ms0NUE

Scientists to use satellites to count kangaroo rats

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_sc/sci_kangaroo_rats;_ylt=AtTQxX.oDEpwve.5bW6vqZ2s0NUE

Dipodomys

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_rat

Scientists name 100 new shark and ray species

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080918/sc_nm/australia_sharks_dc;_ylt=Apxk8vXiuY2gimDnHX0_CxUPLBIF

Heart Disease, Diabetes Linked to Plastics

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/20080917/ts_usnews/heartdiseasediabeteslinkedtoplastics;_ylt=ApBphlvN503TdJ2pVUvq8ewDW7oF

4,4'-dihydroxy-2,2-diphenylpropane

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A

Rare hairy-nosed otters discovered in Vietnam

http://www.yahoo.com/s/955623