Re: < 0.28 eV

2010-06-22 Thread David Hobby

Ronn! Blankenship wrote:

BBC News - Neutrino 'ghost particle' sized up by astronomers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10364160.stm
http://tinyurl.com/3yrm78g


Ronn--

Thanks for the link.  Uh..., for science writing of
that quality, would it be possible to provide a
clearer idea of what the article was about?


Using data from the largest ever survey of galaxies, researchers put
the mass of a neutrino at no greater than 0.28 electron volts.


Thanks!

---David

Ghost particles in the sky, Maru

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< 0.28 eV

2010-06-22 Thread Ronn! Blankenship

BBC News - Neutrino 'ghost particle' sized up by astronomers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10364160.stm
http://tinyurl.com/3yrm78g


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USA/Brazil

2010-06-22 Thread Jon Louis Mann
> At least there's an epsilon of truth 
> in that site: "This woman is what
> Brazilians call mulher de malandro,
> a woman who teases mens, nags them no 
> end and practically begs to be hit" -- 
> and calling someone a "mulher de malandro" 
> _very_ offensive.

> > I meant no offense, Alberto. I have 
> > only heard wife beating is tolerated 
> in Brazil, as it is in many countries.

> Well, that's the kind of information you 
> get when you read porn-sites.
> BTW, the author's name "Jose da Silva" 
> is Brazilian's "John Smith".
> Alberto Monteiro

Sorry Alberto, I didn't realize I googled a porn site!
In that case I must be wrong and men in Brazil only 
beat their wives when they ask for it.  Here, I thought 
the reason the incidence of domestic violence in the US 
went down, was because of the Women's Rights movement.  
I wonder if all those statistics about wife beating in 
other countries are wrong, also?  


  

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Brin: Did language Evolve from Navigation?

2010-06-22 Thread KZK
This article suggests that Language and Orientation/Navigation skills 
are directly correlated:


http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/06/language-in-space-language-and-orientation-skills-correlate.ars

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