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Vermont Bans Fracking

Slashdot — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:35:00 +0000

eldavojohn writes "Vermont is the first state to ban fracking (hydraulic fracturing), a process that was to revolutionize the United States' position into a major producer of natural gas. New York currently has a moratorium on fracking but it is not y...

Iran Threatens Legal Action Against Google For Not Labeling Gulf ‘Persian’

Slashdot — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:32:00 +0000

New submitter PantherSE writes with an article at CNN about the geopolitical importance of labeling, excerpting thus: "Iran has threatened legal action against Google for not labeling the Persian Gulf on its maps 'Toying with modern technologies in po...

Kitchen Tip: For Cooking Hard Boiled Eggs

Mom's Food and Kitchen Blog — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:26:03 +0000

When boiling eggs, start your eggs in cold water and add a pinch of salt to keep the shells from cracking. It makes for a better hard boiled egg. Bring water to a boil and cook for about 15 min. Salt. Yum! : ) What do you like to do with hard boiled eggs?

NIH Study Finds That Coffee Drinkers Have Lower Risk of Death

Slashdot — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:52:00 +0000

parallel_prankster writes "Older adults who drank coffee — caffeinated or decaffeinated — had a lower risk of death [full paper is paywalled, at the New England Journal of Medicine] overall than others who did not drink coffee, according t...

Online Loneliness At Google+

Slashdot — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:29:00 +0000

An anonymous reader writes "Google+ is a lonely place. At least according to a new study that paints the social networking site as a virtual tumbleweed town. Using information culled from the public timelines of 40,000 randomly selected members, data ...

Forbes Names Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer Worst CEO

Slashdot — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:45:00 +0000

New submitter _0x783czar writes "Microsoft haters gleefully have latched on to the latest scoop that a Forbes columnist has named Steve Ballmer the worst CEO. It seems that the article has leveled some strong accusations of irresponsible and ineffecti...

Kodak Basement Lab Housed Small Nuclear Reactor

Slashdot — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:48:00 +0000

McGruber writes "The Rochester (NY) Democrat-Chronicle has the interesting story of the Eastman Kodak Co.'s Californium Neutron Flux Multiplier, which was housed in Building 82 of Kodak Park in Rochester, NY. The multiplier contained 3½ pounds of...

US Grabs More Domain Names, $1.4M From Online Counterfeit Operations

Slashdot — Fri, 11 May 2012 23:33:00 +0000

coondoggie writes "According to court documents, investigation by federal law enforcement agents revealed that subjects whose domain names had been seized in a November 2010 operation continued to sell counterfeit goods using new domain names. In part...

Only 22% of California 8th Graders Pass National Science Test

Slashdot — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:39:00 +0000

bonch writes "22 percent of California eighth-graders passed a national science test, ranking California among the worst in the U.S. according to the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress. The test measures knowledge in Earth and space scie...