Carl Zimmer tells us:

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ADDED: You may need to turn off ad blocking to make this work.

My friend Car2D2 told me about this, so I eventually tracked it down to share it with you.

Check it out. .

Snap on tools, indeed.

This fall, Harry Potter fans will get the chance to step inside the famous wizard’s magical world through Harry Potter: The Exhibition, which opens at the Museum of Science, Boston on October 25, 2009, at 9 a.m. Tickets are now available online at mos.org or by calling 617-723-2500, 617-589-0417 (TTY). Visitors will be able to experience dramatic displays inspired…

The Exhibition made its highly successful global premiere at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry last April and will run there through September 27, 2009,

details from BMS

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So a laptop with a half-unplugged memory chip is brought into a shop. The techie fixes it right way, and calls the owner to tell her that a new mother board is needed. In the mean time, he’s looking through private photos on the hard drive.

That was one of several documented events chronicled in this piece from PC Pro.

According to the BBC, 17,000 mile cable has just been completed connecting South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Mozambique to Europe and Asia. I’m not quite sure how an undersea cable, which this is, connects landlocked Uganda to anything, but well, that’s BBC African Geography for you.

Reports are now surfacing that the son of Osama Bin Laden was killed by a US Hellfire missile fired from a Predator Drone in Pakistan at an undisclosed date earlier in the year.

BBC

Who would think that men of the cloth or elected officials would be involved in graft?!?!?

NEWARK, N.J. – Three New Jersey mayors, two state lawmakers, a deputy mayor and five rabbis were among 44 people charged Thursday in a two-track corruption and international money-laundering probe, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Jersey announced.

FBI and IRS agents arrested most of the suspects Thursday morning in what is being described as one of the biggest investigations of its kind in New Jersey history, according to NBC affiliate WNBC.

Details here

Remember Abscam?

This appears to be a connected, macabre story:
Continue reading Rabbis and Politicians Busted in Graft Sting →

is HERE at Picus Blog

Over the last week two vacuum leaks have been found in sectors 8-1 and 2-3 (Sector 7g is still holding). The leaks are similar to each other in position and therefore in likely cause. Unfortunately, these leaks are in already chilled down parts of the LHC and they will have to be warmed up to make repairs.

The delay will probably be a couple of weeks, so a planned (hoped for) October startup will now likely be mid November.

The details can all be found in this report.

Do we use nuclear power to get us past the current climate change crisis?

Fight it out here with Jonas Meckling.

An exclusive KIRO 7 Investigation reveals an alarming number of Apple brand iPod MP3 players have suddenly burst into flames and smoke, injuring people and damaging property.

details

Vaccine

Human trials of a vaccine to protect against the H1N1 swine flu virus have begun in Australia.

Riots spread in South Africa

Violence in South Africa’s townships has spread as residents protest about what they say is a lack of basic services, such as water and housing.

Scientist will make human brain. Mwahahahahah!

A detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next 10 years, a leading scientist has claimed.

New Zealand, Australia, expected to collide. Eventually.

A massive earthquake last week has brought New Zealand closer to Australia, scientists say….The 7.8 magnitude quake in the Tasman Sea has expanded New Zealand’s South Island westwards by about 30cm (12in).

And commenting is back on. We may expect some slowness at the beginning as fine tuning happens, and RSS feeds and channels are not on yet.