Militants educated in cyber training camps-experts (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters By Louis Charbonneau WIESBADEN, Germany, Nov 21 (Reuters) - The Internet has become a key teaching tool for Islamist militants who are using it to educate recruits in cyber training camps, crime and ... us.rd.yahoo.com
Youth football camps set at Littlestown Elementary (The Evening Sun)
Littlestown Elementary Football will conduct two introductory football camps next spring. A contact camp, open only to players in third grade, and a flag football camp, open to youths in grades 1-3, will be held Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from March 31 to April 24. us.rd.yahoo.com
Strange but True: Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste
The popular conception of nuclear power is straight out of The Simpsons: Springfield abounds with signs of radioactivity, from the strange glow surrounding Mr. Burn's nuclear power plant workers to Homer's low sperm count. Then there's the local superhero, Radioactive Man, who fires beams of "nuclear heat" from his eyes. Nuclear power, many people think, is inseparable from a volatile, invariably lime-green, mutant-making radioactivity. rss.sciam.com
Listening In On Hurricanes [60-Second Science]
Podcast Transcript: Predicting a hurricane’s strength and speed is crucial in order to save property and lives. Right now, the only way to get accurate information is to fly a plane right into the hurricane. That’s frightening--and expensive. Now MIT scientists say they’ve demonstrated a safer and cheaper method. Nicholas Makris, director of MIT’s Laboratory for Undersea Remote Sensing, developed a model that uses underwater microphones. These hydrophones, as they’re called, can pick up the sound of the roiling and churning waves caused by a hurricane. [More] rss.sciam.com