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March 22, 2010

Obama order on abortion locks in health care votes  
AP - March 21, 2010  





  Iceland fears 2nd, even larger volcanic eruption  
AP - March 21, 2010  
Airports and the main east-west highway in Iceland are closed
after a dormant volcano erupts in the south of the country.




March 22, 2010

World Water Day 2010

World Day For Water

World Water Day occurs each year on March 22, as
designated by United Nations General Assembly resolution.

World Water Day: Drought Photos   National Geographic - March 20, 2010


  • 2010 : Communicating Water Quality Challenges and Opportunities
  • 2009 : Clean Water for a Healthy World
  • 2009 : Transboundary Waters
  • 2008 : International Year of Sanitation
  • 2007 : Coping with Water Scarcity
  • 2006 : Water and Culture
  • 2005 : Water For Life Decade
  • 2004 : Water and Disasters
  • 2003 : Water for Future
  • 2002 : Water for Development
  • 2001 : Water for Health
  • 2000 : Water for the Twenty-first Century



    Water Files
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    AGING



    ANCIENT & LOST CIVILIZATIONS
    Alchi
    Glimpses of the Lost World of Alchi   Smithsonian - April 2010

    Threatened Buddhist art at a 900-year-old monastery high
    in the Indian Himalayas sheds light on a fabled civilization
    Alchi   Wikipedia
      Alchi   Google Videos





    ANIMALS
      Mutant All-Black Penguin Found   National Geographic - March 16, 2010
    Body Clock of Arctic Reindeer Ticks Differently   Live Science - March 15, 2010
    Scientists reveal how snakes 'see' at night   PhysOrg - March 15, 2010



    ANTARCTICA
    Antarctic Ice Creature Opens Window to Extreme Life   Live Science - March 19, 2010

      Scientists go 'gaga' to find creatures beneath 600 feet of ice   AP - March 15, 2010



    ARCHAEOLOGY

    Archaeological Institute of America
    Biblical Archaeology



    ARCTIC



    ART
    Earliest Signature of Renaissance Artist Raphael Found in Painting   Discovery - March 20, 2010



    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE



    ASTRONOMY
    Current Moon Phase


    Current Solar Data From NOAA


    Astronomy Picture of the Day
    NASA  
    Astronomy Picture of the Day Archives
    NASA Website


    Spaceweather.com
     


    Thunderbolts Picture of the Day
     
    Thunderbolts Archives

    Origins of the Milky Way   PhysOrg - March 20, 2010
    Immaculate Black Holes Found Near Universe's Conception   National Geographic - March 19, 2010
    Mysterious 'Dark Flow' May Be Tug of Other Universe   Discovery - March 18, 2010

      Experience Hubble's Universe in 3-D   PhysOrg - March 20, 2010
    What the Hubble Space Telescope really sees   MSNBC - March 18, 2010

    Closest Ever Look at Martian Moon   Wired - March 16, 2010

    Secrets of Jupiter's Great Red Spot Revealed in New Weather Map   Space.com - March 16, 2010
    Red in Jupiter¹s Spot Not What Astronomers Thought   Wired - March 16, 2010

    Is There Water On The Moon? Bucketloads   Discovery - March 20, 2010



    AUGMENTED REALITY
      Augmented reality windshield from GM to show drivers potential hazards   PhysOrg - March 20, 2010



    AUSTRALIA
    Australia '0.7 degrees warmer over past 50 years'   AFP - March 15, 2010



    BIOLOGY
    Biology May Not Be So Complex After All, Physicist Finds   Science Daily - March 20, 2010
    'Glow-in-the-Dark' Sperm Sheds Light on Reproductive Biology, Sexual Selection and Speciation   Science Daily - March 20, 2010
    How a Man Produces 1,500 Sperm a Second   National Geographic - March 19, 2010
    1 gene lost = 1 limb regained? Scientists demonstrate mammalian regeneration through single gene deletion   PhysOrg - March 15, 2010



    BIRDS
    All birds use the same navigation system   PhysOrg - March 20, 2010
    Songbirds Yield Insight Into Speech Production   Science Daily - March 20, 2010



    BRAIN
    Cro Magnon skull shows that our brains have shrunk   PhysOrg - March 20, 2010



    BUSINESS
    Week Ahead: Health Care Could Temporarily Bruise Stocks   CNBC - March 20, 2010
    Blog: Will Business Improve   BlogHer - March 16, 2010
    Updated Daily
    Associated Press
    Business Week
    CNBC
    CNN
    NY Times
    USA Today



    CARS
    6 Cars So Alluring They¹re in an Art Museum   Wired - March 20, 2010
    Bloodhound supersonic car's lift problem fixed   BBC - March 16, 2010
      How to stop a runaway Prius   CNN - March 13, 2010
    Turn the power off or put it in neutral mad hit the brakes.



    CHILDREN
    Babies Are Born to Dance   Live Science - March 15, 2010
    A better genetic test for autism   PhysOrg - March 15, 2010



    CHINA



    CLIMATE
    An earlier changing climate: Humans had to adapt in ancient warming world   PhysOrg - March 16, 2010
    Climate Change Affecting Avian Life   Red Orbit - March 13, 2010



    CLOUDS



    COLORS



    COMPUTERS



    CONSCIOUSNESS
    Why Surprises Temporarily Blind Us   Science Daily - March 15, 2010
    Selective hearing: it is all in the mind   Telegraph.co.uk - March 15, 2010



    CONSPIRACIES



    COSMOLOGY
    Dark Energy: The Biggest Mystery in the Universe   Smithsonian - April 2010
    The Big Bang: Solid Theory, But Mysteries Remain   Space.com - March 20, 2010
    Big questions surround big-bang theory   MSNBC - March 20, 2010
    What happened before the universe¹s expansion? Will it happen again?



    CREATION



    DIAMONDS
    Flawless Diamond To Create Powerful Lasers   Discovery - March 18, 2010



    DIET - FITNESS
    Blog: Tasting the World: Cooking with Rose Water   Blogher - March 20, 2010
    Surgery: The Weight-Loss Method of Choice for 80 Percent of Women   That's Fit - March 16, 2010
    Short blasts of exercise as good as hours of training, scientists find   Telegraph.co.uk - March 13, 2010



    DINOSAURS
    Mongolia: New Dinosaur: "Exquisite" Raptor Found   National Geographic - March 20, 2010



    EARTH



    EARTH CHANGES



    EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD



    EARTHQUAKES
    Cuba 5.6 Earthquake 2010 another Quake Shakes Land   CNN - March 21, 2010  
    Rapid Response Oceanographic Expedition Dispatched to Chile Earthquake Site   Science Daily - March 20, 2010
    The Chilean Temblor: An Earthquake¹s Radiating Energy   Live Science - March 19, 2010
    Professor Jennifer Cole discusses what causes earthquakes and how one natural disaster can lead to another   PhysOrg - March 16, 2010
      Magnitude-4.4 earthquake shakes Southern Calif.   AP - March 16, 2010
    Strong 6.6 earthquake rattles buildings around Japan   AP - March 14, 2010
    6.4 Magnitude Earthquake Reported Off Indonesia   All News - March 14, 2010
    Indonesia Earthquake 2010: Strong Quake Shakes Eastern Islands   Huffington Post - March 14, 2010
    Poetry Helps Some Cope With An Earthquake's Aftermath   Huffington Post - March 14, 2010
    Worsening earthquake problem is not below ground, but above   AP - March 14, 2010

    All About Earthquakes  Wikipedia
    IRIS Seismic Monitor USGS Ongoing Updates and Links



    ECOLOGY



    EGYPT
    3,400-year-old statues unearthed in Egypt   AP - March 16, 2010
    A ministry statement said the team discovered a 13 foot (4 meter) statue of Thoth,
    the ancient god of wisdom and the top part of a statue of Pharaoh Amenhotep III standing next to another god.





    ELLIE'S WORLD BLOGS
    Ellie's World Blog
    This Week's Quickies   
    The Dead Sea Scrolls   



    EMOTIONS
    Blog: New Rule: The More Humans Try to Deny Themselves the Love They Really Want, the Dumber They Look in the End   Huffington Post - March 20, 2010
    Loneliness increases your blood pressure   Telegraph.co.uk - March 18, 2010
    Stress Changes Who Men Find Attractive   Live Science - March 10, 2010



    ENERGY
    Water Oxidation Advance Boosts Potential for Solar Fuel   Science Daily - March 18, 2010



    ENTERTAINMENT
    Sandra Bullock's love life: Why do we care?   CNN - March 20, 2010
    Betty White snags a sitcom   CNN - March 17, 2010
    The Kick-Ass Women of "24"   Blogher - March 16, 2010

    Free Readings
    Omikuji - Pick a Card
    Ziriya Message Board



    ENVIRONMENT



    EVOLUTION



    EXTINCTION



    E-ZINES
    Reality Sandwich
    Smithsonian.com
    Cryptmundo



    FERTILITY
    New Hormone Treatment Shows Potential to Reverse Infertility   Science Daily - March 16, 2010



    FORESTS



    GAMING
    World¹s First Left-Handed Gaming Mouse   Wired - March 17, 2010



    GAY
    Aging issues can be tougher on gays   CNN - March 18, 2010
    New HIV infections increasing among homosexuals   PhysOrg - March 16, 2010
      Gay seniors come out late, start second lifetime   AP - March 15, 2010



    GEMSTONES



    GENETICS



    GEOLOGY



    GLACIERS AND ICEBERGS



    GLOBAL WARMING



    GREECE



    HAIR
    How Long Can You Go Without Washing Your Hair?   AOL - March 14, 2010



    HEALTH
    Causes Found for Stiff Skin Conditions   Science Daily - March 20, 2010



    HEARING
    Selective hearing: it is all in the mind   Telegraph.co.uk - March 15, 2010



    HOBBIT
    "Hobbits" Had Million-Year History on Island?   National Geographic - March 18, 2010
    'Hobbit' island's deeper history   BBC - March 18, 2010
    Long before a 'hobbit' species of human lived on Indonesia's Flores island, other human-like creatures colonized the area.



    HOMES
    25 Best Places to Buy a Home Now   CNN - March 20, 2010
    Multiple Generations Under One Roof, Again   Live Science - March 18, 2010
    30-Year Mortgage Rate Remains Under 5 Percent   CNBC - March 18, 2010



    HUMAN INTEREST
    Catholic Education Gets $20 Million Gift   AOL - March 18, 2010





    HUMAN MIGRATION



    INDIA



    INTERNET
    A webmaster without modern Web   CNN - March 17, 2010
    Internet Explorer 9 previewed   PhysOrg - March 17, 2010
    Sneak Peak of Internet Explorer 9 Shown at MIX 10   Epoch Times - March 16, 2010



    IRAQ
    Seven Years in Iraq: An Iraq War Timeline   TIME - March 20, 2010
    A Brief History of the War - Month By Month, Quote By Quote
      Life in Baghdad is 'constant fear'   CNN - March 20, 2010



    JOBS
    Job loss and mental health   Live Science - March 20, 2010
    Asperger's Can Aid The Workplace   AOL - March 18, 2010
    Meet Jeffrey Deutsch, Doctor, Life Coach, Speaker, Aspie
    Unemployment claims fall   CNN - March 18, 2010



    LANGUAGES
    Google to add Maya, Nahuatl languages to search engine   PhysOrg - March 20, 2010



    LARGE HADRON COLLIDER
    Large Hadron Collider Breaks Energy Record By 300%   National Geographic - March 20, 2010
    Large Hadron Collider smashes energy record again   BBC - March 19, 2010



    MARCH 2010
    March 26 - Full Moon 9º Libra
    March 28 - Palm Sunday
    March 29 - April 6 Passover



    MARINE BIOLOGY



    MARKETING
      Can brain scans help companies sell more?   BBC - March 17, 2010



    MARRIAGE



    MAYA



    MEDITATION



    MEMORY



    MIGRAINES



    MOUNTAINS



    MUSIC



    MUMMIES



    NEW YORK

    The New Yorker Ezine



    OCEANOGRAPHY



    PALEONTOLOGY
    When Did the First 'Modern' Human Beings Appear in the Iberian Peninsula?   Science Daily - March 16, 2010
    Jaws -- 4 million BC   PhysOrg - March 16, 2010
    Palaeontologists have discovered evidence of how an extinct shark attacked its prey, reconstructing a killing that took place 4 million years ago.



    PERCEPTION



    PHONES
    Is voice becoming the new text (again)?   CNN - March 20, 2010



    PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE NEWS
    AOL
    CNN
    Yahoo
    National Geographic



    PHYSICS
    Macro-Weirdness: "Quantum Microphone" Puts Naked-Eye Object in 2 Places at Once   Scientific American - March 20, 2010

    RHIC
    Take a visual tour of the biggest atom smasher in the U.S.   Live Science - March 20, 2010

    Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y. is home to North America¹s largest and most powerful atom smasher. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC, pronounced Rick) is a 2.4-mile (4-km) long ring in which particles are accelerated up to 99.995 percent the speed of light. When two particles collide at such speeds, they produce extreme amounts of energy that can create some of the most exotic particles and forms of matter scientists have ever seen on Earth.
    RHIC: For One Tiny Instant, Physicists May Have Broken a Law of Nature   PhysOrg - March 19, 2010
    For a brief instant, it appears, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island recently discovered a law of nature had been broken.


    Invisibility cloak created in 3-D   BBC - March 18, 2010

    German scientists have created a three-dimensional "invisibility cloak" that can hide objects by bending light waves.





    PLATE TECTONICS
      Plate Tectonics   Google Videos



    POLITICS
    Blog: Top 10 Secrets The White House Is Keeping   Huffington Post - March 20, 2010
    Americans 'Disgusted' With Congress: NBC/WSJ Poll   CNBC - March 16, 2010



    PREGNANCY



    PSYCHOLOGY
    Blog: New Rule: The More Humans Try to Deny Themselves the Love They Really Want, the Dumber They Look in the End   Huffington Post - March 20, 2010
    Failed college dreams don't spell depression, study finds   PhysOrg - March 20, 2010
    Playing on our instincts: Psychology professor says 'supernormal stimuli' drive many unnatural urges   PhysOrg - March 19, 2010
    Why We 'Play Nice' With Strangers   Live Science - March 19, 2010
    Psychopaths' brains wired to seek rewards, no matter the consequences   PhysOrg - March 15, 2010



    REALITY



    RECESSION
    Nearly 2 million Californians lost health insurance during recession, study finds   PhysOrg - March 16, 2010



    RELATIONSHIPS
    What Makes a Guy 'Undateable'?   Lemondrop - March 18, 2010
    For Better Relationships, Just Be Yourself   Live Science - March 15, 2010
    I don't want children or a partner - I just want to have fun   Guardian - March 13, 2010



    RELIGION
    Catholic Church sex abuse scandals around the world   BBC - March 20, 2010
    Pope says 'sorry' for Irish church abuse   CNN - March 20, 2010
    Vatican Investigates 'Virgin Mary Miracle'   Discovery - March 18, 2010



    RIVERS



    ROBOTICS



    ROME



    SENIORS
      Gay seniors come out late, start second lifetime   AP - March 15, 2010



    SEX



    SLEEP
    When it comes to sleep, few of us are getting enough   PhysOrg - March 20, 2010



    SOCIAL NETWORKING
    Facebook traffic tops Google for the week   CNN - March 17, 2010
    Has Blogging Peaked? Twitter Is So Much Easier   ABC - March 14, 2010
    Twitter users not so social after all   CNN - March 13, 2010



    TECHNOLOGY
    Gaming - step by step   PhysOrg - March 20, 2010
    For one University of Alberta professor, making the move from California to Edmonton turned out to be the first step in becoming involved with an award-winning video game.
    Is the 'paperless' office here at last?   CNN - March 18, 2010
    Rugged Night-Vision Specs See Through the Muddiest Dark   Wired - March 16, 2010
    Three innovations that changed America   CNN - March 14, 2010



    TEETH



    TATTOO
    Tattoo removal is expensive, requires multiple sessions with ink-destroying lasers   NY Daily News - March 19, 2010



    TRAVEL
    World's Best Spas   AOL - March 20, 2010
    World's Sexiest Beaches   AOL - March 20, 2010
    10 hotels with unusual histories   AOL - March 13, 2010



    TSUNAMI



    TV



    UFOS AND ALIENS
    If the Visitors Come   Whitley Strieber - March 14, 2010

    Blog: UFO Mystic
    Ezine: UFO Digest
    UFO Sightings   Google News



    VIDEOS
    ABC
    AFP
    AOL
    BBC
    CNN
    FOX
    Google
    Live Science
    National Geographic
    New York Times
    Reuters
    Science Daily
    Yahoo



    VISION



    VOLCANOES
    Volcano erupts near Eyjafjallajoekull in south Iceland   BBC - March 21, 2010  

    Airports and the main east-west highway in Iceland are closed after a dormant volcano erupts in the south of the country.
    Volcanism of Iceland   Wikipedia



    WATER



    WEATHER
    Sandstorms blanket Beijing in yellow dust   AFP - March 20, 2010



    WOMEN'S FILES
    Blog: Women of Haiti: Renette   Blogher - March 20, 2010
    My 'gigantic engine of happiness'   CNN - March 18, 2010
    Tough for 40-something new moms   CNN - March 18, 2010
    Why Don't More Women Make Billions?   Daily Finance - March 16, 2010

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    March 21, 1917 - June 28, 1984

    Yigael Yadin

      Yigael Yadin Google Videos

    Yigael Yadin was an Israeli archaeologist and military leader noted for his work on the Dead Sea Scrolls. He excavated the Qumran Caves, Masada, Hazor, Tel Megiddo, and the Solomonic Gate at Tel Gezer.


    Dead Sea Scrolls Text and Images




    March 21, 1962

    Rosie O'Donnell

      Rosie O'Donnell Google Videos

    Roseann "Rosie" O'Donnell is an eleven-time Emmy Award-winning
    American television host, stand-up comedian, actress, and author.


    We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Middle East

    and everywhere else right here in our own nation.

    Rosie O'Donnell Quote 1

    Rosie O'Donnell Quote 2

    Rosie O'Donnell Quote 3




    March 21, 1685 - July 28, 1750

    Johann Sebastian Bach

      Johann Sebastian Bach Google Videos

    Johann Sebastian Bach was a prolific German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity. He is regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.


    Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God

    and the permissible delights of the soul.

    Johann Sebastian Bach Quotes




    March 21, 1962

    Matthew Broderick

      Matthew Broderick Google Videos

    Matthew Broderick is an American film and stage actor who played the title character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Nick Tatopoulos in Godzilla and David Lightman in WarGames. He voiced Simba (adult) in The Lion King and The Lion King II: Simba's Pride. He also voiced Tack the Cobbler in The Thief and the Cobbler. He also played Leo Bloom in the film and Broadway productions of The Producers, and played Colonel Robert Gould Shaw in the Civil War drama Glory. In 2009 he starred in Wonderful World. He is married to actress Sarah Jessica Parker.


    I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.

    Matthew Broderick Quotes




    March 21, 1958

    Gary Oldman

      Gary Oldman Google Videos

    Gary Oldman is an actor and filmmaker. Well-known to audiences for his portrayals of dark and morally corrupt characters, he came to prominence in roles such as Sid Vicious in Sid & Nancy, Jackie Flannery in State of Grace and Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK, which led to his most successful, and arguably best known, leading role as Count Dracula in the 1992 blockbuster Dracula. Following the success of Dracula, he was cast as the villain of such films as True Romance, Léon, Murder in the First, Air Force One, The Fifth Element, The Contender and the 2010 film The Book of Eli.


    Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes.

    We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

    Gary Oldman Quotes 1

    Gary Oldman Quotes 2

    Gary Oldman Quotes 3




    March 21, 1973

    Ananda Lewis

      Ananda Lewis Google Videos

    Ananda Lewis is an American television personality, social activist, and model. She appeared on Maxim and AskMen.com's Hottest Celebrity Lists in 2001. She was an MTV veejay from the late 1990s until 2001, when she left the network to host her own talk show, The Ananda Lewis Show.


    The real me is about education and empowering people,

    children's rights, and animal cruelty prevention.

    Ananda Lewis




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