http://linkfilter.net Daily fresh links en-us http://linkfilter.net/images/newbutton.jpg http://linkfilter.net/ http://linkfilter.net/?id=146480 Ever been confused by all the letters and squiggles used by scientists? Hopefully this site will unravel some of those mysteries. &nbsp; &nbsp; Sixty Symbols is a collection of videos about physics and astronomy presented by experts from The University of Nottingham. They aren't lessons or lectures - and this site has never tried to be an online reference book. &nbsp; &nbsp; The films are just fun chats with men and women who love their subject and know a lot about it! It's worth noting many symbols have multiple uses across scientific disciplines and we sometimes tackle them from an unexpected viewpoint. &nbsp; &nbsp; Click on "gamma" and you'll find a professor of physics talking about cricket balls... Click on "rho" and we're stuffing paperclips into coffee cups. &nbsp; &nbsp; However whatever symbol you click on, we hope you'll see something interesting and maybe learn something new. http://linkfilter.net/?id=146479 On July 22 the Einstein Papers Project, located at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, will release the 12th volume of letters written or received by Albert Einstein—791 of them—plus transcripts of several notable lectures and interviews the physicist gave, covering the year 1921. &nbsp; &nbsp; It was a momentous 12 months. You might think there are no new revelations to be made about him, but for Einstein groupies the current volume addresses at least one key question: what did Einstein know about an 1887 experiment that discovered that the speed of light is invariant, regardless of the observer's speed or direction of motion—an idea that forms the core of special relativity and that Einstein did not mention when he laid out the theory of special relativity in a 1905 paper? http://linkfilter.net/?id=146478 The Obama administration will proceed with a Bush-era plan to use National Security Agency assistance in screening government computer traffic on private-sector networks, with AT&T as the likely test site, according to three current and former government officials. http://linkfilter.net/?id=146477 On June 30, the California Court of Appeal held that a man who was burned by the huge bonfire that ends the Burning Man festival each year could not sue the festival organizers. Anthony Beninati admitted he had intentionally walked into the fire, and that he had previously known fire was hot. But he argued, basically, that the organizers were negligent because they should not have let him approach the fire so closely. &nbsp; &nbsp; He did not win. http://linkfilter.net/?id=146476 For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to "those powerful few" — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper’s own reporters and editors. &nbsp; &nbsp; The astonishing offer is detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he feels it’s a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its “health care reporting and editorial staff." &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; How the world has changed...the lobbyists are calling the media out for being unethical. http://linkfilter.net/?id=146475 A blog highlighting the facebook entries of parents who overshare. http://linkfilter.net/?id=146474 For more than 200 years, buried deep within Thomas Jefferson's correspondence and papers, there lay a mysterious cipher -- a coded message that appears to have remained unsolved. Until now. &nbsp; &nbsp; The cryptic message was sent to President Jefferson in December 1801 by his friend and frequent correspondent, Robert Patterson, a mathematics professor at the University of Pennsylvania. President Jefferson and Mr. Patterson were both officials at the American Philosophical Society -- a group that promoted scholarly research in the sciences and humanities -- and were enthusiasts of ciphers and other codes, regularly exchanging letters about them. &nbsp; &nbsp; There is no evidence that Jefferson, or anyone else for that matter, ever solved the code. But Jefferson did believe the cipher was so inscrutable that he considered having the State Department use it, and passed it on to the ambassador to France, Robert Livingston. http://linkfilter.net/?id=146473 In the latest development, images have emerged of suspicious ballot papers which appear to show the re-elected president's name written in the same handwriting on many sheets. &nbsp; &nbsp; Some have also claimed that the papers were suspiciously crisp and unfolded. &nbsp; &nbsp; The images were shown as part of footage of a recount, broadcast on Iranian state television to supposedly assuage concern over the results http://linkfilter.net/?id=146472 A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered. &nbsp; &nbsp; Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another. &nbsp; &nbsp; The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination. http://linkfilter.net/?id=146470 <a href='http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/health/30well.html?_r=2&ref=health'>The New York Times</a> features Team Type 1 and Team Type 2 in the Health section. National attention is brought to the efforts of the teams who competed to demonstrate that diabetes does not need to impede althletic prowess. Our diabetic athletes were able to complete this grueling 3000 mile race by controlling their diabetes through diet, exercise, and the use of the best treatment and technology available today provided by our sponsors. We thank over 34 volunteers who devoted over one week of their lives to support our teams in their quest to race across America. &nbsp; &nbsp; Our team started with this race as the dream of Phil Southerland and Joe Eldridge. Their goal was to prove anyone with Type 1 diabetes could race as well as a "normal" person. RAAM is known to be one of the most grueling cycling races in the United States where solo riders and teams compete racing across the U.S from Oceanside (near San Diego), California, to Annapolis, Maryland. Team Type 1 is aiming to complete in FIVE days. &nbsp; &nbsp; OUR MISSION: Team Type 1 strives to instill hope and inspiration for people around the world affected by diabetes; through active management, one can achieve their goals, dreams, and potential. The team encourages control of diabetes through diet, exercise and the use of the best treatment and technology available today. http://linkfilter.net/?id=146468 With July 1st being our nation’s official birthday here in Canada, we thought we’d try to do something to pay honour to the many great bands and albums in the metal realm that our ten provinces and three territories have given birth to. We asked Hellbound’s regular contributors to write a paragraph or two about their favourite Canadian metal album of all time, the results of which follow below. All of the albums mentioned are indeed worthy of the nod and worth checking out if you have never heard them before &nbsp; &nbsp; [Canada! F@%# Yeah, eh!] http://linkfilter.net/?id=146467 Adult obesity rates increased in 23 states and did not decrease in a single state in the past year, according to F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America 2009, a report released today by the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). In addition, the percentage of obese or overweight children is at or above 30 percent in 30 states. &nbsp; &nbsp; Fattest: <a href="http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity2009/release.php?stateid=MS">Mississippi</a> &nbsp; Leanest: <a href="http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity2009/release.php?stateid=CO">Colorado</a> &nbsp; http://linkfilter.net/?id=146466 Canada Only is the premium online source for Canadian food and grocery products for Canadian expatriates and others around the world... &nbsp; &nbsp; We supply quality Canadian-made products along with other items that, while not made in Canada, are not readily available in other parts of the world. While our name says Canada Only, we deliver anywhere in the world to our customers around the world from our location in London, Ontario. &nbsp; &nbsp; Our products are fresh! We personally shop for your order. We do not warehouse large quantities of products. In this way, you get the freshest product available... &nbsp; &nbsp; [CANADA! F*CK YEAH!] http://linkfilter.net/?id=146465 This Canada Day, one thing is clear: the beautiful game deserves a beautiful beer. As a tribute to Toronto FC’s footie match against the Vancouver Whitecaps on July 1, Shelf Life thought we’d bring a quaffer’s challenge to the pitch. Which craft beer is best for Ontario’s top team? Somewhere out there is a beverage that has ‘Go red jerseys!’ written all over it. A drink that will help get Canada to the World Cup one day; a drink that strikes like a wolverine but relaxes like the Friendly Giant’s rocking chair; a drink that if transformed into an actual living, breathing team member – well, then even the toughest guy in the stands would have a man crush on him. &nbsp; &nbsp; [CANADA! F*CK YEAH!] http://linkfilter.net/?id=146464 Last year, I convened a panel of friends and coworkers to taste and rate Caribbean beers. This time around, we took on domestic canned beers in search of the perfect brew for a holiday weekend cookout. We were looking for one with broad appeal, one that people could enjoy all day in the afternoon sun and one that was cheap. How cheap? My only rule was that each individual beer had cost less than $1, or no more than $6 a six-pack. Search linkfilter links q http://linkfilter.net/