How To: Get 32 AA Batteries from a Single 6 Volt Battery - Lifehacker

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How To: Get 32 AA Batteries from a Single 6 Volt Battery - Lifehacker: "Don't want to spend a wad of cash on AA batteries to power your gadgets? Trim down your spending by cracking open the case of a single 6 volt battery which sells for about $5. Inside you'll find a whopping 32 AA batteries! Considering that you can get 8 watch batteries from a 12-volt battery and 6 AAA batteries from a 9-volt battery, this isn't surprising, but since AA batteries are the most popular among the three, this should yield considerable savings."

Video: Last Speaker of "Extinct" Language Found

Video: Last Speaker of "Extinct" Language Found: "n the vast outback of northern Australia, the native languages of the Aborigines are slowly dying. But a team of explorers and linguists are fighting to keep these dialects alive through the five-year Enduring Voices"

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NewsGator Online: "'No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.'"

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NewsGator Online: "Amy Carter 9/19/2007 6:00:00 PM [rss@quotationspage.com (Quotes of the Day)]

'No.'"

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NewsGator Online: "'The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.'"

Scientists Confirm 'Hobbit' Species Was Human - Newsweek Technology - MSNBC.com

Scientists Confirm 'Hobbit' Species Was Human - Newsweek Technology - MSNBC.com: "A new study of a skeleton of a member of a race of three-foot-tall ‘hobbits’ who lived 12,000 years ago in Indonesia shows that they were a species of human—and that the evolutionary path to Homo sapiens has been tortuous indeed."

Gault-Clovis Reconsidered

Gault-Clovis Reconsidered: "For most students of archeology, 'Clovis' conjures up a vision of a distinctive spear point like the one shown on the left and of small groups of 'big game' hunters killing Ice-Age elephants as they migrated across North America. For over five decades the Clovis-first hypothesis—the idea that Clovis hunters were the first people to explore the New World—has been a fundamental part of the story of the peopling of the Americas. Clovis peoples with their remarkably sophisticated hunting technology were seen as the first pioneers, highly mobile hunters who walked to North America via the Bering Land Bridge. Once below the Ice Sheet, small groups of Clovis hunters and their families expanded rapidly across the continent killing mammoths so effectively that the species was pushed over the brink of extinction. Or so the standard story goes."












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Want a free phone line? Make rooma for Ooma - USATODAY.com

Want a free phone line? Make rooma for Ooma - USATODAY.com: "Monthly telephone bills have long been the way of the world. A promising Palo Alto, Calif., start-up called Ooma hopes to make them a thing of the past. Ooma turns the traditional phone model on its ear. You shell out $399 ($599 starting in 2008) for a slick"

Oregon rethinks tsunami's reach - OregonLive.com

Oregon rethinks tsunami's reach - OregonLive.com: "At least 20 times in the past 10,000 years, a massive rift in the seafloor off the Oregon coast known as the Cascadia subduction zone has torn apart, generating earthquakes anywhere from magnitude 7.0 to 9.0. It's an area that looks a lot like the seafloor near Sumatra, which generated the 9.0 magnitude quake the day after Christmas in 2004. It was that quake that prompted Oregon's state geologists to take a second, closer look at the 1995 inundation maps."

Google Adds Presentations Into Google Docs

Google Adds Presentations Into Google Docs: "Today Google announced that the new Google Presentations feature is available online at http://docs.google.com, of course as a beta. Also the service that offered Web-based alternatives to Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel previously known as Google Documents&Spreadsheets was renamed to Google Docs."

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime: "after a right-wing military coup toppled head of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk in 1970, the Khmer Rouge entered into a political coalition with him and began to attract increasing support. In a civil war that continued for nearly five years, it gradually increased its control in the countryside. Khmer Rouge forces finally took over the capital, Phnom Penh, and therefore the nation as a whole in 1975. During his time in the remote north-east, Pol Pot had been influenced by the surrounding hill tribes, who were self-sufficient in their communal living, had no use for money and were 'untainted' by Buddhism. When he came to power, he and his henchmen quickly set about transforming Cambodia - now re-named Kampuchea - into what they hoped would be an agrarian utopia. Declaring that the nation would start again at 'Year Zero', Pol Pot isolated his people from the rest of the world and set about emptying the cities, abolishing money, private property and religion, and setting up rural collectives."

Scores sick after meteor strike - World - smh.com.au

Scores sick after meteor strike - World - smh.com.au: "LIMA: Hundreds of villagers have fallen ill from mysterious gases that spewed from a crater after a meteorite landed in south-eastern Peru, but no radiation has been detected, officials say. Scores of residents of the farming village of Carancas began vomiting and complaining of headaches and dizziness after the meteor struck the area on Saturday, creating a crater eight metres deep and 20 metres wide. The BBC reported that 600 people required treatment after the object fell from space and that one of Peru's leading geologists, Honorio Campoblanco, had called on the authorities to stop people going near the crash site."

Squirrel Obstacle Course

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NewsGator Online: "Edward R. Murrow 9/17/2007 6:00:00 PM [rss@quotationspage.com (Quotes of the Day)] 'Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.'"

Sea Lion Attacked on North Oregon Coast

Sea Lion Attacked on North Oregon Coast: "Seaside, Oregon) – The public is warned to stay away from a California Sea Lion that is resting on a north Oregon coast beach, nursing injuries after apparently being attacked by a shark. The warning is so serious that staff from the north coast’s Marine Mammal Stranding Network will not release the location, and they stress that anyone coming across it may be in danger because it is one disgruntled beast."

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NewsGator Online: "Adolf Hitler 9/15/2007 6:00:00 PM [rss@quotationspage.com (Quotes of the Day)] 'What luck for rulers that men do not think.'"

Oregon Coast Attraction Tells a Frightening Geologic Story

Oregon Coast Attraction Tells a Frightening Geologic Story: "“Put the world's largest lava flows into the submarine delta of one of the world's largest rivers, in the world's largest ocean, along one of the world's largest fault zones - and you get the Oregon Coast,” Horning said. “The processes are huge and the scale of the system is immense. It is almost too impressive to comprehend.”"




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