You tube spot the diff comp.
OK this is fun if you don’t look at the comments because someone has decided to post the answers in every one! It’s also not too hard to get to 30 as well but we failed a few. Also you can cheat by pausing or using a poor connection. But in general it’s a fun if you use it honestly and a clever use of the medium – shows what’s possible if you play about enough.
Magic trick costs teacher job – accusations of “wizardry”
Land O’ Lakes, Florida — The stories in the news about inappropriate relationships between teachers and students have been overwhelming. There was even a substitute teacher in New Port Richey who got in trouble after investigators say she had a relationship with an underage student.
Well, another Pasco County substitute teacher’s job is on the line, but this time it’s because of a magic trick.
The charge from the school district — Wizardry! Substitute teacher Jim Piculas does a 30-second magic trick where a toothpick disappears then reappears. But after performing it in front of a classroom at Rushe Middle School in Land O’ Lakes, Piculas said his job did a disappearing act of its own.
Ghost of superman in hospital – exorcists called in
HOSPITAL managers have called in an exorcist after shaken workers complained they are being terrified by a GHOST. Spooked staff at Derby’s new Royal Hospital claimed a black-clad figure wearing a cloak was stalking wards and corridors. Now chiefs at the £334million NHS site are to summon a local priest to see off the “spirit”.
The Sun (Thanks Craig)
Google in bed with the CIA
ooh nasty…..! and they had 2 of those horrible bobble-headed kids with the tentacles for arms too.
Robo-chick With No Eyes Can See!
Scientists at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine have discovered the first procedure that can reverse blindness in patients without eyes. This procedure hooks up a device that captures inputs and sends the signals directly to the brain for processing. It works as follows:
The device works in conjunction with a surgery that doctors perform to implant electrodes in the brain. A tiny camera that sits on the edge of a pair of glasses sends video signals into a computer. The computer processes the information and then sends it through two cables that actually plug into each side of the patient’s skull. An electrode inside the skull stimulates the back of the brain, which creates visuals images. The image is described as what you might see when a flash bulb goes off in front of your eyes. It is also compared to the series of dots you’d see on the scoreboard at a sports stadium. Kenneth Smith, M.D., from Saint Louis University Medical Center, says: “They are really seeing. The brain is getting impulses just like when you and I see, except they’re only seeing a very tiny outline — a little white pattern of white dots.”
Cyberpunk review (thanks Ekaf)
Creationism defeated in Texas
Campaigners against the teaching of creationism in science lessons last week celebrated a key victory in Texas.
In meetings to revise science standards in Texan schools, the 15 members of the Texas State Board of Education elected to get rid of wording which has allowed the standing of evolution to be attacked for 20 years in Texan science lessons.
The offending wording invites teachers and students to debate “strengths and weaknesses” of scientific theories. In practice, this was used as a pretext to attack evolution in lessons and textbooks.
“Removing the concept of ‘strengths and weaknesses’, when the supposed weaknesses are completely bogus, is a real victory,” says Michael Zimmerman of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, and a campaigner against creationism.
“Its removal is a huge step forward,” said Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, California, and a witness at board meetings last week in Austin, Texas.
New Scientist (Thanks Katherine)
Crystals versus Christ
While church numbers have been falling for years, these days the trend is for spirituality with no links to organised religion. Now the Church is on a mission to convert the so-called spiritual-but-not-religious, reports Jolyon Jenkins.
“We think of it as our R&D department”, says Archdeacon Jackson. “We want church to be a verb not a noun,” is a favourite phrase from Fresh Expressions enthusiasts, who often talk of “emerging churches”
Among the initiatives are “Rezurgence”, a Christian “extreme sport” ministry in Surrey, which describes itself as “a unique first that brings mountain biking, BMX and faith into one”, and a Christian skateboarding park in Essex.
BBC (Thanks Houdinia)
NOT IN RUSSIA
Just in case there’s a terrorist attack on Moscow or I’m spotted in Heat buying fancy Marmite variations and you think I’ve been lying to you. The documemtary was pulled at the very last minute. Thermals packed and everything. Still hoping it might happen at some point, as the school seems a fascinating place.
Have spent a couple of days writing more of the book – this had been put on the back burner a while ago – and am today back into working on ‘The Event’. Even managed to get to the cinema over the weekend, which I haven’t done for a very long time: saw Milk, which was quite extraordinary. Penn must be the greatest screen actor of our generation. You may also be interested to know that I have, as of yesterday, finally watched the classic Star Wars Trilogy: I only ever saw the first one, once, as a kid. Now I feel I understand a whole set of cultural references which had until now eluded me. Finally I get all those Jedi mind-trick jokes. Until now I was faking.
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Attenborough reveals creationist hate mail for not crediting God
Sir David Attenborough has revealed that he receives hate mail from viewers for failing to credit God in his documentaries. In an interview with this week’s Radio Times about his latest documentary, on Charles Darwin and natural selection, the broadcaster said: “They tell me to burn in hell and good riddance.”
Telling the magazine that he was asked why he did not give “credit” to God, Attenborough added: “They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator.”
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