Google Commemorates Nicolaus Steno's 374th Birthday in Google Logo

Google Logo To day google commemorates Nicolas Steno or also known as Niels Stensen or Nicolaus Stenonis in Latin, was born in Copenhagen on January 11, 1638. Nicolas Steno was a scientist anatomist, and the seventeenth century considered the father of geology or science that studies the Earth's composition and internal structure and evolution over time. In addition, he found the parotid gland function. Nicolas Steno was born in 1638, and its original name was Niels Stensen. This is Biography of Nicolaus Steno Nicolaus Steno, originally Niels Stensen, the son of a goldsmith, was born in Copenhagen on Jan. 10, 1638. He entered the University of Copenhagen in 1656 to begin studies in medicine which he continued in Amsterdam...

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Detroit Auto Show 2012: Ford pushes the 2013 Fusion to 100 mpg

Ford Motor Co Later this year, Ford Motor Co. will launch this: the 2013 Ford Fusion midsize sedan in three variations — including a plug-in hybrid that gets 100 mpg, besting every other liquid-powered vehicle for sale to the American public. It could be a winning equation, but there's a few key variables Ford hasn't revealed. The current Fusion has turned into a mainstay of Ford's lineup, and the most popular car built by an American automaker, with sales hitting 248,067 in 2011. For its redesign, Ford will run the same play it's called on with the smaller Fiesta and Focus −- build one version of the Fusion for sale worldwide, using the Mondeo name in Europe and elsewhere, to lower costs while raising quality. Assembled in Mexico...

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The Global Temperature in 2011 is not the Hottest

You feel the temperature around your hot throughout the year 2011 then? According to some observers environmental scientists from the United States, in 2011 only in the ninth position as the warmest year of the 33 years since the first Earth's surface temperature recorded last in 1978. According to John Christy, director of the Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States, the average temperature in 2011 is not hot because there is the phenomenon of cooling water temperature of the Pacific, otherwise known as La Nina at the beginning and end of year it. If averaged globally, by 2011, the Earth's atmosphere is about 0.27 degrees warmer than average during the last 30 years. "If averaged globally,...

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Toshiba Excite X10, The Thinnest Tablet in the World

Toshiba announced the newest tablet computer Android-based Excite 10 inches at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2012, Las Vegas, United States. Toshiba Exicite X10  Interestingly, this tablet has a thickness of only 0.3 inches, or about 7 millimeters. Product introductions in the world's thinnest tablet is quite surprising because Thrive, 10-inch tablet PC that first released them quite big and too thick. With a thickness of 0.3 inches and weighs 0.5 kilograms, Excite X10 is thinner and lighter than the iPad 2, which weighs 0.6 kilograms. However, there are rumors reported that the iPad 3 will be coming soon and dimensions offered rival Toshiba Excite X10. Quoted from bandwidthblog, January 10, 2012, although...

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New iPads Imminent? Source Claims Taiwan Manufacturer Already Taking Orders

Customers look at the iPod and iPad 2 at the Apple retail store in San Francisco, California November 17, 2011 DigiTimes may be the new 50-50, as in “half the time they’re kind of right,” “half the time they’re mostly wrong,” but okay, we’ll bite: Another supply chain source just told the rumormonger that Taiwanese electronics supplier Pegatron is already taking orders for Apple’s next iPad. Whether it’s an iPad 3 or just an iPad 2.5 is anyone’s guess — DT says “supply chain players” call it the former in a placeholder sense — but what the site seems sure of, is that it’ll launch in March, followed in October by a so-called “iPad 4″ with order volume of between 7 and 10 million units. Less interesting from a consumer standpoint (but...

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Google Adds ‘Your World’ to Search Results

Searching Chikoo by Google If you’re thinking Google plans to rest on its search-leading laurels, you’ll want check your Google search results over the next week, because the company’s rolling out its next evolutionary step: Search Plus Your World. As the name suggests, Search Plus Your World combines Google’s search results and its Google+ social network (along with Picasa, the Google photo-sharing site and software) to let you localize searches within your social circle and use Google search to grow that circle. The revised search will now offer not only ”personal results” on both web and image searches, drawn from your own Google+ and Picasa posts and contacts, but also auto-complete prompt that let you search for specific contacts...

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10 Places To Visit Before They Disappear

From natural wonders to entire cities, these 10 amazing places could all disappear in the near future. Let's see the movie below! Adapted from M...

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Google Makes Own Hardware for Android

Google is reportedly making the processor and GPU for Android-based devices. Shocking news came back from Google. However, in contrast to the usual news coming from the search engine giant, which is usually associated with their latest software or services, the news this time associated with the hardware. Google is reportedly making the processor and GPU for Android-based devices. Reportedly, this processor will be installed on the upcoming Nexus. (2android-phone.com) Quoted from Android Invasion, Monday, January 9, 2012, a number of sources of internal circles Google claims that they are developing a special processor and GPU (graphics processing unit) to be used on Android-based devices. Google seems to want to bring uniformity...

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Stricken ship splits in two off New Zealand coast

MV Rena is seen in two pieces after overnight bad weather pounded the vessel, on Jan. 9, 2012 in Tauranga, New Zealand. The ship, which struck Astrolabe Reef off the coast of Mt Maunganui on Oct. 5, 2011, split in two over the weekend. A team of oil-spill and wildlife specialists has been mobilised as oil again began flowing from the Rena, after it broke in two in a storm over the weekend. The Associated Press reports from WELLINGTON, New Zealand:  A light sheen of oil extended about two miles from a wrecked cargo ship that split in two over the weekend, but so far the damage appears small compared to the environmental disaster created when the vessel ran aground in October, New Zealand authorities said Monday. Waihi Police...

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Mystery of Stolen Antiques from England Pulpit

An antique brass lectern is stolen from a church in England had been found. Surprisingly, the pulpit was found in a very distant and unpredictable, which is an antiques fair in Romania. Plaque from the Stolen Pulpit in the UK Reported by the Daily Mail Monday, January 9, 2012, the pulpit as high as 1.2 meters and is worth about 2000 pounds (Rp28, 2 million) was stolen from the Church of the Holy Cross Church in Wiltshire, England in September. The investigation shows, syndicate Eastern European antiques thief who was behind the theft of the pulpit from the village of Ashton Keynes. Theft is a mystery for months, because many are questioning how the heavy pulpit can be moved freely. Unsolved mystery began when police received an e-mail...

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Dog Found Alive Four Days After Montana Avalanche

BILLINGS, Mont.) — A dog that was feared dead after it was swept away in a weekend avalanche that killed its owner showed up four days later at the Montana motel where its owners had stayed the night before going backcountry skiing. Search and rescue team member Bill Whittle said he was “positive” that the Welsh corgi — named Ole — had been buried in Saturday’s avalanche. In this photo released by Natasha Baydakova on Wednesday Jan. 4,2011 showing a Welsh corgi dog named Ole that showed up at a Cooke City motel four days after the dog and its owner were swept up in an avalanche. The dog’s owner died. The dog returned to this motel where they had been staying before going back country skiing “The avalanche guys were up there on Monday...

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The World’s Most-Visited Museums

Mais oui! The Louvre in Paris tops the list of the busiest museums on Earth. It’s no surprise that the Louvre has yet again claimed the title of the world’s most-visited museum—it’s only the home of the world’s most popular woman: Mona Lisa. The Paris museum drew a record 8.8 million visitors in 2011—a five percent increase from the three years previous, during which the museum hosted 8.5 million people every year. The New York Daily News reports the Louvre citing a “strong return of American visits and a more and more marked presence of visitors from emerging countries.” French heritage officials have reported that the number of visitors French museums at large have also grown by more than 5% in the last year. Maybe this jump is an...

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5 Things Your Doctor Dislikes About You

Ask anyone what's wrong with the medical profession and you'll hear a long list of complaints: Too many pricey medications. Forever behind schedule. Always talks, never listens. Rushes me in and out of the examining room. Don't get on your doctor's bad patient list But people rarely hear what bugs doctors about patients. Their gripes are generally aired as doctors walk the hallways at medical meetings or chat behind closed doors at conferences. Here's your chance to find out what annoys your doctor. 1. You don't arrive on time  "It drives [some] doctors crazy when patients turn up late for an appointment," says Mary Catherine Beach, M.D., of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. "You can see the irony in that because patients...

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Massive Trove of Titanic Artifacts Headed for Auction

As fans of the Titanic (the shipwreck and/or the movie), we know you’ve already booked your trip on the Titanic Memorial Cruise, the trip that will retrace the path of the Titanic’s fateful maiden voyage on the disaster’s centennial. So what else does a Titanic groupie have to look forward to in 2012? How about more than 5,000 items salvaged from the ill-fated ship heading to the auction block? A woman examines the Titanic's crows nest bell in an exhibition of artifacts recovered from the wreck of the Titanic on November 3, 2010 in London The owner, an apparent avid collector of artifacts salvaged form one of the world’s most infamous shipwrecks, has decided to put the collection up for sale to the highest bidder. According to CNNMoney,...

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