Following the recent YouTube films showing popcorn being popped by mobile phones a discussion arose as to whether this was possible. Some argued that they had been able to replicate the films while others cried hoax! Thankfully the Guardian Online conducted the following experiment:
In search of the truth we gathered all the phones in the G2 office, placed some freshly purchased uncooked popcorn in the centre of them and simultaneously dialled them all. The result?
Absolutely nothing.
Which is probably not surprising as the popcorn kernels has to be heated to over 230 centigrade before it pops…
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Honor the hereticFrom: digital-rights.net
Post Date: 2008-03-05 05:33:21
The Vatican is planning to erect a statue for Galileo 400 years after they put him on trial for heresy but this is not the first attempt by the church to look into the Galileo affair, as early as 1979 attempts were made to rethink the trial of Galileo. Still better late than never?
The planned statue is to stand in the Vatican gardens near the apartment in which Galileo was incarcerated while awaiting trial in 1633 for advocating heliocentrism, the Copernican doctrine that the Earth revolve...
more Land of the not so freeFrom: digital-rights.net
Post Date: 2008-03-10 07:36:16
The US likes to refer to itself as “the land of the free” but as a new report ( download pdf ) points out America is the country that has the greatest number of its own citizens behind bars.
Using state-by-state data, the report says 2,319,258 Americans were in jail or prison at the start of 2008 — one out of every 99.1 adults. Whether per capita or in raw numbers, it’s more than any other nation. (via Yahoo news )
This is far more than repressive coun...
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