Antecosm

So long Yahoo, it really was nice knowing you.

Nike patented the Air Mags’ power laces back in 2010 so it’s clear that the final product is ready to at least unveil to a legion of panting shoe-heads.

IP addresses don't by themselves identify someone accused of sharing copyrighted material online. "Some other customer had inadvertently (or deliberately) assumed my IP address. The tech gave me a new address assignment and everything worked. So whoever hijacked my IP address left the audit trail pointing to ME. The hijacker was (from an IP address perspective) invisible." - by dcavanaugh

The America Invents Act switches the U.S. patent system from a first-to-invent to a first-to-file nation. It also sets up a new regime to review patents and gives the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office more flexibility to set and spend fees paid for by inventors to get patents and businesses to register trademarks.

the investigation compared 74 children living in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick: 37 who were homeschooled versus 37 who attended public schools. Participants were between 5 and 10 years old and each child was asked to complete standardized tests, under supervision of the research team, to assess their reading, writing, arithmetic skills, etc. The study included a subgroup of 12 homeschooled children taught in an unstructured manner. Otherwise known as unschooling, such education is free of teachers, textbooks and formal assessment.

"We haven't found one of these 'time bomb' stars yet in the Milky Way, but this research suggests that we've been looking for the wrong signs."

The night side of Saturn is seen to be partly lit by light reflected from its own majestic ring system. Saturn's rings light up so much that new rings were discovered, although they are hard to see in the image.

Neutrinos only interact by the weak interaction with other particles of matter. When a cosmic neutrino approaches Earth, it has the best chance of passing through the whole globe unhindered. Neutrinos freely flying through the space of a particular family (i.e. the electron neutrino) can transform themselves spontaneously into a neutrino of another family affiliation (the muon neutrino or tau neutrino). The conversion process depends on three "mixing angles". Theta 13 = 0 could not be excluded. Notably, both experiments point towards a non-zero Theta 13.

U.S. intelligence officials have described al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula as the world’s “most operationally active” global terrorist organization, traditionally focused on regional and international targets in coordination with al-Qaeda’s core group in Pakistan’s tribal regions.

Four states — Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Louisiana — had their warmest summer ever recorded. On the flip side, two states — Oregon and Washington — had a cooler than average summer, while California had its wettest summer on record.

Kermit the Frog adidas might be the coolest shoes you’ve seen this week that you can afford

Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory... GRAIL A and its twin GRAIL B are set to launch Thursday morning. Logging in from schools around the country, students will be able to virtually coast a few miles above the surface of the moon.

But everything changed in 1973 when DC expanded its universe with characters that had been published by other companies. With one stroke, DC accomplished two things. One was obvious: it leapt ahead of Marvel on diversity, creating four African-American heroes, a Mexican-American Black Condor and a Japanese-American Human Bomb (which seems simplistic now, but was a daring commentary on nuclear weapons then).

I can think of no other modern comic strip that inspires such fiercely passionate fandom as Calvin and Hobbes. Bill Watterson’s masterful work has also inspired some fans to mix up the titular duo with other pop culture figures.