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keepbeingawesome 17-Feb-2010
he reason for that accolade is that quark soup was last seen when the universe was 1 microsecond old, physicists reported at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society . It was created at the 2.4-mile-around Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Lab on New York's Long Island, which smashes together gold ions traveling at nearly the speed of light. The result of the collisions is a tiny region of space so hot—4 trillion degrees Celsius—that protons and neutrons melt into a plasma of their constituent quarks and gluons, as Brookhaven describes here . The soup is 250,000 times hotter than the center of the sun, 40 times hotter than a typical supernova, and the hottest temperature in the universe today. Right there on Long Island. (For anyone wondering what kind of thermometer is used to measure a 4-trillion-degree soup, it is color: by analyzing the energy distribution (color) of light emitted from the soup, scientists can infer its temperature much as they infer the temperatures of stars or even of a glowing andiron.) link »
The last time such a quark-gluon plasma existed was 13.7 billion years ago, when the universe burst into existence in the big bang. By creating it in a lab fo r the first time, the RHIC teams have given scientists a chance to study how the cosmos came to evolve int o the riot of galaxies and nebulae that we see today. link »
The behavior that has most intrigued the scientists so far is something called broken symmetry (of which there is a nice video here . Within the quark soup appear "bubbles" that violate a principle of physics called mirror symmetry, or parity. This form of symmetry means that events—in this case, the collisions of particles and the spray of subatomic debris that results—look the same if viewed in a mirror as they do when viewed directly. But one of the detectors monitoring the collisions inside RHIC observed an asymmetry in the electric charges of particles emerging from most of the collisions. Specifically, positively charged quarks seem to prefer to fly out of the collision parallel to the magnetic field, while negatively charged quarks prefer to emerge in the opposite direction. This behavior would appear reversed if reflected in a mirror, with negative quarks traveling parallel to the magnetic field and positive quarks traveling in the opposite direction. Hence the violation of mirror symmetry. link »
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keepbeingawesome 01-Oct-2009
A smart move by Sony (SNE) -- the company has just changed its Terms Of Use for the PS3, and gave itself free reign to eavesdrop on and censor its users at will. Already generating controversy : link »
SCEA reserves the right to monitor and record any online activity and communication throughout PSN and you give SCEA your express consent to monitor and record your activities. SCEA reserves the right to remove any content and communication from PSN at SCEA's sole discretion without further notice to you. Any data collected in this way, including the content of your communications, the time and location of your activities, your Online ID and IP address and other related information may be used by us to enforce this Agreement or protect the interests of SCEA, its users, or licensors. link »
Don't think so, because Sony won't allow the creation of adult-themed animations or avatars? Well that hasn't stopped sex from creeping into Google's Lively , a service expressly designed to be PG . If the exact same thing happened online via a PS3, the PR would be frightful for Sony. Parents have a (rightful) expectation that kids at game consoles require less oversight than those at an Internet terminal. And unlike Lively, people actually use and pay attention to the PS3. link »
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keepbeingawesome 01-Oct-2009
We've seen social gatherings of women to sell products -- so-called "tupperware parties" -- for everything from sex toys to botox . But this might be the strangest one yet: Is Microsoft (MSFT) using tupperware parties to sell the Xbox 360? link »
That's what a report in Ft Myers, FL-based news-press.com (a Gannett (GCI) property) suggests. link »
On a recent Saturday, about 1,000 women across the country moonlighted as marketers for Microsoft's newest Xbox services. link »
"We've sold 20 million consoles to date globally since we launched three years ago," says Heather Snavely, Microsoft's director of interactive entertainment business global platforms. "In order to get to the next 20 million, we need to get a new audience of women and teens. We're going after them in ways that are different than ways we've done before." link »
Up till now we've been seeing Microsoft and Sony in an increasingly bitter struggle for the hearts and wallets of so-called "hardcore gamers" (think socially awkward males aged 17-25). Meanwhile, Nintendo (NTDOY) has reinvented the wheel with its Wii, crushing both of its competitors in sales by discovering a new, and much larger, market in games that appeal to casual gamers and women with its pick-up-and-play simplicity. link »
And what do women get for becoming Microsoft's ad-hoc sales force, and where does Microsoft find them? link »
They got an Xbox party pack of freebies that included microwaveable popcorn, Xbox trivia game "Scene It? Box Office Smash," an Xbox universal media remote control, a three-month subscription to Xbox Live, and 1,600 Xbox Live points (used for game, movie and TV show purchases). link »
Xbox found women including Maldonado and Chicago-area resident Danielle Jamil through a service called House Party, which sets up home parties for marketers. House Party has a database of 100,000 names of people who have provided a profile of personal information and who want to be "brand advocates." The advocates host a preplanned party to show off the marketer's brand to their friends. link »
Read: The whole shebang isn't costing Microsoft very much at all. link »
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keepbeingawesome 26-Sep-2009
Screech Spills 'Saved by the Bell' Secrets link »
Dustin Diamond writes about his time starring on ' Saved by the Bell ' as dork Screech in his new memoir ' Behind the Bell ' -- and airs his co-stars' dirty secrets, Usmagazine.com reports. Sex and drugs were par for the course during the filming of 'Bell,' Diamond says. He also claims that he "could smell a certain 'smoke,'" on set and adds that he believes Mark-Paul Gosselaar -- who played Zack Morris -- was on steroids. "He suddenly exploded with manliness, loading 25 pounds of muscle on his once-scrawny frame in, oh, about a month," Diamond tells Us. But he has plenty to say about his other co-stars -- Tiffani Thiessen (Kelly), Mario Lopez (Slater) and Elizabeth Berkley (Jessie.) "If Kelly was interested in Slater one week, then backstage there was a lot going between them in Mario's room. Then, if Jessie kisses Zack, then you know Elizabeth Berkley is going in Mark-Paul's room," Diamond describes of sexual relations between the actors. link »
Posted Thursday 24 September 01:51 PM By: PopEater Staff link »
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2009/ 09/ 24/ dustin-diamond-saved- · Original page
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