Earth Sciences

Scaling Theory For Information Networks (Medical News Today)

13 May 2008

Biological and computing networks share important design constraints as they increase in scale. Modern microprocessors contain billions of transistors in a few square centimeters, and the Internet connects half a billion hosts distributed over the surface area of the earth.

NEWS: Police discovery debunks rumors of stolen cannon (The Dartmouth)

13 May 2008

After speculation and an inconclusive search attempt by a Dartmouth earth sciences class, Hanover Police officer Rick Paulsen has laid speculation surrounding a missing World War I cannon to rest. Last week, he told earth sciences professor Leslie Sonder that the cannon had been found, not under Memorial Field, as rumored, but in the backyard of a professor's son.

WorldWide Telescope Brings Space Exploration to Earth (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

13 May 2008

The final frontier got a bit closer today as Microsoft Corp. officially launched the public beta of its WorldWide Telescope, which is now available at http://www.worldwidetelescope.org.