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Tony Benn accuses the BBC ON AIR of capitualating to the Israeli Government by refusing to air an appeal for the Gazan people by the Disaster Emergency Commitee (DEC) he then broadcasts the Address himself much to the consternation of the interviewer!
 
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Disasters Emergency Committee Gaza humanitarian appeal: 
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A few lucky people in the Indian Ocean will be treated to a rare event on Monday when an annular solar eclipse will transform the Sun into a dark disc with a blazing ring-shaped corona around its rim.
In solar eclipses, the Moon moves between the Sun and Earth, casting its shadow on the terrestrial surface.
In an annular eclipse, a tiny [...]

President Obama’s message of change has not been lost on his appointment of staff photographer Pete Souza who shot the first official portrait of a US president using a digital camera.
The camera in question? Canon’s new 5D Mark II.
Mr Souza used a 24 – 105mm Lens at 105mm stepped down to f10 @ 1/125 sec, [...]

A Japanese spacecraft has begun a mission to help scientists understand and monitor how the Earth’s climate is changing.
Gosat is a two-tonne Earth-orbiting satellite which will map the abundance of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and where they are.
The probe was blasted into space from the Tanegashima launch site in southern Japan on Friday.
It will [...]

“If we find so much as a microbe — independently evolved — on Mars … it will mean that the Galaxy literally teems with Life ….”
– Dr. Carl Sagan, Cosmos (1971)

 
 
At this writing, we have just witnessed the historic Inauguration of the 44th President of the United States — and the first African-American, Barack Obama.
Intensely anticipated by [...]

The Orion capsule used in the Constellation program looks like the capsules from the Apollo program, but it is a much bigger beast. The Apollo capsules that went to the moon carried three astronauts; Orion can hold as many as six. In this photograph, a mock-up of the Orion capsule is moved into a hangar [...]

‘Nili Fossae, one of the regions on Mars emitting methane. The area was already a proposed landing site for the Mars Science Laboratory because of the presence of mineral-rich clays (red). Photograph: AP/Nasa’

The search for extraterrestrial life has received a tantalising boost with the announcement that Nasa scientists have detected wafts of methane on Mars that could be the [...]

 Powerful evidence that life may still exist on Mars was presented by Nasa tonight after the discovery that huge plumes of methane were being spurted into the planet’s atmosphere.
Detection of the gaseous emissions fell short of offering proof of life but indicated to astronomers a distinct possibility that it not only evolved on Mars, but [...]

ALIEN microbes living just below the Martian soil are responsible for a haze of methane around the Red Planet, Nasa scientists believe.

Discovery … gas around Mars
The gas, belched in vast quantities in our world by cows, was detected by orbiting spacecraft and from Earth using giant telescopes.
Nasa are today expected to confirm its presence during [...]

A group of researchers using sonar to find shipwrecks on the bottom of Lake Michigan have found something far older than crashed cargo ships. They believe they’ve found a 10-thousand-year-old stone structure like Stonehenge, including a rock carved with the image of a mastodon. io9 pal Geoff Manaugh reports over at BLDG BLOG that the [...]