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2008-08-10

World Music downloads


This site posts a new downloadable world music song each day. Click on the individual titles then look for the download link.

The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!


I hope this article doesn't create panic as did Orson Welles' War of the Worlds, but I bet there are lots of Americans who are keeping their rifles loaded just in case
"i herd on the news that rusia has invaded but i dont see them no where wats going on."

Big Brother has new techniques for watching you

Fingerprint test tells much more than identity
With a new analytical technique, a fingerprint can reveal much more than the identity of a person. It can also identify what the person has been touching ? drugs, explosives or poisons, for example.
Writing in the Friday issue of the journal Science, R. Graham Cooks, a professor of chemistry at Purdue University, and his colleagues describe how a laboratory technique known as mass spectrometry could find a wider application in crime investigations.
The equipment to perform such tests is already commercially available, although expensive. Smaller, cheaper, portable versions are probably only a couple of years away.

Test your knowledge of what's where


I was surprised at how little I really knew about Middle Eastern geography when I tried to identify the countries on this map. The only thing that would make it better would be if the page kept track of how many correct answers vs overall attempts - then I would know if I was learning anything.