Inside a volcano

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Volcanologists Dario Tedesco and Ken Sims descended deep into Nyiragongo, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, located in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo.

Tadesco and Sims hope to gather data that could help predict an eruption, which would completely devestate the surrounding area with a population of one million. 

Click here to read the full story in National Geographic: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/04/nyiragongo-volcano/finkel-text

Click here to see stunning photographs of this volcano exploration:  http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/04/nyiragongo-volcano/peter-photography

And click here to read Nat Geo’s account of other looming threats in this region:  http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/04/nyiragongo-volcano/volcano-interactive

Thanks to Mr. C for bringing this to the attention of the It’s Interesting community.

Original 400 year old King James Bible Discovered in Plain View

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A little English village church has just made the remarkable discovery.  The ornate old Bible that had been sitting in plain view on a table near the last row of pews for longer than anyone could remember is an original King James Bible – one of perhaps 200 surviving 400-year-old original editions.

In fact, the Bible at St. Laurence Church in Hilmarton, England, was sitting right under a hand-lettered sign saying it was an original.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/28/tiny-church-finds-original-king-james-bible/?iref=NS1

Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul agree that Obama has Violated the Constitution

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It’s hard to imagine two congresspeople at more opposite ends of the spectrum than Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul. 

Now, they have both formally stated that Obama’s executive decision illegally violated our Constitution.

O’Reilly’s interview with Dennis Kucinich is interesting in and of itself – O’Reilly standing up in strong support of Obama, and Kucinich taking the opposite stance.

UFOs in Colorado

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A Youtube video posted this week by residents of Lafayette, Colorado shows three seemingly unconnected red lights floating in the night sky on March 20, 2011.

During the video, voices can be heard trying to figure out what the lights could be. “That is the creepiest thing ever,” one man can be heard saying. “I wonder whether there will be anything in the news about this tomorrow,” another says.

The lights were also captured on video by others in the Lafayette area.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/25/lafayette-ufo-sighting-dr_n_840522.html?ref=email_share

Instead of aliens, maybe it is just road flares tied to balloons.  Someone did just that in 2010 in Southern California.  Shown below on the left is the scene from Colorado last week, and on the right is shown the road flares from last year in California.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/03/29/2011-03-29_video_of_ufo_in_colorado_more_likely_road_flares_not_aliens.html?r=news/national

100 year old Butler Fan

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On the fence about which Cinderalla team to root for tonight?

Dorothy Robb sure isn’t. She’s a 100 year-old Butler fan from Plainfield, Indiana, who graduated from Butler in 1933. 

“I think they do a marvelous job. I really do,” she said. “There are a lot of surprises, and they play consistently.” 

 “I think Brad Stevens is a very great coach. He just keeps calm,” she said.
 

12 Year Old Indiana Boy Expands Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, and Intends to Prove it Wrong

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Professors at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, the U.S. academic homeroom for the likes of Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Kurt Gödel, have confirmed he’s on the right track to coming up with something completely new.

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/03/26/12-year-old-genius-expands-einsteins-theory-of-relativity/#ixzz1IEwQcQu6

He didn’t speak until the age of 2, and was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome.

At 3, he started solving 5,000 piece jigsaw puzzles.

He later taught himself calculus, algebra and geometry in two weeks.

He can solve up to 200 numbers of Pi.

He finished high school at the age of eight and has been attending college-level advanced astrophysics classes ever since.

His parents have no clue how he learned math, or what he is talking about.

Once, they took him to the planetarium at Butler University. “We were in the crowd, just sitting, listening to this guy ask the crowd if anyone knew why the moons going around Mars were potato-shaped and not round,” Jake’s mother, Kristine Barnett, said.  “Jacob raised his hand and said, ‘Excuse me, but what are the sizes of the moons around Mars?’ “

After the lecturer answered, said Kristine, “Jacob looked at him and said the gravity of the planet … is so large that (the moon’s) gravity would not be able to pull it into a round shape.”

“That entire building … everyone was just looking at him, like, ‘Who is this 3-year-old?’

Hi IQ is 170, higher the Albert Einstein’s.

Here he is, giving math lectures.

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Contaminated IV Fluids Kill Patients in Alabama Hospitals

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Yesterday it was announced that 19 patients in Alabama hospitals were infected with serratia marcescens bacteria after being administered contaminated intravenous fluid.  Nine of these patients have died.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/03/29/alabama.hospitals.deaths/index.html?hpt=Sbin

Read here about serratia marcescens:  http://web.mst.edu/~microbio/BIO221_2004/S_marcescens.htm

Space Shuttle Liftoff Recorded From a Passenger Flight

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Check out this website for a cool angle of the last launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery, caputured from a cell phone on a passenger airline flight.

http://singularityhub.com/2011/03/01/stunning-video-of-shuttle-launch-as-seen-from-iphone-on-airplane/#

Thanks to Kebmobee for bringing this to the attention of the Its-Interesting community.

This article also touches on the subject of lifelogging, a prediction that in the future most everything will be recorded.

Read here about this phenomenon of lifelogging:  http://singularityhub.com/2010/07/20/your-entire-life-recorded-lifelogging-goes-mainstream/#