TechWatch: Top Technology News and Inventions [June 2011 Bulletin]

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                     Commander Dave Koss, commanding officer of the Navy's venerable Blue Angels flight demonstration team, has voluntarily stepped down after taking his four-man team too close to the flight deck during a Barrel Roll Break maneuver.            More »

Source: Blue Angels Commanding Officer Steps Down for Flying Too Aggressively

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    Following the Fukushima disaster, Germany's decided that its 17 nuclear power plants will either stay closed, or be shut down in the next 11 years, despite relying on nuclear power for almost 23 per cent of its energy.            More »

Source: Germany's Scrapping All Nuclear Power Plants by 2022

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    Today is a day of beach, gardens and nicely burnt burgers. It's also the day in which we remember those who died while in military service, whether it was during peace time or fighting rightful or wrong wars.            More »

Source: On Life, Love and Remembering Those Who Died for Us

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    Ceci n'est pas une Photoshop | See how National Geographic's Frans Lanting captured this stunning image

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Source: Top Stories: May, 2011

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    It's usually disheartening to wake up and discover the wind is blowing. But if that wind is proving to be quite the money-spinner, you may feel differently about the huge white objects dotted around the horizon. And the wind.            More »

Source: Wind Turbines May Not Be the Prettiest Structures, But They're a Real Cash-Cow For Residents

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    A night of fireworks, lightning, and a comet hanging on the sky separating them. It's like a painting of Heaven, Earth and Hell by Hieronymus Bosch. But it's not a painting. It's a real sky. It happened in Perth, Australia.             More »

Source: The Craziest Sky I've Ever Seen

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    It's a cool idea: your brain doesn't necessarily catalog whether something lasted one second or five seconds. But a camera is precise. The 72 photos from this week's Shooting Challenge were each exposed for exactly one second.             More »

Source: 72 Different Memories of Exactly One Second

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    The back and forth brawl between studies suggesting that cell phones do and don't cause cancer just took a bold step toward the former camp today, with the World Health Organisation classifying cellphones as potential links to brain cancer.             More »

Source: Cellphones Deemed "Possibly Carcinogenic" by World's Leading Cancer Experts

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                      The Grandpa's Weeder has always been an effective weapon against invasive species like thistles, dandelions or crabgrass. Fiskar's took that classic design, incorporated modern materials and produced theUpRoot—the Lee Majors of lawn care implements.             More »

Source: Fiskars UpRoot Weed Puller: The Crabgrass Assassin