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| Raw Video: Yao Ming Passes the Torch |
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PlusRaw Video: Yao Ming Passes the TorchRaw
Video: Yao Ming Passes the TorchThe
Associated PressThe Olympic flame is on the
final leg of its world tour. Crowds cheered
as China's biggest basketball star Yao Ming
ran the torch through the Palace Museum and
out onto the streets. (August 5)This video
contains ONLY natural sound. No script is
available.
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| Tornado Passes Over Camera Probe |
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UPDATED INFO: In June of 2003 Tim Samaras
made history by deploying a special probe in
the path of an approaching tornado in
Manchester, South Dakota. He was within only
about 100 yards of the twister when he
anchored the probe, called Hardened Insitu
Tornado PRobe (HITPR), into the ground. It
was a direct hit; the quarter-mile wide
tornado passed right over it. The probe
itself was rigged with seven cameras and
caught the action from all angles. Even TOTO
(Totable Tornado Observatory), which weighed
500 pounds, was blown to smithereens when
chasers attempted to deploy it in the early
80s...the twister didn't even come close to
it and it was STILL destroyed. The Dorothy
contraption in the movie "Twister" was based
on the same concept as TOTO: place it in the
twister's path & cross your fingers; censors
would be released into the funnel and record
valuable data. TOTO sits in some museum, now.
My summary is very basic. If you go to
National Geographic's website and type in his
name, you can read much more info about him
and the probe.
Credit: TIM SAMARAS. I want to make it very
clear that HE is the one who gets (and
deserves) the credit for this footage. Giving
proper credit is very important to me, as a
resource for vintage/groundbreaking tornado
clips.
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| Alex the smart parrot passes away |
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September 17, 2007
Alex, a parrot that could count to six,
identify colors and even express frustration
with repetitive scientific trials, has died
after 30 years of helping researchers better
understand the avian brain.
Alex could count to six, identify colors and
even express frustration with repetitive
scientific trials.
The cause of Alex's death was unknown. The
African grey parrot's average life span is 50
years, Brandeis University scientist Irene
Pepperberg said. Alex was discovered dead in
his cage Friday, she said, but she waited to
release the news until this week so grieving
researchers could get over the shock and talk
about it.
"It's devastating to lose an individual
you've worked with pretty much every day for
30 years," Pepperberg told The Boston Globe.
"Someone was working with him eight to 12
hours every day of his life."
Alex's advanced language and recognition
skills revolutionized the understanding of
the avian brain. After Pepperberg bought Alex
from an animal shop in 1973, the parrot
learned enough English to identify 50
objects, seven colors and five shapes. He
could count up to six, including zero, was
able to express desires, including his
frustration with the repetitive research.
Video Watch Alex teach humans about birds »
He also occasionally instructed two other
parrots at the lab to "talk better" if they
mumbled, though it wasn't clear whether he
was simply mimicking researchers.
Alex hadn't reached his full cognitive
potential and was demonstrating the ability
to take distinct sounds from words he knew
and combine them to form new words,
Pepperberg said. Just last month, he
pronounced the word "seven" for the first
time.
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The last time Pepperberg saw Alex was
Thursday, she said. They went through their
back-and-forth goodnight routine, which
always varied slightly and in which she told
him it was time to go in the cage.
She recalls the bird said: "You be good. I
love you." She responded, "I love you, too."
The bird said, "You'll be in tomorrow," and
she responded, "Yes, I'll be in tomorrow."
- CNN
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| BREAKIN NEWS = Bernie Mac Passes Away At 50 Years Old! [R.I.P Bernie Mac] |
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CNN reports "- Bernie Mac, the Emmy and
Golden Globe nominated actor and comedian who
worked his way to Hollywood success from an
impoverished upbringing on Chicago's South
Side, died Saturday at age 50. Bernie Mac,
50, was nominated for a Grammy for "The
Original Kings of Comedy." Bernie Mac, 50,
was nominated for a Grammy for "The Original
Kings of Comedy." "Actor/comedian Bernie Mac
passed away this morning from complications
due to pneumonia in a Chicago area hospital,"
his publicist, Danica Smith, said in a
statement from Los Angeles, California. She
said no other details were available and
asked that his family's privacy be respected.
The comedian suffered from sarcoidosis, an
inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny
lumps of cells in the body's organs, but had
said the condition went into remission in
2005. He recently was hospitalized and
treated for pneumonia, which his publicist
said was not related to the disease.
Recently, Mac's brand of comedy caught him
flack when he was heckled during a surprise
appearance at a July fundraiser for
Democratic presidential candidate and fellow
Chicagoan Barack Obama." R.I.P To Bernie Mac.
One of the best comedians in the world. Your
jokes will always be missed
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