Nasa’s Dawn probe achieves orbit around Ceres
By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent From BBC The Dawn probe will spend just over a year mapping and sensing the dwarf planet The US space agency’s Dawn probe has gone into orbit around Ceres, the largest object in the…
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11 Years celebration for Digicel in Cayman Islands It was 11 years ago on March 4th 2004 when Digicel arrived in the Cayman islands. It’s recent achievements include: Offering customers the best value with promotions like “15c World” which gave…
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Cayman Islands telecommunications provider offers bonus credit for mobile service problems Cayman Islands telecommunications provider LIME has announced that prepaid customers who were without service Tuesday (24) will get double credit. This will apply to any prepaid customer who topped…
UTech partners with Colorado firm on ganja research
From Jamaica Observer The research is expected to provide guidance and education for rural small farmers who expect to participate in the emerging medicinal marijuana industry. THE University of Technology Jamaica, (UTech) on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with…
Crocodile smile
Crocodile smile: Broad-jawed prehistoric caymen that could crush CLAMS with their teeth ruled Peru 13 million years ago By Richard Gray For Mailonline Scientists discovered seven species of caymen in Pebas, northern Perus The area at the time 13m years…
Foley Partner responds to Show Cause Order: I had no choice and you’re overreacting
From Patentlyo The full response is here: Shipley_Response at: http://patentlyo.com/media/2015/02/Shipley_Response.pdf Foley went all out, hiring Paul Clement to write it. Boiled (way way down – it’s 41 pages), the approach was to say that the client wanted this petition this…
2 never-before-seen particles
Scientists just discovered 2 never-before-seen particles, and they’re refining our understanding of fundamental physics By Kelly Dickerson From Business Insider The LHC is a 17-mile-long underground tunnel that hurls protons at each other at incredible speeds. Physicists study the particles…
Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina, by Stuart B. Schwartz
From Repeating Islands IMAGE: Screen Shot 2015-02-04 at 10.59.00 PM Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina, by Stuart B. Schwartz, Princeton University Press. Call it a hurricane or a ‘weather bomb’,…
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Mother dies, children fight for life after drinking “brew of weed killer and pills” From Caribbean360 PARAMARIBO, Suriname, Friday February 13, 2015, CMC – A 26-year-old mother has died and her two young daughters battling for life in hospital after…
The Northeastern U.S. was ravaged by “monstrous” hurricanes just centuries ago
By George Dvorsky from io9 The Northeastern U.S. Was Ravaged By “Monstrous” Hurricanes Just Centuries Ago A new analysis shows that the northeast corner of what is now the United States was slammed by at least 23 severe hurricanes from…