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Michael Jackson Lawyer on Dr. Conrad Murray Defense Theory: Come On!

Thomas Mesereau, Michael Jackson’s former attorney, has come out swinging at Dr. Conrad Murray’s defense team and the theory they will reportedly use. Of reports that Murray will claim Michael Jackson killed himself , Mesereau scoffs and blames MJ’s death squarely on Murray, as the star was “not suicidal.” “The defense lawyers have to do something. What they’re gonna try and do is deflect attention from their guilty client onto Michael Jackson,” he said. Thomas Mesereau Slams Conrad Murray Mesereau successfully defended Michael in his 2005 molestation trial. “The reality is Michael Jackson was not suicidal or self-destructive in the way they’re trying to say,” he added. “Hopefully their defense will not succeed.” While he’s spot on as far as the defense trying some misdirection and putting MJ on trial instead of Murray, the “suicidal” comment is a bit off base. The defense will say that a frustrated Michael MAY have killed himself by accident after trying to self-administer Propofol with Murray out of the room. They may also argue he was too weak to perform , after years of being treated poorly by other doctors and by himself, to absolve Murray of blame.

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Big Bang Boss Chuck Lorre Talks About Globes Nod, Backstage Drama, a Fox-y Guest and More

Be gone with your bazingas, because this is the real deal, folks: CBS’ The Big Bang Theory has collected its first-ever Golden Globe nomination in the Best Comedy category. (Cast member Jim Parsons also earned a nod, for Best Comedy Actor.) To mark this occasion, Movieline spoke with Big Bang co-creator Chuck Lorre about how the fourth-year comedy endured a very scary real-life drama to serve up one of its best seasons to date.

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Golden Globe Nominations Dominated By ‘King’s Speech,’ ‘Glee’

Surprisingly left out are ‘True Grit’ and ‘127 Hours,’ which earned only best actor and original score nods. By Eric Ditzian Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter in “The King’s Speech” Photo: See Saw Films In the first major awards season announcement of 2010, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association revealed its nominations for the 68th annual Golden Globes Tuesday morning (December 14), confirming the status of certain cinematic front-runners, damaging the hopes of other films and bringing a few movies attention few expected. The TV categories were entirely more predictable, with “Glee” once again notching the highest number of nominations (five, up from four last year), trailed, like last year, by “30 Rock,” “Mad Men” and other shows. The big surprise in the Best Motion Picture — Drama category was that “True Grit,” the Coen brothers highly praised new Western, didn’t land a nod in the category. In fact, it didn’t nab a single nomination. “127 Hours,” the true story of a trapped hiker starring James Franco, didn’t gain a much expected best picture nomination either. Instead, Mark Wahlberg’s “The Fighter” snuck in, joining other nominees “The King’s Speech,” “The Social Network,” “Black Swan” and “Inception.” The Best Motion Picture — Comedy or Musical category contained even bigger surprises. Both Christina Aguilera’s “Burlesque” and Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie’s “The Tourist” fell short at the box office , yet the HFPA somehow decided to honor them in the category. That must be especially embarrassing after Depp and Jolie’s flick limped away from its opening weekend with just $16.5 million in box-office receipts. Perhaps the association made up for honoring those bombs by recognizing the $1 billion-grossing “Alice in Wonderland.” The HFPA also deserves credit for honoring “Red,” an underrated comic book adaptation starring Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman. It’s anybody’s guess which flick is the front-runner, though somehow we think the box-office haul of “Alice,” much like “Avatar” last year, will be hard to ignore. In fact, “Alice” had a surprisingly strong morning, going on to garner nominations for Danny Elfman’s original score and for Depp as best actor. That nomination means Depp will compete against himself for best actor, as he was also recognized for “The Tourist.” In a word: strange. Strange, too, how comprehensively “True Grit” was snubbed. In the dramatic-actor category, Javier Bardem (“Biutiful”) was denied as well, opening up slots for Ryan Gosling (“Blue Valentine”) and Mark Wahlberg (“The Fighter”). Neither of those guys, though, is likely to compete with the category’s faves: Jesse Eisenberg (“The Social Network”), Colin Firth (“The King’s Speech”) and James Franco (“127 Hours”). The dramatic-actress category was more predictable, although who actually thought Halle Berry would nab a nomination for “Frankie and Alice”? Regardless, this is Natalie Portman’s category to lose based on her turn in “Black Swan.” Long a front-runner for her “Kids Are All Right” performance, Annette Bening got her nod and will continue to be the favorite to win Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Comedy or Musical. It was also great to see Emma Stone pop up here for “Easy A.” Not that she has a shot, but it’s nice she’s been invited to the party. In another defeat for “127 Hours,” Danny Boyle failed to garner a Best Director nomination. An early awards season darling, the film seems to be fading fast. David O. Russell (“The Fighter”) swooped in, and with “True Grit” being ignored, so did Darren Aronofsky (“Black Swan”). Still, the top pick to win remains David Fincher (“The Social Network”). In the TV categories, no one should be surprised that buzzy musical “Glee” received the most nominations. Consider it the likely choice to beat out “30 Rock,” “Modern Family” and “The Big Bang Theory” for Best Television Series — Comedy or Musical. Last year, “Mad Men” took home the best drama prize, but this year it meets some competition on AMC from “The Walking Dead.” On Globe night, we have a feeling it’ll be the ad men battling it out with the zombies. For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Videos MTV Rough Cut: ‘Inception’ MTV Rough Cut: ‘The Social Network’ MTV Rough Cut: ‘Black Swan’ ‘Burlesque’ Clips Related Photos 2011 Golden Globe Nominees

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Golden Globe Awards Nominations List

Early nominees for 2010 include ‘The Social Network,’ ‘Glee.’ By Eric Ditzian The cast of “Glee” Photo: FOX Katie Holmes, Blair Underwood and Josh Duhamel announced the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s nominations for the 68th annual Golden Globes on Tuesday morning (December 14), recognizing critical darlings like “The Social Network” and “The King’s Speech,” as well as perennial TV honorees such as “30 Rock” and “Mad Men.” The Golden Globe Awards will air on Sunday, January 16, at 8 p.m. ET on NBC. Here are the nominees: Best Motion Picture – Drama “Black Swan” “The Fighter” “Inception” “The King’s Speech” “The Social Network” Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Halle Berry, “Frankie and Alice” Nicole Kidman, “Rabbit Hole” Jennifer Lawrence, “Winter’s Bone Natalie Portman, “Black Swan” Michelle Williams, “Blue Valentine” Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Jesse Eisenberg, “The Social Network” Colin Firth, “The King’s Speech” James Franco, “127 Hours” Ryan Gosling, “Blue Valentine” Mark Wahlberg, “The Fighter” Best Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical “Alice in Wonderland” “Burlesque” “The Kids Are All Right” “Red” “The Tourist” Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Annette Bening, “The Kids Are All Right” Anne Hathaway, “Love and Other Drugs” Angelina Jolie, “The Tourist” Julianne Moore, “The Kids Are All Right” Emma Stone, “Easy A” Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Johnny Depp, “Alice in Wonderland” Johnny Depp, “The Tourist” Paul Giamatti, “Barney’s Version” Jake Gyllenhaa, “Love And Other Drugs” Kevin Spacey, “Casino Jack” Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Amy Adams, “The Fighter” Helena Bonham Carter, “The King’s Speech” Mila Kunis, “Black Swan” Melissa Leo, “The Fighter” Jacki Weaver, “Animal Kingdom” Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Christian Bale, “The Fighter” Michael Douglas, “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” Andrew Garfield, “The Social Network” Jeremy Renner, “The Town” Geoffrey Rush, “The King’s Speech” Best Director – Motion Picture Darren Aronofsky, “Black Swan” David Fincher, “The Social Network” Tom Hooper, “The King’s Speech” Christopher Nolan, “Inception” David O. Russell, “The Fighter” Best Television Series – Drama “Boardwalk Empire” “Dexter” “The Good Wife” “Mad Men” “The Walking Dead” Best Performance By An Actress In A Television Series – Drama Julianna Margulies, “The Good Wife” Elisabeth Moss, “Mad Men” Piper Perabo, “Covert Affairs” Katey Sagal, “Sons Of Anarchy” Kyra Sedgwick, “The Closer” Best Performance By An Actor In A Television Series – Drama Steve Buscemi, “Boardwalk Empire” Bryan Cranston, “Breaking Bad” Michael C. Hall, “Dexter” Jon Hamm, “Mad Men” Hugh Laurie, “House” Best Television Series – Comedy Or Musical “30 Rock” “The Big Bang Theory ” “The Big C” “Glee” “Modern Family” “Nurse Jackie” Best Performance By An Actress In A Television Series -Comedy Or Musical Toni Collette, “United States Of Tara” Edie Falco, “Nurse Jackie” Tina Fey, “30 Rock” Laura Linney, “The Big C” Lea Michele, “Glee” Best Performance By An Actor In A Television Series – Comedy Or Musical Alec Baldwin, “30 Rock” Steve Carell, “The Office” Thomas Jane, “Hung” Matthew Morrison, “Glee” Jim Parsons, “The Big Bang Theory” Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television “Carlos” “The Pacific” “Pillars Of The Earth” “Temple Grandin” “You Don’t Know Jack” Best Performance By An Actress In A Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television Hayley Atwell, “Pillars Of The Earth” Claire Danes, “Temple Grandin” Judi Dench, “Return To Cranford” Romola Garai, “Emma” Jennifer Love Hewitt, “The Client List” Best Performance By An Actor In A Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television Idris Elba, “Luther” Ian Mcshane, “Pillars Of The Earth” Al Pacino, “You Don’t Know Jack” Dennis Quaid, “The Special Relationship” Edgar Ramirez, “Carlos” Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role In A Series, Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television Hope Davis, “The Special Relationship” Jane Lynch, “Glee” Kelly Macdonald, “Boardwalk Empire” Julia Stiles, “Dexter” Sofia Vergara, “Modern Family” Best Performance By An Actor In A Supporting Role In A Series, Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television Scott Caan, “Hawaii Five-O” Chris Colfer, “Glee” Chris Noth, “The Good Wife” Eric Stonestreet, “Modern Family” David Strathairn, “Temple Grandin” Best Screenplay Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy, “127 Hours” Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg, “The Kids Are All Right” Christopher Nolan, “Inception” David Seidler, “The King’s Speech” Aaron Sorkin, “The Social Network” Best Original Song “Bound to You,” “Burlesque” “Coming Home,” “Country Strong” “I See The Light,” “Tangled” “There’s a Place for Us,” “Tangled” “You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me,” “Burlesque” Best Original Score “The King’s Speech” “127 Hours” “Social Network” “Inception” Best Foreign Language Film “Biutiful,” Spain “The Concert,” France “The Edge,” France “I Am Love,” Italy “In a Better World,” Denmark Best Animated Feature “Despicable Me” “How to Train Your Dragon” “The Illusionist” “Tangled” “Toy Story 3” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . 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Early nominees for 2010 include ‘The Social Network,’ ‘Glee.’ By Eric Ditzian The cast of “Glee” Photo: FOX Katie Holmes, Blair Underwood and Josh Duhamel announced the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s nominations for the 68th annual Golden Globes on Tuesday morning (December 14), recognizing critical darlings like “The Social Network” and “The King’s Speech,” as well as perennial TV honorees such as “30 Rock” and “Mad Men.” The Golden Globe Awards will air on Sunday, January 16, at 8 p.m. ET on NBC. Here are the nominees: Best Motion Picture – Drama “Black Swan” “The Fighter” “Inception” “The King’s Speech” “The Social Network” Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Halle Berry, “Frankie and Alice” Nicole Kidman, “Rabbit Hole” Jennifer Lawrence, “Winter’s Bone Natalie Portman, “Black Swan” Michelle Williams, “Blue Valentine” Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Jesse Eisenberg, “The Social Network” Colin Firth, “The King’s Speech” James Franco, “127 Hours” Ryan Gosling, “Blue Valentine” Mark Wahlberg, “The Fighter” Best Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical “Alice in Wonderland” “Burlesque” “The Kids Are All Right” “Red” “The Tourist” Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Annette Bening, “The Kids Are All Right” Anne Hathaway, “Love and Other Drugs” Angelina Jolie, “The Tourist” Julianne Moore, “The Kids Are All Right” Emma Stone, “Easy A” Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Johnny Depp, “Alice in Wonderland” Johnny Depp, “The Tourist” Paul Giamatti, “Barney’s Version” Jake Gyllenhaa, “Love And Other Drugs” Kevin Spacey, “Casino Jack” Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Amy Adams, “The Fighter” Helena Bonham Carter, “The King’s Speech” Mila Kunis, “Black Swan” Melissa Leo, “The Fighter” Jacki Weaver, “Animal Kingdom” Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Christian Bale, “The Fighter” Michael Douglas, “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” Andrew Garfield, “The Social Network” Jeremy Renner, “The Town” Geoffrey Rush, “The King’s Speech” Best Director – Motion Picture Darren Aronofsky, “Black Swan” David Fincher, “The Social Network” Tom Hooper, “The King’s Speech” Christopher Nolan, “Inception” David O. Russell, “The Fighter” Best Television Series – Drama “Boardwalk Empire” “Dexter” “The Good Wife” “Mad Men” “The Walking Dead” Best Performance By An Actress In A Television Series – Drama Julianna Margulies, “The Good Wife” Elisabeth Moss, “Mad Men” Piper Perabo, “Covert Affairs” Katey Sagal, “Sons Of Anarchy” Kyra Sedgwick, “The Closer” Best Performance By An Actor In A Television Series – Drama Steve Buscemi, “Boardwalk Empire” Bryan Cranston, “Breaking Bad” Michael C. Hall, “Dexter” Jon Hamm, “Mad Men” Hugh Laurie, “House” Best Television Series – Comedy Or Musical “30 Rock” “The Big Bang Theory ” “The Big C” “Glee” “Modern Family” “Nurse Jackie” Best Performance By An Actress In A Television Series -Comedy Or Musical Toni Collette, “United States Of Tara” Edie Falco, “Nurse Jackie” Tina Fey, “30 Rock” Laura Linney, “The Big C” Lea Michele, “Glee” Best Performance By An Actor In A Television Series – Comedy Or Musical Alec Baldwin, “30 Rock” Steve Carell, “The Office” Thomas Jane, “Hung” Matthew Morrison, “Glee” Jim Parsons, “The Big Bang Theory” Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television “Carlos” “The Pacific” “Pillars Of The Earth” “Temple Grandin” “You Don’t Know Jack” Best Performance By An Actress In A Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television Hayley Atwell, “Pillars Of The Earth” Claire Danes, “Temple Grandin” Judi Dench, “Return To Cranford” Romola Garai, “Emma” Jennifer Love Hewitt, “The Client List” Best Performance By An Actor In A Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television Idris Elba, “Luther” Ian Mcshane, “Pillars Of The Earth” Al Pacino, “You Don’t Know Jack” Dennis Quaid, “The Special Relationship” Edgar Ramirez, “Carlos” Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role In A Series, Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television Hope Davis, “The Special Relationship” Jane Lynch, “Glee” Kelly Macdonald, “Boardwalk Empire” Julia Stiles, “Dexter” Sofia Vergara, “Modern Family” Best Performance By An Actor In A Supporting Role In A Series, Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television Scott Caan, “Hawaii Five-O” Chris Colfer, “Glee” Chris Noth, “The Good Wife” Eric Stonestreet, “Modern Family” David Strathairn, “Temple Grandin” Best Screenplay Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy, “127 Hours” Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg, “The Kids Are All Right” Christopher Nolan, “Inception” David Seidler, “The King’s Speech” Aaron Sorkin, “The Social Network” Best Original Song “Bound to You,” “Burlesque” “Coming Home,” “Country Strong” “I See The Light,” “Tangled” “There’s a Place for Us,” “Tangled” “You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me,” “Burlesque” Best Original Score “The King’s Speech” “127 Hours” “Social Network” “Inception” Best Foreign Language Film “Biutiful,” Spain “The Concert,” France “The Edge,” France “I Am Love,” Italy “In a Better World,” Denmark Best Animated Feature “Despicable Me” “How to Train Your Dragon” “The Illusionist” “Tangled” “Toy Story 3” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . 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On PBS, Tavis Smiley Asks Dick Durbin and Gary Hart About Too Much GOP Partisanship, Too Little ‘Stimulus’

PBS talk show host Tavis Smiley interviewed two Democrats on Wednesday, and he asked both if the $878 billion “stimulus” package was “not robust enough,” and asked if the nation should really be fixating on the deficit, instead of more so-called “stimulus.” Smiley also told former Sen. Gary Hart that partisanship and gridlock was the worst

Ultra Elitist Environmental Group: Halt Economic Growth, Institute Rationing

Ultra elitist environmental group The Royal Society has published a series of papers to coincide with the latest round of UN climate talks, in which influential scientists suggest that politicians should force the population of the developed world to adhere to a system of rationing in order to stave off rising global temperatures. The papers suggest that 1930s and 40s style crisis rationing should be implemented by Western governments in order to reduce carbon emissions. Such a move would see “limits on electricity so people are forced to turn the heating down, turn off the lights and replace old electrical goods like huge fridges with more efficient models. Food that has travelled from abroad may be limited and goods that require a lot of energy to manufacture.” the London Telegraph Reports. “The Second World War and the concept of rationing is something we need to seriously consider if we are to address the scale of the problem we face,” one Royal Society affiliated professor states. Professor Kevin Anderson, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, added that in his view, economic growth in the developed world should be completely halted within the next two decades if the planet is to avoid mass upheaval in the form of rising sea levels, floods, droughts and mass migration. “I am not saying we have to go back to living in caves,” he said. “Our emissions were a lot less ten years ago and we got by ok then.” Ironically, Anderson’s point here reveals a fundamental flaw in the theory of anthropogenic warming, namely that CO2 emissions have increased, yet temperature rise is slowing. By all accounts, the warming trend observed predominantly throughout the 1980s and 90s stopped just over a decade ago. Even the Royal Society itself was forced to admit this fact in a recently published guide, titled ‘Climate change: a summary of the science’ which was altered following multiple complaints from 43 of the Royal Society’s own members that “knowledgeable people” were seeing through brazenly alarmist climate change rhetoric. The Met office concurs that global warming has been slowing for some time, and the admission was also recently noted by Professor Phil Jones, the figure at the head of the Climategate scandal. It is hardly surprising to see the Royal Society still pushing a de-industrialization agenda, however, given it’s history and cadre of members and patrons. The Royal Society, a 350 year old establishment outfit, has traditionally been the most vocal proponent for the hypothesis of AGW. It was the former president of The Royal Society, Lord May, who made the infamous statement “The debate on climate change is over.” When he was head of the Society, May told government advisors: “On one hand, you have the entire scientific community and on the other you have a handful of people, half of them crackpots.” The Royal Society has thrown its full weight behind the global warming movement, lending its absolute support for legislation aimed at reducing carbon emissions by 80%, a process that will devastate the global economy and drastically reduce living standards everywhere. It has been even more vehement than national governments in its advocacy of the man-made cause of global warming, calling for such drastic CO2 cuts to be made in the short term, not even by the usual target date of 2050. Not surprising then that The Royal Society was also intimately tied to efforts to Whitewash the Climategate emails scandal. The society has also conducted extensive research into geoengineering the planet, and continually lobbies the government to divert funding into it. A recently published lengthy UK Government report drew heavily upon the Society’s research and concluded that a global body such as the UN should be appointed to exclusively regulate world wide geoengineering of the planet in order to stave off man made global warming. This information becomes even more disturbing when you consider the mindset of those who make up the membership of the Society. It is riddled with renowned eco-fascists, open eugenicists and depopulation fanatics. One notable member is James Lovelock, an eco-fascist who advocates ending democracy and instituting an authoritative elite to oversee global climate management and a radical stemming of the human population in order to combat climate change. He is also a patron of the Optimum Population Trust, a notorious UK-based public policy group that campaigns for a gradual decline in the global human population, which it refers to as “primates” or “animals”, to what it sees as a “sustainable” level. Lovelock is also an ardent advocate of geoengineering. In 2007 Lovelock proposed laying vast swathes of pipes under the world’s oceans in order to pump water from the bottom of the seas – rich in nutrients, but mostly dead – to the top. The idea being that the action would encourage algae to breed, absorb more carbon and release more dimethyl sulphide into the atmosphere, a chemical known to seed sunlight reflecting clouds. Such methods are also covered in the Commons report. Another member is Jonathon Porritt, former chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission, one of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s leading green advisers, who has stated that Britain’s population must be cut in half from around 60 million to 30 million if it is to build a sustainable society. Porritt, also a member of the Optimum Population Trust, a connection that caused raised eyebrows when it was announced that Porritt was to be a part of a forthcoming Royal Society“Objective” Global Population Study. Also on the Royal Society’s working group for their global population study is another of their patrons, and another OPT member, BBC darling wildlife broadcaster and film-maker Sir David Attenborough. Attenborough has called for a one child policy like that of Communist China to be implemented in Britain. The proposal is one of the OPT’s main initiatives. Again, how is this man’s influence going to result in an “objective” study on population? Another member of that working group is Cambridge economist Sir Partha Dasgupta, also a fellow of the OPT. Professor Malcolm Potts, another member of the working group was the first male doctor at the Marie Stopes Abortion Clinic in London, he also advised on the UK’s 1967 Abortion Act. Marie Stopes was a prominent campaigner for the implementation of eugenicspolicies. In Radiant Motherhood (1920) she called for the “sterilisation of those totally unfit for parenthood [to] be made an immediate possibility, indeed made compulsory.” That group, according to her, included non-whites and the poor. Stopes, an anti-Semite Nazi sympathizer, campaigned for selective breeding to achieve racial purity, a passion she shared with Adolf Hitler in adoring letters and poems that she sent the leader of the Third Reich. Stopes also attended the Nazi congress on population science in Berlin in 1935, while calling for the “compulsory sterilization of the diseased, drunkards, or simply those of bad character.” Stopes acted on her appalling theories by concentrating her abortion clinics in poor areas so as to reduce the birth rate of the lower classes. Stopes left most of her estate to the Eugenics Society, an organization that shared her passion for racial purity and still exists today under the new name The Galton Institute. The society has included members such as Charles Galton Darwin (grandson of the evolutionist), Julian Huxley and Margaret Sanger. Read More: http://globalpoliticalawakening.blogspot.com/2010/11/ultra-elitist-environmental… added by: GLOBALPOLITICAL

The Universe Was Once a Liquid

The world's most powerful particle accelerator smashed together lead nuclei at the highest energies possible, creating dense sub-atomic particles that reach temperatures of over ten trillion degrees. Beyond being awesome, this achievement shows the early universe was actually a liquid. Normal matter can't exist in any form at these sort of absurdly hot temperatures. Instead, matter is thought to melt into a strange, soup-like substance known as quark-gluon plasma. Researchers are still investigating exactly what happens when this quark-gluon plasma emerges, but the early results seem to confirm the theory that the plasma acts like a liquid, not a gas. Earlier research had shown that the sub-atomic fireballs acted like liquids at lower temperatures, but there was still some expectation that they would move into more gaseous behavior when temperatures got hot enough for the plasma to emerge. University of Birmingham astrophysicist Dr. David Evans says these findings should also reflect what the universe looked like in its first microseconds of existence: “Although it is very early days we are already learning more about the early Universe. These first results would seem to suggest that the Universe would have behaved like a super-hot liquid immediately after the Big Bang.” Further study will be needed to better understand just how the quark-gluon plasma acts at these trillion-degree temperatures. Researchers have already made one unexpected discovery. It turns out the fireballs caused by the collision create way more subatomic particles than most models would expect, as researchers were able to observe thousands of particles radiating out from each fireball. http://io9.com/5699170/large-hadron-collider-proves-the-universe-was-once-a-liqu… added by: pjacobs51

Dark energy and flat Universe exposed by simple method

Researchers have developed a simple technique that adds evidence to the theory that the Universe is flat.Moreover, the method – developed by revisiting a 30-year-old idea – confirms that “dark energy” makes up nearly three-quarters of the Universe. :http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11810553 added by: suzane

Scheduling Apocalypse: Fox Moves American Idol To Wednesday And Thursday

Thursday night is rapidly turning into the network equivalent of the O.K. Corral. First CBS, sensing weakness on the part of NBC’ s comedies, moved The Big Bang Theory and $#*! My Dad Says into the 8 PM berth formerly held by Survivor . NBC responded by doubling-down and expanding their night into a 3 hour comedy behemoth. And now Fox is looking to join the fight. Check out their full, new midseason line-up after the break.

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