Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Antarctic Sea ice is growing

We are always bombarded about the global warming and the melting ice in the Arctic, but how many of us know that actually the Antarctic Sea ice is growing despise the global warming?

For years scientists have puzzled over how the sea surface temperature around Antarctica has risen, but sea ice there has been increasing at the same time.

For the past 30 years, the Arctic sea ice has been decreasing while Antarctic sea ice has been increasing, this has always troubled the scientists.

In Discovery News now there is an article that explains how that is happening.

Crime Prediction

This seems something out of a know Hollywood movie, where people where arrested for crimes that they didn't "Yet" commit. Well, we are not far from it!

There is a software developed by Richard Berk, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the software is already used in Baltimore and Philadelphia to predict which individuals on probation or parole are most likely to murder and to be murdered.

In his latest version, the one being implemented in D.C., Berk goes even further, identifying the individuals most likely to commit crimes other than murder.