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Archive for January 1st, 2004

MSNBC article on Army medicine

Posted by GruntDoc on 1st January 2004

MSNBC - U.S. Army surgical unit saves Iraqi lives

Nice article about the Forward Surgical Team attached to the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Baghdad.

I have no idea if the associated video is any good, it wouldn’t play for me.

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We’re finally on time

Posted by GruntDoc on 1st January 2004

CNN.com - Earth changes its spin, baffles scientists - Jan. 1, 2004

…To make the world’s official time agree with where the Earth actually is in space, scientists in 1972 started adding an extra “leap second” on the last day of the year.

For 28 years, scientists repeated the procedure. But in 1999, they discovered the Earth was no longer lagging behind.

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The leap second was an unexpected consequence of the 1955 invention of the atomic clock, which use the electromagnetic radiation emanated by Cesium atoms to measure time. It is extremely reliable.

I can save all that time I usually spend entering extra seconds into all the clocks!

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