Cody Taylor

The achievement of Captain Chesley Sullenberger in getting his plane down safely has astonished pilots and aviation experts. Just Flight turned around the realistic simulation of the US Airways flight 1549 non-disaster over a weekend, giving us a pilot’s eye view of the action.

Senator Ted Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, collapsed Tuesday afternoon during a luncheon held for President Barack Obama in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall, a senator told CNN’s Dana Bash.

miller60 writes “Intel has installed solar panels at a New Mexico facility to test the potential for using photovoltaic solar power in data centers. Solar has proven impractical in data centers thus far for reasons of cost (too high) and capacity (too low). Intel will test the 10-KW solar array with data center containers and as supplemental power for summer capacity challenges, and says the project is a first step toward solar data centers. The project is housed at the New Mexico site of Intel’s recent research in air side economizers in data center cooling.”

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Just before noon today, Eastern time, Barack Obama was sworn in before the US Capitol building as the 44th President of the United States (Whitehouse.gov has already been updated to reflect the new President), and offered an inaugural address which outlined some of the challenges that the country currently faces, both within the country’s borders and abroad. Obama’s election has been called “a civil rights triumph,” and his candidacy has inspired perhaps the most visible political involvement of young voters of any candidate since John Kennedy. Here’s your chance to discuss the newest occupant of the White House and what you’d like to see happen over the course of his presidency.

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mikesd81 writes “MSNBC reports six Pennsylvania high school students are facing child pornography charges after three teenage girls allegedly took nude or semi-nude photos of themselves and shared them with male classmates via their cell phones. Apparently, female students at Greensburg Salem High School in Greensburg, Pa., all 14 or 15 years old, face charges of manufacturing, disseminating or possessing child pornography while the boys, who are 16 and 17, face charges of possession. Police told the station that the photos were discovered in October, after school officials seized a cell phone from a male student who was using it in violation against school policy and the photos were discovered at that time. Police Capt. George Seranko was quoted as saying that the first photograph was ‘a self portrait taken of a juvenile female taking pictures of her body, nude.’ The school district issued a statement Tuesday saying that the investigation turned up ‘no evidence of inappropriate activity on school grounds … other than the violation of the electronic devices policy.'”

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1sockchuck writes “Web sites and social networks are scaling up for huge traffic during today’s Inauguration. Photo sharing sites are expecting a surge in volume around the noontime swearing-in, while Twitter has doubled its capacity. Some net watchers say peak volume may not match the record levels seen on Election Night 2008 (as reported by Akamai’s Net Usage Index). As noted yesterday, DC-area wireless networks are the most likely bottleneck for messaging and photo sharing. “

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Human genes remember a sugar hit for two weeks, with prolonged poor eating habits capable of permanently altering DNA, Australian research has found.