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New Asian, African Genome Assemblies Reveal Novel Human Sequence
Post Date: 2009-12-09 16:54:06 by Prefrontal Vortex
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New Asian, African Genome Assemblies Reveal Novel Human Sequence December 08, 2009 By a GenomeWeb staff reporter NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – A Beijing Genomics Institute-led team has gotten a bit closer to the goal of creating a "pan genome" representing genome sequence from diverse human populations. The team used short-read assembly approaches to put together new Asian and African genomes, which they then compared with the current human reference sequence. The result: about five million bases of sequence not found in the reference. Based on the findings, which appeared online last night in Nature Biotechnology, the team speculated that future efforts to develop a human ...
CMU researchers find intense tutoring grows brain connections
Post Date: 2009-12-09 15:49:50 by Prefrontal Vortex
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CMU researchers find intense tutoring grows brain connections Wednesday, December 09, 2009 By Mark Roth, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Carnegie Mellon University scientists have shown that school children who undergo intensive remedial reading instruction actually grow new connections in their brains. The study, being reported tomorrow in the journal Neuron, shows that 35 third and fifth graders from Allegheny County who got 100 hours of intensive instruction not only improved their reading skills, but grew new white-matter connections in the left halves of their brains, said lead researchers Marcel Just and Timothy Keller of Carnegie Mellon's Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging. The white ...
We've Been Had
Post Date: 2009-12-09 09:29:59 by Eric Stratton
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We've Been Had Walter E. Williams Wednesday, December 09, 2009 Last year, my column "Global Warming Rope-A-Dope" (12/24/08) started out: "Americans have been rope-a-doped into believing that global warming is going to destroy the planet. Scientists who have been skeptical about manmade global warming have been called traitors or handmaidens of big oil." New evidence proves that climatologists and environmental policy advocates have not only fed us lies, engaged in scientific and academic fraud but committed criminal acts as well. Last month, Russian computer hackers obtained thousands of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia ...
Media Missing the Plot on ‘Climate Gate’: It’s the Fraud, Stupid!
Post Date: 2009-12-09 08:20:44 by wudidiz
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Media Missing the Plot on ‘Climate Gate’: It’s the Fraud, Stupid! by Christopher C. Horner To the credit of the New York Times, Associated Press and Washington Post — reliable outlets for promoting global warming alarmism, protecting those who craft it and marginalizing those who point out its weaknesses and excesses — they all ran stories in the past 48 hours addressing the documents somehow obtained from the computers of a UK university serving as the warming movement and industry’s Mother Ship. My great surprise is even greater because these outlets have demonstrated a pattern of only giving ink to embarrassing controversies after a week or so, once it ...
The Myth of Neutral Academic Peer Review Exploded
Post Date: 2009-12-09 06:30:45 by Ada
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A generation ago, Daniel Ellsberg stole thousands of documents from the Rand Corporation, photocopied them, and gave them to the New York Times, which began publishing them. Ellsberg was prosecuted by the government. So was the Times. The defendants won. Only after the Times broke the story did the mainstream press pick up on it. The Times got its scoop, and the Nixon administration had no way to stop it. This led to Nixon's decision to stop the leaks with the Plumbers squad. That led to his defeat. The Pentagon Papers did not directly undermine Nixon. He was re-elected in 1972 by a landslide. But the papers reinforced seeds of doubt about the war in Vietnam. Four years later, ...
Unveiling the Future
Post Date: 2009-12-08 23:06:11 by X-15
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December 7, 2009—Private commercial spaceflight inched closer to reality Monday as Virgin Galactic took the wraps off SpaceShipTwo, the VSS Enterprise, during a special unveiling event at the Mojave Air and Spaceport in California. More than 800 guests and media from around the world were on hand as Virgin Galactic Founder Sir Richard Branson and Scaled Composites Founder Burt Rutan pulled the wraps off the sleek space liner that will be the first vehicle to offer commercial suborbital space flights to the paying public. “It could not have gone better,” said EAA President/Chairman Tom Poberezny, who was in attendance. “To see WhiteKnightTwo mated to SpaceShipTwo for the ...
Global Warming: 'Fixing the Climate Data Around the Policy'
Post Date: 2009-12-08 06:40:24 by Ada
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More than 15,000 people will be gathering in Copenhagen for COP 15: the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Official delegations from 192 nations will mingle with the representatives of major multinational corporations, including Royal Dutch Shell, British Petroleum, The representatives of environmental and civil society organizations will also be in attendance. Parties & Observers Heads of state and heads of government are slated to be in appearance in the later part of the Summit event. (See The essentials in Copenhagen – COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009.) It is worth noting that key decisions ...
New Study Reveals Most Children Unrepentant Sociopaths
Post Date: 2009-12-08 06:11:28 by wudidiz
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New Study Reveals Most Children Unrepentant Sociopaths December 7, 2009 MINNEAPOLIS—A study published Monday in The Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry has concluded that an estimated 98 percent of children under the age of 10 are remorseless sociopaths with little regard for anything other than their own egocentric interests and pleasures. Data shows that many seemingly innocent children—such as this one—are not to be trusted. According to Dr. Leonard Mateo, a developmental psychologist at the University of Minnesota and lead author of the study, most adults are completely unaware that they could be living among callous monsters who would remorselessly ...
The sky calls to us...
Post Date: 2009-12-06 22:41:06 by Armadillo
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John Boswell over at Colorpulse Music is a mad genius, sampling both Cosmos and Stephen Hawking's Universe series into three minutes and thirty-four seconds of pure, concentrated awesomeness.-Nick Sagan. Sagan-Hawking music video- Another, "we are all connected" Click for Full Text!
Framed for child porn — by a PC virus
Post Date: 2009-12-05 11:07:24 by christine
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Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography. Heinous pictures and videos can be deposited on computers by viruses — the malicious programs better known for swiping your credit card numbers. In this twist, it's your reputation that's stolen. Pedophiles can exploit virus-infected PCs to remotely store and view their stash without fear they'll get caught. Pranksters or someone trying to frame you can tap viruses to make it appear that you surf illegal Web sites. Whatever the motivation, you get child porn on your computer — and might not realize it until police knock at ...
EFF sues feds for info on social-network surveillance
Post Date: 2009-12-04 14:20:07 by purpleman
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the CIA, the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Justice, and three other government agencies on Tuesday for allegedly refusing to release information about how they are using social networks in surveillance and investigations. The nonprofit Internet rights watchdog group formally asked more than a dozen agencies or departments in early October to provide records about federal guidelines on the use of sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr for investigative or data gathering purposes, according to the lawsuit. The requests were prompted by published news reports about how authorities are using social networks to monitor citizen activities ...
Climategate emails force Al Gore to cancel talk at Copenhagen
Post Date: 2009-12-04 06:25:17 by Ada
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Al Gore's scheduled December 16th speech with the auspicious title "Climate Conclusion" has been canceled amid the scandal of Climategate. About 3,000 Danes had tickets for the Berlinske Media event that was announced in August. Al Gore has been the poster child for Global Warming, but has been under scrutiny from scientists who argue against the findings of humans' involvement in our climate. This was highlighted in the documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle. A British court had ruled that there were 9 factual errors in An Inconvenient Truth, yet it still won an Academy Award in 2007, along with the Nobel Prize shared with the IPCC. Again in November, mistakes were ...
Google Public DNS and Your Privacy
Post Date: 2009-12-03 20:47:48 by buckeroo
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Google's expanding its grasp on the Internet with a newly revealed DNS resolving service. Google Public DNS, announced Thursday on Google's blog, will offer you an alternative way to connect to Web sites. As with the launch of most Google services, people are starting to ask questions about what kind of data will be collected and how exactly it will be used. (Or, in more lay terms, "Is Google going to be evil?") Here are some straight-forward answers, straight from the source. Google Public DNS: An Introduction First, a brief description of what exactly Google Public DNS is: In a nutshell, the DNS -- or domain name system -- is what actually finds and directs you to a ...
Intel unveils 48-core cloud computing silicon chip
Post Date: 2009-12-03 18:54:39 by wudidiz
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Intel unveils 48-core cloud computing silicon chip The chip is likely to find a role in data and hosting centres Intel has unveiled a prototype chip that packs 48 separate processing cores on to a chunk of silicon the size of a postage stamp.
Graduate Student Unveils Sprint's GPS Sharing With Feds
Post Date: 2009-12-02 15:11:10 by mininggold
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Graduate Student Unveils Sprint's GPS Sharing With Feds Eight million 'pings' to user tracking database in 13 months... 09:01AM Wednesday Dec 02 2009 by Karl Bode Blogger Christopher Soghoian is raising eyebrows this week with a recording of a Sprint executive at a conference exploring how Sprint has been using a new portal to give user GPS data to law enforcement agents an astounding 8 million times over a thirteen month span. The disclosure of course immediately raised questions over what kind of legal process is being followed, and who's being tracked. Sprint tells Wired News the 8 million number is the number of times the portal was "pinged" for information ...
All the President's Climategate Deniers [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-12-02 08:08:53 by Eric Stratton
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All the President's Climategate Deniers Michelle Malkin Wednesday, December 02, 2009 "The science is settled," we've been told for decades by zealous proponents of manmade global warming hysteria. Thanks to an earth-shaking hacking scandal across the pond, we now have mountains of documents from the world's leading global warming advocacy center that show the science is about as settled as a southeast Asian tsunami. You won't be surprised by the Obama administration's response to Climategate. With pursed lips and closed eyes and ears, the White House is clinging to the old eco-mantra: The science is settled. Never mind all the devastating new information ...
Climate-Change Scientist Steps Aside Amid Probe
Post Date: 2009-12-01 18:24:51 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Climate-Change Scientist Steps Aside Amid Probe By KEITH JOHNSON The head of the British climate-research center at the heart of a scandal over the contents of hacked emails has temporarily left his post pending an internal investigation. Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, said Tuesday he will "step aside" while the university conducts an internal review into how scientists at the facility conducted research into global warming in recent years. The CRU has been at the center of a controversy over climate science after thousands of emails and other documents were hacked and publicly released earlier this month. The documents showed ...
Psychic computer shows your thoughts on screen
Post Date: 2009-12-01 16:20:05 by Horse
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Scientists have discovered how to “read” minds by scanning brain activity and reproducing images of what people are seeing — or even remembering. Researchers have been able to convert into crude video footage the brain activity stimulated by what a person is watching or recalling. The breakthrough raises the prospect of significant benefits, such as allowing people who are unable to move or speak to communicate via visualisation of their thoughts; recording people’s dreams; or allowing police to identify criminals by recalling the memories of a witness. However, it could also herald a new Big Brother era, similar to that envisaged in the Hollywood film Minority ...
Doing Electronics on a Budget
Post Date: 2009-11-29 10:31:17 by Horse
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I always enjoy surfing around youtube because sometimes I find channels filled with great information that I won’t find anywhere else. Yesterday I came across such a channel which is run by radioam232 http://www.youtube.com/user/radioam232 , he does electronics on the cheap, literally. His channel has over 150 videos that cover a range of improvised electronic components and devices. In the following video he shows you how to use pins instead of solder to piece together electronic circuits. For the novice who has done electronics you know from experience that creating a circuit from a schematic can often be frustrating if not difficult. But the ideas outlined in the video above show ...
Founder of 'Craigslist"
Post Date: 2009-11-28 03:23:19 by Itistoolate
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Craig Newmark Craig NewmarkBorn: 2-Dec-1952 Birthplace: Morristown, NJ Gender: Male Religion: Jewish Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Computer Programmer, Business Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States Executive summary: Founder, Craigslist Founded Craigslist in 1995. He is demonized by some in the newspaper industry for singlehandedly destroying their classified advertising revenue model -- Craigslist has no fees for advertising, with the exception of job postings in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles. The site is thus not highly monetized, one reason for its popularity. Estimates are that even this meagre way of conducting ...
Gore Flees in Panic from Chicago Book Signing
Post Date: 2009-11-27 12:54:15 by Original_Intent
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Gore Flees in Panic from Chicago Book Signing November 25, 2009 (LPAC)—Not since Henry Kissinger fled a team of LaRouche organizers, in the back of a delivery truck in New York City's Central Park in the early 1980s, has an obese fascist moved so fast to escape an angry crowd, as Al Gore did today in Chicago. Appearing at a bookstore in the downtown Loop, Gore was confronted by a team of demonstrators from a grass roots group called "We Are Change," as he was signing his latest fascist screed on the global warming swindle. Gore bolted from the bookstore, raced down an alley, jumped into a waiting car, and tried to speed off, with protesters chasing after him and ...
Climate change scandal deepens as BBC expert claims he was sent leaked emails six weeks ago
Post Date: 2009-11-26 15:42:34 by Original_Intent
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The controversy surrounding the global warming e-mail scandal has deepened after a BBC correspondent admitted he was sent the leaked messages more than a month before they were made public. Paul Hudson, weather presenter and climate change expert, claims the documents allegedly sent between some of the world's leading scientists are of a direct result of an article he wrote. In his BBC blog three days ago, Hudson said: 'I was forwarded the chain of emails on the 12th October, which are comments from some of the world's leading climate scientists written as a direct result of my article "Whatever Happened To Global Warming".' That essay, written last month, ...
AEP gets stimulus grant for $150 million 'smart-grid' project
Post Date: 2009-11-25 18:24:17 by DeaconBenjamin
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About 110,000 central Ohio customers of American Electric Power soon will have advanced-technology meters, giving them the ability to track when they use the most power and thus reduce their electricity bills. It's all part of a $150 million demonstration project to install "smart-grid" technology for customers across a 150-square-mile swath of AEP's service area, an effort government and company officials say will reduce energy consumption, save money and create jobs. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, joined by several Democratic elected officials for a ceremony at the company's Dolan Technology Center in Groveport, announced yesterday that AEP has been awarded $75 ...
1GB computer memory physical size in 1980 and 2009
Post Date: 2009-11-25 10:36:18 by freepatriot32
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The huge sized 1GB memory is from IBM built for mainframes in late 1970’s. The same 1GB memory comes in a micro-chip nowadays!
"Climate Gate" Development: CEI Files Notice of Intent to Sue NASA
Post Date: 2009-11-24 14:21:33 by farmfriend
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"Climate Gate" Development: CEI Files Notice of Intent to Sue NASA By Chris Horner on 11.24.09 @ 9:46AM Today, on behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, I filed three Notices of Intent to File Suit against NASA and its Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), for those bodies' refusal - for nearly three years - to provide documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act. The information sought is directly relevant to the exploding "ClimateGate" scandal revealing document destruction, coordinated efforts in the U.S. and UK to avoid complying with both countries' freedom of information laws, and apparent and widespread intent to defraud at ...
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