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missing honeybees
Post Date: 2007-07-10 18:46:59 by richard9151
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The mystery of the missing honeybees may have a simple solution. But will anyone pay attention? Antibiotic bees Over the past few months I've been following a stream of daily updates about colony collapse disorder (CCD), the phenomenon in which bees abandon their hives and disappear. CCD continues to be reported throughout the U.S. and Canada - a potential disaster for food crops that require pollination. Most of the updates I've seen come from newspapers that detail local incidences of CCD. And most of them read the same: a description of the overall problem followed by interviews with local beekeepers. Each of these accounts notes the various theories about what causes CCD ...
Women drawn to men with muscles
Post Date: 2007-07-10 16:30:46 by gengis gandhi
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Women drawn to men with muscles Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:13AM EDT Email | Print | Digg | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+] Photo 1 of 1Full Size Featured Broker sponsored link Money Center Power. Price. Service. No Compromises. By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Muscular young men are likely to have more sex partners than their less-chiseled peers, researchers at the University of California Los Angeles said on Monday. Their study, published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, suggests muscles in men are akin to elaborate tail feathers in male peacocks: They attract females looking for a virile mate. "Women are predisposed to prefer muscularity in men," said ...
Models trump measurements
Post Date: 2007-07-10 12:13:22 by sourcery
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We are doomed, say climate change scientists associated with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations body that is organizing most of the climate change research occurring in the world today. Carbon dioxide from man-made sources rises to the atmosphere and then stays there for 50, 100, or even 200 years. This unprecedented buildup of CO2 then traps heat that would otherwise escape our atmosphere, threatening us all. "This is nonsense," says Tom V. Segalstad, head of the Geological Museum at the University of Oslo and formerly an expert reviewer with the same IPCC. He laments the paucity of geologic knowledge among IPCC scientists -- a ...
Banana Boobs as Darwin's Clock
Post Date: 2007-07-10 04:59:47 by YertleTurtle
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Oh god, the endless, thumping, hope-draining, drab, repetitive soul-crushing tiresomeness of it. I find in Psychology Today a piece called “Ten Politically Incorrect Truths about Human Nature,” explaining various aspects of behavior in Darwinian terms.* The smugness of that “politically incorrect” is characteristic of those who want a sense of adventure without risk. Nothing is more PC than an evolutionary explanation, unless it explains obvious racial differences that we aren’t supposed to talk about. OK, the authors are going to explain why we mate as we do. “Blue-eyed people,” they write, “are considered attractive as potential mates because ...
Bizarre Xbox 360 Pics at Amazon
Post Date: 2007-07-09 19:48:51 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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I don't get it. Is Amazon trying to sell this contraption or are they just having fun? Click Here! Click for Full Text!
Holy batcapes! The age of the superhero suit is upon us
Post Date: 2007-07-09 17:24:19 by Eoghan
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Inventor who fought off ignorance, financial ruin and ridicule now anticipates £2bn global takings ITS ROCK-HARD surface can take a full- on assault from a baseball bat, yet remains flexible enough to allow you to kick, leap and roll with perfect ease. Crafted from cutting-edge science, its unique molecular structure means that while providing armoured protection against crude concrete and even barbed wire, it remains light enough to allow you to run at high speed. It sounds like the stuff of Batman comics - but the superhero suit is here. Identified as a major breakthrough that could impact on every sector from the military to motor sports, the revolutionary shock-absorbent ...
The perpetual myth of free energy
Post Date: 2007-07-09 13:47:35 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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The perpetual myth of free energy Irish company Steorn made headlines around the world when it took out a full page advert in The Economist claiming to have developed a device that produced "free energy". Throughout early July, the company planned to display the device to the public for the first time. Professor Sir Eric Ash, electrical engineer and former rector of Imperial College London, visited the demonstration for the BBC News website. Sean MacCarthy does not know where the energy comes from Marvellous things can happen in this world. As an engineer, whenever I look at a new baby I say categorically that there can be no such thing - it's ...
The Divine Matrix: Gregg Braden Pt.1
Post Date: 2007-07-08 11:50:48 by gengis gandhi
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Brit fumes over Wikipedia, lava lamps
Post Date: 2007-07-07 19:56:12 by Eoghan
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Is Wikipedia running a censorship board? John Barberio thinks so. After more than two years as an active contributor to the free online encyclopedia, the 27-year-old Oxfordshire man recently left the project over the behavior of its "OTRS volunteers," unpaid administrators who act on reader complaints about the site's content. "I dislike using the scary C word, but OTRS are acting as a censorship board," he says. "And worse, they appear to be acting as an inept, heavy-handed amateurish censorship board." Others who have had brushes with Wikipedia's "Open-source Ticket Request System" are saying much the same thing. To illustrate his point, ...
Hostages to a hoax
Post Date: 2007-07-07 17:55:38 by sourcery
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I COULD not have upset the soft-left, soft-green middle classes more if I had crept in their kitchens and snuck genetically modified tomatoes in their paninis. Why did I make the film The Great Global Warming Swindle? The head of science programs at Britain's Channel 4, Hamish Mykura (who has a PhD in environmental science), asked me to. He suspected the global warming alarm was not based on solid science. So did his predecessor, Sara Ramsden, who was also eager to make a film in this area. I was an experienced science documentary producer used to handling complex subjects. So what was our conclusion, after months of research that involved talking to hundreds of scientists and wading ...
New Wi-fone service from T-Mobile: Hotspot @ Home
Post Date: 2007-07-06 19:45:29 by Zipporah
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New Wi-fone service from T-Mobile: Hotspot @ Home Snip from NYT piece by David Pogue about "T-Mobile HotSpot @Home" -- which could save you a bundle , but is only available in small test markets so far: If you’re willing to pay $10 a month on top of a regular T-Mobile voice plan, you get a special cellphone. When you’re out and about, it works like any other phone; calls eat up your monthly minutes as usual. But when it’s in a Wi-Fi wireless Internet hot spot, this phone offers a huge bargain: all your calls are free. You use it and dial it the same as always — you still get call hold, caller ID, three-way calling and all the other features — but ...
DNA Test Indicates Very Green Greenland
Post Date: 2007-07-05 23:53:05 by farmfriend
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DNA Test Indicates Very Green Greenland By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer WASHINGTON - Ice-covered Greenland really was green a half-million or so years ago, covered with forests in a climate much like that of Sweden and eastern Canada today. An international team of researchers recovered ancient DNA from the bottom of an ice core that indicates the presence of pine, yew and alder trees as well as insects. The researchers, led by Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, say the findings are the first direct proof that there was forest in southern Greenland. Included were genetic traces of butterflies, moths, flies and beetles, they report in Friday's edition ...
'Free' energy technology goes on display
Post Date: 2007-07-05 08:10:50 by Eoghan
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Technology developed by an Irish firm that allegedly defies basic laws of physics to produce free power today goes on public display for the first time. Steorn is challenging worldwide cynicism over its claims to have stumbled upon a revolutionary discovery that creates clean, constant energy and could end the global fuel crisis. While 22 scientists continue their exhaustive tests on the Orbo technology the inventors are asking the public to come and see a demonstration for themselves at Kinetica Museum, Spitalfields Market, London. A live working demonstration will be streamed on the internet from 6pm tonight. It can be viewed on the web from four different camera angles, before opening ...
iPhone: a second ATT-less activation confirmed in the wild
Post Date: 2007-07-04 20:35:38 by Zipporah
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iPhone: a second ATT-less activation confirmed in the wild Developer "gj" and others behind the iPhone Development Project (http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki) claim to have released a "proof of concept activation program for the iPhone" that makes it possible to activate the device without an AT&T account, or re-activate after an AT&T account has been terminated. Project participants explain that their work is intended to discover "additional uses for the iPhone by (legitimately) enabling its potential capabilities," and that the project is "for informational purposes only." Snip from the "goals and milestones" page: ...
Phone root password cracked in three days
Post Date: 2007-07-04 20:29:26 by boonie rat
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Phone root password cracked in three days By Nick Gibson | 2007/07/03 16:56:16 It's been out just three days, but already the Apple iPhone has been taken apart both literally and figuratively. The latest: inquisitive Apple fans have hacked into the firmware and discovered the master root password to the smart phone. The information came from an an official Apple iPhone restore image (rename as a zip file and extract). The archive contains two .dmg disk images: a password encrypted system image and an unencrypted user image. By delving into the unencrypted image inquisitive hackers were able to discover that all iPhones ship with predefined passwords to the accounts 'mobile' ...
Forget about the WGA! 20+ Windows Vista Features and Services Harvest User Data for Microsoft
Post Date: 2007-07-04 20:03:17 by boonie rat
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Forget about the WGA! 20+ Windows Vista Features and Services Harvest User Data for Microsoft - From your machine! By: Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor Enlarge picture Are you using Windows Vista? Then you might as well know that the licensed operating system installed on your machine is harvesting a healthy volume of information for Microsoft. In this context, a program such as the Windows Genuine Advantage is the last of your concerns. In fact, in excess of 20 Windows Vista features and services are hard at work collecting and transmitting your personal data to the Redmond company. Microsoft makes no secret about the fact that Windows Vista is gathering information. End users have ...
Scientists Enter Stem Cell Patents Fight
Post Date: 2007-07-03 19:00:03 by farmfriend
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Scientists Enter Stem Cell Patents Fight MADISON, Wis. - Some high-profile scientists have jumped into the fight over the University of Wisconsin-Madison's stem cell patents, supporting the effort to have them revoked. The California-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights and others are challenging patents that cover discoveries by UW researcher Jamie Thomson, who was the first to grow and isolate human embryonic stem cells in 1998. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the university's research arm, holds the patents covering the cells and research techniques used by many American scientists. Critics say its license fees have stifled the young field. The U.S. ...
The Global Warming Myth
Post Date: 2007-07-03 13:22:43 by sourcery
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Am I worried about carbon induced global warming? The answer is no and yes. No because there has been no sign of global warming in New Zealand since 1955, this year snow has fallen in Portugal for the first time in 52 years and 3 US states are united by the fact that they have recorded their lowest temperatures ever. Yes because it has become a political football that has lost its foundations in real science. What especially worries me is that if anyone dares to question the dogma of the global warming doomsters who repeatedly tell us that C not only stands for carbon but for climate catastrophe, we are immediately vilified as heretics or worse as deniers. I am quite happy to be branded a ...
Warming On Jupiter, Mars, Pluto, Neptune's Moon & Earth Linked to Increased Solar Activity, Scientists Say
Post Date: 2007-07-02 15:38:37 by intotheabyss
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT... Bright sun, warm Earth. Coincidence? Monday, March 12, 2007 Mars's ice caps are melting, and Jupiter is developing a second giant red spot, an enormous hurricane-like storm. The existing Great Red Spot is 300 years old and twice the size of Earth. The new storm -- Red Spot Jr. -- is thought to be the result of a sudden warming on our solar system's largest planet. Dr. Imke de Pater of Berkeley University says some parts of Jupiter are now as much as six degrees Celsius warmer than just a few years ago. Neptune's moon, Triton, studied in 1989 after the unmanned Voyageur probe flew past, seems to have heated up significantly since then. Parts of its ...
MIT Climate Scientist Calls Fears of Global Warming 'Silly' - Equates Concerns to ‘Little Kids’ Attempting to "Scare Each Other"
Post Date: 2007-07-02 15:09:14 by richard9151
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MIT Climate Scientist Calls Fears of Global Warming 'Silly' - Equates Concerns to ‘Little Kids’ Attempting to "Scare Each Other" Posted By Marc Morano - Marc_Morano@EPW.Senate.Gov 12:33 PM ET - February 1, 2007 MIT Meteorologist Richard Lindzen’s appearance on CNN’s Larry King Live on January 31, 2007 at 9:00 PM EST Plus: Watch Video of Senator Inhofe & Senator Barbara Boxer on Larry King Last Night. MIT’s Richard Lindzen called fears of manmade global warming ‘silly" and debated PBS’s Bill Nye "The Science Guy" and the controversial Weather Channel host Heidi Cullen on last night’s Larry King Live. Lindzen ...
Scientific Smackdown: Skeptics Voted The Clear Winners Against Global Warming Believers in Heated NYC Debate
Post Date: 2007-07-02 14:54:08 by richard9151
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Scientific Smackdown: Skeptics Voted The Clear Winners Against Global Warming Believers in Heated NYC Debate March 16, 2007 Posted By Marc Morano – 8:45 AM ET – Marc_Morano@EPW.Senate.gov Just days before former Vice President Al Gore’s scheduled visit to testify about global warming before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, a high profile climate debate between prominent scientists Wednesday evening ended with global warming skeptics being voted the clear winner by a tough New York City before an audience of hundreds of people. Before the start of the nearly two hour debate the audience polled 57.3% to 29.9% in favor of believing that Global ...
THE REAL INCONVENIENT TRUTH
Post Date: 2007-07-02 14:45:30 by richard9151
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March 19, 2007 When the old gray lady says it's over, it's over. The New York Times -- nearly a year late -- is finally recognizing the scientific reality regarding fears of a man-made climate catastrophe. On March 13, a landmark article stated "scientists argue that some of (former Vice President Al) Gore's central points are exaggerated and erroneous." It appears we are all skeptics now. It's about time the Times joined the growing chorus of scientists criticizing the alarmism. Even the United Nations, despite all the media hoopla, halved its estimates for sea level rise since 2001 and reduced man's impact on the climate by 25 percent in a recent report. ...
Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming
Post Date: 2007-07-02 14:36:38 by richard9151
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Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics Growing Number of Scientists Convert to Skeptics After Reviewing New Research Following the U.S. Senate's vote today on a global warming measure (see today's AP article: Senate Defeats Climate Change Measure,) it is an opportune time to examine the recent and quite remarkable momentum shift taking place in climate science. Many former believers in catastrophic man-made global warming have recently reversed themselves and are now climate skeptics. The names included below are just a sampling of the prominent scientists who have spoken out recently to oppose former Vice President ...
Swedish Scientist Accuses UN's IPCC of Falsifying Data and Destroying Evidence
Post Date: 2007-07-02 14:30:59 by richard9151
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Swedish Scientist Accuses UN's IPCC of Falsifying Data and Destroying Evidence Posted by Noel Sheppard on June 24, 2007 - 19:45. If you listen to the global warming alarmists working for the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or folks like soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore, sea levels across the globe are rising at a rate that will eventually doom us all. According to Swedish paleogeophysicist Nils-Axel Mörner, who’s been studying and writing about sea levels for four decades, the scientists working for the IPCC have falsified data and destroyed evidence to incorrectly prove their point. Mörner was recently interviewed by Gregory Murphy of Executive ...
Father of Climatology Throws Up at the Thought of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'
Post Date: 2007-07-02 14:26:37 by richard9151
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Father of Climatology Throws Up at the Thought of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' Posted by Noel Sheppard on June 18, 2007 - 11:46. Reid Bryson, the 87-year-old considered to be the father of scientific climatology, has once again spoken out strongly against anthropogenic global warming theories being regularly disseminated by alarmists in the media and the scientific community. In an interview published by Wisconsin’s Capital Times Monday, Bryson spoke about the money involved in this "religion," and when asked about soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore's schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth" marvelously responded (emphasis added throughout): ...
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