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Another route to organic food: Get the pests dead drunk [India]
Post Date: 2006-09-07 21:11:39 by DeaconBenjamin
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Now drink to the ingenuity of Telangana's farmers. First they sprayed soft drinks - in place of pesticides - on cotton crops. They are moving on to hard drinks. In some villages in Adilabad and Karimnagar districts, farmers are experimenting with cheap liquor on crops. And the results are encouraging, they say with all the seriousness of scientists in lab coats. The farmers turned to the bottle when the use of spurious pesticides led to crop failure. Liquor treatment is cost-effective too. A litre of cheap booze costs a little over Rs 100 and is enough to spray on two acres. Pesticides for the same area will cost the farmers Rs 3,000-4,000. "I did not think it would work but the ...
Youtube: Light-Emitting Shirts at Expo in Berlin
Post Date: 2006-09-07 11:49:32 by Nintendo of the Gods
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Colored light that appears to move around inside the cloth itself. Sort of neat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd99gyE4jCk
Experts warn of total amphibian extinction, fearing cataclysm
Post Date: 2006-09-07 10:40:35 by Red Jones
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Experts warn of total amphibian extinction, fearing cataclysm By John Biemer CHICAGO TRIBUNE July 7, 2006 CHICAGO – Predicting a mass extinction of the world's frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, 50 international amphibian experts are sending out an unprecedented call for an urgent global mission to avert a cataclysm. The plea, published in today's edition of the journal Science, is meant to be a wake-up call for a broader range of scientists and policy-makers about threats to Earth's amphibians, considered canaries in the coal mine for all of nature. “For the first time in modern history, because of the way that humans are impacting our natural world, we're facing the ...
MySpace Offers Music Downloads
Post Date: 2006-09-06 01:11:28 by robin
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MySpace Offers Music Downloads New service lets users sell their own song from their Web pages. Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service Tuesday, September 05, 2006 05:00 AM PDT MySpace.com is launching a new music download service that emphasizes music from independent artists, the latest in a string of services announced in recent weeks that hope to topple iTunes from its crown. Some of the services, such as one backed by Universal Music Group, are even offering music for free, backed by advertising services. But analysts say they'll have trouble toppling Apple Computer's iTunes, which has staked out a solid position in what's becoming a crowded music download market. "Ultimately it's a ...
Sounding out those voices that nobody else can hear [Hope for AKA Stone!]
Post Date: 2006-09-06 00:03:13 by Morgana le Fay
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Hearing voices when no one is there can be a symptom of mental illness, yet a study of the phenomenon found nearly half the people who heard voices said their hallucinations were mostly friendly or helpful. Furthermore, some participants in the Auckland University study considered their voices a blessing - although others thought them a curse. Hearing voices tends to be more accepted in some indigenous cultures than in modern Western society - but it still finds a place, even at top levels. Retired Australian athlete Herb Elliott, winner of the 1500m gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics, has written of the voice in his head that told him halfway through that race: "Herb, you're ...
NEXT GENERATION SPACE PROPULSION
Post Date: 2006-09-05 18:44:55 by CaptainChurch
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As much that has been speculated about electro-magnetic/gravitational energies that we could use on earth & in space to propel ourselves around, no usable system has been proposed....YET...until now! We could have massive, slow-moving craft in our atmosphere and in space (rockets are deadly), if we learn how to trick our inner solar system's forces ["impulse power"], and use them for ALL of mankind's benefit----[So what if it takes us 3+ weeks to get to the Moon, instead of rocketing there in 3 1/2 days; so what??....This isn't a crazy-car, rocket-assisted drag race!! We would have to overrule the Industrial/Military Complex, of course, because they would lose control of us; ...
Are Interracial People Healthier And More Attractive?
Post Date: 2006-09-05 01:00:25 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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Receiving unsolicited manuscripts of soon-to-be-published books in the mail can be a forbidding event. Somebody has gone to the trouble of sending me a big box full of hundreds of pages of typescript because they value my reaction. But do I really want to react? To my surprise and pleasure, however, the newly-released book Breeding Between the Lines: Why Interracial People are Healthier and More Attractive by Alon Ziv turned out to be a quick, lively, and witty read. (Here's his book's website.) Even more to my delight, Ziv, whom I had never heard of before, was clearly influenced by many of my VDARE.COM articles on genetics and race. Thus, it's with some regret that I must say I'm ...
The End of the Oil Era Looms
Post Date: 2006-09-04 23:52:45 by Morgana le Fay
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Oil, uranium, gold and platinum are more sought after than ever today. The search for natural resources is becoming increasingly difficult and prices are soaring. But future growth of the world economy depends on these natural resources -- and some will soon disappear forever. Five minutes before he was scheduled to speak, leading geologist Marion King Hubbert was summoned to the phone. His employer was speaking, someone from the headquarters of the Shell corporation. He was urged not to present his forecast, Hubbert later revealed. But the scientist with his little Clark-Gable-style beard stuck to his guns, as he has often been known to do. When he appeared at the spring 1956 meeting ...
Second helpings [Help for Ponchy and Brer']
Post Date: 2006-09-04 23:29:13 by Morgana le Fay
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Seventy years after it first appeared, Dale Carnegie’s classic self-help manual How to Win Friends and Influence People is being republished in a new edition. Is it still relevant? The very title has a creepy feel. How to win friends and influence people? Surely you don’t win friends, you make them. Friends aren’t supposed to be trophies. And though many of us would like to influence people, I would feel very sheepish if I were caught reading a book that was so obviously telling me how to go about the task. Not only would it make me look even more shifty than I am, it would also suggest that I am too stupid or lazy to devise my own strategies for manipulating those around ...
Deep ice tells long climate story
Post Date: 2006-09-04 22:07:20 by robin
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Deep ice tells long climate story By Jonathan Amos Science reporter, BBC News, Norwich Epica drills have extracted ice from deep under the surfaceCarbon dioxide levels are substantially higher now than at anytime in the last 800,000 years, the latest study of ice drilled out of Antarctica confirms. The in-depth analysis of air bubbles trapped in a 3.2km-long core of frozen snow shows current greenhouse gas concentrations are unprecedented. The East Antarctic core is the longest, deepest ice column yet extracted. Project scientists say its contents indicate humans could be bringing about dangerous climate changes. "My point would be that there's nothing in the ice core ...
New Republic Suspends an Editor for Attacks on Blog
Post Date: 2006-09-04 11:46:10 by DeaconBenjamin
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A senior editor at The New Republic was suspended and his blog was shut down on Friday after revelations that he was involved in anonymously attacking readers who criticized his posts. Lee Siegel, creator of the Lee Siegel on Culture blog for http://tnr.com, was suspended indefinitely from the magazine after a reader accused him of using a "sock puppet," or Internet alias, to attack his critics in the comments section of his blog. An editor’s apology replaced the blog on the Web site, announcing that the blog would no longer be published and noting that The New Republic deeply regretted "misleading" its readers. Franklin Foer, the New Republic’s editor, said ...
Snakes on the Brain
Post Date: 2006-09-04 01:13:45 by Morgana le Fay
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SNAKES hit a nerve in people. How else to explain why the movie “Snakes on a Plane” became an Internet sensation months before it was released in theaters? The very idea was all it took to rouse attention. That humans have been afraid of snakes for a long time is not a fresh observation; that this fear may be entwined with our development as a species is. New anthropological evidence suggests that snakes, as predators, may have figured prominently in the evolution of primate vision — the ability, shared by humans, apes and monkeys, to see the world in crisp, three-dimensional living color. The snake-detection hypothesis has grown, as scientific theories so often do, out ...
Livermore Scientists Reignite JFK Assassination Debate
Post Date: 2006-09-03 07:18:29 by Zoroaster
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Livermore Scientists Reignite JFK Assassination Debate POSTED: 9:04 am PDT August 21, 2006 UPDATED: 9:29 am PDT August 21, 2006 LIVERMORE -- It's been the subject of numerous arguments, books and a major Hollywood movie and now scientists at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory have turned up the heat again on just who assassinated President John F. Kennedy. The researchers say metallurgical chemical "fingerprints" on the bullets that killed the president and wounded then Texas Governor John Connally may have been misinterpreted and that the government's crucial "single gunman theory" has been thrown into doubt. "It basically shatters what some people call the best ...
The Right Builder for the Right Spacecraft at the Right Time
Post Date: 2006-09-02 01:08:45 by robin
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Friday, Sep. 01, 2006 The Right Builder for the Right Spacecraft at the Right Time Analysis: By awarding the contract for the next generation Orion space vehicle to Lockheed Martin, NASA finally got something right. But will Washington have the political will to complete the trip? By JEFFREY KLUGER It was a long, long time in coming, but NASA's manned space program finally got one right. Thursday's announcement that the contract for the next generation crew exploration vehicle—now dubbed Orion—had been awarded to Lockheed Martin was the right spacecraft to the right company at the right time. Going on three years after President Bush announced his plans to send human beings ...
The Death Star
Post Date: 2006-08-31 20:41:52 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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For the first time a star has been observed in real time as it dies and becomes a supernova — an immensely powerful explosion. The cataclysmic supernova, briefly outshining the Milky Way galaxy, occurred 440 million light years away in a star-forming galaxy in the constellation of Aries. Large stars are likely to end their days in this way, by blowing themselves to smithereens. Aftermaths of supernovae have been observed many times but scientists have never before seen one of the explosions happening. They will now have an unprecedented view of a supernova from start to finish across many wavelengths, including radio and X-ray. Radio telescopes have seen the burst from the day it ...
Scientist Can Now ERASE Rat Brain Memories - You Next?
Post Date: 2006-08-31 16:53:51 by Horse
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Scientists have for the first time erased long-term memories in rats and also directly seen how the brain is changed by learning. The research points to potential human benefits. These findings could prove key "to understanding how memories can be augmented, for example in diseases that affect memory, like Alzheimer's," said neuroscientist Mark Bear at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT. The research could also help treat pain that does not go away, "like neuropathic pain, where people have a moderately severe injury, typically to the hands or feet, and instead of going away in a couple of hours just perpetuates," neurologist and molecular biologist ...
Russia Mulls New Space Station, Missions To Moon, Mars
Post Date: 2006-08-29 20:37:09 by Brian S
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MOSCOW, August 29 (RIA Novosti) - The International Space Station will be dismantled after 2015 to be replaced with a new orbital station, a Russian Space Agency official said Tuesday. "It is necessary because at present we can monitor less than 10% of Russian territory, but with a new station the coverage will be increased tenfold," said Vitaly Davydov, deputy head of the agency. He said the new space station would be used to produce materials that are impossible to manufacture on Earth and to improve the methods of remote monitoring of the Earth. Davydov also said Russia would test technologies for space travel to the Moon and Mars in 2015-2025. "And after 2025 we are ...
Military research aims to develop self-configuring, secure wireless nets
Post Date: 2006-08-29 14:41:58 by Tauzero
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Military research aims to develop self-configuring, secure wireless nets Researchers develop military-grade intelligent wireless net. By Ryan DeBeasi, http://NetworkWorld.com, 08/16/06 Government, corporate and academic researchers are working on a network that would be able to configure itself, intelligently cache and route data, and allow for fast and reliable sharing of data, all while maintaining military-grade security. The project is called Knowledge Based Networking and is under development by the Department of Defense Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Researchers from schools including Northeastern, Virginia Tech, Lehigh University have been involved with the project, as have ...
Nature Perverted: See The Extent to Which Genetically Modified Crops Have Been Adopted in the U.S. (and in Your State)
Post Date: 2006-08-28 19:34:13 by Arator
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Check out this chart: See the ominous trend? In my state (Kansas), for example, the percentage of planted acres that are presently genetically modified Frankenfood are as follows: Corn - 68% Soybeans - 95% You can check out the extent of genetic adulteration in your own state at the following links: Corn Cotton Soybeans
Poster Comment:With these high (and increasing) rates of adoption, how many of us are now unwittingly eating this adulterated garbage?
Monsanto Buys ‘Terminator’ Seeds Company
Post Date: 2006-08-28 07:48:47 by loner
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by F. William Engdahl August 27, 2006 GlobalResearch.ca The United States Government has been financing research on a genetic engineering technology which, when commercialized, will give its owners the power to control the food seed of entire nations or regions. The Government has been working quietly on this technology since 1983. Now, the little-known company that has been working in this genetic research with the Government’s US Department of Agriculture-- Delta & Pine Land-- is about to become part of the world’s largest supplier of patented genetically-modified seeds (GMO), Monsanto Corporation of St. Louis, Missouri. Relations between Monsanto, Delta & Pine Land ...
Escaped GM grass could spread bad news
Post Date: 2006-08-27 19:13:42 by Red Jones
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Study: Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Grasses Will 'Wreak Havoc' on Native Species Escaped GM grass could spread bad news Nature, August 11, 2006 http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060807/full/060807-17.html An escaped strain of transgenic grass bred for golf courses could wreak havoc on native grassland species in the northwestern United States, ecologists are warning. The strain, which was growing in a test plot in Oregon and hadn't yet been approved for use by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), has now been detected in the wild, up to 3.8 kilometres outside the test area. While the transgenic component of the plant might not in itself pose a problem, the hardy strain could ...
Blue Demons - Sea monsters are only sailors' tales, right?
Post Date: 2006-08-26 17:18:49 by robin
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IT’S A LONG STORY: Greg Willis hangs onto an 18 1/2-foot oarfish, believed to weigh 500 pounds, as it is towed to his boat in the Sea of Cortez in 1996.
Blue Demons
Sea monsters are only sailors' tales, right? Probably. But consider the local sightings of an oarfish and giant-squid appendages.
By Pete Thomas Times Staff Writer
August 26, 2006
If you don't believe in sea monsters, consider yourself warned: They are among us.
Exhibit A lies in a freezer at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum, soon to go on display as it appeared before being pulled from the ocean: a serpent-like denizen, 15 feet long and sinuous, with a hatchet-shaped head and a silver body adorned ...
Order Your New Bugatti Here
Post Date: 2006-08-24 22:08:46 by Lod
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For 1.4mil, you should get it your way. 0-60mph in 2.4 seconds, if you have the need for speed.
Pluto Demoted, No Longer a Planet
Post Date: 2006-08-24 13:14:29 by Neil McIver
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Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
http://SPACE.com Thu Aug 24, 10:00 AM ET
Capping years of intense debate, astronomers resolved today to demote Pluto in a wholesale redefinition of planethood that is a victory of scientific reasoning over historic and cultural influences.
Pluto is no longer a planet.
"Pluto is dead," said Caltech researcher Mike Brown, who spoke with reporters via a teleconference while monitoring the vote. The decision also means a Pluto-sized object that Brown discovered will not be called a planet. "Pluto is not a planet. There are finally, officially, eight planets in the solar system."
The decision establishes three main categories of objects ...
Was British terror plot a load of crap?
Post Date: 2006-08-24 05:08:07 by Zoroaster
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Thu, 8.24.06 Geov Parrish http://WorkingForChange.com 08.22.06 Printer-friendly version Email this item to a friend Most e-mailed stories Was British terror plot a load of crap? Liquid explosives very difficult to make; Orange Alert a political move? An article posted last Thursday in the British online outlet The Register raises a very good question I haven't seen posed anywhere else, certainly not in our sycophantic American media: was the exposed British "plot" to bring down commercial airliners by mixing harmless household chemicals in the lavatory even remotely possible from the standpoint of basic chemistry? To address that question, it's worth quoting from The ...
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