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13 Unsolved scientific puzzles
Post Date: 2009-03-04 02:47:44 by X-15
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Author Michael Brooks has investigated some of the most puzzling anomalies of modern science, those intractable problems that refuse to conform to the theories. Here he counts down the 13 strangest. 1. MOST OF THE UNIVERSE IS MISSING We can only account for 4 per cent of the cosmos If you’re wondering what the LHC might do for you, how’s this: it might just find a whole quarter of the universe. The collider is hoping to create some particles of what physicists call “dark matter”, an enigma that is thought to make up roughly 25 per cent of the universe. Then there is the “dark energy”, a mysterious force that seems to be ripping space and time apart. In ...
Moon Landing A Fake or Fact
Post Date: 2009-03-02 22:10:08 by richard9151
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This is a youtube series of 9 tapes, and I would say that it pretty well settles the entire issue about the moon landing. By all means, give your opinion! This goes to part 3; www.youtube.com/watch?v=G...=3545A9A873E4000F&index=6 Click for Full Text!
Silencing the Lambs: Scientists Target Sheep Belching to Cut Methane
Post Date: 2009-03-02 14:33:42 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Reducing Gas in Livestock Could Help World Breathe Sigh of Relief Over Global Warming By PATRICK BARTA PALMERSTON NORTH, New Zealand -- On a typical day, researchers in this college town coax hungry sheep into metal carts. They wheel the fluffy beasts into sealed chambers and feed them grass, then wait for them to burp. The exercise is part of a global effort to keep sheep, deer, cows and other livestock from belching methane when they eat and regurgitate grass. Methane is among the most potent greenhouse gases, and researchers now believe livestock industries are a major contributor to climate change, responsible for more greenhouse-gas emissions than cars are, according to the United ...
Carbon Regulation: One Scientist's Unscientific Dream?
Post Date: 2009-03-01 19:32:02 by farmfriend
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February 27, 2009 Carbon Regulation: One Scientist's Unscientific Dream?By Marc Sheppard There's an understandably growing unease about the likely prospect that the Obama administration will soon choose to regulate CO2 as a pollutant. But that disquiet would likely turn quickly to rage if more people knew the truth about the scientific conclusions on which this unprecedented incursion on both industry and individual freedom was based. You see, it appears that those conclusions weren't based on accepted scientific procedure at all, but were instead predetermined -- and perhaps by a single man. Our story unfolds just weeks after Barbara Boxer's pet cap-and-trade bill -- the ...
Why so many minds think alike
Post Date: 2009-02-28 07:12:24 by Disgusted
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(CNN) -- You're in a room with 10 other people who seem to agree on something, but you hold the opposite view. Do you say something? Or do you just go along with the others? Imaging techniques help scientists look at the basis for principles of social psychology in the brain. Decades of research show people tend to go along with the majority view, even if that view is objectively incorrect. Now, scientists are supporting those theories with brain images. A new study in the journal Neuron shows when people hold an opinion differing from others in a group, their brains produce an error signal. A zone of the brain popularly called the "oops area" becomes extra active, while ...
Men, Women Admire Beauty Differently in Brain
Post Date: 2009-02-26 06:39:38 by Turtle
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Feb. 24, 2009 -- Beauty is in the brain of the beholder. Go to any museum and there will be men and women admiring paintings and sculpture. But it turns out they are thinking about the sight differently. Men process beauty on the right side of their brains, while women use their whole brain to do the job, researchers report in Tuesday's electronic edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. They even explain it differently. Novelist Margaret Wolfe Hungerford: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Essayist David Hume: "Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them." Researchers were surprised by the finding. "It is well ...
Why are unmarked military jets spraying chemicals over our towns and cities?
Post Date: 2009-02-25 02:21:29 by wudidiz
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Why are unmarked military jets spraying chemicals over our towns and cities?I first discovered the frightening reality of Chemtrails by reading about them on the Internet and then going outside and looking up into the sky.The day came when I was shocked to realize that what I had been reading was actually taking place above my head.IN THE BEGINNING.Cloud seeding began in the late 1940s. The basic idea at the time was to use aircraft or rockets to inject silver iodide into the atmosphere so that the clouds would become more efficient at generating ice crystals that would either fall as snowflakes or melt to produce raindrops, depending on temperatures in and beneath the clouds.At first ...
Natural Explanation Found for UFOs
Post Date: 2009-02-24 17:38:25 by PSUSA
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Mysterious UFO sightings may go hand in hand with a puzzling natural phenomenon known as sprites — flashes high in the atmosphere triggered by thunderstorms. The dancing lights have appeared above most thunderstorms throughout history, but researchers did not start studying them until one accidentally recorded a sighting on camera in 1989. "Lightning from the thunderstorm excites the electric field above, producing a flash of light called a sprite," said Colin Price, a geophysicist at Tel Aviv University in Israel. "We now understand that only a specific type of lightning is the trigger that initiates sprites aloft." Researchers have detected the flashes between ...
North Korea Announces Plans for 'Satellite' Launch
Post Date: 2009-02-24 11:28:29 by Brian S
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24 February 2009 North Korea has spelled out in its clearest terms yet its intention to launch what it describes as a "communications satellite." Official North Korean media broadcast a statement Tuesday from the country's science ministry saying "preparations to launch an experimental communications satellite are now making brisk headway." North Korea has not specified when it will conduct the launch, which it says will carry a satellite named Kwangmyongsong 2 into orbit. North Korean media says the successful launch will be "another giant stride forward in building an economic power." It is the clearest confirmation Pyongyang has given of U.S. and ...
Rocket With NASA Global Warming Satellite Crashes
Post Date: 2009-02-24 11:26:04 by Brian S
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A rocket carrying a NASA satellite crashed near Antarctica after a failed launch early Tuesday, ending a $280 million mission to track global warming from space. The Taurus XL rocket carrying the Orbiting Carbon Observatory blasted off just before 2 a.m. from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. But minutes later, a cover protecting the satellite during launch failed to separate from the rocket, a preliminary investigation found. The 986-pound satellite was supposed to be placed into a polar orbit some 400 miles high to track carbon dioxide emissions. The project was nine years in the making, and the mission was supposed to last two ...
Anonymous Caller? New Service Says, Not Any More
Post Date: 2009-02-23 18:24:16 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Anonymous Caller? New Service Says, Not Any More By Kevin Poulsen February 16, 2009 | 11:43:10 PM Categories: Hacks and Cracks A new service set for launch Tuesday allows cellphone users to unmask the Caller ID on blocked incoming calls, obtaining the phone number, and in some cases the name and address, of the no-longer-anonymous caller. The service, called TrapCall, is offered by New Jersey's TelTech systems, the company behind the controversial SpoofCard Caller ID spoofing service. The new service is likely to be even more controversial — and popular. "What’s really interesting is that they’ve totally taken the privacy out of Caller ID," says former ...
Simple elixir called a 'miracle liquid'
Post Date: 2009-02-23 05:52:50 by Kamala
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www.latimes.com/business/...2009feb23,0,2307567.story From the Los Angeles Times Simple elixir called a 'miracle liquid' Electrolyzed water cleans, degreases -- and treats athlete's foot. The solution is replacing toxic chemicals. By Marla Dickerson February 23, 2009 It's a kitchen degreaser. It's a window cleaner. It kills athlete's foot. Oh, and you can drink it. Sounds like the old "Saturday Night Live" gag for Shimmer, the faux floor polish plugged by Gilda Radner. But the elixir is real. It has been approved by U.S. regulators. And it's starting to replace the toxic chemicals Americans use at home and on the job. The stuff is a simple ...
UFO's and Nukes: Launch in Progress!
Post Date: 2009-02-19 00:49:42 by X-15
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Launch in Progress! Of all the interviews I’ve conducted with former or retired ICBM launch officers over the past three decades, this was perhaps the most disturbing. According to the source, David H. Schuur, a UFO had apparently activated the launch sequence in most of his Minuteman missiles. In August 2007, Schuur told me, “I saw your request for information in the [June 2007] Association of Air Force Missileers Newsletter. I was involved in a UFO incident at Minot AFB in the mid-1960s. I had read your earlier article [in the September 2002 AAFM Newsletter] but was hesitant to respond.” I asked Schuur why he had been hesitant. He replied, “Well, we were basically ...
Cameras in Digital Convert Boxes! BEWARE!!!! [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-02-18 19:24:39 by Itistoolate
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I could not believe my eyes. I have a friend who is kind of a conspiracy theorist. He was trying to convince me that the many of the digital TV convert boxes that our coming out have microphones and cameras built into them. Knowing a bit about electronics I bought one of these devices opened it up fully intending on proving him wrong. To my surprise was right. This device has both a miniature camera lens and what looks like a microphone. I was so shocked I took pictures and video Please send this out to every one you know who is using one of these devices. Hear are the details on the device I bought. Its the MAGNAVOX TB110MW9 Digital to Analog Converter Below is a video and images of the ...
Google and its "safe browsing" database
Post Date: 2009-02-18 11:54:27 by X-15
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About 1.2 percent of all scrapes of Google's results done by Scroogle show at least one "safe browsing" interception by Google. This is consistent with the 1.3 percent figure in Google's own report, "All Your iFRAMEs Point to Us," dated February 4, 2008. The way that Google handles these interceptions is by prefacing the link in their search results with www.google.com/interstitial, which sends the searcher to Google's page for more information. On Google's results page itself, it identifies such listings with the words, "This site may harm your computer." Scroogle has always respected this format for such links, and now we also show ...
Mixed Population Provides Insights Into Human Genetic Makeup
Post Date: 2009-02-17 15:51:34 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Mixed Population Provides Insights Into Human Genetic Makeup ScienceDaily (Feb. 17, 2009) — Genetic diseases and genetically mixed populations can help researchers understand human diversity and human origins according to a Penn State physical anthropologist. "We wanted to get to a strategy to predict what a face will look like," said Mark D. Shriver, associate professor of biological anthropology. "We want to understand the path of evolution that leads to that part of the selection process." To pinpoint genes that influence the shape of the human face and head, Shriver began with an online database of genes linked to disease -- Online Mendelian Inheritance of ...
A Baby, Please. Blond, Freckles -- Hold the Colic
Post Date: 2009-02-17 13:49:25 by Prefrontal Vortex
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A Baby, Please. Blond, Freckles -- Hold the Colic Laboratory Techniques That Screen for Diseases in Embryos Are Now Being Offered to Create Designer Children By GAUTAM NAIK Want a daughter with blond hair, green eyes and pale skin? A Los Angeles clinic says it will soon help couples select both gender and physical traits in a baby when they undergo a form of fertility treatment. The clinic, Fertility Institutes, says it has received "half a dozen" requests for the service, which is based on a procedure called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD. While PGD has long been used for the medical purpose of averting life-threatening diseases in children, the science behind it ...
80 missing computers at nuke lab: watchdog
Post Date: 2009-02-15 22:17:52 by wudidiz
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80 missing computers at nuke lab: watchdogFebruary 14th, 2009 in Technology / Other Enlarge Eighty computers have been lost, stolen or gone "missing" at a major US nuclear weapons lab, the nonprofit watchdog group Project On Government Oversight has said. Eighty computers have been lost, stolen or gone "missing" at a major US nuclear weapons lab, the nonprofit watchdog group Project On Government Oversight (POGO) has said. The group posted online a copy of what they say is an internal letter outlining what appear to be worrisome losses at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the state of New Mexico. The letter says that 13 lab computers were lost or ...
How your looks betray your personality
Post Date: 2009-02-13 19:03:08 by Prefrontal Vortex
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How your looks betray your personality 11 February 2009 by Roger Highfield , Richard Wiseman and Rob Jenkins Magazine issue 2695. Subscribe and get 4 free issues. THE history of science could have been so different. When Charles Darwin applied to be the "energetic young man" that Robert Fitzroy, the Beagle's captain, sought as his gentleman companion, he was almost let down by a woeful shortcoming that was as plain as the nose on his face. Fitzroy believed in physiognomy - the idea that you can tell a person's character from their appearance. As Darwin's daughter Henrietta later recalled, Fitzroy had "made up his mind that no man with such a nose could have ...
Epson's tiny GPS receiver will make everything location aware
Post Date: 2009-02-13 14:10:53 by PSUSA
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Small, right? That's Epson's Infineon XPOSYS chip, its next generation Assisted-GPS device set for mass production in late 2009. The chip measures just 2.8 x 2.9-mm making it 25% smaller than other A-GPS chips on the market, according to Epson, while consuming half the power. The sensitivity has also been improved for a more accurate location fix while indoors. Between this, Google Latitude, and the ever expanding lineup of Skyhook positioning devices, you can kiss your location anonymity goodbye.
First satellite collision in space
Post Date: 2009-02-12 06:05:36 by Tatarewicz
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A defunct Russian military satellite knocked out one of Iridium's (US) 66 network communications satellites above Russia's Arctic Tuesday. The accidental collision, a first, occurred at 465 miles, a very important orbit for weather and relay communications craft. Iridium has an in-orbit spare which will be moved into its cross-linked network to replace the one lost, which incidentally was launched by a Russian rocket. POSTER COMMENT; Needs to be a way to bring defunct spacecraft down or "move" them further out into space to minimize an accumulation of damaging debris.
Tribute To John R. Boyd
Post Date: 2009-02-12 01:29:25 by X-15
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As I sat sipping an after-dinner drink in the Officer's Club at Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida panhandle, I was distracted by the antics of three pilots, still in their flight suits, standing at the bar. One of them, tall with dark curly hair and a cigar in his mouth, talked in a loud animated manner. He used his hands to emphasize his words as fighter pilots are prone to do. I commented to my host, a colonel and chief of development planning, "There's a guy who obviously thinks he's the world's hottest fighter pilot." "That's John Boyd, who may well be one of the hottest pilots around," my host responded. "You should meet him." I ...
How I Built a Wind Generator in My Backyard for $150
Post Date: 2009-02-11 13:16:07 by X-15
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Lately I've been spending a great deal of time working on ways to generate my own electricity. It isn't a necessity for me yet, but someday being electrically self-sufficient could really come in handy. My interest started a while back when I stumbled upon a how-to article on building wind generators from treadmill motors and PVC pipe. It sounded easy enough, so I decided to try and design my own. This particular design can be built for $100-$150 if you are thrifty and can regularly generate 50-250 watts (considerably cheaper than a solar panel of similar power output). Here's how I built it for those of you who are interested... www.thekevdog.com/projects/wind_generator/
Amazing technology from Japan . .. . . but can you guess what it is?!
Post Date: 2009-02-11 09:22:29 by Itistoolate
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Amazing technology from Japan . .. . . but can you guess what it is?! You’ve just looked into the future… yep that’s right! You’ve just seen something that will replace your PC in the near future. Here is how it works: In the revolution of miniature computers, scientists have made great developments with bluetooth technology… This is the forthcoming computers you can carry within your pockets. This “pen sort of instrument” produces both the monitor as well as the keyboard on any flat surfaces from where you can carry out functions you woul d normally do on your desktop computer. Can anyone say, “Good-bye laptops!”
A new 'search engine': clusty.com
Post Date: 2009-02-09 17:12:59 by Itistoolate
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