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Search engines warned over data
Post Date: 2008-04-08 00:19:01 by robin
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Search engines warned over data By Darren Waters Technology editor, BBC News website Google has faced criticism in the past Search engines should delete personal data held about their users within six months, a European Commission advisory body on data protection has said. The recommendation is likely to be accepted by the European Commission and could lead to a clash with search giants like Google, Yahoo and MSN. Google and Yahoo anonymise user data after 18 months, while MSN does the same after 13 months. The body said search companies were not clear enough on data protection. Google said its privacy policy "strikes the right ...
'Ruthlessness gene' discovered
Post Date: 2008-04-07 22:53:02 by Tauzero
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'Ruthlessness gene' discovered Dictatorial behaviour may be partly genetic, study suggests. Michael Hopkin Selfish dictators may owe their behaviour partly to their genes, according to a study that claims to have found a genetic link to ruthlessness. The study might help to explain the money-grabbing tendencies of those with a Machiavellian streak — from national dictators down to 'little Hitlers' found in workplaces the world over. Researchers at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem found a link between a gene called AVPR1a and ruthless behaviour in an economic exercise called the 'Dictator Game'. The exercise allows players to behave selflessly, or like ...
Big Brother Monitors Investment Activity (Ron Paul Here)
Post Date: 2008-04-07 22:27:42 by tom007
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Big Brother Monitors Investment Activity by: Michael Shedlock posted on: April 07, 2008 | about stocks: DIA / QQQQ / SPY * Font Size: * Print * Email Previously, and by charter, the Fed only lent directly to banks. On March 17, the Fed overreached that charter and started direct lending to broker dealers via the Primary Dealer Credit Facility [PDCF]. As one might expect, Investment firms have already tapped the Fed for billions. The Fed, for the first time, agreed to let big investment houses temporarily get emergency loans directly from the central bank. This mechanism, similar to one available for commercial banks for years, will continue for at least six months. It was the broadest ...
The REAL inconvenient truth: Zealotry over global warming could damage our Earth far more than climate change
Post Date: 2008-04-06 22:46:05 by farmfriend
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The REAL inconvenient truth: Zealotry over global warming could damage our Earth far more than climate change NIGEL LAWSON Over the past half-century, we have become used to planetary scares. In the late Sixties, we were told of a population explosion that would lead to global starvation. Then, a little later, we were warned the world was running out of natural resources. By the Seventies, when global temperatures began to dip, many eminent scientists warned us that we faced a new Ice Age. But the latest scare, global warming, has engaged the political and opinion-forming classes to a greater extent than any of these. The readiness to embrace this fashionable belief has led the present ...
Coming soon: superfast internet
Post Date: 2008-04-06 19:51:54 by robin
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THE internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds. At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds. The latest spin-off from Cern, the particle physics centre that created the web, the grid could also provide the kind of power needed to transmit holographic images; allow instant online gaming with hundreds of thousands of players; and offer high-definition video telephony for the price of a local call. David ...
Fossilized feces upends timeline of human's arrival in North America
Post Date: 2008-04-03 16:13:08 by robin
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Fossilized excrement found in an Oregon cave has given scientists the hardest evidence to date that humans roamed the New World at least 1,000 years earlier than previously believed. more stories like this The prehistoric poop, deposited in a cave some 14,300 years ago, contains DNA from the forebears of modern-day Native Americans, according to the research. The discovery reported today by the journal Science added fresh weight to emerging theories that Stone Age people from Asia somehow bypassed ice sheets sealing off North America before 11,000 BC. Nearly all scholars agree that humans were present by then, but until recently few archaeologists accepted that an earlier arrival was even ...
Smallest Black Hole Found
Post Date: 2008-04-02 20:50:41 by blackeagle
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NASA scientists have discovered the smallest known black hole to date. The object is known as 'XTE J1650-500'. Weighing in at a scant 3.8 solar masses and measuring only 15 miles across, this finding sheds new light on the lower limit of black hole sizes and the critical threshold at which a star will become a black hole upon it's death, rather than a neutron star. XTE J1650-500 beats out the previous record holder, GRO 1655-40, by about 2.5 solar masses. Click for Full Text!
Texas wind generation creates power-market turmoil
Post Date: 2008-04-02 08:12:02 by DeaconBenjamin
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HOUSTON, April 1 (Reuters) - Being the national leader in wind generation has created recent turmoil in the Texas deregulated power market. Booming electric production from wind has created new headaches for power-market participants and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the independent agency that oversees the power market. For instance, the unexpected loss of wind production amid changing weather conditions has been blamed, in part, for curtailment of electric service to industrial customers in late February and for real-time power prices hitting a market cap of $2,250 per megawatt-hour in early March, according to ERCOT. In recent weeks, strong spring wind capacity ...
Gay Scientists Isolate Christian Gene
Post Date: 2008-04-01 16:04:26 by FOH
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Poster Comment:See y'all later...gotta run, and NOT for Congress!
Radical New Gas Alternative That Your Kids Will be Using
Post Date: 2008-03-30 17:10:48 by richard9151
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By Darshan Goswami, M.S., P.E. Hydrogen, produced from tap water, could become the forever fuel of the future, generating power for homes, industry, and cars. A new day is dawning for a revolutionary way to generate electric power from renewable energy sources. Imagine a future where the electrical power needed to run your computer, TV and DVD is generated from a small appliance about the size of a dishwasher located in your home. Envision generating electricity without combustion, and producing heat and pure drinking water as by-products. Picture a world powered almost entirely by an infinitely abundant and totally clean fuel. Hydrogen, the most common element in the universe, is that ...
The Fluoride Deception (Interview With Christopher Bryson)
Post Date: 2008-03-30 00:25:57 by buckeye
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Poster Comment:Stunning with its directness and well-supported background information.
Time to kill crop-derived biofuels
Post Date: 2008-03-29 18:56:31 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Yet another prominent scientist has joined the chorus against crop-derived biofuels, as Lewis Page reports. Dr Richard Pike, chief of the Royal Society of Chemistry, has said that biofuels are a "dead end" and "extremely inefficient", and that the government was wrong to impose a requirement for 5 per cent biofuel content in motor fuel by 2010. Dr Pike points out that "the 80 tonnes of kerosene used for a one-way commercial flight to New York is equivalent to the annual biofuel yield from an area of approximately 30 football pitches." At this rate it would take the whole of Britain's farmland just to run Heathrow. It really is time to stop this nonsense. ...
FBI Focusing on 'About Four' Suspects in 2001 Anthrax Attacks
Post Date: 2008-03-29 15:54:26 by Ada
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WASHINGTON — The FBI has narrowed its focus to "about four" suspects in the 6 1/2-year investigation of the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001, and at least three of those suspects are linked to the Army’s bioweapons research facility at Fort Detrick in Maryland, FOX News has learned. Among the pool of suspects are three scientists — a former deputy commander, a leading anthrax scientist and a microbiologist — linked to the research facility, known as USAMRIID. The FBI has collected writing samples from the three scientists in an effort to match them to the writer of anthrax-laced letters that were mailed to two U.S. senators and at least two news outlets in the ...
Asking a Judge to Save the World, and Maybe a Whole Lot More
Post Date: 2008-03-29 10:33:59 by ...
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More fighting in Iraq. Somalia in chaos. People in this country can’t afford their mortgages and in some places now they can’t even afford rice. None of this nor the rest of the grimness on the front page today will matter a bit, though, if two men pursuing a lawsuit in federal court in Hawaii turn out to be right. They think a giant particle accelerator that will begin smashing protons together outside Geneva this summer might produce a black hole or something else that will spell the end of the Earth — and maybe the universe. Scientists say that is very unlikely — though they have done some checking just to make sure. The world’s physicists have spent 14 years ...
Stealthy surveillance robots designed for police, military
Post Date: 2008-03-28 22:07:29 by robin
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With rising casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan and violations of privacy in the United States and abroad being popular discussion topics, advances in military robotics and spy technology have also become a popular topic of news coverage. One video that has received a great deal of press coverage and been seen at least three million times in recent days is of a new robot called "Big Dog" that was designed by Boston Dynamics. The robot, which has four legs and a remarkable ability to keep its balance - even when kicked hard by a human, as demonstrated in its popular internet video debut - is meant to be a "pack mule" and carry large loads for the military. Because of the ...
Holes In Sun's Corona Linked To Atmospheric Temperature Changes On Earth
Post Date: 2008-03-28 15:18:31 by farmfriend
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Holes In Sun's Corona Linked To Atmospheric Temperature Changes On Earth ScienceDaily (Mar. 15, 2000) — Brooklyn, NY -- An unusual interdisciplinary study by astronomers and climatologists has found a striking correlation between holes in the outermost layer of the sun--or the corona--and the globally averaged temperature of the Earth, suggesting that the Earth's atmospheric temperature may be strongly linked to solar magnetism changes over months or years. In a paper that appears in the February 28 issue of the journal New Astronomy, climatologist Eric Posmentier of Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus, solar physicists Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas of the ...
Human noses 'can detect danger'
Post Date: 2008-03-28 10:40:55 by robin
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Human noses 'can detect danger' Our noses can quickly learn to link even subtle changes in smell with danger, claim scientists. Volunteers who could not differentiate between two similar smells found they could do it easily after being given a mild electric shock alongside one. Brain scans confirmed the change in the "smelling" part of the brain. The US research, published in the journal Science, suggests our distant ancestors evolved the ability to keep us away from predators. It warns us that it's dangerous and we have to pay attention to it. Dr Wen LiNorthwestern University, Chicago The 12 volunteers ...
RUN YOUR CAR OR ANYTHING ELSE ON SALT WATER
Post Date: 2008-03-28 02:07:52 by Uncle Bill
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VIDEO: Salt water as fuel VIDEO: Seat Water Car
Sunspots Erupt Suddenly
Post Date: 2008-03-27 18:02:13 by Tauzero
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Sunspots Erupt Suddenly By Robert Roy Britt Senior Science Writer posted: 26 March 2008 11:54 am ET After months of relative quietude, a trio of new sunspot groups appeared this week and they are all growing rapidly. But there's something strange about these spots. Sunspots are cool regions of intense, twisted magnetic activity at the solar surface. They act like caps on the upwelling of energy, and when the caps pop, flares of radiation and ejections of charged particles are unleashed. Major solar storms can disrupt communications on Earth and even disable satellites. The sun goes through an 11-year cycle of activity. The last peak, when sunspots were common and flares frequent, ...
The K9 Comparison—What Dogs Tell Us About Humans
Post Date: 2008-03-27 15:55:09 by Tauzero
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The K9 Comparison—What Dogs Tell Us About Humans By Frank Miele [See Steve Sailer's review of Race: The Reality of Human Differences, Routing The Race Deniers (Not That They’ll Notice)] We share about 97% of our genes with chimpanzees. But when Francis Crick, co-discoverer with James D. Watson of the double helix structure of DNA, was asked what unraveling the chimpanzee genome would tell us about human differences he replied: "I wouldn't waste any American money on the chimp". The dog genome, Crick went on, would be a better target—because dogs vary so widely in appearance and behavior that unraveling their DNA would reveal much more about the influence ...
Research Center to Study Health-Race Link
Post Date: 2008-03-27 15:17:20 by Tauzero
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Research Center to Study Health-Race Link By GARDINER HARRIS Published: March 18, 2008 WASHINGTON — Drugs to treat hypertension and diabetes are substantially less effective in blacks than they are in whites, one of the many mysteries involving the interaction between health and race that the National Institutes of Health hopes to unravel at a new research center. The Center for Genomics and Health Disparities will be led by Charles N. Rotimi, former director of the National Human Genome Center at Howard University. Born in Nigeria and trained at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Dr. Rotimi has been involved in genetic epidemiology projects in Africa, China and the United ...
How A Little-Known Cattle Breed Could Revolutionize The Beef Business
Post Date: 2008-03-27 15:10:53 by Tauzero
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How A Little-Known Cattle Breed Could Revolutionize The Beef Business Maurice Boney is worried about the beef business. He says the U.S. cow herd is too diverse, comprised of too many breeds and too many gene-trait combinations, to ever produce consistently high-quality products for consumers. So he’s spent much of his life trying to do something about it. Boney, who ranches near Johnstown, Colo., has been developing a linebred breed of cattle called Irish Blacks and Irish Reds for nearly 40 years. The breed, trademarked by Boney and marketed under an exclusive contractual agreement to a select but growing group of producers in 22 states, is gaining attention from cattle feeders, ...
Prepare for the Worst, Because Solar Storms Are About to Get Ugly
Post Date: 2008-03-27 12:42:26 by Horse
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Every 11 years or so, the sun gets a little pissy. It breaks out in a rash of planet-sized sunspots that spew superhot gas, hurling clouds of electrons, protons, and heavier ions toward Earth at nearly the speed of light. These solar windstorms have been known to knock out power grids and TV broadcasts, and our growing reliance on space-based technology makes us more vulnerable than ever to their effects. On January 3, scientists discovered a reverse-polarity sunspot, signaling the start of a new cycle — and some are predicting that at its peak (in about four years) things are gonna get nasty. Here's a forecast for 2012. Detours Clumps of ions in the atmosphere could interfere ...
Massive ice shelf collapsing off Antarctica
Post Date: 2008-03-26 12:01:20 by robin
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Scientists are citing "rapid climate change in a fast-warming region of Antarctica" as the cause of an initial collapse of the Wilkins Ice Shelf. The damage got started at the end of February when an iceberg dropped off and triggered the "runaway disintegration" of a 160-square-mile portion of the 5,282-square-mile shelf. The ice shelf, which scientists speculate has floated in the Antarctic region for hundreds of years, is succumbing to recent rises in temperature in the area--an average of 0.9 degree Fahrenheit every 10 years for the last 50 years. This series of pictures that show the beginning of the breakup were taken by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging ...
Why Are Hibernating Bats Dying?
Post Date: 2008-03-25 11:43:21 by ghostdogtxn
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