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Latest Articles: Science/Tech
Oil, much gas off limits on public lands
Post Date: 2008-05-23 15:38:50 by Peppa
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BILLINGS, Mont. — A new report from the Bush administration says most of the oil and more than 40 percent of the natural gas beneath public lands in the U.S. are off limits to drilling. Opening those reserves — by rolling back environmental safeguards and employing new drilling technologies — would give energy companies access to an estimated 19 billion barrels of oil and 231 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, administration officials said Wednesday. The Bureau of Land Management report is likely to add to growing political pressure to curb fuel imports and dampen prices by ramping up domestic energy production. But it comes amid a development backlash in some parts of ...
What are you really doing about gas prices and why aren't you fighting back?
Post Date: 2008-05-22 17:03:28 by MING THE MERCILESS
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I for one will not take it. email here for the free ebook momentometer@usa.net
Burning Incense Is Psychoactive: New Class Of Antidepressants Might Be Right Under Our Noses
Post Date: 2008-05-22 06:51:34 by angle
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ScienceDaily (May 20, 2008) — Religious leaders have contended for millennia that burning incense is good for the soul. Now, biologists have learned that it is good for our brains too. An international team of scientists, including researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, describe how burning frankincense (resin from the Boswellia plant) activates poorly understood ion channels in the brain to alleviate anxiety or depression. This suggests that an entirely new class of depression and anxiety drugs might be right under our noses. "In spite of information stemming from ancient texts, constituents of Bosweilla had not been investigated for ...
Shroud of Turin's age miscalculated? - Questions raised over 'faulty' carbon-dating tests
Post Date: 2008-05-21 11:32:26 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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The mystery of the Shroud of Turin, a 14-foot-long cloth that many thought may have been the burial cloth of Jesus until scientists reported radiocarbon dating established it as no older than Medieval times, is being resurrected. John Jackson, a physics lecturer at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, has convinced scientists who performed the age tests on the cloth housed in Turin, Italy, since the 1500s to consider his suggestion that those tests may have been faulty, according to a report in the Denver Post. The cloth long has posed mysteries because of its age and its negative image of a bloodstained and battered man who had been crucified. Believers claim it to be the ...
Conservatives Happier Than Liberals
Post Date: 2008-05-20 16:52:29 by mirage
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Individuals with conservative ideologies are happier than liberal-leaners, and new research pinpoints the reason: Conservatives rationalize social and economic inequalities. Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found. Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a person's tendency to justify, or explain away, inequalities. The rationalization measure included statements such as: "It is not really that big a problem if some people have more of a chance in life than others," and "This country would be better off ...
Firefox 3.0 RC1 Is Here and It's Awesome
Post Date: 2008-05-20 14:01:43 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Just GET IT!!!! It's like a million time faster than the previous version. Not too many plug ins or add-ons are available at this time but it's more than worth it. And, if you're on a Windows platform you can keep the V2.0. I'm not going to review it because I only installed it a couple of hours ago. So far, I'm impressed by its speed and stability. My only issues, the Japanese Black theme is not compatible, neither is Tor but I'm sure they will be soon.
Users Report More Trouble With Windows XP SP3
Post Date: 2008-05-19 21:52:23 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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The latest service pack for Windows XP continues to cause problems for users. According to an online user forum, the latest glitch in Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) causes problems with the remote desktop access feature of Windows Home Server. On the We Got Served U.K.-based Windows user forum, Windows XP users running Windows Home Server, Microsoft's home storage and local networking server, report that SP3 is cutting off their access to the server from their PCs. The remote desktop access feature would ask users to add their home server's Web site address in order to access it even after they already had, users reported. According to a user on Microsoft's Windows Home ...
The iPhone becomes a Surveillance tool
Post Date: 2008-05-18 12:19:14 by bush_is_a_moonie
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In today’s security obsessed world, having a portable surveillance capability is always advantageous when trying to keep up with the bad guys. A new iPhone application can now allow security personnel to not only track security camera images, but also control them. Vegas will no doubt take notice. Lextech is the company that publishes the software, made possible by the Apple iPhone Software development kit release and it not only gives users a wireless capability to keep watch from security cameras, but also control them using the multi touch screen capability of the iPhone. Users can zoom, tilt, and pan just like operating the camera from a joystick. Check out videos of it in action ...
32,000 deniers
Post Date: 2008-05-17 23:14:22 by farmfriend
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32,000 deniers Freeman Dyson is one of the world’s most eminent physicists. That’s the number of scientists who are outraged by the Kyoto Protocol’s corruption of science By Lawrence Solomon Question: How many scientists does it take to establish that a consensus does not exist on global warming? The quest to establish that the science is not settled on climate change began before most people had even heard of global warming. The year was 1992 and the United Nations was about to hold its Earth Summit in Rio. It was billed as — and was — the greatest environmental and political assemblage in human history. Delegations came from 178 nations — virtually ...
Same Sex Couples Common in the Wild
Post Date: 2008-05-17 13:15:10 by christine
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As gay couples celebrate their newfound right to marry in California and opposition groups rally to fight the ruling, many struggle with this question: Is homosexuality natural? On this issue, Nature has spoken: Same-sex lovin' is common in hundreds of species, scientists say. Roy and Silo, two male chinstrap penguins at New York's Central Park Zoo, were a couple for about six years, during which they nurtured a fertilized egg together (given to them by a zookeeper) and raised the young chick that hatched. According to University of Oslo zoologist Petter Böckman, about 1,500 animal species are known to practice same-sex coupling, including bears, gorillas, flamingos, ...
You Must See This Historic Flight
Post Date: 2008-05-16 21:47:16 by tom007
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Researchers find key to deadly bee disease
Post Date: 2008-05-16 20:04:51 by Horse
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A key discovery by researchers at the Free University of Berlin may help beekeepers treat a deadly bee infection. Bacteria of American foulbrood, a widespread disease capable of wiping out entire bee colonies, is held in the digestive tract of bee larvae for several days before it explodes through the wall of the digestive tract and kills the larvae, researchers from the Berlin university and the Bee Research Institute Hohen Neuendorf announced on Tuesday. "Because of this we have a window of time" to treat the disease, Dr. Elke Genersch, one of the senior authors of the study, told The Local. Scientists had believed that the bacteria broke out of the digestive tract ...
NEW DEVICE THAT WORKS ON YOUR CARS MOMENTUM AND SAVES GAS
Post Date: 2008-05-16 14:29:45 by MING THE MERCILESS
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I am so sick and disgusted at the price of gas these days that I set out on a search to find something that I didn't have to alter my car or spend tons of money to increase MY cars gas milage. I like my car and don't want to buy some over priced hybrid. Those things remind me of the clown cars you see in the circus. Well after much searching I found this guy in Florida selling a device he invented. It works off your cars momentum and actually works on ANY vehicle with no modification. The missing vehicle instrument is born Three years of Research & Development provided me with the great satisfaction of having developed a patentable “inertial mass detector indicator device ...
New theory on Stonehenge: health center
Post Date: 2008-05-13 06:56:30 by Ada
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Presence of Welsh bluestones intrigues archaeologists (05-11) 04:00 PDT Amesbury, England -- The mysterious circle of stones that rises on Salisbury Plain near here has stood as an archaeological marvel for thousands of years, its origins and purpose shrouded in the mists of history. But a just-completed excavation of Stonehenge, the first within the ancient circle in more than 40 years, could provide some of the first reliable explanations for one of the greatest wonders of the prehistoric world. A team of British archaeologists hopes to prove its theory that nearly 4,000 years ago Stonehenge was regarded not as a place of sacrament for the dead, but as a temple with unique healing ...
The Flying Belt
Post Date: 2008-05-10 06:29:01 by RickyJ
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Tim Fofonoff, a 31-year-old grad student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, stands at the base of a 50-foot-tall, graffiti-covered rock wall just south of Boston. He´s clipped into the Atlas Powered Rope Ascender, a toaster-size battery-driven device that he and his three co-inventors built themselves. With it, he´s about to do something no one outside of a Hollywood script has done before: rappel up a wall at an astonishing 10 feet per second. He stares hesitantly for a moment at the craggy rock face, presses a small button, and darts off the ground as if he were wearing a cape. Halfway up, he lets go of the button and stops, dangling, a little out of ...
Unexplained Mass Die-Off Hits German Hives
Post Date: 2008-05-09 18:51:13 by DeaconBenjamin
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Bees in southern Germany have been dying off in their hundreds of thousands. In Germany's bucolic Baden-Württemburg region, there is a curious silence this week. All up and down the Rhine river, farm fields usually buzzing with bees are quiet. Beginning late last week, helpless beekeepers could only watch as their hives were hit by an unprecedented die-off. Many say one of Germany's biggest chemical companies is to blame. In some parts of the region, hundreds of bees per hive have been dying each day. "It's an absolute bee emergency," Manfred Hederer, president of the German Professional Beekeeper's Association, told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "Fifty to 60 ...
Sexy orchids do more than embarrass wasps?
Post Date: 2008-05-08 15:32:53 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Orchids that mimic female wasps may not only waste the time of the male wasps they lure into spreading their pollen -- they also seduce them into wasting valuable sperm, Australian researchers reported on Wednesday. And the flowers benefit twice -- getting help in their own reproduction, and perhaps indirectly producing more male pollinators in the process. Some of the most exotic orchids are known to have evolved their convoluted shapes to attract insects, who unwittingly collect and transfer pollen as they try to mate with the flowers. "The effect of deception on pollinators has been considered negligible, but we show that pollinators may suffer ...
Intresting Building Idea From S Africa
Post Date: 2008-05-07 18:15:18 by tom007
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http://www.ecobuildtechnologies.com/index.htm Uses sandbags as the main material for building - the bulk of the material is dug from the site.
Electric Sail Prototype to Ride the Solar Wind
Post Date: 2008-05-06 21:52:13 by Pinguinite
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An electrically-charged solar sail with a possible "turbo" option may be ready for its first space trials in three years if scientists in Finland have their way. The Finnish invention would use long, positively-charged tethers to ride the solar wind, without the need for any sort of fuel or propellant. "A flight out of the solar system to measure the gas, dust, plasma and magnetic field in the undisturbed interstellar space would perhaps be the 'flagship' thing to do," said Pekka Janhunen, a researcher developing the sail at the Finnish Meteorological Institute. The solar sail's debut would involve a smaller model with 5-mile (8-km) long tethers riding in ...
Energy Manipulations - Key Media Articles Reveal Major Energy & Gas Price Manipulations
Post Date: 2008-05-06 08:08:41 by Red Jones
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Energy Manipulations - Key Media Articles Reveal Major Energy & Gas Price Manipulations Below are highly revealing one-paragraph excerpts of important major media articles revealing significant manipulations involving energy and gas prices. There are a lot of tremendous articles at this site Click for Full Text!
Are There Missing Pieces to the Human Genome Project?
Post Date: 2008-05-05 17:37:46 by Tauzero
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Are There Missing Pieces to the Human Genome Project? A new study finds up to 250 regions where the reference genome sequenced over 13 years may be missing information By Nikhil Swaminathan If you ask the scientists at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) when the Human Genome Project wrapped up, they'll tell you it was finished in 2003. However, a new study indicates that the composite reference genome cobbled together from parts of the genetic codes of four people (two men and two women), is definitely a work in progress. The completed genome was to serve as a model of the genetic makeup of a typical human that researchers could use as a reference to detect genetic ...
Junk Science: The Great Global Warming Race
Post Date: 2008-05-04 22:32:26 by farmfriend
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Junk Science: The Great Global Warming Race Thursday, May 01, 2008 By Steven Milloy Can global warming’s vested interests close the deal on greenhouse gas regulation before the public wises up to their scam? A new study indicates alarmist concern and a need to explain away the lack of actual global warming. Researchers belonging to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, reported in Nature (May 1) that after adjusting their climate model to reflect actual sea surface temperatures of the last 50 years, "global surface temperature may not increase over the next decade, as natural climate variations … temporarily offset the projected anthropogenic ...
Buried Prejudice: The Bigot in Your Brain
Post Date: 2008-05-04 14:22:14 by robin
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Scientific American Mind May 1, 2008 Buried Prejudice: The Bigot in Your BrainDeep within our subconscious, all of us harbor biases that we consciously abhor. And the worst part is: we act on them By Siri Carpenter "There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life,” Jesse Jackson once told an audience, “than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery—then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.” Jackson’s remark illustrates a basic fact of our social existence, one that even a committed black civil-rights leader cannot escape: ideas that we may not endorse—for example, that a black stranger ...
Global Climate Change Research Explorer
Post Date: 2008-05-04 11:20:23 by robin
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Climate is the average pattern of weather over the long term. The earth’s climate has warmed and cooled for millions of years, since long before we appeared on the scene. There’s no doubt that the climate is growing warmer currently; indications of that change are all around us. Though climate change isn’t new, the study of how human activity affects the earth’s climate is. The exploration of climate change encompasses many fields, including physics, chemistry, biology, geology, meteorology, oceanography, and even sociology. At this Web site, you can explore scientific data relating to the atmosphere, the oceans, the areas covered by ice and snow, and the living ...
Stellar Ticking Time Bomb Explodes On Cue
Post Date: 2008-05-03 09:14:27 by farmfriend
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Stellar Ticking Time Bomb Explodes On Cue by Robert Naeye Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 02, 2008 Using observations from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), an international team of astronomers has discovered a timing mechanism that allows them to predict exactly when a superdense star will unleash incredibly powerful explosions. "We found a clock that ticks slower and slower, and when it slows down too much, boom! The bomb explodes," says lead author Diego Altamirano of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The bursts occur on a neutron star, which is the collapsed remnant of a massive star that exploded in a supernova. The neutron star belongs to a binary system ...
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