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Did Greens help kill the whale?
Post Date: 2007-05-16 22:17:17 by robin
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Did Greens help kill the whale? By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website Relations between Japan and the US have had troubled timesIn the late 1960s, with the scent of flower power fresh in the air and the Vietnam War in spate, the nascent environmental movement, with US groups in the vanguard, began to adopt whaling as a signature campaign. Patricia Forkan, who has campaigned against whaling for more than 30 years and now works for the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), says activists feared the disappearance of all whales - forever. "They had completely extirpated the blue whale, they were on their way to doing that with fin, humpback and ...
Analysis Finds Large Antarctic Area Has Melted
Post Date: 2007-05-16 19:12:07 by Ferret Mike
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While much of the world has warmed in a pattern that scientists have linked with near certainty to human activities, the frigid interior of Antarctica has resisted the trend. Now, a new satellite analysis shows that at least once in the last several years, masses of unusually warm air pushed to within 310 miles of the South Pole and remained long enough to melt surface snow across a California-size expanse. The warm spell, which occurred over one week in 2005, was detected by scientists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA and the University of Colorado, Boulder. Balmy air, with a temperature of up to 41 degrees in some places, persisted across three broad swathes of West ...
CLIMATOLOGIST FIRED FOR EXPOSING WARMING MYTHS
Post Date: 2007-05-15 20:55:51 by RickyJ
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CLIMATOLOGIST FIRED FOR EXPOSING WARMING MYTHS University of Washington climate scientist Mark Albright was recently dismissed from his position as associate state climatologist, just weeks after exposing false claims of shrinking glaciers in the Cascade Mountains, says James M. Taylor, managing editor of Environment and Climate News. According to Albright: * At most, according to reliable datasets, the Cascade Mountains snow pack declined by 35 percent between 1950 and 2000. * Moreover, even that number is misleading; Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels (D) and other global warming alarmists deliberately choose 1950 as the "baseline" for Cascade Mountains snow pack because 1950 was a ...
Microsoft: Linux Violates 235 of our Patents
Post Date: 2007-05-14 15:46:15 by robin
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Microsoft: Linux Violates 235 of our PatentsRichard Stallman. Photo by Zugaldia Microsoft told Fortune magazine Linux violates 235 of its patents. While the claim is jaw-dropping, just as interesting is Fortune's take on how Microsoft got into the patent-protection racket in the first place. With the courts interpreting software's patent eligibility differently, Microsoft went gangbusters into filing for patents (as opposed to simply copyrighting its software) in the early years of this decade. The story also has a great primer on the Free Software Foundation, Open Source, the Torvalds-Stallman split, and the deal Microsoft signed with Novell that really began this fight. The gist ...
Best of FEN: Rethinking Implied Volatility
Post Date: 2007-05-14 14:48:37 by Tauzero
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Rethinking Implied Volatility By Don Chance, Ph.D., CFA This article originally appeared in the January/February 2003 issue of Financial Engineering News. See http://www.fenews.com/fen29/one_time_articles/chance_implied_vol.html for this article in the archive section of our website. With the possible exception of Value at Risk, probably no topic has received more attention in risk management research than implied volatility. This research can be classified into two major categories: research on analytical methods for extracting the implied volatility and research on methods for modifying existing pricing models to render the observed pattern of implied volatility consistent with the ...
Google searches web's dark side
Post Date: 2007-05-13 23:35:15 by robin
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Google searches web's dark side Malicious programs are installed by visits to a booby-trapped siteOne in 10 web pages scrutinised by search giant Google contained malicious code that could infect a user's PC. Researchers from the firm surveyed billions of sites, subjecting 4.5 million pages to "in-depth analysis". About 450,000 were capable of launching so-called "drive-by downloads", sites that install malicious code, such as spyware, without a user's knowledge. A further 700,000 pages were thought to contain code that could compromise a user's computer, the team report. To address the problem, the researchers say the company has "started an ...
Plants Don't Produce Greenhouse Gas, New Study Finds
Post Date: 2007-05-13 12:33:14 by Zipporah
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Plants are not a significant source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, according to new research that casts doubt on the results of an earlier study. Like carbon dioxide, the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, methane acts like a blanket to trap the heat that Earth radiates away. The biggest recognized sources of methane are emissions from wetlands and rice paddies, where bacteria in the mud break down organic matter in the absence of oxygen to produce methane, and the belching of cows and other animals. Two studies, different results Plants were never suspected to be a source of methane, until a 2006 study in the journal Nature measured methane emissions from ...
Americans and Japanese Read Faces Differently
Post Date: 2007-05-13 12:10:15 by Zipporah
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Culture is a huge factor in determining whether we look someone in the eye or the kisser to interpret facial expressions, according to a new study. For instance, in Japan, people tend to look to the eyes for emotional cues, whereas Americans tend to look to the mouth, says researcher Masaki Yuki, a behavioral scientist at Hokkaido University in Japan. This could be because the Japanese, when in the presence of others, try to suppress their emotions more than Americans do, he said. In any case, the eyes are more difficult to control than the mouth, he said, so they probably provide better clues about a person's emotional state even if he or she is trying to hide it.Clues from emoticons ...
Organic Bees Are Thriving - While commercial bee populations are plummeting
Post Date: 2007-05-12 23:28:11 by Red Jones
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Organic Bees Are Thriving - While commercial bee populations are plummeting http://Infowars.net | May 11, 2007 Over the past few weeks we have highlighted reports that suggest bee populations are declining at rates of up to 80% in areas of the U.S. and Europe. Experts are calling the worrying trend "colony collapse disorder" or CCD. While no one can pin point the exact reason as to why bees are declining so rapidly it is interesting to note that no organic bee keepers are reporting losses. A recent report at sci-tech website http://redicecreations.com cites a statement from longtime environmental activist and part-time organic beekeeper Sharon Labchuk from Prince Edward ...
Ancient Craft Left On Moon? - NASA Apollo Video!
Post Date: 2007-05-11 17:47:38 by InsideJob
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Great NASA video of ancient Mile Long Intelligent Crashed (or parked?) "Craft" on the Moon spotted and filmed by multiple Apollo Missions:
Poster Comment:Interesting.
In Guilty Plea, OxyContin Maker to Pay $600 Million
Post Date: 2007-05-10 19:59:28 by DeaconBenjamin
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ABINGDON, Va., May 10 — The company that makes the narcotic painkiller OxyContin and three current and former executives pleaded guilty today in federal court here to criminal charges that they misled regulators, doctors and patients about the drug’s risk of addiction and its potential to be abused. To resolve criminal and civil charges related to the drug’s “misbranding,” the parent of Purdue Pharma, the company that markets OxyContin, agreed to pay some $600 million in fines and other payments, one of the largest amounts ever paid by a drug company in such a case. Also, in a rare move, three executives of Purdue Pharma, including its president and its top ...
Global warming to raise US temperatures by 10 degrees by 2080 [YESSSS!!!! Only if I lived that long.]
Post Date: 2007-05-10 15:49:11 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Global warming to raise US temperatures by 10 degrees by 2080 From our ANI Correspondent Washington, May 10: A new study by NASA scientists has suggested that greenhouse-gas warming may raise average summer temperatures in the eastern United States by nearly 10 degrees Fahrenheit by the 2080s. "There is the potential for extremely hot summertime temperatures in the future, especially during summers with less-than-average frequent rainfall," said Barry Lynn of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University, New York. The research found that eastern US summer daily high temperatures that currently averaged in the low-to-mid-80s (degrees Fahrenheit) were ...
Historical Proof Of Chemtrail Activity to Affect Weather, Operation Popeye
Post Date: 2007-05-10 14:15:57 by gengis gandhi
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ENMOD CHRONOLOGY PRELUDE 1967: The United States begins a top secret rainmaking operation in Southeast Asia to hamper the movement of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops and supplies. It runs until July 1972. During the Vietnam war, the U.S. also carries out massive herbicide spraying operations (Agent Orange, etc.) and mechanical vegetation removal with ÒRome PlowÓ tractors. March 1971: Citing a leaked US government memorandum, a US news report reveals indications of a super secret US rainmaking operation over Laos. June 1972: Meeting in Stockholm, the UN Conference on the Human Environment adopts Recommendation 218, asking governments to carefully evaluate the ...
chemtrail show now on dsc channel now, 2pm est
Post Date: 2007-05-10 14:04:19 by gengis gandhi
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cool.
How do you 'go' in space?
Post Date: 2007-05-10 10:41:50 by robin
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How do you 'go' in space? WHO, WHAT, WHY? The Magazine answers... A tour of a space facility in the US apparently prompted Prince Philip to ask how astronauts deal with "natural functions" in space. So how exactly do they go to the toilet (or should that be the loo)? It's all to do with air flow. On earth, in the West at least, your standard toilet is a water-flush affair, that takes waste and washes it down a pipe. THE ANSWER Space toilets use air flow as water flushes have drawbacks in zero gravityAdult nappies are used on space walks and during take-off and landing The lack of gravity on the shuttle and the space station mean a water-flush system is not ...
Court Orders Quackbusters Barrett and Polevoy to Post $433,715.93 Bond...
Post Date: 2007-05-10 05:23:05 by gengis gandhi
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Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen Thursday, May 2nd, 2007 The "quackbuster" organization is learning a very HARD lesson about the reality of the US legal system. And, I'm very pleased. They're learning, in the most humiliating, and financially devastating way, that US Courts don't want the system abused to harass those that the "quackbusters" don't like. In the Barrett v. Clark case, today, an order was issued for Plaintiffs Terry Polevoy MD, and Stephen Barrett MD, to come up with a grand total of $433,715.93 in bonds - $264,311.68 for Polevoy alone, and $169,404.25 from Barret and Polevoy - within thirty days. Barrett runs the questionable ...
Inconvenient truths
Post Date: 2007-05-09 22:45:01 by BeAChooser
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Inconvenient truths By David Deming, Ph.D. The Sun The largest single factor driving the debate on global warming is the Al Gore film An Inconvenient Truth. The movie has been marketed as a scientific documentary, but in fact it is an artful and deceptive propaganda film. The claims made in An Inconvenient Truth are either wrong, disingenuous, or misleading. Gore frightens his audience by showing the breakup of the Larsen Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula. He then states that if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet were to melt it would raise sea levels worldwide by 20 feet. But Gore conveniently neglects to inform us that over the last several decades, 80 to 90 percent of Antarctica has ...
Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake: MP3 interviews with consiousness researchers
Post Date: 2007-05-08 13:26:06 by gengis gandhi
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Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Download: MP3
Nasa sees brightest supernova
Post Date: 2007-05-08 09:19:15 by robin
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Nasa sees brightest supernova James RandersonTuesday May 8, 2007Guardian Unlimited A Nasa illustration shows what the supernova may have looked like. Photograph: AP/Nasa/Chandra x-ray centre/M WeissThe brightest supernova ever seen has been observed by Nasa's orbiting Chandra x-ray telescope.The huge stellar explosion released around 100 times more energy than a typical supernova and was 100 million billion times brighter than the sun at its peak.It is very unusual to observe the death of a super-massive star, so scientists will be keen to use the data from the orbiting telescope and others on the ground to piece together what happened. "We understand rather little about the most ...
Coexistence (With GM Crops) plans blown away by pollen drift
Post Date: 2007-05-07 19:34:14 by Red Jones
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Coexistence plans blown away by pollen drift 15 June 2005 - Tim Lang, professor of food policy at Thames Valley University, said: “The early assurances from the industry and the government that a buffer zone would allow safety and choice for consumers are falling apart. It raises environmental health worries, and what we don’t yet know is whether these warnings will translate into a risk to human health.” "OK, we know that cross-pollination will occur but we’ve got thirty years of experience to say we know how far pollen will travel. And therefore what we’ve done is we’ll grow a GM crop at a distance away from a non-GM crop, so the people that want ...
Fewer bees in GM crops, study finds
Post Date: 2007-05-07 19:21:48 by Red Jones
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Fewer bees in GM crops, study finds 24 March 2005 - The ecological dangers of genetically modified crops remain largely unresolved and a stronger research effort is needed to track possible environmental changes, Australian scientists have warned. Fewer bees in GM crops, study finds 23 March 2005 The Canberra Times The ecological dangers of genetically modified crops remain largely unresolved and a stronger research effort is needed to track possible environmental changes, Australian scientists have warned. Their comments follow the issuing yesterday in Britain of the world's largest study of the ecological impact of GM crops, which revealed significant declines in bees and ...
Breaking the mould (A machine for the home that can make anything, even itself)
Post Date: 2007-05-07 12:49:13 by gengis gandhi
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Breaking the mould By Dean Irvine for CNN LONDON, England (CNN) -- (First published April 26, 2007) , sounds like the dream of a science fiction fan, but a device using open source software developed at Cornell University has been designed to do just that. It is in the early stages of development, but could it represent the dawn of the arts and crafts movement for the digital age or open the gateway to the destruction of intellectual property rights and copyright? Hod Lipson, Assistant Professor at Cornell University's Computing and Information Science department and PhD student Evan Malone are the brains behind the digital fabrication machine. It takes its technological cues from ...
Navy Heats Up Cold Fusion Hopes
Post Date: 2007-05-07 12:42:51 by gengis gandhi
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Navy Heats Up Cold Fusion Hopes Steve Kovsky (Blog) - May 5, 2007 1:14 AM Navy scientists claim that slices of CR-39 plastic, like this one, have recorded the passage of atomic particles emitted during successful cold fusion nulcear reactions. New proof that cold fusion works could fuel additional interest in generating power from low energy nuclear reactions Cold fusion, the ability to generate nuclear power at room temperatures, has proven to be a highly elusive feat. In fact, it is considered by many experts to be a mere pipe dream -- a potentially unlimited source of clean energy that remains tantalizing, but so far unattainable. However, a recently published academic paper from the ...
Fire Ants May Have Met Match In Virus
Post Date: 2007-05-07 08:15:16 by IndieTX
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(AP) LUBBOCK The battle against red fire ants has plagued farmers, ranchers and regular folks for decades. Now it seems the reviled pests could be in for some sickness of their own. Researchers have pinpointed a naturally occurring virus that kills fire ants, which arrived in the U.S. in the 1930s and now cause $6 billion in damage annually nationwide, including about $1.2 billion in Texas. The virus caught the attention of U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers in Florida in 2002. The agency is now seeking commercial partners to develop the virus into a pesticide to control fire ants. The virus was found in about 20 percent of fire ant fields, where it appears to cause the slow ...
Many Scientists are Convinced that Man Can See the Future
Post Date: 2007-05-07 06:15:29 by gengis gandhi
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http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/925987/many_scientists_are_convinced_that_man_can_see_the_future/index.html Posted on: Saturday, 5 May 2007, 18:10 CDT Many Scientists are Convinced that Man Can See the Future Click to enlarge PROFESSOR Dick Bierman sits hunched over his computer in a darkened room. The gentle whirring of machinery can be heard faintly in the background. He smiles and presses a grubby-looking red button. In the next room, a patient slips slowly inside a hospital brain scanner. If it wasn't for the strange smiles and grimaces that flicker across the woman's face, you could be forgiven for thinking this was just a normal health check. But this scanner is ...
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