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Missing: A Huge Chunk Of The Earth's Crust
Post Date: 2007-03-05 19:48:44 by Brian S
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Mon Mar 5, 2007 12:55PM EST LONDON (Reuters) - A team of British scientists has set sail on a voyage to examine why a huge chunk of the earth's crust is missing, deep under the Atlantic Ocean -- a phenomenon that challenges conventional ideas about how the earth works. The 20-strong team aims to survey an area some 3,000 to 4,000 metres deep where the mantle -- the deep interior of the earth normally covered by a crust kilometres thick -- is exposed on the sea floor. Experts describe the hole along the mid-Atlantic ridge as an "open wound" on the ocean floor that has puzzled scientists for the five or so years that its existence has been known because it defies existing ...
PC ShowBuzz TV on our computers?
Post Date: 2007-03-03 13:25:25 by Lod
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FACT: YOU CAN WATCH TV ON YOUR PC You don't realize it, but you can do all of the above in minutes. Sounds fantastic? Get the most out of your time and your PC now with PCShowBuzz. PCShowBuzz turns your PC into a SuperTV and gives you free, instant access to more than 1000 channels and clips. Why buy another TV and pay monthly subscription for cable when you can get all the entertainment and news you'll ever need for less thant the price of 4 value meals? 1) Connect To A Whole New World On Online Entertainment: Catch breaking news, the hottest fashions, the latest movie trailers, sports highlights and more from thousands of channels you can watch with PCShowBuzz. What are you ...
David Icke on Aspartame (Aspartame Man-Dolald Rumsfeld)
Post Date: 2007-03-03 11:51:04 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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David Icke on Aspartame (Aspartame Man-Dolald Rumsfeld) All time views: 18,258 » David Icke 4 min 40 sec - Aug 13, 2006http://www.DavidIcke.com David Icke talks about Aspartame and Monsanto. This is a clip from from Ickes lecture, Secret of the Matrix.
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Hemp for fiber, food, and fuel
Post Date: 2007-03-03 10:34:03 by YertleTurtle
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Flexible and environmentally friendly Hemp is one of the most versatile plants known to mankind. Its fibres can be used for textiles and ropes or made into paper. Its seeds are a valuable food rich in unsaturated oils, which can also be used as fuel. Hemp requires few pesticides as it quickly outgrows any weeds. It leaves the soil clean for other crops. When hemp stalks are dew-retted in the fields most nutrients are returned to the soil for the next crop. Hemp for textiles When in the middle of the 19th century in California Levi Strauss invented the original jeans he made them from hemp canvas because it was the most durable textile available. Hemp could replace many uses of cotton, ...
It’s the thinnest material ever and could revolutionise computers and medicine
Post Date: 2007-03-03 06:35:57 by Ada
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Scientists have created the thinnest material in the world and predict that it will revolutionise computing and medical research. A layer of carbon has been manufactured in a film only one atom thick that defies the laws of physics. Placed in layers on top of each other it would take 200,000 membranes to reach high enough to match the thickness of a human hair. The substance, graphene, was created two years ago but could be made only when stuck to another material. Researchers have now managed to manufacture it as a film suspended between the nanoscale bars of scaffolding made from gold. Such a feat was held to be impossible by theorists, backed up by experimentation, because it is in ...
Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says
Post Date: 2007-03-02 19:35:34 by BeAChooser
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Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says Kate Ravilious for National Geographic News February 28, 2007 Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet's recent climate changes have a natural—and not a human- induced—cause, according to one scientist's controversial theory. Earth is currently experiencing rapid warming, which the vast majority of climate scientists says is due to humans pumping huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. (Get an overview: "Global Warming Fast Facts".) Mars North Pole image Mars, too, appears to be enjoying more mild and balmy temperatures. In 2005 data from NASA's ...
The Proven Dangers of Microwaves
Post Date: 2007-03-02 10:55:47 by gengis gandhi
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http://www.mercola.com/article/microwave/hazards2.htm The Proven Dangers of Microwaves Extracted from NEXUS Magazine, Volume 2, #25 (April-May '95). Originally printed from the April 1994 edition of Acres, USA. Back in May of 1989, after Tom Valentine first moved to St Paul, Minnesota, he heard on the car radio a short announcement that bolted him upright in the driver's seat. The announcement was sponsored by Young Families, the Minnesota Extension Service of the University of Minnesota: "Although microwaves heat food quickly, they are not recommended for heating a baby's bottle," the announcement said. he bottle may seem cool to the touch, but the liquid ...
Forecasters sees La Nina brewing: More Atlantic hurricanes, more drought, heat for the South
Post Date: 2007-02-27 20:54:04 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON -- Forecasters warned Tuesday that a La Nina weather pattern _ the nasty flip side of El Nino _ is brewing, bringing with it the threat of more hurricanes for the Atlantic. Officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced the official end of a brief and mild El Nino that started last year. That El Nino was credited with partially shutting down last summer's Atlantic hurricane activity in the midst of what was supposed to be a busy season. "We're seeing a shift to the La Nina, it's clearly in the data," NOAA Administrator Conrad Lautenbacher said. La Nina, a cooling of the mid-Pacific equatorial region, has not officially begun ...
The politics of global warming
Post Date: 2007-02-27 14:06:06 by Tauzero
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The politics of global warming By Bill Steigerwald TRIBUNE-REVIEW Saturday, February 10, 2007 Timothy Ball is no wishy-washy skeptic of global warming. The Canadian climatologist, who has a Ph.D. in climatology from the University of London and taught at the University of Winnipeg for 28 years, says that the widely propagated “fact” that humans are contributing to global warming is the “greatest deception in the history of science.” Ball has made no friends among global warming alarmists by saying that global warming is caused by the sun, that global warming will be good for us and that the Kyoto Protocol “is a political solution to a nonexistent problem without ...
The Wonders of Hemp (Not Marijuana)
Post Date: 2007-02-27 07:31:58 by YertleTurtle
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Hemp is cannabis grown specifically for industrial use and thus contains very low levels of cannabinoids (THC). The use of hemp dates back many thousands of years. Properly grown hemp has virtually no psychoactive (intoxicating) effects when consumed. With a relatively short growth cycle of 120 days, hemp is an efficient and economical crop for farmers to grow. Hemp is among one of the most productive and useful plants known; also very safe. The following materials can be made from hemp: paper, textiles, building materials, food, medicine, paint, detergent, varnish, oil, ink, and fuel. Unlike many crops, hemp can be grown in most locations and climates with only moderate water and ...
(Trash can police) Germans plant bugs in our wheelie bins
Post Date: 2007-02-26 13:59:41 by Jethro Tull
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MORE HERE MORE HERE It looks just like any other wheelie bin, but unknown to the householder a bugging device has been inserted under the lip of its lid (bottom left). The bug itself is only a little bigger than a 1p piece (bottom right) Electronic spy 'bugs' have been secretly planted in hundreds of thousands of household wheelie bins. The gadgets - mostly installed by companies based in Germany - transmit information about the contents of the bins to a central database which then keeps records on the waste disposal habits of each individual address. Already some 500,000 bins in council districts across England have been fitted with the bugs - with nearly all areas ...
Michael Crichton: A Scientist Who Can Write: And who is not a tool of the greens.
Post Date: 2007-02-26 06:49:32 by Kamala
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Michael Crichton by Charley Reese by Charley Reese DIGG THIS Michael Crichton, whom most people probably know as the author of Jurassic Park and the creator of the television series ER, is no dummy or hack writer, although he's used the theme of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein a number of times (good-intentioned science produces a monster). He's probably one of the smartest guys in America today, and he's been raising issues that are far more important than the legal circus surrounding the death of a glamorous tramp or the problems of Britney Spears. Crichton graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He ...
RFID 'Powder' - World's Smallest RFID Tag
Post Date: 2007-02-24 08:51:49 by innieway
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The world's smallest and thinnest RFID tags were introduced yesterday by Hitachi. Tiny miracles of miniaturization, these RFID chips (Radio Frequency IDentification chips) measure just 0.05 x 0.05 millimeters. The previous record-holder, the Hitachi mu-chip, is just 0.4 x 0.4 millimeters. Take a look at the size of the mu-chip RFID tag on a human fingertip. Now, compare that with the new RFID tags. The "powder type" tags are some sixty times smaller. The new RFID chips have a 128-bit ROM for storing a unique 38 digit number, like their predecessor. Hitachi used semiconductor miniaturization technology and electron beams to write data on the chip substrates to achieve the ...
EXCLUSIVE: Cheney on Global Warming [Cheney sez it's here, so it's official now]
Post Date: 2007-02-23 15:23:20 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Sydney, Australia, Feb. 23, 2007 — In an exclusive interview today, ABC's Jonathan Karl asked Vice President Dick Cheney about the topic of global warming, a subject Mr. Cheney has rarely addressed in the past. The vice president agreed that the earth is warming but, like President Bush, maintained there is debate over whether humans or natural cycles are the cause— a position that puts the administration at odds with the vast majority of climate scientists. Vice President Dick Cheney talked about global warming in an exclusive interview today with ABC's Jonathan Karl. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — made up of ...
US Army to test UAVs armed with ultra-bright strobe to work as crowd control weapon
Post Date: 2007-02-21 20:33:26 by Jethro Tull
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US Army system designed to induce temporary paralysis>/b> The US Army's Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD) plans to demonstrate the use of a 7.5 million candlepower (7.3 million candela) strobe floodlight system mounted on board an unmanned air vehicle as a non-lethal crowd-control system. The project will see a Peak Beam Systems Maxa Beam searchlight adapted to operate as a strobe capable of inducing physical effects, such as short-term paralysis, in humans. AATD plans to award contacts to the Edgemont, Pennsylvania-based Peak Systems for the modified searchlight in March, with demonstrations within 12 months. US government acquisition records released on 9 ...
Iran 'swiftly seeks nuclear goal'
Post Date: 2007-02-21 17:34:33 by bluedogtxn
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Iran 'swiftly seeks nuclear goal' Ahmadinejad has claimed Iran's right to nuclear technology President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said Iran will try to achieve nuclear capability as soon as possible. His comments, reported by Iran's Isna news agency, come as a UN deadline for Tehran to freeze its uranium enrichment programme expires. For the first time, a political party in Iran has called on Mr Ahmadinejad to accept the UN's demands. Iran denies Western claims that it is seeking nuclear weapons, saying its programme is for purely peaceful ends. A UN resolution, adopted on 23 December 2006, imposed sanctions against Iran's nuclear and missile programmes and opened ...
5,000-year-old artificial eyeball found
Post Date: 2007-02-20 20:00:49 by tom007
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5,000-year-old artificial eyeball found Richard Owen in Rome A 5,000-year-old golden artificial eye that once stared out mesmerisingly from the face of a female soothsayer or priestess in ancient Persia has been unearthed by Iranian and Italian archaeologists. The eyeball — the earliest artificial eye found — would have transfixed those who saw it, convincing them that the woman — thought to have been strikingly tall — had occult powers and could see into the future, archaeologists said. It was found by Mansour Sajjadi, leader of the Iranian team, which has been excavating an ancient necropolis at Shahr-i-Sokhta in the Sistan desert on the Iranian-Afghan border for ...
Isaac Newton theory is confirmed
Post Date: 2007-02-20 10:23:31 by gengis gandhi
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Isaac Newton theory is confirmed WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 20 (UPI) -- A U.S. scientist confirmed what Isaac Newton speculated more than three centuries ago: the senses of hearing and sight are parallel. Robert Sekuler and Kristina Visscher of Brandeis University confirm the Newtonian idea that sight and sound are indeed parallel -- at least when it comes to encoding and retrieving short-term memories from the two senses. "Obviously, sound and light are physically different, processed by different receptors -- eyes and ears -- and furthermore, processed in different neural streams within the brain," explained Sekuler, a neuroscientist at the university's Volen National Center ...
Terrorists Chip In
Post Date: 2007-02-20 05:46:07 by Ada
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Implanting radio ID tags in U.S. passports makes stealing personal data easier than ever. Information-security expert Lukas Grunwald is not reluctant to share his opinion of the radio frequency identification (RFID) technology that is now a mandatory security feature of American passports. “This whole design is totally brain damaged,” Grunwald told Wired magazine. “From my point of view all of these RFID passports are a huge waste of money. They’re not increasing security at all.” RFID chips or tags are tiny data storage units, generally the size of a grain of rice, equipped with radio transmitters. The new “e-passports” issued by the U.S. government ...
Table-top fusion, back with a pop
Post Date: 2007-02-19 15:52:25 by gengis gandhi
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Table-top fusion, back with a pop 19 February 2007 http://NewScientist.com news service Reports that the bubble had burst for a form of cheap, table-top nuclear fusion may have been premature. Rusi Taleyarkhan, the physicist at the centre of a furore surrounding so-called bubble fusion, was last week cleared of scientific misconduct. In 2002, Taleyarkhan, then at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and now at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, published a paper in Science claiming that bombarding a solvent with neutrons and sound waves produced tiny bubbles that triggered nuclear fusion reactions. Then in March 2006, Purdue began investigating allegations of misconduct ...
Universe offers 'eternal feast,' cosmologist says (Stanford U. Research)
Post Date: 2007-02-19 10:04:27 by gengis gandhi
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Universe offers 'eternal feast,' cosmologist says There is no such thing as a free lunch, some say, but they would be wrong. In fact, the entirety of the universe defies them. According to Stanford physics Professor Andrei Linde, one of the architects of the inflationary theory, our universe (and all the matter in it) was born out of a vacuum. "Recent developments in cosmology have irreversibly changed our understanding of the structure and fate of our universe and of our own place in it," says Linde, who will discuss the inflationary view of the universe at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In the same session, titled ...
Australian sees thirteenth zodiac sign
Post Date: 2007-02-19 09:44:56 by Eoghan
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CANBERRA - Love, career or life out of sorts? If you're searching for answers in the stars, you may be looking at the wrong ones. A 13th sign has emerged in the 12-sign zodiac thanks to tiny shifts or wobbles in the Earth's rotation around the Sun, an Australian astronomer said. "Basically, the Sun's apparent path has moved since 3000 years ago when astrology was born," John Shobbrook, the manager of Australia National University's Siding Spring observatory told Reuters. The new sign is Ophiuchus, or the Serpent Bearer, which falls between November 30 and December 18, placing it between Scorpio and Sagittarius. The sign, symbolised by the entwined serpents used ...
2 new genetic links predispose people to autism, large study shows [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-02-19 02:45:44 by scrapper2
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An international team of scientists including several Canadians has discovered genetic links that put children at greater risk of developing autism. About 1,500 families offered DNA to scientists searching for a cause for autism spectrum disorder. The results appear in Sunday's issue of Nature Genetics. Stephen Scherer of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto led the Canadian arm of the research, identifying two key genetic causes for autism. "Now we can think about this condition in a much different way," said Scherer. "We have an understanding of what's going on in the developing brain in these individuals so we can think about ways to actually deal with this ...
Climate change: scientists warn it may be too late to save the ice caps
Post Date: 2007-02-18 22:55:43 by robin
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Climate change: scientists warn it may be too late to save the ice caps David Adam, environment correspondent Monday February 19, 2007 Guardian A critical meltdown of ice sheets and severe sea level rise could be inevitable because of global warming, the world's scientists are preparing to warn their governments. New studies of Greenland and Antarctica have forced a UN expert panel to conclude there is a 50% chance that widespread ice sheet loss "may no longer be avoided" because of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Such melting would raise sea levels by four to six metres, the scientists say. It would cause "major changes in coastline and inundation of low-lying ...
Tire Reef Off Florida Proves a Disaster [Bad Science]
Post Date: 2007-02-18 21:26:49 by IndieTX
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A mile offshore from this city's high-rise condos and spring-break bars lie as many as 2 million old tires, strewn across the ocean floor - a white-walled, steel-belted monument to good intentions gone awry. The tires were unloaded there in 1972 to create an artificial reef that could attract a rich variety of marine life, and to free up space in clogged landfills. But decades later, the idea has proved a huge ecological blunder. Little sea life has formed on the tires. Some of the tires that were bundled together with nylon and steel have broken loose and are scouring the ocean floor across a swath the size of 31 football fields. Tires are washing up on ...
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