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Some flowers create blue halo to say hello to foraging bees
Post Date: 2017-10-19 00:50:41 by Horse
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Some flowers have found a nifty way to get the blues. They create a blue halo, apparently to attract the bees they need for pollination, scientists reported Wednesday. Bees are drawn to the color blue, but it’s hard for flowers to make that color in their petals. Instead, some flowers use a trick of physics. They produce a blue halo when sunlight strikes a series of tiny ridges in their thin waxy surfaces. The ridges alter how the light bounces back, which affects the color that one sees. The halos appear over pigmented areas of a flower, and people can see them over darkly colored areas if they look from certain angles. The halo trick is uncommon among flowers. But many tulip ...
Report: Renewable Energy Is Bigger ‘Scam’ than Bernie Madoff and Enron
Post Date: 2017-10-13 08:49:04 by Ada
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The greatest scam being perpetrated against taxpayers and consumers is renewable energy, according to a new analysis published by the Australian, greater even than Ponzi, Madoff and Enron. While sinking enormous financial resources into propping up renewable energy prospectors, national governments are providing no perceptible benefits to their citizens, writes Judith Sloan, a renowned Australian economist who has served on the Australian government’s Productivity Commission. “With very few exceptions, governments all over the world have fallen into the trap of paying renewable energy scammers on the basis that it is necessary, at least politically, to be seen to be doing ...
Nobel Laureate in Physics; "Global Warming is Pseudoscience"
Post Date: 2017-10-11 13:41:14 by Horse
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10 Alleged Top Secret Bases That Officially Don’t Exist
Post Date: 2017-10-10 09:02:52 by Ada
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Most of us have heard of Area 51, where top secret “flying saucers” are kept, even live aliens depending on your source, but there are many equally dramatic but lesser-known areas of top secret, off-limits activity. By their very nature, secret bases are not spoken about openly. Officially, they don’t exist, or at the very least, the activities taking place at certain locations are vastly different than what is officially stated.While the vast majority of this list may need to be read with a pinch of salt, the following claims are nonetheless intriguing and most definitely alluring to the part of one’s brain that, in terms of the authenticity of the claims, asks the ...
The Real Secrets Hidden in Antarctica... Revealed
Post Date: 2017-10-06 09:47:39 by Horse
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Einstein proof: Nobel winners find ripples in the universe
Post Date: 2017-10-03 18:30:23 by Ada
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Barish and Thorne won the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for detecting faint ripples flying through the universe, the gravitational waves predicted a century ago by Albert Einstein that provide a new understanding of the universe. WASHINGTON (AP) — For decades astronomers tried to prove Albert Einstein right by doing what Einstein thought was impossible: detecting the faint ripples in the universe called gravitational waves. They failed repeatedly until two years ago when they finally spotted one. Then another. And another. And another. Three American scientists — including one who initially flunked out of MIT — won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday that launched a whole ...
Mammals can 'choose' sex of offspring, study finds
Post Date: 2017-10-01 12:23:38 by BTP Holdings
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Mammals can 'choose' sex of offspring, study finds Jul 10 2013 Steve Fisch Joseph Garner analyzed decades of breeding records and found that mammalian species can "choose" the sex of their offspring in order to produce extra grandchildren. A new study led by a researcher at the Stanford University School of Medicine shows that mammalian species can "choose" the sex of their offspring in order to beat the odds and produce extra grandchildren. In analyzing 90 years of breeding records from the San Diego Zoo, the researchers were able to prove for the first time what has been a fundamental theory of evolutionary biology: that mammals rely on some unknown ...
Mysterious High-Energy Cosmic Rays Which Have Baffled Scientists For Half A Century Come From Beyond Our Galaxy
Post Date: 2017-09-22 21:22:33 by Horse
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For half a century, astronomers have been unable to find the source of the most energetic rays in our universe. But now, after detecting them for more than a decade, South American researchers say cosmic rays come from outside the Milky Way. The rays, consisting of energetic sub-atomic particles, may be born from violent events millions of light years outside our galaxy, evidence suggests, The discovery reported in the journal Science follows 12 years of data collection by the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina. The observatory has 1,600 particle detectors spread in a hexagonal grid over 1,160 square miles to detect cosmic rays, Cosmic rays are tiny fragments of atoms, and they fill ...
The man whose biblical doomsday claim has some nervously eyeing Sept. 23
Post Date: 2017-09-21 05:57:11 by BTP Holdings
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The man whose biblical doomsday claim has some nervously eyeing Sept. 23 The Washington Post Kristine Phillips 6 hrs ago © REUTERS/Antonio Parrinello Italy's Mount Etna, Europe's tallest and most active volcano, spews lava as it erupts on the southern island of Sicily, Italy February 28, 2017. David Meade, the self-described “specialist in research and investigations,” has earned a fair amount of publicity online for predicting that catastrophic events will soon befall Earth. Among his claims: On Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017, a constellation — a sign prophesied in the Book of Revelation — will reveal itself in the skies over Jerusalem, signaling the ...
The Winter Greenhouse, grow in -40'C
Post Date: 2017-09-20 14:42:21 by Horse
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Here's 13 Things That Make People Dislike You Immediately, According to Science
Post Date: 2017-09-19 08:11:35 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-alert Everyone's got a story about how they thought a certain friend was mean the first time they met, but realised later that he or she is actually the nicest person ever. Generally, you've only got a few seconds to make someone want to spend more time with you. Everything matters - from your last name to the smell of your sweat (gross, we know). Below, Business Insider rounded up various scientific findings on the traits and behaviours that make people dislike you, both online and in person. 1. Sharing too many photos on Facebook If you're the kind of person who shares snapshots of your honeymoon, cousin's graduation, and dog dressed in a Halloween costume all in ...
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em . . . Ban ‘Em
Post Date: 2017-09-18 08:39:54 by Ada
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Since they can’t sell electric cars – not enough of them, anyhow – and not without subsidies so huge they amount to outright bribes – the solution appears to be to outlaw all cars except electric cars. This is no joke. There are IC engine No Go Zones in Germany and France. The Brits have just decreed a ban on the sale of internal combustion-engined vehicles period, beginning in 2040 – which sounds like a long time from now but isn’t – because car companies begin designing cars about ten years before they see the light of production and so this fatwa means the car companies are on notice that the current generation of cars they are selling is either the ...
Study: plants are globally getting more efficient thanks to rising carbon dioxide
Post Date: 2017-09-16 17:42:21 by farmfriend
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Researchers led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego have determined that major changes in plant behavior have occurred over the past 40 years, using measurements of subtle changes in the carbon dioxide (CO2) currently found in the atmosphere. The two main isotopes, or atomic forms, of carbon are carbon-12 (12C) and carbon-13 (13C). As CO2 has risen since the late 19th century, the ratio of 13C to 12C in atmospheric CO2 has decreased. That’s in part because the CO2 produced by the combustion of fossil fuels has a low 13C/12C ratio. There are other factors in nature as well, however, that have influenced the rate of decrease in the isotopic ...
Scientists Have Discovered a Way to Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air
Post Date: 2017-09-16 06:37:16 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-alert... Friends, the utopia is real. Researchers say they have a way to make alcohol out of thin air, and the technique might even save the world in the bargain, not just our rent money. Now before you start organising your weekend around this bubbly fantasy, the alcohol we're talking about here is more than just the stuff in your drink, and the thin air it's made from is actually heavy – clogged with heat-trapping pollutants that are wrecking Earth's atmosphere. Confused? Okay, let's backtrack a little, before we get onto the exciting new discoveries made by PhD student Ming Ma from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. While this research ...
The great nutrient collapse
Post Date: 2017-09-14 14:56:45 by farmfriend
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Irakli Loladze is a mathematician by training, but he was in a biology lab when he encountered the puzzle that would change his life. It was in 1998, and Loladze was studying for his Ph.D. at Arizona State University. Against a backdrop of glass containers glowing with bright green algae, a biologist told Loladze and a half-dozen other graduate students that scientists had discovered something mysterious about zooplankton. Zooplankton are microscopic animals that float in the world’s oceans and lakes, and for food they rely on algae, which are essentially tiny plants. Scientists found that they could make algae grow faster by shining more light onto them— increasing the food ...
How NASA's Cassini spacecraft will dive-bomb Saturn and die
Post Date: 2017-09-14 14:53:33 by farmfriend
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It's been a good 19 years, but now Cassini must die. This week, the NASA spacecraft will hurl itself into the atmosphere of the planet it's spent over a decade circling in search of solar system secrets hidden from human view until the orbiter arrived on the scene. Cassini will enter Saturn's atmosphere on Friday for the first time, firing its thrusters until it gets tumbled around by the increasing density of the gas giant's outer layers. At that point the spacecraft, which is roughly the size and weight of a school bus, will likely lose its communications link with NASA and begin burning up. The decision to destroy the probe has to do with protecting Saturn's ...
Thwack! Federal Judge Deals Major Blow to Gore and #ExxonKnew Crusaders
Post Date: 2017-09-13 17:01:05 by farmfriend
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A federal judge in Boston dealt a major blow yesterday to environmental activist groups seeking to sue fossil fuel companies for supposedly ignoring the risks of climate change. The Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) had sued ExxonMobil for allegedly failing to sufficiently prepare a facility in Everett, Mass., for the effects of climate change, including sea level rise and more frequent and severe storms. CLF is yet another Rockefeller bankrolled organization that is closely tied in with the #ExxonKnew campaign. U.S. District Court Judge Mark Wolf allowed ExxonMobil’s motion to dismiss to proceed, in part. Wolf repeatedly suggested that CLF was unnecessarily injecting climate change ...
Birth Control and Homosexuality: Unintended Consequences
Post Date: 2017-09-12 18:21:15 by Ada
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In the 1980s, I had a boss who had gotten a masters degree in psychology from New York University. He was a brilliant man; could have been a doctor. He told me a story that explains much of what we see in society today. It seems that while doing his graduate work in the early 1960s, he had to do research on lab rats, which were given the synthetic hormones used in the then new birth control pills. The results, he told me, showed that the grandchildren of these lab rats would have high rates of homosexual behaviors. From what he told me, the findings were suppressed. Apparently, the powers that be wanted “the pill” to pass muster. What happened to the second generation of rats ...
Trump to scrap Nasa climate research in crackdown on ‘politicized science’
Post Date: 2017-09-12 14:36:27 by farmfriend
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Donald Trump is poised to eliminate all climate change research conducted by Nasa as part of a crackdown on “politicized science”, his senior adviser on issues relating to the space agency has said. Nasa’s Earth science division is set to be stripped of funding in favor of exploration of deep space, with the president-elect having set a goal during the campaign to explore the entire solar system by the end of the century. Click for Full Text!
The Nemesis Theory: Is there a Second Sun in Our Solar System?
Post Date: 2017-09-11 18:31:45 by BTP Holdings
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The Nemesis Theory: Is there a Second Sun in Our Solar System? Updated on March 4, 2017 cryptid more With interests in science, nature, and the paranormal, cryptid explores fringe topics from a unique and sometimes controversial perspective. Is there another sun in our solar system, a death star called Nemesis that could one day destroy the Earth? | Source The Nemesis Hypothesis Nemesis is a theoretical second sun in our solar system, a dwarf star named after the Greek goddess of vengeance. In the English vocabulary the word nemesis has come to mean downfall, or ruin, and surely nothing good can result from a celestial body bearing this moniker. According to some, Nemesis will indeed ...
Top Scientist Tells CBS: HAARP Responsible For Recent Hurricanes
Post Date: 2017-09-11 15:16:18 by farmfriend
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World renowned physicist Dr. Michio Kaku made a shocking confession on live TV when he admitted that HAARP is responsible for the recent spate of hurricanes. In an interview aired by CBS, Dr. Kaku admitted that recent ‘man-made’ hurricanes have been the result of a government weather modification program in which the skies were sprayed with nano particles and storms then “activated” through the use of “lasers”. In the interview (below), Michio Kaku discusses the history of weather modification, before the CBS crew stop him in his tracks. The High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) was created in the early 1990’s as part of an ionospheric ...
MASSIVE SUNSPOTS AND SOLAR FLARES: THE SUN HAS GONE WRONG AND SCIENTISTS DON’T KNOW WHY
Post Date: 2017-09-11 14:48:09 by farmfriend
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f you still have your solar viewing glasses from the eclipse, now is a good time to slap them on and look up at the sun. You’ll see two big dark areas visible on our star. These massive sunspots are regions of intense and complicated magnetic fields that can produce solar flares—bursts of high-energy radiation. You can just make them out with solar viewing glasses, but they’re better viewed through a solar telescope. These two huge sunspots are currently causing quite a bit of consternation and interest. The solar storms they’ve sent toward Earth may affect communications and other technologies like GPS and radio signals. They’re causing amazing displays of the ...
Nibiru (Planet X) and Coming Pole Shift - John Moore at the Prophecy Club Radio (2 of 3)
Post Date: 2017-09-09 09:37:58 by BTP Holdings
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NASA maps summer melt of Greenland Ice Sheet
Post Date: 2017-09-09 09:15:17 by BTP Holdings
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NASA maps summer melt of Greenland Ice Sheet The mission of Operation IceBridge, NASA's longest-running airborne mission to monitor polar ice, is to collect data on changing polar land and sea ice. By Amy Wallace | Sept. 8, 2017 at 4:24 PM Terminus of the Zachariæ Isstrøm glacier in northeast Greenland, as seen from 28,000 feet during an Operation IceBridge flight on Aug. 29, 2017. Photo courtesy NASA/LVIS Team Sept. 8 (UPI) -- NASA's Operation IceBridge has been mapping summer ice melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet since Aug. 25 using a B200T King Air aircraft. The flights will go through Sept. 21, with repeat paths to be flown in the spring ...
The Sun Just Erupted: Blackouts Reported After Huge Solar Flare
Post Date: 2017-09-08 07:13:15 by BTP Holdings
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The Sun Just Erupted: Blackouts Reported After Huge Solar Flare Mac Slavo September 7th, 2017 SHTFplan.com Comments (29) The sun just released a massive solar flare. In fact, this is the largest solar flare emitted in the past decade, and the earth has already been affected by blackouts. NASA has reported a huge solar flare was emitted by the Sun and it is the most powerful one since 2006. This solar flare has already caused some radio blackouts on Earth and it may cause aurora visible as far south as London. On the morning of September 6, scientists watched as two X-flares were unleashed by the sun. The stronger flare was the second of the two emitted by the Sun ...
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