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Human Evolution is Still Continuing
Post Date: 2009-02-09 06:35:49 by Turtle
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This Thursday, February 12, 2009, marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, author of the 1859 book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (I guess Darwin didn’t get the memo about race not existing. You’ll see vast heapings of praise in the press for Darwin this week. Keep in mind, though, that if he were alive today, the same people now lauding the dead Darwin would be denouncing the living one the same way they demonized James Watson in 2007.) I’m pleased that a new book, The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution, demonstrates that Darwin has ...
Federation, synagogue win first Green Beanie Awards
Post Date: 2009-02-08 06:03:25 by Disgusted
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NEW YORK (JTA) -- The inaugural Green Beanie Awards, JTA’s bid to identify the best Jewish environmental initiatives, gave top honors to the UJA-Federation of New York and The Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation of Evanston, Illinois. The winners were announced in conjunction with JTA's special Tu B'Shevat section, "Eco Jews: Tradition and Trends in Jewish Environmentalism." More than 100 organizations, institutions and individual from around the world and across the Jewish communal spectrum submitted entries, including day schools and Jewish community centers, senior homes and high schools, food co-ops and bloggers. After much deliberation, the ...
Chemtrail Plane photographed
Post Date: 2009-02-06 23:07:33 by Itistoolate
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Rethinking Diversification
Post Date: 2009-02-06 20:39:56 by tom007
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Rethinking Diversification Catherine, Financial Permaculture, News & Commentary and The Solari Report, February 2, 2009 at 10:02 pm Rethinking Diversification For our entire lives, most of us have depended on highly centralized systems. Our food comes from a thousand or more miles away. Our savings is shipped into distant financial centers and invested by strangers in enterprises run by strangers. We watch highly scripted news that serves the same spin no matter how many channels we try. We bank at impersonal global banks with criminal records that would make a felon blush and have no idea where our money goes, just that the government guarantees that we will get it back. Within ...
Genes May Play a Role in Response to Preemie Prevention Treatment
Post Date: 2009-02-06 15:33:10 by Prefrontal Vortex
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SMFM: Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Meeting SMFM: Genes May Play a Role in Response to Preemie Prevention Treatment By Todd Neale, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: February 03, 2009 Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. SAN DIEGO, Feb. 3 -- Genetic variation in the human progesterone receptor may explain why treatment to prevent recurrent preterm birth does not work in some women, researchers found. Certain single nucleotide polymorphisms seemed to play a role in the efficacy of 17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone caproate, said Tracy Manuck, M.D., of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human ...
White House Wants Space Weapons Ban
Post Date: 2009-02-06 00:13:51 by X-15
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The new White House Web site puts the administration of President Barack Obama on record as favoring a "worldwide ban on weapons that interfere with military and commercial satellites." But the wording on the site raises questions about exactly what it means. "Does that really run counter to some of the major programs, and what's important?" asked Marion Blakey, president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), during a Jan. 26 roundtable at Aviation Week's offices in Washington. "I don't know that it does, because the terminology to my mind argues toward weapons, and not toward communication and surveillance." Under the heading ...
Inconvenient Truth: Reducing CO2 Emissions Will NOT Save the Planet!
Post Date: 2009-02-05 15:09:49 by RickyJ
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An editorial by Mark Johnson, Meteorologist AMS CBM/NWA. Reprinted with Permission. -- I talk about the fallacy of Man-made Global Warming to whomever will listen. I talk to many groups, large and small about how AGW is just bad science. I tell them that study results are hand-picked and modified to fit a pre-determined conclusion. That is: Man-made carbon emissions are responsible for accelerated, dangerous global temperature rises. Many are enlightened by my graphs disproving the fictional Hockey Stick. They are amazed when I cite peer-reviewed studies that prove Polar Bears aren’t drowning and that arctic sea ice and glaciers are actually increasing in size. They laugh in disbelief ...
Google Latitude keeps tabs on friends' locations
Post Date: 2009-02-04 21:45:52 by TwentyTwelve
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February 4, 2009 12:01 AM PST Google Latitude keeps tabs on friends' locations Posted by Stephen Shankland Google Latitude shows your friends on a map--as long as they've agreed to share their location. (Credit: Google) Just because the Internet has broken down geographic barriers, don't assume that Google doesn't care about geography. The company plans to launch software called Latitude on Wednesday that lets mobile phone users share their location with close contacts. Google hopes it will help people find each other while out and about and to keep track of loved ones. "What Google Latitude does is allow you to share that location with friends and family ...
The Next American Revolution: Main Street vs. Wall Street
Post Date: 2009-02-03 09:17:27 by tom007
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The Next American Revolution: Main Street vs. Wall Street by: Mark McQueen February 03, 2009 Mark McQueen Mark McQueen Add to Your WatchlistAbout this author: The stories are well known: * American Automaker executives flying to Washington in private jets to beg for government handouts. * Two hundred thousand dollar California spa bills at AIG (AIG), even after the U.S. taxpayers had to bail that insurance company out of certain bankruptcy. * Eliot Spitzer and his difficult three diamond session. * Citigroup (C) taking delivery of its new $50 million Falcon after receiving more than $40 billion of preferred share capital from the U.S. Treasury to keep the world’s Financial ...
Light Bulb Moment
Post Date: 2009-02-02 11:07:59 by richard9151
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Light Bulb Moment Light bulb manufacturers have convinced environmentalists and lawmakers that the compact fluorescent light (CFL) is more energy efficient than the incandescent. Okay. No problem. When you go to buy a new light bulb, if you care to spend the extra money (CFLs cost about six times as much as incandescents), you might feel good about helping the environment. Nothing wrong with that. Enjoy. Problem is, those light bulb makers have quietly mounted a very successful campaign to MAKE you buy their new bulbs. No choice. Their new bulb is your new bulb. This past December, President Bush signed an energy bill that will make it illegal to manufacture or sell incandescent light ...
Want a glimpse of the future? Take a look at the UK
Post Date: 2009-02-02 11:02:30 by richard9151
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Want a glimpse of the future? Take a look at the UK. Last year, the British government asked store owners to voluntarily stop selling 150-watt incandescent bulbs. Then just a few days ago, some UK retailers started phasing out sales of 100-watt bulbs, prompting consumers to purchase as many as they could get their hands on. Next year, 60-watt bulbs will follow. In three years the "voluntary" phase will end, and by 2016, store owners will face criminal charges if they sell incandescents. Welcome to the forced age of the compact fluorescent light (CFL) – an age that will arrive in the U.S. in just five years. Recently, when the change was made to CFLs in Cuba, government ...
Global variation in copy number in the human genome
Post Date: 2009-01-30 14:25:36 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Global variation in copy number in the human genome Copy number variation (CNV) of DNA sequences is functionally significant but has yet to be fully ascertained. We have constructed a first-generation CNV map of the human genome through the study of 270 individuals from four populations with ancestry in Europe, Africa or Asia (the HapMap collection). DNA from these individuals was screened for CNV using two complementary technologies: single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping arrays, and clone-based comparative genomic hybridization. A total of 1,447 copy number variable regions (CNVRs), which can encompass overlapping or adjacent gains or losses, covering 360 megabases (12% of the ...
From the Edgte of the Universe...to Us
Post Date: 2009-01-27 12:21:51 by Zoroaster
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From the Edge of the Universe...to Us. Tuesday January 20th, 2009 printer friendly version send to a friend previous | next In the New Scientist of January 17, 2009, there appears an article about what could be the most important physics experiment in history, one that could, by revolutionizing our understanding of reality, enable us to much more accurately know who and what we are. And that may be radically different from what we appear to ourselves to be--solid, physical beings living out our lives in a predictably linear reality. We may actually be part of an entirely different reality, and understanding this might lead to dramatic changes in the way we see our world and our ...
Whistleblowers’ evidence of NASA UFO fraud might kill UK hacker case
Post Date: 2009-01-27 11:42:29 by gengis gandhi
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Whistleblowers’ evidence of NASA UFO fraud might kill UK hacker case 91 comments January 15, 12:26 PM by Jeff Peckman, Denver UFO Examiner « Previous Next » Evidence that U.S. space agency NASA has defrauded U.S. taxpayers for billions of dollars could scrap NASA’s case against UK hacker Gary McKinnon. Credible witnesses have claimed that NASA has altered or destroyed its photos containing images of UFOs. This could become a legal and public relations nightmare for NASA. The space agency is attempting to prosecute McKinnon for hacking into NASA computer files. McKinnon has stated that he saw UFO-related files in NASA’s computers. But NASA has denied any ...
Police: Angry customer rammed Pa. bank with pickup (The vehicle's black box indicated it was going 44 mph at the point of impact)
Post Date: 2009-01-26 07:45:54 by Jethro Tull
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Police: Angry customer rammed Pa. bank with pickup HARMONY, Pa. (AP) -- A western Pennsylvania man had several figurative run-ins with his local bank before police said he had a literal one: purposely driving his pickup truck through the bank's front door, causing nearly $100,000 damage. Police didn't immediately arrest Richard Smorey after the Jan. 1 crash in Jackson Township because they didn't know if it was an accident. But Smorey has now been charged with criminal trespass, criminal mischief and other crimes because financial records revealed he had a motive to be angry with Huntington Bank, authorities said. Smorey, 59, of Forward Township, was late with payments ...
'Hobbit' Skull Study Finds Hobbit Is Not Human
Post Date: 2009-01-24 08:04:08 by gengis gandhi
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'Hobbit' Skull Study Finds Hobbit Is Not Human ScienceDaily (Jan. 21, 2009) — In a an analysis of the size, shape and asymmetry of the cranium of Homo floresiensis, Karen Baab, Ph.D., a researcher in the Department of Anatomical Scienes at Stony Brook University, and colleagues conclude that the fossil, found in Indonesia in 2003 and known as the “Hobbit,” is not human. They used 3-D shape analysis to study the LB1 skull of the hobbit and found the shape of the skull to be consistent with a scaled down human ancestor but not modern humans. Their findings, reported in the current online edition of the Journal of Human Evolution, add to the evidence that the hobbit is ...
"What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"
Post Date: 2009-01-23 21:45:07 by richard9151
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I have read as many things as I could find about population control, disease propagation, cancer, new diseases and etc. I have never read anything that scared me like the following. This is another one we'll file under the heading: "What Could Possibly Go Wrong?" Answer: We don't know for sure, but it sounds like the opening scene of a movie I really don't want to live through. Gone jellyfishin' Did you know you can order jellyfish DNA by mail? Sure. It's a bargain at less than $100. And why would you want jellyfish DNA? Why, to make your homemade genetic engineering projects glow, of course! According to a recent Associated Press report, 31-year-old ...
Global warming blamed for tree death in West
Post Date: 2009-01-22 22:07:09 by farmfriend
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Never mind that the NOAA show California temperatures, at least where the trees are, and the Northwest as a whole to be below normal. Global warming blamed for tree death in West By Tom Knudson tknudson@sacbee.com Published: Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009 Tree mortality rates have doubled in old-growth forests across the Sierra Nevada and western United States because of rising temperatures associated with climate change, a new study has found. The study, which will be published Friday in the journal Science, suggests that if the trend continues, the region's majestic conifer forests may become younger, smaller and far more sickly -- making them vulnerable to massive die-offs from insect ...
The rise of the super squirrel: have you seen a black squirrel?
Post Date: 2009-01-22 14:44:44 by Prefrontal Vortex
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The rise of the super squirrel: have you seen a black squirrel? Have you seen a black squirrel? Published Date: 22 January 2009 THEY are big, black and fierce and are thought to be scampering across swathes of the Cambridgeshire countryside in huge numbers. But amazingly, no one has seen hide nor hair of the black super squirrel in Peterborough. Rangers in the city's beauty spots thought we had gone nuts when they were asked if they had spotted the creatures. But according to experts at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, there are around 25,000 black squirrels in East Anglia and they are rapidly taking over from their grey cousins. Researchers at the university also solved a ...
Clock ticking on worm attack code
Post Date: 2009-01-21 10:26:32 by Jethro Tull
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Clock ticking on worm attack code The worm can also spread via USB flash drives. Experts are warning that hackers have yet to activate the payload of the Conficker virus. The worm is spreading through low security networks, memory sticks, and PCs without current security updates. The malicious program - also known as Downadup or Kido - was first discovered in October 2008. Although the spread of the worm appears to be levelling off, there are fears someone could easily take control of any and all of the 9.5m infected PCs. Speaking to the BBC, F-Secure's chief research officer, Mikko Hypponen, said there was still a real risk to users. "Total infections appear to be peaking. ...
DCOM exploit attack
Post Date: 2009-01-21 00:02:03 by wudidiz
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I keep getting this thing from Avast that says 'DCOM exploit attack' from 24.108.7.14:135 Does anyone know what this is and how I can stop it?
Minnesota officials deny biodiesel to blame for bus problems
Post Date: 2009-01-17 10:20:40 by DeaconBenjamin
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State officials are defending biodiesel after a metro school district blamed it for stalling its buses and forcing it to cancel class. The Bloomington School District canceled classes on Friday, partly because 12 of its buses wouldn't start. Their fuel lines and filters were clogged. First Student bus company blamed the problem on the biodiesel fuel required by the state. The company issued a statement saying, "While we recognize the global benefit of biodiesel we also recognize its limitation particularly in cold weather." State officials say all diesel fuel gels up in cold temperatures. Bill Walsh with the Minnesota Department of Commerce said, "It really has ...
ALIEN microbes living just below the Martian soil are responsible for a haze of methane around the Red Planet, Nasa scientists believe.
Post Date: 2009-01-15 12:10:37 by gengis gandhi
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ALIEN microbes living just below the Martian soil are responsible for a haze of methane around the Red Planet, Nasa scientists believe. The gas, belched in vast quantities in our world by cows, was detected by orbiting spacecraft and from Earth using giant telescopes. Discovery ... gas around Mars Discovery ... gas around Mars Nasa are today expected to confirm its presence during a briefing at their Washington HQ. And the find is seen as exciting new evidence that Martian microbes are still alive today. To read more of our exclusive UFO stories click here. Some scientists reckon methane is also produced by volcanic processes. But there are NO known active volcanoes on Mars. ...
->My Title!<- Solar-powered fridge invented by British student might come in handy, if things ever warm up again...
Post Date: 2009-01-15 08:35:45 by PSUSA
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By Chris Brooke Last updated at 2:41 AM on 08th January 2009 It's the kind of simple yet brilliant invention that would have the tycoons of Dragons' Den salivating with excitement. Not only is the fridge solar powered, it can also be built from household materials - making it ideal for the Third World. Emily Cummins, 21, came up with the idea while working on a school project in her grandfather's potting shed. The fridge is now improving the lives of thousands of poverty-stricken Africans. Emily Cummins holds the portable eco-fridge. It can keep perishable goods, such as milk or meat, cool for days at a temperature of around 6C And Miss Cummins hopes to patent a more ...
CHEMTRAILS Gone Mainstream?: Sprayed Aerosols Could Ease Climate Woes
Post Date: 2009-01-12 14:10:27 by gengis gandhi
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CHEMTRAILS Gone Mainstream?: Sprayed Aerosols Could Ease Climate Woes http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/29/gallery/airplane-324x205.jpg DISCOVERY Dec. 29, 2008 -- It won't solve global warming, but a group of scientists are calling for a focused research program to investigate ways to seed the atmosphere with chemicals that would let the heat out -- literally. Geoengineering is not a new concept. Governments have changed how and where water flows, filled in lakes and other wetlands for construction, even attempted to control the weather. A project to counter climate change, however, would take geoengineering to an entirely new level. Leaving aside what may be insurmountable ...
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