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Unsettled Scores
Post Date: 2007-02-02 13:14:20 by Tauzero
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Unsettled Scores HAS THE BLACK-WHITE IQ GAP NARROWED? BY MARINA KRAKOVSKY This much is uncontested: for most of the 20th century, blacks worldwide have scored, on average, 15 points lower on most IQ tests than whites have. What scientists cannot agree on is why. Most attribute the gap to differences in education, health and other environmental influences. Hereditarians, on the other hand, view the black-white difference as largely genetic in origin. They note, among other indirect evidence, that the disparity persists across time and around the world — a permanence that is crucial to the debate over what explains group differences. “If black-white differences converged—if ...
The scientific verdict is in: Earth no longer hangs in the balance. It is in extremis.
Post Date: 2007-02-02 10:51:54 by robin
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February 2-4, 2007 -- WMR previously reported that LNG and oil tankers were reporting that their methane sensors were being tripped by methane bubbling up from deep on the ocean floor -- a sign that rising ocean temperatures are resulting in methane hydrate being turned from ice into gaseous form, a deadly addition to the greenhouse gases already in the earth's atmosphere. A recent paper written by nine American and Canadian scientists (Paull, C. K., W. Ussler III, S. R. Dallimore, S. M. Blasco, T. D. Lorenson, H. Melling, B. E. Medioli, F. M. Nixon, and F. A. McLaughlin) and published by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) provides further confirmation about the escape of methane ...
Dinosaurs say: Gravity was weaker in the past!
Post Date: 2007-02-02 07:37:50 by YertleTurtle
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THE IMPOSSIBLE DINOSAURS Ted Holden A careful study of the sizes of the giant dinosaurs creatures and of what it would take to deal with such sizes in our world, the felt effect of gravity being what it is now, indicates that something was massively different in the world which these creatures inhabited. A look at sauropod dinosaurs as we know them today requires that we relegate the brontosaur, once thought to be one of the largest sauropods, to welterweight or at most middleweight status. Fossil finds dating from the 1970's dwarf him. The Avon field Guide to Dinosaurs shows a brachiosaur (larger than a brontosaur), a supersaur, and an ultrasaur juxtaposed, and the ultrasaur dwarfs ...
Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study
Post Date: 2007-02-02 00:15:14 by robin
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Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study Ian Sample, science correspondent Friday February 2, 2007 Guardian Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today. Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Travel expenses and additional payments were also offered. The UN report was written by ...
The Saga Of the Lost Space Tapes
Post Date: 2007-01-31 11:45:52 by Indrid Cold
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As Neil Armstrong prepared to take his "one small step" onto the moon in July 1969, a specially hardened video camera tucked into the lander's door clicked on to capture that first human contact with the lunar surface. The ghostly images of the astronaut's boot touching the soil record what may be the most iconic moment in NASA history, and a major milestone for mankind. Millions of television viewers around the world saw those fuzzy, moving images and were amazed, even mesmerized. What they didn't know was that the Apollo 11 camera had actually sent back video far crisper and more dramatic -- spectacular images that, remarkably, only a handful of people have ever ...
Scientists: Flores island "Hobbit" is new species
Post Date: 2007-01-30 08:16:10 by Ada
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The tiny woman dubbed the Hobbit who lived 18,000 years ago on a remote Indonesian island deserves to be deemed a new human species and not a deformed modern human as skeptics assert, researchers said on Monday. In the latest salvo in a heated scientific shootout, an international team led by Florida State University anthropologist Dean Falk compared the Hobbit's skull to those of nine people with microcephaly, a rare condition in which the head is abnormally small due to improper brain development. They concluded the 3-foot-tall (1-meter) adult woman had a highly evolved brain, unlike that of a microcephalic person, confirming she belongs to the proposed ...
Chip companies entering their metal period
Post Date: 2007-01-29 15:39:43 by Tauzero
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Chip companies entering their metal period By Tom Krazit, >http://CNET.com, January 29, 2007 The chip industry is changing the recipe for its transistors to continue improving performance for another generation. For almost 40 years, chipmakers have been building transistor gates--the basic switch in a transistor--out of silicon. But Intel, IBM and Advanced Micro Devices now plan to introduce new materials for transistor gates that significantly cut power leakage while dramatically improving performance, company executives said this week in separate announcements. Silicon Valley will not have to be renamed, as silicon remains the basic material for the chip and that's not changing ...
Study: Surface of Mars Devoid of Life
Post Date: 2007-01-29 14:25:57 by richard9151
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This story was updated at 11:50 am EST. The last refuge for Martian life, if it exists, might be deep below the planet's surface and beyond the reach of any currently planned missions, according to a new study. After mapping cosmic radiation levels at various depths on Mars, researchers have concluded that any life within the first several yards of the planet's surface would be killed by lethal doses of cosmic radiation. The finding will be detailed in the Jan. 30 issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Unlike Earth, Mars is no longer protected by a global magnetic field or thick atmosphere. As a result, the planet has been vulnerable to radiation from space for ...
Gordon Novell Interview
Post Date: 2007-01-28 23:26:18 by Simmering Frog
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http://www.projectcamelot.net/gordon_novel.wmv The choosen category for this document is much broader than "Science/Tech"
Key study of global warming prepared
Post Date: 2007-01-28 15:34:28 by robin
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Scripps, UCSD scholars contribute to document By Bruce Lieberman UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER January 28, 2007 Veerabhadran Ramanathan doubted for years that greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels were warming the planet. No longer. Mario MolinaVeerabhadran Ramanathan Richard SomervilleLynne Talley “The (scientific) community has come around, not because of anything intangible. It's just that the data is so overpowering,” said Ramanathan, a climate scientist at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla. Researchers are more confident than ever about the causes of global warming, how they're changing Earth and what might be ...
Windows Vista Is Okay. Pity About Third Party Drivers
Post Date: 2007-01-26 21:16:36 by robin
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MICROSOFT ¦ From ($199 If Upgrading) ¦ Microsoft.com.au For: Slick looking. Easy to navigate. Improved speed with new PCAgainst: Third party drivers missingVerdict: Great piece of software that takes Microsoft OS computing to the next level Late in November I configured a brand new duel core BenQ notebook with the new Windows Vista operating system. I also loaded a full version of the new Microsoft Office 2007.And if that was not enough I then trotted off to the CES Expo in Las Vegas to cover the show. And you know what, almost everything that Microsoft had promised worked.However there were a few exceptions one of them being web mail. I know find out that a patch has to be ...
Fanning Fears of a Space War
Post Date: 2007-01-26 10:44:55 by tom007
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India, Russia For Axis With China
Post Date: 2007-01-25 22:45:15 by Brian S
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New Delhi, January 25 India and Russia today supported their trilateral axis with China, but opposed Beijing’s January 11 testing of an anti-satellite missile saying that they were against militarisation of space. President Putin went on to the extent of saying that some powers (read the USA) were trying to militarise space. “We should not let the genie out of the bottle. That is our position,” Mr Putin said at a joint press interaction with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after their formal talks. As Russian President Vladimir Putin held the seventh Indo-Russian summit with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at Hyderabad House here this afternoon, it was clear that the two giant ...
NYT: 'Gay sheep research controversy'
Post Date: 2007-01-25 00:18:22 by robin
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A front page article in Thursday's edition of The New York Times examines the "gay sheep research controversy" which is cited as "a textbook example of the distortion and vituperation that can result when science meets the global news cycle." "Dr. Charles Roselli set out to discover what makes some sheep gay," John Schwartz writes for the Times. "Then the news media and the blogosphere got hold of the story." "Roselli, a researcher at the Oregon Health and Science University, has searched for the past five years for physiological factors that might explain why about 8 percent of rams seek sex exclusively with other rams instead of ...
China to overtake US in Internet population size within 2 yrs
Post Date: 2007-01-24 23:39:52 by robin
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Beijing, Jan 25. (PTI): The number of netizens in China soared to 23.4 per cent in 2006 to touch 137 million and is expected to overtake the United States in Internet population size within two years. The number of Internet users rose to 137 million last year, up 23.4 per cent to comprise 10.5 per cent of the country's population of 1.3 billion, the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) said in a report. "We believe it will take two years at most for China to overtake the United States," an official with CNNIC, Wang Enhai was quoted as saying by `China Daily'. However, that could be a bullish prediction. The United States now has about 210 million Internet ...
Scientists discover the 'kind' part of the brain
Post Date: 2007-01-24 19:00:53 by Tauzero
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Scientists discover the 'kind' part of the brain Last updated at 11:51am on 23rd January 2007 Charity begins...in the posterior superior temporal salcus, according to scientists who have traced the origins of altruism in the brain. A study found that this part of the brain is more active in people who often engage in helpful behaviour. The region, which lies in the top and back portion of the brain, is linked to sorting out social relationships. US scientists scanned the brains of 45 volunteers using a technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging which can watch the brain working. At the same time, participants either played a computer game, or watched the computer ...
Yorkshire clan linked to Africa
Post Date: 2007-01-24 18:26:00 by Tauzero
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Yorkshire clan linked to Africa People of African origin have lived in Britain for centuries, according to genetic evidence. A Leicester University study found that seven men with a rare Yorkshire surname carry a genetic signature previously found only in people of African origin. The men seem to have shared a common ancestor in the 18th Century, but the African DNA lineage they carry may have reached Britain centuries earlier. Details of the study appear in the European Journal of Human Genetics. The scientists declined to disclose the men's surname in order to protect their anonymity. The discovery came out of genetic work looking at the relationship between the male, or Y, ...
Pheromones Point to Sexual Orientation: Lesbians respond differently than heterosexual women, researchers find
Post Date: 2007-01-24 08:18:48 by Redheadedstranger
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TUESDAY, May 9 (HealthDay News) -- Lesbians react differently to the powerful sexual chemicals called pheromones than heterosexual women do, a new Swedish study finds. However, lesbians don't respond to pheromones in exactly the same way as heterosexual men do, said study author Dr. Ivanka Savic, an associate professor of clinical neuroscience at the Stockholm Brain Institute. The data suggest that there is a difference between male and female sexuality," said Savic, who, with her colleagues, examined the brains of 12 lesbian women, using positron emission tomography (PET), to evaluate their brains' responses to potential sex pheromones. The new work builds on previous ...
Gregg Braden: Rewriting the Reality Code (quantuum effects)
Post Date: 2007-01-22 06:34:46 by gengis gandhi
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Copyright © Gregg Braden Reprinted with permission from Mystic Pop Magazine, Nov/Dec Issue 2006 http://www.mysticpopmagazine.com “What strange beings we are!” noted the 13th Century mystic Rumi, “That sitting in Hell at the bottom of the dark, we are afraid of our own immortality!” Perhaps it is actually the power to choose our immortality, as well as everything from our personal healing to the peace of our world, that truly frightens us! (belief system installed via the various religion/governments) A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that it is us —our consciousness— that holds the key to life and even reality itself! In 1967 the pioneering ...
Women drivers? They're safer than men
Post Date: 2007-01-22 02:10:44 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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WASHINGTON - That age-old stereotype about dangerous women drivers is shattered in a big new traffic analysis: Male drivers have a 77 percent higher risk of dying in a car accident than women, based on miles driven. And the author of the research says he takes it to heart when he travels — his wife takes the wheel. “I put a mitt in my mouth and ride shotgun,” said David Gerard, a Carnegie Mellon University researcher who co-authored a major new U.S. road risk analysis. Story continues below [5; advertisement The study holds plenty of surprises. * The highway death rate is higher for cautious 82-year-old women than for risk-taking 16-year-old boys. * New England is the ...
Hubble - the most amazing photographs
Post Date: 2007-01-21 13:21:23 by Lod
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Hit the URL for some unbelievable pics.
Cognitive Processes and the Suppression of Sound Scientific Ideas
Post Date: 2007-01-21 09:05:52 by gengis gandhi
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Cognitive Processes and the Suppression of Sound Scientific Ideas J. Sacherman 1997 Abstract American and British history is riddled with examples of valid research and inventions which have been suppressed and derogated by the conventional science community. This has been of great cost to society and to individual scientists. Rather than furthering the pursuit of new scientific frontiers, the structure of British and American scientific institutions leads to conformity and furthers consensus-seeking. Scientists are generally like other people when it comes to the biases and self-justifications that cause them to make bad decisions and evade the truth. Some topics in science are ...
Russian "Progress" Cargo Spaceship Docks With ISS [damn that old Soviet 'junk'...]
Post Date: 2007-01-21 02:23:07 by Brian S
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MISSION CONTROL, MOSCOW REGION, January 20 (RIA Novosti) - The Progress M-59 cargo spacecraft, carrying fuel, water, food and scientific equipment, has docked with the International Space Station, Russia's Mission Control Center said Saturday. "The cargo ship, launched Thursday to the ISS, docked with the station successfully Saturday in automatic regime," a spokesman said. The current ISS crew comprises U.S. astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, who began working on the world's sole orbital station September 20, and U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams, who replaced the European Space Agency's German astronaut Thomas Reiter in December 2006 ...
Online TV Gets a Jolt from Joost
Post Date: 2007-01-19 17:20:02 by mirage
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As if there aren't already enough ways to watch TV, the serial entrepreneurs behind Kazaa and Skype have announced Joost, which proves that there is no shortage of incomprehensible yet catchy five-letter names. The brainchild of Kazaa and Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, Joost promises "infinite choice, and TV that is truly interactive. TV anywhere, anytime..." What this means in practice is broadcast-quality, full-screen, interactive TV that's accessible over broadband that you use like your regular TV, complete with multiple channels you can flip through (though there's no word on whether you'll be able to use a remote that can be lost somewhere ...
methane bubbling up from the ocean floors
Post Date: 2007-01-18 23:11:11 by robin
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January 18, 2007 -- WMR received a number of e-mails as a result of our Jan. 8 piece on methane bubbling up from the ocean floors. The ocean floor methane is turning into gaseous from methane hydrate ice form because the deep ocean is warming as a result of global warming from greenhouse gas emissions. A reader in Minnesota sent us this important amplifying information: "Methane bubbling up from the ocean floor is a clear and present danger to shipping and even aviation. By the way, there is something like 10,000 billion tons of methane under the sea in methane hydrate deposits. Furthermore, a theory called the "Clathrate gun hypothesis" or the "Hydrate ...
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