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Sugar compound in mushroom helps fight cancer
Post Date: 2011-10-25 00:02:57 by Tatarewicz
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Mycology, the study of fungi, is an often-overlooked member of the microbiology family. Having said that there are plenty of dedicated mycologists out there doing all sorts of cool stuff and plenty more fungal species doing all sorts of weird and wonderful things. I have written about fungi before but only in the recent zombie posts and I feel I may have been a bit negative on fungi. Particularly when they seem to be capable of much good. In recent years researchers have made some potentially amazing discoveries that could result in significant cancer treatments based on the observations of polysaccharopeptides recovered from some species of fungi. Polysaccharopeptides are commonly ...
Cult of Global Warming Is Losing Influence
Post Date: 2011-10-24 13:28:55 by farmfriend
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Cult of Global Warming Is Losing Influence By Michael Barone Religious faith is a source of strength in many people's lives. But religious faith when taken too far can prove ludicrous -- or disastrous. On Oct. 22, 1844, thousand of Millerites, having sold all their possessions, climbed to the top of hills in Upstate New York to await the return of Jesus and the end of the world. They suffered "the great disappointment" when it didn't happen. In 1212, or so the legends go, thousands of Children's Crusaders set off from France and Germany expecting the sea to part so they could march peaceably and convert Muslims in the Holy Land. It didn't, and many were ...
Vast water vapor beyond solar system found
Post Date: 2011-10-22 07:12:19 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Oct. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- A team of European researchers announced that they have found vast water vapor out of our solar system, according to a study in the U.S. journal Science Friday. Using Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency satellite, the researchers observed that the vast water vapor enveloped a 175-light-year-away star and its surrounding dusk disk, which will eventually form a planet. The water vapor, which is "enough to fill thousand of Earth ocean", may rain down and seed the future oceans on the young planet, as it did on the Earth 4.5 billion years ago, the researchers suggested. "Scientists have long suspected there were these ...
UBC genetics research aimed at stemming honeybee decline
Post Date: 2011-10-22 00:03:19 by Tatarewicz
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B.C. beekeepers are hoping research on the genome of the honeybee that is being done by a University of B.C. team will help reverse a dangerous decline in the bee population. For at least the last five years, North American beekeepers have lost an average of 30 per cent of their hives annually, mostly because of infectious diseases. As the primary insect that farmers depend on for the pollination of commercial crops, the honeybee's decline is viewed as the agricultural equivalent of the canary in the coal mine. From B.C's blueberry crops and tree fruit industry to the canola fields of Alberta, western Canadian crops are at risk if bee populations continue their downward spiral. ...
Pink does not exist. Think of it as minus green.
Post Date: 2011-10-21 15:52:58 by PSUSA2
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Pharma's Don't-Take-Vitamins Study Diametrically Opposed by Valid Study
Post Date: 2011-10-21 14:33:52 by gengis gandhi
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Pharma's Don't-Take-Vitamins Study Diametrically Opposed by Valid Study Alan Goodwin foodfreedom.wordpress.com Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:17 CDT © foodfreedom.wordpress.com Have you not asked yourself why vitamins (!) are suddenly an issue and who is behind it? As food is increasingly degraded, are you not aware how crucial supplementation for vital nutrients is? Are you aware that disease is an investment industry and this is in the service of it? Huffington Post just published Women Who Take Vitamin Supplements May Have Increased Death Risk, at precisely the moment that the pharmaceutical industry is in health attack mode to limit access to nutritional supplements in the US. ...
Be warned of Digital Deception
Post Date: 2011-10-21 06:37:22 by wudidiz
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TV profanity, teen aggression linked
Post Date: 2011-10-21 04:59:27 by Tatarewicz
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A US study says children who are more exposed to bad words through television and video games are more likely to be aggressive and use profanity. A team of researchers from Brigham Young University observed 266 school students in the Midwest to study the possible association between their attitudes about profanity and aggression with their exposure to bad words via TV and video games. According to the findings published in the journal Pediatrics, children who were more exposed to bad words were more likely to use expletives themselves and were exhibiting more aggressive behavior. The study was only conducted to find out possible associations between bad words on TV and aggression in ...
'sumerian tablets ''leaked'''
Post Date: 2011-10-20 07:36:37 by gengis gandhi
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Sumerian Find: Tablet 1 In accord with their wishes The throne of Kingship had been lowered from the heavens. Rights were perfected; Divine ordinances were exalted. In pure places five cites were founded: The first being Eridu, the second Badtibira. Larak was the third and Sippar the fourth. The fifth city was Shuruppak, of which I, Ziusudra, was King. These were the cult centers. These five cities were designated cult centers. A clamor came from within the cult centers. A clamor that disturbed the gods. After the cities were destroyed, the cult centers were destroyed. After the deluge, the flood sent to cover all the land, the destroyer of life, And I, Ziusudra, on the high peak of ...
Geological Time Bomb: Red Alert Issued for El Hierro Volcanic Region in Canary Islands; Possible Tsunami Threat to U.S. East Coast
Post Date: 2011-10-20 06:37:09 by Ada
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The IGN, Spain's USGS equivalent, has issued a Red Alert warning for the El Hierro volcanic region in the Canary Islands amid thousands of earthquake swarms and volcanic activity which started in early August: SPAIN’S Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN) confirmed on Tuesday that an underwater eruption has occurred five kilometres off the southern coastline of El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands. … A Red Alert has since been issued by local authorities for the town. A notice posted on the Emergencia El Hierro website on Tuesday evening stated: “Phase pre-eruptive. It involves the initiation of a preventive evacuation. Make yourself available to the ...
FDA cites dirty equipment in cantaloupe disease outbreak
Post Date: 2011-10-20 01:29:05 by Tatarewicz
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FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2011, file photo, cantaloupes rot in the afternoon heat on a field on the Jensen Farms near Holly, Colo. Pools of water on the floor and old, hard-to-clean equipment at the farm's cantaloupe-packing facility were probably to blame for the deadliest outbreak of food-borne illness in 25 years, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Government investigators found positive samples of listeria bacteria on equipment in the Jensen Farms packing facility and on fruit that had been held there. WASHINGTON (AP) — Pools of water on the floor and old, hard-to-clean equipment at a Colorado farm's cantaloupe-packing facility were ...
Dark Matter Mystery Deepens
Post Date: 2011-10-19 14:10:45 by gengis gandhi
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Dark Matter Mystery Deepens ScienceDaily (Oct. 17, 2011) — Like all galaxies, our Milky Way is home to a strange substance called dark matter. Dark matter is invisible, betraying its presence only through its gravitational pull. Without dark matter holding them together, our galaxy's speedy stars would fly off in all directions. The nature of dark matter is a mystery -- a mystery that a new study has only deepened. See Also: Space & Time Dark Matter Astrophysics Astronomy Galaxies Stars Sun Reference Galaxy formation and evolution Local Group Large-scale structure of the cosmos Barred spiral galaxy "After completing this study, we know less about dark matter than we did ...
Why I Deny Global Warming
Post Date: 2011-10-19 06:39:03 by Ada
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I'm a denier for several reasons. There is no substantive evidence that the planet has warmed significantly or that any significant warming will occur in the future. If any warming does occur, it likely will be concentrated at higher latitudes and therefore be beneficial. Climate research has largely degenerated into pathological science, and the coverage of global warming in the media is tendentious to the point of being fraudulent. Anyone who is an honest and competent scientist must be a denier. Have you ever considered how difficult it is to take the temperature of the planet Earth? What temperature will you measure? The air? The surface of the Earth absorbs more than twice as ...
Drones to Monitor U.S. Citizens
Post Date: 2011-10-15 20:37:20 by Itistoolate
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By the Staff of American Free Press - Barack Obama’s government is expanding its use of remote-controlled drone aircraft from monitoring and killing its enemies overseas to tracking and monitoring average Americans here inside the United States. These are the same drones that the U.S. military claims have successfully assassinated so many of its political opponents abroad. According to two recent documents circulated by the U.S. Army, the White House is seeking vendors to help it develop “tagging, tracking and locating” technology as part of a network of unmanned drones that would hover over American cities and towns, videotaping people as they go about their daily tasks. ...
Could Mount Everest be the future of solar power?
Post Date: 2011-10-15 03:38:15 by Tatarewicz
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New research suggests that cold, high-elevation climates like the Himalayas are superior to deserts for harvesting solar energy Sun-baked deserts may seem like the obvious choice for harnessing solar power, but new research from Japan suggests quite the opposite: Cold, high-altitude destinations like Mount Everest have immense potential for capturing solar energy. The findings are set to be published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, and could have major implications for powering nearby regions in the future. Here's what you should know: Why a location like Mount Everest? Two factors are at play: First, the study found that, thanks to thinner atmospheric ...
Fantastic voyage comes a tiny step closer
Post Date: 2011-10-14 23:58:49 by Tatarewicz
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NSW researchers have developed tiny artificial muscles that can twist like those in the trunk of an elephant or the arm of an octopus. Made from a tough, flexible yarn spun from carbon nanotubes, they could speed up the design of futuristic nanobots that can travel through the body detecting and treating disease. Geoff Spinks, of the University of Wollongong, said a big hurdle to the development of medical nanobots was how to propel them in the bloodstream. His team's twisty artificial muscles would be small and strong enough to achieve this, by turning a long propeller in the same way that bacteria use a long spinning tail to swim. But building such nanobots was still a distant ...
DINOSAUR and HUMAN FOOTPRINTS TOGETHER [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-10-14 06:12:12 by HOUNDDAWG
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Introduction: In early July, 2000 Alvis Delk, assisted by James Bishop (both of Stephenville, Texas), was working in the Cretaceous limestone on the McFall property at the Paluxy River near Glen Rose, Texas and discovered a pristine human footprint intruded by a dinosaur footprint. This discovery was made in the vicinity of McFall I and II Sites where the Creation Evidence Museum team has excavated since the Spring of 1982. The eleven-inch human footprint matches seven other such footprints of the same dimensions in the “Sir George Series,” named in honor of His Excellency Governor General Ratu Sir George Cacobau of Fiji.[2] Scientific Verification of Footprint Authenticity: ...
Can a blood test really tell you when you'll die?
Post Date: 2011-10-13 07:41:19 by Tatarewicz
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A small Spanish biological research company was deluged with queries after reports that its blood test could predict the age you would die. Well, can it? As a taxi takes me across Madrid to the laboratories of Spain's National Cancer Research Centre, I am fretting about the future. I am one of the first people in the world to provide a blood sample for a new test, which has been variously described as a predictor of how long I will live, a waste of time or a handy indicator of how well (or badly) my body is ageing. Today I get the results. Some newspapers, to the dismay of the scientists involved, have gleefully announced that the test – which measures the telomeres (the ...
Al Gore kicked out of the Global Warming Club
Post Date: 2011-10-12 14:49:16 by wudidiz
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Al Gore kicked out of the Global Warming ClubOctober 9, 2011 by Don Surber As the world turns away from the hysterics of the global warming crowd, the True Believers are looking for a scapegoat for their turn in fortunes. To blame Michael Mann or Phil Jones would be to admit that Climategate proved once and for all the fallacy of their “science” — that it was based on the manipulation of data and outright forgery. Looking for dead weight in this sinking ship, Myles Allen of the Guardian has decided to toss Al Gore overboard: “Al Gore is doing a disservice to science by overplaying the link between climate change and weather. To claim that we are causing meteorological ...
Boys who email ‘brighter’
Post Date: 2011-10-12 06:29:32 by Tatarewicz
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“So when we say that children who use the internet under certain circumstances are more popular – that’s true.” Surveyed boys who used email at home were brighter and more popular than boys who did not – according to a recent study by an educational psychologist from Curtin University. The study by School of Education Senior Lecturer Genevieve Johnson analysed responses by 51 boys and 44 girls at a Canadian primary school. Dr Johnson likened the situation of boys who did not use email to that of boys from a generation or two before who did not watch TV. “Think back to when you were a little kid if one of your friends didn’t have a lunch box with the ...
Giant virus found off Chile coast
Post Date: 2011-10-12 02:37:36 by Tatarewicz
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The largest virus yet discovered has been isolated from ocean water pulled up off the coast of Chile. Called Megavirus chilensis, it is 10 to 20 times wider than the average virus. It just beats the previous record holder, Mimivirus, which was found in a water cooling tower in the UK in 1992. Scientists tell the journal PNAS that Megavirus probably infects amoebas, single-celled organisms that are floating free in the sea. The particle measures about 0.7 micrometres (thousandths of a millimetre) in diameter. "It is bigger than some bacteria," explained Prof Jean-Michel Claverie, from Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France. "You don't need an electron ...
Superwave: Project Camelot interviews Dr Paul LaViolette
Post Date: 2011-10-11 10:38:54 by gengis gandhi
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Upside-Down Mountain Revealed Inside Earth Oct 6, 2011 2:00 PM ET
Post Date: 2011-10-11 10:29:57 by gengis gandhi
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Upside-Down Mountain Revealed Inside Earth Oct 6, 2011 2:00 PM ET By Andrea Mustain, OurAmazingPlanet Staff Writer Southern California's Salton Sea, and, just south, the edge of the Gulf of California. It's an area of active rifting where the continent is being torn asunder. A study examined the bottom of the tectonic plate beneath this region and found some big surprises. Credit: NASA. Scientists today (Oct. 6) unveiled the most detailed portrait yet of a mysterious region of the planet that human eyes have never seen — and likely never will — the bottom of Earth's tectonic plates. A Perfect Golf Swing?PerfectConnectionGolfSwing.com "Rebel" PGA ...
Aquion Energy Battery Is Three Times Cheaper And Is Targeting Grid Scale Energy Storage
Post Date: 2011-10-10 14:55:35 by gengis gandhi
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Aquion Energy Battery Is Three Times Cheaper And Is Targeting Grid Scale Energy Storage Sun Oct 09 2011 13:04 SHARE THIS STORY 0 Share 0 0 inShare Advertisement From NextBigFuture.com Advanced battery maker Aquion Energy landed $30 million in private equity from three venture capital firms on Sept. 7 Aquion, which has about 50 workers, could employ 500 people by 2014 when it reaches commercial-scale production, said Ted Wiley, vice president of business and market development. He said he envisions perhaps 1,000 workers by about 2017. Aquion's electrolyte, based on salt water rather than on a flammable organic solvent, makes its batteries environmentally friendly and keeps costs ...
E-Cat Test Validates Cold Fusion Despite Challenges
Post Date: 2011-10-10 14:54:38 by gengis gandhi
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http://pesn.com/2011/10/08/9501929_E- Cat_Test_Validates_Cold_Fusion_Despite_Challenges/ You are here: PureEnergySystems.com > News > October 8, 2011 E-Cat Test Validates Cold Fusion Despite Challenges The test of the E-Cat (Energy Catalyzer) that took place on October 6, 2011 in Italy has validated Andrea Rossi's claim that the device produces excess energy via a novel Cold Fusion nuclear reaction. Despite its success, the test was flawed, and could have been done in a way that produced more spectacular results -- as if confirmation of cold fusion is not already stunning enough. Andrea Rossi stands in front of his E-Cat apparatus, October 6, 2011 Photo by Maurizio Melis of ...
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