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Too little or too much sleep linked with cognitive decline
Post Date: 2011-05-02 00:30:31 by Tatarewicz
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LOS ANGELES, May 1 (Xinhua) -- Middle-aged adults who sleep too less or too much may be more likely to suffer cognitive decline, a new study suggests. According to the study, less than six hours of sleep each night is considered too little and more than eight hours as too much for middle-aged adults. The study, conducted by researchers at University College London Medical School, was published May 1 in the American medical journal Sleep. The researchers conducted the study in two periods -- the 1997- 1999 period and the 2003-2004 period. The participants were asked how many hours they slept on an average week night, and were asked the same question in 2003-2004 after an average 5.4 ...
Gerald Celente - Cold Fusion is a Reality
Post Date: 2011-05-01 20:26:02 by gengis gandhi
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GMO Franken Foods
Post Date: 2011-04-30 19:13:38 by Original_Intent
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GMO Franken Foods Genetically-modified foods (GMOs) have been commercially available since the first transgenic tomato was approved in 1994. It’s estimated that 70-75% of supermarket processed foods—soda, soup, corn chips, veggie burgers, pizza, baby food and infant formula—contain GMO ingredients of which we are completely unaware. GMOs approved for human consumption include: corn, rice, soy, wheat, alfalfa, flax, barley, apples, papaya, potatoes, peas, tomatoes, sweet peppers, peanuts, canola oil, cow, pig, cow’s milk. A cow was recently developed to produce human breast milk. align="right" border="1" height="282" ...
Female dogs smarter than males--study
Post Date: 2011-04-30 07:52:26 by Tatarewicz
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Female pooches might have a leg up on males when it comes to intelligence, as a new study published in 'Biology Letters,' states that female canine brains are more responsive to situations and better able to detect a change in events than male dogs. Female pooches might have a leg up on males when it comes to intelligence, as a new study published in 'Biology Letters,' states that female canine brains are more responsive to situations and better able to detect a change in events than male dogs. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Vienna, Germany, suggests that like humans, animals too have sex differences in how brain processes the information. ...
Pigs have 'evolved to love mud'
Post Date: 2011-04-30 06:09:18 by Tatarewicz
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It is a true picture of contentment, and now a scientist is suggesting that a pig's love of mud is more than just a way to keep cool. A researcher in the Netherlands has looked at wallowing behaviour in pigs' wild relatives to find out more about what motivates the animals to luxuriate in sludge. His conclusions suggest that wallowing is vital for the animals' well-being. The study is published in the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science. It is already well accepted that pigs use wallows to keep cool. The animals do not have normal sweat glands, so they are unable, otherwise, to regulate their body temperature. Liking shallow water could have been a point in the ...
Russian mathematician claims he can control Universe
Post Date: 2011-04-29 00:07:55 by Tatarewicz
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Grigori Perelman, a brilliant mathematician from St. Petersbrug, who became famous worldwide after he had solved the Poincare conjecture, has finally explained his refusal to accept a million-dollar prize. According to the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, the secluded scientist opened his heart to a journalist and producer of a film company, which is going to make a documentary about him. The reporter at first contacted Grigori Perelman's mother through the Jewish community of St. Petersburg. She talked to her son, and the latter agreed to give an interview. That was quite an achievement indeed - no other journalist has managed to ask any question to Mr. Perelman before. "Perelman ...
Clapped-out Mustang lays down the smack on Pass Time
Post Date: 2011-04-27 15:55:49 by X-15
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Poster Comment:HERE ARE THE DETAILS ON THE MOTOR AS PER OWNER / BUILDER: 425" stock ('79) block windsor (yes, I'm leaning on it!) built by Proline, 12:1 compression, high-ports, running on E100. I have an 82N pill in a big shot plate, 28N pill in the fogger. I grabbed the second system as soon as I let go of the 'brake and tried to drag the bumper, but it didn't hookŒ79; quite hard enough on the 16's.
SETI hunt for alien life put on hold
Post Date: 2011-04-26 23:43:09 by Tatarewicz
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Computerworld - The federal and state budget squeeze is affecting life here on Earth -- and beyond. Astronomers at the SETI Institute in Northern California announced that it has been forced to stop operations at the Allen Telescope Array, a field of more than 40 radio dishes that scan the skies for communications from aliens. The array began scanning for signals from extraterrestrial life in October of 2007, and SETI planned to eventually expand the project to 350 dishes, covering 90 square miles. But financial constraints are forcing the institute's astronomers to put the array into hibernation. "Effective this week, the [Allen Telescope Array] has been placed into ...
Should every child be taught to play chess?
Post Date: 2011-04-26 05:30:23 by Tatarewicz
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Armenia is making chess compulsory in schools, but could mandatory study of a board game really help children's academic performance and behaviour? Every child aged six or over in Armenia is now destined to learn chess. The authorities there believe compulsory lessons will "foster schoolchildren's intellectual development" and improve critical thinking skills. The country has plenty of reasons to believe in chess. It treats grandmasters like sports stars, championships are displayed on giant boards in cities and victories celebrated with the kind of frenzy most countries reserve for football. Chess is nothing less than a national obsession. It may only have a ...
IQ tests measure motivation - not just intelligence
Post Date: 2011-04-26 04:39:21 by Tatarewicz
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Intelligence tests are as much a measure of motivation as they are of mental ability, says research from the US. Researchers from Pennsylvania found that a high IQ score required both high intelligence and high motivation but a low IQ score could be the result of a lack of either factor. Incentives were also found to increase IQ scores by a noticeable margin. The study is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Firstly, it analysed previous studies of how material incentives affected the performance of more than 2,000 people in intelligence tests. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, found that incentives increased all IQ scores, but ...
Official kilo losing weight (atoms)?
Post Date: 2011-04-26 02:10:01 by Tatarewicz
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Ensuring a pound of butter is indeed a pound, or a gallon of milk a full gallon, has long been the province of government agencies that deal with weights and measures. But now it seems scientists are having a little trouble with the golf-ball-size piece of metal that is used to set the standard weight for a kilogram, or kilo. A bunch of these prototypes have been made over the years, seven of which are kept in a triple-locked vault at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres, with one known as the International Prototype. The problem is that as these prototypes have been taken out and weighed, which last happened in 1990, something odd has turned up - their weights ...
China building own space station
Post Date: 2011-04-26 00:49:05 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, April 26 (Xinhuanet) -- Authorities in charge of the manned space program unveiled plans on Monday to build a 60-ton space station, made up of three capsules, and develop a cargo spaceship to transport supplies. The China Manned Space Engineering Office said at a news conference that it also wants the public to get involved by suggesting names for the space station, due to completed around 2020. According to documents provided by the office, the space station, weighing about 60 tons, is composed of a core module and two others where experiments will be conducted. A cargo spaceship to transport supplies will also be developed. The 18.1-meter-long core module, with a maximum ...
Scientists Prove Abiotic Oil is REAL!
Post Date: 2011-04-25 10:20:00 by Itistoolate
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Fossils From Animals And Plants Are Not Necessary For Crude Oil And Natural Gas, Swedish Researchers Find What would happen if it were proven that "fossil fuels" weren't the result of decaying plant and animal matter, were actually created within the Earth due to simple chemistry and you could not be scared into believing that we were "running out" of oil and natural gas? Estimates of how much crude oil we have extracted from the planet vary wildly. As late as May of 2009 a report published in the International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology suggested that we may have used more than we think. The idea that we are running out of oil is not a new one. ...
Huge CO2 lake found on Mars
Post Date: 2011-04-25 06:53:19 by Tatarewicz
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NASA scientists recently discovered an underground dry ice lake containing more carbon dioxide than originally thought. The trapped carbon dioxide is thought to have come from the planet's atmosphere earlier in its history when it was conducive for life on Mars to exist. "It really is a buried treasure," said Jeffrey Plaut, a scientist of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a report appearing in the journal Science. "We found something underground that no one else realized was there." The discovery was made possible through ground-penetrating radar of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter who is searching for clues of life on Mars, according to Empowered News. The ...
Higgs boson (God particle) found?
Post Date: 2011-04-25 01:20:27 by Tatarewicz
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Scientists Abuzz Over Controversial Rumor that God Particle Has Been Detected http://LiveScience.com A rumor is floating around the physics community that the world's largest atom smasher may have detected a long-sought subatomic particle called the Higgs boson, also known as the "God particle." The controversial rumor is based on what appears to be a leaked internal note from physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 17-mile-long particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland. It's not entirely clear at this point if the memo is authentic, or what the data it refers to might mean — but the note already has researchers talking. The buzz started when an ...
Lasers could replace spark plugs in car engines
Post Date: 2011-04-24 06:54:01 by Tatarewicz
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Car engines could soon be fired by lasers instead of spark plugs, researchers say. A team at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics will report on 1 May that they have designed lasers that could ignite the fuel/air mixture in combustion engines. The approach would increase efficiency of engines, and reduce their pollution, by igniting more of the mixture. The team is in discussions with a spark plug manufacturer. The idea of replacing spark plugs - a technology that has changed little since their invention 150 years ago - with lasers is not a new one. Spark plugs only ignite the fuel mixture near the spark gap, reducing the combustion efficiency, and the metal that makes them up ...
Top astronomers warn the world could end within 90 years
Post Date: 2011-04-23 03:13:28 by Tatarewicz
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The end of the world is nigh. That's what top astronomers will claim during a debate to end the 2011 Edinburgh International Science Festival. Lord Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, believes civilisation has only a 50 per cent chance of surviving to 2100 without suffering a man-made catastrophe. And the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Professor John Brown, has an equally bleak outlook, fearing a random event from outer space is the most likely cause of our demise. They will take to the stage to put forward their stark predictions in the discussion "Fire in the Sky: Cosmic Threats to Earth". Despite having widely differing views, these two titans of astronomy between them ...
Was FBI too quick to judge anthrax suspect the killer?
Post Date: 2011-04-21 06:19:18 by Ada
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2004 - Bruce Ivins playing the keyboard in church and at this office party, but the Justice Department says the Army microbiologist mailed anthrax-filled letters that killed five people in 2001. | U.S. Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases/MCT The anthrax terror investigation View larger image By | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Scouring the anthrax-laced mail that took five lives and terrorized the East Coast in 2001, laboratory scientists discovered a unique contaminant — a tiny scientific fingerprint that they hoped would help unmask the killer. One senior FBI official wrote in March 2007, in a recently declassified memo, that the potential clue "may be the ...
Childhood music lessons may provide lifelong boost in brain functioning
Post Date: 2011-04-21 02:50:46 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Those childhood music lessons could pay off decades later -- even for those who no longer play an instrument -- by keeping the mind sharper as people age, according to a preliminary study published by the American Psychological Association (APA). The study recruited 70 healthy adults age 60 to 83 who were divided into groups based on their levels of musical experience. The musicians performed better on several cognitive tests than individuals who had never studied an instrument or learned how to read music, according to the research findings published Wednesday online in the APA journal Neuropsychology. "Musical activity throughout life may serve as ...
Inattention blindness
Post Date: 2011-04-21 02:38:16 by Tatarewicz
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Didn't spot the dancing gorilla in famous video? Why people suffer from 'inattention blindness' It's the bizarre video that has attracted more than 1.8 million hits on YouTube. Unsuspecting viewers are invited to count how many times basketball players pass the ball to each other. But - halfway through - a person in a gorilla suit walks through the middle of the players. Incredibly, scientists discovered that of the people who watched the video who were able to count how many times the basketball was passed, as much as 40 per cent failed to see the person in the gorilla suit. Scroll down for the video Countdown: The students start passing the basketball between each ...
Watchman Video - interesting - Fusion - Beck - DNA
Post Date: 2011-04-20 06:30:04 by noone222
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O'Hare UFO Leaked News Footage seconds before Broadcast
Post Date: 2011-04-19 09:18:27 by FormerLurker
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Poster Comment: 2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting
Open Source Finally Wins
Post Date: 2011-04-19 06:21:40 by Tatarewicz
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In yesterday's edition of The Daily Reckoning, I asserted, "There is going to be a rapid acceleration in the adoption of smartphones very soon. This is because the Android operating system has basically won the technological battle of the bands. It will become the standard. Microsoft has been beaten in the mobile space and its proprietary operating system is fading fast. Nokia has made a series of blunders as well and is now losing the mobile operating system space it once seemed destined to own forever." Today, I'll tell part of what this development might mean for investors. I lived and worked in Silicon Valley, mostly doing public policy research, but occasionally ...
Unemployed? Virgin Galactic Seeks Pilot-Astronauts
Post Date: 2011-04-18 14:22:49 by X-15
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April 14, 2011 — There have been many signs over the past couple of years that commercial passenger spaceflight is becoming a reality, often best illuminated by the success of SpaceshipOne and the steady progress of WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo. The latest sign comes in the form of a job announcement from Virgin Galactic seeking pilot-astronauts for its spaceflight system test and development team. They say the economy is rebounding and this just one more option for jobseekers who may be what Virgin describes as “very special.” The full job description from Virgin Galactic is below: Virgin Galactic has launched its search for pilot-astronauts. This unique opportunity ...
Earth Getting Mysteriously Windier
Post Date: 2011-04-18 05:35:56 by Tatarewicz
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Published March 28, 2011 The world has gotten stormier over the past two decades—and the reason is a mystery, a new study says. In the past 20 years, winds have picked up around 5 percent on average. Extremely strong winds caused by storms have increased even faster, jumping 10 percent over 20 years, according to the new analysis of global satellite data. The study, the first to look at wind speeds across such a large swath of the planet, bolsters some earlier findings, according to study leader Ian Young, of the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. "Some regional studies had found similar results, so we suspected there may be an increasing ...
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