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The Sun is changing the rate of radioactive decay, and breaking the rules of chemistry
Post Date: 2010-08-25 13:50:58 by gengis gandhi
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The Sun is changing the rate of radioactive decay, and breaking the rules of chemistry The Sun is changing the supposedly constant rates of decay of radioactive elements, and we have absolutely no idea why. But an entirely unknown particle could be behind it. Plus, this discovery could help us predict deadly solar flares. It's one of the most basic concepts in all of chemistry: Radioactive elements decay at a constant rate. If that weren't the case, carbon-14 dating wouldn't tell us anything reliable about the age of archaeological materials, and every chemotherapy treatment would be a gamble. It's such a fundamental assumption that scientists don't even bother ...
Hitler 'had Jewish and African roots', DNA tests show
Post Date: 2010-08-24 09:30:48 by Jethro Tull
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Hitler 'had Jewish and African roots', DNA tests show Adolf Hitler is likely to have had Jewish and African roots, DNA tests have shown. By Heidi Blake Published: 6:25AM BST 24 Aug 2010 Adolf Hitler may have had Jewish and African roots, DNA tests have shown Saliva samples taken from 39 relatives of the Nazi leader show he may have had biological links to the “subhuman” races that he tried to exterminate during the Holocaust. Jean-Paul Mulders, a Belgian journalist, and Marc Vermeeren, a historian, tracked down the Fuhrer’s relatives, including an Austrian farmer who was his cousin, earlier this year. Related Articles Hitler's gold ...
Why Its Too Darn Hot
Post Date: 2010-08-20 06:17:50 by Ada
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Having written for a decade that the Earth has been cooling, it was rather disconcerting to receive a news release from Accuweather reporting that “The year 2010 is on track to become the hottest year on record since modern record keeping began, according to climate researchers at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).” It turns out there is an explanation for the unusual levels of heat from Russia to Pakistan to Japan. It is a meteorological phenomenon called “blocking events” and they are related to the jet stream. An August 10 article by Michael Moore in New Scientist explained, “According to meteorologists monitoring the atmosphere ...
BP oil spill: scientists find giant plume of droplets 'missed' by official account
Post Date: 2010-08-19 20:40:15 by DeaconBenjamin
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Scientists have mapped a 22-mile plume of oil droplets from BP's rogue well in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico, providing the strongest evidence yet of the fate of the crude that spewed into the sea for months. The report offers the most authoritative challenge to date to White House assertions that most of the 5m barrels of oil that spewed into the Gulf is gone. "These results indicate that efforts to book-keep where the oil went must now include this plume," said Christopher Reddy one of the members of the team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. The report, which is published in the journal Science, also said the plume was very slow to break down by natural ...
Thousands of online banking customers have accounts emptied by 'most dangerous trojan virus ever created'
Post Date: 2010-08-19 13:29:16 by Red Jones
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Thousands of online banking customers have accounts emptied by 'most dangerous trojan virus ever created' By David Derbyshire Last updated at 7:25 PM on 11th August 2010 Cyber criminals have raided the accounts of thousands of British internet bank customers in one of the most sophisticated attacks of its kind. The fraudsters used a malicious computer programme that hides on home computers to steal confidential passwords and account details from at least 3,000 people. The internet security experts M86, who uncovered the scam, estimate that at least £675,000 has been illegally transferred from the UK in the last month - and that the attacks are still continuing. Out of ...
iPhone4 vs HTC Evo
Post Date: 2010-08-19 11:59:50 by wudidiz
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Does the Past Exist Yet? Evidence Suggests Your Past Isn't Set in Stone
Post Date: 2010-08-19 10:03:50 by Ada
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Recent discoveries require us to rethink our understanding of history. "The histories of the universe," said renowned physicist Stephen Hawking "depend on what is being measured, contrary to the usual idea that the universe has an objective observer-independent history." Is it possible we live and die in a world of illusions? Physics tells us that objects exist in a suspended state until observed, when they collapse in to just one outcome. Paradoxically, whether events happened in the past may not be determined until sometime in your future -- and may even depend on actions that you haven't taken yet. In 2002, scientists carried out an amazing experiment, which ...
"Doesn’t Life Require Compromise?" by Ayn Rand
Post Date: 2010-08-18 15:09:02 by gengis gandhi
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"Doesn’t Life Require Compromise?" by Ayn Rand Current mood: determined A compromise is an adjustment of conflicting claims by mutual concessions. This means that both parties to a compromise have some valid claim and some value to offer each other. And this means that both parties agree upon some fundamental principle which serves as a base for their deal. It is only in regard to concretes or particulars, implementing a mutually accepted basic principle, that one may compromise. For instance, one may bargain with a buyer over the price one wants to receive for one's product, and agree on a sum somewhere between one's demand and his offer. The mutually accepted ...
Wear wristwatch? Use e-mail? Not for Class of '14
Post Date: 2010-08-18 06:34:51 by Ada
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MILWAUKEE (AP) - For students entering college this fall, e-mail is too slow, phones have never had cords and the computers they played with as kids are now in museums. The Class of 2014 thinks of Clint Eastwood more as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry urging punks to "go ahead, make my day." Few incoming freshmen know how to write in cursive or have ever worn a wristwatch. These are among the 75 items on this year's Beloit College Mindset List. The compilation, released Tuesday, is assembled each year by two officials at this private school of about 1,400 students in Beloit, Wis. The list is meant to remind teachers that cultural references familiar to them might ...
Scientists raise queries about Gulf oil left behind
Post Date: 2010-08-17 21:38:05 by Jethro Tull
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By Tom Brown MIAMI | Tue Aug 17, 2010 8:27pm EDT MIAMI (Reuters) - Two new scientific reports raised fresh fears on Tuesday about the environmental fallout from the world's worst offshore oil spill and questioned government assurances that most of the oil from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico was already gone. In one of the reports, researchers at the University of Georgia said about three-quarters of the oil from BP's blown-out Macondo well was still lurking below the surface of the Gulf and may pose a threat to the ecosystem. Charles Hopkinson, who helped lead the investigation, said up to 79 percent of the 4.1 million barrels of oil that gushed from the broken well ...
Lasers could make virtual particles real
Post Date: 2010-08-17 16:52:06 by gengis gandhi
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Lasers could make virtual particles real 19:55 17 August 2010 by David Shiga For similar stories, visit the Quantum World and The Large Hadron Collider Topic Guides Next-generation lasers will have the power to create matter by capturing ghostly particles that, according to quantum mechanics, permeate seemingly empty space. The uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics implies that space can never be truly empty. Instead, random fluctuations give birth to a seething cauldron of particles, such as electrons, and their antimatter counterparts, called positrons. These so-called "virtual particles" normally annihilate one another too quickly for us to notice them. But physicists ...
Top Climate Scientists Speak out on the Satellitegate Scandal
Post Date: 2010-08-16 20:00:18 by farmfriend
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Top Climate Scientists Speak out on the Satellitegate Scandal By John O'Sullivan Monday, August 16, 2010 US Government admits global warming satellite sensors “degraded” - temperatures may be out by 10-15 degrees. Now five satellites in controversy. Top scientists speak out. In an escalating row dubbed ‘Satellitegate’ further evidence proves NOAA knew of these faults for years. World’s top climate scientists and even prior governmental reports cite underfunding and misallocation as the trigger for spiraling satellite data calamities. Key flaws with five satellites undermines global data. Most disturbing of all is that it took publication of my article last ...
The Battle For Your Mind - Mass Mind Control Techniques In America
Post Date: 2010-08-16 16:28:42 by gengis gandhi
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The Battle For Your Mind - Mass Mind Control Techniques In America By Dick Sutphen 1-20-2000 Persuasion and Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public Today Reformatted for WWW display and distribution by Dynamic Living Media Summary Of Contents Introduction The Birth of Conversion: Brainwashing in Christian Revivalism in 1735. The Three Brain Phases: The Pavlovian Explanation How Revivalist Preachers Work The "Voice Roll" Technique The Build-up Process.: Inducing Altered States Assured Continuation: Fleecing the Flock Bonding by Fear and Suggestion Testimony: Creating Community Spirit Miracles The Grey Area of Legitimacy A Game in Which the Rules Keep Changing Six ...
Hypergeometry, Astrology and the spaces inbetween
Post Date: 2010-08-16 16:21:27 by gengis gandhi
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Clouds Can Communicate, Scientists Say
Post Date: 2010-08-15 11:42:24 by gengis gandhi
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PLANET EARTH Clouds Can Communicate, Scientists Say By Jeremy A. Kaplan Published August 13, 2010 | FoxNews.com Print Email Share Comments (117) Text Size Wikimedia Cumulus clouds swell in a blue sky. What might they be saying to each other? Little, fluffy and talkative? Clouds can communicate, a new paper suggests -- but what are they talking about? A new study has found that clouds "communicate" with each other, much like chirping crickets or flashing fireflies on a summer night. The surprising findings, published online in the journal Nature, may have significant implications for our understanding of the Earth's climate. So the next time you find yourself laying on your ...
The Evidence For Ancient Atomic Warfare Pt. 2
Post Date: 2010-08-13 12:19:37 by Original_Intent
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The Evidence For Ancient Atomic Warfare Pt. 2Link to Part 1 VITRIFIED RUINS IN CALIFORNIA'S DEATH VALLEY It seems one local character knew how to find the place. Brandon relates that "Death Valley Scotty", an eccentric who spent millions building a castle-estate in the area, was known to go "prospecting" when funds ran low. Death Valley Scotty would check out for a few days of wandering in the nearby Grapevine Mountains, bringing back suspiciously refined-looking gold that he claimed he had prospected. Many believe that he got his gold from the stacked gold bars in the tunnel system beneath Death Valley. Evidence of a lost civilization in Death Valley came in a ...
The Evidence For Ancient Atomic Warfare Pt. 1
Post Date: 2010-08-13 02:29:06 by Original_Intent
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Part One Nexus Magazine Volume 7, Number 5 - August-September 2000 Religious texts and geological evidence suggest that several parts of the world have experienced destructive atomic blasts in ages past The following item appeared in the New York Herald Tribune on February 16, 1947 (and was repeated by Ivan T. Sanderson in the January 1970 issue of his magazine, Pursuit): "When the first atomic bomb exploded in New Mexico, the desert sand turned to fused green glass. This fact, according to the magazine Free World, has given certain archaeologists a turn. They have been digging in the ancient Euphrates Valley and have uncovered a layer of agrarian culture 8,000 years old, ...
Biofuels emit 400 percent more CO2 than regular fuels
Post Date: 2010-08-11 15:25:20 by Red Jones
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Biofuels emit 400 percent more CO2 than regular fuels by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) A recent report issued by the European Union has revealed that biofuels, or fuel made from living, renewable sources, is not really all that beneficial to the environment. Rather than reduce the net carbon footprint as intended, biofuels can produce four times more carbon dioxide pollution than conventional fossil fuels do. Common biofuels like corn ethanol, which has become a popular additive in gasoline, and soy biodiesel, which is being used in commercial trucks and other diesel-fueled vehicles, are often considered to be environmentally-friendly because they are renewable. But in order ...
Rancher claims Mexican cartels takeover Texas ranch -Police blotter confirms story is not a hoax
Post Date: 2010-08-10 20:32:35 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Rancher claims Mexican cartels takeover Texas ranch -Police blotter confirms story is not a hoax The police blotter of the Zeta drug cartel seizure of a Laredo, Texas ranch After 16 days of denials by Laredo law enforcement and local officials regarding a Mexican drug cartel takeover of a Laredo area ranch, a Texas police blotter proves the alleged incident did in fact happen and that multiple agencies responded to the scene of a seized U.S. ranch. Think about it for a moment. One of the most brutal drug cartels operating in Mexico crossed the U.S. border and took a ranch from its lawful owner. Intimidation has arrived along the southern border. The police blotter tells the story ...
Sharks and Turtles Dealing with Chemical Nightmare
Post Date: 2010-08-10 10:59:40 by christine
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We have all read the reports in the media about the United States Coast Guard granting nearly every request from BP to use chemical dispersants on the leaking oil. But, how much do we know about what the dispersant used, Corexit 9500, is or what effects will it have on marine life that comes into contact with it. Corexit 9500 is made by Nalco Holding Company, which is associated with the two companies that have created the two worst oil spills in U.S. History, namely B.P. and Exxon. The chemical replaced Corexit 9527, which was deemed “to toxic” to use on marine environments. That makes Corexit 9500 sound safer to use. However, we’ve been doing our homework and what we ...
Could a Solar Storm Send Us back to the Stone Age?
Post Date: 2010-08-10 09:35:15 by Ada
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In 1859, a powerful solar storm burned telegraph wires all across Europe and America and electrified the skies. As the sun awakens from a period of dormancy, it's worth remembering that a storm of that magnitude today could bring modernity to a sudden halt. The 1859 Carrington Flare produced auroras that were visible as far south as Cuba. It also made telegraph systems go haywire. By Jack Kennedy, Spaceports / August 9, 2010 The Great Solar Storm of 1859 is now known in history as 'the Carrington flare' that burned telegraph wires all across Europe and America lighting the skies in many parts to the extent that miners awoke to start their day with breakfast in the middle of ...
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Post Date: 2010-08-09 20:47:09 by James Deffenbach
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NOAA: Past Decade Warmest on Record According to Scientists in 48 Countries
Post Date: 2010-08-08 12:35:13 by buckeroo
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The 2009 State of the Climate report released today draws on data for 10 key climate indicators that all point to the same finding: the scientific evidence that our world is warming is unmistakable. More than 300 scientists from 160 research groups in 48 countries contributed to the report, which confirms that the past decade was the warmest on record and that the Earth has been growing warmer over the last 50 years. Based on comprehensive data from multiple sources, the report defines 10 measurable planet-wide features used to gauge global temperature changes. The relative movement of each of these indicators proves consistent with a warming world. Seven indicators are rising: air ...
N.J. scientist who coined 'global warming' term tries to avoid the limelight 35 years later
Post Date: 2010-08-08 11:43:37 by buckeroo
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On recent trips to Europe, Wally Broecker was treated like a celebrity. From London to Rome, the 78-year-old Columbia University geochemist was mobbed by reporters who hailed him as the father of global warming. Today, on the 35th anniversary of the publication of his paper "Climate Change: Are we on the Brink of a Pronounced Global warming" in Science magazine, Broecker is again fielding calls from members of the media. They want to interview the man who was credited for the now-iconic phrase "global warming." That’s not working out so well. "I just got off the phone with Foreign Affairs magazine," he said Tuesday, "And Science magazine is doing ...
Huge ice sheet breaks from Greenland glacier
Post Date: 2010-08-07 11:30:09 by buckeroo
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A giant sheet of ice measuring 260 sq km (100 sq miles) has broken off a glacier in Greenland, according to researchers at a US university. The block of ice separated from the Petermann Glacier, on the north-west coast of Greenland. It is the largest Arctic iceberg to calve since 1962, said Prof Andreas Muenchow of the University of Delaware. The ice could become frozen in place over winter or escape into the waters between Greenland and Canada. Related stories If the iceberg moves south, it could interfere with shipping, Prof Muenchow said. Cracks in the Petermann Glacier had been observed last year and it was expected that an iceberg would calve from it soon. The glacier is 1,000 km ...
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