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Latest Articles: Science/Tech
Laser fusion test results raise energy hopes
Post Date: 2010-01-28 19:18:42 by farmfriend
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Laser fusion test results raise energy hopes By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News A major hurdle to producing fusion energy using lasers has been swept aside, results in a new report show. The controlled fusion of atoms - creating conditions like those in our Sun - has long been touted as a possible revolutionary energy source. However, there have been doubts about the use of powerful lasers for fusion energy because the "plasma" they create could interrupt the fusion. An article in Science showed the plasma is far less of a problem than expected. The report is based on the first experiments from the National Ignition Facility (Nif) in the US that used ...
Advocacy By Omission: Richard E. Nisbett’s Intelligence and How to Get It
Post Date: 2010-01-26 12:17:53 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Advocacy By Omission: Richard E. Nisbett’s Intelligence and How to Get It See also: Selling Out And How To Do It—The Case Of Richard E. Nisbett, by Steve Sailer By Professor J. Philippe Rushton In his book, Intelligence and How to Get It, Richard E. Nisbett, a social psychologist at the University of Michigan, asserts that cultural factors alone are sufficient to explain all the race differences to be observed in IQ and educational achievement. Nisbett criticizes the nature + nurture model Arthur Jensen and I presented in 2005 in Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. . [Thirty Years Of Research On Race Differences In Cognitive Ability (PDF)] Nisbett claims the heritability of IQ ...
The Anthrax Attacks Remain Unsolved
Post Date: 2010-01-26 06:14:20 by Ada
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The FBI disproved its main theory about how the spores were weaponized. The investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks ended as far as the public knew on July 29, 2008, with the death of Bruce Ivins, a senior biodefense researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Md. The cause of death was an overdose of the painkiller Tylenol. No autopsy was performed, and there was no suicide note. Less than a week after his apparent suicide, the FBI declared Ivins to have been the sole perpetrator of the 2001 Anthrax attacks, and the person who mailed deadly anthrax spores to NBC, the New York Post, and Sens. Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy. ...
Genetics Helps to Crack Down on Chimpanzee Smuggling
Post Date: 2010-01-25 18:03:25 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Genetics Helps to Crack Down on Chimpanzee Smuggling ScienceDaily (Jan. 22, 2010) — The population of chimpanzees across western Africa has decreased by 75% in the past 30 years, due in part to widespread chimp hunting. New strategies are needed to curb this illegal activity, experts say. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Ecology suggests that genetics may provide valuable clues as to how to crack down on the animal smuggling trade, while also helping to safely reintroduce rescued apes into the wild. A smuggler can get up to US $20,000 for a live chimpanzee on the international black market and around US $100 in the local market in Cameroon. ...
Into the Fourth Turning
Post Date: 2010-01-25 06:06:04 by Ada
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The Fourth Turning is an amazingly prescient book Neil Howe wrote with the late William Strauss in 1997. The work, which describes generational archetypes and the cyclical patterns created by these archetypes, has been an eye-opener to anyone able to entertain the notion that history may repeat itself. At the time the book was published, the Boston Globe stated, "If Howe and Strauss are right, they will take their place among the great American prophets." Read this visionary interview published in The Casey Report, and see for yourself. DAVID GALLAND: Could you provide us a quick introduction to generational research? NEIL HOWE: We think that generations move history along and ...
Open and transparent? works for climate assessment reports as well as it does for Congress
Post Date: 2010-01-24 22:08:53 by farmfriend
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Open and transparent? works for climate assessment reports as well as it does for Congress Kirtland Griffin Dr. Pachuari, head of the UN's International Panel on Climate Change says, from CCNET 5/2010, "Every stage of the drafting of our report is peer reviewed, and whatever comments we get from the peer review process are posted on the website of the IPCC, and the reasons why we accept or reject those comments are clearly specified. Where we accept a comment we say, "Yes. Accepted." Where we don't, we have to adduce very clear reasons why the authors don't agree with the comment. So it's a very transparent process." The statement was made in ...
Expert Warns of 'Climategate' Conspiracy
Post Date: 2010-01-23 22:45:47 by farmfriend
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Expert Warns of 'Climategate' Conspiracy By: Jim Meyers Renowned meteorologist Dr. William Gray tells Newsmax that a possible new conspiracy regarding global warming has been uncovered in the U.S. He also said environmentalists, socialists, governments and businessmen are trying to take advantage of climate change concerns for their own benefit, and declared that cap-and-trade legislation would do “very little” to improve the climate. To see the video of Newsmax's conversation with Dr. Gray — Click Here. Dr. Gray is a pioneer in the science of forecasting hurricanes and a critic of the theory of human-induced global warming. He is a professor emeritus of ...
Acidic Oceans Ahead. Plan Wisely.
Post Date: 2010-01-23 16:58:58 by buckeroo
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The sharp increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide over the past two centuries years is transforming the chemistry of the world's oceans: As they have soaked up excess CO2, the pH balance of seawater -- the extent to which it is "acid" versus "basic" -- has shifted toward the more acidic. "Climate change and ocean acidification are two sides of the same coin," says Sarah Cooley, a postdoc in marine chemistry and geochemistry at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. "Ocean acidification comes from the rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, and so does climate change, but at that point they diverge" into very different patterns of ...
How to Play the H.A.A.R.P: Curriculum 101
Post Date: 2010-01-20 15:51:03 by Itistoolate
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The Amazing Story Behind the Global Warming Scam
Post Date: 2010-01-18 14:23:17 by James Deffenbach
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The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints. Only two details stand in the way: the faltering economic times and a dramatic turn toward a colder climate. The last two bitter winters have led to a rise in public awareness that there is no runaway global warming. A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens. How did we ever get to this point where ...
THE NEW CLIMATE CHANGE SCANDAL
Post Date: 2010-01-18 11:31:56 by abraxas
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THE NEW CLIMATE CHANGE SCANDAL Monday January 18,2010 By Anil Dawar Have your say(20) FRESH doubts were cast over controversial global warming theories yesterday after a major climate change argument was discredited. The International Panel on Climate Change was forced to admit its key claim that Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035 was lifted from a 1999 magazine article. The report was based on an interview with a little-known Indian scientist who has since said his views were “speculation” and not backed up by research. It was also revealed that the IPCC’s controversial chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, described as “the world’s top climate scientist”, is ...
Is climate change raising the sea level on NC coast? (poll question)
Post Date: 2010-01-17 18:48:30 by buckeroo
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RALEIGH - Some scientists predict that sea levels could rise by as much as a meter by the end of the century, endangering North Carolina’s low-lying barrier islands and coast. While sea levels have been rising for centuries, scientists and policy administrators attending a forum sponsored by the N.C. Division of Coastal Management last week were told that climate change is adding to the rise in sea levels. One meter is a little more than a yard, or 39.4 inches. "The coastal ecosystems will all migrate upward and landward," said Stanley Riggs, a geology professor at East Carolina University. Riggs said sea levels are rising "substantially faster" than in ...
HAITI/HAARP VIDEO
Post Date: 2010-01-17 17:56:03 by Itistoolate
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Thursday, January 14, 2010 Haiti Earthquake Raises HAARP Controversy Posted by Phoenix Aquua at 9:14 PM Ask your self why haiti, Haiti is a independent black nation, a threat to american imperialism, defeated the colonizers in the past, and has been an enemy to the government control structure for years. Earthquakes are caused by plate tectonics shifting, impossible giving the geographical location of port au prince. Is HAARP Causing The Earthquakes, Volcanoes to Erupt and The Ice to Melt? Are these random, naturally occuring events or controlled events? Earthquakes can be heralded by changes in the ionosphere the earths upper atmosphere on the edge of space. Just before the ...
The Carbon Quilt
Post Date: 2010-01-17 00:42:35 by buckeroo
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NASA finds cocaine in Space Shuttle hangar
Post Date: 2010-01-16 22:13:34 by Prefrontal Vortex
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NASA finds cocaine in Space Shuttle hangar Extra work on the nose cone By Austin Modine in San Francisco Posted in Space, 15th January 2010 18:50 GMT NASA is trying to sniff out which employee brought a baggy of cocaine into the hangar that houses Space Shuttle Discovery at Kennedy Space Center in Florida this week. The space agency is preparing the shuttle for a launch to the International Space Station in March. Spaceport officials said an employee found the bag Thursday morning outside a bathroom in the restricted shuttle hangar, Orbiter Processing Facility No. 3. The employee notified security, which conducted tests confirming that a "small amount" of cocaine remained in ...
ClimateGate's Michael Mann Received Stimulus Funds, Media Mum [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-01-16 13:18:50 by farmfriend
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ClimateGate's Michael Mann Received Stimulus Funds, Media Mum By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive) January 14, 2010 - 09:44 ET A scientist in the middle of the ClimateGate scandal received economic stimulus funds last June. As NewsBusters reported on November 28, Penn State University is investigating Professor Michael Mann, the creator of the discredited "Hockey Stick Graph," for his involvement in an international attempt to exaggerate and manipulate climate data in order to advance the myth of manmade global warming. According to the conservative think tank the National Center for Public Policy Research, Mann received $541,184 in economic stimulus funds last June to conduct ...
Son of Climategate! Scientist says feds manipulated data
Post Date: 2010-01-16 07:44:58 by Ada
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Reporting points in coldest regions simply eliminated by U.S. agencies In a one-two series of Climategate aftershocks that assuredly will further rattle the global warming community, a report has been issued by U.S. researchers accusing government agencies of cherry-picking temperature readings used to assess global temperatures, and a series of embarrassing e-mails were released revealing what happened when a blogger dared to point out a mistake by NASA climate scientists. The new report is from scientist Joseph D'Aleo and was highlighted in a report on global warming on KUSI television in San Diego. It comes only weeks after the tumultuous climategate e-mail scandal in Britain ...
It Has Begun; Mayan Elders Say Prepare [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-01-15 11:07:30 by christine
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First, let us go over what will NOT happen. 1) The world will not end; life goes on - but the rules have changed. 2) The date December 21st 2010 will be no different than December 19th or 22nd. This is to say the shift that is occurring has already begun, and reflects that of a 'bell curve' than a 'point'. 3) We are not being punished for our failure to live in peace; we are being re-directed to help in our maturation process. 4) We are not powerless in our destiny; we do and will have a choice. 5) The journey to enlightenment (or higher self), does not come on a fluffy cloud; for many of us it will a variable level of discomfort. The goal is to bring us back to our true ...
Airplane Abducted By UFO: Caught On Tape [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-01-14 20:29:53 by FormerLurker
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Author's Description of Video: The airplane was approaching Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson Arizona at approximately 4:15PM MST on August 8th, 2009. We first witnessed the object hovering in a locked position, southwest of the base. You can hear my neighbors if you turn the volume up. We thought it was a balloon, until it dropped in elevation a few thousand feet in less then a second. At that point I ran inside and grabbed my digital camera and rushed outside in time to catch the object approaching the airplane from behind. Unfortunately the microphone barely works on the camera, from being dropped so many times, so you can't hear much. But at least there is a little. The ...
Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age
Post Date: 2010-01-14 06:23:38 by Ada
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The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long Holocene period will rather soon be coming to an end, and then the earth will return to Ice Age conditions for the next 100,000 years. Ice cores, ocean sediment cores, the geologic record, and studies of ancient plant and animal populations all demonstrate a regular cyclic pattern of Ice Age glacial maximums which each last about 100,000 years, separated by intervening warm interglacials, each lasting about ...
Mouse with human ear and a sheep with a human head
Post Date: 2010-01-13 19:06:58 by Itistoolate
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Sheep give birth to Human Faced Lamb (lib love child?) english.pravda.ru/science...111621-sheep_human_face-0
Global Warming Is a Religion [Nothing New, but Classic Walter Williams]
Post Date: 2010-01-13 10:33:15 by Eric Stratton
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Global Warming Is a Religion Walter E. Williams Wednesday, January 13, 2010 Manmade global warming, for many, is an Earth-worshipping religion. The essential feature of any religion is that its pronouncements are to be accepted on the basis of faith as opposed to hard evidence. Questioning those pronouncements makes one a sinner. No one denies that the Earth's temperature changes. Millions of years ago, much of our planet was covered by ice, at some places up to a mile thick, a period some scientists call "Snowball Earth." Today, the Earth is not covered by a mile of ice; a safe conclusion is that there must have been a bit of global warming. I don't know the cause of ...
Dancing Bears of India - A Little Good News
Post Date: 2010-01-12 20:57:55 by tom007
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Anatomy of A Brain Fart
Post Date: 2010-01-12 10:57:59 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Anatomy of A Brain Fart When your brain gets bored, it unleashes the stupidest of all stupid mistakes. by Leeaundra Keany On the scorecard the play is marked simply as an “error.” But that hardly conveys the magnitude of the blunder committed by Chicago Cubs outfielder Milton Bradley. It is June 12, 2009, in a home game against the Minnesota Twins. Top of the eighth, one out. Bradley catches a routine fly ball. Thinking he has just ended the inning, he tosses the ball into the stands and poses for pictures. Only then does he remember that there are three outs in an inning, not two. The Twins score a run. The Cubbies eventually lose the game. A rookie mistake? Actually, Bradley ...
The End of Global Warming
Post Date: 2010-01-10 11:11:45 by christine
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Five-Year Average Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2006. By: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization The story of manmade global warming is over. In reality it never existed except in the minds and hearts of grant-seeking scientists and academics, ratings-obsessed television networks and their misinformed viewers and opportunistic eco-activists. That said, climate change is real. The earth has been coming out of a 450-year cold era known as the “Little Ice Age” since it bottomed out in the late 1600s. Hundreds of studies have verified the existence of this cold period. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tried to erase the ...
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