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Black Hole Closer to Earth Than Thought
Post Date: 2009-12-15 23:24:48 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Astronomers have accurately measured the distance between Earth and a particular black hole for the first time. And wow, is it close. The researchers determined that the black hole V404 Cygni is located 7,800 light-years from Earth — or just slightly more than half the distance that was previously assumed. That puts it relatively nearby to Earth, where the distance to the center of the galaxy is about 26,000 light-years, and the nearest star beyond the sun is a mere 4.2 light-years away. The more accurate distance measurement will enable scientists to paint a better picture of how black holes evolve, the team says. "For example, we hope to be able to answer the question as to ...
Aussie scientists find coconut-carrying octopus
Post Date: 2009-12-15 23:03:29 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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SYDNEY – Australian scientists have discovered an octopus in Indonesia that collects coconut shells for shelter — unusually sophisticated behavior that the researchers believe is the first evidence of tool use in an invertebrate animal. The scientists filmed the veined octopus, Amphioctopus marginatus, selecting halved coconut shells from the sea floor, emptying them out, carrying them under their bodies up to 65 feet (20 meters), and assembling two shells together to make a spherical hiding spot. Julian Finn and Mark Norman of Museum Victoria in Melbourne observed the odd activity in four of the creatures during a series of dive trips to North Sulawesi and Bali in Indonesia ...
Merry Christmas- Elvis at his best with Martina McBride
Post Date: 2009-12-15 18:58:51 by Itistoolate
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Previously undiscovered ancient city found on Caribbean sea floor
Post Date: 2009-12-15 15:29:43 by christine
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WASHINGTON, DC (Herald de Paris) - EXCLUSIVE - Researchers have revealed the first images from the Caribbean sea floor of what they believe are the archaeological remains of an ancient civilization. Guarding the location’s coordinates carefully, the project’s leader, who wishes to remain anonymous at this time, says the city could be thousands of years old; possibly even pre-dating the ancient Egyptian pyramids, at Giza. The site was found using advanced satellite imagery, and is not in any way associated with the alleged site found by Russian explorers near Cuba in 2001, at a depth of 2300 feet. “To be seen on satellite, our site is much shallower.” The team is ...
Poll Shows Drop in Belief in Global Warming
Post Date: 2009-12-14 23:39:14 by farmfriend
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Poll Shows Drop in Belief in Global Warming Written by James Heiser Monday, 14 December 2009 11:15 A new CBS News/New York Times poll shows that a clear majority of the American people do not believe global warming should be a high priority for government action. What they do believe should be the priority is the economy. According to a story at CBSNews.com, With world leaders debating how to address climate change in Copenhagen and the U.S. Senate poised to take up a climate bill in the coming months, a new CBS News/New York Times poll finds that just 37 percent of Americans believe the issue should be a priority for government leaders. That's a significant drop from April of 200 ...
Piganini Ventro quatro
Post Date: 2009-12-13 21:15:29 by tom007
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Dutch politician asks if aid really aids
Post Date: 2009-12-12 05:53:14 by Ada
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In a new book, former politican Arend Jan Boekestijn joins the choir of people challenging the usefulness of development aid. Arend Jan Boekestijn, a former member of parliament for the right-wing liberal party VVD, presented his long-awaited book about development aid on Thursday. The book, which he has promised will "reveal all" about development aid is tellingly titled: The Price of a Bad Conscience. Its main tenet: the current tools of the development trade lead to aid-addiction in receiving countries and something needs to be done about it fast. "I fear that development aid in its current form does more harm than it does good," Boekesteijn said on Thursday ...
The Fiction of Climate Science
Post Date: 2009-12-11 06:12:05 by Ada
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Many of you are too young to remember, but in 1975 our government pushed "the coming ice age." Random House dutifully printed "THE WEATHER CONSPIRACY … coming of the New Ice Age." This may be the only book ever written by 18 authors. All 18 lived just a short sled ride from Washington, D.C. Newsweek fell in line and did a cover issue warning us of global cooling on April 28, 1975. And The New York Times, Aug. 14, 1976, reported "many signs that Earth may be headed for another ice age." OK, you say, that's media. But what did our rational scientists say? In 1974, the National Science Board announced: "During the last 20 to 30 years, world ...
Revolutionary lens implants gives wearers amazing HD vision
Post Date: 2009-12-10 21:48:15 by christine
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The first patients in Britain have had lens implants that gives them 'high definition' vision. The artificial lenses improves the wearers sight to such an extent that it is sharper even than the ideal 20/20. Eye surgeon Bobby Qureshi, who led the pioneering team at Spire Gatwick Park Hospital, described the tecnique as a 'hugely signifcant development.' 'We have the potential here to change patients’ vision to how it was when they were young,' he said. The process involves implanting the lens into the eye using the standard procedure for cataracts and then fine-tuning the focus. The lens, made from a special light-sensitive silicone, is the first that can ...
Genetic ancestry highly correlated with ethnic and linguistic groups in Asia
Post Date: 2009-12-10 17:19:06 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Genetic ancestry highly correlated with ethnic and linguistic groups in Asia 73 Southeast Asian and East Asian populations genetically mapped Several genome-wide studies of human genetic diversity have been conducted on European populations. Now, for the first time, these studies have been extended to 73 Southeast Asian (SEA) and East Asian (EA) populations. In a paper titled, "Mapping Human Genetic Diversity in Asia," published online Science on 10 Dec. 2009, over 90 scientists from the Human Genome Organisation's (HUGO's) Pan-Asian SNP Consortium report that their study conducted within and between the different populations in the Asia continent showed that genetic ...
Ten Facts & Ten Myths On Climate Change
Post Date: 2009-12-10 11:31:11 by Original_Intent
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Ten Facts & Ten Myths On Climate Change By Prof. Robert M. Carter James Cook University, Queensland, Australia Global Research.ca 12-9-9 1. Climate has always changed, and it always will. The assumption that prior to the industrial revolution the Earth had a "stable" climate is simply wrong. The only sensible thing to do about climate change is to prepare for it. 2. Accurate temperature measurements made from weather balloons and satellites since the late 1950s show no atmospheric warmingsince 1958. In contrast, averaged ground-based thermometers record a warming of about 0.40 C over the same time period. Many scientists believe that the thermometer record is biased by the ...
New Asian, African Genome Assemblies Reveal Novel Human Sequence
Post Date: 2009-12-09 16:54:06 by Prefrontal Vortex
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New Asian, African Genome Assemblies Reveal Novel Human Sequence December 08, 2009 By a GenomeWeb staff reporter NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – A Beijing Genomics Institute-led team has gotten a bit closer to the goal of creating a "pan genome" representing genome sequence from diverse human populations. The team used short-read assembly approaches to put together new Asian and African genomes, which they then compared with the current human reference sequence. The result: about five million bases of sequence not found in the reference. Based on the findings, which appeared online last night in Nature Biotechnology, the team speculated that future efforts to develop a human ...
CMU researchers find intense tutoring grows brain connections
Post Date: 2009-12-09 15:49:50 by Prefrontal Vortex
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CMU researchers find intense tutoring grows brain connections Wednesday, December 09, 2009 By Mark Roth, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Carnegie Mellon University scientists have shown that school children who undergo intensive remedial reading instruction actually grow new connections in their brains. The study, being reported tomorrow in the journal Neuron, shows that 35 third and fifth graders from Allegheny County who got 100 hours of intensive instruction not only improved their reading skills, but grew new white-matter connections in the left halves of their brains, said lead researchers Marcel Just and Timothy Keller of Carnegie Mellon's Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging. The white ...
We've Been Had
Post Date: 2009-12-09 09:29:59 by Eric Stratton
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We've Been Had Walter E. Williams Wednesday, December 09, 2009 Last year, my column "Global Warming Rope-A-Dope" (12/24/08) started out: "Americans have been rope-a-doped into believing that global warming is going to destroy the planet. Scientists who have been skeptical about manmade global warming have been called traitors or handmaidens of big oil." New evidence proves that climatologists and environmental policy advocates have not only fed us lies, engaged in scientific and academic fraud but committed criminal acts as well. Last month, Russian computer hackers obtained thousands of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia ...
Media Missing the Plot on ‘Climate Gate’: It’s the Fraud, Stupid!
Post Date: 2009-12-09 08:20:44 by wudidiz
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Media Missing the Plot on ‘Climate Gate’: It’s the Fraud, Stupid! by Christopher C. Horner To the credit of the New York Times, Associated Press and Washington Post — reliable outlets for promoting global warming alarmism, protecting those who craft it and marginalizing those who point out its weaknesses and excesses — they all ran stories in the past 48 hours addressing the documents somehow obtained from the computers of a UK university serving as the warming movement and industry’s Mother Ship. My great surprise is even greater because these outlets have demonstrated a pattern of only giving ink to embarrassing controversies after a week or so, once it ...
The Myth of Neutral Academic Peer Review Exploded
Post Date: 2009-12-09 06:30:45 by Ada
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A generation ago, Daniel Ellsberg stole thousands of documents from the Rand Corporation, photocopied them, and gave them to the New York Times, which began publishing them. Ellsberg was prosecuted by the government. So was the Times. The defendants won. Only after the Times broke the story did the mainstream press pick up on it. The Times got its scoop, and the Nixon administration had no way to stop it. This led to Nixon's decision to stop the leaks with the Plumbers squad. That led to his defeat. The Pentagon Papers did not directly undermine Nixon. He was re-elected in 1972 by a landslide. But the papers reinforced seeds of doubt about the war in Vietnam. Four years later, ...
Unveiling the Future
Post Date: 2009-12-08 23:06:11 by X-15
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December 7, 2009—Private commercial spaceflight inched closer to reality Monday as Virgin Galactic took the wraps off SpaceShipTwo, the VSS Enterprise, during a special unveiling event at the Mojave Air and Spaceport in California. More than 800 guests and media from around the world were on hand as Virgin Galactic Founder Sir Richard Branson and Scaled Composites Founder Burt Rutan pulled the wraps off the sleek space liner that will be the first vehicle to offer commercial suborbital space flights to the paying public. “It could not have gone better,” said EAA President/Chairman Tom Poberezny, who was in attendance. “To see WhiteKnightTwo mated to SpaceShipTwo for the ...
Global Warming: 'Fixing the Climate Data Around the Policy'
Post Date: 2009-12-08 06:40:24 by Ada
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More than 15,000 people will be gathering in Copenhagen for COP 15: the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Official delegations from 192 nations will mingle with the representatives of major multinational corporations, including Royal Dutch Shell, British Petroleum, The representatives of environmental and civil society organizations will also be in attendance. Parties & Observers Heads of state and heads of government are slated to be in appearance in the later part of the Summit event. (See The essentials in Copenhagen – COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009.) It is worth noting that key decisions ...
New Study Reveals Most Children Unrepentant Sociopaths
Post Date: 2009-12-08 06:11:28 by wudidiz
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New Study Reveals Most Children Unrepentant Sociopaths December 7, 2009 MINNEAPOLIS—A study published Monday in The Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry has concluded that an estimated 98 percent of children under the age of 10 are remorseless sociopaths with little regard for anything other than their own egocentric interests and pleasures. Data shows that many seemingly innocent children—such as this one—are not to be trusted. According to Dr. Leonard Mateo, a developmental psychologist at the University of Minnesota and lead author of the study, most adults are completely unaware that they could be living among callous monsters who would remorselessly ...
The sky calls to us...
Post Date: 2009-12-06 22:41:06 by Armadillo
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John Boswell over at Colorpulse Music is a mad genius, sampling both Cosmos and Stephen Hawking's Universe series into three minutes and thirty-four seconds of pure, concentrated awesomeness.-Nick Sagan. Sagan-Hawking music video- Another, "we are all connected" Click for Full Text!
Framed for child porn — by a PC virus
Post Date: 2009-12-05 11:07:24 by christine
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Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography. Heinous pictures and videos can be deposited on computers by viruses — the malicious programs better known for swiping your credit card numbers. In this twist, it's your reputation that's stolen. Pedophiles can exploit virus-infected PCs to remotely store and view their stash without fear they'll get caught. Pranksters or someone trying to frame you can tap viruses to make it appear that you surf illegal Web sites. Whatever the motivation, you get child porn on your computer — and might not realize it until police knock at ...
EFF sues feds for info on social-network surveillance
Post Date: 2009-12-04 14:20:07 by purpleman
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the CIA, the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Justice, and three other government agencies on Tuesday for allegedly refusing to release information about how they are using social networks in surveillance and investigations. The nonprofit Internet rights watchdog group formally asked more than a dozen agencies or departments in early October to provide records about federal guidelines on the use of sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr for investigative or data gathering purposes, according to the lawsuit. The requests were prompted by published news reports about how authorities are using social networks to monitor citizen activities ...
Climategate emails force Al Gore to cancel talk at Copenhagen
Post Date: 2009-12-04 06:25:17 by Ada
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Al Gore's scheduled December 16th speech with the auspicious title "Climate Conclusion" has been canceled amid the scandal of Climategate. About 3,000 Danes had tickets for the Berlinske Media event that was announced in August. Al Gore has been the poster child for Global Warming, but has been under scrutiny from scientists who argue against the findings of humans' involvement in our climate. This was highlighted in the documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle. A British court had ruled that there were 9 factual errors in An Inconvenient Truth, yet it still won an Academy Award in 2007, along with the Nobel Prize shared with the IPCC. Again in November, mistakes were ...
Google Public DNS and Your Privacy
Post Date: 2009-12-03 20:47:48 by buckeroo
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Google's expanding its grasp on the Internet with a newly revealed DNS resolving service. Google Public DNS, announced Thursday on Google's blog, will offer you an alternative way to connect to Web sites. As with the launch of most Google services, people are starting to ask questions about what kind of data will be collected and how exactly it will be used. (Or, in more lay terms, "Is Google going to be evil?") Here are some straight-forward answers, straight from the source. Google Public DNS: An Introduction First, a brief description of what exactly Google Public DNS is: In a nutshell, the DNS -- or domain name system -- is what actually finds and directs you to a ...
Intel unveils 48-core cloud computing silicon chip
Post Date: 2009-12-03 18:54:39 by wudidiz
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Intel unveils 48-core cloud computing silicon chip The chip is likely to find a role in data and hosting centres Intel has unveiled a prototype chip that packs 48 separate processing cores on to a chunk of silicon the size of a postage stamp.
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