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Interesting looking clouds seen
Post Date: 2009-06-06 09:42:55 by PSUSA
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Sweat = Threat? Army Looks at ‘Abnormal Perspiration’ as Sign of ‘Harmful Intent’
Post Date: 2009-06-01 12:12:11 by christine
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If you walk weird, make funny faces, or sweat a little too much — watch out, when you walk into an airport. The U.S. military wants to use those irregularities as “indicators” of “possibly suspicious and harmful intent.” The Army recently asked for proposals for a new suite of biometric sensors that will hunt for bad-minded people by examining their “expressions, gait, and pose” from afar. The “Image Analysis for Personnel Intent” project is also supposed to spot would-be evil-doers through their “abnormal perspiration and changes in body temperature.” (Note to would-be Osamas: Don’t send the sweaty guy to hijack the plane.) The ...
(NY State) May to go out under a freeze watch
Post Date: 2009-05-31 14:11:08 by Jethro Tull
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The National Weather Service has issued a freeze watch for many parts of New York from Sunday through Monday morning, including Oneida County. Widespread frost and freeze conditions are possible tonight and into early Monday morning. The region’s low temperature for today is expected to be about 36 degrees, which also is the record low temperature for May 31, according to WKTV meteorologists and weather archives. The record was set in 1966. A low of 50 degrees is expected for Monday. The record low for June 1 is 31 degrees, which was set in 1945, according to weather archives.
Poster Comment:The science of global warming is over. It's freezing.
Forensic Scientists Working on Technology to Render Face Photos Solely from DNA Left At Crime Scene
Post Date: 2009-05-29 13:24:34 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Forensic Scientists Working on Technology to Render Face Photos Solely from DNA Left At Crime Scene Sunday, May 24, 2009 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer Key concepts: DNA, Genes and Skin pigmentation (NaturalNews) Forensic scientists are working on a way to reconstruct a person's face based on their DNA, allowing police to identify people more effectively from something as simple as a piece of hair or flake of skin, according to research presented at the conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago. Currently, researchers can compare DNA samples taken from suspects with those found at a crime scene to help secure convictions, but this is only ...
Obama Set to Create A Cybersecurity Czar With Broad Mandate
Post Date: 2009-05-26 13:55:05 by Disgusted
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President Obama is expected to announce late this week that he will create a "cyber czar," a senior White House official who will have broad authority to develop strategy to protect the nation's government-run and private computer networks, according to people who have been briefed on the plan. The adviser will have the most comprehensive mandate granted to such an official to date and will probably be a member of the National Security Council but will report to the national security adviser as well as the senior White House economic adviser, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deliberations are not final. The announcement will coincide with ...
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, First Hour
Post Date: 2009-05-24 16:14:15 by Deasy
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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a thirteen-part television series presented by Carl Sagan. covered a wide range of scientific subjects including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe. It is the most widely watched PBS series in the world.
Poster Comment:If you miss hearing Dr. Sagan say "billions" it's archived here for posterity. His tour of the universe is always a humbling experience. Exceptionalists of all stripes should watch this at least once.
Shuttle coming in Fox Coverage
Post Date: 2009-05-24 11:38:00 by Itistoolate
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www.dougberndt.com/fox-news-live.htm
Colusa power plant shows importance of fossil fuels
Post Date: 2009-05-24 11:14:00 by farmfriend
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Colusa power plant shows importance of fossil fuels By Jim Downing jdowning@sacbee.com Published: Sunday, May. 24, 2009 - 12:08 am | Page 1D The Capitol may be buzzing about renewable energy, but 70 miles up Interstate 5, the biggest thing going is a new Pacific Gas and Electric Co. power plant that will run on natural gas. In Colusa County, which routinely has the state's highest unemployment rate, officials are looking to the billion-dollar project as a bit of an economic balm. As many as 650 construction workers will build the plant – though most will come from outside the county. Taxes on the project should give a nearly 10 percent boost to the county's general fund. ...
MONKEY SKULL FOUND: THE LINK IN HUMAN EVOLUTION?
Post Date: 2009-05-19 10:18:34 by christine
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At 1430 GMT, SKYNEWS will reveal pictures, 47-million-year-old fossilized skeleton of monkey hailed as 'missing link in human evolution... direct link between apes and man'... Developing... In what could prove to be a landmark discovery, a leading paleontologist said scientists have dug up the 47 million-year-old fossil of an ancient primate whose features suggest it could be the common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes and humans. Anthropologists have long believed that humans evolved from ancient ape-like ancestors. Some 50 million years ago, two ape-like groups walked the Earth. One is known as the tarsidae, a precursor of the tarsier, a tiny, large-eyed creature that lives ...
GPS system 'close to breakdown' Network of satellites could begin to fail as early as 2010
Post Date: 2009-05-19 10:12:54 by christine
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It has become one of the staples of modern, hi-tech life: using satellite navigation tools built into your car or mobile phone to find your way from A to B. But experts have warned that the system may be close to breakdown. US government officials are concerned that the quality of the Global Positioning System (GPS) could begin to deteriorate as early as next year, resulting in regular blackouts and failures – or even dishing out inaccurate directions to millions of people worldwide. The warning centres on the network of GPS satellites that constantly orbit the planet and beam signals back to the ground that help pinpoint your position on the Earth's surface. The satellites are ...
Pouring cold water on global warming
Post Date: 2009-05-17 23:43:43 by farmfriend
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Pouring cold water on global warming Global cooling has arrived. Global warming is dead. By Terri Jackson Wednesday, 13 May 2009 There is now irrefutable scientific evidence that far from global warming the earth has now entered a period of global cooling which will last at least for the next two decades. Evidence for this comes from the NASA Microwave Sounding Unit and the Hadley Climate Research Unit while evidence that CO2 levels are continuing to increase comes from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. Professor Don Easterbrook one of the principle speakers at the recent World Conference on climate change held in New York in March this year attended by 800 leading climatologists, ...
‘Killer Chip’ tracks humans, releases poison
Post Date: 2009-05-17 10:13:23 by bush_is_a_moonie
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You can run, but you cannot hide ... and if you try, one push of a button will cause a lethal poison to immediately begin flowing through your body. That's the Orwellian future a Saudi inventor was seeking to bring to Germany until that nation's patent office announced last week it was rejecting his request to patent what has been dubbed the "Killer Chip." The tiny semiconductor device is intended to be surgically implanted or injected into the body, according to the patent application, for the purpose of tracking visitors from other nations by global-positioning satellites and preventing them from overstaying their visas. A German Patent and Trademark Office ...
What if global-warming fears are overblown?
Post Date: 2009-05-17 01:50:03 by farmfriend
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What if global-warming fears are overblown? In a Fortune interview, noted climatologist John Christy contends the green crusade to fight climate change is "all cost and no benefit." By Jon Birger, senior writer Last Updated: May 14, 2009: 5:07 PM ET NEW YORK (Fortune) -- With Congress about to take up sweeping climate-change legislation, expect to hear more in coming weeks from John Christy, director of the Earth System Science Center at University of Alabama-Huntsville. A veteran climatologist who refuses to accept any research funding from the oil or auto industries, Christy was a lead author of the 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report as well as one of the ...
Airman Spots Jetliner Fuel Leak At35,000 Feet
Post Date: 2009-05-15 20:51:53 by tom007
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Autopia Planes, Trains, Automobiles and the Future of Transportation Airman Spots Jetliner’s Fuel Leak At 35,000 Feet * By Chuck Squatriglia Email Author * May 15, 2009 | * 12:28 pm | * Categories: Air Travel fuel_leak2 Staff Sgt. Bartek Bachleda knew something was amiss almost immediately after the jetliner left Chicago. He’d looked out the window and saw what he thought was a fuel leak. He’d know, because he’s a boom operator with the 909th Air Refueling Station based at Kadena Air Base in Japan. That’s where he was headed. He was one of 300 people aboard the flight bound for Narita. Still, he wanted to be sure, so he kept close watch on the situation. After ...
Claim: Swine Flu Was Result Of Human Error
Post Date: 2009-05-13 02:41:30 by sushigirl
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By Jason Gale and Simeon Bennett May 13 (Bloomberg) -- The World Health Organization is investigating a claim by an Australian researcher that the swine flu virus circling the globe may have been created as a result of human error. Adrian Gibbs, 75, who collaborated on research that led to the development of Roche Holding AG’s Tamiflu drug, said in an interview that he intends to publish a report suggesting the new strain may have accidentally evolved in eggs scientists use to grow viruses and drugmakers use to make vaccines. Gibbs said he came to his conclusion as part of an effort to trace the virus’s origins by analyzing its genetic blueprint. “One of the simplest ...
Ideology and Censorship in Behavior Genetics
Post Date: 2009-05-10 11:12:15 by Deasy
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Ideology and Censorship in Behavior Genetics Glayde Whitney's Presidential address to the Behavior Genetics Association The Mankind Quarterly, vol. 35, number 4, pp. 327-342 Scott-Townsend Publishers, Washington DC., Summer 1995 Presented below is the entire text of my presidential address presented to the Behavior Genetics Association (BGA) on the occasion of its 25th annual meeting at Richmond, VA on the second of June, 1995. Since the journal Behavior Genetics is sponsored by the BGA, some explanation is required as to why this presidential address is not published in the Association's own journal. The primary topic of the address was ideologically-based dogma and taboo ...
More Moon Anomlies
Post Date: 2009-05-09 16:11:31 by gengis gandhi
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lots of stuff at the site. here is a good place as any to start. http://www.aulis.com/jackstudies_index1.html
Lawrence Solomon: Thick Arctic ice surprises scientific expedition
Post Date: 2009-05-09 15:44:05 by Horse
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Ice in the Arctic is often twice as thick as expected, report surprised scientists who returned last week from a major scientific expedition. The scientists - a 20-member contingent from Canada, the U.S., Germany, and Italy - spent one month exploring the North Pole as well as never-before measured regions of the Arctic. Among their findings: Rather than finding newly formed ice to be two metres thick, "we measured ice thickness up to four metres," stated a spokesperson for the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research of the Helmholtz Association, Germany's largest scientific organization. The Alfred Wegener Institute is one of the six research organizations ...
STRANGE MOON FACTS
Post Date: 2009-05-05 11:45:16 by gengis gandhi
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STRANGE MOON FACTS Compiled by Ronald Regehr, the Alien Chaser The moon is the Rosetta stone of the planets." —Robert Jastrow, First Chairman, NASA Lunar Exploration Committee After hundreds of years of detailed observation and study, our closest companion in the vast universe, Earth’s moon, remains an enigma. Six moon landings and hundreds of experiments have resulted in more questions being asked than answered. Among them: 1. Moon’s Age: The moon is far older than previously expected. Maybe even older than the Earth or the Sun. The oldest age for the Earth is estimated to be 4.6 billion years old; moon rocks were dated at 5.3 billion years old, and the dust upon ...
Africans must travel to the moon: Uganda president
Post Date: 2009-05-05 01:16:51 by X-15
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Africans must travel to the moon to investigate what developed nations have been doing in outer space, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said Saturday. “The Americans have gone to the moon. And the Russians. The Chinese and Indians will go there soon. Africans are the only ones who are stuck here,” Museveni said, addressing a meeting of the Uganda Law Society in Entebbe. “We must also go there and say: ‘What are you people doing up here?’” Museveni urged the assembly of Uganda’s top lawyers to support East African integration, arguing that one of the region’s goals should be to develop a space programme. “Uganda alone cannot go to the moon. ...
East Versus West
Post Date: 2009-05-04 13:33:58 by Prefrontal Vortex
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East Versus West Richard Nisbett used to be a universalist. Like many cognitive scientists, the University of Michigan professor held that all people—from the Kung tribe that forages in southern Africa to programmers in Silicon Valley—process sensory information the same way. But after visiting Peking University in 1982 and partnering with an Asian researcher, Nisbett found his beliefs challenged. He embarked on a project to probe the thought processes of East Asians and European Americans. His experiment presented subjects with a virtual aquarium on a computer screen. “The Americans would say, ‘I saw three big fish swimming off to the left. They had pink fins.’ ...
An invention that could change the internet for ever
Post Date: 2009-05-04 12:09:31 by Horse
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The biggest internet revolution for a generation will be unveiled this month with the launch of software that will understand questions and give specific, tailored answers in a way that the web has never managed before. The new system, Wolfram Alpha, showcased at Harvard University in the US last week, takes the first step towards what many consider to be the internet's Holy Grail – a global store of information that understands and responds to ordinary language in the same way a person does. Although the system is still new, it has already produced massive interest and excitement among technology pundits and internet watchers. Computer experts believe the new search engine will ...
Laser-Controlled Humans Closer to Reality
Post Date: 2009-05-03 13:22:59 by christine
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Flashes of light may one day be used to control the human brain, and that day just got a lot closer. Using lasers, researchers at the MIT Media Lab were able to activate a specific set of neurons in a monkey’s brain. Though the technique has been used to control and explore neural circuits in fish, flies and rodents, this is the first time the much-hyped technology has ever been used in primates. “It paves the way for new therapies that could target a number of psychiatric disorders,” said MIT neuroscientist Ed Boyden, who led the research with postdoctoral fellow Xue Han. “This is very exciting from a translational standpoint.” The beauty of this optogenetic ...
Kathrine Albrecht Interview on SPY CHIPS (RFID)
Post Date: 2009-05-02 19:59:50 by Itistoolate
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Recipe for Destruction (Flu)
Post Date: 2009-05-01 18:14:22 by Jethro Tull
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Recipe for Destruction Sign In to E-Mail ThisPrinter-Friendly Save Article By RAY KURZWEIL and BILL JOYPublished: October 17, 2005 AFTER a decade of painstaking research, federal and university scientists have reconstructed the 1918 influenza virus that killed 50 million people worldwide. Like the flu viruses now raising alarm bells in Asia, the 1918 virus was a bird flu that jumped directly to humans, the scientists reported. To shed light on how the virus evolved, the United States Department of Health and Human Services published the full genome of the 1918 influenza virus on the Internet in the GenBank database. Skip to next paragraph This is extremely foolish. ...
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