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The missing sunspots: Is this the big chill?
Post Date: 2009-04-30 21:56:29 by farmfriend
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The missing sunspots: Is this the big chill? Scientists are baffled by what they’re seeing on the Sun’s surface – nothing at all. And this lack of activity could have a major impact on global warming. David Whitehouse investigates Monday, 27 April 2009 Could the Sun play a greater role in recent climate change than has been believed? Climatologists had dismissed the idea and some solar scientists have been reticent about it because of its connections with those who those who deny climate change. But now the speculation has grown louder because of what is happening to our Sun. No living scientist has seen it behave this way. There are no sunspots. The disappearance of ...
Blinders
Post Date: 2009-04-29 06:52:13 by Ada
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At the height of the Cold War, a U.S. army corps commander in Europe asked for information on his Soviet opposite, the commander of the corps facing him across the inter-German border. All the U.S. intelligence agencies, working with classified material, came up with very little. He then took his question to Chris Donnelly, who had a small Soviet military research institute at Sandhurst. That institute worked solely from open source, i.e. unclassified material. It sent the American general a stack of reports six inches high, with articles by his Soviet counterpart, articles about him, descriptions of exercises he had played in, etc. What was true during the Cold War is even more true now, ...
Acxiom: the company that knows if you own a cat or if you're right-handed
Post Date: 2009-04-27 23:30:18 by DeaconBenjamin
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Somewhere in Little Rock, Arkansas, there is a database holding 750bn pieces of information on you, me and everyone we know. John Meyer is the man in charge of these sensitive details in one of the world's largest consumer information databases: approximately 1,500 facts about half a billion people worldwide. Surely I can't be on there. I have nothing to do with Acxiom, a little-known, US-listed $700m (£500m) data gathering and marketing services company. "Oh we do have you on our database. I guarantee you," Mr Meyer assures me. "Your name address, phone number. You have a cat. You're right handed. That sort of thing." This is true. I'm not sure ...
Europe's first human swine flu case confirmed in Spain
Post Date: 2009-04-27 21:15:19 by tom007
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Europe's first human swine flu case confirmed in Spain 16:39 | 27/ 04/ 2009 Print version MADRID, April 27 (RIA Novosti) - The first human case of swine flu in Europe has been confirmed in Spain, the country's government said on Monday. Spanish Health Minister Trinidad Jimenez said a 23-year-old Spanish man who recently returned from Mexico started showing symptoms of the virus on Saturday and was later hospitalized in Almansa in southeast Spain. The minister said another 20 other people in Spain are suspected of infection with the virus. Authorities around the world have begun closely monitoring incoming flights from Mexico, checking passengers for signs of infection with the ...
Jump You F*#kers
Post Date: 2009-04-24 23:14:13 by randge
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Poster Comment:How do you get a banker out of a tree? Cut the rope.
Denial Can Bring Marital Bliss
Post Date: 2009-04-24 13:02:59 by Rotara
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LiveScience's Human Nature ColumnistLiveScience.com meredith F. Smalllivescience's Human Nature Columnistlivescience.com – 2 hrs 34 mins ago With the divorce rate hovering around 50 percent, and so many people married more than once, it sometimes feels like humans are terrible at figuring out long-term love. The typical pattern starts with falling head-over-heels for someone, with all its heat-thumping, starry-eyed craziness, and it takes a while before that fog dissipates and the real object of desire comes into focus. Often, the truth doesn't hit until after marriage when the real person, warts and all, wakes up next to you in bed wearing a ...
Nuts at dawn: squirrels fight for survival
Post Date: 2009-04-23 13:05:00 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Nuts at dawn: squirrels fight for survival 11 hours ago LONDON (AFP) — Deep in the heart of seemingly peaceful countryside, a fierce battle for survival is being waged between the domestic red squirrel, its tougher grey cousin -- and a new mutant arrival. Where there were once 3.5 million red squirrels in the country, only about 150,000 remain. About 75 percent of these live in the wild in Scotland, while most of the rest are protected in nature reserves in northern England. A plethora of organisations comprising hundreds of members have sprung up in their support, and in recent months they have stepped up their efforts to check the cause of this slaughter -- the grey squirrel. ...
Ozone Hole Causes Antarctic Sea Ice to Expand, Slows Warming
Post Date: 2009-04-23 12:26:00 by Brian S
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April 23 (Bloomberg) -- The ozone hole over the South Pole is canceling out the effects of global warming and causing sea ice production to build up around Antarctica, researchers said. The human-induced depletion of the protective ozone layer has altered wind patterns and caused temperatures in most of the southern continent to fall so that more cold air flows over the Southern Ocean, freezing the water, the scientists said today in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The cooling has led to an increase in ocean ice cover in the southern hemisphere of about 1 percent per decade for the past 30 years, a marked contrast to the other pole, where Arctic sea ice shrank to its lowest ...
Austin man's roadster goes fast - without gas
Post Date: 2009-04-22 14:19:42 by christine
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Powered by home solar panels, vehicle offers 'guilt-free' ride. By Asher Price AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Tuesday, April 21, 2009 Just before Barry McConachie presses down the pedal of his bright red Tesla Roadster, he likes to give a quick glance up and down the wooded road to make sure his neighborhood is all clear. Then, as the car pins him back with roller-coaster-like acceleration, he breaks into one of his self-described "Tesla grins" — a smug mug that says, man, can this thing move. It can leap to 60 mph from a standstill in less than four seconds, but it requires not an ounce of gasoline: His convertible is electric-powered, with total emissions of zero. ...
I've cloned a human: Extraordinary claims of a doctor who 'has implanted embryos into four women'
Post Date: 2009-04-22 10:45:03 by christine
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A controversial doctor has claimed to have cloned human embryos and transferred them to four women prepared to give birth to the first cloned babies. Fertility specialist Panayiotis Zavos sensationally broke the sacred taboo of human individuality by cloning 14 embryos and placing 11 of them into the wombs of four women, he told The Independent. A British woman was alleged to be among the one single and three married patients who were said to be happy to become pregnant with the first cloned embryos specifically created for the purpose of human reproduction. The other women came from the United States and an unidentified country in the Middle East. A documentary-maker told The ...
EPA takes first step toward climate change regs
Post Date: 2009-04-17 11:05:58 by christine
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases are a danger to public health and welfare. It is the first step to regulating pollution linked to climate change. Congressional sources told The Associated Press that EPA will announce its proposed finding Friday and begin a comment period before issuing a final ruling. The EPA also will say tailpipe emissions from motor vehicles contribute to climate change. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the finding hasn't been announced. The action was prompted by a Supreme Court ruling two years that said greenhouse gases are pollutants under the Clean Air ...
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow -- in April
Post Date: 2009-04-17 10:38:55 by christine
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Storm brings rain, strong winds to Las Vegas region A chill moved across Las Vegas late Tuesday and Wednesday, bringing lower temperatures and strong winds to the valley. Five inches of snow fell Tuesday night on Mount Charleston, and trace amounts of rain were recorded at McCarran International Airport. The National Weather Service said Wednesday's high was 59 degrees, which fell short of the record low high of 56 degrees set in 1998. "This is definitely not your typical April day," said Barry Pierce, weather service meteorologist. Flurries were spotted in parts of Summerlin and Henderson, while in other parts of Las Vegas, high winds took shingles off homes. Federal ...
Cure For Honey Bee Colony Collapse?
Post Date: 2009-04-16 16:33:12 by Horse
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For the first time, scientists have isolated the parasite Nosema ceranae (Microsporidia) from professional apiaries suffering from honey bee colony depopulation syndrome. They then went on to treat the infection with complete success. In a study published in the new journal from the Society for Applied Microbiology: Environmental Microbiology Reports, scientists from Spain analysed two apiaries and found evidence of honey bee colony depopulation syndrome (also known as colony collapse disorder in the USA). They found no evidence of any other cause of the disease (such as the Varroa destructor, IAPV or pesticides), other than infection with Nosema ceranae. The researchers then treated the ...
Stephen Crothers: Why Black Holes Don't Exist
Post Date: 2009-04-14 12:57:37 by Horse
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http://www.youstupidrelativist.com/03Intro.html A new language The casual browser and superficial reader typically get the wrong idea that this site is business as usual. So in order to minimize blind-siding the average visitor, I would like to say up front that this site relies on and uses a different language to communicate ideas. For instance, when I say that in Physics or in Science the word space means 'no shape,' I am not saying that this is what the idiots of the establishment mean by space. I am saying the this is what the word space means in genuine as opposed to contemporary 'science.' Whenever I want to represent or depict the official version, I will refer to ...
google earth anomalies
Post Date: 2009-04-13 21:36:54 by gengis gandhi
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http://www.googleearthanomalies.com/
Mars rover Spirit has unexplained computer reboots
Post Date: 2009-04-13 21:36:14 by gengis gandhi
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http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/scitech/2009/04/13/D97HTBRG0_mars_rovers/index.html Mars rover Spirit has unexplained computer reboots * Buzz up! * Share o Email o Digg o Facebook o StumbleUpon o Reddit * Print Apr 13th, 2009 | PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's aging Mars rover Spirit has rebooted its computer at least twice for unknown reasons. Rover project manager John Callas at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena said Monday that the rover is in a stable operations state called automode and can remain that way for some time while the problem is diagnosed. The reboots occurred during the past weekend. Callas says Spirit's batteries are charged, its solar arrays are producing ...
What your personal e-mail provider says about you
Post Date: 2009-04-13 06:22:11 by Ada
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April 9, 2009 (CIO) Almost everyone has a personal e-mail account today, and which provider you choose says a lot about who you are and what you stand for. @mac.com An Apple fanboy to the extreme, you have either an elegantly designed tattoo of Steve Jobs on your body or an iPod pocket sewn into all of your clothing. TYPICAL USER: Usually found in the hippest nonchain coffee shop, typing on a $3,000 precision aluminum unibody-enclosed MacBook Pro, white earbuds in proper position and iPhone 3G at the ready. And if Apple invented a laptop with a cumbersome wheel instead of a keyboard, you'd buy it. Fact. @gmail.com When Gmail rolled out in 2004, you thought you were pretty darn ...
A danish scientist Niels Harrit, on nano-thermite in the WTC dust ( english subtitles )
Post Date: 2009-04-12 22:45:56 by randge
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Poster Comment:It's been a long, long struggle, but I think the fuse is finally catching spark.
Tapping your cell phone
Post Date: 2009-04-11 08:25:25 by Itistoolate
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCyKcoDaofg Embedding disabled by request
Where is Clementine? (satellite)
Post Date: 2009-04-10 21:49:44 by rack42
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Cementine Moon Obiter (1994) National Space Science Data Center Read that carefully. The Navy paid for that satellite that orbited the moon for about 2 months. It had 6 cameras that recorded in different spectrums. Then, supposedly, it was fired out of orbit to meet with a near-earth astoroid "Geographos," whereupon 2 days later the attitude thrusters failed due to a processor failure (one processor failed where all anything launched into space has at least 3 processors linked into a "majority wins" type network?). This supposedly caused the satellite to "spin" at 80 or 81 rpm. From above link: "...so the spacecraft was put into a geocentric orbit ...
Perfect Space Storm Could be Catastrophic on Earth, Study Concludes
Post Date: 2009-04-10 16:03:02 by farmfriend
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Perfect Space Storm Could be Catastrophic on Earth, Study Concludes By Robert Roy Britt Editorial Director posted: 07 January 2009 09:03 am ET The sun works on a pretty well known 11-year cycle of activity, all measured by sunspots and solar flares. But like the stock market, the sunspot cycle is unpredictable. And just when astronomers thought it had hit bottom, it went lower. It has been a bear market for sunspots for many months now. That also means there have been no major space storms, which can zap satellites and threaten power grids on Earth. There were no sunspots observed on 266 days during 2008, or 73 percent of the time. The last year things were quieter was 1913, which had ...
Boston hospital performs face transplant
Post Date: 2009-04-10 11:11:00 by christine
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Boston hospital has performed the nation's second face transplant on a man who suffered traumatic facial injuries from a fall. Hospital spokesman Kevin Myron said the 17-hour operation took place Thursday at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital. A team led by plastic surgeon Dr. Bohdan Pomahac (Bow-DAWN POE-mahawk) replaced the man's nose, palate, upper lip, and some skin, muscles and nerves with those of a dead donor. The hospital would not identify the donor or the recipient, but plans a news conference Friday afternoon. The first U.S. face transplant was done in December by doctors at Cleveland Clinic who replaced 80 percent of a woman's face with that of a ...
Microsoft ‘security software’ is virus
Post Date: 2009-04-08 23:06:38 by DeaconBenjamin
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SAN FRANCISCO: Hackers are increasingly hiding viruses in bogus computer security software to trick people into installing treacherous programme s on machines, Microsoft warned on Wednesday. The software giant said in a security intelligence report that "rogue security software" is a growing threat as hackers take advantage of people's fears of worms such as the notorious Conficker. "Rogue security software is the number one threat worldwide," said George Stathakopoulos, general manager of the Trustworthy Computing Group at Microsoft. "If you think about the Conficker case, how many people went looking for a security solution and downloaded rogue ...
Russian Space Capsule Lands Safely With 3 Aboard
Post Date: 2009-04-08 12:47:53 by Brian S
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DZHEZKAZGAN, Kazakhstan (AP) — A Russian spacecraft carrying a crew of three including U.S. billionaire space tourist Charles Simonyi landed safely in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, officials said. The Soyuz capsule touched down around 11:15 a.m. (0715 GMT, 3:15 a.m. EDT) Wednesday, about three hours after leaving the international space station. It descended on parachutes and then hit the ground in a jarring puff of dust and dirt. Russian and American space officials and relatives of the Soyuz's crew applauded as the landing was announced at Russian Mission Control in Korolyov, on Moscow's northern outskirts. Within 20 minutes of the landing, Simonyi, Russian Yuri Lonchakov and ...
Solving the Mystery of the Vanishing Bees
Post Date: 2009-04-07 12:57:33 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Solving the Mystery of the Vanishing Bees The mysterious ailment called colony collapse disorder has wiped out large numbers of the bees that pollinate a third of our crops. The causes turn out to be surprisingly complex, but solutions are emerging By Diana Cox-Foster and Dennis vanEngelsdorp Dave Hackenberg makes a living moving honeybees. Up and down the East Coast and often coast to coast, Hackenberg trucks his beehives from field to field to pollinate crops as diverse as Florida melons, Pennsylvania apples, Maine blueberries and California almonds. As he has done for the past 42 years, in the fall of 2006 Hackenberg migrated with his family and his bees from their central ...
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