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12 Greatest Low-Tech Inventions
Post Date: 2009-07-13 17:39:51 by Horse
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Non-electrical Refrigerator Mohammed Bah Abba made a really cool invention, which won a Rolex Award of $100,000 –a refrigerator than runs without electricity. Here's how it works. You take a smaller pot and put it inside a larger pot. Fill the space in between them with wet sand, and cover the top with a wet cloth. When the water evaporates, it pulls the heat out with it, making the inside cold. It's a natural, cheap, easy-to-make refrigerator. Evaporative fridges are a relatively well-tested, proven, low-tech approach to cooling. They can cool produce, food and beverages at about 15-20 C below ambient temperatures. They are most appropriate in hot, dry (not humid) climates ...
Global Temperature Is Dropping, Not Rising [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-07-12 14:22:56 by farmfriend
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Global Temperature Is Dropping, Not Rising Written by Ed Hiserodt Saturday, 11 July 2009 19:40 Environmental doomsayers may still be claiming that we must radically reduce carbon-dioxide and other “greenhouse” gas emissions in order to prevent catastrophic global warming, but they cling to that position despite the fact that the warming they’ve been forecasting has not occurred. In fact, the average global temperature has gone down, not up, in recent years. The graph at this link from icecap.us shows that the average global temperature has been dropping since at least 2002, even though the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has been increasing. A graph based on ...
Are Chemtrails for Real? TV News Expose'
Post Date: 2009-07-11 22:17:17 by Tax Pro Tester 2
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A couple news stations covered the topic in depth and did fairly favorable stories. You decide. 3 videos to watch. Click for Full Text!
Discovery backs theory oil not 'fossil fuel'
Post Date: 2009-07-11 20:39:38 by wudidiz
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BLACK-GOLD BLUESDiscovery backs theory oil not 'fossil fuel'New evidence supports premise that Earth produces endless supplyPosted: February 01, 20081:00 am Eastern By Jerome R. Corsi © 2009 WorldNetDaily.com A study published in Science Magazine today presents new evidence supporting the abiotic theory for the origin of oil, which asserts oil is a natural product the Earth generates constantly rather than a "fossil fuel" derived from decaying ancient forests and dead dinosaurs. The lead scientist on the study ? Giora Proskurowski of the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington in Seattle ? says the hydrogen-rich fluids venting at the ...
Oxygen radical and photo protein give birds magnetic vision
Post Date: 2009-07-11 06:25:48 by Tatarewicz
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Birds can "see" magnetic fields to navigate by having eyes with low levels of toxic superoxide in combination with the cryptochrome photo protein molecule. Scientists in Germany and the University of Illinois have found a chemical reaction in which the cytochrome photoreceptor can be influenced by orientation with respect the magnetic field of the earth through "Zeeman and hyperfine" interactions to give birds the magnetic compass sense. Crytochrome is also present in the human eye but our superoxides are even lower, enhancing longevity, whereas in birds, evolution has favored a bit of cellular damage in return for navigational benefits of magnetic vision, according to ...
Human Limb Regeneration Is No Longer Just a Job for the Men in Black
Post Date: 2009-07-08 15:21:58 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Human Limb Regeneration Is No Longer Just a Job for the Men in Black Scifi characters are fairly adept at re-growing their limbs: Wolverine constantly recovers from amputations; Jeebs in Men in Black can get his head blasted off and have a new one in place in a few seconds with only a mild headache; and Terminator 2's T-1000 can take repeated blows to the head and body like pebbles being dropped into a pond (provided he's not himself dropped into molten metal). In real life, we're not so lucky. A human being can re-grow a fingertip if its amputated above the first joint, but that's about it... unless of course the Center for Regenerative Therapies in Dresden, Germany has ...
The Genome Wager: Wolpert V Sheldrake
Post Date: 2009-07-08 13:55:23 by Prefrontal Vortex
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The Genome Wager: Wolpert V Sheldrake Posted at 5:00PM Wednesday 08 Jul 2009 THE GENOME WAGER Press Release/ PRESS EMBARGO - 17.00, Wed 8 July 2009 Please contact: Najma Finlay, Head of PR Icon Books najma.finlay@iconbooks.co.uk 020 77009962 In the spirit of famous scientific wagers by notable scientists, such as Stephen Hawking and Richard Feynman, two leading biologists, Professor Lewis Wolpert and Dr Rupert Sheldrake, have set up a wager on the predictive value of the genome. Due to appear exclusively in the 11 July issue of The New Scientist, The Genome Wager, as it has been called, will be explained in full as Wolpert and Sheldrake state their cases both for and against. The ...
Sociogenomics 2: Why You Can’t Clone a Calico Cat
Post Date: 2009-07-08 13:38:20 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Sociogenomics 2: Why You Can’t Clone a Calico Cat There's a country music song in there somewhere. Calico cats are white with red and black patches. Apparently some couple with more money than sense paid to have their dear departed calico cloned. But several attempts failed to produce a cat that looked like Furball, or whatever they called the deceased. Instead they bought, for thousands, cats that were all one color or another. Someone might have bothered to tell them that what they were trying to do was destined to fail. Calicos are all females, and their hair color is determined by a gene on the X chromosome. But here is the cool thing: the chromosome contains two complete ...
Sociogenomics 1
Post Date: 2009-07-08 13:18:48 by Prefrontal Vortex
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July 07, 2009 Sociogenomics 1 I was one of a number of scholars lucky enough to be invited to the Illinois Politics and Biology Summer Institute, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The Directors include Ira Carmen, a political scientist who writes extensively on genetics and politics, and Gene Robinson, a biologist who spends his time working on links between the genes and social behaviors of honey bees. The Institute is meeting at the Institute for Genomic Biology on the campus of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The pace is pretty brutal for this kind of thing: eight solid hours a day of presentation and discussion. Most of the NSF fellows are youngsters by my ...
Federal agency Web sites knocked out by massive, resilient cyber attack
Post Date: 2009-07-08 06:23:21 by Ada
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A widespread and unusually resilient computer attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of several government agencies, including some that are responsible for fighting cyber crime, The Associated Press has learned. The Treasury Department, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission and Transportation Department Web sites were all down at varying points over the holiday weekend and into this week, according to officials inside and outside the government. Some of the sites were still experiencing problems Tuesday evening. Cyber attacks on South Korea government and private sites also may be linked, officials there said. U.S. officials refused to publicly ...
Sperm created in test tube from stem cells
Post Date: 2009-07-08 03:14:53 by Tatarewicz
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Scientists have created human sperm using stem cells derived from a five-day-old male embryo, raising hopes that infertile men may be able to father their own biological children in the future. The breakthrough was achieved by Professor Karim Nayernia's research team at England's Newcastle University using embryonic stem cells which were first developed into germ line stem cells with half the number of chromosomes and then prompted to produce sperm which were fully mature and functional despite being made in a petri dish rather than a man's testes. The results are reported in Stem Cells and Development. In another ongoing experiment Nayernia's researchers are creating stem ...
The Great Global Warming Swindle
Post Date: 2009-07-07 11:23:53 by Lysander_Spooner
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No climate debate? Yes, there is
Post Date: 2009-07-05 20:45:02 by farmfriend
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No climate debate? Yes, there is by Jeff Jacoby The Boston Globe July 1, 2009 IN HIS weekly address on Saturday, President Obama saluted the House of Representatives for passing Waxman-Markey, the gargantuan energy-rationing bill that would amount to the largest tax increase in the nation's history. It would do so by making virtually everything that depends on energy -- which is virtually everything -- more expensive. The president didn't describe the legislation in those terms on Saturday, but he made no bones about it last year. In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle in January 2008, he calmly explained how cap-and-trade -- the carbon-dioxide rationing scheme that is ...
The EPA Silences a Climate Skeptic
Post Date: 2009-07-05 19:13:07 by farmfriend
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The EPA Silences a Climate Skeptic The professional penalty for offering a contrary view to elites like Al Gore is a smear campaign. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Wherever Jim Hansen is right now -- whatever speech the "censored" NASA scientist is giving -- perhaps he'll find time to mention the plight of Alan Carlin. Though don't count on it. Mr. Hansen, as everyone in this solar system knows, is the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Starting in 2004, he launched a campaign against the Bush administration, claiming it was censoring his global-warming thoughts and fiddling with the science. It was all a bit of a hoot, given Mr. Hansen was already a ...
Sen. Inhofe Calls for Inquiry Into 'Suppressed' Climate Change Report
Post Date: 2009-06-30 22:44:47 by rack42
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A top Republican senator has ordered an investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency's alleged suppression of a report that questioned the science behind global warming. The 98-page report, co-authored by EPA analyst Alan Carlin, pushed back on the prospect of regulating gases like carbon dioxide as a way to reduce global warming. Carlin's report argued that the information the EPA was using was out of date, and that even as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased, global temperatures have declined. "He came out with the truth. They don't want the truth at the EPA," Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., a global warming skeptic, told FOX News, saying ...
NASA Supposedly Finds Missing Moon Landing Tapes
Post Date: 2009-06-30 10:52:03 by christine
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ECSTATIC space officials at Nasa could be about to unveil one of their most stunning discoveries for 40 years — new and amazingly clear footage of the first moon landing. The release of the new images next month could be one of the most talked about events of the summer. The television images the world has been used to seeing of the historic moment when Neil Armstrong descended down a ladder onto the moon’s surface in 1969 is grainy, blurry and dark. The following scenes, in which the astronauts move around the lunar lander, are so murky it is difficult to make out exactly what is going on, causing conspiracy theorists to claim the entire Apollo 11 mission was an elaborate ...
Rapidly Changing Human Evolution
Post Date: 2009-06-29 19:46:33 by Turtle
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Henry Harpending and Gregory Cochran’s recent book, The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution, puts to rest the Left’s anecdotal assertions that genes don’t matter and that evolution ceased prior to humans leaving Africa 50~100 thousand years ago. In addition, they expound on Kevin MacDonald’s work on the history of Jewish culture and traditions that created the eugenic program of the Ashkenazi Jews in the Diaspora. They also explain the correlation between the recessive genes that contribute to modern Ashkenazi Jews’ high intelligence and genetic disease—genes that were beneficial in the highly literate niche that Jews dominated ...
Why Are There No Top-Quality American Cigars?
Post Date: 2009-06-28 19:39:30 by Turtle
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Dear Straight Dope: With all of the tobacco in the U.S., why are there no American cigars of any note? — Casey Fos The U.S. doesn't produce any premium cigar tobacco? That will come as a surprise to some tobacco farmers in New England. I didn't really say New England, did I? Yes, I really did. And no, I'm not just blowing smoke. First you have to know the three different types of leaf used in making a cigar. Each type requires different seed types, weather and soil conditions, and handling. The filler leaf makes up the bulk of the cigar and provides most of the flavor. There is nearly universal agreement that the best filler leaf in the world comes from a small region ...
The Climate Change Climate Change
Post Date: 2009-06-28 01:55:10 by farmfriend
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The Climate Change Climate Change The number of skeptics is swelling everywhere. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Steve Fielding recently asked the Obama administration to reassure him on the science of man-made global warming. When the administration proved unhelpful, Mr. Fielding decided to vote against climate-change legislation. If you haven't heard of this politician, it's because he's a member of the Australian Senate. As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to pass a climate-change bill, the Australian Parliament is preparing to kill its own country's carbon-emissions scheme. Why? A growing number of Australian politicians, scientists and citizens once again doubt ...
The sony psi station
Post Date: 2009-06-26 23:26:56 by Clitora
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by D. Trull Enigma Editor dtrull@parascope.com "As the 21st century draws nearer, we can see that society's materialistic values, fostered in many respects by modern science and technology, have become outdated and unworthy. It is clear that we have come to another turning point in history and science. What we require to meet the challenges of these unpredictable and confusing times is a new paradigm to guide a new age. I believe that the key to this new paradigm lies in the research of biological, mental, and spiritual phenomena such as "Qi" and other psychic powers that have been overlooked by modern scientists.... I think that the results of my research could help ...
India successful in using remote viewing techniques and satellite technologies for counterintelligence and strategic intelligence
Post Date: 2009-06-26 23:25:05 by Clitora
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India successful in using remote viewing techniques and satellite technologies for counterintelligence and strategic intelligence Sudhir Chadda, Special Correspondent December 13, 2004 RAW India's equivalent of CIA has advanced quite a bit in recent days. Sources close to New Delhi report that RAW is using advanced satellite technologies and remote viewing techniques to look into foreign intelligence activities within India. Remote viewing is the paranormal activities with psychics that can sense into the future and unknown. CIA in America has used remote viewing for many years. Many times remote viewing has worked very well for the CIA and the Russian intelligence. Recent days ...
Earth Oxygen levels are dropping. Plankton to save Humanity. [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-06-26 23:16:16 by Clitora
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Earth Oxygen levels are dropping. Plankton to save Humanity. Share: by Paschen | January 26, 2009 at 02:12 pm 1762 views | 57 Recommendations | 32 comments Photos Life, Volcano, Water, Sea, Earth Japan. Paschen. 879.-Photo-01 see larger image By, Uwe Paschen. The Problem with partial news in Science is that We do often see article claming this find or that result and every one that is not working with in science and research, jumps up or down screaming murder or glory. One day endorsing some thing and the next dismissing it all again with out checking nor knowing the facts or the detail and their implication nor their context. CJ are great for that, they either, endorse some thing or ...
Splitting Two Birds With One Gene
Post Date: 2009-06-26 14:27:35 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Splitting Two Birds With One Gene A single base pair change that turned a colorful bird entirely black probably guided the formation of a new species, researchers report in the August issue of The American Naturalist. "It looks like we have a single mutation that's driving speciation in these birds," J. Albert Uy, an evolutionary biologist at Syracuse University in New York, who led the study, told The Scientist. "It's one of the first if not only examples of this kind of thing in vertebrates." Eighty years ago, the late Harvard zoologist Ernst Mayr visited the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific and marveled at the variation in plumage color of the Monarch ...
The ethics of characterizing difference: guiding principles on using racial categories in human genetics
Post Date: 2009-06-25 14:50:47 by X-15
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Statement 1: We believe that there is no scientific basis for any claim that the pattern of human genetic variation supports hierarchically organized categories of race and ethnicity The equality of rights of all human beings is an unquestionable, moral claim that cannot be challenged by descriptive, scientific findings [9-11]. As a normative commitment, equality is fundamental to our conception of human rights, and is not open to debate. Classification by racial and ethnic categories has, at particular moments in history, been used to further racist ideology [12]. In view of concerns that linking of emerging genetic data and race/ethnicity categories may promote racist ideologies, we ...
Jewish legacy inscribed on genes?
Post Date: 2009-06-25 14:14:09 by X-15
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Gregory Cochran has always been drawn to puzzles. This one had been gnawing at him for several years: Why are European Jews prone to so many deadly genetic diseases? Tay-Sachs disease. Canavan disease. More than a dozen more. It offended Cochran's sense of logic. Natural selection, the self-taught genetics buff knew, should flush dangerous DNA from the gene pool. Perhaps the mutations causing these diseases had some other, beneficial purpose. But what? At 3:17 one morning, after a long night searching a database of scientific journals from his disheveled home office in Albuquerque, Cochran fired off an e-mail to his collaborator Henry Harpending, a distinguished professor of ...
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