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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 ...
GM introduces self-propelled rickshaw to combat congestion
Post Date: 2009-04-07 07:11:58 by Tatarewicz
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General Motors and Segway have developed a two-wheel, side-by-side passenger electric vehicle which aims to reduce traffic congestion in cities. Called PUMA, it will have a 35-mile range on a charge of its Li-ion battery and travel at up 35 mph. While still in its prototype stage this self-propelled rickshaw is estimated to cost (ownership and operation) a third or quarter of that of a car. POSTER COMMENT: How's that for beating the Chinese at their own game? Pictures on DFP link. Click for Full Text! Click for Full Text!
Trees are growing faster and could buy time to halt global warming
Post Date: 2009-04-06 01:03:41 by farmfriend
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Trees are growing faster and could buy time to halt global warming Plants and trees are growing faster because of rising carbon dioxide levels, potentially buying Earth more time to address global warming, according to scientists. By Urmee Khan Last Updated: 1:06PM BST 05 Apr 2009 The phenomenon has been discovered in a variety of flora, ranging from tropical rainforests to British sugar beet crops. It means they are soaking up at least some of the billions of tons of CO2 released into the atmosphere by humans that would otherwise be accelerating the rate of climate change. Plants survive by extracting CO2 from the air and using sunlight to convert it into proteins and sugars. Since ...
O'Hare UFO video surfaces on Youtube
Post Date: 2009-04-01 11:39:04 by gengis gandhi
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O'Hare UFO video surfaces on Youtube March 24, 5:23 PM · 27 comments ShareThis Feed Recently posted Youtube video purports to be O'Hare UFO. A video posted March 21, 2009, on Youtube claims to be the real deal of the Nov. 7, 2006, Chicago O'Hare Airport UFO sighting. The video is posted with the headline - "Chicago O'Hare Airport UFO Witness Breaks His Silence." The username is ohareufowitness, age 39, someone who joined Youtube on the same day as the posting. Illinois MUFON Director Sam Maranto, who has studied this case extensively, was able to watch the video from his Chicago area home today. "The footage is shot at an impossible angle," ...
April Fool's Day computer virus is activated... but fails to cause internet chaos
Post Date: 2009-04-01 09:57:39 by christine
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A computer virus that has wormed its way into millions of PCs was activated today... but with little effect. The Conficker virus, which has infected up to 15million computers since last autumn, has so far lurked harmlessly - but experts were braced for it to change the way it operated first thing this morning. The 'worm' started looking for new instructions on what it should do next by scanning 50,000 different websites at midnight last night. Experts feared the virus was about to be used by its creators to control an army' of 15 million 'zombie PCs' to steal bank details, send spam emails or even crash a major website. But so far, nothing untoward has taken place. ...
Genomic variations in African-American and white populations
Post Date: 2009-03-27 12:15:27 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Genomic variations in African-American and white populations Deletions, duplications or rearrangements of genomic regions in the human genomes produce differences in gene copy numbers, referred to as copy number variations (CNV). Those variations account for a substantial portion of human genetic diversity, and in a few cases, have been associated with behavioural traits or increased susceptibility to disease. A study published today in the open access journal BMC Genetics, describes a CNV map of the African American genome, and compares frequencies of CNVs between African American and white American/European populations. Joseph P McElroy and colleagues from the Department of Neurology, ...
Nicholas Hughes, Sylvia Plath’s son commits suicide (Scientist/Professor in Alaska).
Post Date: 2009-03-23 08:16:08 by noone222
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Ben Hoyle, Arts Correspondent The son of the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath has taken his own life, 46 years after his mother gassed herself while he slept. Nicholas Hughes hanged himself at his home in Alaska after battling against depression for some time, his sister Frieda said yesterday. He was 47, unmarried with no children of his own and had until recently been a professor of fisheries and ocean sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Dr Hughes’s death adds a further tragic chapter to a family history that has been raked over with morbid fascination for two generations. Obsession set limits on Sylvia Plath's poetry Charity shop finds rare Plath poetry ...
interesting thread on chemtrails/morgellons link
Post Date: 2009-03-21 13:24:10 by gengis gandhi
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http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread275225/pg1
Five minds for success
Post Date: 2009-03-21 07:53:58 by Tatarewicz
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The current economic downturn stems from education's failure to cultivate the right kind of minds and this is what brought about reckless disregard for experience, due diligence, caution and contemplation of the downside of decisions according to psychologist Howard Gardner of Harvard. The cognition professor said if anything, "deciders" were selected and rewarded on the basis of whether they could cut corners...make it appear as if they were gaining ever greater profits. The author of Five minds for the future said that in order for markets to work, one needs wise policies and policymakers, tough regulation and above all, individuals who behave in an ethical way and demand ...
Understanding Body Language
Post Date: 2009-03-21 07:36:16 by Turtle
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Understanding body language in the workplace isn't just a game - it's a career necessity Imagine this scenario: You're talking to your boss about why you feel you're due for a raise. You itemize what you've done beyond your job requirements, and he says, "Fair enough. I'll consider it and get back to you." That sounds good, except that you didn't notice the steeple he formed with his hands while listening to you, and the distracted way he rubbed his nose. Meaningless? Absolutely not. Fact is, he's already given you an answer, but you may not have noticed the telltale signals. It's easy to miss subtle messages in the way someone positions his ...
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