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Fermilab Looks for Visitors from Another Dimension
Post Date: 2008-09-18 01:26:15 by Split
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A prototype liquid-argon detector called ArgoNeuT will pave the way for the MicroBooNE facility at Fermilab The detection of extra dimensions beyond the familiar four—the three dimensions of space and one of time—would be among the most earth-shattering discoveries in the history of physics. Now scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., are designing a new experiment that would investigate tantalizing hints that extra dimensions may indeed exist. Last year researchers involved in Fermilab’s MiniBooNE study, which detects elusive subatomic particles called neutrinos, announced that they had found a surprising anomaly. Neutrinos, which have no ...
Men's Brains are Better Connected
Post Date: 2008-09-16 06:17:39 by Turtle
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Men have higher levels of nerve connections in parts of their brain than women, according to a study that will renew hostilities in the long running gender war. Previous studies have revealed differences in the density of nerve cells and other brain features but none of these gender differences have been linked to behaviour or function in a very convincing way. advertisement Now, Dr Lidia Alonso-Nanclares and Prof Javier De Filipe of the Instituto Cajal, Madrid, Spain; and colleagues there and at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, used fresh brain tissue removed from epileptic patients during brain surgery to explore microscopic differences in the brain structure of men and women, ...
Portrait of an Animal Researcher
Post Date: 2008-09-15 17:52:20 by Ninpo
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Portrait of an Animal Researcher By David Irving 9/13/08 When people think of an animal researcher the image of a well trained, highly skilled scientist surrounded by test tubes and flasks and wearing an immaculately clean, white coat often comes to mind. Looking up from a microscope he, or she, strokes a plump, white rat and converses about the latest medical discoveries being made with the help of animals. This is America’s favorite image of an animal researcher. But just how accurate is it? The fact that most people are unaware that medical research represents only the tip of the iceberg of this diverse industry called animal research that stretches from coast to coast and ...
The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken
Post Date: 2008-09-13 23:26:41 by richard9151
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If you want a moment to be humble, with all of the 'stuff' we worry about, try this video (6 minutes). Absolutely beautiful, and humbling. In 2003, the Hubble Space Telescope took the image of a millennium, an image that shows our place in the universe. Once you understand what this image represents, you will be forever changed by it. An exercise in thought such as the one presented in this video can really allow folks to SURRENDER so much of their worries and feel secure that, in the big picture, the Divine takes care of it all -- even if gas is over four bucks a gallon! Many people, including myself, were excited by the recent arrival of the latest Mars lander on that ...
Antarctic winter ice gets bigger; Arctic shrinks
Post Date: 2008-09-13 20:20:11 by Ada
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OSLO (Reuters) - The amount of sea ice around Antarctica has grown in recent Septembers in what could be an unusual side-effect of global warming, experts said on Friday. In the southern hemisphere winter, when emperor penguins huddle together against the biting cold, ice on the sea around Antarctica has been increasing since the late 1970s, perhaps because climate change means shifts in winds, sea currents or snowfall. At the other end of the planet, Arctic sea ice is now close to matching a September 2007 record low at the tail end of the northern summer in a threat to the hunting lifestyles of indigenous peoples and creatures such as polar bears. "The Antarctic wintertime ice ...
Is Texas being punished for stopping the NAU SUPER HIGHWAY..
Post Date: 2008-09-12 22:04:34 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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by the use of Tesla technology ie HAARP to create/steer hurricanes? David J. Smith tells us some facts about Global Warming. Learn how global warming is a farce and is due to Tesla technology. In 1976 the Russians started Project Woodpecker and as a result the Atmosphere has been heating up. Then the US started to use project H.A.A.R.P. Weather War And More - 108 min - Mar 1, 2007
Naked-Eye Gamma-ray Burst Aimed Directly at Earth
Post Date: 2008-09-11 12:50:43 by gengis gandhi
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Naked-Eye Gamma-ray Burst Aimed Directly at Earth 09.10.2008 Sept. 10, 2008: Astronomers announced today that a remarkable gamma-ray burst visible to the human eye earlier this year came from an explosive stellar jet aimed almost directly at Earth. see captionRight: Click to view a streaming animation of the explosive stellar jet, an artist's concept. NASA's Swift satellite detected the explosion - formally named GRB 080319B - at 2:13 a.m. EDT on March 19, 2008, and pinpointed its position in the constellation Bootes. The gamma-ray burst became bright enough to see even without a telescope. Observations of the event by a global array of satellites and ground-based observatories ...
Cleared: Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the law [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-09-11 10:28:10 by farmfriend
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Cleared: Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the law By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor Thursday, 11 September 2008 The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided yesterday. In a verdict that will have shocked ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage. Jurors accepted defence arguments that the six had a "lawful excuse" to damage property at Kingsnorth power station in Kent to prevent even greater damage caused by climate change. The defence of ...
Pigs to be bred for human transplants
Post Date: 2008-09-09 12:42:56 by christine
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LORD Winston, the fertility expert and Labour peer, is to begin breeding genetically modified pigs in the hope of providing organs for transplant to humans, it was reported yesterday. Scientists in London and California have begun experiments to find a solution to record waits for organ transplants. In Britain around 8,000 patients are on waiting lists. "People needing a new heart or liver are waiting for someone else to die – usually a violent death in a traffic accident," Lord Winston wrote in a Sunday newspaper. Lord Winston, who heads the Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology at London's Hammersmith Hospital, expects the technique to provide a ...
Thank you!
Post Date: 2008-09-08 20:49:47 by Lod
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Thanks for doing away with the 'article' do nothing link. Very good. I'll now see if the 'auto-caterogize' has been corrected, or deleted. Thanks for the work. It's appreciated.
Poster Comment:Shiite - it says that you will 'auto-select' a category. Please select it, or do away with this lame feature.
Chemtrail Alert Weather Forecast !
Post Date: 2008-09-08 08:20:34 by noone222
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Science Proves Exotic Cars Turn Women On
Post Date: 2008-09-05 20:48:06 by tom007
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Science Proves Exotic Cars Turn Women On By Keith Barry EmailSeptember 04, 2008 | 1:07:47 PMCategories: Autopia WTF? Dept., Exotics Lamborghini A study commissioned by a phallically named insurance company proves beyond all doubt that the unbridled roar of an Italian supercar turns women on but the soft purr of a fuel-efficient econobox doesn't stimulate anyone's MPG-spot. David Moxon subjected 40 men and women to the sounds of a Maserati, Lamborghini and Ferrari, then measured the amount of testosterone in their saliva. He found everyone had higher levels of the stuff -- a measure of their arousal -- after hearing the revving exotics, but the amount the women had was off the ...
Treading carefully around oil
Post Date: 2008-09-05 16:24:46 by farmfriend
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Treading carefully around oil Kevin Libin, National Post Published: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 CALGARY -- Six months ago, residents of the cattle country south of Calgary invited a climate scientist to town to speak to 140 students from J.T. Foster High School in Nanton and bused in from nearby Claresholm. The guest was Tim Ball, a prominent Canadian skeptic of the theory of man-made climate change and perennial bugaboo of the green lobby. The school had been showing An Inconvenient Truth, the contentious Al Gore movie about global warming, in class, much to the consternation of a number of locals. "I think that we are lucky in a small rural community as a lot of things that kids ...
Watch the clouds of Mars fly by-Phoenix probe captures sky view as it tests more Red Planet soil
Post Date: 2008-09-04 12:10:31 by gengis gandhi
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Watch the clouds of Mars fly by-Phoenix probe captures sky view as it tests more Red Planet soil Image: Martian clouds NASA / JPL-Caltech / UA / TAMU Clouds scoot across the Martian sky in a movie clip consisting of 10 frames taken by the Surface Stereo Imager on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander. This clip accelerates the motion. The camera took these 10 frames over a 10-minute period. Particles of water ice make up these clouds, like ice-crystal cirrus clouds on Earth. View related photos Space.com • Strange Clouds Spotted at the Edge of Space • New Maps Detail Solar System Objects • DC-X Honored for Its Contributions, Potential • NASA Holds Space Shuttle Move for ...
Roman Empire 'raised HIV threat'
Post Date: 2008-09-04 11:28:12 by Tauzero
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Roman Empire 'raised HIV threat' The spread of the Roman Empire through Europe could help explain why those living in its former colonies are more vulnerable to HIV. The claim, by French researchers, is that people once ruled by Rome are less likely to have a gene variant which protects against HIV. This includes England, France, Greece and Spain, New Scientist reports. Others argue the difference is linked to a far larger event, such as the spread of bubonic plague or smallpox. The idea that something carried by the occupying Romans could have a widespread influence on the genes of modern Europeans comes from researchers at the University of Provence. They say that the ...
Nude or glowing? These critters are made to order
Post Date: 2008-09-03 11:32:03 by Tauzero
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Nude or glowing? These critters are made to order RICHARD MACEY 4/09/2008 12:00:01 AM IF IT WAS a hotel, it would rate five stars. Nestling on 18 hectares of former farmland outside Moss Vale, it cost $20 million to build, and when fully operational next year it will have 30 staff employed to meet every need of its guests. However the high-tech building is no holiday retreat. Owned by the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, the Australian BioResources centre will eventually be home to about 45,000 mice destined for advanced medical research. Mice, says Professor John Shine, the Garvan executive director, remain "essential for all modern medical research" including ...
Genetic map of Europe; genes vary as a function of distance
Post Date: 2008-09-03 10:58:23 by Tauzero
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Genetic map of Europe; genes vary as a function of distance Category: Genetics Posted on: August 31, 2008 9:29 PM, by Razib My post The Genetic Map of Europe drew a lot of interest, but there's even a cooler paper on the same topic out, Genes mirror geography within Europe: ...Despite low average levels of genetic differentiation among Europeans, we find a close correspondence between genetic and geographic distances; indeed, a geographical map of Europe arises naturally as an efficient two-dimensional summary of genetic variation in Europeans. The results emphasize that when mapping the genetic basis of a disease phenotype, spurious associations can arise if genetic structure is ...
Solar-powered plane in air for 82 hours
Post Date: 2008-09-03 00:22:15 by X-15
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A British-built spy plane has set an unofficial world record for the longest continuous unmanned flight. The aircraft, a Zephyr, stayed aloft for 82 hours and 37 minutes powered by solar panels and a rechargeable battery at night. The flight, at the US army's Yuma ground in Arizona, more than doubled the record time but, since it was done to test the ability of Zephyr to relay ground radio messages, did not fulfil all the requirements of a world record attempt. However the aircraft's designers, at the defence firm QinetiQ, in the UK, think the plane could fly indefinitely. "We think the aircraft, in future, will be capable of weeks or months duration," said Paul Davey, ...
Just Downloaded Google's "Chrome" (new browser)
Post Date: 2008-09-02 21:35:46 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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So far, it's a Zen-like experience. Emptiness, speed. Anyone else tried it?
A Preliminary Study of the Effect of External Qigong on Lymphoma Growth in Mice -pdf
Post Date: 2008-09-02 18:37:40 by gengis gandhi
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http://www.qigonginstitute.org/html/papers/qigonglyphoma.pdf see link. also navigate site for more info.
K7RA Solar Update
Post Date: 2008-09-02 00:20:52 by Tauzero
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The K7RA Solar Update Our Sun is still very quiet, but last week's Propagation Forecast Bulletin ARLP035 mentioned a new sunspot emerging on August 21-22. Spaceweather.com showed the sunspot number on those days as 11, which is the smallest non-zero sunspot number. Because of the way the daily sunspot number is calculated, one sunspot gets ten points for one group, and one point for one sunspot within that group. Five sunspots in three groups yields a daily sunspot number of 35. But the official sunspot number from NOAA showed zero on both days. You can see it for yourself at, http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/DSD.txt. It seems that this little spot that tried to emerge never ...
Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century
Post Date: 2008-09-02 00:11:07 by Tauzero
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Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century Michael Asher Drop in solar activity has potential effect for climate on earth. The sun has reached a milestone not seen for nearly 100 years: an entire month has passed without a single visible sunspot being noted. The event is significant as many climatologists now believe solar magnetic activity – which determines the number of sunspots -- is an influencing factor for climate on earth. According to data from Mount Wilson Observatory, UCLA, more than an entire month has passed without a spot. The last time such an event occurred was June of 1913. Sunspot data has been collected since 1749. When the sun is active, it's not ...
The 'consensus' on climate change is a catastrophe in itself
Post Date: 2008-09-01 14:59:07 by farmfriend
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The 'consensus' on climate change is a catastrophe in itself By Christopher Booker Last Updated: 12:01am BST 31/08/2008 As the estimated cost of measures proposed by politicians to "combat global warming" soars ever higher – such as the International Energy Council's $45 trillion – "fighting climate change" has become the single most expensive item on the world's political agenda. As Senators Obama and McCain vie with the leaders of the European Union to promise 50, 60, even 80 per cent cuts in "carbon emissions", it is clear that to realise even half their imaginary targets would necessitate a dramatic change in how we all live, ...
Scientist Predicts Ice Age Within 10 Years
Post Date: 2008-09-01 07:09:59 by richard9151
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University of Mexico expert says lack of solar activity to cause significant cooling that will last over half a century Tuesday, August 19, 2008 As evidence builds of the earth entering a dramatic cooling trend, another scientist has gone public with his conviction that we are about to enter a new ice age, rendering warnings about global warming fraudulent and irrelevant. Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera of the Institute of Geophysics at the University of Mexico states that “In about ten years the Earth will enter a “little ice age” which will last from 60 to 80 years and may be caused by the decrease in solar activity,” according to a report in the major Mexican ...
Ancient Sahara Graveyard Hints at Once-Green Desert
Post Date: 2008-08-29 20:24:20 by farmfriend
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Ancient Sahara Graveyard Hints at Once-Green Desert Friday, August 15, 2008 WASHINGTON — A tiny woman and two children were laid to rest on a bed of flowers 5,000 years ago in what is now the barren Sahara Desert. The slender arms of the youngsters were still extended to the woman in perpetual embrace when researchers discovered their skeletons in a remarkable cemetery that is providing clues to two civilizations who lived there, a thousand years apart, when the region was moist and green. Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago and colleagues were searching for the remains of dinosaurs in the African country of Niger when they came across the startling find, detailed at a news ...
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