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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 ...
Environmentalists Oppose New CO2 Scrubber Idea
Post Date: 2008-08-29 20:14:03 by farmfriend
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Environmentalists Oppose New CO2 Scrubber Idea Written By: Krystle Russin Published In: Environment & Climate News Publication Date: August 1, 2008 Publisher: The Heartland Institute Scientists at Columbia University are developing a carbon dioxide (CO2) scrubber device that removes one ton of CO2 from the air every day. While some see the scrubber as an efficient and economical way to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide, many environmentalists are opposing the technology because it allows people to use fossil fuels and emit carbon in the first place. Mitigates Fossil Fuel Effects Columbia University physicist Klaus Lackner, who is leading the research team, believes producing a ...
Out of Africa: the speed gene genie
Post Date: 2008-08-29 12:46:07 by Tauzero
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Out of Africa: the speed gene genie Andrew Stevenson | August 23, 2008 GOLD medallists raise their fists in jubilation and sleep well at night knowing they're the best in the world. Drawn from about 200 countries, they compete against one another under the utopian banner, "One world, one dream". But did they really beat the world or do the specific genetic characteristics of different population groups mean that the Olympics - open to ever-wider participation in the shrinking global village - are actually a race narrowed down to rivals from their own distinct ethnic group? In Beijing, for the first time at an Olympic Games, every competitor in the men's and women's ...
Teenage DNA sleuths expose New York fish fraud
Post Date: 2008-08-29 12:30:15 by Tauzero
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Teenage DNA sleuths expose New York fish fraud Fri 22 Aug 2008, 8:10 GMT By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent ACCRA (Reuters) - Up to a quarter of fish in stores and restaurants in New York City was mislabelled as a more expensive variety, according to samples collected by two U.S. teenagers and tested with modern genetic identification methods. In the worst cases, two samples of filleted fish sold as red snapper, caught mostly off the southeast United States and in the Caribbean, were instead the endangered Acadian redfish from the North Atlantic, according to the tests, revealed on Friday. "We never expected these results. People should get what they pay for," Kate ...
The Bird That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Post Date: 2008-08-29 10:33:32 by Tauzero
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The Bird That Dare Not Speak Its Name Get your sniggering over now. I am going to blog about the Penduline Tit. This post is actually safe for work. The Penduline Tit is not a body part but an ordinary-looking bird. Penduline refers to the pendulous nest that the birds build for their eggs. What makes the bird interesting to me is not its Beavis-and-Butthead caliber name, but how it raises its young. If you think that nature is never destructive, or that natural selection automatically finds beautiful solutions to life’s problems, this bird has a lesson for you. The Penduline Tit–do you mind if I just call it Remiz pendulinus?–is a common sight in Europe and parts of Asia. ...
Sharp unveils new anti-bird flu air purifier
Post Date: 2008-08-27 23:26:23 by angle
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Japan's Sharp Corp. said Wednesday that it has developed an air purifier that eliminates 99.9 percent of the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu within 10 minutes. The system has been improved from an earlier version which was shown in 2005 to have eliminated 99 percent of the H5N1 virus when airborne, Sharp official Kenji Ota told reporters. The plasmacluster ion technology, developed in 2000, disables airborne micro-organisms by releasing positive and negative ions into the air. Direct contact with infected poultry, or surfaces contaminated by their faeces, is currently considered the main cause of human infection with the H5N1 virus, according to the World Health Organization. But ...
Friend or foe, crows never forget a face
Post Date: 2008-08-27 19:41:22 by angle
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Scientist finds birds can recognize individuals, helping to identify threats Crows and their relatives -- among them ravens, magpies and jays -- are renowned for their intelligence and for their ability to flourish in human-dominated landscapes. That ability may have to do with cross-species social skills. In the Seattle area, where rapid suburban growth has attracted a thriving crow population, researchers have found that the birds can recognize individual human faces. John Marzluff, a wildlife biologist at the University of Washington, has studied crows and ravens for more than 20 years and has long wondered whether the birds could identify individual researchers. Previously trapped ...
Nasa space program under threat
Post Date: 2008-08-25 22:45:37 by X-15
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Washington - The chill left on US-Russian relations by Moscow's military incursion into Georgia could spell problems for future US access to the International Space Station, US experts said. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will become dependent on flights to the ISS by Russia's Soyuz spacecraft when it retires the shuttle fleet that has long ferried US astronauts into space in 2010. Nasa will only get its successor space vehicle, Orion, planned for a revival of trips to the moon, ready for flight in 2015 at the earliest. That leaves the needs of US astronauts visiting the ISS vulnerable to the possibility of a new Cold War between Washington and Moscow after ...
Carbonatite (Specifically Natrocarbonatite) Magma and a rare volcano...
Post Date: 2008-08-25 11:07:14 by Axenolith
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Stumbled across this while looking up some geo stuff, just to cool not to spread around :-) Natrocarbonatite at Oldoinyo Lengai
New climate record shows century-long droughts in eastern North America
Post Date: 2008-08-22 17:56:04 by farmfriend
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New climate record shows century-long droughts in eastern North America Tuesday Aug 19, 2008 by ANDREA GIBSON Weak sun created cool oceans, lowered rainfall seven times in 7,000 years ATHENS, Ohio (Aug. 19, 2008) – A stalagmite in a West Virginia cave has yielded the most detailed geological record to date on climate cycles in eastern North America over the past 7,000 years. The new study confirms that during periods when Earth received less solar radiation, the Atlantic Ocean cooled, icebergs increased and precipitation fell, creating a series of century-long droughts. A research team led by Ohio University geologist Gregory Springer examined the trace metal strontium and carbon ...
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