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New Jason Satellite Indicates 23-Year Global Cooling
Post Date: 2008-06-04 14:57:32 by Tauzero
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New Jason Satellite Indicates 23-Year Global Cooling By Dennis T. Avery, 5/7/2008 8:39:19 AM Now it’s not just the sunspots that predict a 23-year global cooling. The new Jason oceanographic satellite shows that 2007 was a “cool” La Nina year—but Jason also says something more important is at work: The much larger and more persistent Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) has turned into its cool phase, telling us to expect moderately lower global temperatures until 2030 or so. For the past century at least, global temperatures have tended to mirror the 20-to 30-year warmings and coolings of the north-central Pacific Ocean. We don’t know just why, but the pattern of ...
Assignment; I will be away for awhile
Post Date: 2008-05-30 22:19:21 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Just a quick note to all - I've got a new assignment and probably won't have an opportunity to get back here as often as I have the last few months. Until we meet again, au revoir, les enfants.
Poster Comment:a new assignment ? Liberty Forum home page Name James West Title agitator Total Posts 760 Fame 6 Homepage http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/ Occupation Industry spokesman, reseacher Hobbies climate science and atmospheric experiments involving high-power EM waves Location USA Bio A regular Joseph R. Citizen presently serving an internship on planet earth, learning principles from the honest people represented here on LF towards 'an edge' that will someday ...
Israel denies working on biological weapon to target Arabs
Post Date: 2008-05-28 21:51:49 by Jethro Tull
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Israel denies working on biological weapon to target Arabs From:AP OnlineDate:November 15, 1998More results for:israeli genetic specific weapons AP Online 11-15-1998 JERUSALEM (AP) _ Israel denied Sunday that it is trying to identify genes unique to Arabs in order to target them with a biological weapon that would leave Jews unharmed. London's Sunday Times had reported that Israeli scientists were trying to create a genetically modified bacterium or virus that only attacks people who carry specific genes. David Bar-Illan, a senior aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, rejected the report, saying such stories only proved ``that there is no limit to human gullibility and also ...
Monkeys control a robot arm with their thoughts
Post Date: 2008-05-28 21:23:18 by Horse
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Two monkeys with tiny sensors in their brains have learned to control a mechanical arm with just their thoughts, using it to reach for and grab food and even to adjust for the size and stickiness of morsels when necessary, scientists reported on Wednesday. The report, released online by the journal Nature, is the most striking demonstration to date of brain-machine interface technology. Scientists expect that technology will eventually allow people with spinal cord injuries and other paralyzing conditions to gain more control over their lives. The findings suggest that brain-controlled prosthetics, while not practical, are at least technically within reach. In previous studies, ...
Swiss man flies like a bird
Post Date: 2008-05-28 13:57:27 by Tauzero
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Swiss man flies like a bird A Swiss man took to the skies Wednesday but not with a plane. He used a jet pack of sorts. Yves Rossy is a airline pilot, who’s spent more than a year trying to become the first man to fly using a single jet-powered wing. World Radio Switzerland’s Alex Helmick caught up with Rossy, who calls himself Fusionman, at the first ever demonstration. By Alex Helmick, World Radio Switzerland If you’re going to watch a man fly passed you with a rocket on his back, you might want to go to a mountain top about 2,000 meters high. You’ll probably need a helicopter to get there. Dozens of journalists were there, Ives Rossy’s sponsors, even his ...
WCI student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bags
Post Date: 2008-05-27 19:45:15 by angle
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Getting ordinary plastic bags to rot away like banana peels would be an environmental dream come true. After all, we produce 500 billion a year worldwide and they take up to 1,000 years to decompose. They take up space in landfills, litter our streets and parks, pollute the oceans and kill the animals that eat them. Now a Waterloo teenager has found a way to make plastic bags degrade faster -- in three months, he figures. Daniel Burd's project won the top prize at the Canada-Wide Science Fair in Ottawa. He came back with a long list of awards, including a $10,000 prize, a $20,000 scholarship, and recognition that he has found a practical way to help the environment. Daniel, a ...
Field studies find lower productivity with GM seeds
Post Date: 2008-05-26 19:53:12 by Original_Intent
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(The Independent, UK) – Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis. The study – carried out over the past three years at the University of Kansas in the US grain belt – has found that GM soya produces about 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent, contradicting assertions by advocates of the technology that it increases yields. Professor Barney Gordon, of the university's department of agronomy, said he started the research – reported in the journal Better Crops – because ...
US woman wakes up after 'death set in'
Post Date: 2008-05-26 00:02:42 by DeaconBenjamin
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CHARLESTON (WEST VIRGINIA): Val Thomas' doctors honestly can't explain how she is alive today. Thomas, who lives in West Virginia, is being called a medical miracle after she suffered two heart attacks and had no brain waves for more than 17 hours. Thomas' heart stopped on Saturday and doctors said she had no pulse. Rigor mortis started to set in, and she was placed on a respiratory machine, NewsNet5.com reported. "Her skin had already started to harden and her fingers curled," Thomas' son, Jim, told NewsNet5.com . "Death had set in." Thomas, 59, was rushed to a West Virginia hospital, where she was put on a special machine to induce hypothermia. This ...
Back to the future, via a donut-shaped vacuum?
Post Date: 2008-05-25 16:59:16 by PSUSA
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Spacecraft on track to make historic Mars landing
Post Date: 2008-05-25 12:16:55 by christine
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PASADENA, Calif. - A three-legged NASA spacecraft was closing in on Mars Sunday for what scientists hope will be the first-ever touchdown near Mars' north pole to study whether the permafrost could have supported primitive life. The time it takes the Phoenix Mars Lander to streak through the atmosphere and set down on the dusty surface has been dubbed "the seven minutes of terror" for good reason. More than half of the world's attempts to land on Mars have ended in failures. "I'm a little nervous on the inside. I'm getting butterflies," Peter Smith, principal investigator from the University of Arizona, Tucson, said on the eve of the landing. "We ...
NASA moves to save computers from swarming ants
Post Date: 2008-05-23 22:16:51 by rack42
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A flood of voracious ants is heading straight for Houston, taking out computers, radios and even vehicles in their path. Even the Johnson Space Center has called in extermination experts to keep the pests out of their sensitive and critical systems. The ants have been causing all kinds of trouble in five Texas counties in and around the Gulf Coast. Because of their sheer numbers, the ants are short circuiting computers in homes and offices, and knocking systems offline in major businesses. When IT personnel pry the affected computers open, they find the machines loaded with thousands of ant bodies. "These ants are raising havoc," said Roger Gold, professor of entomology at Texas ...
Oil, much gas off limits on public lands
Post Date: 2008-05-23 15:38:50 by Peppa
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BILLINGS, Mont. — A new report from the Bush administration says most of the oil and more than 40 percent of the natural gas beneath public lands in the U.S. are off limits to drilling. Opening those reserves — by rolling back environmental safeguards and employing new drilling technologies — would give energy companies access to an estimated 19 billion barrels of oil and 231 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, administration officials said Wednesday. The Bureau of Land Management report is likely to add to growing political pressure to curb fuel imports and dampen prices by ramping up domestic energy production. But it comes amid a development backlash in some parts of ...
What are you really doing about gas prices and why aren't you fighting back?
Post Date: 2008-05-22 17:03:28 by MING THE MERCILESS
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Burning Incense Is Psychoactive: New Class Of Antidepressants Might Be Right Under Our Noses
Post Date: 2008-05-22 06:51:34 by angle
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ScienceDaily (May 20, 2008) — Religious leaders have contended for millennia that burning incense is good for the soul. Now, biologists have learned that it is good for our brains too. An international team of scientists, including researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, describe how burning frankincense (resin from the Boswellia plant) activates poorly understood ion channels in the brain to alleviate anxiety or depression. This suggests that an entirely new class of depression and anxiety drugs might be right under our noses. "In spite of information stemming from ancient texts, constituents of Bosweilla had not been investigated for ...
Shroud of Turin's age miscalculated? - Questions raised over 'faulty' carbon-dating tests
Post Date: 2008-05-21 11:32:26 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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The mystery of the Shroud of Turin, a 14-foot-long cloth that many thought may have been the burial cloth of Jesus until scientists reported radiocarbon dating established it as no older than Medieval times, is being resurrected. John Jackson, a physics lecturer at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, has convinced scientists who performed the age tests on the cloth housed in Turin, Italy, since the 1500s to consider his suggestion that those tests may have been faulty, according to a report in the Denver Post. The cloth long has posed mysteries because of its age and its negative image of a bloodstained and battered man who had been crucified. Believers claim it to be the ...
Conservatives Happier Than Liberals
Post Date: 2008-05-20 16:52:29 by mirage
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Individuals with conservative ideologies are happier than liberal-leaners, and new research pinpoints the reason: Conservatives rationalize social and economic inequalities. Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found. Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a person's tendency to justify, or explain away, inequalities. The rationalization measure included statements such as: "It is not really that big a problem if some people have more of a chance in life than others," and "This country would be better off ...
Firefox 3.0 RC1 Is Here and It's Awesome
Post Date: 2008-05-20 14:01:43 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Just GET IT!!!! It's like a million time faster than the previous version. Not too many plug ins or add-ons are available at this time but it's more than worth it. And, if you're on a Windows platform you can keep the V2.0. I'm not going to review it because I only installed it a couple of hours ago. So far, I'm impressed by its speed and stability. My only issues, the Japanese Black theme is not compatible, neither is Tor but I'm sure they will be soon.
Users Report More Trouble With Windows XP SP3
Post Date: 2008-05-19 21:52:23 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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The latest service pack for Windows XP continues to cause problems for users. According to an online user forum, the latest glitch in Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) causes problems with the remote desktop access feature of Windows Home Server. On the We Got Served U.K.-based Windows user forum, Windows XP users running Windows Home Server, Microsoft's home storage and local networking server, report that SP3 is cutting off their access to the server from their PCs. The remote desktop access feature would ask users to add their home server's Web site address in order to access it even after they already had, users reported. According to a user on Microsoft's Windows Home ...
The iPhone becomes a Surveillance tool
Post Date: 2008-05-18 12:19:14 by bush_is_a_moonie
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In today’s security obsessed world, having a portable surveillance capability is always advantageous when trying to keep up with the bad guys. A new iPhone application can now allow security personnel to not only track security camera images, but also control them. Vegas will no doubt take notice. Lextech is the company that publishes the software, made possible by the Apple iPhone Software development kit release and it not only gives users a wireless capability to keep watch from security cameras, but also control them using the multi touch screen capability of the iPhone. Users can zoom, tilt, and pan just like operating the camera from a joystick. Check out videos of it in action ...
32,000 deniers
Post Date: 2008-05-17 23:14:22 by farmfriend
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32,000 deniers Freeman Dyson is one of the world’s most eminent physicists. That’s the number of scientists who are outraged by the Kyoto Protocol’s corruption of science By Lawrence Solomon Question: How many scientists does it take to establish that a consensus does not exist on global warming? The quest to establish that the science is not settled on climate change began before most people had even heard of global warming. The year was 1992 and the United Nations was about to hold its Earth Summit in Rio. It was billed as — and was — the greatest environmental and political assemblage in human history. Delegations came from 178 nations — virtually ...
Same Sex Couples Common in the Wild
Post Date: 2008-05-17 13:15:10 by christine
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As gay couples celebrate their newfound right to marry in California and opposition groups rally to fight the ruling, many struggle with this question: Is homosexuality natural? On this issue, Nature has spoken: Same-sex lovin' is common in hundreds of species, scientists say. Roy and Silo, two male chinstrap penguins at New York's Central Park Zoo, were a couple for about six years, during which they nurtured a fertilized egg together (given to them by a zookeeper) and raised the young chick that hatched. According to University of Oslo zoologist Petter Böckman, about 1,500 animal species are known to practice same-sex coupling, including bears, gorillas, flamingos, ...
You Must See This Historic Flight
Post Date: 2008-05-16 21:47:16 by tom007
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Researchers find key to deadly bee disease
Post Date: 2008-05-16 20:04:51 by Horse
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A key discovery by researchers at the Free University of Berlin may help beekeepers treat a deadly bee infection. Bacteria of American foulbrood, a widespread disease capable of wiping out entire bee colonies, is held in the digestive tract of bee larvae for several days before it explodes through the wall of the digestive tract and kills the larvae, researchers from the Berlin university and the Bee Research Institute Hohen Neuendorf announced on Tuesday. "Because of this we have a window of time" to treat the disease, Dr. Elke Genersch, one of the senior authors of the study, told The Local. Scientists had believed that the bacteria broke out of the digestive tract ...
NEW DEVICE THAT WORKS ON YOUR CARS MOMENTUM AND SAVES GAS
Post Date: 2008-05-16 14:29:45 by MING THE MERCILESS
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I am so sick and disgusted at the price of gas these days that I set out on a search to find something that I didn't have to alter my car or spend tons of money to increase MY cars gas milage. I like my car and don't want to buy some over priced hybrid. Those things remind me of the clown cars you see in the circus. Well after much searching I found this guy in Florida selling a device he invented. It works off your cars momentum and actually works on ANY vehicle with no modification. The missing vehicle instrument is born Three years of Research & Development provided me with the great satisfaction of having developed a patentable “inertial mass detector indicator device ...
New theory on Stonehenge: health center
Post Date: 2008-05-13 06:56:30 by Ada
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Presence of Welsh bluestones intrigues archaeologists (05-11) 04:00 PDT Amesbury, England -- The mysterious circle of stones that rises on Salisbury Plain near here has stood as an archaeological marvel for thousands of years, its origins and purpose shrouded in the mists of history. But a just-completed excavation of Stonehenge, the first within the ancient circle in more than 40 years, could provide some of the first reliable explanations for one of the greatest wonders of the prehistoric world. A team of British archaeologists hopes to prove its theory that nearly 4,000 years ago Stonehenge was regarded not as a place of sacrament for the dead, but as a temple with unique healing ...
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