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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 ...
The Flying Belt
Post Date: 2008-05-10 06:29:01 by RickyJ
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Tim Fofonoff, a 31-year-old grad student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, stands at the base of a 50-foot-tall, graffiti-covered rock wall just south of Boston. He´s clipped into the Atlas Powered Rope Ascender, a toaster-size battery-driven device that he and his three co-inventors built themselves. With it, he´s about to do something no one outside of a Hollywood script has done before: rappel up a wall at an astonishing 10 feet per second. He stares hesitantly for a moment at the craggy rock face, presses a small button, and darts off the ground as if he were wearing a cape. Halfway up, he lets go of the button and stops, dangling, a little out of ...
Unexplained Mass Die-Off Hits German Hives
Post Date: 2008-05-09 18:51:13 by DeaconBenjamin
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Bees in southern Germany have been dying off in their hundreds of thousands. In Germany's bucolic Baden-Württemburg region, there is a curious silence this week. All up and down the Rhine river, farm fields usually buzzing with bees are quiet. Beginning late last week, helpless beekeepers could only watch as their hives were hit by an unprecedented die-off. Many say one of Germany's biggest chemical companies is to blame. In some parts of the region, hundreds of bees per hive have been dying each day. "It's an absolute bee emergency," Manfred Hederer, president of the German Professional Beekeeper's Association, told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "Fifty to 60 ...
Sexy orchids do more than embarrass wasps?
Post Date: 2008-05-08 15:32:53 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Orchids that mimic female wasps may not only waste the time of the male wasps they lure into spreading their pollen -- they also seduce them into wasting valuable sperm, Australian researchers reported on Wednesday. And the flowers benefit twice -- getting help in their own reproduction, and perhaps indirectly producing more male pollinators in the process. Some of the most exotic orchids are known to have evolved their convoluted shapes to attract insects, who unwittingly collect and transfer pollen as they try to mate with the flowers. "The effect of deception on pollinators has been considered negligible, but we show that pollinators may suffer ...
Intresting Building Idea From S Africa
Post Date: 2008-05-07 18:15:18 by tom007
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http://www.ecobuildtechnologies.com/index.htm Uses sandbags as the main material for building - the bulk of the material is dug from the site.
Electric Sail Prototype to Ride the Solar Wind
Post Date: 2008-05-06 21:52:13 by Pinguinite
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An electrically-charged solar sail with a possible "turbo" option may be ready for its first space trials in three years if scientists in Finland have their way. The Finnish invention would use long, positively-charged tethers to ride the solar wind, without the need for any sort of fuel or propellant. "A flight out of the solar system to measure the gas, dust, plasma and magnetic field in the undisturbed interstellar space would perhaps be the 'flagship' thing to do," said Pekka Janhunen, a researcher developing the sail at the Finnish Meteorological Institute. The solar sail's debut would involve a smaller model with 5-mile (8-km) long tethers riding in ...
Energy Manipulations - Key Media Articles Reveal Major Energy & Gas Price Manipulations
Post Date: 2008-05-06 08:08:41 by Red Jones
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Energy Manipulations - Key Media Articles Reveal Major Energy & Gas Price Manipulations Below are highly revealing one-paragraph excerpts of important major media articles revealing significant manipulations involving energy and gas prices. There are a lot of tremendous articles at this site Click for Full Text!
Are There Missing Pieces to the Human Genome Project?
Post Date: 2008-05-05 17:37:46 by Tauzero
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Are There Missing Pieces to the Human Genome Project? A new study finds up to 250 regions where the reference genome sequenced over 13 years may be missing information By Nikhil Swaminathan If you ask the scientists at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) when the Human Genome Project wrapped up, they'll tell you it was finished in 2003. However, a new study indicates that the composite reference genome cobbled together from parts of the genetic codes of four people (two men and two women), is definitely a work in progress. The completed genome was to serve as a model of the genetic makeup of a typical human that researchers could use as a reference to detect genetic ...
Junk Science: The Great Global Warming Race
Post Date: 2008-05-04 22:32:26 by farmfriend
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Junk Science: The Great Global Warming Race Thursday, May 01, 2008 By Steven Milloy Can global warming’s vested interests close the deal on greenhouse gas regulation before the public wises up to their scam? A new study indicates alarmist concern and a need to explain away the lack of actual global warming. Researchers belonging to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, reported in Nature (May 1) that after adjusting their climate model to reflect actual sea surface temperatures of the last 50 years, "global surface temperature may not increase over the next decade, as natural climate variations … temporarily offset the projected anthropogenic ...
Buried Prejudice: The Bigot in Your Brain
Post Date: 2008-05-04 14:22:14 by robin
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Scientific American Mind May 1, 2008 Buried Prejudice: The Bigot in Your BrainDeep within our subconscious, all of us harbor biases that we consciously abhor. And the worst part is: we act on them By Siri Carpenter "There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life,” Jesse Jackson once told an audience, “than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery—then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.” Jackson’s remark illustrates a basic fact of our social existence, one that even a committed black civil-rights leader cannot escape: ideas that we may not endorse—for example, that a black stranger ...
Global Climate Change Research Explorer
Post Date: 2008-05-04 11:20:23 by robin
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Climate is the average pattern of weather over the long term. The earth’s climate has warmed and cooled for millions of years, since long before we appeared on the scene. There’s no doubt that the climate is growing warmer currently; indications of that change are all around us. Though climate change isn’t new, the study of how human activity affects the earth’s climate is. The exploration of climate change encompasses many fields, including physics, chemistry, biology, geology, meteorology, oceanography, and even sociology. At this Web site, you can explore scientific data relating to the atmosphere, the oceans, the areas covered by ice and snow, and the living ...
Stellar Ticking Time Bomb Explodes On Cue
Post Date: 2008-05-03 09:14:27 by farmfriend
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Stellar Ticking Time Bomb Explodes On Cue by Robert Naeye Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 02, 2008 Using observations from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), an international team of astronomers has discovered a timing mechanism that allows them to predict exactly when a superdense star will unleash incredibly powerful explosions. "We found a clock that ticks slower and slower, and when it slows down too much, boom! The bomb explodes," says lead author Diego Altamirano of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The bursts occur on a neutron star, which is the collapsed remnant of a massive star that exploded in a supernova. The neutron star belongs to a binary system ...
Woman's voice sexier when most fertile
Post Date: 2008-05-02 22:52:19 by robin
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NEW YORK: A fascinating study has suggested women's voices to be sexiest at the time of their menstrual cycle when they were at their most fertile. Earlier studies have already documented flirtatious behaviour and changes to body scents believed to be clues to a woman's fertility status. The latest study, to be published in the Journal of Evolution and Human Behaviour, found that a woman's voice becomes more attractive during her monthly cycle when she is at her most fertile. Nathan Pipitone and Gordon Gallup of the State University of New York at Albany recorded women counting from 1 to 10 at four occasions during their menstrual cycle. When it was replayed at random, both ...
Mass Mind Control Through Network Television: Are Your Thoughts Your Own?
Post Date: 2008-05-01 02:59:32 by IndieTX
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Why do countless American people go along with the War on Iraq? Why do so many people call for a police state control grid? A major component to a full understanding of why this kind of governmental and corporate corruption is to discover the modern science of mind control and social engineering. It's baffling to merely glance at the stacks of documentation that this world government isn't being constructed for the greater good of humanity. Although there are a growing number of people waking up the reality of our growing transparent soft cage, there seems to be just enough citizens who are choosing to remain asleep. Worse yet, there are even those who were at least partially awake ...
5.2-magnitude quake hits in Shasta forest
Post Date: 2008-04-30 17:01:15 by farmfriend
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5.2-magnitude quake hits in Shasta forest The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-5.2 earthquake has hit in the Shasta National Forest west of Weaverville, 191 miles north of Sacramento.
Poster Comment:Anyone paying attention to the number of Earthquakes recently?
The Solar Revolution and the End of Big Energy
Post Date: 2008-04-30 06:53:55 by Ada
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Is Big Government necessary for Big Energy? The zealots of Big Energy claim that if we wish to keep the lights from going out, we must accept mammoth public utilities, mandatory conservation measures, and even imperialist military conflicts. We are told that to receive more electrical power, we must surrender more personal freedom. Contrary to the politicians, however, the reality is that we are in the midst of a Solar Revolution, in which the free market is answering our energy needs through technological improvements in photovoltaic solar panels. With investments made on a local and household basis, solar panels offer a personalized form of energy that is independent of Big Government. ...
New Zealand scientists thaw 1,000-pound squid corpse
Post Date: 2008-04-29 23:31:40 by richard9151
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news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080.....69zMONPwfcOQFAKvSmROrgF By RAY LILLEY, Associated Press Writer Tue Apr 29, 3:33 AM ET WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Marine scientists in New Zealand on Tuesday were thawing the corpse of the largest squid ever caught to try to unlock the secrets of one of the ocean's most mysterious beasts. No one has ever seen a living, grown colossal squid in its natural deep ocean habitat, and scientists hope their examination of the 1,089-pound, 26-foot long colossal squid, set to begin Wednesday, will help determine how the creatures live. The thawing and examination are being broadcast live on the Internet. The squid, which was caught accidentally by fishermen last ...
Obesity less harmful to blacks [my title]
Post Date: 2008-04-29 14:50:40 by Tauzero
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Race, Visceral Adipose Tissue, Plasma Lipids, and Lipoprotein Lipase Activity in Men and Women The Health, Risk Factors, Exercise Training, and Genetics (HERITAGE) Family Study Jean-Pierre Despre´s, Charles Couillard, Jacques Gagnon, Jean Bergeron, Arthur S. Leon, D.C. Rao, James S. Skinner, Jack H. Wilmore, Claude Bouchard Abstract—Abdominal obesity is associated with numerous metabolic alterations, such as hypertriglyceridemia and low levels of high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. However, compared with abdominally obese white individuals, abdominally obese black individuals have been characterized by higher plasma HDL cholesterol levels, suggesting that the impact of ...
Hackers warn high street chains
Post Date: 2008-04-27 17:42:11 by robin
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Hackers warn high street chains The hackers panel is one of the highlights of InfoSecurity Europe High street chains will be the next victims of cyber terrorism, some of the world's elite hackers have warned. They claim it is only a "matter of time" before the likes of Tesco and Marks & Spencer are targeted. Criminals could use the kind of tactics which crippled Estonia's government and some firms last year, they warned. The experts were members of the infamous "Hackers Panel" which convened in London this week at the InfoSecurity Europe conference. The panel includes penetration testers and so-called "white hat" hackers, ...
Saving the Honeybee Through Organic Farming
Post Date: 2008-04-26 11:55:27 by Red Jones
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Saving the Honeybee Through Organic Farming Professor Joe Cummins Synergistic effects of pesticides and parasitic fungi and worsening decline of honeybees The decline of the honeybee attracted worldwide attention in 2007. Investigations carried out by the Institute of Science in Society implicated a synergistic interaction between the recent widespread use of new pesticides (including Bt toxin from GM crops) and fungal infections [1, 2] (Parasitic Fungus and Honeybee Decline , Parasitic Fungi and Pesticides Act Synergistically to Kill Honeybees?, SiS 35). Sub-lethal levels of neonicotinoid pesticides act synergistically with parasitic fungi in killing insects pests. Fungal spores, widely ...
Squirrel casts long shadow over solar project
Post Date: 2008-04-25 16:40:50 by farmfriend
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Squirrel casts long shadow over solar project By Debra Kahn California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) raised some eyebrows last week when he ended a speech on states’ role in fighting climate change with a diatribe against his own agency. “It’s not just businesses that have slowed things down, it’s not just Republicans that have slowed things down, it’s also Democrats and also environmental activists sometimes that slow things down,” he said of the pace of installation of renewable energy generators. He singled out a squirrel as a symbol of environmental protections run amok. “Our Department of Fish and Game is slowing approval of a solar facility in ...
John A. Wheeler, Physicist Who Coined the Term ‘Black Hole,’ Is Dead at 96
Post Date: 2008-04-25 11:22:39 by aristeides
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John A. Wheeler, Physicist Who Coined the Term ‘Black Hole,’ Is Dead at 96 By DENNIS OVERBYE Published: April 14, 2008 John A. Wheeler, a visionary physicist and teacher who helped invent the theory of nuclear fission, gave black holes their name and argued about the nature of reality with Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, died Sunday morning at his home in Hightstown, N.J. He was 96. The cause was pneumonia, said his daughter Alison Wheeler Lahnston. Dr. Wheeler was a young, impressionable professor in 1939 when Bohr, the Danish physicist and his mentor, arrived in the United States aboard a ship from Denmark and confided to him that German scientists had succeeded in ...
Human line 'nearly split in two'
Post Date: 2008-04-25 10:06:03 by robin
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Human line 'nearly split in two' By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News Humans diverged into separate populations for 100,000 years Ancient humans started down the path of evolving into two separate species before merging back into a single population, a genetic study suggests. The genetic split in Africa resulted in distinct populations that lived in isolation for as much as 100,000 years, the scientists say. This could have been caused by arid conditions driving a wedge between humans in eastern and southern Africa. Details have been published in the American Journal of Human Genetics. It would be the longest period for which ...
Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh
Post Date: 2008-04-24 21:25:49 by rack42
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THE scariest photo I have seen on the internet is www.spaceweather.com, where you will find a real-time image of the sun from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, located in deep space at the equilibrium point between solar and terrestrial gravity. What is scary about the picture is that there is only one tiny sunspot. Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously. All four agencies that track Earth's temperature (the Hadley Climate ...
Fossilized Protein Shows Dinosaurs' Ties to Modern Birds
Post Date: 2008-04-24 17:30:22 by ...
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Protein retrieved from a 68-millon-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex bone closely resembles the main protein in chicken and ostrich bones and is only distantly related to lizard protein, strengthening the popular idea that birds, and not reptiles, are the closest living descendants of dinosaurs. The new work builds on a 2007 analysis showing remarkably close similarities between T. rex collagen and collagen from modern day chickens, but which did not include comparisons to other living species. Collagen is the primary protein in bones. "We had made a very loose connection at first," said John M. Asara of Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, who led both ...
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