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Scientists Kill Ming the Clam, The World's Oldest Living Creature
Post Date: 2007-10-30 00:53:20 by Minerva
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t has been christened Ming and it's officially the oldest animal to have ever lived. A British scientific team discovered the 405-year-old clam, named after the Chinese dynasty and not the former Liberal Democrat leader, at the bottom of the ocean, and hope its longevity will reveal the secrets of ageing. The oldest creature ever So significant is the find that Help The Aged have awarded a £40,000 grant to the team to investigate how the molusc, born when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and William Shakespeare was writing The Merry Wives of Windsor, has survived over the centuries. The record-breaking shellfish, 31 years older than the previous oldest animal, another clam, ...
Terabyte Thumb Drives Made Possible by Nanotech Memory
Post Date: 2007-10-27 21:10:38 by robin
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Terabyte Thumb Drives Made Possible by Nanotech Memory By Alexis Madrigal 10.26.07 | 4:00 PM Michael Kozicki, director of Arizona State's Center for Applied Nanoionics, has developed a new type of computer memory that he claims is cheaper and more energy-efficient than current technology. Photo: Michael Kozicki Researchers have developed a low-cost, low-power computer memory that could put terabyte-sized thumb drives in consumers' pockets within a few years. Thanks to a new technique for manipulating charged copper particles at the molecular scale, researchers at Arizona State ...
Non Lethal Heroes Needed
Post Date: 2007-10-27 17:03:53 by Ada
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DIGG THIS Recently, on my favorite television channel, Turner Classic Movies, I saw a couple of old biopics. One was about French chemist Louis Pasteur, and the other was about Paul Ehrlich, a German scientist. They reminded me of how poisoned our culture has become. Hollywood's idea of heroes today are soldiers, cops, psychopaths or comic-book fantasy characters – all essentially killers. Yet Pasteur and Ehrlich did more for the human race and saved more lives than all the generals who have ever been born. Pasteur, from whose name the verb "pasteurize" comes, fought a lonely battle trying to convince physicians that most diseases were caused by microbes. He was ...
Exhibitionist spiny anteater reveals bizarre penis
Post Date: 2007-10-26 19:12:42 by Zipporah
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The bizarre sex life of the spiny anteater has been exposed by researchers – the male ejaculates using only one half of its penis. New findings about the creature’s sex life may seem salacious but they could help shed light on an evolutionary mystery.
It seems that the way the mammal ejaculates is similar to the way reptiles do – by shutting down one side of its penis before secreting semen from the other side. Reptiles have a pair of male members called hemipenes for sex, and they use only one of the two during each act of copulation.
The spiny anteater (Tachyglossus aculeatus), also known as the short-beaked echidna, is a primitive mammal ...
HAARP: VANDALISM IN THE SKY? [Weather control, Earthquakes, Mind Control, Crowd control, etc. / DARPA, 9/11 Missing $2.3 TRILLION, ZAKHEIM]
Post Date: 2007-10-26 15:38:45 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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HAARP: VANDALISM IN THE SKY? [Weather control, Earthquakes, Mind Control, Crowd control, etc. / DARPA, 9/11 Missing $2.3 TRILLION, Dov Zakheim] Published in Nexus Magazine, Volume 3, Number 1 (December '95-January '96) PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560 Australia. email: nexus@peg.apc.org Telephone: +61 (0)74 429 280; Fax: +61 (0)74 429 381 Copyright: 1995 by Dr Nick Begich and Jeane Manning Technonet is the protest form of the 1990s-picketing on the information highways. For example, a fast-growing assortment of men and women around the world are using the Internet (started by the US military for information transfer and exchange that would never be interfered with) to draw ...
Teen's Ticket Hinges on GPS Vs. Radar
Post Date: 2007-10-26 13:30:08 by Brian S
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WINDSOR, Calif. (AP) — Given the option of contesting a traffic ticket, most motorists — 19 out of 20 by some estimates — would rather pay up than pit their word against a police officer's in court. A retired sheriff's deputy nevertheless hopes to beat the long odds of the law by setting the performance of a police officer's radar gun against the accuracy of the GPS tracking device he installed in his teenage stepson's car. The retired deputy, Roger Rude, readily admits his 17-year-old stepson, Shaun Malone, enjoys putting the pedal to the metal. That's why he and Shaun's mother insisted on putting a global positioning system that monitors the ...
The Third Electrical Current
Post Date: 2007-10-26 07:05:40 by gengis gandhi
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The Third Electrical Current A US Patent has been awarded to John Timothy Sullivan for the Sully Direct Current, which is not AC nor DC. Discovered as part of a new electrolysis technique. Critics say it is not new, and it is not a third type of current. BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, USA -- Clear Energy, Inc., a small R&D company in Baltimore, has been issued US Patent number 7,041,203 for a new electrical current. Previously, there were two types of currents used to deliver electrical power. Direct Current (DC), the kind that comes from your battery in your automobile, was discovered by Ben Franklin in the 1700’s. Alternating Current (AC) was brought forth by Nikola Tesla over a ...
Scientists map out first Asian genome
Post Date: 2007-10-25 23:34:49 by Tauzero
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Scientists map out first Asian genome BEIJING, Oct. 12 -- Scientists have successfully completed the first sequence map of the diploid genome of an Asian individual. The sequence was worked out by a group of scientists in Shenzhen and is now on display at the Ninth Annual China Hi-Tech Fair in the city. The results, based on a Chinese, represent only the third human genome to have been sequenced in the world. The sequence map was created using advanced sequencing technology. American scientists earlier this year created the first two genome sequence maps, of two Caucasian people. The Chinese project was undertaken by the Shenzhen branch of the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), along ...
Scientists Denounce Global Warming Report 'Edits'
Post Date: 2007-10-25 17:35:16 by robin
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Scientists Denounce Global Warming Report 'Edits' Public Health Experts Say Edits Represent Censoring of Science By RAJA JAGADEESAN, M.D. and CARLA WILLIAMS ABC News Medical Unit Oct. 25, 2007 — Environmental and public health experts overwhelmingly denounced editing by the White House of a federal health agency head's testimony to Congress Tuesday. Significant deletions were made from the testimony, concerning global warming and the potential impact on human health. The original, unedited testimony presented to Congress by Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and obtained by ABC News was 14 pages long, but the White ...
Russian Firm Files Patent for Password Cracker
Post Date: 2007-10-25 16:24:15 by robin
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According to ElcomSoft, it has found a way to harness the combined power of a PC's Central Processing Unit and its video card's Graphics Processing Unit. "The resulting hardware/software powerhouse," it asserts, "will allow cryptology professionals to build affordable PCs that will work like supercomputers when recovering lost passwords." Others question how original the method really is. A Moscow-based software maker filed this week for a U.S. patent on a technology it claims will significantly reduce the time it takes to crack computer passwords. The Russian company, Elcomsoft, said in a statement that it has discovered "a breakthrough technology that ...
Hidden data: You may be sharing more than you think
Post Date: 2007-10-24 16:46:42 by gengis gandhi
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October 24th, 2007 Hidden data: You may be sharing more than you think By RONALD HACKETT August 21, 2006 In April 2005, when the Defense Department’s Multi-National Force — Iraq posted a redacted report on the death of Italian secret agent Nicola Calipari in Iraq, a group of Pentagon Web site visitors from Italy could copy and paste the classified portions from Adobe Acrobat Reader from the Web site into a Microsoft Word document, including the name of the U.S. soldier who accidentally killed her. Last December, Web surfers found out from the posted White House policy document “Strategy for Victory in Iraq” who the report’s author was, causing some embarrassment ...
35 Inconvenient Truths: The errors in Al Gore’s movie
Post Date: 2007-10-21 17:06:17 by farmfriend
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35 Inconvenient Truths: The errors in Al Gore’s movie Written by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Friday, 19 October 2007 A spokesman for Al Gore has issued a questionable response to the news that in October 2007 the High Court in London had identified nine “errors” in his movie An Inconvenient Truth. The judge had stated that, if the UK Government had not agreed to send to every secondary school in England a corrected guidance note making clear the mainstream scientific position on these nine “errors”, he would have made a finding that the Government’s distribution of the film and the first draft of the guidance note earlier in 2007 to all English ...
Scientists hail DNA repair study
Post Date: 2007-10-18 11:51:40 by gengis gandhi
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Enzyme image One of the images used by the research team Research into how the human body repairs damaged DNA has been described as a "major breakthrough". The way that cells protect themselves from diseases like cancer has been the focus of a study by scientists at Dundee and Leeds Universities. They used special x-rays to build 3D pictures of a particular enzyme, which recognises and fixes damaged DNA. The researchers used the images to get a better understanding of how the process works. The team studied an enzyme, known as T7 endonuclease 1, which played a central role in identifying damaged or "branched" DNA. 'New insight' The scientists said it was ...
Bleak U.S. "report card" finds warming Arctic
Post Date: 2007-10-18 08:37:37 by angle
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NASA satellite image from September 21, 2005 and released on September 21, 2007 shows Arctic summer sea ice coverage in 2005. Arctic sea ice melted to its lowest level ever this week, shattering a record set in 2005 and continuing a trend spurred by human-caused global warming, scientists said on September 20, 2007. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bleak "report card" on global warming's Arctic impact released on Wednesday found less ice, hotter air and dying wildlife, and stressed that what happens around the North Pole affects the entire planet. The report, issued by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, also found that weird winds blowing warm air toward ...
Apple to allow outside applications on iPhone
Post Date: 2007-10-18 08:31:37 by angle
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs said on Wednesday that outside developers will be allowed to create programs for the iPhone, changing a policy that had angered many. Blocking outsiders from making programs that would run easily on the iPhone has been one of a series of restrictions that have annoyed users, even leading to some lawsuits. Jobs, in comments on Apple's Web site, said a kit for developers still will not be available until February, as the company works out how to open up the phone without exposing it to malicious programs. "We think a few months of patience now will be rewarded by many years of great third party applications running on ...
Study seeks genetic roots of homosexuality
Post Date: 2007-10-15 23:35:01 by Trace21231
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Study seeks scientific explanation for roots of homosexuality The Associated Press Updated: 1:59 p.m. MT Oct 15, 2007 CHICAGO - Two gay brothers are convinced their sexual orientation is as deeply rooted as their Mexican ancestry. They are among 1,000 pairs of gay brothers taking part in the largest study to date seeking genes that may influence whether people are gay. The Cabreras hope the findings will help silence critics who say homosexuality is an immoral choice. If fresh evidence is found suggesting genes are involved, perhaps homosexuality will be viewed as no different than other genetic traits like height and hair color, said AKA Stone, a student at DePaul University in Chicago. ...
MS Process Explorer - Windows Users
Post Date: 2007-10-14 16:22:20 by Lod
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This tool has really helped my machine.
RETHINKING RELATIVITY
Post Date: 2007-10-13 17:52:19 by RickyJ
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Any physicists here at 4um care to comment on this? I would like your thoughts on this article. No one has paid attention yet, but a well-respected physics journal just published an article whose conclusion, if generally accepted, will undermine the foundations of modern physics -- Einstein’s Theory of Relativity in particular. Published in Physics Letters A (December 21, 1998), the article claims that the speed with which the force of gravity propagates must be at least twenty billion times faster than the speed of light. This would contradict the Special Theory of Relativity of 1905, which asserts that nothing can go faster than light. This claim about the special status of the ...
Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Scientists at Work on Robobugs.
Post Date: 2007-10-12 11:23:05 by Brian S
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Vanessa Alarcon saw them while working at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square last month. "I heard someone say, 'Oh my god, look at those,' " the college senior from New York recalled. "I look up and I'm like, 'What the hell is that?' They looked kind of like dragonflies or little helicopters. But I mean, those are not insects." Out in the crowd, Bernard Crane saw them, too. "I'd never seen anything like it in my life," the Washington lawyer said. "They were large for dragonflies. I thought, 'Is that mechanical, or is that alive?' " That is just one of the questions hovering over a handful of similar sightings at ...
Bill Clinton
Post Date: 2007-10-11 21:54:11 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Bill Clinton under Mind Control
Everyone's Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship
Post Date: 2007-10-11 19:10:41 by Zipporah
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The Citizen Lab has a new anti-censorware guide, "Everyone's Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship for Citizens Worldwide." The 31-page PDF covers a lot of ground, with material for anti-censorware activists and users, and is very handsomely put together. Circumvention and anonymity are different. Anony- mous systems protect your identity from the website you are connecting to and from the anonymity system itself. They can be used for circumvention, but are not designed for this purpose and thus can easily be blocked. Circumvention systems are designed to get around blocking but do not protect your identity from the circumvention provider. Do not mistake open public ...
Official prototype of kilogram mysteriously losing weight
Post Date: 2007-10-10 09:25:36 by gengis gandhi
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PARIS, France (AP) -- A kilogram just isn't what it used to be. art.kilogram.ap.jpg Physicist Richard Davis of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures with the reference kilogram. The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight -- if ever so slightly. Physicist Richard Davis of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres, southwest of Paris, says the reference kilo appears to have lost 50 micrograms compared with the average of dozens of copies. "The mystery is that they were all made of the same material, and many were made at the same time and ...
c2c interview: Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix
Post Date: 2007-10-10 09:19:56 by gengis gandhi
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New Study Shows Genetically Engineered Corn Could Pollute Aquatic Ecosystems
Post Date: 2007-10-10 08:03:53 by angle
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A study by an Indiana University environmental science professor and several colleagues suggests a widely planted variety of genetically engineered corn has the potential to harm aquatic ecosystems. The study is being published this week by the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. Researchers, including Todd V. Royer, an assistant professor in the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs, established that pollen and other plant parts containing toxins from genetically engineered Bt corn are washing into streams near cornfields. They also conducted laboratory trials that found consumption of Bt corn byproducts produced increased mortality and ...
Following Honeybee Disappearance, Bumblebees Begin Vanishing Act
Post Date: 2007-10-09 23:30:13 by robin
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GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Looking high and low, Robbin Thorp can no longer find a species of bumblebee that just five years ago was plentiful in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon. Thorp, an emeritus professor of entomology from the University of California at Davis, found one solitary worker last year along a remote mountain trail in the Siskiyou Mountains, but hasn't been able to locate any this year. He fears that the species — Franklin's bumblebee — has gone extinct before anyone could even propose it for the endangered species list. To make matters worse, two other bumblebee species — one on the East coast, one on the West — have gone from ...
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