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Post Date: 2007-12-11 20:24:38 by tom007
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Archaeologists find 2,000 year old Roman glue in Germany
Post Date: 2007-12-11 14:29:53 by aristeides
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Archaeologists find 2,000 year old Roman glue in Germany From our ANI Correspondent London, Dec 8: Archaeologists have reportedly found traces of a glue used by the Romans 2,000 years ago near the town of Xanten in Germany. It had lain on what was once the bed of the Rhine for at least 1,500 years. According to researchers at the Rhineland Historical Museum in Bonn, this ancient glue was used to mount silver laurel leaves on legionnaires' battle helmets, made of iron. Though the helmet lay on the river-bed for so long, its glue was not exposed to the destructive effects of the atmosphere, and therefore, did not lose its adhesive power. "Researchers came across the glue by ...
Huge'Ocean' Discovered Inside Earth
Post Date: 2007-12-11 06:19:05 by Ada
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Scientists scanning the deep interior of Earth have found evidence of a vast water reservoir beneath eastern Asia that is at least the volume of the Arctic Ocean. The discovery marks the first time such a large body of water has found in the planet’s deep mantle. The finding, made by Michael Wysession, a seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis, and his former graduate student Jesse Lawrence, now at the University of California, San Diego, will be detailed in a forthcoming monograph to be published by the American Geophysical Union. Looking down deep The pair analyzed more than 600,000 seismograms—records of waves generated by earthquakes traveling through the ...
CompUSA, Falling to Competition, to Shut Down After Holidays
Post Date: 2007-12-08 22:25:40 by tom007
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CompUSA, Falling to Competition, to Shut Down After Holidays By Joseph Galante Enlarge Image/Details Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- CompUSA, the computer retailer that Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim owned since 2000, will shut its doors after 23 years, succumbing to competition from Best Buy Co. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Restructuring firm Gordon Brothers Group LLC bought the chain for an undisclosed sum and will sell or close its 103 stores after the U.S. holidays, CompUSA said yesterday. The 67- year-old Slim, Latin America's richest man, failed to turn around CompUSA after investing more than $1.5 billion in the chain over eight years. ``An orderly and expedited wind-down and asset sale ...
Busted: rbST Milk Myth Machine is Revealed
Post Date: 2007-12-05 17:14:45 by angle
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Buckeye Dairy News If you believe the headlines of most major newspapers and magazines, the U.S. consumer is against the use of biotechnology in agriculture and prefers that his/her food be grown in a natural and organic fashion. Recently, a few milk purchasers and resellers, including the Kroger Company, used this argument in deciding to stop purchasing milk from farms that use recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST), a hormone produced by Monsanto using recombinant-DNA under the trade name of Posilac®. Perspective From the perspective of one who has spent over 25 years of his life working on improving dairy productivity and profitability by using modern management, nutrition, and ...
Rushing for the Lifeboats
Post Date: 2007-12-04 00:43:06 by Tauzero
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Rushing for the Lifeboats Jared Taylor, Special to AR News, December 3, 2007 William Saletan, national correspondent at the on-line magazine Slate, recently published a three-part series about the powerful evidence for the view that the average IQ difference between blacks and whites is caused at least partly by genes. (The series begins here.) Much of his data came from a first-rate summary by Philippe Rushton and Arthur Jensen that appeared in the June 2005 issue of Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. It was a surprise to find a reasonably objective treatment of IQ at a web site owned by the Washington Post, and we posted excerpts at AmRen.com. (See “Race, Genes, and Intelligence, ...
Mind Games; New on the Internet: a community of people who believe the government is beaming voices into their minds. They may be crazy, but the Pentagon has pursued a weapon that can do just that.
Post Date: 2007-12-03 21:34:40 by Jethro Tull
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From: The Washington Post Date: January 14, 2007 Author: Sharon Weinberger IF HARLAN GIRARD IS CRAZY, HE DOESN'T ACT THE PART. He is standing just where he said he would be, below the Philadelphia train station's World War II memorial -- a soaring statue of a winged angel embracing a fallen combatant, as if lifting him to heaven. Girard is wearing pressed khaki pants, expensive-looking leather loafers and a crisp blue button-down. He looks like a local businessman dressed for a casual Friday -- a local businessman with a wickedly dark sense of humor, which had become apparent when he said to look for him beneath "the angel sodomizing a dead soldier." At 70, he appears ...
Tasers: the next generation
Post Date: 2007-12-03 17:45:10 by TwentyTwelve
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TheStar.com | Technology | Tasers: the next generation Tasers: the next generation Consisting of stackable arrays of six “darts,” Taser’s Shockwave technology — which will likely go to market next year — will be used for military applications, says a company spokesperson, “not for a riot in Toronto.” Alarmed by recent incidents? Wait'll you see what the company is planning for 2008 Dec 02, 2007 04:30 AM Andrew Chung Staff Reporter The Taser is going wireless. Until now, the electric-shock gun consisted of two barbed darts attached to wires that shoot out and strike the victim, immobilizing the person with 50,000 volts of electricity, causing ...
Microwave Beam Stops Cars Dead
Post Date: 2007-12-03 17:42:16 by robin
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Microwave Beam Stops Cars Dead Tracy Staedter, Discovery News Nov. 29, 2007 -- The same microwave radiation that reheats pizza can be used to fry the electrical systems in cars, stopping them dead in their tracks. Emitted from a rooftop device, the radiation could be used by law enforcement officers to put an end to dangerous car chases or by military personnel as a non-lethal way of disabling vehicles that get too close for comfort. "The idea is to warn an automobile some distance away from a high-value target like a military barrack or a communication center. If they don't comply, you just zap them and it prevents them from coming closer," said James Tatoian, ...
Chimps beat humans in memory test
Post Date: 2007-12-03 16:19:58 by robin
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Chimps beat humans in memory test By Helen Briggs Science reporter, BBC News Counting test Number memory test Chimpanzees have an extraordinary photographic memory that is far superior to ours, research suggests. Young chimps outperformed university students in memory tests devised by Japanese scientists. The tasks involved remembering the location of numbers on a screen, and correctly recalling the sequence. The findings, published in Current Biology, suggest we may have under-estimated the intelligence of our closest living relatives. Until now, it had always been assumed that chimps ...
It Seems to Us: Absolute Zero
Post Date: 2007-12-03 14:11:11 by Tauzero
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It Seems to Us: Absolute Zero By David Sumner, K1ZZ December 1, 2007 “Sunspot-wise, we seem to be stuck in a trough between Solar Cycles 23 and 24. Lately the W1AW propagation bulletins have been reporting zero sunspots, day after day. The level of solar activity was low throughout 2006 and 2007 and is not expected to begin to pick up until around March 2008 -- months later than earlier predictions.” Many ARRL members are new to HF this year. If you are among them you may be a bit disappointed that the reality you have experienced has not met your expectations. We boast that radio amateurs can communicate anywhere in the world, but it's not an easy game for beginners when ...
Nigerian keyboard firm sues One Laptop per Child
Post Date: 2007-12-03 12:53:44 by Tauzero
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Nigerian keyboard firm sues One Laptop per Child No hugs and kisses for XO Laptop By Austin Modine The One Laptop Per Child foundation is being sued over its XO laptop keyboard design by the Nigerian-owned, Massachusetts-based firm, Lagos Analysis Corp. Lagos claims the non-profit illegally reverse-engineered their software drivers to make the OLPC keypad more accent mark friendly to foreign fingers. The initial copyright infringement suit has been filed in Nigeria, and the company plans to press further lawsuits in countries where the OLPC laptop is being vended. Lagos CEO Adé G. Oyegb5;la tells El Reg that the company's Konyin Multilingual Keyboard features four shift ...
Canadian Teenagers Ace International Science Test; US students not even in top 10...
Post Date: 2007-12-01 13:26:27 by Brian S
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Behind only Finland and Hong Kong of 57 countries November 30, 2007 Canadian teenagers rank third in science on a respected international test, according to initial results released yesterday. The survey, which measured the scientific knowledge of 15-year-olds in 57 countries last year, found this country's youngsters were behind only their peers in Finland and Hong Kong. "Canadian students have proven again to be among the best," Kelly Lamrock, New Brunswick's Education Minister and chairman of the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada, said in a statement. Educators consider the test, which is called the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA, a ...
water power vid (weird science)
Post Date: 2007-12-01 10:44:00 by gengis gandhi
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First Photo from China's Lunar Probe "Chang'e I"
Post Date: 2007-11-30 21:16:23 by rack42
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Photo is from about 125 miles (200 Klicks). Estimates of lifetime: 1 year. Don't know the resolution of the pics. Would be nice if remains of US Apollo landings could be seen.
The Controversy Over Super Wool
Post Date: 2007-11-29 17:05:43 by Tauzero
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The Controversy Over Super Wool By Nicholas Antongiavanni From the May/June 2007 Issue Filed under: Lifestyle, Culture, Science & Technology Better sheep-breeding techniques and advances in loom technology have made the cloth that goes into men’s suits finer and softer. But, Nicholas Antongiavanni asks, are the suits really better? In the fitting room of a Manhattan depart ment store, a partner in an expensive New York law firm looks uneasily in the mirror. His new made-to-measure suit does not seem to fit quite cor rectly. He has brought along a younger associate to render an opinion. The boss may be richer and a more experienced litigator, but his confidence fails him when he ...
Spray-On Solar-Power Cells Are True Breakthrough
Post Date: 2007-11-29 16:59:51 by gengis gandhi
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Spray-On Solar-Power Cells Are True Breakthrough Click here to find out more! Stefan Lovgren for National Geographic News January 14, 2005 Scientists have invented a plastic solar cell that can turn the sun's power into electrical energy, even on a cloudy day. The plastic material uses nanotechnology and contains the first solar cells able to harness the sun's invisible, infrared rays. The breakthrough has led theorists to predict that plastic solar cells could one day become five times more efficient than current solar cell technology. Email to a Friend RELATED * Underwater Windmill Helps Power Arctic Village * The Future of Alternative Energy * Students Take Veggie-Fueled ...
News Web Sites Seek More Search Control
Post Date: 2007-11-29 15:31:11 by robin
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NEW YORK The desire for greater control over how search engines index and display Web sites is driving an effort by leading news organizations and other publishers to revise a 13-year-old technology for restricting access. Currently, Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and other top search companies voluntarily respect a Web site's wishes as declared in a text file known as "robots.txt," which a search engine's indexing software, called a crawler, knows to look for on a site. The formal rules allow a site to block indexing of individual Web pages, specific directories or the entire site, though some search engines have added their own commands. The new proposal, to be unveiled ...
The Hourglass Nebula (this pic will blow you away)
Post Date: 2007-11-28 19:24:44 by gengis gandhi
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Gene study supports single main migration across Bering Strait
Post Date: 2007-11-28 04:28:40 by robin
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Contact: Anne Rueterarueter@umich.edu 734-764-2220University of Michigan Health System Gene study supports single main migration across Bering StraitSiberians and Native Americans share unique genetic variant The U-M study, which analyzed genetic data from 29 Native American populations, suggests a Siberian origin is much more likely than a South Asian or Polynesian origin.Click here for more information. Did a relatively small number of people from Siberia who trekked across a Bering Strait land bridge some 12,000 years ago give rise to the native peoples of North and South America? Or did the ancestors of today’s native peoples come from other parts of Asia or ...
The Sliding Rocks of Racetrack Playa
Post Date: 2007-11-28 04:22:50 by robin
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The Sliding Rocks of Racetrack Playa
One of the most interesting mysteries of Death Valley National Park is the sliding rocks at Racetrack Playa (a playa is a dry lake bed). These rocks can be found on the floor of the playa with long trails behind them. Somehow these rocks slide across the playa, cutting a furrow in the sediment as they move.
Some of these rocks weigh several hundred pounds. That makes the question: "How do they move?" a very challenging one.
The truth: No one knows for sure exactly how these rocks move - although a few people have come up with some pretty good explanations. The reason why their movement remains a mystery: No one has ever seen them ...
Has first evidence of another universe been seen?
Post Date: 2007-11-27 10:47:15 by aristeides
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Has first evidence of another universe been seen? By William Atkins Astronomers announced in August 2007 the discovery of a large hole at the edge of our universe. Since then, theoretical physicist and cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton and colleagues have claimed it is an “unmistakable imprint of another universe beyond the edge of our own.” The article entitled “Astronomers Find Enormous Hole in the Universe” discusses the August 2007 discovery of the hole. It is located at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory website. Dr. Laura Mersini-Houghton is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). The hole is ...
Diggers leave digg for Mixx
Post Date: 2007-11-25 20:42:52 by TwentyTwelve
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Diggers leave digg for Mixx (Weekend Wrap-up Nov 25) Pandia takes a look a this week’s search engine headlines and presents Mixx, a newcomer to the social web scene. Techcrunch reports that many contributors to the social web “submit-and-vote-for-articles” site digg are frustrated with the current culture and practices. Many of them are therefore looking for a new home on the Web. Some go to propeller (previously known as the Netscape home page), others to reddit — both useful tools for following current news and blog trends. Others are going to a new social web sites called Mixx. Mixx is, indeed, very similar to digg, and focuses on submissions of — and ...
How to Grow an Indoor Herb Garden
Post Date: 2007-11-25 14:46:23 by lanne
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Whether you are preparing a gourmet meal for guests, or a quick meal on soccer night, absolutely nothing enhances the flavors of food like fresh herbs. And what better place to find them than right in your own kitchen. http://www.gomestic.com/Homemaki...-Indoor-Herb-Garden.33556
Astronomers discover stars with carbon atmospheres
Post Date: 2007-11-25 02:41:46 by farmfriend
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Astronomers discover stars with carbon atmospheres PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 Source: University of Arizona Astronomers have discovered white dwarf stars with pure carbon atmospheres. These stars possibly evolved in a sequence astronomers didn't know before. They may have evolved from stars that are not quite massive enough to explode as supernovae but are just on the borderline. All but the most massive two or three percent of stars eventually die as white dwarfs rather than explode as supernovae. When a star burns helium, it leaves "ashes" of carbon and oxygen. When its nuclear fuel is exhausted, the star then dies as a white dwarf, which ...
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