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Geometry is all
Post Date: 2007-11-24 12:30:15 by Ada
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A shape could describe the cosmos and all it contains ONE of the mysteries of the universe is why it should speak the language of mathematics. Numbers and the relationships between them are, after all, just abstract reasoning. Yet mathematics has shown itself to be particularly adept at describing both the contents of the universe and the forces that act on them. Now comes a paper which argues that one branch of the subject—geometry—could form the basis of all the laws of physics. Physicists are an overbearing bunch. They have long sought a “theory of everything”. Such an opus would unite the fundamental forces—gravity, electromagnetism and the two forces that ...
What has made 4 go FAT from side to side?
Post Date: 2007-11-23 17:59:32 by Lod
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Help if you can - thanks.
Researchers Create Robot Driven by Moth's Brain
Post Date: 2007-11-23 13:41:24 by Zipporah
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Robo-Moth: UA robot driven by moth's brain. Charles M. Higgins, UA associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and doctoral student Timothy Melano presented their findings and outlined the mechanics behind the robot’s movements. The robot’s motion is guided by a tiny electrode implanted in the moth’s brain, Higgins said, specifically to a single neuron that is responsible for keeping the moth’s vision steady during flight. The neuron transmits electrical signals which are then amplified in the robot's base and through a mathematical formula, a computer translates the signals into action, making the robot move. The moth is immobilize inside a ...
The Robot Monkey Head
Post Date: 2007-11-23 01:16:48 by Minerva
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Here is more info on the Wow Wee product: Animitronic Monkey Head
Innovation? How About Just Taking Out the Trash?
Post Date: 2007-11-22 15:49:16 by tom007
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Innovation? How About Just Taking Out the Trash? Tony Long 11.22.07 | 12:00 AM The tech industry -- makers of hardware, software and every ware in between -- prides itself on innovation. If George Bush is the decider, then Steve Jobs and his pals, er, rivals at Dell and IBM are the innovators, the geniuses, the gurus. We’ve elevated these guys to rock-star status, which I suppose makes sense, because they provide the tools that allow a self-involved culture to wallow in its narcissism. They keep us kitted out with must-have laptops and iPods and Blackberries, thereby giving us texting and virtual worlds and, hoo-wahhh, our own personal music. Unfortunately, all these way-cool ...
Global Warming Consensus Does Not Exist Among Scientists
Post Date: 2007-11-22 02:07:01 by farmfriend
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Global Warming Consensus Does Not Exist Among Scientists Letter to the editor: The Wichita Eagle Written By: Joesph Bast Published In: Heartland Perspectives Publication Date: September 5, 2007 Publisher: The Heartland Institute Randy Scholfield in his August 24 column (“Why do some deny global warming?”) wonders why so many people “resist the evidence of human-caused climate change.” After all, he writes, “the overwhelming consensus of mainstream science is clear.” Scholfield is deeply confused about the subject, but it isn’t his fault. Media coverage of global warming confusing, and too many scientists have made careers out of issuing scaring ...
Battle of the Nobel climate horror disaster movies
Post Date: 2007-11-22 01:48:12 by farmfriend
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Battle of the Nobel climate horror disaster movies Terence Corcoran, Financial Post Published: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 So here's our ethical predicament for today: Is it wrong to be a shouting scaremonger in a crowded movie theatre full of shouting scaremongers? And, one might ask, what happens when a scaremonger shouts fire in a theatre full of people shouting fire? The answer to the second question is easy: Nothing. That's what happened last Saturday, when the Nobel Prizewinning United Nations panel on climate change, in another of its patented panic-inducing document dumps, told the world that the end is near. Unless we all rush for the exits and bring on a massive ...
Liberal Creationism
Post Date: 2007-11-20 00:07:19 by Tauzero
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from: William Saletan Liberal Creationism Posted Monday, Nov. 19, 2007, at 7:47 AM ET We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights … —Declaration of Independence Last month, James Watson, the legendary biologist, was condemned and forced into retirement after claiming that African intelligence wasn't "the same as ours." "Racist, vicious and unsupported by science," said the Federation of American Scientists. "Utterly unsupported by scientific evidence," declared the U.S. government's supervisor of genetic research. The New York Times told ...
Are We There Yet?
Post Date: 2007-11-19 13:23:23 by Tauzero
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Are We There Yet? (October 5, 2007) Many people ask if we are at solar minimum yet and how do we know when we are. Solar minimum is the period when the Sun has reached its lowest point of solar activity in its 11-year cycle. One way to see if we are there yet is to observe the solar corona, easily seen in SOHO's C2 coronograph images. The structure we see in the coronagraph images is a marker for the global magnetic field extending into the corona and heliosphere. When the Sun is at its minimum and the corona is "relaxed", the elongated structures in the corona will extend out horizontally with both sides fairly balanced. See the bottom coronagraph from 1996. At solar ...
DARK MISSION
Post Date: 2007-11-18 20:37:13 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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CU Satellite Indicates Regional Warming Variations From Sun During Solar Cycle
Post Date: 2007-11-18 20:29:49 by farmfriend
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CU Satellite Indicates Regional Warming Variations From Sun During Solar Cycle PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 Source: University of Colorado at Boulder A NASA satellite designed, built and controlled by the University of Colorado at Boulder is expected to help scientists resolve wide- ranging predictions about the coming solar cycle peak in 2012 and its influence on Earth's warming climate, according to the chief scientist on the project. Senior Research Associate Tom Woods of CU-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics said the brightening of the sun as it approaches its next solar cycle maximum will have regional climatic impacts on Earth. ...
NASA Sees Arctic Ocean Circulation Do an About-Face
Post Date: 2007-11-18 20:26:16 by farmfriend
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NASA Sees Arctic Ocean Circulation Do an About-Face PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 PASADENA, Calif. A team of NASA and university scientists has detected an ongoing reversal in Arctic Ocean circulation triggered by atmospheric circulation changes that vary on decade-long time scales. The results suggest not all the large changes seen in Arctic climate in recent years are a result of long-term trends associated with global warming. The team, led by James Morison of the University of Washington's Polar Science Center Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, used data from an Earth-observing satellite and from deep-sea pressure gauges to monitor Arctic Ocean ...
Al Gore Wrong Again
Post Date: 2007-11-18 20:15:41 by farmfriend
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Al Gore Wrong Again Posted by ReasonMcLucus at 05:54 on 16 Nov 2007 On October 14, 1997, Vice President Al Gore said, “For those who argue that global warming is already changing the world’s climate, this year’s El Nino weather front is more than enough evidence”, the audience was told by Gore. In the next day, a report by the San Francisco Chronicle said: “Gore links El Nino to Global Warming”. The Vice President stated at the summit that growing frequency of El Nino episodes could be connected to the gradual heating of the atmosphere caused by emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Ten years later residents in Argentina and Brazil are ...
Colossus loses code-cracking race
Post Date: 2007-11-18 17:26:01 by robin
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Colossus loses code-cracking race By Mark Ward Technology Correspondent, BBC News website Bletchley's code-breaking effort shortened the war by many months A closer look at the Colossus computer An amateur cryptographer has beaten Colossus in a code-cracking challenge set up to mark the end of a project to rebuild the pioneering computer. The competition saw Colossus return to code-cracking duties for the first time in more than 60 years. The team using Colossus managed to decipher the message just after lunch on 16 November. But before that effort began Bonn-based amateur Joachim Schuth revealed he ...
New vending machine can identify minors
Post Date: 2007-11-17 16:11:48 by robin
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A cigarette vending machine that can tell adults from minors by determining their approximate ages based on bone structure, wrinkles and the way their skin sags went on sale Monday. People wishing to buy cigarettes have to look at a facial recognition camera in the upper section of the machine and press a button. In about three seconds, the machine determines whether the person is 20 years old--the legal age to buy cigarettes--or above. The purchase will be allowed if the machine is satisfied. When it is difficult to determine whether people around the age of 20 are adults, they must insert a driver's license into a reader to make a purchase. They will not be able to buy cigarettes ...
Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend
Post Date: 2007-11-17 09:30:35 by robin
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This weekend brings us the return of the famous Leonid Meteor Shower, a meteor display that in recent years has brought great anticipation and excitement to skywatchers around the world. While the Leonids have been spectacular in years past, this year a modest display is expected. Solely from the standpoint of viewing circumstances, this will be a favorable year to look for these meteors, since the Moon will be at first quarter phase and will have set in the West long before the constellation Leo (from where the meteors get their name) has climbed high in the sky. What they are The Leonid meteors are debris shed into space by the Tempel-Tuttle comet, which swings through the inner ...
Tired of high oil/gas prices? Salt water burns
Post Date: 2007-11-14 20:36:59 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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UFOs are no joke, group says
Post Date: 2007-11-13 22:41:59 by kiki
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - UFOs may be fodder for comedians but there was no joking Monday when a group of former pilots recounted seeing strange phenomena in the sky and demanded the US government reopen an investigation into unidentified flying objects. Several pilots offered dramatic accounts of witnessing UFOs -- including a transparent flying disc and a triangular craft with mysterious markings -- as they insisted their questions needed to be taken seriously more than 30 years after the US file was closed. "We want the US government to stop perpetuating the myth that all UFOs can be explained away in down-to-earth, conventional terms," said Fife Symington, former governor of ...
Climate change - Is CO2 the cause?
Post Date: 2007-11-13 20:28:33 by Horse
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Poster Comment:This is a serialiazation of a videotaped lecture by Professor Bob Carter on the scientific nonsense used to justify Global Warming. I have not anything this good. Too bad he was not put on PBS. These videos are under 10 minutes each. Please watch at least one of these videos before posting a criticism.
Comet Holmes Bigger Than The Sun
Post Date: 2007-11-13 09:08:17 by angle
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Summary Formerly, the Sun was the largest object in the Solar System. Now, comet 17P/Holmes holds that distinction. Spectacular outbursting comet 17P/Holmes exploded in size and brightness on October 24. It continues to expand and is now the largest single object in the Solar system, being bigger than the Sun (see Figure). The diameter of the tenuous dust atmosphere of the comet was measured at 1.4 million kilometers (0.9 million miles) on 2007 November 9 by Rachel Stevenson, Jan Kleyna and Pedro Lacerda of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. They used observations from a wide-field camera on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), one of the few professional instruments ...
Ministers drop objection to mixed embryos
Post Date: 2007-11-13 09:02:09 by angle
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Plans to ban the creation of 'human-animal' embryos by mixing sperm and eggs from different species have been dropped by ministers in a rethink of fertility laws. Under new proposals, scientists will be able to create any type of hybrid embryo for research, provided it is approved by the fertility regulator, the government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. The move represents a final climbdown by the government, which has steadily pulled back from its position in a white paper in December that sought an all-out ban on the creation of embryos made by fusing human and animal cells. In a draft fertility bill published in May, the government said it would permit ...
Former pilots and officials call for new U.S. UFO probe
Post Date: 2007-11-12 17:36:00 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich may have been ridiculed for saying he had seen a UFO, but for some former military pilots and other observers, unidentified flying objects are no laughing matter. An international panel of two dozen former pilots and government officials called on the U.S. government on Monday to reopen its generation-old UFO investigation as a matter of safety and security given continuing reports about flying discs, glowing spheres and other strange sightings. "Especially after the attacks of 9/11, it is no longer satisfactory to ignore radar returns ... which cannot be associated with performances of existing aircraft and ...
In DNA Era, New Worries About Prejudice
Post Date: 2007-11-11 12:38:25 by Ada
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When scientists first decoded the human genome in 2000, they were quick to portray it as proof of humankind’s remarkable similarity. The DNA of any two people, they emphasized, is at least 99 percent identical. Minute Genetic Differences Can Mean a Lot But new research is exploring the remaining fraction to explain differences between people of different continental origins. Scientists, for instance, have recently identified small changes in DNA that account for the pale skin of Europeans, the tendency of Asians to sweat less and West Africans’ resistance to certain diseases. At the same time, genetic information is slipping out of the laboratory and into everyday life, ...
Climate change by Jupiter
Post Date: 2007-11-11 12:27:57 by farmfriend
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Climate change by Jupiter Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post Published: Saturday, November 10, 2007 The alignment of the planets, and especially that of Jupiter and Saturn, control the climate on Earth. So explained Rhodes Fairbridge of Columbia University, a giant in science over much of the last century whose accomplishments are perhaps unsurpassed for their breadth, depth, and volume. This one man authored or co-authored 100 scientific books and more than 1,000 scientific papers, he edited the Benchmarks in Geology series (more than 90 volumes in print) and was general editor of the Encyclopaedias of the Earth Sciences. He edited eight major encyclopedias of specialized scientific ...
Pentagon Forecast: Cloudy, 80% Chance of Riots
Post Date: 2007-11-10 20:42:22 by robin
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The Pentagon is paying Lockheed Martin to try to predict insurgencies and civil unrest like the weather. It's part of a larger military effort to blend forecasting software with social science that has some counterinsurgency experts cringing. Lockheed recently won a $1.3 million, 15-month contract from the Defense Department to help develop the "Integrated Crises Early Warning System, or ICEWS. The program will "let military commanders anticipate and respond to worldwide political crises and predict events of interest and stability of countries of interest with greater than 80 percent accuracy," the company claims. "Rebellions, insurgencies, ethnic/religious ...
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