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THE HEAT IS ON: It's Rock and Roll In The Skies
Post Date: 2007-08-11 18:10:04 by IndieTX
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It could well be a harbinger of things to come. Increasing storms, violent thunderclaps, greater wind speeds — the din unleashed in the heavens by the weather gods between April and September (pre-monsoons to end of season) over the last two-three years has surprised and alarmed even veteran aviators. And as they struggle to steady their big metallic birds and stay calm lest it unnerve their passengers, the niggling question on their minds is: Are these severe climatic changes a sign of global warming? Scientists, in fact, predict that global warming is ominously near and will be greater after 2009. "It's been a rock and roll up there, especially during the last 2-3 ...
Link between sunspots, rain helps predict disease in east Africa
Post Date: 2007-08-11 14:42:21 by farmfriend
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Link between sunspots, rain helps predict disease in east Africa Contact: Cheryl Dybas cdybas@nsf.gov 703-292-7734 National Science Foundation The research, conducted by paleoclimatologist Curt Stager of Paul Smith's College in Paul Smiths, N.Y. and colleagues, can be used by public health officials to increase measures against insect-borne diseases long before epidemics begin. The results are published online in the August 7 issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research. The scientists showed that unusually heavy rainfalls in East Africa over the past century preceded peak sunspot activity by about one year. "The hope is that people on the ground will use this research to ...
Is This Man Cheating on His Wife?
Post Date: 2007-08-11 13:14:28 by kiki
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On a scorching July afternoon, as the temperature creeps toward 118 degrees in a quiet suburb east of Phoenix, Ric Hoogestraat sits at his computer with the blinds drawn, smoking a cigarette. While his wife, Sue, watches television in the living room, Mr. Hoogestraat chats online with what appears on the screen to be a tall, slim redhead. He's never met the woman outside of the computer world of Second Life, a well-chronicled digital fantasyland with more than eight million registered "residents" who get jobs, attend concerts and date other users. He's never so much as spoken to her on the telephone. But their relationship has taken on curiously real dimensions. They own ...
Send in the Clowns
Post Date: 2007-08-10 07:45:37 by YertleTurtle
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There is not, nor will there ever be, a shortage of energy. The universe is made of it. The only shortage lies in access to it, which is achieved through human ingenuity and advancing knowledge, and translates into better living in the form of abundant food and other resources, longer and healthier lives, and greater opportunities for richness and variety in all their forms. A good indicator of the general quality of life of a culture is the energy used per capitum. But exploiting scarcity his always provided a means for a few to enrich and empower themselves at the expense of the many, and it is not uncommon to find artificial scarcities being invented and maintained when Nature refuses to ...
Surgically alters thumbs to better use iPhone
Post Date: 2007-08-09 18:57:24 by Ferret Mike
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Thomas Martel, 28, of Bonnie Brae is a big guy. So he has a hard time using the features on ever-shrinking user interfaces on devices like his new iPhone. At least, he did, until he had his thumbs surgically altered in a revolutionary new surgical technique known as "whittling." "From my old Treo, to my Blackberry, to this new iPhone, I had a hard time hitting the right buttons, and I always lost those little styluses," explains Martel. "Sure, the procedure was expensive, but when I think of all the time I save by being able to use modern handhelds so much faster, I really think the surgery will pay for itself in ten to fifteen years. And what it's saving me in ...
Facebook - the CIA conspiracy
Post Date: 2007-08-09 04:15:33 by noone222
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Facebook - the CIA conspiracy Page 1 of 2 View as a single page 3:09PM Wednesday August 08, 2007 By Matt Greenop American Dad's conspiracy coverage could benefit from a flick through the Facebook. Facebook has 20 million users worldwide, is worth billions of dollars and, if internet sources are to be believed, was started by the CIA. The social networking phenomenon started as a way of American college students to keep in touch. It is rapidly catching up with MySpace, and has left others like Bebo in its wake. But there is a dark side to the success story that's been spreading across the blogosphere. A complex but riveting Big Brother-type conspiracy theory which links Facebook ...
U.S. Air Force Linked to Electronic Warfare Attack in Tennessee
Post Date: 2007-08-08 13:57:11 by gengis gandhi
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U.S. Air Force Linked to Electronic Warfare Attack in Tennessee By Alfred Webre, EcoNews Service (Vancouver, BC) http://www.ecologynews.com/cuenews31.html HARTSVILLE, TENN - Newly released documentary and eyewitness evidence now links an apparent July 6, 2001 electronic warfare attack on a radio station and weekly newspaper in Hartsville, Tennessee to a nearby unacknowledged secret access project (USAP). This secret project, eyewitnesses say, includes the U.S. Air Force as paymaster, U.S. government aircraft as transportation and security craft; military troops in black uniforms; and black unmarked triangular aircraft. The project may also include a secret electronic warfare unit capable ...
Physicists have 'solved' mystery of levitation
Post Date: 2007-08-08 11:50:26 by gengis gandhi
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Physicists have 'solved' mystery of levitation By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Last Updated: 1:41am BST 08/08/2007 Levitation has been elevated from being pure science fiction to science fact, according to a study reported today by physicists. Beijing saleswoman demonstrates toy which levitates by magnetic force; Physicists have 'solved' mystery of levitation In theory the discovery could be used to levitate a person In earlier work the same team of theoretical physicists showed that invisibility cloaks are feasible. Now, in another report that sounds like it comes out of the pages of a Harry Potter book, the University of St Andrews team has created an ...
Nanotechnology development bill introduced in U.S. Congress
Post Date: 2007-08-04 17:20:25 by robin
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Posted: July 31, 2007 Nanotechnology development bill introduced in U.S. Congress (Nanowerk News) US Rep. Mike Honda (D-San Jose) today introduced HR 3235, the Nanotechnology Advancement and New Opportunities (NANO) Act, comprehensive legislation to promote the development and responsible stewardship of nanotechnology in the United States. The legislation draws upon the recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nanotechnology (BRTFN), a panel of California nanotechnology experts with backgrounds in established industry, startup companies, consulting groups, non-profits, academia, government, medical research, and venture capital convened by Rep. Honda and then-California State ...
U.S. spy satellite declared loss, to drop from orbit
Post Date: 2007-08-03 10:32:00 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Reconnaissance Office has deemed an experimental U.S. spy satellite a total loss and will allow it to slowly drop from orbit and burn up in the atmosphere, two defense officials told Reuters this week. The classified L-21, built by Lockheed Martin Corp at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, was launched on December 14 but has been out of touch since reaching its low-earth orbit, put by satellite watchers at about 220 miles above the earth. It will now gradually fall out of orbit over the coming decades, said the officials, who asked not to be named. At some later date, it will burn up as it enters the earth's atmosphere, posing no danger to ...
Indian Ocean Pollution Causes Most Global Warming, Study Suggests
Post Date: 2007-08-02 15:51:40 by ghostdogtxn
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Not-So-Elementary Bee Mystery; Detectives sift clues in the case of the missing insects
Post Date: 2007-08-01 11:12:29 by JCHarris
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Not-So-Elementary Bee Mystery Detectives sift clues in the case of the missing insects Susan Milius The disappearance of large numbers of U.S. honeybees is so odd that it's attracted Ian Lipkin. Since last fall, beekeepers in at least 35 states have reported colonies that shrank rapidly for no apparent reason. Adult bees just go missing, leaving behind young bees in need of tending. This colony-collapse disorder (CCD), as it's now called, has got bee researchers coast to coast stirred up and looking for causes and remedies. a8673_1116.jpg Beekeepers in the United States tend some 2.4 million honeybee colonies, which obligingly haul pollen for many of the nation's commercial ...
Chemists Study Mysterious Substance (fell from the sky in PA)
Post Date: 2007-07-29 10:47:21 by InsideJob
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It didn't rain cats and dogs, apparently something strange did come from the sky in Bucks County. As we first told you on 69 News Tuesaday, a Perkasie resident contacted us after he found a strange substance all over his yard after a rainstorm. Today WFMZ's Joscelyn Moes called up a couple of chemists at Kutztown University to help her crack the case. Jim McClelland I just have no idea what it is. >> Reporter Jim McClelland is not alone. He found this sparkly stuff all over his yard in Perkasie following a rain storm Monday night. Jim McClelland It looked like someone took a cooler full of small ice cubes and just dumped it across the ground in the backyard. It was just all ...
Sentient world: war games on the grandest scale
Post Date: 2007-07-27 23:15:54 by robin
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Perhaps your real life is so rich you don't have time for another. Even so, the US Department of Defense (DOD) may already be creating a copy of you in an alternate reality to see how long you can go without food or water, or how you will respond to televised propaganda. The DOD is developing a parallel to Planet Earth, with billions of individual "nodes" to reflect every man, woman, and child this side of the dividing line between reality and AR. Called the Sentient World Simulation (SWS), it will be a "synthetic mirror of the real world with automated continuous calibration with respect to current real-world information", according to a concept paper for the ...
Drunken astronauts allowed to fly, panel says-Report mentions ‘heavy use of alcohol’ immediately before flight
Post Date: 2007-07-27 14:24:01 by gengis gandhi
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Drunken astronauts allowed to fly, panel says Report mentions ‘heavy use of alcohol’ immediately before flight Did they drink — and fly the shuttle? July 27: A NASA report alleges that astronauts were drunk before flying on a space shuttle mission. NBC's Don Teague reports. Today show INTERACTIVE Shuttle history Trace every flight of America's space fleet THE SPACE SHUTTLE FILE Meet the Atlantis crew Shipshape shuttle: Upgrades to the fleet Quiz: How well do you know the shuttle? Full coverage of human spaceflight Most popular • Most Viewed • Top Rated • Most E-mailed World's sexiest beaches Blast kills 11 near Pakistan’s Red Mosque Blast ...
A Challenge to Gene Theory, a Tougher Look at Biotech
Post Date: 2007-07-27 01:25:34 by innieway
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THE $73.5 billion global biotech business may soon have to grapple with a discovery that calls into question the scientific principles on which it was founded. Last month, a consortium of scientists published findings that challenge the traditional view of how genes function. The exhaustive four-year effort was organized by the United States National Human Genome Research Institute and carried out by 35 groups from 80 organizations around the world. To their surprise, researchers found that the human genome might not be a “tidy collection of independent genes” after all, with each sequence of DNA linked to a single function, such as a predisposition to diabetes or heart disease. ...
NASA shaken by sabotage, drinking
Post Date: 2007-07-26 22:22:17 by kiki
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - America's space agency was shaken Thursday by two startling and unrelated reports: One involved claims that astronauts were drunk before flying. The other was news from NASA itself that a worker had sabotaged a computer set for delivery to the international space station. It was just another jolt for an operation that has had a rocky year from the start, beginning with the arrest of an astronaut accused of attacking a rival in a love triangle. "It's going to shake up the world, I'll tell you that," retired NASA executive Seymour Himmel said of the latest news. "There will be congressional hearings that you will not be able to avoid." ...
Finally Ditched IE7 and went back to IE6 !!
Post Date: 2007-07-26 13:43:28 by IndieTX
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I was sick of IE7's limitations and bad try at imitating Firefox.. I uninstalled it and voila, ie6 was still on my machine.
Congress: P2P networks harm national security
Post Date: 2007-07-25 19:43:44 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON--Politicians charged on Tuesday that peer-to-peer networks can pose a "national security threat" because they enable federal employees to share sensitive or classified documents accidentally from their computers. At a hearing on the topic, Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) said, without offering details, that he is considering new laws aimed at addressing the problem. He said he was troubled by the possibility that foreign governments, terrorists or organized crime could gain access to documents that reveal national secrets. Also at the hearing, Mark Gorton, the chairman of Lime Wire, which makes the peer-to-peer software LimeWire, was ...
Huge Dust Plumes From China Cause Changes in Climate
Post Date: 2007-07-23 10:01:45 by robin
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Huge Dust Plumes From China Cause Changes in ClimateJuly 20, 2007; Page B1 One tainted export from China can't be avoided in North America -- air.An outpouring of dust layered with man-made sulfates, smog, industrial fumes, carbon grit and nitrates is crossing the Pacific Ocean on prevailing winds from booming Asian economies in plumes so vast they alter the climate. These rivers of polluted air can be wider than the Amazon and deeper than the Grand Canyon."There are times when it covers the entire Pacific Ocean basin like a ribbon bent back and forth," said atmospheric physicist V. Ramanathan at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La ...
Blue whales take to Southland waters
Post Date: 2007-07-23 08:58:44 by robin
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A blue whale surfaces off Dana Point in June. Blue whales take to Southland waters Once found mostly off Santa Barbara, the giant creatures have decided to hang out off Southern California. The reasons aren't clear. By Tony Barboza Times Staff Writer July 23, 2007 Word to the whale-wise: Head south. Once a rare sight south of Santa Barbara, blue whales have in recent years come to favor Southern California waters. Whale watchers seeking a glimpse of the largest animals on Earth this summer will have the best chances off the coast of Orange and San Diego counties and northern Baja California, according to marine biologists. "Some ebb and flow is normal for animal ...
When Physics Trumps Hysteria in Global Warming
Post Date: 2007-07-22 00:27:53 by sourcery
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Michael R. Fox, Ph.D., a science and energy reporter for Hawaii Reporter and a science analyst for the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, is retired and now lives in Eastern Washington. He has nearly 40 years experience in the energy field. He has also taught chemistry and energy at the University level. Studiously hidden from public view are some extraordinary findings in physics which are providing new understanding of our planetary history, as well as providing a much more plausible scientific understanding of global warming. Regrettably, the current hysteria about global warming is based much more on fear, political agendas, and computer models that don57;t agree with each other or the ...
Up against the warming zealots
Post Date: 2007-07-22 00:23:42 by sourcery
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WHEN I agreed to make The Great Global Warming Swindle, I was warned a middle-class fatwa would be placed on my head. So I wasn't shocked that the film was attacked on the same night it was broadcast on ABC television last week, although I was impressed at the vehemence of the attack. I was more surprised, and delighted, by the response of the Australian public. The ABC studio assault, led by Tony Jones, was so vitriolic it appears to have backfired. We have been inundated with messages of support, and the ABC, I am told, has been flooded with complaints. I have been trying to understand why. First, the ferocity of the attack, I think, revealed the intolerance and defensiveness of ...
Global Warming Theories Fizzle, New Studies Show
Post Date: 2007-07-21 20:33:40 by farmfriend
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Global Warming Theories Fizzle, New Studies Show
Saturday, July 21, 2007
With little fanfare, claims of alarming changes in nature because of global warming are being discredited.
Results of two new studies of historical hurricane patterns add to a growing body of research that discredits global warming alarmism, said James M. Taylor, an environmental policy senior fellow at The Heartland Institute.
Reports on the studies were carried in the June 7 issue of Nature but largely have been ignored or overlooked by most news reporting services. In that report scientists documented their reconstruction of Atlantic Ocean hurricane activity back 270 years.
Compared with historical ...
NJIT researchers develop inexpensive, easy process to produce solar panels
Post Date: 2007-07-21 03:24:51 by farmfriend
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Contact: Sheryl Weinstein sheryl.m.weinstein@njit.edu 973-596-3436 New Jersey Institute of Technology NJIT researchers develop inexpensive, easy process to produce solar panels Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets. “The process is simple,” said lead researcher and author Somenath Mitra, PhD, professor and acting chair of NJIT’s Department of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences. “Someday homeowners will even be able to print sheets of these solar cells with inexpensive home-based inkjet printers. Consumers can then slap the finished product on a wall, ...
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