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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, ...
New role for protein in fat cells may improve understanding of obesity and diabetes
Post Date: 2007-07-21 03:16:46 by farmfriend
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Contact: Pat Pages ppages@asbmb.org 301-634-7366 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology New role for protein in fat cells may improve understanding of obesity and diabetes Bethesda, Md. -- Scientists have shown for the first time that a protein involved in the transfer of fat in the blood may also influence how fat cells store fat. Richard E. Morton and Lahoucine Izem, research scientists at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, have shown that the protein, called cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP), is involved in the cellular storage and regulation of cholesterol and other fats and, as a result, probably has unexpected contributions to obesity and diabetes. ...
The future of biofuels is not in corn
Post Date: 2007-07-20 20:26:06 by farmfriend
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Contact: Jessie Carr jessie@newenergychoices.org 202-726-9161 Network for New Energy Choices The future of biofuels is not in corn New, comprehensive analysis shows how ethanol is being oversold Washington, DC -- The future of biofuels is not in corn, says a new report released today by Food & Water Watch, the Network for New Energy Choices, and the Vermont Law School Institute for Energy and the Environment. The corn ethanol refinery industry, the beneficiary of new renewable fuel targets in the proposed energy legislation as well as proposed loan guarantee subsidies in the 2007 Farm Bill, will not significantly offset U.S. fossil fuel consumption without unacceptable environmental ...
The Equine Genome: What it Means for the Future of Horse Health
Post Date: 2007-07-19 23:15:29 by Tauzero
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The Equine Genome: What it Means for the Future of Horse Health by: Ernie Bailey, PhD July 17 2007 Article # 10031 Article Tools [Print Article] [Email Article] [Link To Article] [Reprint Article] [RSS Feed] The National Human Genome Research Institute announced the first assembly of the completed horse DNA sequence on Feb. 7, 2007. Why would a human health agency perform DNA sequencing on a horse? The answer is that the genetic structure and function of all mammals are similar. The best way for scientists to understand human DNA sequences is to compare the genome sequence from 24 different mammals to see what DNA sequences are so important as to be present in all species. Fortunately, ...
Multitaskers Are Born, Not Made
Post Date: 2007-07-19 17:59:22 by Tauzero
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Multitaskers Are Born, Not Made By Ker Than, LiveScience Staff Writer posted: 17 July 2007 11:16 am ET Some people are born multitaskers. The ability to listen and comprehend two conversations simultaneously is largely influenced by a person’s genes, a new twins study suggests. The finding, detailed in the August issue of the journal Human Genetics, could help researchers understand a diverse group of disorders in which people hear perfectly fine but have trouble comprehending. “This is the first study to show that people vary widely in their ability to process what they hear, and these differences are due largely to heredity,” said study team member James Battey, ...
Whether plant or animal, UF’s new genetic model can predict its future
Post Date: 2007-07-19 17:42:53 by Tauzero
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Whether plant or animal, UF’s new genetic model can predict its future Filed under Research, Health, Agriculture on Wednesday, July 18, 2007. GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Rongling Wu is out to prove Mark Twain clearly didn’t know a darn thing about genetics. “Lies and damn lies” notwithstanding, Twain’s much-maligned statistics are our best shot at reading the truth within the coded messages of DNA — whether that of a person or a poplar tree. Wu is developing a technique that will help farmers predict how fast crops will grow. And thanks to an $855,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, he will soon use the same technology to speed the process of ...
Archaeologist: All Egyptian royal mummies are suspect
Post Date: 2007-07-19 14:23:50 by Tauzero
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NEW YORK (Reuters) -- All of Egypt's royal mummies will get identity checks after scientists found one was wrongly identified as a pharaoh, Egypt's chief archaeologist said. Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said on Thursday he would use computed tomography, or CT, scanning and DNA to test more than 40 royal mummies at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. In June, the mummy long thought to have been King Tuthmosis I was found to be a young man who died from an arrow wound, Hawass said. History showed Tuthmosis I died in his 60s. "I am now questioning all the mummies," he told Reuters in an interview. "We have to check them all ...
When Physics Trumps Hysteria in Global Warming
Post Date: 2007-07-19 09:44:27 by JCHarris
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When Physics Trumps Hysteria in Global Warming by Michael R. Fox, Ph.D. July 18, 2007 Michael R. FoxStudiously 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 don’t agree with each other or the climate, rather than hard-nosed evidence and science. The climate forces which have led to the estimated 0.6C degree temperature increase over the past 100 years or more (according to the ...
FBI's Secret Spyware Tracks Down Teen Who Made Bomb Threats
Post Date: 2007-07-18 12:06:46 by Brian S
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Kevin Poulsen 07.18.07 | 2:00 AM FBI agents trying to track the source of e-mailed bomb threats against a Washington high school last month sent the suspect a secret surveillance program designed to surreptitiously monitor him and report back to a government server, according to an FBI affidavit obtained by Wired News. The court filing offers the first public glimpse into the bureau's long-suspected spyware capability, in which the FBI adopts techniques more common to online criminals. The software was sent to the owner of an anonymous MySpace profile linked to bomb threats against Timberline High School near Seattle. The code led the FBI to 15-year-old Josh Glazebrook, a student at ...
Decoding mushroom’s secrets could combat carbon, find better biofuels & safer soils
Post Date: 2007-07-17 23:58:13 by farmfriend
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Decoding mushroom’s secrets could combat carbon, find better biofuels & safer soils Researchers at the University of Warwick are co-ordinating a global effort to sequence the genome of one of the World’s most important mushrooms - Agaricus bisporus. The secrets of its genetic make up could assist the creation of biofuels, support the effort to manage global carbon, and help remove heavy metals from contaminated soils. The Agaricus mushroom family are highly efficient ‘secondary decomposers’ of plant material such as leaves and litter –breaking down the material that is too tough for other fungi and bacteria to handle. How exactly it does this, particularly how ...
130-Year-Old Outhouses Yield Treasures
Post Date: 2007-07-17 23:34:29 by farmfriend
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130-Year-Old Outhouses Yield Treasures VENTURA, Calif. - The spot where a pair of outhouses stood 130 years ago is proving to be a treasure trove for archaeologists who braved the lingering smell in the dirt to uncover some 19th Century artifacts _ and a mystery. The one-time site of privies for men and women has been built upon repeatedly. Recently, crews demolished a former school bus barn on the 3.5-acre downtown site in order to build a condominium complex and a parking garage. But first, archaeologists were called in. Beginning in late May, they started digging into the ground in a discovery process that could last several more weeks. They uncovered a pistol, a knife, whisky ...
Can Vaccines Containing Thimerosal Cause Autism?
Post Date: 2007-07-17 10:56:18 by BlueEyedGirl
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Thimerosal has been used widely as a preservative in certain vaccines and has been thought to increase the risk of certain neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism, language and speech delay, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Despite the lack of evidence for a causal relationship, the biologic plausibility of a link remains. Hviid and colleagues performed a study to compare children receiving vaccines with and without thimerosal and followed them to note the incidence of autism and other autism-spectrum disorders in both groups. Using information from Denmark's registry system, the authors were able to link data on vaccinations, diagnoses of autism, diagnoses of other ...
The new TV detector which can reach into any home
Post Date: 2007-07-15 18:06:21 by Split
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With their peculiar and unwieldy antennae, the first TV detector vans were the stuff of science-fiction B movies. And the myths that sprung up surrounding their supposed powers were also worthy of Hollywood. But the latest weapon in the battle against licence-fee dodgers is a green torch-like device weighing less than 1lb ? and it really does work, with frightening efficiency. The hand-held detector linked to a set of headphones beeps if an operating TV is inside a radius of 29ft. It means licensing officers can now target places previously inaccessible by cumbersome vans, such as homes in very remote areas and individual flats in blocks. Kate Fisher, of TV Licensing, said that the new ...
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