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Scientists convert the sequence of proteins into music
Post Date: 2007-05-22 23:21:39 by robin
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UCLA molecular biologists have turned protein sequences into original compositions of classical music. "We converted the sequence of proteins into music and can get an auditory signal for every protein," said Jeffrey H. Miller, distinguished professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics, and a member of UCLA's Molecular Biology Institute. "Every protein will have its unique auditory signature because every protein has a unique sequence. You can hear the sequence of the protein." "We assigned a chord to each amino acid," said Rie Takahashi, a UCLA research assistant and an award-winning, classically trained piano player. "We want to see ...
Mystery Of Metallic Glass Is Cracked By Johns Hopkins Engineers
Post Date: 2007-05-22 20:52:15 by Dakmar
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Science Daily — Using state-of-the-art lab techniques and powerful computer simulations, Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered how atoms pack themselves in unusual materials known as metallic glasses. Their findings should help scientists better understand the atomic scale structure of this material, which is used to make sports equipment, cell phone cases, armor-piercing projectiles and other products. The discovery, marking the culmination of a two-year research project, was reported in the Jan. 26 issue of the journal Nature. The work represents a major step forward because the tools used to study traditional crystalline metals do not work well with metallic glass, and a better ...
Sir Oliver Lodge FRS: The Mode of Future Existence. 1933 Lecture
Post Date: 2007-05-22 06:09:43 by gengis gandhi
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Sir Oliver Lodge FRS: The Mode of Future Existence. 1933 Lecture Linking survival after death with sub atomic physics is censored in Great Britain. Introduction by Michael Roll. This article by Sir Oliver Lodge was published in The Queen's Hospital Annual in 1933 (Birmingham). It is because this great scientist wrote articles and published books along these lines that he has been vilified by obscurants who have taken control of scientific teaching throughout the world. Sir Oliver Lodge was the first person to send a radio message, one year before Marconi! His great contribution to science has been deliberately played down solely because the powerful materialists are terrified that ...
Swarms of cicadas emerging in Midwest
Post Date: 2007-05-20 23:16:49 by kiki
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CHICAGO - Coming soon: Brood XIII. It sounds like a bad horror movie. But it's actually the name of the billions of cicadas expected to emerge this month in parts of the Midwest after spending 17 years underground. The red-eyed, shrimp-sized, flying insects don't bite or sting. But they are known for mating calls that produce a din that can overpower ringing telephones, lawn mowers and power tools. Brood XIII is expected across northern Illinois, and in parts of Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana. Cicadas live only about 30 days as adults, and their main goal is mating. They don't harm humans, although they are clumsy and might fly into people. Birds, squirrels and pets, ...
THE VAN WITH X-RAY VISION
Post Date: 2007-05-20 20:39:02 by robin
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THE VAN WITH X-RAY VISION Van that can produce real time x-ray scans of cars and buildings. besides the privacy concerns this brings up i can't help but think that despite what this company claims this process is not without it's health hazards....The Company: http://www.as-e.com/
For Science Journal, Web Is 'Second Nature'
Post Date: 2007-05-19 13:35:19 by robin
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SPIEGEL ONLINE - May 18, 2007, 04:46 PM URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,483581,00.htmlA NATURAL FITFor Science Journal, Web Is 'Second Nature'By Hilmar Schmundt Nature, the world's best-known scientific publication, is now being transformed into a multimedia platform that includes include blogs, podcasts and even a Second Life presence. Nature's presence on Second Life: As shocking as the Queen moving to Las Vegas Timo Twin wanders along a beach looking slightly confused, then zigzags up a nearby hill. "Finally! I knew it was here somewhere," he says. Across a vast square the logo of his company, Nature, is emblazoned in big white letters ...
Researchers challenge Kennedy lone gunman theory
Post Date: 2007-05-19 08:19:11 by A Patriot
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bullet analysis used to justify the lone assassin theory behind President John F. Kennedy's assassination is based on flawed evidence, according to a team of researchers including a former top FBI scientist. Writing in the Annals of Applied Statistics, the researchers urged a reexamination of bullet fragments from the 1963 shooting in Dallas to confirm the number of bullets that struck Kennedy. Official investigations during the 1960s concluded that Kennedy was hit by two bullets fired by Lee Harvey Oswald. But the researchers, including former FBI lab metallurgist William Tobin, said new chemical and statistical analyses of bullets from the same batch used by ...
Producing hydrogen with water and a little metal
Post Date: 2007-05-18 15:16:45 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Producing hydrogen with water and a little metal Purdue professor makes hydrogen by mixing water, gallium and aluminum, eliminating the need to store hydrogen. Although many people are skeptical about hydrogen becoming a source of fuel, it certainly isn't slowing down research into making the stuff. Purdue University professor Jerry Woodall has discovered a way to make hydrogen out of a reaction of water and an alloy of aluminum and gallium. The production technique eliminates the need to store hydrogen, he said. Mixing water and pellets made up of the alloy in a tank can produce fuel for a small engine, or conceivably a car. The process, along with other recent hydrogen ...
Solar Power from Space:A Better Strategy for America and the World?
Post Date: 2007-05-18 09:50:25 by Ada
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Suppose I told you that we could build an energy source that: unlike oil, does not generate profits used to support Al Qaeda and dictatorial regimes. unlike nuclear, does not provide cover for rogue nations to hide development of nuclear weapons. unlike terrestrial solar and wind, is available 24/7 in huge quantities. unlike oil, gas, ethanol and does not emit greenhouse gasses, warming our planet and causing severe problems. unlike nuclear, does not provide tremendous opportunities for terrorists. unlike coal and nuclear, does not require ripping up the Earth. unlike oil, does not lead us to send hundreds of thousands of our finest men and women to war and spend hundreds of billions of ...
Dog nurses tiger triplets at China zoo
Post Date: 2007-05-17 19:08:58 by aristeides
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Dog nurses tiger triplets at China zoo BEIJING - It's a dog's life for three newborn tiger triplets in eastern China. The cubs, whom officials at the Jinan Paomaling Wild Animal World in Shandong province are so far just calling "One," "Two" and "Three," have been nursed by a dog since they were rejected by their tiger mother shortly after birth, said Paomaling manager Chen Yucai. The trio's adoptive mother, a mixed breed farm dog called "Huani," is expected to nurse them for about a month or until their appetites outpace her supply, Chen said. Chen said it is common for Chinese zoos to use surrogate dog mothers to nurse rejected tiger ...
Scientists Cast Doubt on Kennedy Bullet Analysis - Multiple Shooters Possible
Post Date: 2007-05-16 23:08:50 by ...
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In a collision of 21st-century science and decades-old conspiracy theories, a research team that includes a former top FBI scientist is challenging the bullet analysis used by the government to conclude that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The "evidence used to rule out a second assassin is fundamentally flawed," concludes a new article in the Annals of Applied Statistics written by former FBI lab metallurgist William A. Tobin and Texas A&M University researchers Cliff Spiegelman and William D. James. The researchers' re-analysis involved new statistical calculations and a modern chemical analysis of bullets from the ...
Gene find triggers baldness hope
Post Date: 2007-05-16 22:39:59 by Ferret Mike
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Hair loss in humans might not be irreversible, suggest scientists who have helped create new hair cells on the skin of mice. It was thought hair follicles, once damaged, could never be replaced. But a University of Pennsylvania, US, team, writing in the journal Nature, says hair growth can actually be encouraged using a single gene. A UK expert said the study could prove more important in aiding development of better wound-healing techniques. The human head comes equipped with 100,000 tiny hair follicles, from each of which grow a single hair. These follicles are produced by the embryo in the first stages of pregnancy, and it was thought that no further replacement follicles could be ...
Did Greens help kill the whale?
Post Date: 2007-05-16 22:17:17 by robin
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Did Greens help kill the whale? By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website Relations between Japan and the US have had troubled timesIn the late 1960s, with the scent of flower power fresh in the air and the Vietnam War in spate, the nascent environmental movement, with US groups in the vanguard, began to adopt whaling as a signature campaign. Patricia Forkan, who has campaigned against whaling for more than 30 years and now works for the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), says activists feared the disappearance of all whales - forever. "They had completely extirpated the blue whale, they were on their way to doing that with fin, humpback and ...
Analysis Finds Large Antarctic Area Has Melted
Post Date: 2007-05-16 19:12:07 by Ferret Mike
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While much of the world has warmed in a pattern that scientists have linked with near certainty to human activities, the frigid interior of Antarctica has resisted the trend. Now, a new satellite analysis shows that at least once in the last several years, masses of unusually warm air pushed to within 310 miles of the South Pole and remained long enough to melt surface snow across a California-size expanse. The warm spell, which occurred over one week in 2005, was detected by scientists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA and the University of Colorado, Boulder. Balmy air, with a temperature of up to 41 degrees in some places, persisted across three broad swathes of West ...
CLIMATOLOGIST FIRED FOR EXPOSING WARMING MYTHS
Post Date: 2007-05-15 20:55:51 by RickyJ
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CLIMATOLOGIST FIRED FOR EXPOSING WARMING MYTHS University of Washington climate scientist Mark Albright was recently dismissed from his position as associate state climatologist, just weeks after exposing false claims of shrinking glaciers in the Cascade Mountains, says James M. Taylor, managing editor of Environment and Climate News. According to Albright: * At most, according to reliable datasets, the Cascade Mountains snow pack declined by 35 percent between 1950 and 2000. * Moreover, even that number is misleading; Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels (D) and other global warming alarmists deliberately choose 1950 as the "baseline" for Cascade Mountains snow pack because 1950 was a ...
Microsoft: Linux Violates 235 of our Patents
Post Date: 2007-05-14 15:46:15 by robin
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Microsoft: Linux Violates 235 of our PatentsRichard Stallman. Photo by Zugaldia Microsoft told Fortune magazine Linux violates 235 of its patents. While the claim is jaw-dropping, just as interesting is Fortune's take on how Microsoft got into the patent-protection racket in the first place. With the courts interpreting software's patent eligibility differently, Microsoft went gangbusters into filing for patents (as opposed to simply copyrighting its software) in the early years of this decade. The story also has a great primer on the Free Software Foundation, Open Source, the Torvalds-Stallman split, and the deal Microsoft signed with Novell that really began this fight. The gist ...
Best of FEN: Rethinking Implied Volatility
Post Date: 2007-05-14 14:48:37 by Tauzero
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Rethinking Implied Volatility By Don Chance, Ph.D., CFA This article originally appeared in the January/February 2003 issue of Financial Engineering News. See http://www.fenews.com/fen29/one_time_articles/chance_implied_vol.html for this article in the archive section of our website. With the possible exception of Value at Risk, probably no topic has received more attention in risk management research than implied volatility. This research can be classified into two major categories: research on analytical methods for extracting the implied volatility and research on methods for modifying existing pricing models to render the observed pattern of implied volatility consistent with the ...
Google searches web's dark side
Post Date: 2007-05-13 23:35:15 by robin
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Google searches web's dark side Malicious programs are installed by visits to a booby-trapped siteOne in 10 web pages scrutinised by search giant Google contained malicious code that could infect a user's PC. Researchers from the firm surveyed billions of sites, subjecting 4.5 million pages to "in-depth analysis". About 450,000 were capable of launching so-called "drive-by downloads", sites that install malicious code, such as spyware, without a user's knowledge. A further 700,000 pages were thought to contain code that could compromise a user's computer, the team report. To address the problem, the researchers say the company has "started an ...
Plants Don't Produce Greenhouse Gas, New Study Finds
Post Date: 2007-05-13 12:33:14 by Zipporah
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Plants are not a significant source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, according to new research that casts doubt on the results of an earlier study. Like carbon dioxide, the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, methane acts like a blanket to trap the heat that Earth radiates away. The biggest recognized sources of methane are emissions from wetlands and rice paddies, where bacteria in the mud break down organic matter in the absence of oxygen to produce methane, and the belching of cows and other animals. Two studies, different results Plants were never suspected to be a source of methane, until a 2006 study in the journal Nature measured methane emissions from ...
Americans and Japanese Read Faces Differently
Post Date: 2007-05-13 12:10:15 by Zipporah
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Culture is a huge factor in determining whether we look someone in the eye or the kisser to interpret facial expressions, according to a new study. For instance, in Japan, people tend to look to the eyes for emotional cues, whereas Americans tend to look to the mouth, says researcher Masaki Yuki, a behavioral scientist at Hokkaido University in Japan. This could be because the Japanese, when in the presence of others, try to suppress their emotions more than Americans do, he said. In any case, the eyes are more difficult to control than the mouth, he said, so they probably provide better clues about a person's emotional state even if he or she is trying to hide it.Clues from emoticons ...
Organic Bees Are Thriving - While commercial bee populations are plummeting
Post Date: 2007-05-12 23:28:11 by Red Jones
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Organic Bees Are Thriving - While commercial bee populations are plummeting http://Infowars.net | May 11, 2007 Over the past few weeks we have highlighted reports that suggest bee populations are declining at rates of up to 80% in areas of the U.S. and Europe. Experts are calling the worrying trend "colony collapse disorder" or CCD. While no one can pin point the exact reason as to why bees are declining so rapidly it is interesting to note that no organic bee keepers are reporting losses. A recent report at sci-tech website http://redicecreations.com cites a statement from longtime environmental activist and part-time organic beekeeper Sharon Labchuk from Prince Edward ...
Ancient Craft Left On Moon? - NASA Apollo Video!
Post Date: 2007-05-11 17:47:38 by InsideJob
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Great NASA video of ancient Mile Long Intelligent Crashed (or parked?) "Craft" on the Moon spotted and filmed by multiple Apollo Missions:
Poster Comment:Interesting.
In Guilty Plea, OxyContin Maker to Pay $600 Million
Post Date: 2007-05-10 19:59:28 by DeaconBenjamin
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ABINGDON, Va., May 10 — The company that makes the narcotic painkiller OxyContin and three current and former executives pleaded guilty today in federal court here to criminal charges that they misled regulators, doctors and patients about the drug’s risk of addiction and its potential to be abused. To resolve criminal and civil charges related to the drug’s “misbranding,” the parent of Purdue Pharma, the company that markets OxyContin, agreed to pay some $600 million in fines and other payments, one of the largest amounts ever paid by a drug company in such a case. Also, in a rare move, three executives of Purdue Pharma, including its president and its top ...
Global warming to raise US temperatures by 10 degrees by 2080 [YESSSS!!!! Only if I lived that long.]
Post Date: 2007-05-10 15:49:11 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Global warming to raise US temperatures by 10 degrees by 2080 From our ANI Correspondent Washington, May 10: A new study by NASA scientists has suggested that greenhouse-gas warming may raise average summer temperatures in the eastern United States by nearly 10 degrees Fahrenheit by the 2080s. "There is the potential for extremely hot summertime temperatures in the future, especially during summers with less-than-average frequent rainfall," said Barry Lynn of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University, New York. The research found that eastern US summer daily high temperatures that currently averaged in the low-to-mid-80s (degrees Fahrenheit) were ...
Historical Proof Of Chemtrail Activity to Affect Weather, Operation Popeye
Post Date: 2007-05-10 14:15:57 by gengis gandhi
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ENMOD CHRONOLOGY PRELUDE 1967: The United States begins a top secret rainmaking operation in Southeast Asia to hamper the movement of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops and supplies. It runs until July 1972. During the Vietnam war, the U.S. also carries out massive herbicide spraying operations (Agent Orange, etc.) and mechanical vegetation removal with ÒRome PlowÓ tractors. March 1971: Citing a leaked US government memorandum, a US news report reveals indications of a super secret US rainmaking operation over Laos. June 1972: Meeting in Stockholm, the UN Conference on the Human Environment adopts Recommendation 218, asking governments to carefully evaluate the ...
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