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Post Date: 2007-05-10 14:04:19 by gengis gandhi
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How do you 'go' in space?
Post Date: 2007-05-10 10:41:50 by robin
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How do you 'go' in space? WHO, WHAT, WHY? The Magazine answers... A tour of a space facility in the US apparently prompted Prince Philip to ask how astronauts deal with "natural functions" in space. So how exactly do they go to the toilet (or should that be the loo)? It's all to do with air flow. On earth, in the West at least, your standard toilet is a water-flush affair, that takes waste and washes it down a pipe. THE ANSWER Space toilets use air flow as water flushes have drawbacks in zero gravityAdult nappies are used on space walks and during take-off and landing The lack of gravity on the shuttle and the space station mean a water-flush system is not ...
Court Orders Quackbusters Barrett and Polevoy to Post $433,715.93 Bond...
Post Date: 2007-05-10 05:23:05 by gengis gandhi
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Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen Thursday, May 2nd, 2007 The "quackbuster" organization is learning a very HARD lesson about the reality of the US legal system. And, I'm very pleased. They're learning, in the most humiliating, and financially devastating way, that US Courts don't want the system abused to harass those that the "quackbusters" don't like. In the Barrett v. Clark case, today, an order was issued for Plaintiffs Terry Polevoy MD, and Stephen Barrett MD, to come up with a grand total of $433,715.93 in bonds - $264,311.68 for Polevoy alone, and $169,404.25 from Barret and Polevoy - within thirty days. Barrett runs the questionable ...
Inconvenient truths
Post Date: 2007-05-09 22:45:01 by BeAChooser
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Inconvenient truths By David Deming, Ph.D. The Sun The largest single factor driving the debate on global warming is the Al Gore film An Inconvenient Truth. The movie has been marketed as a scientific documentary, but in fact it is an artful and deceptive propaganda film. The claims made in An Inconvenient Truth are either wrong, disingenuous, or misleading. Gore frightens his audience by showing the breakup of the Larsen Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula. He then states that if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet were to melt it would raise sea levels worldwide by 20 feet. But Gore conveniently neglects to inform us that over the last several decades, 80 to 90 percent of Antarctica has ...
Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake: MP3 interviews with consiousness researchers
Post Date: 2007-05-08 13:26:06 by gengis gandhi
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Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Download: MP3
Nasa sees brightest supernova
Post Date: 2007-05-08 09:19:15 by robin
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Nasa sees brightest supernova James RandersonTuesday May 8, 2007Guardian Unlimited A Nasa illustration shows what the supernova may have looked like. Photograph: AP/Nasa/Chandra x-ray centre/M WeissThe brightest supernova ever seen has been observed by Nasa's orbiting Chandra x-ray telescope.The huge stellar explosion released around 100 times more energy than a typical supernova and was 100 million billion times brighter than the sun at its peak.It is very unusual to observe the death of a super-massive star, so scientists will be keen to use the data from the orbiting telescope and others on the ground to piece together what happened. "We understand rather little about the most ...
Coexistence (With GM Crops) plans blown away by pollen drift
Post Date: 2007-05-07 19:34:14 by Red Jones
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Coexistence plans blown away by pollen drift 15 June 2005 - Tim Lang, professor of food policy at Thames Valley University, said: “The early assurances from the industry and the government that a buffer zone would allow safety and choice for consumers are falling apart. It raises environmental health worries, and what we don’t yet know is whether these warnings will translate into a risk to human health.” "OK, we know that cross-pollination will occur but we’ve got thirty years of experience to say we know how far pollen will travel. And therefore what we’ve done is we’ll grow a GM crop at a distance away from a non-GM crop, so the people that want ...
Fewer bees in GM crops, study finds
Post Date: 2007-05-07 19:21:48 by Red Jones
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Fewer bees in GM crops, study finds 24 March 2005 - The ecological dangers of genetically modified crops remain largely unresolved and a stronger research effort is needed to track possible environmental changes, Australian scientists have warned. Fewer bees in GM crops, study finds 23 March 2005 The Canberra Times The ecological dangers of genetically modified crops remain largely unresolved and a stronger research effort is needed to track possible environmental changes, Australian scientists have warned. Their comments follow the issuing yesterday in Britain of the world's largest study of the ecological impact of GM crops, which revealed significant declines in bees and ...
Breaking the mould (A machine for the home that can make anything, even itself)
Post Date: 2007-05-07 12:49:13 by gengis gandhi
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Breaking the mould By Dean Irvine for CNN LONDON, England (CNN) -- (First published April 26, 2007) , sounds like the dream of a science fiction fan, but a device using open source software developed at Cornell University has been designed to do just that. It is in the early stages of development, but could it represent the dawn of the arts and crafts movement for the digital age or open the gateway to the destruction of intellectual property rights and copyright? Hod Lipson, Assistant Professor at Cornell University's Computing and Information Science department and PhD student Evan Malone are the brains behind the digital fabrication machine. It takes its technological cues from ...
Navy Heats Up Cold Fusion Hopes
Post Date: 2007-05-07 12:42:51 by gengis gandhi
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Navy Heats Up Cold Fusion Hopes Steve Kovsky (Blog) - May 5, 2007 1:14 AM Navy scientists claim that slices of CR-39 plastic, like this one, have recorded the passage of atomic particles emitted during successful cold fusion nulcear reactions. New proof that cold fusion works could fuel additional interest in generating power from low energy nuclear reactions Cold fusion, the ability to generate nuclear power at room temperatures, has proven to be a highly elusive feat. In fact, it is considered by many experts to be a mere pipe dream -- a potentially unlimited source of clean energy that remains tantalizing, but so far unattainable. However, a recently published academic paper from the ...
Fire Ants May Have Met Match In Virus
Post Date: 2007-05-07 08:15:16 by IndieTX
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(AP) LUBBOCK The battle against red fire ants has plagued farmers, ranchers and regular folks for decades. Now it seems the reviled pests could be in for some sickness of their own. Researchers have pinpointed a naturally occurring virus that kills fire ants, which arrived in the U.S. in the 1930s and now cause $6 billion in damage annually nationwide, including about $1.2 billion in Texas. The virus caught the attention of U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers in Florida in 2002. The agency is now seeking commercial partners to develop the virus into a pesticide to control fire ants. The virus was found in about 20 percent of fire ant fields, where it appears to cause the slow ...
Many Scientists are Convinced that Man Can See the Future
Post Date: 2007-05-07 06:15:29 by gengis gandhi
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http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/925987/many_scientists_are_convinced_that_man_can_see_the_future/index.html Posted on: Saturday, 5 May 2007, 18:10 CDT Many Scientists are Convinced that Man Can See the Future Click to enlarge PROFESSOR Dick Bierman sits hunched over his computer in a darkened room. The gentle whirring of machinery can be heard faintly in the background. He smiles and presses a grubby-looking red button. In the next room, a patient slips slowly inside a hospital brain scanner. If it wasn't for the strange smiles and grimaces that flicker across the woman's face, you could be forgiven for thinking this was just a normal health check. But this scanner is ...
Cell splits water via sunlight to produce hydrogen -- Cheap source of energy
Post Date: 2007-05-04 12:50:05 by Ferret Mike
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May 1, 2007 -- Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a unique photocatalytic cell that splits water to produce hydrogen and oxygen in water using sunlight and the power of a nanostructured catalyst. The group is developing novel methodologies for synthesis of nanostructured films with superior opto-electronic properties. One of the methods, which sandwiches three semiconductor films into a compact structure on the nanoscale range, is smaller, more efficient and more stable than present photocatalytic methods, which require multiple steps and can take from several hours to a day to complete. The discovery provides a new, low-cost and efficient option for hydrogen ...
A question of control
Post Date: 2007-05-03 13:30:17 by bluedogtxn
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A Question of Control by David Calderwood by David Calderwood DIGG THIS You might have heard already, but a vast grass-roots guerilla war has occurred right under our noses. I first heard of it when my computer scientist son forwarded to me a link to a technology site detailing the chaos created by the posting of a series of numbers on the Internet. A series of numbers? Yes, that’s right. Special numbers, to be sure. As predicted by anyone who knows anything about software, the encryption code used by HD-DVD and Blue-ray DVD discs was cracked, and the enterprising folks who did it disseminated the numeric key. In no time at all the key turned up on site after site, and those sites ...
Sex Fattens Female Ticks to 100 Times Normal Size
Post Date: 2007-05-01 15:58:05 by Tauzero
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Sex Fattens Female Ticks to 100 Times Normal Size By Jeanna Bryner LiveScience Staff Writer posted: 27 April 2007 12:15 pm ET Sex can be fattening if you’re a female tick. After mating, one species of female tick balloons to a body-bursting 100 times its original size. Why the once lean tick would get so engorged after sex has been a mystery. Does the female enjoy the human equivalent of a celebratory feast once it has accomplished the mating mission? Not so much, according to one scientist. Lifestyle differences between the African tick, a species in a family of hard-bodied ticks called ioxids, and its blood-sucking counterparts could be partially to blame for the massive weight ...
Ducks Wage Genital Warfare
Post Date: 2007-05-01 15:43:09 by Tauzero
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Ducks Wage Genital Warfare By Charles Q. Choi Special to LiveScience posted: 30 April 2007 08:14 pm ET A sexual arms race waged with twisted genitals has been discovered in waterfowl. The genitalia of the females of these species have at times apparently evolved to make it harder for males to successfully impregnate them, according to new findings that shed light on the eternal war of the sexes. Most birds lack phalluses, organs like human penises. Waterfowl are among the just 3 percent of all living bird species that retain the grooved phallus found in their reptilian ancestors. Male waterfowl are especially unusual in that their phalluses vary greatly among different species in ...
Scientists find clues to the formation of Fibonacci spirals in nature
Post Date: 2007-05-01 15:07:37 by gengis gandhi
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Scientists find clues to the formation of Fibonacci spirals in nature While the aesthetics and symmetry of Fibonacci spiral patterns has often attracted scientists, a mathematical or physical explanation for their common occurrence in nature is yet to be discovered. Recently, scientists have successfully produced Fibonacci spiral patterns in the lab, and found that an elastically mismatched bi-layer structure may cause stress patterns that give rise to Fibonacci spirals. The discovery may explain the widespread existence of the pattern in plants. Chaorong Li, of the Zhejiang Sci-Tech University and the Institute of Physics in Beijing, along with Ailing Ji and Zexian Cao, both of the ...
The marketers have your ear-Beam of sound aims its messages (spooky tech)
Post Date: 2007-05-01 14:09:30 by gengis gandhi
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The marketers have your ear-Beam of sound aims its messages By Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff | April 24, 2007 Marketers around the world are using innovative audio technology that sends sound in a narrow beam, just like light, making it possible to direct messages right into consumers' ears while they shop or sit in waiting rooms. The audio spotlight device, created by Watertown firm Holosonic Research Labs Inc., has been used to hawk everything from cereals in supermarket aisles to glasses at doctor's offices. The messages are often quick and targeted -- and a little creepy to the uninitiated. Court TV recently installed the audio spotlight in ceilings of bookstores to promote the ...
The Dark Side of DNA
Post Date: 2007-05-01 00:06:36 by Tauzero
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The Dark Side of DNA Fred Gould Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Elements. Austin Burt and Robert Trivers. x + 602 pp. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. $35. Although many of us have gotten used to the idea that our bodies serve the needs of a variety of viruses, bacteria, mites and other parasitic species, it comes as a surprise to most people when they hear that their bodies are also hosting alien parasitic DNA. Analysis of output from the Human Genome Project makes it clear that just one form of such alien DNA, transposons, makes up about 50 percent of our genome. Every time one of your cells divides, it uses time and energy to replicate this parasitic ...
Sun's Next Cycle of Fury Delayed
Post Date: 2007-04-28 21:19:17 by Horse
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The Sun?s next cycle of solar storms will brew up later than expected, though astronomers are split on just how strong the star?s tempests will be. Initially expected to begin last fall, the Sun?s 11-year storm season is now pegged to begin in March 2008 and hit its peak near the end of 2011, according to a new forecast compiled by a panel of solar experts for the Space Weather Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The 12-member panel split into two equal camps, one predicting a weak season while the other expects a strong one, though both facets are not anticipating the Sun set any new records in coming years. "By giving a long-term outlook, we?re ...
4-Inch Lake County Chihuahua May Be World's Smallest Dog
Post Date: 2007-04-28 16:41:36 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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LEESBURG -- Meet tiny Dancer, a rust-colored, long-haired Chihuahua that may just be the world's smallest dog, weighing 18 ounces and standing not much more than 4 inches tall. Dancer's owner, Jenny Gomes, said the diminutive Lake County canine may be on his way to being named the world's smallest living dog by Guinness World Records. And Dancer may have a legitimate claim to the title. The last smallest dog -- measured by height -- was Danka Kordak of Slovakia, which stood 5.4 inches high, according to Guinness officials. But that long-haired Chihuahua died. And Gomes said her Dancer is slightly smaller at 4.1 inches, from foot to the top of the shoulder. Born June 8, ...
European Skin Turned Pale Only Recently, Gene Suggests
Post Date: 2007-04-27 16:56:57 by Mind_Virus
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European Skin Turned Pale Only Recently, Gene Suggests Ann Gibbons PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA--At the American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting, held here from 28 to 31 March, a new report on the evolution of a gene for skin color suggested that Europeans acquired pale skin quite recently, perhaps only 6000 to 12,000 years ago.
Not too bright? You can still be rich
Post Date: 2007-04-26 13:03:35 by Tauzero
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Not too bright? You can still be rich Study: People with below-average IQs are just as wealthy as brainiacs By Jeanna Bryner You don't have to be smart to be rich. Individuals with below-average IQ test scores were just as wealthy as brainiacs, finds a national survey. "What the results really say is it doesn't matter whether you are born smart or you are not born smart, you can do financially okay," said the study's author Jay Zagorsky, an economist at Ohio State University's Center for Human Resource Research. "It's not 'I'm not particularly intelligent, I'm destined to a life of financial failure and hardship.' The results said [if ...
Wasp larvae eat siblings for good of the family
Post Date: 2007-04-26 12:34:31 by Tauzero
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Wasp larvae eat siblings for good of the family Threat of starvation creates strong competition between larvae By Corey Binns Updated: 3:00 p.m. CT April 19, 2007 While most young male wasps are just bags of loosely organized cells, their sterile sisters develop quickly into slender snake-like shapes, grow huge jaws and start chomping on their little brothers. The sterile sisters' lethal sibling rivalry is downright spiteful, but unusual genetics, not to mention the opportunity to keep living, means that fertile sisters benefit from the nasty behavior in more than one way. After a mother wasp from the genus Copidosoma lays two eggs — one male and one female — into a host ...
Mystery fossil turns out to be giant fungus
Post Date: 2007-04-26 12:22:53 by Tauzero
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Mystery fossil turns out to be giant fungus 20-foot-tall organism evaded classification for more than a century CHICAGO - Scientists have identified the Godzilla of fungi, a giant, prehistoric fossil that has evaded classification for more than a century, U.S. researchers said on Monday. A chemical analysis has shown that the 20-foot-tall (6-metre) organism with a tree-like trunk was a fungus that became extinct more than 350 million years ago, according to a study appearing in the May issue of the journal Geology. Known as Prototaxites, the giant fungus originally was thought to be a conifer. Then some believed it was a lichen, or various types of algae. Some suspected it was a fungus. ...
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