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'Cave entrances' spotted on Mars
Post Date: 2007-03-17 23:17:27 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Nasa release on the topography of the south polar region of Mars Scientists studying pictures from Nasa's Odyssey spacecraft have spotted what they think may be seven caves on the surface of Mars. The candidate caves are on the flanks of the Arsia Mons volcano and are of sufficient depth their floors mostly cannot be seen through the opening. Details were presented here at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas. Temperature data from Mars Odyssey's Themis instrument support the idea. The authors say that the possible discovery of caves on the Red Planet is significant. The caves may be the only natural structures capable of protecting primitive life ...
Age of enlightenment
Post Date: 2007-03-17 15:07:02 by robin
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Age of enlightenment By Jonathan Duffy BBC News Magazine The days of the humble light bulb are numbered, with plans to phase it out by 2011 in favour of energy-saving bulbs. Before consigning it to the dustbin, it's worth reflecting on how this cheap and disposable piece of technology has changed the world. Asked to reflect on the recent backlash against Thomas Edison's pioneering "invention", his great-great-grand nephew strikes a positive note: "It's served us well for over 100 years", says Robert KL Wheeler. But as the inverted commas suggest, this is not the first time the humble light bulb has been fought over. Its very inception is a ...
Study Challenges Theories on Species
Post Date: 2007-03-16 18:25:27 by Tauzero
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Study Challenges Theories on Species By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID Friday, March 16, 2007 WASHINGTON - More species develop in warm, tropical climates or cooler, temperate areas? It turns out the longtime answer _ the tropics _ may be wrong. True, more different types of animals exist there than in places farther from the equator. New research suggests that is because tropical species do not die out as readily. Cooler regions have a higher turnover rate, with more species developing but also more becoming extinct. "It's a surprising result," Jason T. Weir of the zoology department at the University of British Columbia said in a telephone interview. The findings by Weir and Dolph ...
Vista activation cracked by brute force
Post Date: 2007-03-14 20:33:48 by boonie rat
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Vista activation cracked by brute force Sledgehammered By Charlie Demerjian: Thursday 01 March 2007, 17:15 IT LOOKS LIKE Microsoft's unhackable OS activation malware has been hacked. There is an active thread at the Keznews forums (account needed), and a summary on its main page about the crack. It is a simple brute force attack, dumb as a rock that just tries keys. If it gets one, you manually have to check it and try activation. Is is ugly, takes hours, is far from point and click, but it is said to work. I don't have any Vista installs because of the anti-user licensing so I have not tested it personally. The method of attack has got to be quite troubling for MS on many ...
Scientists Find Seas on Saturn's Moon
Post Date: 2007-03-13 21:12:49 by Brian S
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(03-13) 17:37 PDT LOS ANGELES, (AP) -- Scientists for the first time have discovered what appear to be sea-size bodies of liquid on the surface of Saturn's largest moon, including one about as big as the Caspian Sea on Earth. The discovery by the international Cassini spacecraft was welcomed by researchers, who have long theorized that Titan possessed hydrocarbon seas because of methane and other organic compounds in its thick, largely nitrogen atmosphere. Until now, Cassini had only spotted clusters of small lakes on the planet-size moon. "They're very obvious. There's nothing subtle about them," said Cassini scientist Jonathan Lunine of the University of ...
The Cult of Pharmacology
Post Date: 2007-03-12 06:17:51 by Ada
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The Cult of Pharmacology: How America Became the World’s Most Troubled Drug Culture by Richard DeGrandpre. Durhan, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. x + 294 pp, ISBN 0-8223-3881-5, $25 (hardback). Richard DeGrandpre might be familiar to you as the author of Ritalin Nation. Ritalin comes in for much attention by detailed comparison with cocaine. Both are said to produce the same mental effects to the point where Ritalin is called "synthetic cocaine." A main theme of this book is that Ritalin is considered an "ethical" drug and an angel in dealing with ADHD, while cocaine is considered a "street" drug and a demon; this artificial difference had nothing to do ...
Texans Tornado Threat - Heads Up
Post Date: 2007-03-11 18:47:13 by IndieTX
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BERLIN GOES 3D IN GOOGLE EARTH
Post Date: 2007-03-10 18:22:14 by robin
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SPIEGEL ONLINE - March 9, 2007, 04:07 PM URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,470720,00.htmlBERLIN GOES 3D IN GOOGLE EARTHClick Your Way through the Brandenburg GateBy Holger Dambeck and Christian Stöcker As though one Berlin were not enough. A virtual 3D tour of the German capital at Google Earth is the first of its kind. Soon, the site hopes to add a historical tour as well. Berlin has gone virtual. As of Thursday morning, the German capital - from the gigantic Alexanderplatz TV tower right down to the potholes in the side streets -- can be seen in Google Earth. The virtual visitor can even enter the new Berlin Central Station and marvel at the Reichstag. Other landmarks ...
Sick people used like laboratory rats in GM trials
Post Date: 2007-03-10 09:54:45 by DeaconBenjamin
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Genetically modified potatoes developed by Monsanto, the multinational biotech company, have been fed to sick patients in an experiment. Rats that ate similar potatoes in the research suffered reductions in the weight of their hearts and prostate glands. Dr Michael Antoniou, reader in molecular genetics at Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine, said use of humans was "irresponsible and totally unethical, especially when already ill subjects were enrolled. These people truly were guinea pigs." Other scientists said the trials were too short, on too few people, to give meaningful results of long-term effects. Monsanto said the vegetables were safe, and the ...
Don't Mention The Polar Bears, Bush Tells US Scientists
Post Date: 2007-03-10 00:39:35 by Brian S
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Published: 10 March 2007 The Bush Administration has been accused once again of gagging US government scientists by getting them to agree not to talk about polar bears, sea ice and climate change during official overseas trips. A leaked memorandum issued by a regional director of the US Department of the Interior states that officials within the US Fish and Wildlife Service will limit their discussions when travelling in countries bordering the Arctic region because of sensitivities about climate change. "This traveller understands the administration's position on climate change, polar bears and sea ice and will not be speaking on or responding to these issues," says the ...
Facts you should know about hemp
Post Date: 2007-03-09 06:09:45 by YertleTurtle
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Fuel: * Planting 6% of the continental U.S. with biomass crops would satisfy all America's energy needs. * Hemp is Earth's number-one biomass resource; it is capable of producing 10 tons per acre in four months. * Biomass can be converted to methane, methanol, or gasoline at a cost comparable to petroleum, and hemp is much better for the environment. * Hemp can produce 10 times more methanol than corn. * Hemp fuel burns clean. Petroleum causes acid rain due to sulfur pollution. * The use of hemp fuel does not contribute to global warming. Food: * Hemp seed can be pressed into a nutritious oil, which contains the highest amount of fatty acids in the plant kingdom. Essential oils ...
Some common sense on global warming
Post Date: 2007-03-06 05:52:30 by YertleTurtle
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This is going to be a busy day. I still have tomorrow's installment of Chaos Manor Reviews to get done. It's Monday meaning I have to roll over View and Mail. There's a lot of news that should get comments; and Niven has taken a short pass through Inferno meaning I need to merge his version and mine. And I managed to get some fiction done Saturday, I am eager to get at it today, but I have an appointment this afternoon right in the middle of my prime writing time. I don't think I will get it all done. I did manage to do a bit more work on the short comment I had about The Jesus Tomb; rather than start over, I added a bit to what I wrote yesterday. I hope that will count. ...
Missing: A Huge Chunk Of The Earth's Crust
Post Date: 2007-03-05 19:48:44 by Brian S
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Mon Mar 5, 2007 12:55PM EST LONDON (Reuters) - A team of British scientists has set sail on a voyage to examine why a huge chunk of the earth's crust is missing, deep under the Atlantic Ocean -- a phenomenon that challenges conventional ideas about how the earth works. The 20-strong team aims to survey an area some 3,000 to 4,000 metres deep where the mantle -- the deep interior of the earth normally covered by a crust kilometres thick -- is exposed on the sea floor. Experts describe the hole along the mid-Atlantic ridge as an "open wound" on the ocean floor that has puzzled scientists for the five or so years that its existence has been known because it defies existing ...
PC ShowBuzz TV on our computers?
Post Date: 2007-03-03 13:25:25 by Lod
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FACT: YOU CAN WATCH TV ON YOUR PC You don't realize it, but you can do all of the above in minutes. Sounds fantastic? Get the most out of your time and your PC now with PCShowBuzz. PCShowBuzz turns your PC into a SuperTV and gives you free, instant access to more than 1000 channels and clips. Why buy another TV and pay monthly subscription for cable when you can get all the entertainment and news you'll ever need for less thant the price of 4 value meals? 1) Connect To A Whole New World On Online Entertainment: Catch breaking news, the hottest fashions, the latest movie trailers, sports highlights and more from thousands of channels you can watch with PCShowBuzz. What are you ...
David Icke on Aspartame (Aspartame Man-Dolald Rumsfeld)
Post Date: 2007-03-03 11:51:04 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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David Icke on Aspartame (Aspartame Man-Dolald Rumsfeld) All time views: 18,258 » David Icke 4 min 40 sec - Aug 13, 2006http://www.DavidIcke.com David Icke talks about Aspartame and Monsanto. This is a clip from from Ickes lecture, Secret of the Matrix.
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Hemp for fiber, food, and fuel
Post Date: 2007-03-03 10:34:03 by YertleTurtle
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Flexible and environmentally friendly Hemp is one of the most versatile plants known to mankind. Its fibres can be used for textiles and ropes or made into paper. Its seeds are a valuable food rich in unsaturated oils, which can also be used as fuel. Hemp requires few pesticides as it quickly outgrows any weeds. It leaves the soil clean for other crops. When hemp stalks are dew-retted in the fields most nutrients are returned to the soil for the next crop. Hemp for textiles When in the middle of the 19th century in California Levi Strauss invented the original jeans he made them from hemp canvas because it was the most durable textile available. Hemp could replace many uses of cotton, ...
It’s the thinnest material ever and could revolutionise computers and medicine
Post Date: 2007-03-03 06:35:57 by Ada
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Scientists have created the thinnest material in the world and predict that it will revolutionise computing and medical research. A layer of carbon has been manufactured in a film only one atom thick that defies the laws of physics. Placed in layers on top of each other it would take 200,000 membranes to reach high enough to match the thickness of a human hair. The substance, graphene, was created two years ago but could be made only when stuck to another material. Researchers have now managed to manufacture it as a film suspended between the nanoscale bars of scaffolding made from gold. Such a feat was held to be impossible by theorists, backed up by experimentation, because it is in ...
Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says
Post Date: 2007-03-02 19:35:34 by BeAChooser
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Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says Kate Ravilious for National Geographic News February 28, 2007 Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet's recent climate changes have a natural—and not a human- induced—cause, according to one scientist's controversial theory. Earth is currently experiencing rapid warming, which the vast majority of climate scientists says is due to humans pumping huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. (Get an overview: "Global Warming Fast Facts".) Mars North Pole image Mars, too, appears to be enjoying more mild and balmy temperatures. In 2005 data from NASA's ...
The Proven Dangers of Microwaves
Post Date: 2007-03-02 10:55:47 by gengis gandhi
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http://www.mercola.com/article/microwave/hazards2.htm The Proven Dangers of Microwaves Extracted from NEXUS Magazine, Volume 2, #25 (April-May '95). Originally printed from the April 1994 edition of Acres, USA. Back in May of 1989, after Tom Valentine first moved to St Paul, Minnesota, he heard on the car radio a short announcement that bolted him upright in the driver's seat. The announcement was sponsored by Young Families, the Minnesota Extension Service of the University of Minnesota: "Although microwaves heat food quickly, they are not recommended for heating a baby's bottle," the announcement said. he bottle may seem cool to the touch, but the liquid ...
Forecasters sees La Nina brewing: More Atlantic hurricanes, more drought, heat for the South
Post Date: 2007-02-27 20:54:04 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON -- Forecasters warned Tuesday that a La Nina weather pattern _ the nasty flip side of El Nino _ is brewing, bringing with it the threat of more hurricanes for the Atlantic. Officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced the official end of a brief and mild El Nino that started last year. That El Nino was credited with partially shutting down last summer's Atlantic hurricane activity in the midst of what was supposed to be a busy season. "We're seeing a shift to the La Nina, it's clearly in the data," NOAA Administrator Conrad Lautenbacher said. La Nina, a cooling of the mid-Pacific equatorial region, has not officially begun ...
The politics of global warming
Post Date: 2007-02-27 14:06:06 by Tauzero
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The politics of global warming By Bill Steigerwald TRIBUNE-REVIEW Saturday, February 10, 2007 Timothy Ball is no wishy-washy skeptic of global warming. The Canadian climatologist, who has a Ph.D. in climatology from the University of London and taught at the University of Winnipeg for 28 years, says that the widely propagated “fact” that humans are contributing to global warming is the “greatest deception in the history of science.” Ball has made no friends among global warming alarmists by saying that global warming is caused by the sun, that global warming will be good for us and that the Kyoto Protocol “is a political solution to a nonexistent problem without ...
The Wonders of Hemp (Not Marijuana)
Post Date: 2007-02-27 07:31:58 by YertleTurtle
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Hemp is cannabis grown specifically for industrial use and thus contains very low levels of cannabinoids (THC). The use of hemp dates back many thousands of years. Properly grown hemp has virtually no psychoactive (intoxicating) effects when consumed. With a relatively short growth cycle of 120 days, hemp is an efficient and economical crop for farmers to grow. Hemp is among one of the most productive and useful plants known; also very safe. The following materials can be made from hemp: paper, textiles, building materials, food, medicine, paint, detergent, varnish, oil, ink, and fuel. Unlike many crops, hemp can be grown in most locations and climates with only moderate water and ...
(Trash can police) Germans plant bugs in our wheelie bins
Post Date: 2007-02-26 13:59:41 by Jethro Tull
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MORE HERE MORE HERE It looks just like any other wheelie bin, but unknown to the householder a bugging device has been inserted under the lip of its lid (bottom left). The bug itself is only a little bigger than a 1p piece (bottom right) Electronic spy 'bugs' have been secretly planted in hundreds of thousands of household wheelie bins. The gadgets - mostly installed by companies based in Germany - transmit information about the contents of the bins to a central database which then keeps records on the waste disposal habits of each individual address. Already some 500,000 bins in council districts across England have been fitted with the bugs - with nearly all areas ...
Michael Crichton: A Scientist Who Can Write: And who is not a tool of the greens.
Post Date: 2007-02-26 06:49:32 by Kamala
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Michael Crichton by Charley Reese by Charley Reese DIGG THIS Michael Crichton, whom most people probably know as the author of Jurassic Park and the creator of the television series ER, is no dummy or hack writer, although he's used the theme of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein a number of times (good-intentioned science produces a monster). He's probably one of the smartest guys in America today, and he's been raising issues that are far more important than the legal circus surrounding the death of a glamorous tramp or the problems of Britney Spears. Crichton graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He ...
RFID 'Powder' - World's Smallest RFID Tag
Post Date: 2007-02-24 08:51:49 by innieway
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The world's smallest and thinnest RFID tags were introduced yesterday by Hitachi. Tiny miracles of miniaturization, these RFID chips (Radio Frequency IDentification chips) measure just 0.05 x 0.05 millimeters. The previous record-holder, the Hitachi mu-chip, is just 0.4 x 0.4 millimeters. Take a look at the size of the mu-chip RFID tag on a human fingertip. Now, compare that with the new RFID tags. The "powder type" tags are some sixty times smaller. The new RFID chips have a 128-bit ROM for storing a unique 38 digit number, like their predecessor. Hitachi used semiconductor miniaturization technology and electron beams to write data on the chip substrates to achieve the ...
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