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NYT: 'Gay sheep research controversy'
Post Date: 2007-01-25 00:18:22 by robin
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A front page article in Thursday's edition of The New York Times examines the "gay sheep research controversy" which is cited as "a textbook example of the distortion and vituperation that can result when science meets the global news cycle." "Dr. Charles Roselli set out to discover what makes some sheep gay," John Schwartz writes for the Times. "Then the news media and the blogosphere got hold of the story." "Roselli, a researcher at the Oregon Health and Science University, has searched for the past five years for physiological factors that might explain why about 8 percent of rams seek sex exclusively with other rams instead of ...
China to overtake US in Internet population size within 2 yrs
Post Date: 2007-01-24 23:39:52 by robin
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Beijing, Jan 25. (PTI): The number of netizens in China soared to 23.4 per cent in 2006 to touch 137 million and is expected to overtake the United States in Internet population size within two years. The number of Internet users rose to 137 million last year, up 23.4 per cent to comprise 10.5 per cent of the country's population of 1.3 billion, the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) said in a report. "We believe it will take two years at most for China to overtake the United States," an official with CNNIC, Wang Enhai was quoted as saying by `China Daily'. However, that could be a bullish prediction. The United States now has about 210 million Internet ...
Scientists discover the 'kind' part of the brain
Post Date: 2007-01-24 19:00:53 by Tauzero
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Scientists discover the 'kind' part of the brain Last updated at 11:51am on 23rd January 2007 Charity begins...in the posterior superior temporal salcus, according to scientists who have traced the origins of altruism in the brain. A study found that this part of the brain is more active in people who often engage in helpful behaviour. The region, which lies in the top and back portion of the brain, is linked to sorting out social relationships. US scientists scanned the brains of 45 volunteers using a technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging which can watch the brain working. At the same time, participants either played a computer game, or watched the computer ...
Yorkshire clan linked to Africa
Post Date: 2007-01-24 18:26:00 by Tauzero
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Yorkshire clan linked to Africa People of African origin have lived in Britain for centuries, according to genetic evidence. A Leicester University study found that seven men with a rare Yorkshire surname carry a genetic signature previously found only in people of African origin. The men seem to have shared a common ancestor in the 18th Century, but the African DNA lineage they carry may have reached Britain centuries earlier. Details of the study appear in the European Journal of Human Genetics. The scientists declined to disclose the men's surname in order to protect their anonymity. The discovery came out of genetic work looking at the relationship between the male, or Y, ...
Pheromones Point to Sexual Orientation: Lesbians respond differently than heterosexual women, researchers find
Post Date: 2007-01-24 08:18:48 by Redheadedstranger
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TUESDAY, May 9 (HealthDay News) -- Lesbians react differently to the powerful sexual chemicals called pheromones than heterosexual women do, a new Swedish study finds. However, lesbians don't respond to pheromones in exactly the same way as heterosexual men do, said study author Dr. Ivanka Savic, an associate professor of clinical neuroscience at the Stockholm Brain Institute. The data suggest that there is a difference between male and female sexuality," said Savic, who, with her colleagues, examined the brains of 12 lesbian women, using positron emission tomography (PET), to evaluate their brains' responses to potential sex pheromones. The new work builds on previous ...
Gregg Braden: Rewriting the Reality Code (quantuum effects)
Post Date: 2007-01-22 06:34:46 by gengis gandhi
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Copyright © Gregg Braden Reprinted with permission from Mystic Pop Magazine, Nov/Dec Issue 2006 http://www.mysticpopmagazine.com “What strange beings we are!” noted the 13th Century mystic Rumi, “That sitting in Hell at the bottom of the dark, we are afraid of our own immortality!” Perhaps it is actually the power to choose our immortality, as well as everything from our personal healing to the peace of our world, that truly frightens us! (belief system installed via the various religion/governments) A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that it is us —our consciousness— that holds the key to life and even reality itself! In 1967 the pioneering ...
Women drivers? They're safer than men
Post Date: 2007-01-22 02:10:44 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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WASHINGTON - That age-old stereotype about dangerous women drivers is shattered in a big new traffic analysis: Male drivers have a 77 percent higher risk of dying in a car accident than women, based on miles driven. And the author of the research says he takes it to heart when he travels — his wife takes the wheel. “I put a mitt in my mouth and ride shotgun,” said David Gerard, a Carnegie Mellon University researcher who co-authored a major new U.S. road risk analysis. Story continues below [5; advertisement The study holds plenty of surprises. * The highway death rate is higher for cautious 82-year-old women than for risk-taking 16-year-old boys. * New England is the ...
Hubble - the most amazing photographs
Post Date: 2007-01-21 13:21:23 by Lod
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Hit the URL for some unbelievable pics.
Cognitive Processes and the Suppression of Sound Scientific Ideas
Post Date: 2007-01-21 09:05:52 by gengis gandhi
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Cognitive Processes and the Suppression of Sound Scientific Ideas J. Sacherman 1997 Abstract American and British history is riddled with examples of valid research and inventions which have been suppressed and derogated by the conventional science community. This has been of great cost to society and to individual scientists. Rather than furthering the pursuit of new scientific frontiers, the structure of British and American scientific institutions leads to conformity and furthers consensus-seeking. Scientists are generally like other people when it comes to the biases and self-justifications that cause them to make bad decisions and evade the truth. Some topics in science are ...
Russian "Progress" Cargo Spaceship Docks With ISS [damn that old Soviet 'junk'...]
Post Date: 2007-01-21 02:23:07 by Brian S
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MISSION CONTROL, MOSCOW REGION, January 20 (RIA Novosti) - The Progress M-59 cargo spacecraft, carrying fuel, water, food and scientific equipment, has docked with the International Space Station, Russia's Mission Control Center said Saturday. "The cargo ship, launched Thursday to the ISS, docked with the station successfully Saturday in automatic regime," a spokesman said. The current ISS crew comprises U.S. astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, who began working on the world's sole orbital station September 20, and U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams, who replaced the European Space Agency's German astronaut Thomas Reiter in December 2006 ...
Online TV Gets a Jolt from Joost
Post Date: 2007-01-19 17:20:02 by mirage
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As if there aren't already enough ways to watch TV, the serial entrepreneurs behind Kazaa and Skype have announced Joost, which proves that there is no shortage of incomprehensible yet catchy five-letter names. The brainchild of Kazaa and Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, Joost promises "infinite choice, and TV that is truly interactive. TV anywhere, anytime..." What this means in practice is broadcast-quality, full-screen, interactive TV that's accessible over broadband that you use like your regular TV, complete with multiple channels you can flip through (though there's no word on whether you'll be able to use a remote that can be lost somewhere ...
methane bubbling up from the ocean floors
Post Date: 2007-01-18 23:11:11 by robin
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January 18, 2007 -- WMR received a number of e-mails as a result of our Jan. 8 piece on methane bubbling up from the ocean floors. The ocean floor methane is turning into gaseous from methane hydrate ice form because the deep ocean is warming as a result of global warming from greenhouse gas emissions. A reader in Minnesota sent us this important amplifying information: "Methane bubbling up from the ocean floor is a clear and present danger to shipping and even aviation. By the way, there is something like 10,000 billion tons of methane under the sea in methane hydrate deposits. Furthermore, a theory called the "Clathrate gun hypothesis" or the "Hydrate ...
1918 Flu Virus Limited The Immune System
Post Date: 2007-01-17 21:32:41 by ...
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A Frankenstein version of the "Spanish flu" virus, assembled from parts in the laboratory, has shed new light on how the microbe killed tens of millions of people worldwide in 1918 and 1919. Experiments in monkeys reveal that the 1918 virus came with the pre-packaged capacity to limit the immune system's ability to fight back in the first few days after infection. As the virus grows unchecked, the body attacks it with increasing quantities of highly toxic substances, which over time do as much harm to the host as to the invader. The result is often lethal damage to the lungs, where most influenza virus growth occurs. The research provides further evidence that the 1918 ...
tesseract (interesting GIF)
Post Date: 2007-01-17 20:21:33 by tom007
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Scientists find Extraterrestrial genes in Human DNA (the human genome project)
Post Date: 2007-01-16 08:03:03 by gengis gandhi
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Scientists find Extraterrestrial genes in Human DNA Do civilizations of advanced human beings exist scattered in the Galaxy? by John Stokes A group of researchers working at the Human Genome Project indicate that they made an astonishing scientific discovery: They believe so-called 97% non-coding sequences in human DNA is no less than genetic code of extraterrestrial life forms. The non-coding sequences are common to all living organisms on Earth, from moulds to fish to humans. In human DNA, they constitute larger part of the total genome, says Prof. Sam Chang, the group leader. Non-coding sequences, originally known as "junk DNA", were discovered years ago, and their ...
Vat-grown muscle is tomorrow's disembodied meat
Post Date: 2007-01-15 20:12:31 by Zipporah
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Vat-grown muscle is tomorrow's disembodied meat Snip from Times UK item "Will the Petri dish put Daisy out to grass?": In 2002 scientists at Touro College in the US removed some muscle from the abdomen of an anaesthetised goldfish and placed it in a saline solution enriched with foetal calf serum. The muscle reportedly grew by 15 per cent in a few weeks. It was then coated in breadcrumbs and lightly sautéed in olive oil: scientists said that the resulting dish “smelled good”. However, they did not eat it. Link to story (thanks, Clayton). Image borrowed from "Disembodied Cuisine," by the Tissue Culture and Art Project. This biological art ...
Invisible RFID Ink Safe For Cattle And People, Company Says
Post Date: 2007-01-15 12:53:26 by angle
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A startup company developing chipless RFID ink has tested its product on cattle and laboratory rats. Somark Innovations announced this week that it successfully tested biocompatible RFID ink, which can be read through animal hairs. The passive RFID technology could be used to identify and track cows to reduce financial losses from Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (mad cow disease) scares. Somark, which formed in 2005, is located at the Center for Emerging Technologies in St. Louis. The company is raising Series A equity financing and plans to license the technology to secondary markets, which could include laboratory animals, dogs, cats, prime cuts of meat, and military personnel. Chief ...
RFID tags connect smart cars to smart highways
Post Date: 2007-01-13 21:29:38 by Jethro Tull
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RFID tags connect smart cars to smart highways From: EDN | Date: December 22, 1994 | Author: Legg, Gary | More results for: smart highways Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags will play a vital role in linking automobiles with smart highways. Traffic congestion has prompted experts to use electronics as a solution. A portion of the California State Route 91 will be equipped with an automated technology that will allow two-way communications between the vehicle and the highway. The highway control system transmits a query signal, which the vehicle-mounted RFID responds to by sending back the appropriate information. Small ...
Chemtrail Discussion on the PowerHour - Live
Post Date: 2007-01-12 10:20:16 by Lod
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Listen at the URL
Intel countersues Transmeta
Post Date: 2007-01-11 22:42:55 by RickyJ
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Intel has filed a lawsuit against chip designer Transmeta, alleging that the company infringes on seven of its patents. The suit, filed earlier this week in a U.S. District Court in Delaware, comes roughly three months after Transmeta filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Intel for allegedly violating 11 of its patents. The case centers on chips that are designed to be energy-efficient when not in use. Intel's countersuit alleges that Transmeta chips under the Crusoe, Efficeon and Efficeon 2 brands violate more than a half dozen of its patents. Transmeta, meanwhile, claims that Intel's Core 2 Duo, in addition to processors dating as far back as its P6 line of chips, ...
Over 4.5 Billion people could die from Global Warming-related causes by 2012
Post Date: 2007-01-11 00:37:12 by robin
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Over 4.5 Billion people could die from Global Warming-related causes by 2012Hydrate hypothesis illuminates growing climate change alarmCompiled by John Stokes A recent scientific theory called the "hydrate hypothesis" says that historical global warming cycles have been caused by a feedback loop, where melting permafrost methane clathrates (also known as "hydrates") spur local global warming, leading to further melting of clathrates and bacterial growth. In other words, like western Siberia, the 400 billion tons of methane in permafrost hydrate will gradually melt, and the released methane will speed the melting. The effect of even a couple of billion tons of methane ...
Canadian coins bugged, U.S. security agency says (RFID)
Post Date: 2007-01-10 15:49:31 by SmokinOPs
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They say money talks, and a new report suggests Canadian currency is indeed chatting, at least electronically, on behalf of shadowy spies. Canadian coins containing tiny transmitters have mysteriously turned up in the pockets of at least three American contractors who visited Canada, says a branch of the U.S. Department of Defence. A U.S. security report says Canadian coins with tiny transmitters have turned up, and could be used to track defence industry personnel.A U.S. security report says Canadian coins with tiny transmitters have turned up, and could be used to track defence industry personnel. Security experts believe the miniature devices could be used to track the movements of ...
The environmental "surge" you're not hearing anything about.
Post Date: 2007-01-08 21:43:49 by robin
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January 8, 2007 -- The environmental "surge" you're not hearing anything about. According to U.S. maritime industry sources, tanker captains are reporting an increase in onboard alarms from hazard sensors designed to detect hydrocarbon gas leaks and, specifically, methane leaks. However, the leaks are not emanating from cargo holds or pump rooms but from continental shelves venting increasing amounts of trapped methane into the atmosphere. With rising ocean temperatures, methane is increasingly escaping from deep ocean floors. Methane is also 21 more times capable of trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.In fact, one of the major sources for increased methane ...
GM Introduces Plug-In Electric Car
Post Date: 2007-01-08 10:30:54 by robin
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Robert A. Lutz, a General Motors vice chairman, at the Detroit auto show with the Chevrolet Volt prototype. The Volt is expected to be able to travel up to 40 miles without needing gas.(By Jeffrey Sauger Via Bloomberg News)
GM Introduces Plug-In Electric Car
By Sholnn Freeman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 8, 2007; A07
DETROIT, Jan. 7 -- General Motors Chairman G. Richard Wagoner Jr. on Sunday unveiled an innovative prototype, the Chevrolet Volt -- a plug-in vehicle that derives its power primarily from electricity rather than gasoline -- as the world's automakers take on global warming and U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
Wagoner's announcement ...
Scientists Stumped: Underwater Photographer Captures Picture of Mysterious Gelatinous Ball; 'A Bit of Science Fiction'
Post Date: 2007-01-07 18:28:57 by Zipporah
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his photograph sparked intense curiosity and fascination amongst Norwegian scientists. Photo: Rudolpf Svensen / UWPHOTO Hordaland, Norway (Oct 28, 2006 10:13 EST) A mysterious gelatinous ball has puzzled and fascinated researchers after undersea photographer Rudolf Svensen spotted it while diving at the mouth of the Matre fjord in Hordaland, western Norway. The Svensens contacted associate professor Torleiv Brattegard at the University of Bergen, and other experts were notified to try and solve the mystery. Brattegard was convinced the object was organic, and possibly a species unknown to Norway. "It might be an animal, the remains of algae, something which has been alive, or a ...
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