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Cooling Sun brings relief to sweltering Earth
Post Date: 2006-09-25 23:15:11 by Tauzero
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Cooling Sun brings relief to sweltering Earth Help in battle against global warming as scientists claim that our nearest star is about to go into a period of reduced activity Robin McKie, science editor Sunday September 24, 2006 The Observer The earth could be rescued from global warming by an unlikely saviour: not fewer cars, nor less pollution, nor even thousands of wind farms spread across Britain's hillsides - but, remarkably, by a cooler Sun. An international group of scientists believes a period of reduced solar activity could soon bring desperately needed cooling to our sweltering world. The work is based on research of past periods of climatic change, including the Little Ice ...
Global Temperature Highest in Millennia
Post Date: 2006-09-25 22:26:26 by Zipporah
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lobal Temperature Highest in Millennia WASHINGTON (AP) -- The planet's temperature has climbed to levels not seen in thousands of years, warming that has begun to affect plants and animals, researchers report in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Earth has been warming at a rate of 0.36 degree Fahrenheit per decade for the last 30 years, according to the research team led by James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. That brings the overall temperature to the warmest in the current interglacial period, which began about 12,000 years ago. Hansen, who first warned of the danger of climate change decades ago, said that ...
China Attempted To Blind U.S. Satellites With Laser
Post Date: 2006-09-25 11:56:53 by Brian S
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China has fired high-power lasers at U.S. spy satellites flying over its territory in what experts see as a test of Chinese ability to blind the spacecraft, according to sources. It remains unclear how many times the ground-based laser was tested against U.S. spacecraft or whether it was successful. But the combination of China’s efforts and advances in Russian satellite jamming capabilities illustrate vulnerabilities to the U.S. space network are at the core of U.S. Air Force plans to develop new space architectures and highly classified systems, according to sources. According to experts, lasers — depending on their power level — could blind electro-optical satellites ...
Tweaked Firefox Lets You Surf Internet Without a Trace
Post Date: 2006-09-22 12:58:24 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Tweaked Firefox Lets You Surf Internet Without a Trace Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service Wed Sep 20, 3:00 PM ETA tweaked version of Firefox that makes Web browsing anonymous has been released by a group of privacy-minded coders.Every few minutes, the Torpark browser causes a computer's IP address to appear to change. IP addresses are numeric identifier given to computers on the Internet. The number can be used along with other data to potentially track down a user, as many Web sites keep track of IP addresses.Hackers Promote PrivacyTorpark's creators, a group of computer security gurus and privacy experts named Hactivismo, said they want to expand privacy rights on the Internet as new ...
The lunar effect
Post Date: 2006-09-20 00:34:50 by Morgana le Fay
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DOES a full moon make you feel like partying? Do you feel more energetic during a waxing moon? Either way, Making plans around the phases of the moon can lead to many things, from good business deals to more lustrous hair. Roch Voller, who works in the psychiatric emergency department of Melbourne's St Vincent's Hospital, understands first-hand the meaning of the term "the lunar effect". He says he always expects more code grey alerts when it's a full moon. "Code grey refers to patient aggression," he says. "We expect patients to be harder to control, louder, more violent and likely to hear voices then, too." Voller isn't alone in believing in the lunar ...
First penis transplant reversed after two weeks
Post Date: 2006-09-19 21:38:27 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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First penis transplant reversed after two weeks Tue Sep 19, 8:41 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - Surgeons in China who said they performed the first successful penis transplant had to remove the donated organ because of the severe psychological problems it caused to the recipient and his wife. ADVERTISEMENT Dr Weilie Hu and surgeons at Guangzhou General Hospital in China performed the complex 15-hour surgery on a 44-year old man whose penis had been damaged in a traumatic accident. The microsurgery to attach the penis, which had been donated by the parents of a 22-year-old brain-dead man, was successful but Hu and his team removed it two weeks later. "Because of a severe psychological ...
Intel Develops Silicon Hybrid Laser Chip
Post Date: 2006-09-18 18:36:13 by robin
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Hardware Intel Develops Silicon Hybrid Laser Chip Tuan Nguyen September 18, 2006 5:30 PMRecipient E-mailPlease enter a valid E-mail addressPlease enter a valid E-mail addressSender E-mailPlease enter a valid E-mail addressPlease enter a valid E-mail addressClick image to enlargeHigh performance light-based computers in the horizonResearchers at Intel and the University of California, Santa Barbara have announced the world's first Hybrid Silicon Laser, or HSL. An HSL is a silicon-based laser emitting device. According to Intel, creating a laser emitting silicon chip is a breakthrough that will propel the world of computers into the light-based transmission era.Called Indium Phosphide, the ...
Hacked - Virus Implanted/Spread On Diebold Vote Machines!
Post Date: 2006-09-15 05:55:06 by Zoroaster
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Hacked - Virus Implanted/Spread On Diebold Vote Machines! New, First-of-Its Kind, University Study Reveals Malicious Code Can Be Easily Inserted into Voting Machine, Spread from One System to the Next, Resulting in Flipped Votes, and Stolen Elections All Without a Trace Being Left Behind Study Also Confirms that Voter Access Cards Can Be Created At Home to Defeat Security Protocols, Allowing Voters to Vote Multiple Times in a Single Election! By Brad Friedman EXCLUSIVE 9-14-6 A vote for George Washington could easily be converted to a vote for Benedict Arnold on an electronic voting machine and neither the voter, nor the election officials administering the election would ever know ...
Researchers Offer a New Date for Neanderthals’ Last Stand
Post Date: 2006-09-14 02:34:59 by Ghost of Inbred Cousin Humpers
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An international team of scientists thinks it has solved the ultimate mystery of the Neanderthals: where and when they made their last stand before extinction. It was at Gibraltar 28,000 years ago, the scientists say, about 2,000 years more recently than previously thought. The archaeologists and paleontologists reported yesterday finding several hundred stone tools in Gorham’s Cave, on the rugged Mediterranean coast near the Rock of Gibraltar. They were made in the Mousterian stoneworking style, usually associated with Neanderthals. So far, no fossil bones of the cave occupants have been uncovered. The researchers said, however, that the tools established the survival of a ...
Princeton scientists create vote-stealing program for Diebold AccuVote
Post Date: 2006-09-14 02:00:08 by Morgana le Fay
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This is a press release, so let's give it some press, in full. For immediate release: September 13, 2006 Media contact: Teresa Riordan, (609) 258-9754, triordan@princeton.edu; Steven Schultz, (609) 258-3617, sschultz@princeton.edu Researchers reveal 'extremely serious' vulnerabilities in e-voting machines In a paper published on the Web today, a group of Princeton computer scientists said they created demonstration vote-stealing software that can be installed within a minute on a common electronic voting machine. The software can fraudulently change vote counts without being detected. "We have created and analyzed the code in the spirit of helping to guide public officials so ...
Baby Bang experiment could open door to new dimension
Post Date: 2006-09-10 13:19:22 by Eoghan
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Deep underground on the Franco-Swiss border, someone will throw a switch next year to start one of the most ambitious experiments in history, probing the secrets of the universe and possibly finding new dimensions. The Large Hadron Collider - a 27km-long circular particle accelerator at the CERN experimental facility near Geneva, will smash protons into one another at unimaginable speeds trying to replicate in miniature the events of the Big Bang. "These beams will have the kinetic energy of an aircraft carrier slammed into the size of a zero on a 20p piece," Brian Cox of Manchester University told the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. ...
Dark Matter Exists
Post Date: 2006-09-09 12:46:20 by Neil McIver
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Sean at 11:52 am, August 21st, 2006 The great accomplishment of late-twentieth-century cosmology was putting together a complete inventory of the universe. We can tell a story that fits all the known data, in which ordinary matter (every particle ever detected in any experiment) constitutes only about 5% of the energy of the universe, with 25% being dark matter and 70% being dark energy. The challenge for early-twenty-first-century cosmology will actually be to understand the nature of these mysterious dark components. A beautiful new result illuminating (if you will) the dark matter in galaxy cluster 1E 0657-56 is an important step in this direction. (Here’s the press release, and ...
Another route to organic food: Get the pests dead drunk [India]
Post Date: 2006-09-07 21:11:39 by DeaconBenjamin
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Now drink to the ingenuity of Telangana's farmers. First they sprayed soft drinks - in place of pesticides - on cotton crops. They are moving on to hard drinks. In some villages in Adilabad and Karimnagar districts, farmers are experimenting with cheap liquor on crops. And the results are encouraging, they say with all the seriousness of scientists in lab coats. The farmers turned to the bottle when the use of spurious pesticides led to crop failure. Liquor treatment is cost-effective too. A litre of cheap booze costs a little over Rs 100 and is enough to spray on two acres. Pesticides for the same area will cost the farmers Rs 3,000-4,000. "I did not think it would work but the ...
Youtube: Light-Emitting Shirts at Expo in Berlin
Post Date: 2006-09-07 11:49:32 by Nintendo of the Gods
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Colored light that appears to move around inside the cloth itself. Sort of neat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd99gyE4jCk
Experts warn of total amphibian extinction, fearing cataclysm
Post Date: 2006-09-07 10:40:35 by Red Jones
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Experts warn of total amphibian extinction, fearing cataclysm By John Biemer CHICAGO TRIBUNE July 7, 2006 CHICAGO – Predicting a mass extinction of the world's frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, 50 international amphibian experts are sending out an unprecedented call for an urgent global mission to avert a cataclysm. The plea, published in today's edition of the journal Science, is meant to be a wake-up call for a broader range of scientists and policy-makers about threats to Earth's amphibians, considered canaries in the coal mine for all of nature. “For the first time in modern history, because of the way that humans are impacting our natural world, we're facing the ...
MySpace Offers Music Downloads
Post Date: 2006-09-06 01:11:28 by robin
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MySpace Offers Music Downloads New service lets users sell their own song from their Web pages. Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service Tuesday, September 05, 2006 05:00 AM PDT MySpace.com is launching a new music download service that emphasizes music from independent artists, the latest in a string of services announced in recent weeks that hope to topple iTunes from its crown. Some of the services, such as one backed by Universal Music Group, are even offering music for free, backed by advertising services. But analysts say they'll have trouble toppling Apple Computer's iTunes, which has staked out a solid position in what's becoming a crowded music download market. "Ultimately it's a ...
Sounding out those voices that nobody else can hear [Hope for AKA Stone!]
Post Date: 2006-09-06 00:03:13 by Morgana le Fay
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Hearing voices when no one is there can be a symptom of mental illness, yet a study of the phenomenon found nearly half the people who heard voices said their hallucinations were mostly friendly or helpful. Furthermore, some participants in the Auckland University study considered their voices a blessing - although others thought them a curse. Hearing voices tends to be more accepted in some indigenous cultures than in modern Western society - but it still finds a place, even at top levels. Retired Australian athlete Herb Elliott, winner of the 1500m gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics, has written of the voice in his head that told him halfway through that race: "Herb, you're ...
NEXT GENERATION SPACE PROPULSION
Post Date: 2006-09-05 18:44:55 by CaptainChurch
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As much that has been speculated about electro-magnetic/gravitational energies that we could use on earth & in space to propel ourselves around, no usable system has been proposed....YET...until now! We could have massive, slow-moving craft in our atmosphere and in space (rockets are deadly), if we learn how to trick our inner solar system's forces ["impulse power"], and use them for ALL of mankind's benefit----[So what if it takes us 3+ weeks to get to the Moon, instead of rocketing there in 3 1/2 days; so what??....This isn't a crazy-car, rocket-assisted drag race!! We would have to overrule the Industrial/Military Complex, of course, because they would lose control of us; ...
Are Interracial People Healthier And More Attractive?
Post Date: 2006-09-05 01:00:25 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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Receiving unsolicited manuscripts of soon-to-be-published books in the mail can be a forbidding event. Somebody has gone to the trouble of sending me a big box full of hundreds of pages of typescript because they value my reaction. But do I really want to react? To my surprise and pleasure, however, the newly-released book Breeding Between the Lines: Why Interracial People are Healthier and More Attractive by Alon Ziv turned out to be a quick, lively, and witty read. (Here's his book's website.) Even more to my delight, Ziv, whom I had never heard of before, was clearly influenced by many of my VDARE.COM articles on genetics and race. Thus, it's with some regret that I must say I'm ...
The End of the Oil Era Looms
Post Date: 2006-09-04 23:52:45 by Morgana le Fay
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Oil, uranium, gold and platinum are more sought after than ever today. The search for natural resources is becoming increasingly difficult and prices are soaring. But future growth of the world economy depends on these natural resources -- and some will soon disappear forever. Five minutes before he was scheduled to speak, leading geologist Marion King Hubbert was summoned to the phone. His employer was speaking, someone from the headquarters of the Shell corporation. He was urged not to present his forecast, Hubbert later revealed. But the scientist with his little Clark-Gable-style beard stuck to his guns, as he has often been known to do. When he appeared at the spring 1956 meeting ...
Second helpings [Help for Ponchy and Brer']
Post Date: 2006-09-04 23:29:13 by Morgana le Fay
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Seventy years after it first appeared, Dale Carnegie’s classic self-help manual How to Win Friends and Influence People is being republished in a new edition. Is it still relevant? The very title has a creepy feel. How to win friends and influence people? Surely you don’t win friends, you make them. Friends aren’t supposed to be trophies. And though many of us would like to influence people, I would feel very sheepish if I were caught reading a book that was so obviously telling me how to go about the task. Not only would it make me look even more shifty than I am, it would also suggest that I am too stupid or lazy to devise my own strategies for manipulating those around ...
Deep ice tells long climate story
Post Date: 2006-09-04 22:07:20 by robin
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Deep ice tells long climate story By Jonathan Amos Science reporter, BBC News, Norwich Epica drills have extracted ice from deep under the surfaceCarbon dioxide levels are substantially higher now than at anytime in the last 800,000 years, the latest study of ice drilled out of Antarctica confirms. The in-depth analysis of air bubbles trapped in a 3.2km-long core of frozen snow shows current greenhouse gas concentrations are unprecedented. The East Antarctic core is the longest, deepest ice column yet extracted. Project scientists say its contents indicate humans could be bringing about dangerous climate changes. "My point would be that there's nothing in the ice core ...
New Republic Suspends an Editor for Attacks on Blog
Post Date: 2006-09-04 11:46:10 by DeaconBenjamin
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A senior editor at The New Republic was suspended and his blog was shut down on Friday after revelations that he was involved in anonymously attacking readers who criticized his posts. Lee Siegel, creator of the Lee Siegel on Culture blog for http://tnr.com, was suspended indefinitely from the magazine after a reader accused him of using a "sock puppet," or Internet alias, to attack his critics in the comments section of his blog. An editor’s apology replaced the blog on the Web site, announcing that the blog would no longer be published and noting that The New Republic deeply regretted "misleading" its readers. Franklin Foer, the New Republic’s editor, said ...
Snakes on the Brain
Post Date: 2006-09-04 01:13:45 by Morgana le Fay
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SNAKES hit a nerve in people. How else to explain why the movie “Snakes on a Plane” became an Internet sensation months before it was released in theaters? The very idea was all it took to rouse attention. That humans have been afraid of snakes for a long time is not a fresh observation; that this fear may be entwined with our development as a species is. New anthropological evidence suggests that snakes, as predators, may have figured prominently in the evolution of primate vision — the ability, shared by humans, apes and monkeys, to see the world in crisp, three-dimensional living color. The snake-detection hypothesis has grown, as scientific theories so often do, out ...
Livermore Scientists Reignite JFK Assassination Debate
Post Date: 2006-09-03 07:18:29 by Zoroaster
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Livermore Scientists Reignite JFK Assassination Debate POSTED: 9:04 am PDT August 21, 2006 UPDATED: 9:29 am PDT August 21, 2006 LIVERMORE -- It's been the subject of numerous arguments, books and a major Hollywood movie and now scientists at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory have turned up the heat again on just who assassinated President John F. Kennedy. The researchers say metallurgical chemical "fingerprints" on the bullets that killed the president and wounded then Texas Governor John Connally may have been misinterpreted and that the government's crucial "single gunman theory" has been thrown into doubt. "It basically shatters what some people call the best ...
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