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So-Called Indigo Teen Says She Can Read People
Post Date: 2006-07-24 23:41:54 by Morgana le Fay
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Children Are Said to Have Psychic Powers July 24, 2006 — - Sandie Bershad says she's always felt different than other kids and generally prefers the company of adults. At age 12, Sandie, now 17, says she went into a deep, two-year depression because she felt that no one understood her. She was treated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder with medication, but as she grew up, she said, she realized that she had special gifts and abilities, including the ability to see angels and hear voices. "I see dead people. I see my grandmother. She visits me all the time," Sandie said. "I have always been visited by spirits. For the past two years, I have been on a ...
DEPLETED URANIUM ALERT!
Post Date: 2006-07-23 20:32:32 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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DEPLETED URANIUM ALERT! http://www.apfn.org/apfn/du.htm Click for Full Text!
An Electric Car With Juice - The Tesla Roadster goes from zero to 60 in four noiseless seconds
Post Date: 2006-07-21 23:29:49 by Morgana le Fay
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Silicon Valley Firm Bets Its Chips on the Speedy Tesla Roadster Detroit is floundering, gas prices are rising -- now Silicon Valley is stepping in with an impractical-but-cool solution: A sexy, pricey and fast electric car that uses the same lithium ion batteries found in your cellphone or laptop. The Tesla Roadster goes from zero to 60 in four noiseless seconds, has a top speed of 135 mph and can roam for more than 200 miles before needing a recharge. This is not your father's electric car. The $100,000 vehicle, with its sports car looks, is more Ferrari than Prius -- and more about testosterone than granola. Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors Inc. raised $60 million in financing ...
The Picture that Won’t Go Away (Big Bang Has Burst)
Post Date: 2006-07-18 21:40:00 by rack42
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Only in the rarest instances has a single picture altered the direction of a scientific discipline. But in the case of the galaxy NGC 7319 and the "misplaced" quasar in front of it, the message is inescapable. Today we return to an image we have seen before. On October 1, 2004, our Picture of the Day included a high-resolution photograph of the nearby galaxy NGC 7319, taken by the Hubble Telescope. Seen in front of the dense galactic core was a quasar. Prevailing ideology did not permit a quasar to occupy that position, and its presence threatened to shatter one of the most cherished themes of mainstream astronomy: the Big Bang. For those who wonder what all the commotion ...
A Wireless Chip the Size of Grain!
Post Date: 2006-07-17 14:13:09 by Tauzero
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A Wireless Chip the Size of Grain! Techtree News Staff HP has announced the development of a miniature, wireless data chip that according to the company, is capable of providing broad access to digital content in the physical world. "Memory Spot", a research team at HP Labs, has developed this memory device based on CMOS (a widely used, low-power integrated circuit design). The chip is just about the size of a grain of rice or smaller (2 mm to 4 mm square). These chips can be fixed on a sheet of paper or stuck to any surface, and the company says, will eventually be made available as a booklet with self-adhesive dots. Some of the potential applications of this device include ...
Prosperity Magazine Interview with Stephen Zarlenga (American Monetary Institute) Parts 1 & 2 (Wake up you Gold Bugs)
Post Date: 2006-07-16 19:48:41 by BTP Holdings
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AN INTERVIEW WITH STEPHEN ZARLENGA,with Alistair McConnachie, Part 1.PROSPERITY, JUNE 2004Stephen, it was a pleasure to meet you at the Reformers bookshop in Edinburgh in May, and to see a copy of your book, The Lost Science of Money. Please tell readers about yourself? Thanks Alistair, it was good to meet, after hearing about you from Peter Challen and James Robertson. My parents emigrated from Europe to Chicago and achieved the "American Dream" - owning a home, a job, more opportunity for their children. They sacrificed and I attended the University of Chicago, under the Hutchins curriculum, a unique program that focused on "The Great Books of the Western Tradition" ...
Ted Stevens Explains the Internet
Post Date: 2006-07-15 20:36:47 by eyeswideoopen
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Video - J Stewart | Ted Stevens and those internet Tubes TDS: Ted Stevens and those internet Tubes http://movies.crooksandliars.com/TDS-Ted-Stevens-Tubes.wmv How the Internet works, by Ted Stevens > http://www.crooksandliars.com/posts/2006/07/03/how-the-internet-works-by-ted-stevens/ By: Steve on Monday, July 3rd, 2006 at 11:32 AM - PDT If you haven't read Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens' (R-Alaska) explanation for his opposition to net neutrality, you're missing out on a deeply disconcerting perspective. He asked, for example, "what happens to your own personal internet" when someone else tried to download 10 movies at the same time. "I just the other ...
Inflatable space dreams
Post Date: 2006-07-12 21:17:21 by Morgana le Fay
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It's taken months longer than he hoped, but real-estate billionaire Robert Bigelow might just see his first orbital spacecraft take flight at last on Wednesday, courtesy of a converted Russian intercontinental ballistic missile. If Bigelow Aerospace's Genesis 1 inflatable space module lifts off successfully, the test mission could mark a significant step toward an era of hotels and even sports complexes in space. Russia's Federal Space Agency lists Genesis 1 for a Wednesday launch from the Dombarovsky military missile base in southwestern Siberia. This would be the first on-orbit test of Bigelow's inflatable-module concept, which was actually developed at NASA for future space station ...
Man Uses Chip to Control Robot With Thoughts
Post Date: 2006-07-12 20:53:51 by Morgana le Fay
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A paralyzed man with a small sensor implanted in his brain was able to control a computer, a television and a robot using only his thoughts, scientists reported today. The development offers hope that in the future, people with spinal cord injuries, Lou Gehrig’s disease or other ailments that impair movement might be able to better communicate with or control their world. “If your brain can do it, we can tap into it,’’ said John P. Donoghue, a professor at Brown University who led the development of the system and was the senior author of a report published today in the journal Nature. In separate experiments, the first person to receive the implant, Matthew Nagle, ...
Asteroid Hits Earth : This Is An Awesome Computer Generated Simulation Of What Would Happen If A Large Asteroid Were To Impact Earth
Post Date: 2006-07-12 14:18:48 by Mind_Virus
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Asteroid Hits Earth (Simulation) http://Break.com | July 12 2006 This Is An Awesome Computer Generated Simulation Of What Would Happen If A Large Asteroid Were To Impact Earth.
The end of male infertility?
Post Date: 2006-07-11 22:01:27 by Zipporah
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Scientists have taken a major step forward in the understanding and treatment of male infertility after impregnating mice with sperm grown from embryonic stem cells. In a world first, researchers have shown that sperm generated from stem cells and developed in a laboratory can result in a live birth. The breakthrough could lead to infertile men undergoing "sperm transplants" resulting in the birth of their own biological child rather than having to use donated samples, which are in short supply. Experts described the work as an exciting advance and "hugely significant" for the treatment of male infertility. But some pro-life campaigners expressed concern about ...
Women In The Future May Produce Sperm
Post Date: 2006-07-11 20:10:23 by Mind_Virus
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Women In The Future May Produce Sperm Robert Paul Reyes July 11, 2006 Some extreme elements of the women's movement argue that men are superfluous. Men always smugly answered, "Right, and who's going to mow your lawn, check your oil, and not to mention impregnate you?" A new scientific breakthrough may indeed make guys as obsolete as a Betamax, females in the future may be able to produce sperm. Evil scientists in England have turned stem cells from an embryo into sperm which are capable of producing offspring. The satanic experiment used embryo cells to produce seven baby mice, six of whom lived into adulthood, although the survivors suffered adverse events. Contrary to ...
Code of the Caveman [Neaderthal Genome]
Post Date: 2006-07-10 23:49:40 by Morgana le Fay
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A new DNA mapping technique may solve an ancient mystery: Do modern humans carry Neanderthal genes? On a forest-choked expanse of land that will one day be called Germany, a herd of bison huddles together to ward off the cold. Hidden in the foliage nearby squats a man. Like the animals he’s hunting, he has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to cope with freezing temperatures. His massive jaw juts out, and his forehead slopes forward to form a heavy brow – providing a thick layer of bone that protects his sinuses and large brain from the icy air. His barrel-shaped body and short limbs help him retain heat. So do the furs he wears and the fires his family builds in the ...
Mini solar system could reveal hidden dimensions
Post Date: 2006-07-09 00:37:46 by Morgana le Fay
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A tiny, artificial solar system could reveal hidden spatial dimensions and test alternative theories of gravity, a new study suggests. If the system's "planets" moved slightly differently than expected from standard gravity, it would signal the presence of new physical phenomena – which have proven very difficult to test. Numerous theories that attempt to unify all the forces of physics into one cohesive model call for hidden spatial dimensions in addition to the three we can sense. In some of these theories, gravity would leak into the extra dimensions – explaining why it is a relatively weak force in the universe we know. This leakage would dilute its power and ...
Dark visions, ancient fears [New Theory on Dreams]
Post Date: 2006-07-08 23:50:13 by Morgana le Fay
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Scientists claim that nightmares evolved to help us to deal with daily threats. So dream on, says Roger Dobson Those dreams about being chased by wild animals may not be meaningless after all. And the bottomless pits, the running but not moving, and those rooms with no doors and windows, they also may have a real purpose. According to new research from Canada and Finland, which is backed by a Boston University study presented at a recent international conference, dreams are not meaningless but are part of an evolutionary survival strategy that developed in early man to help him to learn how to recognise and deal with threats in a hostile world. And Canadian research indicates that almost ...
Crow Believed to Be Oldest in World Dies
Post Date: 2006-07-07 23:56:54 by Morgana le Fay
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Crow That May Have Been the World's Oldest Dies at Age 59 BEARSVILLE, N.Y. - There's no way to prove Tata was the world's oldest crow when he died Sunday at age 59. But an expert on crows says it's possible. Tata's tale began in 1947 when a thunderstorm blew the fledgling out of his nest in a Long Island cemetery, a mishap that likely led to his long life. Injured and unable to fly, the bird was scooped up by a cemetery caretaker and brought to a local family with a reputation for taking care of animals, Tata's most recent owner, Kristine Flones, told the Daily Freeman of Kingston. "He was never able to fly, so he became their family pet," said Flones, a wildlife ...
Cord Caused NOAA Piers Fire in Seattle
Post Date: 2006-07-07 23:54:04 by Dakmar
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SEATTLE (AP) -- A faulty electrical cord caused a fire that scorched two National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration piers following a Fourth of July celebration, investigators said Friday. The cord, which ran from a dock to a ship, shorted early Wednesday morning, the Seattle Fire Department said. The fire was reported more than two hours after the end of a fireworks show over Lake Union. The piers are expected to be unusable for as long as two years. The fire also damaged two 224-foot NOAA ships, two smaller boats, a navigation operations trailer and a steam plant. © 2006 The Associated Press.
Poster Comment:A steam plant? That must have been one hell of a fire, kudos to ...
The National Academy of Sciences is flunking as the referee in the global warming debate
Post Date: 2006-07-07 23:46:02 by BTP Holdings
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The National Academy of Sciences is flunking as the referee in the global warming debate By Dennis T. Avery Saturday, July 1, 2006 The Academy was supposed to referee an acrimonious debate in Congress and the science community over the infamous "hockey stick" global warming studies. Those two studies, published in 1998 and 1999, were led by Michael Mann, now at the University of Virginia. They appear to find dramatic 20th century warming, after 900 years of supposedly stable world temperatures. The study is controversial because it appeared to wipe out the Medieval Warming and Little Ice Age, two of the most widely documented climate events in history. Nevertheless, it was ...
KRAMINIK WINS 700,000 DOLLARS AFTER TYING SUPERCOMPUTER
Post Date: 2006-07-07 21:25:56 by rowdee
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Kraminik proves humans still have their last word against the machine World chess champion insists it is still too early to entirely write off man in his battle with machine. MANAMA - World chess champion Vladimir Kramnik won 700,000 dollars in prize money from Bahrani King Hamad Saturday after tying the eighth and final game of the tournament to draw with the world's most powerful chess computer, Deep Fritz, organizers said. Kramnik's draw with the machine exceeded the performance of his predecessor as world champion, Gary Kasparov, who in 1997 was defeated by supercomputer Deep Blue in New York. The final game was the shortest of the contest, with the 21 moves taking just under two ...
The World of Free Energy-complete with patents, link info, etc
Post Date: 2006-07-07 17:31:02 by gengis gandhi
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http://www.wanttoknow.info/freeenergy GO TO URL TO SEE LINKS, THERE ARE SEVERAL. Free Energy The World of Free Energy By Peter Lindemann, D.Sc. In the late 1880's, trade journals in the electrical sciences were predicting free electricity and free energy in the near future. Incredible discoveries about the nature of electricity were becoming common place. Nikola Tesla was demonstrating "wireless lighting" and other wonders associated with high frequency currents. There was an excitement about the future like never before. Within 20 years, there would be automobiles, airplanes, movies, recorded music, telephones, radio, and practical cameras. The Victorian Age was giving way ...
Need A Cooker? Use Your Cell Phone
Post Date: 2006-07-05 21:24:41 by christine
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Many organizations including the cell phone industry often downplay the risk of cell phone radiation to the brain. Results from short-term studies were used to convince consumers that use of a cell phone is not associated with brain tumors or cancer, which only develop decades after exposure. To be fair, no one knows exactly how much harm a cell phone can do to a person. Recently, new media has reported a study showing the radiation from cell phones is so full of energy they can be used to cook eggs. In the experiment, researchers placed one egg in a porcelain cup (because it is easy to conduct heat), and put one cell phone on one side and another cell phone on the other. The researchers ...
The "Global Warming Conspiracy"
Post Date: 2006-07-05 02:23:12 by Mind_Virus
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The "Global Warming Conspiracy" I've been rather curious about the global warming controversy after: 1) seeing Al Gore on the Daily Show a few days back talk about "An Inconvenient Truth" 2) observing how conservatives have a visceral distaste for the subject of human-induced global warming. I therefore picked up a book called "Global Warming: Opposing Viewpoints" published in 2002 and started reading it. It's quite amazing. On the one hand they have scientists telling of their findings on climate change due to the significant CO2 level increase in the past 100 years and the dire problems that a greater increase in CO2 would cause-- all in a very ...
Crack Found in Foam on Shuttle Fuel Tank
Post Date: 2006-07-03 14:24:48 by IndieTX
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA managers weren't ruling out a Fourth of July launch for space shuttle Discovery on Monday, even after inspectors found a 5-inch-long crack in the foam insulation on its external fuel tank. Officials said they needed more time to evaluate the problem and planned to meet again Monday evening to decide whether to go ahead with the launch. The space agency's engineers believe the crack was caused by the expanding and shrinking of the tank as it was fueled with supercold propellant, which also caused a 3-inch-long triangle-shaped piece of foam to fall off the area and land on a platform below. The chunk of foam was too small to have caused damage if it had ...
Weather Forces 2nd Straight Shuttle Delay
Post Date: 2006-07-02 13:46:47 by Brian S
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(07-02) 10:24 PDT Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP) -- Stormy weather prevented NASA from launching Discovery for the second day in a row Sunday, extending a yearlong grounding of the space shuttle necessitated by persistent trouble with fuel-tank foam. Launch officials said they would try again Tuesday, on the Fourth of July, after giving the work force a day of rest and a chance to replenish the shuttle's on-board fuel. The weather was expected to improve by Tuesday, although rain was still in the forecast.
RFID misinformaton
Post Date: 2006-07-02 02:47:27 by gothink3
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From the misinformation article: "What about the risks? They are real, but I don't think they are any greater than using a plain old credit card. I just don't think you should worry about it" read his silly article here. If its good for yankees fans its good for you! http://gearlog.com/blogs/gearlog/archive/2006/06/29/14607.aspx From me: RFIDS are bad. This author tries to say they are good. He is an idiot and so are all who unknowingly use these terrible devices. If you get an RFID in the mail send it back or destroy it. You are not obligated to use it. Your current credit cards will work normally without activating this evil technology. My documentation: ...
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