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The Philosopher and the Fossils
Post Date: 2006-04-22 08:48:11 by Zoroaster
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The Reactionary Utopian The Philosopher and the Fossils April 6, 2006 The lead story on the front page of the New York Times on April 6, for once, wasn’t political. It was about fossils. “All the news that’s fit to print,” eh? But why fossils on the front page, overshadowing immigration, war, and even Katie Couric? Doesn’t that belong in the Science section on Tuesday? Or is there, as we say, some agenda at work here? The headline tips us off: “Fossil Called Missing Link from Sea to Land Animals.” Sure enough, the fifth paragraph explains that some scientists — this is Science speaking, at which every knee should bow — say these ...
Inside the world of long range weather forecasting
Post Date: 2006-04-21 15:15:05 by Tauzero
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Inside the world of long range weather forecasting Friday, 24 March 2006 Crowded House sang, "Everywhere you go, you always take the weather with you", one man who boldly strides into the future with the weather is long range forecaster Haydon Walker. Predicting the future can be fraught with difficulty. Many of us have joked that the Bureau of Meteorology can't get the weather right one day at a time, so how on earth is somebody supposed to get it right months in advance? "I think when you're forecasting the weather twelve to eighteen months in advance people put a question mark up to a certain extent", Haydon Walker explains, "I don't really worry about it, ...
'Sunspot cycle' causes changes in the corona during eclipse
Post Date: 2006-04-21 13:31:08 by Tauzero
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'Sunspot cycle' causes changes in the corona during eclipse BY ALAN HALE FOR THE DAILY NEWS April 14, 2006 Two weeks ago, the path of a total solar eclipse passed over portions of Africa and Asia. This author had hoped to travel to Turkey for the event, but unfortunately his travel plans did not work out. From all accounts, the skies were clear over most of the entire path, and thus millions of people on our planet had the opportunity to witness this exceptionally unique phenomenon of nature. One of the major attractions of a total solar eclipse is the chance to see the corona, or outer atmosphere of the sun. While the gas in the corona is extremely hot -- upwards of one million degrees ...
Mystery chemical quells prison rampage
Post Date: 2006-04-19 14:16:35 by Tauzero
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Mystery chemical quells prison rampage By Philippa Duncan 18-04-2006 From: The Mercury HOBART'S Risdon Prison inmates threw molotov cocktails and paint, set fire to mattresses and a guard's office, smashed lights and trashed cells before being subdued by a mystery chemical agent. The prison's tactical response group stormed Division Four at dawn yesterday and ended the 20-hour siege with force and the chemical spray. Inmates exposed to the spray were then decontaminated and moved to another part of the prison. Assistant prisons director Greg Partridge said no one was hurt in the surrender of 26 male inmates but the guard involved was "obviously very shaken". The tense ...
Why is the sky blue? Facts you should know: Scientists offer 10 basic questions to test your knowledge.
Post Date: 2006-04-16 23:49:01 by Zipporah
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Last update: April 14, 2006 – 7:18 AM Think you know you know your science? Recently, several science gurus -- Nobel Prize winners, institute heads, teachers and others who spend most of their time thinking about science -- were asked, "What is one science question every high school graduate should be able to answer?" Take their quiz and see how you do. 1. What percentage of the earth is covered by water? ROBERT GAGOSIAN, WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE 2. What sorts of signals does the brain use to communicate sensations, thoughts and actions? TORSTEN WEISEL, ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE, NEW YORK 3. Did dinosaurs and humans ever exist at the same time? ANDREW C. ...
120 miles per gallon
Post Date: 2006-04-16 14:56:12 by YertleTurtle
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Americans guzzle 65 billion gallons of fuel a year and lately we have been paying a pretty penny at the pump. NewsChannel 4 has done reports in the past on how to get the most out of your gas. Now we introduce you to a new way to save on those gasoline dollars. There is a man who fills up his tank once every two months. One tank of gas, literally, lasts him two months. He is freezing the price of gas by freezing something else. People complain about the price of gas and we are all spending dearly to stay on the road these days. The money we spend on gas seems to burn up faster than the fuel. While there may be little rhyme or reason to why the prices are on a perpetual roller-coaster, ...
Iceland comes first in broadband
Post Date: 2006-04-13 20:33:17 by Zipporah
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Iceland comes first in broadband
Cable broadband is losing out to higher speed connections
Iceland is most web-savvy country, with a study showing it has the highest concentration of broadband users.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development found that broadband was also widespread in South Korea, the Netherlands and Denmark.
But the US still has the most broadband users, with more than 49 million.
Overall broadband subscriptions in OECD countries jumped from 136 million to 158 million in the six months to December 2005.
The OECD figures revealing Iceland topping the list of broadband users were a surprise as South Korea ...
Ethiopian fossils link humans to 4.4 million-year-old apelike creatures, researchers say
Post Date: 2006-04-13 15:59:16 by Zipporah
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EARLIER ANCESTORS EARLIER ANCESTORS / Ethiopian fossils link humans to 4.4 million-year-old apelike creatures, researchers say Scientists found teeth, upper jaws, hand and foot bones and fragments of other bones of the ancient species in the Afar desert. Brill Atlanta photo by David L. Brill via Associated Press Thursday, April 13, 2006 Fossil hunters scouring Ethiopia's harsh and rocky Afar desert have uncovered fresh evidence linking our human ancestors of 3.5 million years ago with more primitive apelike forebears who lived a million years earlier and had not yet emerged from woodland habitats. The scattering of fossil teeth and bones "represent unambiguous evidence for human ...
Russia's Top Space Company Sets Ambitious Moon Program Including Permanent Moon Base, Mission To Mars
Post Date: 2006-04-11 20:07:02 by Brian S
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7MOSCOW - Russia's leading space company on Tuesday laid out an ambitious plan to send manned missions to the moon by 2015, build a permanent base to tap its energy resources and dispatch a crew to Mars between 2020 and 2030. The vision presented by Nikolai Sevastyanov, the head of state-controlled RKK Energiya, relies on attracting private investment. But the company's lack of government support calls its feasibility into question. "We believe that we can fly a manned mission landing on the moon before 2015 funded by sources outside the state budget," Sevastyanov said at a news conference. Russian government officials have spoken vaguely in support of future moon and Mars ...
Fuel to Freedom
Post Date: 2006-04-11 11:25:53 by Lod
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Diesel owners might want to check this one out - used vegetable oil conversion systems.
Regrow Your Own (Limb Regeneration)
Post Date: 2006-04-11 10:58:53 by ...
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Stem cell therapy has long captured the limelight as a way to the goal of regenerative medicine, that of repairing the body with its own natural systems. But a few scientists, working in a relatively obscure field, believe another path to regenerative medicine may be as likely to succeed. The less illustrious approach is promising, in their view, because it is the solution that nature itself has developed for repairing damaged limbs or organs in a wide variety of animals. Many species, notably amphibians and certain fish, can regenerate a wide variety of their body parts. The salamander can regenerate its limbs, its tail, its upper and lower jaws, the lens and the retina of its eye, and ...
U.S. will fail to create new spaceship by 2010 to replace shuttle - NASA
Post Date: 2006-04-09 12:52:28 by Brian S
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KOROLYOV. April 9 (c-AVN) - NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said Sunday the U.S. will likely fail to create a new spaceship by 2010 when the space shuttle program is closed. Griffin told a news conference at Mission Control at Korloyov, following the return of Expedition 12 from the International Space Station that, NASA, of course, will not be able to meet the 2010 deadline, and more time will pass from 2010 to the end of the work to develop a new spaceship. The U.S. will rely on Russian and other foreign colleagues to have access to the ISS in this time span, he said. Griffin also announced that the U.S. is working on a piloted research spaceship to replace space shuttles. The new ...
Outsourcing US Missile Technology to China
Post Date: 2006-04-08 06:55:21 by Zoroaster
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Weekend Edition April 7 - 9, 2006 Outsourcing US Missile Technology to China The Saga of Magnequench By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Magnequench is an Indianapolis-based company. It specializes in the obscure field of sintered magnetics. Essentially, it makes tiny, high-tech magnets from rare-earth minerals ground down into a fine powder. The magnets are highly prized by electronics and aviation companies. But Magnequench's biggest client has been the Pentagon. The neodymium-iron-boron magnets made by Magnequench are a crucial component in the guidance system of cruise missiles and the Joint Direct Attack Munition or JDAM bomb, which is made by Boeing and had a starring role in the spring ...
Google aims to track users with wi-fi
Post Date: 2006-04-07 09:44:55 by Zipporah
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Updated: 8:43 p.m. ET April 6, 2006 Google aims to be able to track its users to within 100-200 feet of their location through new wireless networks in order to serve them with relevant advertising from local businesses. The leading internet search company, which depends on advertising for 99 per cent of its revenues, was selected on Wednesday by San Francisco as its preferred bidder to provide a basic free wi-fi internet service covering the entire city. It had partnered in its bid with the internet service provider Earthlink, which intends to charge a fee for a faster internet connection. Google and Earthlink will now enter final contract negotiations with the city. There were five ...
Einstein and his deadly error about E = mc2
Post Date: 2006-04-05 21:46:19 by Zipporah
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03.04.2006 There is a tiny little thing. You can't see it with your eyes only. And then, all of a sudden, there is a "BIG BANG" - and out of the nowhere, out of nothing, comes the whole universe, billions of suns, millions of galaxies, the whole space of about 16 million light-years, apparently representing our eternity of space and time. And all good-hearted scientists of our Earth start their useless struggle for logical reasoning. It is that simple. Out of God's pet has come our World as it is and everybody believes in his stupidity that THIS is reality. In fact, out false reasoning comes from superficial brains, all our philosophers of the last 2000 years, who have put the ...
Guild Structure and Community Organization
Post Date: 2006-04-05 08:18:05 by Tauzero
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Guild Structure and Community Organization Guilds To what extent are species overdispersed in niche/resource space? Do clusters of functionally similar species exist? Root (1967) coined the term "guild" to describe groups of functionally similar species in a community, such as foliage-gleaning insectivorous birds. In competitive communities, guilds would represent arenas with the potential for intense interspecific competition, with strong interactions within guilds but weaker interactions with the remainder of their community. Techniques for objectively defining a guild remain in their infancy, although the "single-linkage" criterion of cluster analysis allows a guild ...
Meeting Doctor Doom
Post Date: 2006-04-04 00:08:32 by Tauzero
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Meeting Doctor Doom Forrest M. Mims III Copyright 2006 by Forrest M. Mims III. There is always something special about science meetings. The 109th meeting of the Texas Academy of Science at Lamar University in Beaumont on 3-5 March 2006 was especially exciting for me, because a student and his professor presented the results of a DNA study I suggested to them last year. How fulfilling to see the baldcypress ( Taxodium distichum ) leaves we collected last summer and my tree ring photographs transformed into a first class scientific presentation that's nearly ready to submit to a scientific journal (Brian Iken and Dr. Deanna McCullough, "Bald Cypress of the Texas Hill Country: ...
Top Scientist Advocates Mass Culling 90% Of Human Population
Post Date: 2006-04-03 23:21:28 by robin
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Top Scientist Advocates Mass Culling 90% Of Human PopulationFellow professors and scientists applause and roar approval at elite's twisted and genocidal population control agendaPaul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet.com | April 3 2006A top scientist gave a speech to the Texas Academy of Science last month in which he advocated the need to exterminate 90% of the population through the airborne ebola virus. Dr. Eric R. Pianka's chilling comments, and their enthusiastic reception again underscore the elite's agenda to enact horrifying measures of population control.Pianka's speech was ordered to be kept off the record before it began as cameras were turned away and hundreds of ...
What's eating Microsoft?
Post Date: 2006-03-29 22:20:29 by robin
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What's eating Microsoft? Delays to the release of its Windows Vista and more structural changes hint at a general malaise afflicting the computer giant, report Jack Schofield and Charles Arthur Thursday March 30, 2006 The Guardian Microsoft has delayed the release of Windows Vista by up to eight weeks - and become the Grinch that stole the PC industry's Christmas. Vista, the next version of Windows, will still be delivered to corporate users this year. But, as the company put it in a masterfully spun press release last week, after consulting with PC manufacturers and retailers, "broad consumer availability" will be delayed until January 2007. In other words, too late for PC ...
Russian Soyuz Rocket Lifts Off, Carrying U.S.-Russian-Brazilian Crew To Space Station
Post Date: 2006-03-29 22:09:40 by Brian S
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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — A Russian Soyuz rocket streaked into the skies over the Central Asian steppe on Thursday, launching a U.S.-Russian-Brazilian crew on a mission to the international space station. Russian Pavel Vinogradov and American Jeffrey Williams were to stay on board the station for about six months. Brazil's first man in space, Marcos C. Pontes, will stay at the station for nine days before returning to Earth on April 9 with the station's current crew of Russian Valery Tokarev and American Bill McArthur. Pontes promised today to make his country proud with its first space flight, and pledged to take both a flag and a soccer jersey into orbit in hopes it would bring his ...
Next Big Quake? Maybe East of Bay Area
Post Date: 2006-03-27 12:48:37 by Brian S
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(03-27) 06:56 PST Hayward, Calif. (AP) -- New cracks appear in Elke DeMuynck's ceiling every few weeks, zigzagging across her living room, creeping toward the fireplace, veering down the wall. Month after month, year after year, she patches, paints and waits. "It definitely lets you know your house is constantly shifting," DeMuynck said. So do the gate outside that swings uselessly 2 1/2 inches from its latch, the strange bulges in the street and the geology students who make pilgrimages to her cul-de-sac. DeMuynck could throw her paint brush from her front stoop and hit the Hayward Fault, which geologists consider the most dangerous in the San Francisco Bay Area, if not the ...
Drilling into a hot volcano (Iceland)
Post Date: 2006-03-26 11:03:42 by robin
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Drilling into a hot volcano By Martin Redfern BBC Radio science unit Land of steam: Iceland sits atop the Atlantic's mid-ocean ridge systemGeologists in Iceland are drilling directly into the heart of a hot volcano. Their $20m project hopes to reveal more about the nature of mid-ocean ridges where new ocean floor is created. Such boreholes could ultimately yield 10 times as much geothermal power as any previous project. Twenty years ago, geologist Gudmundur Omar Friedleifsson had a surprise when he lowered a thermometer down a borehole. "We melted the thermometer," he recalls. "It was set for 380C; but it just melted. The temperature could have been 400 or even 50 ...
Skull find could be missing link
Post Date: 2006-03-24 21:22:34 by buckeroo
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A HOMINID skull discovered in Ethiopia could fill the gap in the search for the origins of the human race, a scientist said overnight. The cranium found near the city of Gawis, 500 km south-east of the capital Addis Ababa, is estimated to be 200,000 to 500,000 years old. The skull appeared "to be intermediate between the earlier Homo erectus and the later Homo sapiens", Sileshi Semaw, an Ethiopian research scientist at the Stone Age Institute at Indiana University, said in Addis Ababa. It was discovered two months ago in a small gully at the Gawis river drainage basin in Ethiopia's Afar region, south-east of the capital. Mr Sileshi said significant archaeological collections ...
Teen-repellent shop siren silenced by human rights fears
Post Date: 2006-03-24 19:59:11 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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A high-tech alarm audible only to youngsters which has dramatically cut loutish behaviour outside a British shop must be switched off over fears it infringes human rights, police said. The Mosquito emits an irritating high-pitched pulse that most people aged under 20 can hear but almost nobody over 30 can. The Spar grocery shop on Caerlon Road in Newport, south Wales said anti-social behaviour had plunged by 84 percent outside the premises since it was installed earlier this year. However, human rights concerns have swatted The Mosquito -- and stung the shop's furious managers in the process. "It's absolutely disgusting," a spokesman for the shop said. "These louts can ...
Whatever happened with the WTC HARD-DRIVE recoveries?
Post Date: 2006-03-24 03:46:26 by valis
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December 16, 2001PIRMASENS, Germany (Reuters) – German computer experts are working round the clock to unlock the truth behind an unexplained surge in financial transactions made just before two hijacked planes crashed into New York’s World Trade Center on September 11. Were criminals responsible for the sharp rise in credit card transactions that moved through some computer systems at the WTC shortly before the planes hit the twin towers? Or was it coincidence that unusually large sums of money, perhaps more than $100 million, were rushed through the computers as the disaster unfolded? A world leader in retrieving data, German-based firm Convar is trying to answer those ...
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