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Scholars for 911 Truth seek feedback on audio analysis
Post Date: 2006-06-03 11:49:43 by valis
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If anyone here has experience with audio analyis, S911T is seeking feedback on this analysis that was recently located: http://www.mediumrecords.com/wtc/audio00.html Please post comments here or kindly drop us a line here: email@st911.org Thanks for your time, Wade Aaron Inganamort (valis)
Shaping of Hooks in New Caledonian Crows
Post Date: 2006-06-03 00:15:55 by Axenolith
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Crows always have struck me as quite the intelligent and sociable creatures. I've had some fairly bizarre observations and interactions with them. This video rocks as far as it goes for critter ingenuity. You need QuickTime for it... Shaping of Hooks in New Caledonian Crows
Czech Scientists Brew Menopause Beer
Post Date: 2006-06-02 20:36:53 by Mind_Virus
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Czech Scientists Brew Menopause Beer By Chris Mercer 01/06/2006 - Czech scientists say they have created a new non-alcoholic beer that contains 10 times the normal amount of phytoestrogen, intended to help women suffering from the menopause. The beer, developed by the Czech Republic's Research Institute for Brewing and Malting, is intended to relieve menopausal symptoms and maintain bone density by tackling a lack of the oestrogen hormone in many Czech women. The development marks a sizeable breakthrough in the realm of functional beer, at a time when functional foods are becoming more popular in many markets. Oestrogen levels drop significantly in women at the onset of the menopause ...
Fig fossil clue to early farming
Post Date: 2006-06-01 23:08:12 by robin
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Fig fossil clue to early farming By Rebecca Morelle Science reporter, BBC News The figs are extremely well preservedFig fossils found in an archaeological site in the Jordan Valley may represent one of the earliest forms of agriculture, scientists report. The ancient fruits date between 11,200 and 11,400 years old. The US and Israeli scientists say the figs are a variety that could have only been grown with human intervention. The team, writing in the journal Science, says the find marks the point when humans turned from hunting and gathering to food cultivation. Random mutations Nine small figs, measuring just 18mm (0.7in) across, along with 313 smaller fig fragments were ...
Gore On Climate Skeptics: Some People Are Still Debating ‘Whether The Moon Landing Was Staged’
Post Date: 2006-06-01 11:07:47 by Mind_Virus
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Gore On Climate Skeptics: Some People Are Still Debating ‘Whether The Moon Landing Was Staged’ This morning on CBS’s Early Show, host Harry Smith asked Al Gore about “more conservative elements of the press” who say “there is a debate going on” about whether global warming exisits. Gore responded that “in some quarters there’s still a debate over whether the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona” and debates about whether global warming exists were “in that category.” Watch it: Gore is right. There is no debate among credible sceintists about whether global warming exists. Science magazine analyzed 928 peer-reviewed ...
Scientists: North Pole was hot hot hot
Post Date: 2006-06-01 10:30:45 by Ferret Mike
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Davie Baxter of the British Geological Survey recovers a core sample taken from the Arctic Ocean floor. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists have found what might have been the ideal ancient vacation hotspot with a 74-degree Fahrenheit (23-degree Celsius) average temperature, alligator ancestors and palm trees. It's smack in the middle of the Arctic. Core samples dug up from deep beneath the Arctic Ocean floor show that 55 million years ago an area near the North Pole was practically a subtropical paradise, three new studies show. The scientists say their findings are a glimpse backward into a much warmer-than-thought polar region heated by run-amok greenhouse gases that came about naturally. ...
Science's Tiny, Big Unknown (Nanotechnology may revolutionize our lives)
Post Date: 2006-06-01 10:09:14 by robin
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Science's Tiny, Big Unknown
Nanotechnology may revolutionize our lives. The first generation of engineered products has reached consumers, and with them come hard questions about safety.
By Charles Piller, Times Staff Writer
June 1, 2006
Magic Nano was billed as a miraculous solution for household drudgery, able to repel dirt and moisture from bathroom surfaces through the wonders of nanotechnology.
Instead, the spray-on ceramic sealant quickly has become an emblem of the growing global fears over incorporating artificial particles tens of thousands of times smaller than the width of a human hair into such everyday products as golf balls, sunscreen and clothing.
Three days ...
Satellite could open door on extra dimension
Post Date: 2006-06-01 01:26:27 by Pandora
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Bursts of high-energy gamma-rays from the deaths of massive stars may reveal whether the universe contains extra dimensions An exotic theory, which attempts to unify the laws of physics by proposing the existence of an extra fourth spatial dimension, could be tested using a satellite to be launched in 2007. Such theories are notoriously difficult to test. But a new study suggests that such hidden dimensions could give rise to thousands of mini-black holes within our own solar system – and the theory could be tested within Pluto’s orbit in just a few years. Black holes of various masses are thought to have sprung into existence within 1 second of the big bang, as elementary ...
What Alcohol Does to a Child
Post Date: 2006-06-01 01:09:03 by Pandora
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Alcohol and pregnancy don't mix. Â Fortunately, most women who drink cut their consumption dramatically once they realize they are carrying, and the number of children who develop the severest alcohol-related effects is relatively small: from 0.5 to 2.0 per 1,000 live births in the U.S. But doctors still don't know what harm--if any--comes from light to moderate drinking during pregnancy, which is why they caution expectant mothers not to drink at all. The wisdom of that advice grows with each new study on the topic, as a paper released last week reminds us. Just one drink a day (12 oz. of beer or 4 oz. of wine) during the first three months of pregnancy is associated with a 2-point ...
Some Big Ideas - Amazing Inventions
Post Date: 2006-06-01 00:53:55 by Pandora
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Scientists and researchers are always looking for new ways to fight disease, to make complex tasks easier, to make life better. A sampling of inventions in progress. 'Rewiring' The Brain Sawing open someone's skull for research purposes is a no-no, but brain scientists have found the next best thing. By projecting an electrical charge through the skull, they can now flick neurons on and off without ever breaking the skin. The technique, known as transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, uses a $30,000 contraption to fire a powerful magnetic pulse into the cranium, creating an electric charge that activates brain cells. That's enough for some eye-catching parlor tricks: a zap above the ...
State Would Outlaw Mandatory Microchip Implants
Post Date: 2006-05-30 12:10:19 by Axenolith
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RFID microchips implanted in humans? Who would think of such a thing? Here are a few examples: VeriChip RFID Tag Patient Implant Badges Now FDA Approved U.S. Company Implants Chips in Workers RFID Tags Proposed to Halt Blackmarket Cadaver Trade You're not even safe from being 'chipped when you're dead. But you'll be safe in Wisconsin, if State Representative Marlin Schneider, D-Wisconsin Rapids, gets his bill passed. A proposal moving through the Wisconsin Legislature would prohibit anyone from requiring people to have the tiny RFID chips embedded in them or doing so without their knowledge. Violators would face fines of up to $10,000. Click for Full Text! Wow, someone is looking out ...
Germany's wind farms challenged
Post Date: 2006-05-29 17:22:53 by robin
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Germany's wind farms challenged By Tim Bowler BBC World Service business reporter, Alsleben, Germany Germany is the world's biggest user of wind power, and it has ambitious plans to build even more wind turbines. Germany has huge wind energy expansion plans It has decided that generating nuclear power is not the way forward, and it has decided eventually to close all the country's existing nuclear power stations. The country's great hope for is for a future of green energy, and in particular wind power. However, some observers are now questioning whether all the investment in wind power makes economic sense. Growing demands Alsleben is a small market town in eastern ...
Scientists Race To Create Bionic Arm : Federal Government Wants Better Prostheses For Wounded Soldiers
Post Date: 2006-05-29 09:59:50 by Mind_Virus
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Posted on Mon, May. 29, 2006 Scientists Race To Create Bionic Arm Federal Government Wants Better Prostheses For Wounded Soldiers By ROBERT S. BOYD Knight Ridder Newspapers Six Million Dollar Man WASHINGTON — At the Pentagon’s urgent request, scientists and engineers are rushing to create an artificial arm that works like a flesh-and-blood one for the growing number of soldiers losing their limbs in the Iraq war. “The goal is to develop an arm that moves like a real biological arm, feels like a real biological arm and looks like a real biological arm,” said Greg Clark, a bioengineer at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. If it works as hoped, the bionic ...
What is Swarm?
Post Date: 2006-05-28 15:43:34 by Zipporah
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What is Swarm?The Basics: Swarm shows you what websites people are visiting, right now. Swarm is a graphical map of hundreds of websites, all connecting to each other. It updates itself every second with where people are going and coming from. As sites become more popular, they move towards the center of the swarm and grow larger. Conversely, sites that lose traffic move away from the center and grow smaller. Website traffic is symbolized with thin lines. Each time you see a line appear, it means someone has moved from one site to the other. You can gauge how many people are swarming around based on the number of lines. Why use this? Swarm is a useful tool for browsing the web, not ...
Hydrogen Fuel Balls Pump Like Gasoline
Post Date: 2006-05-28 02:23:47 by Pandora
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Hydrogen is often promoted as an ideal clean fuel for cars. But the explosive stuff is also darned dangerous to transport and store. So the US government’s Department of Energy has been looking for ways to make it as safe and easy to pump as gasoline. The solution, according to one of its latest patent applications, could be to store it in tiny glass balls. The proposed glass microspheres would each be a few millionths of a metre (microns) wide with a hollow centre containing specks of palladium. The walls of each sphere would also have pores just a few ten-billionths of a metre in diameter. Placing the microspheres in a tank filled with hydrogen gas under pressure should cause ...
Transparent Toaster
Post Date: 2006-05-28 02:06:51 by Pandora
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Transparent Toaster This transparent toaster allows you to see the bread while it is toasting so you never surprised by toast that comes out too dark. This idea is based on the transparent heating glass featured in this issue. Although the glass does not currently get hot enough to toast bread, some day this application may be possible. The concept was developed by the Inventables Concept Studio.
Video Game Urinal
Post Date: 2006-05-28 02:01:39 by Pandora
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On Target - Mar 21 2006 Recessed into a urinal is a pressure-sensitive display screen. When the guest uses it, he triggers an interactive game, producing images and sound. The reduced size of the “target” improves restroom hygiene and saves on cleanings costs (like the “fly in the urinal” at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport). It also makes a trip to the urinal “fun and games” – more than just a necessary nuisance. By projecting the game experience into the public space, viewers are treated to a new way of visualizing the abstract, and the entertainment value is boosted. The projection of the project into a museum space was conceived of as a critical-ironic ...
The viral video online revolution (You Tube)
Post Date: 2006-05-27 22:09:08 by robin
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The viral video online revolution By Ian Hardy Click's North America technology correspondent Youtube is just one of a growing number of video sitesWithin 15 months, Youtube.com has become one of the internet's most watched websites, with 25 million hits a day. More than 40 million original clips and TV segments have been uploaded by visitors. It is entertaining, addictive and viral. Many more video sites popping up, some even offering cash for contributions. "From the get-go we've been big believers in the democratisation of original user-created content", says Keith Richman from video site Break.com. "When we began the company we recognised that a new era was ...
Apple Loses Bid to Unmask Bloggers' Sources
Post Date: 2006-05-27 14:37:44 by robin
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by Ryan Singel and Kevin PoulsenFriday, 26 May 2006 Apple Loses Bid to Unmask Bloggers' Sources A California appeals court has smacked down Apple's legal assault on bloggers and their sources, finding that the company's efforts to subpoena e-mail received by the publishers of Apple Insider and http://PowerPage.org runs contrary to federal law, California's reporter's shield law, and the state Constitution. The Sixth District Court of Appeals on Friday roundly rejected (.pdf) Apple's argument that the bloggers weren't acting as journalists when they posted internal document about future Apple products. "We decline the implicit invitation to embroil ourselves in questions of what ...
HIV Origin Found: Negro Sex With Chimps Cause Jump To Humans [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-05-27 09:20:15 by Mind_Virus
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HIV Origin Found: Negro Sex With Chimps Cause Jump To Humans Posted by admin on: 2006-05-27 The origin of HIV has been found in wild chimpanzees living in southern Cameroon, researchers report. A virus called SIVcpz (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus from chimps) was thought to be the source, but had only been found in a few captive animals. Now, an international team of scientists has identified a natural reservoir of SIVcpz in animals living in the wild. The findings are to be published in Science magazine. It is thought that people hunting chimpanzees first contracted the virus - and that cases were first seen in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo - the nearest urban area - in ...
Want to be invisible? Theories see a possible way
Post Date: 2006-05-27 05:06:06 by RickyJ
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New materials that can change the way light and other forms of radiation bend around an object may provide a way to make objects invisible, researchers said on Thursday. Two separate teams of researchers have come up with theories on ways to use experimental "metamaterials" to cloak an object and hide it from visible light, infrared light, microwaves and perhaps even sonar probes. Their work suggests that science-fiction portrayals of invisibility, such as the cloaking devices used to hide space ships in Star Trek, might be truly possible. Harry Potter's cloak or The Invisible Man of films and fiction might be a bit harder to emulate, however, because the ...
All the pleasures of alcohol, with no downsides
Post Date: 2006-05-27 01:12:02 by Pandora
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CASUAL drinkers are unlikely to have raised their glass to the news last month that most people who suffer severe alcohol-induced liver disease are social drinkers not alcoholics. Nor to the finding that moderate drinking might not, after all, help prevent heart disease. There may, however, just be a solution to our drinking woes - one that will allow us to go to a bar and drink as much as we want; get merry, not legless; wake without a hangover; and never have to worry that one of our favourite pastimes may be killing us. It's a cocktail of drugs that mimics the pleasurable effects of alcohol without the downsides. The idea is only on the drawing board, but there is no scientific reason ...
Experts find evidence of Bosnia pyramid - Structure believed one-third taller than Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza
Post Date: 2006-05-27 01:01:10 by Pandora
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VISOKO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Researchers in Bosnia on Wednesday unearthed the first solid evidence that an ancient pyramid lies hidden beneath a massive hill — a series of geometrically cut stone slabs that could form part of the structure's sloping surface. Archaeologists and other experts began digging into the sides of the mysterious hill near the central Bosnian town of Visoko last week. On Wednesday, the digging revealed large stone blocks on one side that the leader of the team believes are the outer layer of the pyramid. "These are the first uncovered walls of the pyramid," said Semir Osmanagic, a Bosnian archaeologist who studied the pyramids of Latin America for ...
Chemtrail Sunscreen Taught In US Schools
Post Date: 2006-05-26 08:54:04 by gengis gandhi
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Chemtrail Sunscreen Taught In US Schools by William Thomas A is for Apple. B is for Boy. C is for Chemtrails. At least this is what one American father found while paging through his child's science book. SmT was astonished to find seventh graders being taught about chemtrails. And geoengineeering their home planet. Anyone with question about the "spray programs" he now says, "should perhaps just ask their kids." The chemtrails section is found in the Centre Point Learning Science I Essential Interactions science book. Under "Solutions for Global Warming", section 5.19 features a photo of a big multi-engine jet sporting a familiar orange/red paint scheme. ...
Scientists Grow Artificial Penis in Lab
Post Date: 2006-05-25 18:24:01 by christine
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It's now possible to replace a defective, damaged, or diseased penis with a penis grown in a laboratory -- in rabbits. But the finding promises an amazing new treatment for infants, boys, and men who suffer penis disfigurement. The replacement organ would be grown on a penis-shaped matrix seeded with cells from the patient's own body. Researcher Anthony Atala, MD, director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, reported the findings at this week’s annual meeting of the American Urological Association in Atlanta. "Our goal is eventually to treat infants and adults with birth defects, penis trauma, or penis cancer," Atala tells ...
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