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Latest Articles: Science/Tech
Coming to a sofa near you
Post Date: 2006-05-13 02:12:28 by robin
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Coming to a sofa near you Hundreds of tiny TV stations are springing up all the time. Can they succeed with just a handful of viewers? John Harris goes studio-hopping to find out. Saturday May 13, 2006 The Guardian At 1.30pm on Wednesday May 4, the outer frontiers of British television were populated, as ever, by a rum selection of people. On Magic, the music video channel that takes its nostalgic lead from the radio station of the same name, Duran Duran's 1984 hit Wild Boys was succeeded by A-Ha's Take On Me. The man doing the Lord's Work on God TV, meanwhile, was guiding his viewers through a handful of psalms and assuring them that "Christ and God's salvation is a personal ...
(yellow cake and depleted) Uranium’s Effect On DNA Established
Post Date: 2006-05-12 18:51:26 by Zipporah
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Uranium’s Effect On DNA Established The use of depleted uranium in munitions and weaponry is likely to come under intense scrutiny now that new research that found that uranium can bind to human DNA. The finding will likely have far-reaching implications for returned soldiers, civilians living in what were once war-zones and people who might live near uranium mines or processing facilities. Uranium - when manifested as a radioactive metal - has profound and debilitating effects on human DNA. These radioactive effects have been well understood for decades, but there has been considerable debate and little agreement concerning the possible health risks associated with low-grade uranium ...
Help - What the Heck's an RSS Feed? And do I need it?
Post Date: 2006-05-11 19:23:30 by Lod
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Thanks for any and all info on this thing that keeps popping up from time to time. Cheers.
AP reports 'gay brain' study incorrectly
Post Date: 2006-05-10 07:21:31 by A K A Stone
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A new and widely reported Swedish study that suggests that lesbians respond differently from heterosexual women when exposed to sex hormones has been seriously misinterpreted, one of the researchers says. The Associated Press story noted that a similar study was done last year on men, and that with the new female study, "the findings add weight to the idea that homosexuality has a physical basis and is not learned behavior." In response to an e-mail inquiry from Grove City College Professor of Psychology Dr. Warren Throckmortion, researcher Dr. Ivanka Savic of the Stockholm Brain Institute said of the AP interpretation of her work, "This is incorrect and not stated in the ...
Irish detect divine interference
Post Date: 2006-05-09 21:41:10 by robin
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Irish detect divine interference Ireland is an important route for trans-Atlantic flightsIreland's communications regulator has advised priests of a possible link between parish radio broadcasts and static on airline pilots' radios. ComReg spoke to priests in counties Kildare, Meath and Kilkenny about unlicensed broadcasting after being contacted by the aviation authority. But it promised new regulations this year to enable broadcasts to resume. A Roman Catholic spokesman said housebound people appreciated the chance to hear their local Mass. "People like the localness of a broadcast from their own church, on Sundays and during the week as well," Fr Micheal Murphy, ...
Famous WTC-7 damage pic a fake?
Post Date: 2006-05-08 13:41:51 by valis
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Photo expert claims WTC-7 damage pic is a fake (name withheld) Here is one of his/her analysis pics showing the "damage" to have blurred pixels or evidence of photoshopping... What is shown is a smooth gradation from dark to light, when you inspect the other portions of the photo, there is no uniform changes at all, infact there is "noise". This noise should be present in every portion of the photo. It is absent in those regions depicting residue on the sides of the building.
Forecasters predict another turbulent hurricane season in Atlantic
Post Date: 2006-05-07 20:55:10 by Brian S
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Sunday, May 07, 2006 FREDERICTON (CP) - In what could signal a frightening new fact of life in the age of global warming, Canadian and U.S. forecasters are warning that another major hurricane season is brewing in the Atlantic Ocean. The 2006 hurricane season officially opens on June 1, and already scientists are telling people living in eastern North America that numerous storms are predicted, with as many as five major hurricanes packing winds of 180 km/h or greater. "It's kind of comparable to what we were looking at last year at this time," says Bob Robichaud, a meteorologist with the Canadian Hurricane Centre in Dartmouth, N.S. "Last year we were looking at 12 to 15 ...
Effects of GHz radiation on the human nervous system: Recent developments in the technology of political control Analysis on Mind Control Electromagnetic Weapons
Post Date: 2006-05-06 20:36:31 by loner
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by Harlan E. Girard May 6, 2006 NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Coherent and Emergent Phenomena in Biomolecular Systems, University of Arizona - 1991-01-15 Paper presented by Harlan E. Girard, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Coherent and Emergent Phenomena in Biomolecular Systems, The University of Arizona, January 15-1991 Abstract The United States has developed communications equipment which can make the blind see, the deaf hear and the lame walk. It can relieve the terminally ill of all pain, without the use of any drugs. A man might retain the use of all his faculties up until the day of his death. This communications equipment depends on a new way of looking at the human ...
Man Witnesses Meteor Shower (El Paso)
Post Date: 2006-05-06 16:59:25 by robin
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POSTED: 6:52 pm MDT May 5, 2006 May 5, 2006 -- If you saw a bright light in the sky Thursday night, you're not alone. Astronomers said a large meteor shower crossed straight over El Paso just before 9:45 p.m. Thursday. One meteor was so large that it cast an orange glow against the mountain. "The animals were going wild, the horses were bucking and dogs were barking and howling and then, all of a sudden right above my house, there was a big bright light and then just 'Bang!' And it lit up the five acres that are around us, and then I covered my eyes like this because it was bright and when it got past I saw there was a tail and it just went 'Shhhh' toward the Hueco Mountains," ...
Rich Gallery of Deep-Sea Life Discovered in Bermuda Triangle
Post Date: 2006-05-04 19:27:30 by Zipporah
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Rich Gallery of Deep-Sea Life Discovered in Bermuda TriangleBy Robert Roy BrittLiveScience Managing Editorposted: 04 May 200611:01 am ET The quantity and diversity of tiny creatures found in a deep-sea survey in the Bermuda Triangle region of the Atlantic Ocean is amazing scientists.During a 20-day cruise last month, researchers used trawling nets and scuba divers to explore down to 3 miles beneath the ocean surface. Previous studies of small ocean creatures focused only on the top half-mile or so.Several of the animals—tiny zooplankton, shrimp-like things, little squid, bizarre worms and pulsing jellyfish—are featured in a new image gallery. SEE THE IMAGES Among more ...
Scientists Worry about Solar Superstorm
Post Date: 2006-05-04 00:22:07 by robin
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Scientists worry about solar superstorm Sun capable of unleashing geomagnetic blast that could cost tens of billionsBy Leonard DavidSenior space writerSpace.comUpdated: 12:04 p.m. ET May 2, 2006BOULDER, Colo. - Californians have long been bracing for the "big one" in terms of an earthquake. But the sun lobs flares that are the most violent events in the solar system. A large flare releases a million times more energy than the largest earthquake.The relative void between the sun and Earth is loaded with electrically charged particles, radiation, magnetic fields and electromagnetic energy. The effects of this space weather can range from damage to satellites to disruption of power ...
Invention: The riot slimer (Researchers Develop Gun That Slimes Protestors...)
Post Date: 2006-05-03 10:24:50 by Zipporah
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For over 30 years, Barry Fox has trawled through the world's weird and wonderful patent applications, uncovering the most exciting, bizarre or even terrifying new ideas. His column, Invention, is exclusively online. Scroll down for a roundup of previous Invention articles. Riot slimer Rioters could soon be in for a slippery surprise. Researchers at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, US, are working on a new non-lethal weapon that could quite literally bring them to their knees – by sliming them. The institute has developed a super-slimy substance. When fired at an unruly mob it causes rioters to simply slip over. Riot police or troops would ...
Cash card taps virtual game funds
Post Date: 2006-05-02 22:48:48 by robin
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Cash card taps virtual game funds The virtual space station will be transformed into a nightclubA real world cash card that allows gamers to spend money earned in a virtual universe has been launched. Gamers can use the card at cash machines around the world to convert virtual dollars into real currency. The card is offered by the developers of Project Entropia, an online role-playing game that has a real world cash economy. Last year, a virtual space resort being built in the game was snapped up by a gamer for $100,000 (£56,200). The buyer, Jon Jacobs who plays in the game as a character called Nerverdie, is developing the space station into a virtual night club through which ...
Multiracial youth more likely to engage in violent behavior, substance abuse
Post Date: 2006-05-02 00:18:10 by Tauzero
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Multiracial youth more likely to engage in violent behavior, substance abuse Multiracial adolescents in middle school are significantly more likely to engage in such problem behaviors as violence and substance use than single-race young people, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Chicago also found that perceived racial discrimination in school and in home neighborhoods puts adolescents at risk for these problems. However, the study suggests that a strong, positive ethnic identity can shield some multiracial youth from behavior problems. The study was published in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. Among the findings, the ...
Your computer is not secure
Post Date: 2006-05-01 03:50:21 by ChareltonHest
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Your computer is not secure A man in a Connecticut prison found that out the hard way: he says the FBI convinced Hewlett-Packard to let them into his hard drive through a secret doorway. by Meir Rinde - April 27, 2006 When agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms arrested convicted felon Michael Crooker on a charge of illegally shipping a firearm across state lines, they searched his apartment in the Feeding Hills neighborhood of Agawam, Mass. and found substances that gave them pause. They called in military and civilian hazardous material units, and a bomb squad, and police closed off all areas within 1,000 feet. A story spread that investigators found the ...
Google complaining that Microsoft plans to steal traffic and advertisers
Post Date: 2006-04-30 22:28:26 by Zipporah
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RAW STORY Published: Sunday April 30, 2006 Google has complained to the Justice Department and European Commission that Microsoft's new search engine plan will let them steal traffic and advertisers, according to a front page story set for Monday's New York Times, RAW STORY has found. Excerpts from the article written by Steve Lohr: # With a $10 billion advertising market at stake, Google, the fast-rising Internet star, is raising objections to the way that it says Microsoft, the incumbent powerhouse of computing, is wielding control over Internet searching in its new Web browser. Google, which only recently began beefing up its lobbying efforts in Washington, says it expressed its ...
Amazing Wrightspeed EV (auto)
Post Date: 2006-04-30 14:15:20 by Lod
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Mexico set to join space race
Post Date: 2006-04-30 09:09:04 by Zipporah
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Mexico set to join space race By Chris Williams Published Friday 28th April 2006 10:56 GMT Mexican lawmakers are in the process of setting up a national space agency, according to Reuters. The lower house in Mexico City has given the green light to a proposal that could see rocketry in development within the year. The politicians aren't under any illusions that they'll be able to rival NASA's spend which, at about $1.6bn, is getting on for the GDP of Mongolia. A Mexican science and technology commission spokesman said: "We'd love it to become the Mexican NASA, but obviously the levels of investment are incomparable. It's very distant, perhaps not in the vision but in ...
Piracy worse than child pornography
Post Date: 2006-04-26 15:12:49 by The 7th MJS2U2
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THE NEW look Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) seems to be giving the world an unusual moral code. Details of the upgraded act, which has the blessing of the music and film industry and the Bush administration, are now coming to light. It appears that the DMCA will have a maximum sentence of ten years inside for the crime of software and music piracy. It will also give the FBI the powers to wiretap suspected pirates. Although sentencing varies in the US, the new law does send a very strange message as to what the government considers 'bad' in the 21st century. For example assaulting a police officer will get you five years, downloading child porn will get you seven years, assaulting ...
The Doors Of Perception: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything
Post Date: 2006-04-25 21:11:46 by gengis gandhi
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Rense The Doors Of Perception: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything By Tim O'Shea http://www.thedoctorwithin.com 8-18-1 Aldous Huxley's inspired 1956 essay detailed the vivid, mind-expanding, multisensory insights of his mescaline adventures. By altering his brain chemistry with natural psychotropics, Huxley tapped into a rich and fluid world of shimmering, indescribable beauty and power. With his neurosensory input thus triggered, Huxley was able to enter that parallel universe described by every mystic and space captain in recorded history. Whether by hallucination or epiphany, Huxley sought to remove all controls, all filters, all cultural conditioning from his perceptions and ...
Autopsy: No Arabs on Flight 77/Part 1&2
Post Date: 2006-04-25 17:25:15 by Kamala
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Autopsy: No Arabs on Flight 77 By Thomas R. Olmsted, M.D Now Updated: No Arabs on Flight 77: Part II -The Passengers I am an ex Naval line officer and a psychiatrist in private practice in New Orleans, a Christian and homeschool dad. It troubled me a great deal that we rushed off to war on the flimsiest of evidence. I considered various ways to provide a smoking gun of who and why Sept 11th happened. Astute observers noticed right away that there were no Arabic sounding names on any of the flight manifests of the planes that "crashed" on that day. FOIA Cover Page Click on Image for Full Size Graphic A list of names on a piece of paper is not evidence, but an autopsy by a ...
World's Smallest Linux System on View
Post Date: 2006-04-24 19:35:54 by Tauzero
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World's Smallest Linux System on ViewThe Picotux Slightly Larger Than an RJ45 Connector By: Enterprise Open Source News Desk Apr. 23, 2006 04:15 PM The Picotux 100 Module is being touted as the world's smallest linux computer, coming in at about the size of an RJ45 connector. Its manufacturer, Kleinhenz Elektronik, says it's equipped with a processor cranking along at 55 megahertz. Its specs, provided by the maufacturer, are as follows: Processor: 32-bit ARM 7 Netsilicon NS7520 Processor Clock: 55 MHz Flash Memory: 2 MB RAM: 8 MB SDRAM Ethernet: 10/100 Mbit, HD and FD, auto sensing Serial (TTL): Up to 230.400 bps General Input/Output Pins(TTL) 5, can be used as Handshake LED for ...
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 ...
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