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Lots of Lightning in 2005 Hurricanes Baffles Scientists Post Date: 2006-01-10 18:16:50 by Eoghan
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The boom of thunder and crackle of lightning generally mean one thing: a storm is coming. Curiously, though, the biggest storms of all, hurricanes, are notoriously lacking in lightning. Hurricanes blow, they rain, they flood, but seldom do they crackle. Surprise: During the record-setting hurricane season of 2005 three of the most powerful stormsRita, Katrina, and Emilydid have lightning, lots of it. And researchers would like to know why. Richard Blakeslee of the Global Hydrology and Climate Center (GHCC) in Huntsville, Alabama, was one of a team of scientists who explored Hurricane Emily using NASA's ER-2 aircraft, a research version of the famous U-2 spy plane. Flying high ...
Chemical trail fallout continues, but the truth is out there Post Date: 2006-01-10 12:38:22 by Zipporah
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Well, the jig is up. A small group of alert citizens in a remote coastal California county has pulled the curtain from over our Federal Chemtrail Program (FCP). The FCP, which was intended for the good of the country, will now have to be dismantled. You can't imagine the anguish I and the thousands of other well-meaning government employees, who had to labor for so long and in such secrecy, feel over this. Though our only intent was to fight tooth decay by spreading fluoride into the atmosphere from our huge fleet of black-painted, high-flying jet airplanes, and perhaps to run a few, mostly harmless, tests of chemical-biological warfare agents (once again, for the good of the country), the ...
Meet JPEN: "The mother of all databases" Post Date: 2006-01-10 03:46:18 by valis
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A couple of days ago, I wrote a piece on American intelligence agencies, a brief run-down of all the different organizations and what role they played. In the course of doing the research for that story, I came across a unit I'd never heard of before, the DIA's Counterintelligence Field Activity (CFA), and their program the Joint Protection Enterprise Network (JPEN). When I went to the internet to do find more information about JPEN, I was surprised to see that Google had a total of only 293 hits, one of which was from my own blog. You know darn well that when Google doesn't return several thousand hits that you're dealing with something relatively unknown. Yet my investigation has ...
After 3 Billion Miles, Craft Returns Sunday Bearing Cosmic Dust Older Than the Sun Post Date: 2006-01-10 03:01:16 by robin
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In a blaze across the night sky, it should be a spectacular homecoming at the end of a very, very long journey. NASA via Associated Press In an image taken last January by the Stardust spacecraft, Wild 2 shows its pockmarked surface. Coming Home After covering 2.88 billion miles over seven years, the Stardust spacecraft is nearing home with its minute but precious cargo: samples of what are believed to be the oldest materials in the solar system.Tucked away in what looks like a giant fly swatter of a collector is dust swooped up from a close encounter with the comet Wild 2 and an accumulation of particles picked up in three circuits of the Sun."This has been a fantastic opportunity to ...
SCIENTIST'S EMBRYO CLONING FAKED Post Date: 2006-01-09 23:49:36 by rowdee
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South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk's and his team's pioneering papers on cloning human embryos and stem cells were faked, a university panel says. Experts from Seoul National University said no data supported the claims. The panel, which last month rejected other stem cell research by Dr Hwang, has accepted he had created the world's first cloned dog. Dr Hwang admitted errors, but says his work was sabotaged. State prosecutors are now expected to look into the case. The BBC correspondent in Seoul says the conclusion of the university's investigation completes the disgrace of Dr Hwang, who was South Korea's most celebrated scientist. No proof Dr Hwang claimed in a paper published in ...
FSU researcher's "buckypaper" is stronger than steel at a fraction of the weight Post Date: 2006-01-09 00:17:11 by Red Jones
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FSU News FSU researcher's "buckypaper" is stronger than steel at a fraction of the weight by Barry Ray Working with a material 10 times lighter than steelbut 250 times strongerwould be a dream come true for any engineer. If this material also had amazing properties that made it highly conductive of heat and electricity, it would start to sound like something out of a science fiction novel. Yet one Florida State University research group, the Florida Advanced Center for Composite Technologies (FAC2T), is working to develop real-world applications for just such a material. Dr. Ben WangBen Wang, a professor of industrial engineering at the Florida A&M ...
Arkansas sees spurt of interest in natural gas exploration Post Date: 2006-01-08 20:52:30 by DeaconBenjamin
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LITTLE ROCK (AP) From north-central Arkansas to the Mississippi River, companies are investing hundreds of millions of dollars to drill wells. They are looking for natural gas, and dozens of new wells already are producing it. The target of all the drilling is a geologic formation called Fayetteville Shale. The formation, a fine-grained rock that splits easily, is about 300 million years old. Until recently, shale wasn't viewed as a reservoir for gas production because it's so tightly packed. But companies have found a technology that fractures shale and releases the gas. That's started a rush on leasing mineral rights from Arkansas farmers and rural residents, and 20,000 wells ...
Coming Soon to TV Land: The Internet, Actually Post Date: 2006-01-07 08:42:25 by robin
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Coming Soon to TV Land: The Internet, Actually By JOHN MARKOFF LAS VEGAS, Jan. 6 - What would a world with television coming through the Internet be like? Instead of tuning into programs preset and determined by the broadcast network or cable or satellite TV provider, viewers would be able to search the Internet and choose from hundreds of thousands of programs sent to them from high-speed connections. At the International Consumer Electronics Show here this week, a future dominated by Internet Protocol TV, or IPTV, seemed possible, maybe even inevitable. Giants like Yahoo and Google turned their attentions to offering new Internet programming. Hardware companies like Intel introduced ...
Tech Show Has Eye on High-Def TVs, IPod Post Date: 2006-01-05 15:53:20 by robin
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From the Los Angeles TimesTech Show Has Eye on High-Def TVs, IPod By Terril Yue Jones and Dawn C. Chmielewski Times Staff Writers January 5, 2006 LAS VEGAS You can take it with you in high-def, no less. As technology companies big and small gather here today for the International Consumer Electronics Show, they're betting 2006 is the year average Americans tuck portable media players into their pockets and ensconce high-definition televisions in their living rooms. Then again, they hoped for pretty much the same thing last year. And the year before that. This time, though, the 130,000 collected geeks at the Las Vegas Convention Center might be right. Portable devices such as ...
Joining the dots (Bill Gates) Post Date: 2006-01-05 10:04:38 by robin
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Joining the dotsBobbie Johnson hears Bill Gates predict a 'connected future' Bobbie Johnson in Las VegasThursday January 5, 2006Imagine a world in which you pick the information you are interested in and it follows you everywhere - your home, your car, your phone or your office.To some, that may sound like science fiction, or about as likely as the eternally-heralded paperless office. But the Microsoft chairman, Bill Gates, said he believed it could be achievable within three or four years when he outlined his vision of a "connected future" at this week's annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.Mr Gates, who became the world's richest man on the back of the personal ...
Bethell vs. Darwin Post Date: 2005-12-27 09:36:14 by Phaedrus
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We are now battered by so many confusing political issues traveling under the name of science having to do with global warming, nuclear power, AIDS, stem-cell research, cloning, endangered species, and the teaching of evolution in public schools that the layman may be tempted to shrug it all off and leave such matters to the experts. Well, dont. Just grab a copy of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science (Regnery) and enjoy a good read. And some good laughs. The author is my old friend Tom Bethell, a masterly writer who lights up daunting questions with simple explanations, apt analogies, startling facts, and often hilarious understatements. His book is ...
New Year's Day 2006: delayed by a second Post Date: 2005-12-27 01:41:51 by robin
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Get ready for a minute with 61 seconds. Scientists are delaying the start of 2006 by the first "leap second" in seven years, a timing tweak meant to make up for changes in the Earth's rotation. The adjustment will be carried out by sticking an extra second into atomic clocks worldwide at the stroke of midnight Coordinated Universal Time, the widely adopted international standard, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology said this week. "Enjoy New Year's Eve a second longer," the institute said in an explanatory notice. "You can toot your horn an extra second this year." Coordinated Universal Time coincides with winter ...
AMERICA - WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE? Post Date: 2005-12-26 15:05:35 by SKYDRIFTER
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Was Gibst in Amerika? Next Generation Nazism! What should anyone make of the current American politics? Its not insanity, its nefarious and profitable methodology! Just follow the money; there are no accidents, that money is too tightly controlled by the Office of Management and Budget. Amazingly, few can distinguish between pure rationalization and logical (rational) reasoning. One is uniquely self-serving, the other is admirable nobility (Old America). The conditioning of the mass media has numbed American minds. The current truth is well documented - and hiding in plain sight. PNAC, NSS, Patriot Act, or the Hart Rudman Report ...
A simple way to see if someone is snooping your e-mail Post Date: 2005-12-25 14:03:38 by valis
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With all of the controversy about the news that the NSA has been monitoring, since 9/11, telephone calls and email messages of Americans, some folks might now be wondering if they are being snooped on. Here's a quick and easy method to see if one's email messages are being read by someone else. The steps are: Set up a Hotmail account. Set up a second email account with a non-U.S. provider. (eg. http://Rediffmail.com)Send messages between the two accounts which might be interesting to the NSA. In each message, include a unique URL to a Web server that you have access to its server logs. This URL should only be known by you and not linked to from any other Web page. The text of the message ...
Scientists resurrecting use of silver as antiseptic Post Date: 2005-12-22 14:54:08 by Eoghan
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Silver, one of humankind's first weapons against bacteria, is receiving new respect for its antiseptic powers thanks to the growing ability of researchers to tinker with its molecular structure. Doctors prescribed silver to fight infections at least as far back as the days of ancient Greece and Egypt. Their knowledge was absorbed by Rome, where historians like Pliny the Elder reported that silver plasters caused wounds to close rapidly. More recently, in 1884, a German doctor named C.S.F. Crede demonstrated that putting a few drops of silver nitrate into the eyes of babies born to women with venereal disease virtually eliminated the high rates of blindness among such infants. But silver's ...
Passion of the Spaghetti Monster Post Date: 2005-12-22 09:42:53 by Indrid Cold
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Bobby Henderson is holed up in the boonies -- Corvallis, Oregon -- hard at work on his next entry into the fray over just what students should learn about the origin of species. When the Kansas Board of Education proposed balancing evolution instruction by teaching intelligent design, said to be a scientific theory that supports an "intelligent creator" of all life, the decision outraged many, including 38 Nobel laureates (.pdf). Henderson responded with a satirical letter to the Kansas board demanding equal time for a different, "equally scientific" theory of intelligent design, in which a Flying Spaghetti Monster created the world. The Church of the Flying Spaghetti ...
Partial Ingredients for DNA and Protein Found Around Star (gee, no kidding....who knew??-CALTECH STUDY Post Date: 2005-12-21 09:34:32 by gengis gandhi
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space is STERILE, and only life can exist on earth, right my well programmed friends? ah, well, there goes THAT cornerstone of your belief system. good thing they're cluing you in slowly...it can get a little painful when you realize your identity is built on an assumed set of lies, never checked. but, then again, you're your own person, and no one can tell you what to do...right? better check with the experts on that one, first, eh? gengis right, again. have a nice solstice, Mooooooooo! http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2005-26/release.shtml Partial Ingredients for DNA and Protein Found Around Star For Release: December 20, 2005 NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope ...
Distinguished University of Minnesota Philosophy Professor Joins 9/11 Fight, Saying the Truth Must Be Uncovered Post Date: 2005-12-20 22:38:31 by tom007
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Distinguished University of Minnesota Philosophy Professor Joins 9/11 Fight, Saying the Truth Must Be Uncovered James H.Fetzer, PhD., has publicly thrown his hat in the ring to support other professors seriously questioning and casting doubt on the official 9/11 story. 16 Dec 2005 By Greg Szymanski A University of Minnesota philosophy professor, like an unexpected Christmas snowstorm, has dropped a large bundle of holiday cheer on the 9/11 truth movement, as this week he has thrown his hat into the ring with others seeking the truth. I stand with Steve Jones, professor of physics at BYU and David Ray Griffin, professor emeritus of Theology at Claremont and other students and ...
Who here has a cell phone and is being tracked by Government satillites? [Full Thread] Post Date: 2005-12-19 16:40:41 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Better yet, who is NOT?
Gene Mutation Behind Light Skin Post Date: 2005-12-18 11:00:56 by christine
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Scientists said yesterday that they have discovered a tiny genetic mutation that largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of thousands of years ago, a finding that helps solve one of biology's most enduring mysteries and illuminates one of humanity's greatest sources of strife. The work suggests that the skin-whitening mutation occurred by chance in a single individual after the first human exodus from Africa, when all people were brown-skinned. That person's offspring apparently thrived as humans moved northward into what is now Europe, helping to give rise to the lightest of the world's races. Leaders of the study, at Penn State University, warned against ...
The story of Schroedinger's cat (an epic poem) Post Date: 2005-12-17 20:37:08 by Indrid Cold
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Dear Cecil: Cecil, you're my final hope Of finding out the true Straight Dope For I have been reading of Schroedinger's cat But none of my cats are at all like that. This unusual animal (so it is said) Is simultaneously live and dead! What I don't understand is just why he Can't be one or other, unquestionably. My future now hangs in between eigenstates. In one I'm enlightened, the other I ain't. If you understand, Cecil, then show me the way And rescue my psyche from quantum decay. But if this queer thing has perplexed even you, Then I will and won't see you in Schroedinger's zoo. --Randy F., Chicago Dear Randy: Schroedinger, Erwin! Professor of physics! Wrote daring ...
Scientists Find A DNA Change That Accounts For White Skin Post Date: 2005-12-17 07:36:21 by robin
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Scientists Find A DNA Change That Accounts For White SkinBy Rick WeissWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, December 16, 2005; A01Scientists said yesterday that they have discovered a tiny genetic mutation that largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of thousands of years ago, a finding that helps solve one of biology's most enduring mysteries and illuminates one of humanity's greatest sources of strife.The work suggests that the skin-whitening mutation occurred by chance in a single individual after the first human exodus from Africa, when all people were brown-skinned. That person's offspring apparently thrived as humans moved northward into what is now Europe, ...
Xbox 360 reaches out to mobiles Post Date: 2005-12-16 22:30:15 by robin
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Xbox 360 reaches out to mobiles By Alfred Hermida Technology editor, BBC News website Xbox 360 tracks your performance as a gamer Gamers could soon be able to receive alerts on their mobile phones when their friends are playing on Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console. The software giant is working on a system which would let players on its online gaming service, Xbox Live, send instant messages to a friend's mobile. Microsoft UK mobility business manager Jason Langridge told the BBC the system should be live within six months. It is part of Microsoft's strategy to connect its various online services. 'Very near' In an interview with the BBC News website, Mr Langridge explained ...
Google Adds Music Search Post Date: 2005-12-16 21:36:46 by robin
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Search giant Google, has added a music search feature to its web search to put users in touch with a wide range of music information including artists, albums, song titles, links to music reviews and places to purchase music. This feature is similar to the links at the top of Google results, that they provided in the past for movies and weather. When analyzing their traffic, Google found that a huge number of users conduct music-related searches. To better meet this need, they developed this feature to put users in touch with the information they're looking for faster, and with a user interface specifically designed for music. When a user enters the name of an artist popular in the US ...
Visto sues Microsoft for patent infringement Post Date: 2005-12-16 21:29:51 by robin
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Visto sues Microsoft for patent infringement Mobile technology company Visto Corporation has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft for alleged misuse of Visto's mobile e-mail technology. The complaint claims that Microsoft has infringed on three patents that Visto holds regarding proprietary technology which enables users to access e-mail and other data from their mobile devices. Visto says that it developed and patented the mobile e-mail access system nearly ten years ago. The company claims that Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0 is a blatant infringement on this patented technology. In the lawsuit, Visto seeks a permanent injunction that would prohibit Microsoft from ...
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