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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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Mash the URL to learn more.
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 ...
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 ...
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