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Latest Articles: Science/Tech
Encroaching Seas Test Ingenuity of Lowlands
Post Date: 2005-12-11 05:58:01 by robin
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Encroaching Seas Test Ingenuity of LowlandsVenetians let the tide wash through their city while the Dutch strong-arm the ocean. Strategies for New Orleans can be seen in these watery battle fronts. By Robert Lee Hotz Times Staff Writer December 11, 2005 VENICE, Italy — The warning siren howls in the dark. As always, the flood arrives on the tide. Water slops over the rim of the city's canals, bubbles up through drains and, as the morning hours progress, surges into the ground-floor vestibules of palaces along the Grand Canal. It leaves stripes on sills, green and brown with a sticky scum of sewage. The wind-driven high water — acqua alta — is a staple of Venetian life, like ...
Earth's Magnetic Pole Drifting Quickly
Post Date: 2005-12-09 21:09:54 by A K A Stone
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SAN FRANCISCO - Earth's north magnetic pole is drifting away from North America and toward Siberia at such a clip that Alaska might lose its spectacular Northern Lights in the next 50 years, scientists said Thursday. Despite accelerated movement over the past century, the possibility that Earth's modestly fading magnetic field will collapse is remote. But the shift could mean Alaska may no longer see the sky lights known as auroras, which might then be more visible in more southerly areas of Siberia and Europe. The magnetic poles are part of the magnetic field generated by liquid iron in Earth's core and are different from the geographic poles, the surface points marking the axis of the ...
Bill May Renew U.S. Weather Control Efforts
Post Date: 2005-12-09 21:07:54 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — After a brutal year of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and droughts, lawmakers are looking for ways to beat Mother Nature. And while it's still a bit of a long shot, Uncle Sam could be called in to sponsor research to find ways to blast dangerous storms out of the sky or put rain clouds over parched land. "This is a fascinating subject to me, and the idea that we can actually impact weather is exciting, and I guess, frightening in some ways," Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said during a November hearing on a bill that could start up a federal weather modification research program. In a bill introduced this year by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, a new board of ...
Sunken treasure Scientists find evidence of ancient forest buried under the seabed of Nantucket Sound
Post Date: 2005-12-04 14:30:53 by A K A Stone
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Scientists mapping the seabed under a proposed wind farm in Nantucket Sound were stunned by their find: evidence of a submerged forest under 6 feet of mud. Article Tools * PRINTER FRIENDLYPrinter friendly * SINGLE PAGESingle page * E-MAILE-mail to a friend * RSS FEEDSMass. RSS feed * RSS FEEDSAvailable RSS feeds * MOST E-MAILEDMost e-mailed * REPRINTS/PERMISSIONSReprints/permissions More: * Globe City/Region stories | * Latest local news | * Globe front page | * http://Boston.com * Sign up for: Globe Headlines e-mail | * Breaking News Alerts It's hardly the lost city of Atlantis, but the piece of birch wood, the yellowish-green grass, soil, and insect parts appear to be part of a ...
A "mysterious" force is baffling scientists and making biological species evolve
Post Date: 2005-12-02 08:42:02 by gengis gandhi
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http://www.giulianaconforto.it/English/articles/Baffling_force.htm Giuliana Conforto "Only one Force, Love, links and makes infinite worlds alive" Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) A "mysterious" force is baffling scientists and making biological species evolve The Pioneer 10 and 11, launched more than 30 years ago, appear to be in the grip of a mysterious force that is holding them back as they sweep out of the solar system http://www.newsforthesoul.com/02feb/2-2-37.htm The strange behaviour of the Pioneers had been tracked using the giant dishes of Nasa's Deep Space Network. By the time the two spaceships had swept beyond Pluto, scientists noted there were persistent ...
Executive Wants to Charge for Web Speed
Post Date: 2005-12-02 07:47:34 by Red Jones
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Executive Wants to Charge for Web Speed Some Say Small Firms Could Be Shut Out of Market Championed by BellSouth Officer By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 1, 2005; D05 A senior telecommunications executive said yesterday that Internet service providers should be allowed to strike deals to give certain Web sites or services priority in reaching computer users, a controversial system that would significantly change how the Internet operates. William L. Smith, chief technology officer for Atlanta-based BellSouth Corp., told reporters and analysts that an Internet service provider such as his firm should be able, for example, to charge Yahoo Inc. for the ...
Fossil fuel' theory takes hit with NASA finding
Post Date: 2005-12-01 23:36:04 by A K A Stone
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NASA scientists are about to publish conclusive studies showing abundant methane of a non-biologic nature is found on Saturn's giant moon Titan, a finding that validates a new book's contention that oil is not a fossil fuel. "We have determined that Titan's methane is not of biologic origin," reports Hasso Niemann of the Goddard Space Flight Center, a principal NASA investigator responsible for the Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer aboard the Cassini-Huygens probe that landed on Titan Jan. 14. Niemann concludes the methane "must be replenished by geologic processes on Titan, perhaps venting from a supply in the interior that could have been trapped there as the moon ...
"You can't go home again"
Post Date: 2005-12-01 17:09:56 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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"You can't go home again" I see pieces of men marching, trying to take heaven by force I can see the unknown rider, I can see the pale white horse - Bob Dylan In 1983 Ingo Swann, a senior colleague of the CIA's remote viewing program at Stanford Research Institute and "Operating Thetan level VII", received a call at his home in New York City from a close friend, a US congressman. The caller asked if he could do a favour for a certain party in need of the services of someone with his skills. The friend was vague about the request, and may not even have known what he was asking, but told Swann the party could be trusted and he would be paid. Jim Schanbel, in Remote ...
Brainteaser: There's an airplane on the runway.. [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-12-01 01:10:02 by Jhoffa_
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Imagine a plane is sat on the beginning of a massive conveyor belt/travelator type arrangement, as wide and as long as a runway, and intends to take off. The conveyer belt is designed to exactly match the speed of the wheels at any given time, moving in the opposite direction of rotation. There is no wind. Can the plane take off?
Russian Scientist Suggests Burning Sulfur in Stratosphere to Fight Global Warming (that would called a chemtrail, there, yuri)
Post Date: 2005-11-30 18:19:50 by gengis gandhi
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Russian Scientist Suggests Burning Sulfur in Stratosphere to Fight Global Warming Created: 30.11.2005 16:56 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 16:56 MSK MosNews Renowned Russian scientist Yuri Israel, the head of the Global Climate and Ecology Institute, has written in a letter to President Putin that global warming requires immediate action and suggests burning thousands of tons of sulfur in the stratosphere as a remedy. The Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily published an interview with Israel on Wednesday in which he described his plan to counter global warming and called upon Russian authorities to consider it. The scientist says his plan is based on the idea of putting aerosols into the atmosphere at an ...
Signs of water found deep within Mars --Mars Express detects subsurface ice and minerals linked to liquid H2O
Post Date: 2005-11-30 16:45:56 by gengis gandhi
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Signs of water found deep within Mars Mars Express detects subsurface ice and minerals linked to liquid H2O By Bjorn Carey Updated: 3:04 p.m. ET Nov. 30, 2005 New observations of Mars' interior have revealed a crater hidden from the surface and new information about ice below the polar cap. The fresh research announced on Wednesday also points to the chemical signatures of past water on Mars, adding to other evidence suggesting a wet past. Scientists have long held that the deep channels and signs of extensive aqueous erosion are evidence that Mars was once a watery world. But these geologic signatures alone are not enough to confirm that liquid water was stable on the planet’s ...
Molecule gives passionate lovers just one year
Post Date: 2005-11-30 08:09:21 by timetobuildaboat
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ROME (Reuters) - Your heartbeat accelerates, you have butterflies in the stomach, you feel euphoric and a bit silly. It's all part of falling passionately in love -- and scientists now tell us the feeling won't last more than a year. The powerful emotions that bowl over new lovers are triggered by a molecule known as nerve growth factor (NGF), according to Pavia University researchers. The Italian scientists found far higher levels of NGF in the blood of 58 people who had recently fallen madly in love than in that of a group of singles and people in long-term relationships. But after a year with the same lover, the quantity of the 'love molecule' in their blood had fallen to the same ...
Study Verifies Power of Positive Thinking
Post Date: 2005-11-29 07:13:55 by gengis gandhi
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Quote of the Day "Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey – don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride..... and we, kill those people" ~ Bill Hicks Study Verifies Power of Positive Thinking By Lauran Neergaard Associated Press posted: 28 November 2005 08:05 pm ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- Your medicine really could work better if your doctor talks it up before handing over the prescription. Research is showing the power of expectations, that they have physical -- not just ...
Takedown Notices Under Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Post Date: 2005-11-28 20:46:37 by rack42
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This is a summary report of findings from a study of takedown notices under Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. [snip] In this study, we traced the use of the Section 512 takedown process and considered how the usage patterns we found were likely to affect expression or other activities on the Internet. The second level of analysis grew out of the fact that we observed a surprisingly high incidence of flawed takedowns: •Thirty percent of notices demanded takedown for claims that presented an obvious question for a court (a clear fair use argument, complaints about uncopyrightable material, and the like); •Notices to traditional ISP’s included a ...
A High-Tech Hot Spot in Oregon's High Desert
Post Date: 2005-11-27 14:46:40 by robin
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A High-Tech Hot Spot in Oregon's High Desert
Wi-Fi access, set up for nerve gas depot emergencies, is free for all
By Sam Howe Verhovek
Times Staff Writer
November 27, 2005
HERMISTON, Ore. — Barreling down U.S. Highway 395, through remote
farmland not far from a massive storage facility for old chemical
weapons, Fred Ziari beckoned his passenger to jump on the Internet.
"OK, go ahead," Ziari, an Iranian-born wireless communications
entrepreneur, said with a touch of glee. "Launch your browser. It's
free!"
Fast, free broadband wireless access to the Internet
might seem an ...
Hidden Proofs Of A Giant Race-annotated
Post Date: 2005-11-27 08:14:56 by gengis gandhi
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Hidden Proofs Of A Giant Race As you read this series of extracts, try to visualize the proverbial series of contemporary evolution...something is amiss. 1. Large bones in stone graves in Williamson County and White County, Tennessee. Discovered in the early 1800s, the average stature of these giants was 7 feet tall. 2. Giant skeletons found in the mid-1800s in New York state near Rutland and Rodman. 3. In 1833, soldiers digging at Lompock Rancho, California, discovered a male skeleton 12 feet tall. The skeleton was surrounded by caved shells, stone axes, other artifacts. The skeleton had double rows of upper and lower teeth. Unfortunately, this body was secretly buried because ...
Evidence that Dinosaurs and Humans co-existed
Post Date: 2005-11-25 19:12:24 by A K A Stone
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Taylor Trail A series of 14 human footprints with at least 134 dinosaur tracks in the bed of the Paluxy River, near Glen Rose, Texas. McFall Trail A recently discovered series of 15 human footprints on the Upper Taylor Platform (UTP) in the bed of the Paluxy River, near Glen Rose, Texas. Ryals Track A human footprint across a dinosaur footprint, about 30 feet from the Taylor Platform in the bed of the Paluxy River, near Glen Rose, Texas. The Morris Track The Morris Track was found by John Morris in the bed of the Paluxy River, downstream from the Taylor Trail at the Dougherty Site. While some of the detail eroded over a period of months, when it was first ...
Macrovision RipGuard can't stop ripping
Post Date: 2005-11-25 11:29:20 by A K A Stone
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Back in February this year, Macrovision made a terrible attempt to scare the "ripping community" with the introduction of RipGuard. The company claimed that RipGuard would "stop DVD rippers in their tracks" and would have a dramatic effect on the amount of content that makes its way to P2P networks. "RipGuard is designed to... reduce DVD ripping and the resulting supply of illegal peer to peer," said the firm. However, Macrovision's "perfect" RipGuard solution does not match up to the firms claims. "We were able to circumvent the technology and rip a perfect copy of ['Madagascar'] using a free DVD ripper downloaded from the Internet," Piper ...
Giant kites to pull cargo vessels on the high seas
Post Date: 2005-11-24 22:56:43 by robin
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Computer Worm Poses as E-Mail From FBI, CIA
Post Date: 2005-11-24 03:51:41 by robin
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Computer Worm Poses as E-Mail From FBI, CIA'Sober X' Web Threat Spreads QuicklyBy Arshad Mohammed and Brian KrebsWashington Post Staff WritersThursday, November 24, 2005; D01It's being called the worst computer worm of the year -- a fast-spreading Internet threat that looks like an official e-mail from the CIA or FBI but can leave your computer wide open to intruders.The bogus e-mail claims the government has discovered you visiting "illegal" Web sites and asks you to open an attachment to answer some official questions. If you do, your computer gets infected with malware that can disable security and firewall programs and blast out similar e-mails to contacts in your address ...
Paleocene dinosaurs and the reinforcement syndrome
Post Date: 2005-11-23 20:31:44 by A K A Stone
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Evolutionary scientists have proclaimed for years that the dinosaurs died out at the end of the Cretaceous, exactly 65 million years ago. This date has been considered one of the evolutionary facts of nature. Since dinosaur fossils have been unearthed on all continents, the timing suggests a global change in the environment, or catastrophe. The extinction of the dinosaurs is a great mystery of paleontology, and there have been dozens of hypotheses for its cause.1 During the past two decades, however, most scientists have come to believe the extinction was caused by an asteroid hitting the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. The precise timing of extinction, in so many locations, suggests it ...
Evolution and medicine
Post Date: 2005-11-22 23:40:14 by A K A Stone
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In the field of medicine, creationists are often considered by medical doctors as hopelessly behind the times. Endlessly we hear the same old rhetoric: “Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology.” In a New York Times online article last month was the quote: “Evolution is the basis of biology, biology is the basis of medicine … You’re messing with something important when you mess with evolution.” (See “Seeing Creation and Evolution in the Grand Canyon,” http://www.nytimes.com, October 6, 2005.) As a practicing physician, I have had to examine these claims about the importance of evolutionary thought in my daily interaction with patients. I have ...
Sony's rootkit infringes LAME GPL licence and breaks copyright
Post Date: 2005-11-19 10:42:07 by A K A Stone
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DamnedIfIknow, eranros, hyqwn and lanky used our news submit to tell us that on closer inspection of Sony's Audio XCP rootkit it has been found that it infringes copyright. From the inspection it has been found that the LAME Encoder code has been used in the XCP rootkit which is licenced under the Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL). The LGPL licence means that those that change or add things to the code MUST publish some of the code they write so that other people can see the changes made. Sony has definetly not done this, and this constitutes a breach of the LGPL licence. Sony likes to tell consumers and the media a like that they need to protect their work from infringers and ...
Global Flood on Mars but Not Earth?
Post Date: 2005-11-18 22:13:25 by A K A Stone
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One of the most amazing admissions of inconsistency in secular science is this issue of a global flood on Mars. As incredible as it may sound, there are secular scientists that actually propose that there was a global flood on the red planet. Currently Mars is a dry, arid world, comparable in many respects to the desert regions we have on earth. Now let me get this straight. Scientists believe in a global flood for Mars which is presently an arid desert, but do not believe in a global flood for Earth whose surface is 75% covered with water about two miles deep right now. I would submit that from space, Earth appears like it is currently in a global flood. Can you imagine what these same ...
Largest Meat Eating Dinosaur Discovered
Post Date: 2005-11-18 15:12:47 by Steppenwolf
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Largest meat-eating dinosaur discovered Philip Currie views the dinosaur's razor-sharp teeth Scientists have discovered the bones of what may be largest meat-eating dinosaur ever to walk the Earth - a razor-toothed beast more terrifying than the Tyrannosaurus rex. This guy has a long snout and incredibly sharp teeth - I think it would have been terrifying Philip Currie A team of palaeontologists from Argentina and North America unearthed the fossils in the Patagonian desert, on the eastern slopes of the Argentinian Andes. There may be as many as six creatures preserved at the site. The predators' graveyard challenges the theory that the biggest meat-eaters were always loners. It ...
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