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Glacier break up hastened
Post Date: 2006-02-04 00:17:28 by buckeroo
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TWO major glaciers in Greenland have recently begun to flow and break up more quickly under the onslaught of global warming, according to a new study which has raised the spectre of millions drowning from rising sea levels. The report by the University of Swansea's School of the Environment and Society said the Kangerdlugssuaq and Helheim glaciers had doubled their rate of flow to the ocean over the past two years after steady movement during the 1990s. This spurt meant that current environmental models of the rate of retreat of Greenland's giant ice sheet – which could add seven metres to the height of the world's oceans if it disappears – had underestimated the problem. ...
IBM CONTINUES IT'S CONDITIONING OF THE PEOPLE TO ACCEPT RFID
Post Date: 2006-02-03 17:47:15 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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IBM CONTINUES IT'S CONDITIONING OF THE PEOPLE TO ACCEPT RFID Check out this QuickTime video of an IBM commercial, conditioning consumers that RFID is on the horizon. http://www.lonelantern.org/microchip_news.html Ask yourself while watching, how does the young man pay for his goods? How does the store know what he has purchased? Where are the radio transmitters placed on his body? Where are the transmitters placed on the goods? Is the transmitter in his body, in his arm or hand perhaps, or in his wallet? This commercial was broadcast about 5 years ago, and sent to me from one of our supporters. If this was broadcast that long ago, how close are we now, It may look cool, but do you ...
Brain Scans May Be Used As Lie Detectors
Post Date: 2006-01-28 21:45:02 by Zipporah
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Picture this: Your boss is threatening to fire you because he thinks you stole company property. He doesn't believe your denials. Your lawyer suggests you deny it one more time - in a brain scanner that will show you're telling the truth. Wacky? Science fiction? It might happen this summer. Just the other day I lay flat on my back as a scanner probed the tiniest crevices of my brain and a computer screen asked, "Did you take the watch?" The lab I was visiting recently reported catching lies with 90 percent accuracy. And an entrepreneur in Massachusetts is hoping to commercialize the system in the coming months. "I'd use it tomorrow in virtually ...
Saturn in the Hive
Post Date: 2006-01-28 15:07:48 by PnbC
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Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2006 January 28 Saturn in the Hive Credit & Copyright: Jimmy Westlake (Colorado Mountain College) Explanation: If you can find Saturn in tonight's sky, then you can also find M44, popularly known as the Beehive star cluster. In fact, with a pair of binoculars most casual skygazers should find it fairly easy to zero in on this celestial scene. Saturn is at opposition - opposite the Sun in Earth's sky - so, the bright planet rises in the east at sunset and is visible ...
[Grandfather Mtn, NC] Wind Breaks Record, Property
Post Date: 2006-01-26 21:21:29 by scooter
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Wind breaks record, property by From staff reports published January 26, 2006 6:00 am Wednesday’s winds broke records, along with windows, floors and walls at a local tourism spot. The visitor center at Grandfather Mountain took a beating during morning winds too strong for U.S. Weather Service equipment to measure accurately. Winds knocked over a 300-pound boulder cemented to the visitor center parking lot, Grandfather Mountain spokeswoman Catherine Morton said in a news release. The gusts tore tiles off the floor, shattered three reinforced windows and opened a locked door. A reading of 200 mph for some gusts broke Grandfather’s record of 195.5 mph set on April 18, 1997. ...
A Real-Life Jurassic Park
Post Date: 2006-01-22 14:53:11 by Zipporah
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By resurrecting the woolly mammoth and other species, scientists want to restore nature's balance. Newsweek International Jan. 30, 2006 issue - For the first 3.5 million years or so, woolly mammoths had it pretty easy. Standing more than three meters tall and weighing seven tons, they dwarfed the rest of the animal kingdom. That allowed them to graze or gambol or make more woolly mammoths without any predators to worry about. Then their luck began to sour about 20,000 years ago. Humans showed up in the Eurasian plain and, a few millenniums later, in North America, wielding high-tech weapons of carved bone and stone. Soon the regal Elephantidae were on the run from Siberia to ...
Anonymizing Google's Cookie
Post Date: 2006-01-19 10:50:03 by A K A Stone
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If you use Google, and you accept it's cookie, you should give some thought to the implications, both good and potentially bad : this page tries to help you do that, together with an easy way to anonymize it without missing out on its benefits. First the good. It's useful to you. It's how Google saves your preferences (such as language, filtering, number of results per page, etc). If, like me, you want fifty results per page (not just ten), in English only (not in languages I can't read), unfiltered for adult content (I'm not a child), then you need the Google cookie. Now the potentially bad. You use Google a lot, right? If someone was peering over your shoulder, watching every Google ...
Do not offend water: it remembers every word you say
Post Date: 2006-01-18 09:10:08 by A K A Stone
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One day theoretical science will no longer have doubts about water's memory while high tech specialists will be making "water" computers controlled by telepathy WaterThere seemed nothing to be as simple and as well studied in the world of science as water.until recently. The proverbial chemical description, temperature metamorphoses from ice into steam, solvent properties - that is about all. Deeper studies into the Nanoworld are ready to shake faith even in the water's simplicity. Just for one fact that it turns out water has memory and understands human emotions and words. According to physics that we study at school water does not form any long-lived structures (if there is ...
Total Commander v6.54 Beta 1
Post Date: 2006-01-14 21:56:40 by A K A Stone
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Total Commander is a file manager for Windows, a program like Windows Explorer to copy, move or delete files. However, it can do much more than Explorer, e.g. pack and unpack files, access ftp servers, compare files by content, etc. Total Commander has internal unpackers for ZIP, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ,CAB, RAR and ACE formats and also additional packers can be added as plugins. The build-in FTP client supports most public FTP servers and is able to resume aborted downloads, handle archives and can send files directly from one remote server to another. Total Commander has a lot of nice features that will help in file handling tasks as well.
'Four mothers' for Europe's Jews
Post Date: 2006-01-14 15:16:37 by robin
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'Four mothers' for Europe's Jews There are now some 8m people of Ashkenazi origin around the worldAlmost half of Europe's Jews are descended from just four women who lived 1,000 years ago, a study says. Scientists studied the mitochondrial DNA - passed from mother to daughter - of 11,000 women of Ashkenazi Jewish origin living in 67 countries. The Ashkenazis moved from the Mid-East to Italy and then to Eastern Europe, where their population exploded in the 13th Century, the scientists say. One of the authors said the study shows the importance of Jewish mothers. "This I could tell you even without the paper," Dr Doron Behar of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology told ...
Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs
Post Date: 2006-01-12 13:49:51 by mehitable
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Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs By Chris Hogg BBC News, Hong Kong Picture of transgenic pigs supplied by Taiwan National University, courtesy Wu Shinn-chih When lit up in the dark, the pigs glow green Scientists in Taiwan say they have bred three pigs that glow in the dark. They claim that while other researchers have bred partly fluorescent pigs, theirs are the only pigs in the world which are green through and through. The pigs are transgenic, created by adding genetic material from jellyfish into a normal pig embryo. The researchers hope the pigs will boost the island's stem cell research, as well as helping with the study of human disease. The researchers, from National Taiwan ...
Do Burned CDs Have a Short Life Span?
Post Date: 2006-01-11 20:21:22 by tom007
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Do Burned CDs Have a Short Life Span? John Blau, IDG News Service Tue Jan 10, 8:00 AM ET Opinions vary on how to preserve data on digital storage media, such as optical CDs and DVDs. Kurt Gerecke, a physicist and storage expert at IBM Deutschland, has his own view: If you want to avoid having to burn new CDs every few years, use magnetic tapes to store all your pictures, videos and songs for a lifetime. ADVERTISEMENT "Unlike pressed original CDs, burned CDs have a relatively short life span of between two to five years, depending on the quality of the CD," Gerecke says. "There are a few things you can do to extend the life of a burned CD, like keeping the disc in a cool, ...
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 storms—Rita, Katrina, and Emily—did 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 steel—but 250 times stronger—would 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, don’t. 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? It’s not insanity, it’s 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 ...
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