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Physics principles too myopic, Nobel winner says
Post Date: 2005-06-02 15:02:33 by Starwind
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Physics principles too myopic, Nobel winner saysRobert Laughlin thinks physics is in crisis because physicists have problems with their belief systems.By Ashley Lawson(June 2, 2005) Robert Laughlin argues that physicists have a belief problem. (Courtesy Photo: Free Press) BOSTON -- Physicists have problems with their belief systems and the field of physics is in crisis because of it, said Nobel Prize-winner Robert Laughlin at a recent Boston University lecture. "They have systems of belief just like everyone else," he said. "There is a belief system problem here." Laughlin, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1998, compared physicists to monotheists who ...
Freezing gas prices (Cryogenically Frozen Car Engine - Gets 120 MPG )
Post Date: 2005-05-31 08:18:09 by Grumble Jones
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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........... Click for Full Text!
Experts: Climate Change Means Learning To Live With Floods, Tsunamis
Post Date: 2005-05-29 23:29:38 by robin
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Dikes and dams will not be enough to stop the deluge. With climate change, people will have to learn to live with floods and tidal waves, scientists at an international conference said. "We have gone from the point of defending ourselves from flooding to managing floods and learning to live with them," said Eelco van Beek, who was among the 300 experts attending a conference in the Dutch city of Nijmegen. During the past two years, more than 600 floods have been recorded in the world, causing the deaths of 19,000 people and damage valued at about 25 billion dollars (20 billion euros). The figures do not include the deaths of some 273,000 people when a tsunami hit the countries ...
I.B.M. Software Aims to Provide Security Without Sacrificing Privacy
Post Date: 2005-05-28 17:19:15 by robin
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International Business Machines is introducing software today that is intended to let companies share and compare information with other companies or government agencies without identifying the people connected to it. Security specialists familiar with the technology say that, if truly effective, it could help tackle many security and privacy problems in handling personal information in fields like health care, financial services and national security. "There is real promise here," said Fred H. Cate, director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University. "But we'll have to see how well it works in all kinds of settings." The technology for ...
Plan ''Daisy'' - (The Suppressed Document at LibertyForum.org) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-05-28 08:35:42 by toddbrendanfahey
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New DREAD Weapon - Devastating, Jam-Proof And Silent [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-05-27 18:45:59 by Eoghan
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Imagine a gun with no recoil, no sound, no heat, no gunpowder, no visible firing signature (muzzle flash), and no stoppages or jams of any kind. Now imagine that this gun could fire .308 caliber and .50 caliber metal projectiles accurately at up to 8,000 fps (feet-per-second), featured an infinitely variable/programmable cyclic rate-of-fire (as high as 120,000 rounds-per-minute), and were capable of laying down a 360-degree field of fire. What if you could mount this weapon on any military Humvee (HMMWV), any helicopter/gunship, any armored personnel carrier (APC), and any other vehicle for which the technology were applicable? That would really be something, wouldn't it? Some of you might ...
Wood Burning Electrical Generator
Post Date: 2005-05-27 18:35:33 by orangedog
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Someone with waaaaaaay too much time on his hands has built himself a wood burning setup to generate electricity. Follow the link for the video of this thing in operation.
Disney Outsourcing Jobs of 1,000 IT Workers
Post Date: 2005-05-27 12:07:29 by RickyJ
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - About 1,000 information technology workers throughout the Walt Disney Co. will have their jobs outsourced, but few layoffs are expected. Most workers would be moved into new jobs with two vendors, International Business Machines Corp. and Affiliated Computer Services Inc., after negotiations are completed this month, the company told employees Thursday. The outsourcing is planned to occur in mid-July. About one-third of the division's overall work force would be affected. Some workers may be offered jobs elsewhere at Disney or be laid off, the company told employees, but no numbers were provided. The IT unit handles such services as desktop computer support and ...
Limey Doctors call for UK Knife Control
Post Date: 2005-05-26 22:47:37 by Dude Lebowski
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A&E doctors are calling for a ban on long pointed kitchen knives to reduce deaths from stabbing. A team from West Middlesex University Hospital said violent crime is on the increase - and kitchen knives are used in as many as half of all stabbings. They argued many assaults are committed impulsively, prompted by alcohol and drugs, and a kitchen knife often makes an all too available weapon. The research is published in the British Medical Journal. The researchers said there was no reason for long pointed knives to be publicly available at all. They consulted 10 top chefs from around the UK, and found such knives have little practical value in the kitchen. None of the chefs felt ...
3-Billion Year Old Manufactured Spheroids?
Post Date: 2005-05-25 16:51:39 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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3-Billion Year Old Manufactured Spheroids? At least 200 have been found, and extracted out of deep rock at the Wonderstone Silver Mine in South Africa, averaging 1-4 inches in dia. and composed of a nickel-steel alloy that doesn't occur naturally. Some have a thin shell about a quarter inch thick, when broken open are filled with a strange spongy material that disintegrates into dust upon contact with air. A complete mystery according to Roelf Marx curator of the South African Klerksdorp Museum, as the one he has on exibit rotates on its own, ,locked in a display case, free of outside vibrations. The manufactured metallic spheroids have been mined out of a layer of pyrophyllite rock ...
Scientists Say Everyone Can Read Minds
Post Date: 2005-05-25 16:03:45 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Scientists Say Everyone Can Read Minds By Ker Than Special to LiveScience posted: 27 April 2005 07:01 am ET Empathy allows us to feel the emotions of others, to identify and understand their feelings and motives and see things from their perspective. How we generate empathy remains a subject of intense debate in cognitive science. Some scientists now believe they may have finally discovered its root. We're all essentially mind readers, they say. The idea has been slow to gain acceptance, but evidence is mounting. Mirror neurons In 1996, three neuroscientists were probing the brain of a macaque monkey when they stumbled across a curious cluster of cells in the premotor cortex, an area ...
Lookout, France! Google hires neo-con headbanger
Post Date: 2005-05-24 18:59:36 by Eoghan
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The company that prides itself on "Doing No Evil" isn't taking any chances with its latest executive appointment. Dan Senor, the company's new Global Communications and Strategy VP, has a CV guaranteed to have Register columnist Otto Z Stern firing a celebratory fusillade skywards from his compound in New Mexico. A former Senior Associate at the Carlyle Group, Senor was briefly Scott McLellan's deputy as White House spokesman before becoming head of the the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq's information department. The White House web site bills him as Senior Advisor to Presidential Envoy L. Paul Bremer III. Fox News hired Senor as a panelist in February. While in Iraq ...
US-PA-Philadelphia-H1B Visa Sponsorship- US openings (This role is only available to India residents or to those who hold valid working visas or permits)
Post Date: 2005-05-22 09:07:31 by RickyJ
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US-PA-Philadelphia-H1B Visa Sponsorship- US openings This role is only available to India residents or to those who hold valid working visas or permits. ACS International Resources, Inc. (ACSIR) an Inc. 500 Hall of Fame Company and an IBM National Technical Services Core Supplier is a global provider of Information Technology Solutions & Consulting Services to prominent large and small businesses in North America, Europe and Asia. ACSIR is a very exclusive group of 5-time award winners, which comprises the Inc. 500 “Hall of Fame”. ACSIR’ Corporate Headquarters are located Newark, Delaware (USA). In addition to our offshore facilities in India (Mumbai) and in the UK ...
Dr. Marc Lappé, 1943-2005
Post Date: 2005-05-21 16:20:11 by robin
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Dr. Marc Lappé, 1943-2005Tue, 17 May 2005 18:33:07 -0500 A man of deep integrity By Anthony LappéGNN's editor remembers his father - a scientist who stood up for the planet's most vulnerable “Three interrelated issues mark our times: We have altered the planet with our chemicals; we are transforming agriculture with bioengineering; and we are contemplating the recreation of humankind through genetic technologies. All three compel us to reexamine how we use scientific knowledge: will our new technologies be greeted with ‘hurrahs’ or a whisper of despair from the species that we have decimated, crops that are gene-contaminated and people who, though yet to ...
Tsunami Earthquake ´Unzipped´ the Earth
Post Date: 2005-05-21 00:58:21 by robin
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May 19, 2005— The great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of Dec. 26"unzipped" an 800-mile stretch of the planet and released twice the energy first thought; it also bowed Earth like a gigantic cello string, a series of studies say. The remarkable geophysical effects of the terrible quake were explored in several research papers in the May 20 issue of the journal Science. First consider the unzipping: Instead of just rupturing at one point underground and being followed by aftershocks around that point, the 9-plus magnitude quake set off a series of ruptures from Banda Aceh northward, taking anywhere from seconds to hours to unevenly push up different locations 17 to 50 feet. ...
New technology reveals ancient math texts
Post Date: 2005-05-20 14:51:42 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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New technology reveals ancient math texts By Esther Landhuis, Mercury News Fri May 20,11:01 AM ET It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi novel: Powerful X-ray beams are used to illuminate the long-lost theorems of ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes, lifting them from faded 10th-century parchments. In fact, it happened last week at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Using state-of-the-art circular particle accelerators called synchrotrons, the scientists shone ultra-fine light beams onto three pages of the aged texts. Tuned to a specific energy, the light caused traces of iron in the ink to fluoresce, revealing for the first time the wispy outlines of Archimedes' 2,000-year-old ...
East Antarctica puts on weight
Post Date: 2005-05-20 12:25:30 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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East Antarctica puts on weight Mark Peplow Increased snowfall could slow sea-level rise. Increased snowfall over a large area of Antarctica is thickening the ice sheet and slowing the rise in sea level caused by melting ice. A satellite survey shows that between 1992 and 2003, the East Antarctic ice sheet gained about 45 billion tonnes of ice - enough to reduce the oceans' rise by 0.12 millimetres per year. The ice sheets that cover Antarctica's bedrock are several kilometres thick in places, and contain about 90% of the world's ice. But scientists fear that if they melt in substantial quantities, this will swell the oceans and cause devastation on islands and coastal lands. The ...
Fairchild International Corp. Announces Discovery of Almost Unlimited Inexpensive Natural Gas Substitute
Post Date: 2005-05-20 09:40:57 by Grumble Jones
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Fairchild International Corp. Announces Discovery of Almost Unlimited Inexpensive Natural Gas Substitute No airborne emissions from inexpensive process that creates gas from biomass, waste wood, and low-grade coal. VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA -- SynGas has completed development of its synthetic, low-cost, natural gas production technology. Fairchild International Corporation (OTCBB:FCHL), the holding company for SynGas, is encouraged by the preliminary test results. The prototype model has already been successfully tested using a number of inputs including low-grade coal, wood waste and other biomass, yielding superior results with lower costs and emissions than currently available ...
The Greenhouse Effect
Post Date: 2005-05-18 06:54:28 by toddbrendanfahey
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NOAA ISSUES SPACE WEATHER WARNING
Post Date: 2005-05-16 12:49:09 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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NOAA ISSUES SPACE WEATHER WARNING May 15, 2005 ? Forecasters at the NOAA Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colo., observed a geomagnetic storm on Sunday, May 15, which they classified as an extreme event, measuring G-5?the highest level?on the NOAA Space Weather Scales. (Click image for larger view of the sun from the SOHO spacecraft of the intense solar activity taken May 15, 2005, at 7:50 a.m. EDT. Click here to view high resolution version, which is a large file. Click here to view latest images. Please credit ?SOHO.?) "This event registered a 9 on the K-Index, which measures the maximum deviation of the Earth's magnetic field in a given three-hour period," said Gayle ...
Radical change in water use urged to avoid food shortages
Post Date: 2005-05-15 22:08:15 by DeaconBenjamin
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Governments must start devising ways of allocating water more efficiently if they are to avoid food shortages and political instability, the World Agricultural Forum (WAF) will warn on Monday. The call, to be made at the group's annual meeting in St Louis, Missouri, comes amid increasing concern about a link between water shortages, agricultural productivity and threats to global food security. “We have to manage water much better and that's going to require a new system of allocation,” said Jim Bolger, the former New Zealand prime minister who chairs the WAF. The non-profit group was founded in 1997 to raise awareness of agricultural issues among government leaders. The WAF ...
Seaweed to breathe new life into fight against global warming
Post Date: 2005-05-14 20:04:17 by robin
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Huge water-borne farms can turn the tide against increasing greenhouse gases REMEMBER the names sargassum and Sostera marina: if a group of Japanese scientists is to be believed, the fate of humanity may rest on colossal floating islands of the stuff. The team envisages 100 vast nets full of quick-growing seaweed, each measuring six miles by six miles, floating off the northeast coast of Japan. The seaweed in each net, growing to a weight of 270,000 tonnes a year, will absorb prodigious quantities of greenhouse gases and convert them to oxygen before being harvested 12 months later as a rich source of biomass energy. If a pilot version of the project indicates that the idea is viable, ...
'Oddball Rodent' Is Called New to Science
Post Date: 2005-05-13 15:21:30 by crack monkey
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'Oddball Rodent' Is Called New to Science By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD They live in the forests and limestone outcrops of Laos. With long whiskers, stubby legs and a long, furry tail, they are rodents but unlike any seen before by wildlife scientists. They are definitely not rats or squirrels, and are only vaguely like a guinea pig or a chinchilla. And they often show up in Laotian outdoor markets being sold as food. It was in such markets that visiting scientists came upon the animals, and after long study, determined that they represented a rare find: an entire new family of wildlife. The discovery was announced yesterday by the Wildlife Conservation Society and described in a report in the ...
Geneticists Link Modern Humans to Single Band Out of Africa
Post Date: 2005-05-12 19:40:18 by crack monkey
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Geneticists Link Modern Humans to Single Band Out of Africa By NICHOLAS WADE A team of geneticists believe they have shed light on many aspects of how modern humans emigrated from Africa by analyzing the DNA of the Orang Asli, the original inhabitants of Malaysia. Because the Orang Asli appear to be directly descended from the first emigrants from Africa, they have provided valuable new clues about that momentous event in early human history. The geneticists conclude that there was only one migration of modern humans out of Africa - that it took a southern route to India, Southeast Asia and Australasia, and consisted of a single band of hunter-gatherers, probably just a few hundred ...
Mozilla releases Firefox security update
Post Date: 2005-05-12 18:31:32 by RickyJ
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update A security update for the Firefox open-source browser has been released by the Mozilla Foundation, a move that follows the public disclosure of exploit code for two "extremely critical" vulnerabilities. Mozilla's Firefox 1.0.4, released Wednesday, addresses vulnerabilities that surfaced earlier this week. The update includes several security fixes, as well as a fix to DHTML errors that were encountered on some Web sites, according to a posting on Mozilla's Web site. The update is designed to address the two flaws, which when combined could allow malicious attackers to engage in cross-site scripting and remote system access. Although the two vulnerabilities could be ...
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