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Europe Fears ‘The Big One’ After 140 Earthquakes Strike The French Alps In 40 Days
Post Date: 2017-10-31 07:00:12 by Ada
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In recent weeks, the locals living in the Maurienne part of Savoie in the French Alps have been getting used to being shaken awake at night. The region has been rocked by 140 earthquakes in a mere 40 days sparking fears that Europe may soon experience “the big one.” Sismalp, a French earthquake organization, has registered 140 minor tremors in the area in the last month or so. And with the strongest tremor being recorded 3.8 on the Richter scale, many are panicked that Europe’s “big one” could occur soon. While none of the earthquakes have been strong enough to cause any structural damage, they are starting to worry locals. Residents have been briefed about how ...
Rewriting history: Biblical eclipse sheds new light on pharaohs
Post Date: 2017-10-30 08:23:35 by Ada
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A mysterious event mentioned in the Bible was actually the oldest solar eclipse ever recorded, a new Cambridge study has found. The revelation may help to rewrite the dates of Egyptian pharaohs, including the famous Ramesses II. The celestial event described in the Old Testament Book of Joshua has been puzzling scholars for centuries. In the King James Bible, after Joshua led the Israelites into Canaan - a land which is now partly in modern Israel and Palestine - he prayed: “Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and Moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.” “And the Sun stood still, and the Moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies,” the passage continued. Now, ...
Civilization Declared “A White Male Construct”
Post Date: 2017-10-30 08:00:41 by Ada
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A number of readers have turned out to be excellent research assistants. In response to my articles, “The American Left: RIP,” and the two follow-ups, “The Absurdities Mount” and “Goodbye Western Civilization,” readers have supplied the following. A white male professor of philosophy has discovered that in order to have an academic career in these days he must find “white privilege” everywhere. Professor John Caputo, according to this report, has found white male privilege in reason itself. Reason, says Professor Caputo, “is a white male Euro-Christian construction.” Since reason is white, reason is not neutral. It implies that what is ...
Kaspersky Software Caught Classified NSA Malware
Post Date: 2017-10-26 07:43:09 by Ada
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Russian Company Vilified Because Its Software Did Its Job Russian anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab has been increasingly vilified in the US for acquiring classified US government programs. This hs led to a full ban on Kaspersky software on federal PCs, and several retails dropping the wildly popular program. Kaspersky Lab’s own internal investigation into the matter revealed that was indeed the case, in as much as its antivirus software “accidentally” swept up NSA malware and its adjoining source code during a 2014 malware scan, even though that malware was itself classified. This means, however, that the antivirus software was doing exactly what it was supposed to do, ...
ACCUSED OF SPYING, RUSSIAN SECURITY FIRM WILL SHOW ITS CODE AND OPERATIONS TO OUTSIDERS
Post Date: 2017-10-24 08:08:21 by Ada
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RESPONDING TO U.S. government suggestions that its antivirus software has been used for surveillance of customers, Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab is launching what it’s calling a transparency initiative to allow independent third parties to review its source code and business practices and to assure the information security community that it can be trusted. The company plans to begin the code review before the end of the year and establish a process for conducting ongoing reviews, of both the updates it makes to software and the threat-detection rules it uses to detect malware and upload suspicious files from customer machines. The latter refers to signatures and so-called Yara rules, ...
The universe shouldn't exist, scientists say after finding bizarre behaviour of anti-matter
Post Date: 2017-10-24 07:20:37 by Ada
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We don't know why the universe isn't destroying itself Our universe shouldn't exist, scientists say. The most elite scientists in the world are still struggling to find why exactly our universe didn't destroy itself as soon as it came into existence. That's what science says should have happened – but it clearly hasn't, since you're here reading this, as far as we know. At the beginning of the universe, according to the standard model, there equal amounts of matter and anti-matter. The trouble with that is that they would each have annihilated each other, leaving none of the matter that surrounds us today. Nasa's most stunning pictures of space 30 ...
Some flowers create blue halo to say hello to foraging bees
Post Date: 2017-10-19 00:50:41 by Horse
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Some flowers have found a nifty way to get the blues. They create a blue halo, apparently to attract the bees they need for pollination, scientists reported Wednesday. Bees are drawn to the color blue, but it’s hard for flowers to make that color in their petals. Instead, some flowers use a trick of physics. They produce a blue halo when sunlight strikes a series of tiny ridges in their thin waxy surfaces. The ridges alter how the light bounces back, which affects the color that one sees. The halos appear over pigmented areas of a flower, and people can see them over darkly colored areas if they look from certain angles. The halo trick is uncommon among flowers. But many tulip ...
Report: Renewable Energy Is Bigger ‘Scam’ than Bernie Madoff and Enron
Post Date: 2017-10-13 08:49:04 by Ada
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The greatest scam being perpetrated against taxpayers and consumers is renewable energy, according to a new analysis published by the Australian, greater even than Ponzi, Madoff and Enron. While sinking enormous financial resources into propping up renewable energy prospectors, national governments are providing no perceptible benefits to their citizens, writes Judith Sloan, a renowned Australian economist who has served on the Australian government’s Productivity Commission. “With very few exceptions, governments all over the world have fallen into the trap of paying renewable energy scammers on the basis that it is necessary, at least politically, to be seen to be doing ...
Nobel Laureate in Physics; "Global Warming is Pseudoscience"
Post Date: 2017-10-11 13:41:14 by Horse
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10 Alleged Top Secret Bases That Officially Don’t Exist
Post Date: 2017-10-10 09:02:52 by Ada
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Most of us have heard of Area 51, where top secret “flying saucers” are kept, even live aliens depending on your source, but there are many equally dramatic but lesser-known areas of top secret, off-limits activity. By their very nature, secret bases are not spoken about openly. Officially, they don’t exist, or at the very least, the activities taking place at certain locations are vastly different than what is officially stated.While the vast majority of this list may need to be read with a pinch of salt, the following claims are nonetheless intriguing and most definitely alluring to the part of one’s brain that, in terms of the authenticity of the claims, asks the ...
The Real Secrets Hidden in Antarctica... Revealed
Post Date: 2017-10-06 09:47:39 by Horse
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Poster Comment:Well researched.
Einstein proof: Nobel winners find ripples in the universe
Post Date: 2017-10-03 18:30:23 by Ada
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Barish and Thorne won the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for detecting faint ripples flying through the universe, the gravitational waves predicted a century ago by Albert Einstein that provide a new understanding of the universe. WASHINGTON (AP) — For decades astronomers tried to prove Albert Einstein right by doing what Einstein thought was impossible: detecting the faint ripples in the universe called gravitational waves. They failed repeatedly until two years ago when they finally spotted one. Then another. And another. And another. Three American scientists — including one who initially flunked out of MIT — won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday that launched a whole ...
Mammals can 'choose' sex of offspring, study finds
Post Date: 2017-10-01 12:23:38 by BTP Holdings
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Mammals can 'choose' sex of offspring, study finds Jul 10 2013 Steve Fisch Joseph Garner analyzed decades of breeding records and found that mammalian species can "choose" the sex of their offspring in order to produce extra grandchildren. A new study led by a researcher at the Stanford University School of Medicine shows that mammalian species can "choose" the sex of their offspring in order to beat the odds and produce extra grandchildren. In analyzing 90 years of breeding records from the San Diego Zoo, the researchers were able to prove for the first time what has been a fundamental theory of evolutionary biology: that mammals rely on some unknown ...
Mysterious High-Energy Cosmic Rays Which Have Baffled Scientists For Half A Century Come From Beyond Our Galaxy
Post Date: 2017-09-22 21:22:33 by Horse
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For half a century, astronomers have been unable to find the source of the most energetic rays in our universe. But now, after detecting them for more than a decade, South American researchers say cosmic rays come from outside the Milky Way. The rays, consisting of energetic sub-atomic particles, may be born from violent events millions of light years outside our galaxy, evidence suggests, The discovery reported in the journal Science follows 12 years of data collection by the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina. The observatory has 1,600 particle detectors spread in a hexagonal grid over 1,160 square miles to detect cosmic rays, Cosmic rays are tiny fragments of atoms, and they fill ...
The man whose biblical doomsday claim has some nervously eyeing Sept. 23
Post Date: 2017-09-21 05:57:11 by BTP Holdings
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The man whose biblical doomsday claim has some nervously eyeing Sept. 23 The Washington Post Kristine Phillips 6 hrs ago © REUTERS/Antonio Parrinello Italy's Mount Etna, Europe's tallest and most active volcano, spews lava as it erupts on the southern island of Sicily, Italy February 28, 2017. David Meade, the self-described “specialist in research and investigations,” has earned a fair amount of publicity online for predicting that catastrophic events will soon befall Earth. Among his claims: On Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017, a constellation — a sign prophesied in the Book of Revelation — will reveal itself in the skies over Jerusalem, signaling the ...
The Winter Greenhouse, grow in -40'C
Post Date: 2017-09-20 14:42:21 by Horse
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Here's 13 Things That Make People Dislike You Immediately, According to Science
Post Date: 2017-09-19 08:11:35 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-alert Everyone's got a story about how they thought a certain friend was mean the first time they met, but realised later that he or she is actually the nicest person ever. Generally, you've only got a few seconds to make someone want to spend more time with you. Everything matters - from your last name to the smell of your sweat (gross, we know). Below, Business Insider rounded up various scientific findings on the traits and behaviours that make people dislike you, both online and in person. 1. Sharing too many photos on Facebook If you're the kind of person who shares snapshots of your honeymoon, cousin's graduation, and dog dressed in a Halloween costume all in ...
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em . . . Ban ‘Em
Post Date: 2017-09-18 08:39:54 by Ada
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Since they can’t sell electric cars – not enough of them, anyhow – and not without subsidies so huge they amount to outright bribes – the solution appears to be to outlaw all cars except electric cars. This is no joke. There are IC engine No Go Zones in Germany and France. The Brits have just decreed a ban on the sale of internal combustion-engined vehicles period, beginning in 2040 – which sounds like a long time from now but isn’t – because car companies begin designing cars about ten years before they see the light of production and so this fatwa means the car companies are on notice that the current generation of cars they are selling is either the ...
Study: plants are globally getting more efficient thanks to rising carbon dioxide
Post Date: 2017-09-16 17:42:21 by farmfriend
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Researchers led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego have determined that major changes in plant behavior have occurred over the past 40 years, using measurements of subtle changes in the carbon dioxide (CO2) currently found in the atmosphere. The two main isotopes, or atomic forms, of carbon are carbon-12 (12C) and carbon-13 (13C). As CO2 has risen since the late 19th century, the ratio of 13C to 12C in atmospheric CO2 has decreased. That’s in part because the CO2 produced by the combustion of fossil fuels has a low 13C/12C ratio. There are other factors in nature as well, however, that have influenced the rate of decrease in the isotopic ...
Scientists Have Discovered a Way to Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air
Post Date: 2017-09-16 06:37:16 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-alert... Friends, the utopia is real. Researchers say they have a way to make alcohol out of thin air, and the technique might even save the world in the bargain, not just our rent money. Now before you start organising your weekend around this bubbly fantasy, the alcohol we're talking about here is more than just the stuff in your drink, and the thin air it's made from is actually heavy – clogged with heat-trapping pollutants that are wrecking Earth's atmosphere. Confused? Okay, let's backtrack a little, before we get onto the exciting new discoveries made by PhD student Ming Ma from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. While this research ...
The great nutrient collapse
Post Date: 2017-09-14 14:56:45 by farmfriend
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Irakli Loladze is a mathematician by training, but he was in a biology lab when he encountered the puzzle that would change his life. It was in 1998, and Loladze was studying for his Ph.D. at Arizona State University. Against a backdrop of glass containers glowing with bright green algae, a biologist told Loladze and a half-dozen other graduate students that scientists had discovered something mysterious about zooplankton. Zooplankton are microscopic animals that float in the world’s oceans and lakes, and for food they rely on algae, which are essentially tiny plants. Scientists found that they could make algae grow faster by shining more light onto them— increasing the food ...
How NASA's Cassini spacecraft will dive-bomb Saturn and die
Post Date: 2017-09-14 14:53:33 by farmfriend
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It's been a good 19 years, but now Cassini must die. This week, the NASA spacecraft will hurl itself into the atmosphere of the planet it's spent over a decade circling in search of solar system secrets hidden from human view until the orbiter arrived on the scene. Cassini will enter Saturn's atmosphere on Friday for the first time, firing its thrusters until it gets tumbled around by the increasing density of the gas giant's outer layers. At that point the spacecraft, which is roughly the size and weight of a school bus, will likely lose its communications link with NASA and begin burning up. The decision to destroy the probe has to do with protecting Saturn's ...
Thwack! Federal Judge Deals Major Blow to Gore and #ExxonKnew Crusaders
Post Date: 2017-09-13 17:01:05 by farmfriend
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A federal judge in Boston dealt a major blow yesterday to environmental activist groups seeking to sue fossil fuel companies for supposedly ignoring the risks of climate change. The Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) had sued ExxonMobil for allegedly failing to sufficiently prepare a facility in Everett, Mass., for the effects of climate change, including sea level rise and more frequent and severe storms. CLF is yet another Rockefeller bankrolled organization that is closely tied in with the #ExxonKnew campaign. U.S. District Court Judge Mark Wolf allowed ExxonMobil’s motion to dismiss to proceed, in part. Wolf repeatedly suggested that CLF was unnecessarily injecting climate change ...
Birth Control and Homosexuality: Unintended Consequences
Post Date: 2017-09-12 18:21:15 by Ada
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In the 1980s, I had a boss who had gotten a masters degree in psychology from New York University. He was a brilliant man; could have been a doctor. He told me a story that explains much of what we see in society today. It seems that while doing his graduate work in the early 1960s, he had to do research on lab rats, which were given the synthetic hormones used in the then new birth control pills. The results, he told me, showed that the grandchildren of these lab rats would have high rates of homosexual behaviors. From what he told me, the findings were suppressed. Apparently, the powers that be wanted “the pill” to pass muster. What happened to the second generation of rats ...
Trump to scrap Nasa climate research in crackdown on ‘politicized science’
Post Date: 2017-09-12 14:36:27 by farmfriend
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Donald Trump is poised to eliminate all climate change research conducted by Nasa as part of a crackdown on “politicized science”, his senior adviser on issues relating to the space agency has said. Nasa’s Earth science division is set to be stripped of funding in favor of exploration of deep space, with the president-elect having set a goal during the campaign to explore the entire solar system by the end of the century. Click for Full Text!
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