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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!
The Nemesis Theory: Is there a Second Sun in Our Solar System?
Post Date: 2017-09-11 18:31:45 by BTP Holdings
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The Nemesis Theory: Is there a Second Sun in Our Solar System? Updated on March 4, 2017 cryptid more With interests in science, nature, and the paranormal, cryptid explores fringe topics from a unique and sometimes controversial perspective. Is there another sun in our solar system, a death star called Nemesis that could one day destroy the Earth? | Source The Nemesis Hypothesis Nemesis is a theoretical second sun in our solar system, a dwarf star named after the Greek goddess of vengeance. In the English vocabulary the word nemesis has come to mean downfall, or ruin, and surely nothing good can result from a celestial body bearing this moniker. According to some, Nemesis will indeed ...
Top Scientist Tells CBS: HAARP Responsible For Recent Hurricanes
Post Date: 2017-09-11 15:16:18 by farmfriend
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World renowned physicist Dr. Michio Kaku made a shocking confession on live TV when he admitted that HAARP is responsible for the recent spate of hurricanes. In an interview aired by CBS, Dr. Kaku admitted that recent ‘man-made’ hurricanes have been the result of a government weather modification program in which the skies were sprayed with nano particles and storms then “activated” through the use of “lasers”. In the interview (below), Michio Kaku discusses the history of weather modification, before the CBS crew stop him in his tracks. The High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) was created in the early 1990’s as part of an ionospheric ...
MASSIVE SUNSPOTS AND SOLAR FLARES: THE SUN HAS GONE WRONG AND SCIENTISTS DON’T KNOW WHY
Post Date: 2017-09-11 14:48:09 by farmfriend
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f you still have your solar viewing glasses from the eclipse, now is a good time to slap them on and look up at the sun. You’ll see two big dark areas visible on our star. These massive sunspots are regions of intense and complicated magnetic fields that can produce solar flares—bursts of high-energy radiation. You can just make them out with solar viewing glasses, but they’re better viewed through a solar telescope. These two huge sunspots are currently causing quite a bit of consternation and interest. The solar storms they’ve sent toward Earth may affect communications and other technologies like GPS and radio signals. They’re causing amazing displays of the ...
Nibiru (Planet X) and Coming Pole Shift - John Moore at the Prophecy Club Radio (2 of 3)
Post Date: 2017-09-09 09:37:58 by BTP Holdings
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NASA maps summer melt of Greenland Ice Sheet
Post Date: 2017-09-09 09:15:17 by BTP Holdings
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NASA maps summer melt of Greenland Ice Sheet The mission of Operation IceBridge, NASA's longest-running airborne mission to monitor polar ice, is to collect data on changing polar land and sea ice. By Amy Wallace | Sept. 8, 2017 at 4:24 PM Terminus of the Zachariæ Isstrøm glacier in northeast Greenland, as seen from 28,000 feet during an Operation IceBridge flight on Aug. 29, 2017. Photo courtesy NASA/LVIS Team Sept. 8 (UPI) -- NASA's Operation IceBridge has been mapping summer ice melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet since Aug. 25 using a B200T King Air aircraft. The flights will go through Sept. 21, with repeat paths to be flown in the spring ...
The Sun Just Erupted: Blackouts Reported After Huge Solar Flare
Post Date: 2017-09-08 07:13:15 by BTP Holdings
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The Sun Just Erupted: Blackouts Reported After Huge Solar Flare Mac Slavo September 7th, 2017 SHTFplan.com Comments (29) The sun just released a massive solar flare. In fact, this is the largest solar flare emitted in the past decade, and the earth has already been affected by blackouts. NASA has reported a huge solar flare was emitted by the Sun and it is the most powerful one since 2006. This solar flare has already caused some radio blackouts on Earth and it may cause aurora visible as far south as London. On the morning of September 6, scientists watched as two X-flares were unleashed by the sun. The stronger flare was the second of the two emitted by the Sun ...
The Asteroid That Just Came Close to Earth Is So Huge It Has Its Own Moons
Post Date: 2017-09-08 06:06:22 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-alert... Asteroid Florence flew by Earth last week, skimming at a distance of 7 million kilometres (4.4 million miles). It's the biggest asteroid to come this close in more than a century. It's so big, in fact, that it has two tiny moons of its very own, according to radar images obtained by NASA when Florence was at its closest on 31 August and 1 September. "While many known asteroids have passed by closer to Earth than Florence ... all of those were estimated to be smaller," said JPL-NASA's Paul Chodas, manager of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies. "Florence is the largest asteroid to pass by our planet this close since the NASA program to detect ...
Senate panel votes to fund UN climate agency
Post Date: 2017-09-07 21:18:13 by farmfriend
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A Senate committee voted Thursday to contribute $10 million to the United Nations’ climate change agency. The Senate Appropriations Committee voted 16 to 14 to approve an amendment by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) to restore funding for the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change in the State Department appropriations bill. The payments that the United States had made annually since joining the convention in 1992 had been slated to be eliminated. Click for Full Text!
Hyperloop soon coming to Russia – presidential aide
Post Date: 2017-09-07 06:52:09 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Hyperloop technology will be soon introduced in Russia as the country’s vast territory is extremely suitable for the project; President Putin’s aide Igor Levitin told RIA Novosti. Read more Pod in dock © hyperloop-one.com Moscow commute at 1,200 kph & new Silk Road: Russia explores Hyperloop sci-fi dream The Hyperloop high-speed transport system was first proposed in 2013 by US billionaire Elon Musk as an innovative open-sourced concept. Travel is projected to be twice as fast as an airplane and four times faster than a high-speed train. It also promises to be safe and will work using solar energy. "It’s necessary to test the system. Today, the time ...
Hurricane Irma Manipulation: Objectives And Agendas ( Dane Wigington
Post Date: 2017-09-06 21:22:34 by Horse
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Poster Comment:Another storm in the Gulf (Katia) plus 2 likely headed to Florida (Irma & Jose)might indicate government intervention.
Established story about how humans came from Africa may be wrong, claims controversial new study
Post Date: 2017-09-06 20:59:22 by farmfriend
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The belief that humans came out of Africa millions of years ago is widely believed. But it might be about to be entirely re-written, according to the authors of a new study. They claim to have found a footprint in Crete that could change the narrative of early human evolution, suggesting that our ancestors were in modern Europe far earlier than we ever thought. Click for Full Text!
Soros Paid Al Gore MILLIONS To Push ‘Aggressive US Action’ On Global Warming
Post Date: 2017-09-06 07:49:39 by Ada
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Liberal billionaire George Soros gave former Vice President Al Gore’s environmental group millions of dollars over three years to create a “political space for aggressive U.S. action” on global warming, according to leaked documents. A document published by DC Leaks shows Soros, a Hungarian-born liberal financier, wanted his nonprofit Open Society Institute (OSI) to do more to support global warming policies in the U.S. That included budgeting $10 million in annual support to Gore’s climate group over three years. “U.S. Programs Global Warming Grants U.S. Programs became engaged on the global warming issue about four years ago, at George Soros’s ...
World University Rankings 2016-2017: results announced
Post Date: 2017-09-06 02:46:37 by Tatarewicz
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University of Oxford snatches top spot from Caltech in this year’s World University Rankings as Asia’s rise continues September 21, 2016 The University of Oxford has become the first UK university to top the Times Higher Education World University Rankings in the 12-year history of the table. It knocks the five-time leader, the California Institute of Technology, into second place in the World University Rankings 2016-2017. Oxford’s success can be attributed to improved performances across the four main indicators underlying the methodology of the ranking – teaching, research, citations and international outlook. More specifically the institution’s total income ...
Six Australian universities ranked in world's top 100
Post Date: 2017-09-06 01:42:18 by Tatarewicz
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CANBERRA, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- An international survey has ranked six Australian universities in the world's top 100. The Times Higher Education (THE) rankings for 2017, released on Wednesday, rated 1,000 institutions from 77 countries and regions on teaching, research, citations, outlook and income. The University of Melbourne was rated Australia's best - and the 32nd best university in the world - followed by the Australian National University (48), the University of Sydney (61), University of Queensland (65), Monash University (80) and University of New South Wales (85). All of the Australian universities within the top 100 fell between one and seven places from last ...
Dr. Tim Ball Crushes Climate Change: The Biggest Deception In History
Post Date: 2017-09-05 13:40:02 by farmfriend
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President Trump was correct to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. He could have explained that the science was premeditated and deliberately orchestrated to demonize CO2 for a political agenda. Wisely, he simply explained that it was a bad deal for the United States because it gave a competitive economic edge to other nations, especially China. A majority of Americans think he was wrong, but more would disagree if he got lost in the complexities of the science. I speak from experience having taught a Science credit course for 25 years for the student population that mirrors society with 80 percent of them being Arts students. Promoters of what is called anthropogenic global warming ...
Storm of Strange Radio Bursts Emerges From Deep Space
Post Date: 2017-09-05 13:37:16 by farmfriend
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Something has breathed new life into a faraway cosmic mystery machine and caused it to repeatedly hurl tremendous amounts of energy into the void. It’s not clear exactly what that object is, but scientists refer to the observable phenomenon as a fast radio burst: a fleeting but extremely powerful blast of radio waves. In this case, astronomers caught a rapid stream of radio bursts coming from a galaxy about three billion light-years away. Scientists with the Breakthrough Listen project made the discovery because, fortunately, they had a pretty good idea where to look. The team had tuned the giant Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia to a spot on the sky where a fast radio burst ...
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