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How Stupid Are Americans?
Post Date: 2012-10-12 20:33:36 by Esso
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Cocktail napkin charts that ask, "Just how stupid are Americans?" Voting in the USA is like standing in front of a vending machine with two buttons. Push the blue "Democrat" button and out drops a blue can of diarrhea. Push the red "Republican" button and a red can of diarrhea is delivered. If you know somebody who believes that it makes the slightest difference whether the next "elected" Puppet of Wall Street / Leader of the Free World / Teleprompter Reader / Packaged Diarrhea comes with a red or blue label, please send that person a link to this page. If you don't enjoy being served a colorful can of diarrhea, stop playing along ...
Topic:How did Mo Yan win China's first Nobel Prize in Literature?
Post Date: 2012-10-12 02:13:11 by Tatarewicz
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Less than half an hour after the announcement from Stockholm, Mo's works turned to "sold-out" status at China's major online book sellers. One lucky buyer wrote in an online comment: "Rushed to purchase, but to my shame, I have not read any of his novels." Although Mo was entitled one of the top domestic literature awards before the Nobel Prize, he is not the most popular novelist in China, in either the book market or in reputation. Chinese media seemed to be stunned as some journalists were reported to be on their way overnight to Gaomi City of east China's Shandong Province, Mo's birthplace where he stayed with his family. Born in 1955 into a ...
Eat more chocolate, win more Nobels?
Post Date: 2012-10-11 03:13:23 by Tatarewicz
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Take this with a grain of salt, or perhaps some almonds or hazelnuts: A study ties chocolate consumption to the number of Nobel Prize winners a country has and suggests it's a sign that the sweet treat can boost brain power. No, this does not appear in the satirical Onion newspaper. It's in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, which published it online Wednesday as a "note" rather than a rigorous, peer-reviewed study. The author — Dr. Franz Messerli, of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital and Columbia University in New York — writes that there is evidence that flavanols in green tea, red wine and chocolate can help "in slowing down or even ...
Elongated Skulls Shock American Physician...
Post Date: 2012-10-10 00:43:19 by farmfriend
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Addicted to Love
Post Date: 2012-10-09 21:48:24 by CadetD
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Post Date: 2012-10-07 16:57:47 by Jethro Tull
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Building a bushfire resistant home
Post Date: 2012-10-06 02:36:45 by Tatarewicz
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With bushfire season fast approaching, construction of the first bushfire resistant straw bale house tested by CSIRO has begun in rural Victoria. Conceived by sustainable designer Joost Bakker, the house is based on design principles that minimise environmental impact and it is set to withstand temperatures equal to that of a worst case bushfire scenario. Made with straw bale insulation and set into a recycled steel frame with magnesium oxide cladding by ModakBoard, the house challenges traditional construction methods and materials. The design of the house was tested by CSIRO using a bushfire simulator in Mogo, NSW, earlier this year. The tests proved that the design could resist ...
Akron City Hall Evacuated After Man Named ‘Kaboom’ Leaves Walking Stick
Post Date: 2012-10-06 00:52:27 by Tatarewicz
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A bomb evacuation at Akron City Hall turned out to be a mistake accidentally caused by an Akron resident named, "Natural Hunka Kaboom." CLEVELAND (CBS CLEVELAND) – An aluminum rod left in Akron City Hall caused an evacuation because someone had scrawled the word, “Kaboom” on it. But after Akron Police, Fire, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, and the Summit County Bomb Squad cleared the scene – it turned out the rod was really a man’s walking stick, and the man’s legal name really was “Kaboom.” The stick’s discovery at about 8:30 a.m., coupled with Kaboom’s explosive name, caused a brief panic as dozens of workers were ...
China has over 80,000 rehabilitation centers
Post Date: 2012-10-05 05:20:56 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- More than 80,000 physical rehabilitation institutions for handicapped people have been built in the country, as of the end of 2011. Large-scale rehabilitation centers have been set up in 29 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities on the Chinese mainland, said Li Jianjun, director of the China Center on the Study of Rehabilitation, at the Seventh Beijing International Forum on Rehabilitation. The country is now in urgent need of well-trained specialists in this field, Li said. As many as 500,000 members of staff are needed with the number of professional workers only about one tenth of the figure required. In addition, the country is lacking a unified ...
China Through D.D.'s Lens : Hangzhou
Post Date: 2012-10-04 22:18:28 by Paul Stanner
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D.D. and Spaced Teacher tour China together. Come see China like you've never seen her before. Click for Full Text!
Complete Solution for Oil-Spill Cleanup
Post Date: 2012-10-04 01:06:34 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 3, 2012) — Scientists are describing what may be a "complete solution" to cleaning up oil spills -- a superabsorbent material that sops up 40 times its own weight in oil and then can be shipped to an oil refinery and processed to recover the oil. Their article on the material appears in ACS' journal Energy & Fuels. T. C. Mike Chung and Xuepei Yuan point out that current methods for coping with oil spills like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster are low-tech, decades-old and have many disadvantages. Corncobs, straw and other absorbents, for instance, can hold only about 5 times their own weight and pick up water, as well as oil. Those materials ...
Mental decline in older physicians
Post Date: 2012-10-04 00:15:41 by Tatarewicz
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concern for patients? If so, what should be done about it?" Turning the Tables of Time "Do you feel that doctors over the age of 65 should be screened for cognitive decline?" began a general practitioner. Many, particularly those who identified as older doctors, chafed at any suggestion of testing for aging physicians. "I am appalled at the notion of cognitive testing. I do not plan to retire until I sense I am losing my touch," said one 70-year-old internist. More than a few physicians flipped the script, pointing out the shortcomings of younger colleagues. "I'll take a thoughtful history, skilled physical exam, and decades of experience over some ...
Payback Is Gonna Be A BITCH Wing Fu : Vampires , Mummies and The Holy Ghost CH 1 A
Post Date: 2012-10-03 06:34:34 by Paul Stanner
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China Through D.D. Lumix's lens -- Shenyang : Who Says We Live In A Graceless Age ?
Post Date: 2012-10-03 06:25:14 by Paul Stanner
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D.D. Lumix and Spaced Teacher tour China together. Click the link Cracker !! Click for Full Text! Click for Full Text!
China Through D.D. Lumix's lens -- Shenyang : China Has Hope
Post Date: 2012-10-03 06:17:34 by Paul Stanner
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D.D. Lumix and Spaced Teacher tour China together. Click the link Cracker!! Click for Full Text!
China Through D.D. Lumix's lens -- Shenyang : The Botanical Gardens
Post Date: 2012-10-03 06:14:20 by Paul Stanner
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D.D. and Spaced Teacher tour China together. Click the link Cracker for a look at China like you've never seen her before. Click for Full Text!
China Through D.D. Lumix's lens -- Shenyang : Bei Ling Park
Post Date: 2012-10-03 06:09:33 by Paul Stanner
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D.D. Lumiz and Spaced Teacher tour China together. Click the link Cracker to see China like you've never seen her before. Click for Full Text! Click for Full Text!
CN testing natural gas trains on Fort McMurray line
Post Date: 2012-10-03 04:54:38 by Tatarewicz
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CN is testing locomotives in northern Alberta fueled primarily by natural gas instead of diesel. CN says it's exploring the use of natural gas as an alternative to diesel to lower fuel costs and reduce carbon dioxide emissions. "Natural gas has a lower carbon content compared with diesel fuel, so that locomotives using natural gas - if the railway technology employing this form of energy ultimately proves viable - would produce significantly fewer carbon dioxide emissions," said Keith Creel, executive vice-president and chief operating officer, in a press release Thursday. The company retrofitted diesel engines in two 3,000-horsepower locomotives to hybrid engines burning ...
Thousands of Bombs Dumped in Gulf of Mexico Pose Huge Threat to Oil Rigs
Post Date: 2012-10-03 01:34:05 by Tatarewicz
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After World War II the US government dumped millions of kilograms of unexploded bombs into the Gulf of Mexico. This is no secret; many governments dumped their unexploded ordnance into oceans and lakes from 1946 up until the 1970s when it was made illegal under international treaty. Now that technology has advanced enough for oil companies to drill deep sea wells in the Gulf of Mexico, those forgotten payloads have become a real hazard. The US designated certain areas around its coast for the safe dumping of explosives, nerve gas, and mustard gas. The problem is that the records of where these munitions were dumped are incomplete, and many experts believe that a lot of cargo was dumped ...
Brothers In Arms
Post Date: 2012-10-02 08:03:26 by Esso
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Pesticide use ramping up as GMO crop technology backfires: study
Post Date: 2012-10-02 04:45:01 by Tatarewicz
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Oct. 1, 2012 (Reuters) — U.S. farmers are using more hazardous pesticides to fight weeds and insects due largely to heavy adoption of genetically modified crop technologies that are sparking a rise of "superweeds" and hard-to-kill insects, according to a newly released study. Genetically engineered crops have led to an increase in overall pesticide use, by 404 million pounds from the time they were introduced in 1996 through 2011, according to the report by Charles Benbrook, a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University. Of that total, herbicide use increased over the 16-year period by 527 million pounds ...
Hobbit movie
Post Date: 2012-10-01 08:47:55 by Dead Culture Watch
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Posted at LP, thought it might be appreciated here. Over there, the usual crap stains devolved the thread.. The Hobbit will be coming out. Three movies, am going to copy and paste a fantastic post about this. Am unsure of origin of this, but worth reading, here goes..... 1 - 09-24-2012, 10:24 AM Everything Peter Jackson added to The Hobbit — with PROOF! Potentially very spoilerish, but it sounds amazing Quote: Now that it has been officially confirmed that Peter Jackson will be making a trilogy out of The Hobbit, everyone is asking one basic question. How is that possible? The Hobbit just isn't as big as Lord of the Rings. But Jackson has sworn up and down that there's ...
Son of China's Bo Xilai defends his father
Post Date: 2012-10-01 04:20:17 by Tatarewicz
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BOSTON (Reuters) - The Harvard-educated son of disgraced Chinese political leader Bo Xilai defended his father against charges of taking bribes and having improper sexual relationships, saying he believed in his father's good character. "Personally, it is hard for me to believe the allegations that were announced against my father, because they contradict everything I have come to know about him throughout my life," Bo Guagua said in a statement posted on the microblog site Tumblr. "Although the policies my father enacted are open to debate, the father I know is upright in his beliefs and devoted to duty," he added. Bo confirmed the statement, posted on ...
I Hope You Dance
Post Date: 2012-09-29 16:04:12 by Lod
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Vincent
Post Date: 2012-09-28 20:53:57 by Lod
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