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Special Scent of Age: Body Odor Gives Away Age
Post Date: 2012-05-31 04:25:59 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (May 30, 2012) — New findings from the Monell Center reveal that humans can identify the age of other humans based on differences in body odor. Much of this ability is based on the capacity to identify odors of elderly individuals, and contrary to popular supposition, the so-called 'old-person smell' is rated as less intense and less unpleasant than body odors of middle-aged and young individuals. "Similar to other animals, humans can extract signals from body odors that allow us to identify biological age, avoid sick individuals, pick a suitable partner, and distinguish kin from non-kin," said senior author Johan Lundström, a sensory ...
Debunking the Myth of Intuition
Post Date: 2012-05-31 03:40:53 by Tatarewicz
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Can doctors and investment advisers be trusted? And do we live more for experiences or memories? In a SPIEGEL interview, Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman discusses the innate weakness of human thought, deceptive memories and the misleading power of intuition. Info SPIEGEL: Professor Kahneman, you've spent your entire professional life studying the snares in which human thought can become entrapped. For example, in your book, you describe how easy it is to increase a person's willingness to contribute money to the coffee fund. Kahneman: You just have to make sure that the right picture is hanging above the cash box. If a pair of eyes is looking back at them from ...
California's Senate passes bill to ban gay therapy
Post Date: 2012-05-31 02:41:01 by Tatarewicz
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SACRAMENTO, May 30, 2012 (Reuters) — A bill that would ban a therapy that aims to reverse homosexuality in children and teens passed California's Senate on Wednesday, moving the state a step closer to becoming the first in the nation to ban the controversial treatment. The 23-13 vote in the Democratic-controlled Senate marked a major victory for gay rights advocates who say the therapy has no medical basis because homosexuality is not a disorder, and that it can cause depression and lead to substance abuse and suicide. The bill still needs to be passed by the state Assembly and signed by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown before it can become law. It is expected to be taken up by ...
Zinger Mencken Quote
Post Date: 2012-05-30 10:52:23 by christine
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Volvo’s self-driven car convoy treks 125 miles across Spanish motorway
Post Date: 2012-05-30 03:35:03 by Tatarewicz
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Motorists may soon be able to use their cellphones while driving without fear of getting a ticket. In fact, they may be able to take their eyes off the road completely. Volvo has successfully completed a public test of a self-driven convoy of cars. A human driver led the convoy of three self-driven vehicles, which mimicked the lead driver's actions through a wireless link. "Driving among other road-users is a great milestone in our project. It was truly thrilling," Linda Wahlstroem, project manager for the Safe Road Trains for the Environment (SARTRE) project at Volvo Car Corp., told the BBC. "We covered 200km in one day and the test turned out well. We're really ...
Bill Bonner's alternative university grad lecture
Post Date: 2012-05-28 06:55:02 by Tatarewicz
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We spent the weekend in Charlottesville, VA…at the UVA graduation for our son, Henry. The University of Virginia is probably the most handsome campus in America. Especially in May. It has a green central esplanade bordered by columned buildings in the Greco-Roman style. At one end is the famous Rotunda. Flowers and trees bloom everywhere. We know of no other president who achieved anything equivalent. Some waged dubious wars. Some launched weasely social welfare programs. The best of them idled away their careers, shaking hands, making deals, and otherwise shuffling offstage leaving it no better or worse than it was when the curtain first went up. But Mr. Jefferson left an ...
US behind Russia plane crash: Russian military intelligence org.
Post Date: 2012-05-28 03:49:36 by Tatarewicz
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We know that they have special equipment that can cut communications between an aircraft and the ground or interfere with the parameters on board.” A general with Russia's military intelligence agency (GRU) Russia’s military intelligence organization (GRU) believes that Washington was behind the crash of a Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 plane in Indonesia earlier in May, which killed 45 passengers onboard. “We know that they have special equipment that can cut communications between an aircraft and the ground or interfere with the parameters on board,” Christian Science Monitor quoted a GRU general as saying, without mentioning his name. The Superjet, which was ...
British Cookie law set to come into force
Post Date: 2012-05-27 03:38:34 by Tatarewicz
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Computer hard drive The cookie laws were drawn up to help privacy on the web Thousands of UK websites are expected to be in breach of a law that dictates what they can log about visitors. European laws that define what details sites can record in text files called cookies come into force on 26 May. Cookies are widely used to customise what repeat visitors see on a site and by advertisers to track users online. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said it would offer help to non-compliant sites rather than take legal action against them. Action plan The regulations say websites must get "informed consent" from users before they record any detailed information in ...
Woman fined for blowing whistle into phone
Post Date: 2012-05-26 08:59:02 by Tatarewicz
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A 61-year-old German woman has been fined €800 for blowing a whistle down the telephone at a call-centre worker and damaging her hearing - after she got fed up with constant cold-calls to her house. The unnamed woman from Pirmasens in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate told a judge in a local court that she was so annoyed by the unending stream of calls from marketing companies last August that she snapped and blew a whistle into the receiver. She was hoping just to deter the company from calling her again, but ended up giving herself a criminal record - and the female call-centre employee long-term hearing problems and tinnitus due to the effort she put into the ...
Back to EDEN Gardening Video)
Post Date: 2012-05-22 21:32:57 by Itistoolate
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Back to Eden
Speech by members of Congress drops a grade level due to conservatives and new members, according to study
Post Date: 2012-05-22 00:45:02 by Tatarewicz
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Are members of Congress dumbing down their discourse? The Sunlight Foundation determined that Congress is talking at nearly a full grade level below the level at which members spoke seven years ago, according to its study of the Congressional Record—the official record of members' proceedings and speech. The foundation applied the Flesch-Kincaid grade level test to congressional conversations and found that today's Congress speaks "at about a 10.6 grade level, down from 11.5 in 2005," senior fellow Lee Drutman wrote in his analysis. Sunlight also found that the newest as well as the most conservative members of Congress on average speak at the lowest grade level. ...
Urgent PC Request
Post Date: 2012-05-21 10:51:03 by Eric Stratton
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My laptop just shit the bed. It's fine, it's 7+ years old (or maybe even 8+, not sure it's been so long) and I've gotten far more than average life out of it. Nevertheless, it needs to be replaced. It's the physical aspects of it that are crumbling, not the internal or s/w ones. All I really need is a "blank" laptop since all the new ones come w/ Windows 7 which I hate. I own XP so I can reinstall that over anything that I buy. But where can I get a list of which programs work w/ Linux? Should I consider using Linux? (I don't need a litany of reasons, just whether or not it's practical, etc. I know it's better by my understanding than Windows.) ...
An interesting game: Fantasy Finance
Post Date: 2012-05-21 09:40:33 by PSUSA2
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I just started a few days ago and already I've been in the top 1%. I didn't know I was a financial genius. Click for Full Text!
Zuckerberg's post-IPO wedding is smart legal move
Post Date: 2012-05-21 05:23:03 by Tatarewicz
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 20, 2012 (Reuters) — Getting married was a smart business move as well as a personal milestone for Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, with the timing of the wedding, the day after the company's initial public offering, potentially proving particularly advantageous, California divorce lawyers said on Sunday. Assuming the couple signed a prenuptial agreement, as most wealthy Californians do, Zuckerberg and Chan would have agreed exactly how to split assets, including his Facebook stock, if their marriage dissolved in future. Even without a prenup, the wedding's timing would help establish the value of their assets in the event of any future divorce battle, ...
Honey Bee Removal - Video
Post Date: 2012-05-20 22:18:03 by Amandil
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I was working on an upgrade to a client's web site and ran across a bunch of raw video, once tinkered with enough, I put it up at youtube ... I'm kinda impressed at what this guy does for a living.
Credit score scam
Post Date: 2012-05-20 10:33:21 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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About four years ago my baby brother was laid off from his job and had trouble finding another one in his field, so he took the first job he could get and went from 70k a year down to about $11.00 an hour. It took him about a year to find a job in his career field and get back up to his previous salary. In that year though he lost his house and got behind on all of his credit card bills to the point that he was forced to go to one of those consumer credit places in order to work out a payment plan. He did keep up on his two car payments though. To make a long story short, he completely paid off all of the bills he was behind on about 18 months ago. In the meantime his wife finished up her ...
Beating the traffic ticket in France
Post Date: 2012-05-20 05:40:55 by Tatarewicz
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A couple in the southern town of Cannes have been able to escape a string of parking fines by registering a car in the name of their four-year-old son. Local newspaper Nice Matin reported that a quirk in French law allows a minor to be named as the legal owner of a car. The law, dating back to 1984, was designed to allow 16 and 17 year old learner drivers to be able to have a car. Instead, the canny couple took advantage of the rules to put their car in the name of their son. All that's needed to do so is proof of address and an identity card. No driving licence is required. Since registering the car in his name a total of 70 different driving offences have been notched up. ...
19 Things That All High School Students Should Be Told Before They Go To College
Post Date: 2012-05-19 08:27:58 by Tatarewicz
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Don't you wish that someone had told you the truth before you went to college? Don't you wish that someone had told you that college has become a giant money making scam that is designed to drain as much money out of students and parents as possible? Yes, college can be a profitable endeavor if you pick your field of study wisely, if you can get someone else to pay for at least some of it and if you can actually get a good job in that field when you graduate. But most high school students are never told to weigh the pros and the cons before they run off to college. The typical high school student is simply told to get into the "best school" that he or she can and to take ...
Tullochgorum -- Christina Smith
Post Date: 2012-05-18 00:42:25 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Russian “Journalist- a US State Dept. agent?
Post Date: 2012-05-17 03:40:00 by Tatarewicz
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As chaos consumes Libya, with death squads roaming the fractured nation committing atrocities, torture, racist genocide, and mired in infighting, and with the violence in Syria now fully exposed as foreign terrorists organized, armed, directed, and staged since 2007 by the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, one might think journalists today would be careful about invoking these “successes” while trying to sow destabilization elsewhere. But for Russian “journalist” Yulia Latynina, repeating US State Department talking points, no matter how hypocritical, no matter how oafishly in contradiction to reality, is just another day on the job. Photo: Meet “independent ...
Best Marijuana Argument Ever: Given By Superior Court Judge James P.
Post Date: 2012-05-15 06:20:46 by wudidiz
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.Poster Comment:This guy's good
Swedish women more prone to lose libido over flatulence fears
Post Date: 2012-05-14 05:12:16 by Tatarewicz
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One in three Swedish women say no to sex due to the fear of farting during the act, according to a new report, while men are only half as likely to forgo sex over concerns about breaking wind. The study, which was commissioned by pharmacy chain Kronan and Swedish research company Novus, found that some 30 percent of women surveyed had said “thanks, but no thanks” to sex due to their gassy stomach, wrote daily Aftonbladet. Only 15 percent of men made the same claim, however. Bert Karlsson, a celebrated Swedish 66-year-old record company manager and former politician, was quizzed by the paper on the statistics, and claims to have never used the excuse of a gassy stomach. ...
Leica camera fetches 2.16m euros at auction
Post Date: 2012-05-14 03:35:50 by Tatarewicz
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A prototype Leica camera has sold for 2.16m euros (£1.74m), setting a new world record for a camera. It was one of just 25 models created in 1923 as a prototype for the groundbreaking Leica A, which was the first commercially successful compact camera to use 35mm film. Branded the "null-serie", or 0-Series, only 12 are known to have survived. The camera was bought by an anonymous bidder at the Galerie Westlicht in Vienna, Austria. Saturday's bidding started at 300,000 euros, with an estimate of 600,000 euros. But by the time the hammer fell, the bids had escalated to 1.8m euros. The remainder of the sale price included taxes and fees. The prices such cameras ...
Send In The Clowns
Post Date: 2012-05-14 03:04:00 by Tatarewicz
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Did you know that if a woman is having trouble getting pregnant, it might be wise to send in the clowns? Sounds hard to conceive but according to a hospital in Montreal, this might just do the trick. Researchers at McGill University Health’s reproductive centre have announced a link between fertility rates and exposure to a professionally trained, university accredited medical clown (as opposed to an amateur like your husband). In this study, the scientists hired clown specialists from Israel where they are commonly found skipping down the hospital hallways with their oversized shoes because of the evidence that laughter can help heal and alleviate stress. After a group of women who ...
11 killed in aeroplane crash in north-west Nepal
Post Date: 2012-05-14 02:52:11 by Tatarewicz
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KATHMANDU, May 14 (Xinhua) -- An aeroplane belonging to Agni Air crashed in Jomsom, north-west Nepal crashed Monday morning. 11 people have been confirmed dead while 5 people have been rescued alive. There were total 21 people on the plane with 3 crew members. Among the rescued are the air hostess of the flight, one minor and two foreigners. The plane was flying from Pokhara to Jomsom, Mustang. The plane crashed around 10 a.m. local time (0415 GMT). Rescue operations are being carried on. Most of the passengers are foreigners. The injured have been flown to hospital for treatment. As per reports, the plane crashed as they failed while turning the plane from a narrow turn. The front ...
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