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Birdfeeders Found to Cause Evolution of New Species But scientists have just discovered that bird-feeders in the UK are actually having a serious long term impact on bird life--they've found that the feeders have brought about the first evolutionary step in the creation of a brand new species.3 Vote(s)
Post Date:12/10/2009 16:18:10
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Harvard delays Allston construction, campus development The University will halt construction on its Allston science complex, and?significantly?revisit plans for campus development more broadly.
Post Date:12/10/2009 10:52:37
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a cold compress of green news More Than 100 Nations Back Tougher Climate Goals – reuters We just have to create some innovative green products…US Proposes Innovative Trade Concept to Fight Climate Change – enn Companies and countries fudge the numbers…Emissions Higher Than Reported - bbc At least the cold is good for something…Frozen Conditions Aid Alaska Pipeline Spill Cleanup – cnn There’s a lot [...]
Post Date:12/10/2009 08:14:24
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Ten Facts & Ten Myths On Climate Change Ten facts About Climate Change more...
Post Date:12/10/2009 03:42:00
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Nederlandse hightech bedrijven aan de top Holland spreekt een woordje mee. Drie Nederlandse bedrijven dingen mee naar een prijs voor het beste hightech bedrijf van Europa. Het gaat om het Amsterdamse Agendia (maakt een test waarmee het risico op uitzaaiing van borstkanker is te voorspellen), IASO Backup Technology uit Emmeloord (maakt online backups) en het Eindhovense Liquavista. Liquavista werkt aan een nieuwe generatie e-readers. Dankzij de gebruikte technologie (electrowetting) kunnen de schermen van Liquavista ook kleuren en bewegend beeld weergeven. Kom daar eens om bij de huidige generatie elektronische leesapparaten. Als het aan Johan Feenstra (
Post Date:12/10/2009 01:48:20
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Mysterious Radiation May Strike Airline Passengers There's a small chance that passengers aboard an airplane flying through a storm may be exposed to high levels of radiation, new research suggests. Credit: StockxpertFrom Live Science:Airline passengers flying through storms might have more to worry about than a little turbulence. A new study suggests that if jets pass near lightning discharges or related phenomena known as terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, passengers and crew members could be exposed to harmful levels of radiation, a dose equal to that of 400 chest X-rays.Read more ....
Post Date:12/09/2009 23:00:00
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Mysterious Light Display Leaves Norwegians And Astronomers Puzzled From Popular Science:A Russian missile test or a meteor remain the top guesses for a strange spiraling light phenomenon.A bizarre spiraling light show over Norway has raised speculations ranging from a Russian rocket test to an odd meteoric display. The Norwegian Meteorological Institute remains unsure of the phenomenon's origins, but astronomers have said that it does not appear connected to the Aurora Borealis, also known as the Northern Lights.Read more ....
Post Date:12/09/2009 17:00:00
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Palin on Climategate and Copenhagen Sarah Palin wrote an article appearing in The Washington Post titled Copenhagen's political science. Quoting: With the publication of damaging e-mails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point. The revelation of appalling actions by so-called climate change experts allows the American public to finally understand the concerns so many of us have articulated on this issue. "Climate-gate," as the e-mails and other documents from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia have become known, exposes a highly politicized scientific circle — the same circle whose work underlies efforts at the Copenhagen climate change conference. The agenda-driven policies being pushed in Copenhagen won't change the weather, but they would change our economy for the worse. Rising taxes and more expensive energy has that tendency. The e-mails reveal that leading climate "experts" deliberat
Post Date:12/09/2009 16:35:26
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BBC NEWS: Ancient Med flood mystery solved Research reveals details of a catastrophic flood that refilled the Mediterranean Sea more than five million years ago.
Post Date:12/09/2009 15:01:36
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T-Shirts & Apparel : pi*z*z*a Mathematical constants + tastiness FTW. It's hard not to love pizza. It's just so accommodating. It's foldable for picking up and eating and yet you don't look weird eating it with a fork and knife. It comes in pretty much any variety you can imagine and some you can't. Dessert pizza? yesplz. $15.99 - $17.99
Post Date:12/09/2009 13:11:38
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Incentives and Conspiracies Cross-posted from Coyote Blog: I am sort of the anti-conspiracy theorist. I have written a number of times that events people sometimes explain as orchestrated conspiracies often can be explained just as well by assuming that people with similar preferences and similar information and similar incentives will respond to these incentives in similar ways. I think the great herd-think around climate alarmism is a good example, and the Bishop Hill blog brings us a specific illustration from the comment section of Watts Up With That. A commenter observed that it was pretty hard to believe that thousands of scientists could be participating in a conspiracy. Another commenter wrote back: Actually not so hard. Personal anecdote: Last spring when I was shopping around for a new source of funding, after having my funding slashed to zero 15 days after going public with a finding about natural climate variations, I kept running into funding application instructions of the following variety: Succ
Post Date:12/09/2009 09:34:30
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Post Date:12/09/2009 08:59:48
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Re: Space elevator in 15-30 years? We need to research interplanetary ships. Ken,A Mars SE could be built with Kevlar or other similar materials but Phobos presents a problem since it is in an orbit lower than Mars GEO so will be in the way of the SE a lot.  Using Phobos as a base and extending a tethered craft to Mars has bee...
Post Date:12/09/2009 08:57:19
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a different kind of hybrid ? Power Plants Although the price of solar continues to fall for homeowners, experts say we are still some time away from matching the cost of fossil fuels.
Post Date:12/09/2009 08:30:24
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PST Names Energy Advocate Award Winners Media Contact: Lane Allgood (208) 313-4166Idaho Falls, ID - December 8, 2009 ? The Partnership for Science and Technology (PST) is pleased to announce the winners of its 2009 Energy Advocate Awards. The awards are presented to individuals or organizations that were central to a noteworthy achievement in an energy or environmental field that is of interest to PST and its membership.Awards Banquet December 19th, Red Lion Inn, Idaho Falls, IDThis year?s winners will be honored at the Annual Awards Banquet on December 19, 2009 at the Red Lion in Idaho Falls. The banquet is open to the public. For ticket information, contact the PST at (208) 313-4166 or visit the web site or see us on Facebook. Email: lallgood@partnershipforscienceandtechnology.org2009 PST Energy Advocate Award Winners National Award: U.S. Senate Western Caucus, Senator Mike Crapo (right) accepting. The U.S. Senate Western Caucus (video) was selected based on the introduction of the Clean, Affordable. Reliable Energy
Post Date:12/08/2009 21:55:00
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Science Cookies! Hat tip to PZ. These look like some very easy to make and fun cookies. Periodic Table squares, Gel Electrophoresis cookies, atomic cookies, and my favorite: Streaked Petri Plate cookies! Well I know what kind of cookies I’m making next. Move over chocolate chip, time to make room for a new friend!
Post Date:12/08/2009 20:49:01
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Desecrating an Icon Wesley J. Smith wrote The New Inquisition: Ideology?s Corruption of Science. He quotes from a WSJ editorial: As anonymous reviewers of choice for certain journals, Mr. Mann & Co. had considerable power to enforce the consensus, but it was not absolute, as they discovered in 2003. Mr. Mann noted in a March 2003 email, after the journal ?Climate Research? published a paper not to Mr. Mann?s liking, that ?This was the danger of always criticising the skeptics for not publishing in the ?peer-reviewed literature?. Obviously, they found a solution to that?take over a journal!? HT: Clare So go slow with the peer review mantra and be careful what you ask for. You just might get it. More from the WSJ: Mr. Mann went on to suggest that the journal itself be blackballed: ?Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal. We would also need to consider what we tell or request of our more reasonable colleague
Post Date:12/08/2009 15:15:57
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How many of them will be ours? Tomorrow 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security. The dangers have been becoming apparent for a generation. Now the facts have started to speak: 11 of the past 14 years have been the warmest on record, the Arctic ice-cap is melting and last year's inflamed oil and food prices provide a foretaste of future havoc. In scientific journals the question is no longer whether humans are to blame, but how little time we have got left to limit the damage. Yet so far the world's response has been feeble and half-hearted.Climate change has been caused over centuries, has consequences that will endure for all time and our prospects of taming it will be determined in the next 14 days. We call on the representatives of the 192 countries gathered in Copenhag
Post Date:12/06/2009 15:54:00
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CERN addenda: Universe B (UPDATE) The new Vanity Fair* has an article on CERN, which trumpets the site's inherent practical uselessness in the subheadline. Something to the effect of CERN being an 8 billion dollar Sharper Image-type toy for happy-go-lucky quantum physicists. Unfortunately the article isn't online, but I do plan on giving it a read at the library sometime this week. I'll get back if there are any pertinent tidbits therein.As I said before, I don't think CERN is some kind of lab experiment ("let's smash some atoms, la la la"). One wonders what kind of havoc could be wreaked if they ever somehow hooked up the LHC with HAARP (check out reader Dark Star's post on HAARP here) or other such exotic tech/weaponry. The mind reels.Given the Shiva statue on the grounds, one wonders if someone is tired of waiting for the gods to return and has decided to chase them down in whatever alternate reality they may have dropped in from. Or not- I'm not ashamed to admit the only thing I'm sure of about the LHC is that it's
Post Date:12/04/2009 19:23:00
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A conspiracy of cats
Post Date:12/04/2009 14:31:00
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