tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-115251002011-12-28T20:13:58.894-08:00<center><a href="http://revolutionaryparadigm.blogspot.com"><img src="http://www.pissedonpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/rplogo610058qe.gif"></a></center>Paradigm Shifterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02547752616677372041noreply@blogger.comBlogger3141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11525100.post-80583578829121806122011-12-28T12:15:00.000-08:002011-12-28T12:42:20.404-08:00

It's hard for me to understand what is going on with the Fukushima Nuclear Reactors.  Are they in full melt down?  Will they continue to melt all the way down to the center of the Earth as described by the China Syndrome? If some or all of the reactors are in full melt down and reach the center of the Earth, what happens?  Does the material just burn up?  Could it explode?  Will it cause

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I have not blogged here in a long time.  I mostly blog at pissedonpolitics.com I am thinking about getting back into Revolutionary Paradigm as time keeps moving forward.  Initially I thought Science and Technology would propel us forward but it seemed Politics was holding us back.  So I focused on Politics. Now I am back to my original conclusion - the only way we will survive is through

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If you're like me and follow science and technology then chances are you have heard about Russia planning to launch spacecraft to Asteroid Apophis.  Apophis is one of may Near Earth Objects, or NEO's, and has been deemed an "earth killer" due to its size. It is scheduled to make a close pass around earth in 2029.  It's been determined it won't hit Earth at this time but it is getting pretty darn

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Recently it was reported that a company called OriginOil had developed a way to extract the oil from green algae without killing the algae. This could lead to renewable sources of oil fueled by sunlight. I began thinking if some day in the future we could have a car with an on board tank of green algae where the oil was extracted from the green algae in real time. The oil was then processed

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Most of us are aware that Jesus preached a message of peace, tolerance, love, and compassion. Jesus taught not to judge people. Some of us forget that Jesus was a Jew. As a Jew he was bound to a myriad of laws that he was required to follow. To simplify things Jesus summed up the law with Love your neighbor as yourself, do to others as you would have them do to you. Jesus said if you do this

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Conventional Wisdom Resists ChangeI am a firm believe in rapid change through paradigm shifting. However conventional wisdom as put forth by the eggheads and robber barons that run our country states change must be slow and gradual. The rational is that rapid change destabilizes society and leads to violence.This has been one of the excuses we use to slow the transition off of oil. We have

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Algae oil developer OriginOil signs pact with U.S. DOELOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Algae-to-energy developer OriginOil has signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy to cooperate in research, the company said on Tuesday.Los Angeles-based OriginOil and the DOE's Idaho National Laboratory will work to validate the company's technology of growing algae for fuel in a "photobioreactor."Idaho

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Scientists plan to ignite tiny man-made starIt is science’s star experiment: an attempt to create an artificial sun on earth — and provide an answer to the world’s impending energy shortage. By Richard Gray, Science CorrespondentWhile it has seemed an impossible goal for nearly 100 years, scientists now believe that they are on brink of cracking one of the biggest problems in physics by

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Intel Hopes to Bring Free Energy to Mobile DevicesBy Agam Shah, IDG News ServiceIntel on Friday said it is researching technology to harvest free energy from the environment, which could lead to devices such as mobile phones running for indefinite periods without recharging. The company is working on tiny sensors that can capture energy from sources such as sunlight and body heat. In the future,

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Telegraph.co.uk - Ocean currents can power the world, say scientistsA revolutionary device that can harness energy from slow-moving rivers and ocean currents could provide enough power for the entire world, scientists claim. By Jasper CoppingThe technology can generate electricity in water flowing at a rate of less than one knot - about one mile an hour - meaning it could operate on most

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Miniature Nuclear Reactors to be on Sale Within 5 YearsHyperion, Toshiba, others, race to produce "personal" nuclear power.Using technology licensed from the U.S. government, an Arizona-based company is planning to bring a new generation of miniature nuclear reactors to market. The Hyperion Hydride Reactor is not much larger than a hot tub, is totally sealed and self-operating, has no moving

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For years we have heard the mantra "Greed Is Good." The American people and the government have been told to get out of the way and let the free market govern itself. We've been told that if we hamper corporations and their ability to make profit with what they deemed as unnecessary regulations then we would be hampering the U.S. economy; this in turn would be a drag on the economic well being of

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For years I have been in a twitch about the Short Selling of stocks. Shorting a stock is when you borrow shares of a stock from a broker in the hopes that it will go down. For example, GE is currently trading around $27 per share. Let's say you think the stock is overvalued and will go down so you decide to short the stock.You log into your online brokerage account or call your broker and put

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Throughout World History innovation has driven societal advancement.Most of the time governments and rulers are reactive rather than proactive when it comes to adapting to new technologies. Take for example electrical power plants. Their advent and the wiring of homes for electric lights propelled American society forward. It was such a huge innovation that government was forced to react to it

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Times Online - Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrolSilicon Valley is experimenting with bacteria that have been genetically altered to provide 'renewable petroleum'“Ten years ago I could never have imagined I’d be doing this,” says Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late afternoon Californian sun. “I mean, this is essentially agriculture, right?

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It's being reported that later today video of a 'Live Alien' will be broadcast. I fear this will end up being yet another elaborate hoax but I will try to keep an open mind. No doubt it will eventually be on YouTube thus I will update accordingly...Purported alien video confab concludesA few minutes of grainy, black and white video show a creature with big eyes peeping over a windowsill. But does

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A cheap polymer material increases the power output of methanol fuel cells by 50 percent.By Katherine BourzacMethanol fuel cells have the potential to replace batteries as a lightweight power source for portable electronic devices. But fuel-cell materials are expensive, and fuel cells that consume methanol are inefficient. In particular, the membranes used in methanol fuel cells are expensive and

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High gas prices drive farmer to switch to mules APMCMINNVILLE, Tenn. - High gas prices have driven a Warren County farmer and his sons to hitch a tractor rake to a pair of mules to gather hay from their fields. T.R. Raymond bought Dolly and Molly at the Dixon mule sale last year. Son Danny Raymond trained them and also modified the tractor rake so the mules could pull it. T.R. Raymond says the

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Amazing Video...Battle at Kruger

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Amazing Video... Battle at Kruger

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We are at the point now where we have solutions to our energy woes that can be implemented NOW. All we need is the willingness to change.I’ve been following energy alternatives for a while and pushing for the United States to move away from oil as the dominant source of energy for our country. The point of this blog is to push for rapid change; to shift the paradigm in a dynamic temporal manner

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Billionaire Texas oil man makes big bets on windBy Chris Baltimore WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legendary Texas oil man T. Boone Pickens has gone green with a plan to spend $10 billion to build the world's biggest wind farm. But he's not doing it out of generosity - he expects to turn a buck.The Southern octogenarian's plans are as big as the Texas prairie, where he lives on a ranch with his horses,

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Richard Branson and Google have teamed up to send an expedition to Mars.The program is called VirgleRichard Branson on VirgleFrom the Virgle site:For thousands of years,the human race has spread out across the Earth, scaling mountains and plying the oceans, planting crops and building highways, raising skyscrapers and atmospheric CO2 levels, and observing, with tremendous and unflagging

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One-and-a-half-year old Chihuahua dog 'Conan' prays with his owner and chief priest Joei Yoshikuni during a morning pray at the Shuri-Kannondo temple in Okinawa islands, southwestern Japan, Monday, March 24, 2008.(AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye) Dog prays at Japanese Zen templeNAHA, Japan - At a Zen Buddhist temple in southern Japan, even the dog prays. Mimicking his master, priest Joei Yoshikuni, a 1 1/2

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You Decide...Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcherJERUSALEM (AFP) - High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this weekSuch mind-altering substances formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at

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By BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press Writer DANIA BEACH, Fla. - Just 15 miles off Florida's coast, the world's most powerful sustained ocean current — the mighty Gulf Stream — rushes by at nearly 8.5 billion gallons per second. And it never stops. To scientists, it represents a tantalizing possibility: a new, plentiful and uninterrupted source of clean energy.Florida Atlantic University researchers

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DETROIT, Michigan (AFP) - General Motors Corp. is planning on making biofuel with garbage at a cost of less than a dollar a gallon, the company's chief has said.The US automaker has entered into a partnership with Illinois-based Coskata Inc. which has developed a way to make ethanol from practically any renewable source, including old tires and plant waste.The process is a significant improvement

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I personally find this to be terrific news. I am a huge fan of LOTR, read the books several times over, and own all of Jackson's LOTR extended cut DVD's.This makes me very happy.Peter Jackson to produce `The Hobbit'By JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment WriterNEW YORK - Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have reached agreement to make J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," a planned prequel to the blockbuster

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Inventor John Kanzius on Burning Salt WaterThis should be talked about more.A viable alternative that we have a huge supply of. John Kanzius Produces Hydrogen from Salt Water Using Radio Waves

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We have a serious energy problem in America. We know that our dependence on foreign oil fuels terrorism around the world. We know we need to rid ourselves of our dependence on oil. However, the Petrochemical Industry is insisting that we stay on oil for as long as possible, until the entire world is plunged into oil wars if necessary just so they can continue to make a profit.It's really shameful

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Indonesia's Child of Krakatau volcano spits flamesJAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's "Child of Krakatau" volcano, formed after Mount Krakatau's legendary eruption in 1883, has been spitting out flaming rocks and smoke for days, but it is not especially dangerous, a vulcanologist said on Friday.Mount Anak Krakatau, which lies in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra, began erupting

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Before work this morning, I flipped on MSNBC to find Joe Scarborough interviewing Pat Buchanan about global climate change for a counterpoint to GE/NBC/Universal's 'Green Is Universal' week, which is supposed to be about raising environmental awareness similar to CNN's 'Planet in Peril'.As to be expected, Buchanan came down on the side of the oil corporations and big business. Buchanan's 'proof'

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Tips: The Dark Wraith Forums, The Uncapitalist JournalThis video should give everyone something to think about as we move into what is supposed to be the great big promise of a better future being brought to you by more and more gadgets.“The inventor of the system deserves to be ranked among the best contributors to learning and science, if not the greatest benefactors of mankind.”- Josiah F.

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Tips: Les Enragés.org

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I first heard about this on the Colbert Report broadcast on 10/30/07.Colbert went on to make what at the time seemed like an outrageous claim: That a mass of garbage twice the size of Texas was floating around in the Pacific Ocean. I immediately found myself searching for news articles about the toxic mass.Much to my disappointment, Colbert was not kidding. There really is a massive pile of

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It's just a matter of time...US scientist heralds 'artificial life' breakthroughWASHINGTON (AFP) — Controversial celebrity US scientist Craig Venter has announced he is on the verge of creating the first ever artificial life form which he hails as a potential remedy to illness and global warming.Venter told Britain's The Guardian newspaper Saturday that he has built a synthetic chromosome using

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No word yet as exactly how bad this is but it's not sounding good.'Catastrophic' volcano eruption off YemenTORONTO, Canada (AP) -- A volcano has erupted on a tiny island off the coast of Yemen, spewing lava and ash hundreds of feet into the air, a Canadian naval vessel near the island in the Red Sea reported Sunday. There were no reports of deaths, but at least nine people were missing.The Yemeni

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A crater is seen in Carangas, Puno, Peru, Monday, Sept. 17, 2007, caused by a supposed meteorite that crashed in southern Peru over the weekend causing hundreds of people to suffer headaches, nausea and respiratory problems, a health official said Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007. (AP Photo/La Razon, Miguel Carrasco) ** BOLIVIA OUTMSNBC via AP:Doctors so far have found no evidence site sickened peopleLIMA

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This is one for the bizarre file...Mystery illness strikes after meteorite hits Peruvian villageLIMA (AFP) - Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area, regional authorities said Monday. Around midday Saturday, villagers were startled by an explosion and a fireball that many were convinced was an airplane crashing

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A Scientist discovered that radio waves at particular frequencies actually caused sald water to burn. This could lead to an exciting new discovery and alternative fuel to help rid ourselves of the oil burden.Radio frequencies help burn salt water ERIE, Pa. - An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the "most remarkable

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Ok...before we get too excited, many people are already calling this a hoax.Too bad...abovetopsecret.com forum discussion on hoaxHaiti UFO video – Too good to be true?Is this really a UFO captured on film?

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Art Bell of Coast To Coast, who I am sad to learn will retire soon, had a great show on Saturday interviewing Thom Carey, a Roswell Investigator who has a new book out titled Roswell - Unmasking The 60 Year Cover Up.You can listen to the show here at the Coast to Coast archivesThe focal point of the interview for me came when Art Bell read the sworn affidavit of Lieutenant Walter Haut that was

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Pretty amazing stuff really. Looks like it's going into production soon. While there may be some safety concerns, how can one beat a simple filling up of a air tank for $0.50 as opposed to filling up a gas tank for $50?Indian air-powered City Cat car prepares for production runCity Cat: This Tata is Filled with Hot AirTata Motors Home PageAn engine which uses air as fuel Tata Motors and

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(cross posted at Pissed On Politics)I just heard from a colleague the other day that Oil Companies rather than building new refineries are just trying to retrofit old ones to increase production. This colleague of mine has working in my Department for a long time but recently left to work for a company whose business is to retrofit refineries. After a short stint there he came back to work in our

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There is some frustration inside me that has been welling up for years now and it’s over the so-called evolution debate.Bluntly, you cannot chose to “not believe” in evolution anymore than you can chose to believe that the sun doesn’t rise or that the earth is flat. I suppose you could walk around convincing yourself that the Earth is flat or live in a box and tell yourself that the sun doesn’t

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If you have not have heard yet, North America's bee population is disappearing.Who cares, right? Well not so fast. Bees are responsible for pollinating fruit trees, nut trees, and various crops. Without bees, frankly we're fucked. We could very well face massive food shortages.Am I being hysterical? Perhaps. But ask yourself why this isn't being widely reported. Why isn't the media telling the

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An explanation is in order.Many of you probably know that I am also known as PoliShifter and post regularly on my other blog Pissed On Politics, a political blog of mine that leans progressive left and in most cases considered pretty radical.When I started blogging my interest was not in politics, it was in Science, Philosphy, Religion, Alternative Energy, etc which is how Revoluionary Paradigm

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A former Canadian defense minister thinks so. He's demanding that governments all over the world disclose what UFO technology they have. Far fetched? Maybe, maybe not. IF governments do have UFO technology that is classified for National Defense purposes the time may be approaching where such technology should be released into the public domain.For example, a source of renewable, limitless,

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Early detection is key. Once this technology is perfected it should help catch cancer early while there is still a chance for treatment.Breath test able to spot lung cancerBellinda Kontominas Medical ReporterFebruary 27, 2007A BREATH test using coloured dots can show whether a patient has lung cancer, even in the early stages of the disease, a study published today in the British specialist

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This story is finally getting some traction, albeit not very much. A large UFO was seen by Pilots and United Airlines employees at Chicago's O'Hare airport.And as expected, no one is going to investigate. By "no one" I mean the Government or United Airlines or any other agency that would be taken seriously by the public.Perhaps now more than ever we need the aliens to come forward and shock us

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It's been around for qutie a while now. I've watched countless shows on the Antikythera Mechanism on The Discovery Channel, PBS, History Channel, etc. Speculations ran from it being an ancient computer to just some random debris that accumulated together.Expert after expert has studied the mechanism trying to figure out what it was. Some have tried to reconstruct it. But until recently except

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I wrote a previous post on the international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER) last year titled Nuclear Fusion: Powering The World by 2015?Go check that out if you would like some background information.Today's News:Pact on ITER signed in ParisAn agreement on the construction of the world's first international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER) was signed in Paris on

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This is pretty disheartening. I just had a friend recently tell me "who cares, I will be 82 when that happens..."This is precisely the attitude that will lead to the demise of human beings as a species on Earth.Report Warns of ‘Global Collapse’ of FishingBy CORNELIA DEANIf fishing around the world continues at its present pace, more and more species will vanish, marine ecosystems will unravel and

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This story below I think is an example of how the 21st century will soon be foisted upon us. We are to a certain degree still living with a 20th century mentality.Many of us, including our leaders have a cold war mentality and limits to our imagination. The younger generations however, as always will be pushing us to new limits with new technologies beyond our wildest dreams.Whether or not this

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Chinadaily.com.cnNew findings in a study of the process of skin tanning reveal a promising way of protecting fair-skinned people from skin cancer caused by exposure to sunlight.In a new research done on mice scientists have developed a cream that switched on the tanning machinery in the skin cells without exposing them to sun. This new understanding of the process of skin tanning enabled them to

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MUNICH (Reuters) - BMW will roll out the world's first hydrogen-burning car in serial production early next year, the German premium automaker said on Tuesday, eager to put its stamp on cars with green credentials.The specially equipped 7-Series executive cars emit only water vapor when running on hydrogen.The car hits the market next April and will be shown at the Los Angeles car show in

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David SmithSunday August 20, 2006The ObserverA man who claims to have developed a free energy technology which could power everything from mobile phones to cars has received more than 400 applications from scientists to test it.Sean McCarthy says that no one was more sceptical than he when Steorn, his small hi-tech firm in Dublin, hit upon a way of generating clean, free and constant energy from

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By Jeremy LovellLONDON (Reuters) - They could be the missing links of human genetic evolution -- areas of human DNA that changed dramatically after the evolutionary division from chimpanzees, though they had remained almost unchanged for millennia before.Scientists from the United States, Belgium and France identified 49 "human accelerated regions" (HARs) showing a lot of genetic activity.In the

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By Ker Than, SPACE.comAn enormous amoeba-like structure 200 million light-years wide and made up of galaxies and large bubbles of gas is the largest known object in the universe, scientists say.The galaxies and gas bubbles, called Lyman alpha blobs, are aligned along three curvy filaments that formed about 2 billion years after the universe exploded into existence after the theoretical Big Bang.

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By Lakshmi Sandhana Also by this reporter02:00 AM Jun, 21, 2006What if the next burger you ate was created in a warm, nutrient-enriched soup swirling within a bioreactor?Edible, lab-grown ground chuck that smells and tastes just like the real thing might take a place next to Quorn at supermarkets in just a few years, thanks to some determined meat researchers. Scientists routinely grow small

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I am deeply troubled by the current status of the United States. We seem to be adrift; awash in ego and intoxicated by our own self-indulgence. We lack any concern for our children or our grandchildren. We lack any care for what type of country our posterity will inherit for us.I think this could very well be the first time in history where our county did not actively plan for its future.

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It seems the far fetched dreams of freezing oneself to preserve one's tissue for posterity is on the doorstep of reality. The problem with cryopreservation in the past was that too much damage was donw to the tissue. This eliminated any hope of thawing that tissue at some point i the future and having it be useful.Now it seems University of Helsinki researcher Anatoli Bogdan, Ph.D. has had a

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Has The War of the Worlds begun?Is It Raining Aliens?#As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis’s laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens.In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that

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It's not a matter of if, but when...Modern science puts invisibility cloaks in sightThe development of new materials could see items such as invisibility cloaks, a key weapon in the trickery of Harry Potter and countless science fiction plots, become a reality within five years.Two research groups have published technical blueprints for making "metamaterials" which can change how light and other

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Right now more than ever, we need an event that will make the whole world take a pause. I think a visit from extraterrestrials could do just that. The world is getting crazier by the second. Global warming, natural disasters, and war are making some think that the end of the world is at hand. This fatalist view of life I feel is extremely detrimental to humanity. It allows for things to

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I heard about this story a couple of weeks ago and now I am not so sure. Supposedly some huge pyramids were discovered in Bosnia; larger than the Great Pyramid in Egypt.Bosnian archaeologist uncovers evidence of ancient pyramidsLast Updated Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:13:35 EDTCBC NewsScientists in the Bosnian city of Visoko have begun excavating a site that is believed to hold Europe's first known

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Despite all of our modern advances and technology we have still failed to master one simple concept: Tolerance.In a time of world war when we should be reducing our ethnocentric religious rhetoric, we are instead ratcheting it up exponentially. The Christian Country of the United States is growing increasingly hostile toward Islamic Countries like Iran. Conversely, Islamic Countries like Iran are

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A doctor at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine dips a specially constructed biodegradable mold, shaped like a bladder, and seeded with human bladder cells, into a growth solution at Wake Forest Uinversity in Winston-Salem, N.C., Thursday, March 30, 2006. The laboratory-grown transplants are made from tissue samples from a patient's diseased organs

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You can choose to believe in global warming or not. You can choose to believe global warming is a natural phenomena or is being accelerated by humanity's activities. Either way, if you live along the coast in cities like New York or London, there is a good chance that your city will be ounder water by 2100.London 'under water by 2100' as Antarctica crumbles into the seaBy Mark Henderson, Science

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The missing link Scientist discovers that evolution is missing from Arkansas classrooms.By Jason R. WilesIn the fall of 2004, I received an e-mail from an old friend back in Arkansas, where I was raised. She was concerned about a problem her father was having at work. “Bob” is a geologist and a teacher at a science education institution that serves several Arkansas public school districts. My

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The other day I watched a program on Discovery-Times called Arctic Rush. It was about the continually melting northern icecap.It was a fascinating watch and highly recommend it.The program looked at the melting ice cap from several perspectives: From the view of governments, business, and scientists. What I found most ironic is that in countries such as the United States which still deny global

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Today is International PI day. When I first heard this, I thought they were talking about the movie...But they aren't. They are talking about the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter often approximated to be 22/7 or 3.14. These are only approximations however. Pi is an irrational number that does not repeat and goes on forever.When I was a kid when people said pi in the sky, I

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Federal officials are expected to shut down salmon fishing along a 700-mile stretch of Pacific Coast.By Brad Knickerbocker Staff writer of The Christian Science MonitorASHLAND, ORE. – It's looking like a bleak, belt-tightening year for thousands of commercial fishermen along the Pacific Coast. From Point Sur in California to Cape Falcon in Oregon - 700 miles in all - the skippers and crew of some

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I often think back to the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden for a variety of reasons. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is a powerful metaphor. Upon partaking of the fruit of this tree humans gained this knowledge of Good and Evil. This knowledge immediately separated us from other animals. I have written about this before in the article Will We Ever Evolve Past The Dichotomy?

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In this undated but recent photo released by the WWF, fishes are denatant in an area of the newly discovered reef off the coast of Thailand. Tipped off by local fishermen, WWF divers in January found what they say is a healthy, 270-hectare (667-acre) reef in southern Thailand with over 30 genera of hard corals, and at least 112 species of fish. (AP Photo/WWF, HO)By MICHAEL CASEY, AP Environmental

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Technique holds promise for spinal cord repair in humansDevelopment of a nervous tissue construct for transplantation. Top panel: Neurons are plated on two membranes and a neural network (black) is formed. Bottom two panels: Movement of a block attached to one membrane (yellow) via a computer controlled microstepper motor system divides the culture and progressively separates the halves. As the

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This blog was supposed to be where I could express my deep thoughts on science, philosophy, religion, and technology as well as report on new developing technologies. But about the only type of deep thoughts I have been having lately are ones similar to what Jack Handy writes.A majority of my time has once again been taken up by work. The rest of my time has been devoted to my other blog Pissed

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Little-known data-collection system could troll news, blogs, even e-mails. Will it go too far?By Mark Clayton Staff writer of The Christian Science MonitorThe US government is developing a massive computer system that can collect huge amounts of data and, by linking far-flung information from blogs and e-mail to government records and intelligence reports, search for patterns of terrorist

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A new blog is created every second and the phenomenon has grown 60 times larger than it was three years ago, says Technorati in its periodic State of the Blogosphere report.By K.C. Jones, TechWeb News URL: Technorati.In his periodic "State of the Blogosphere," published most recently on Monday, Sifry said that there are about 27.2 million blogs and 75,000 new ones created each day. At that rate,

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Scientists Debate Issue of Climate's Irreparable Change Some Experts on Global Warming Foresee 'Tipping Point' When It Is Too Late to ActEarth climate is warming up fastRecent studies of some of nature's environmental "records" show that global warming can penetrate deep into the ocean faster than scientists have realized. In fact, some such penetration may have already begun.The "Global Warming"

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Ford is supposedly designing a green car and hopes to take charge of a new era in automaking.From the Huffinton Post via Time Magazine:Top-Secret Ford Project Aims To Build Recycled, Reusable CarAP/Carlos Osorio[...] The staging ground for Ford's innovation revolution is the top-secret Piquette Project. Unknown by all but the very top-level Ford executives, the program is aimed at nothing short

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The Cartwheel galaxy shows concentric rings of star formation, probably caused by a collision with a smaller galaxy (Image: GALEX/Chandra/Hubble/Spitzer)17:46 13 January 2006NewScientist.com news serviceMaggie McKee, Washington DCA cosmic jellyfish appears to pulse with light in this multi-wavelength image of the Cartwheel galaxy, compiled from images taken by four space telescopes.The galaxy

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A U.S. Geological Survey handout, photographed from the west, shows Augustine volcano's summit on January 12, 2006. REUTERS/Game McGimsey/Alaska Volcano Observatory/U.S. Geological Survey/HandoutANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Three explosions at Augustine Volcano, an island peak 171 miles southwest of Anchorage, sent ash clouds soaring nearly 10 miles above sea level on Friday, officials said.The

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A worker installs a solar panel at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital in Salinas, California in a 2003 file photo. The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday approved a $2.9 billion program to make California one of the world's largest producers of solar power. REUTERS/PRNewsFotoBy TERENCE CHEA, Associated Press WriterSAN FRANCISCO - Hoping to make California a world leader in solar

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Business in America and all over the world for that matter suffers from a diseased state of mind: the insatiable desire for ever increasing profits.While there is nothing wrong with making profit we have to ask ourselves at what cost do we pursue profit? There is no doubt in my mind that Capitalism as we know it today is a successful system. But the success of capitalism is built upon a single

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Don't Even Think About LyingHow brain scans are reinventing the science of lie detection.By Steve SilbermanFeature:Don't Even Think About LyingPlus:The Cortex CopI'm flat on my back in a very loud machine, trying to keep my mind quiet. It's not easy. The inside of an fMRI scanner is narrow and dark, with only a sliver of the world visible in a tilted mirror above my eyes. Despite a set of

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Benefits Seen for Breast, Colon, and Ovarian CancerBy Salynn BoylesWebMD Medical NewsDec. 28, 2005 - There is growing evidence that vitamin D helps protect against colorectal cancer, and now a group of researchers who have long studied the vitamin say the same is true for breast cancer and ovarian cancer.In a new analysis, the researchers contend that taking 1,000 international units (IU) of

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For immediate release: Media contact: Eric Quiñones (609) 258-5748, quinones@princeton.eduNeuroscientists at Princeton University have developed a new way of tracking people's mental state as they think back to previous events -- a process that has been described as "mental time travel."The findings, detailed in the Dec. 23 issue of Science, will aid efforts to learn more about how people mine

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Iraqis Denounce Iraqi Election As a ShamIraqi Shiites attend Muslim Friday prayers in Al-Sadr city, east of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday Dec. 23, 2005. Sunni Arab and secular Shiite factions demanded that an international body review complaints about voting fraud in last week's elections and have threatened to boycott the new legislature, but the United Nations rejected the idea. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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AP/Michael Amendolia, The Environment Ministry, HORevealed: the runners of 20,000BCBy Deborah Smith, Science EditorDecember 22, 2005HUNDREDS of human footprints dating back to about 20,000BC - the oldest in Australia and the largest collection of its kind in the world - have been discovered in Mungo National Park in western NSW.They were left by children, adolescents and adults at the height of

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From www.guardian.co.uk· Study foresees huge release of carbon by 2100· Water runoff could affect global currentsDavid Adam, environment correspondentWednesday December 21, 2005GuardianGlobal warming could melt almost all of the top layer of Arctic permafrost by the end of the century. Scientists say the thaw would release vast stocks of carbon into the atmosphere, threaten ocean currents and

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By Rick WeissWashington Post Staff WriterScientists said yesterday that they have discovered a tiny genetic mutation that largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of thousands of years ago, a finding that helps solve one of biology's most enduring mysteries and illuminates one of humanity's greatest sources of strife.The work suggests that the skin-whitening mutation

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From http://news.nationalgeographic.comPhotograph by Kenneth Garrett © 2006 National GeographicDecember 13, 2005—Archaeologists today revealed the final section of the earliest known Maya mural ever found, saying that the find upends everything they thought they knew about the origins of Maya art, writing, and rule.The painting was the last wall of a room-size mural to be excavated. The site was

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Japan Puts Its Money on E-CashWhile Saving Time, Consumers May Spend MoreBy Anthony FaiolaWashington Post Foreign ServiceMonday, December 12, 2005; Page A01TOKYO -- Toru Nashimoto, a trim 36-year-old with nary a coin in the pockets of his slick pinstripe suit, confidently strode toward the cashier at a bustling sushi bar to settle his $45 lunch tab. He whipped out a thin electronic card and

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A giant jellyfish drifting in the waters off Echizen in in the Sea of Japan (Asahi Shimbun/Tetsuji Asano/AP)How do you tackle an invasion of giant jellyfish? Try making sushiBy Richard Lloyd Parry in TokyoTHEY are called echizen kurage and they sound like monsters from the trashier reaches of Japanese science fiction.They are 6ft wide and weigh 450lb (200kg), with countless poisonous tentacles,

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Steam billows from Lake Vui in the volcano crater of Mount Manaro on the island of Ambae, part of the Vanuatu islands chain, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005. Five thousand people living in the so called red zone have been evacuated to the coast because of fears of a possible mud flow if the lake wall bursts. (AP Photo/Vanuatu Daily Post)By RAY LILLEY, Associated Press WriterAMBAE ISLAND, Vanuatu - A

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The Axis of Evil the War on Terror Islamic Extremists Jihadists Terrorists Terror Alert the Evil Doers Freedom Haters America HatersThese are words that have enjoyed increased use in our vernacular since September 11th 2001. The Bush Administration convinced America it was in a mighty struggle of Good (America) versus Evil (Terrorists). The American Public for the most part bought Bush’s

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It's all the rage and it's called SudokuFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSudoku (Japanese: 数独, sūdoku), sometimes spelled Su Doku, is a logic-based placement puzzle, also known as Number Place in the United States. The aim of the canonical puzzle is to enter a numerical digit from 1 through 9 in each cell of a 9×9 grid made up of 3×3 subgrids (called "regions"), starting with various digits

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From dsc.discovery.comBy Tracy Staedter, Discovery NewsNov. 29, 2005— A tiny sensor that can hear the subtle electrical signals naturally emitted from cells could be used one day to listen for cancer.The so-called microelectrode cell array has the potential to not only detect tumors much earlier than current methods, but to help develop drugs that effectively kill cancerous cells."We literally

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Many of us were stunned and shocked by GM’s recently announced plans to close several plants and lay off tens of thousands of American workers. No one likes to see the loss of American jobs to outsourcing, foreign competition, or poor management decisions.But when it happens we need to look at it as a warning flare shot in the sky to help us take notice. Now may be the last chance for American

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