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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Movin on: taking transhumanism in stride
- Back in the seventies, we watched "The Six Million Dollar Man", a popular television show about a trained agent who was critically injured and given the gift of technology--bionic legs and super vision.Lee Majors portrayed a man capable of leaping tall buildings and scanning the landscape at night. We marveled at the possibility of creating a human with superior qualities. In the opening se...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Global dumbing?
- I am beginning to wonder if scientists have been getting it all wrong. All this time, people have been worried about the Ozone, or a giant asteroid, or some breakout of a bio-hazardous agent by a terrorist organization being the doom of mankind. We have spent all this time looking outward instead of inward towards ourselves.The latest studies have identified two startling facts: 1 - that th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 51 easy, eco-friendly ways you can help sustain planet earth
- 1. Air dry your laundry.2. Ask your utility companies for an energy audit.3. Avoid clothing produced in sweat shops around the world. Women and children deserve fair labor practices.4. Avoid down and feather products, if allergies are a problem. Replace with organic cotton batting or organic wool.5. Avoid electric bug zappers.6. Avoid laundry detergent with phosp...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How i became interested in looking at the moon
- Like a lot of kids, my folks gave me a 60mm telescope for Christmas one year. The scope was a typical department-store brand - not very good - but to a 12-year old kid it opened up the universe.Through it I got to see the moons of Jupiter, the phases of Venus and the rings of Saturn. But above all these eye-openers, there was the moon. There in the eyepiece stood craggy mountains - spires c...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Tsunami the next big wave:the grandaddy of them all
- A few days ago on Melbourne's 60 Minutes, renowned scientist Dr Kerry Sieh predicted the guaranteed next big wave or giant Tsunami will definitely happen, and it will be the Grandaddy of them all.Indonesia gets the full force this time around ... When?... whether it be in a few months, or in a decade is all Dr Sieh cannot accurately predict at this present moment.Kerry Sieh, a Geolog...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Aliens
- I am being allowed time out to raise a subject that is dear to my heart (I normally market web sites!).Is there life out there? Are we alone? How did we get here?These are the big questions. For what it is worth, I believe there are big bangs happening all the time. The virtually random result from each big bang would produce many universes (I know, a contradiction in terms). The onl...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Divining your soul number
- Your Soul Number, which defines your very essence or heart's desire, is calculated using the vowels in the name that appeared on your birth certificate. This reading describes what you or another person value or want most in life.First of all, eliminate all the consonants from your birth name by adding together the numerical equivalents displayed on the chart below.A 1E 5...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Veterinary hematology 101; 2005 abstract
- Veterinary Hematology is more than just blood cells. Blood, highly functional and truly definitive, does much more than provide for the transport of cellular metabolites and waste products. Blood is made up of four major components: Plasma, Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, and Platelets.Each component possesses its own diagnostic significance in the veterinary clinical setting.Wit...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Lets get dirty
- There is no right way of saying this, so I'll say it the wrong way: in order to stay healthy we must stay dirty. Now, that didn't sound right, did it? Put it this way: if we all lived in sealed apartments where only the purest air was pumped in and every trace of bacteria were eliminated from our food we probably wouldn't last long when we stepped outside.We all need a few germs and a bit o...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How albert einstein saw things a little differently
- Albert Einstein had just administered an examination to an advanced class of Physics students.As he left the building, he was followed out by one of his teaching assistants."Excuse me, sir," said the shy assistant, not quite sure how to tell the great man about his blunder."Yes?" said Einstein."Um, eh, it's about the test you just handed out.&qu...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Paper - more than meets the eye
- We are surrounded by so much paper and card that it is easy to forget just how complex it is. There are many varieties and grades of paper materials, and whilst it is fairly easy to spot the varieties, it is far more difficult to spot the grades.It needs to be understood that most paper and card is manufactured for a specific purpose, so that whilst the corn-flake packet may look smart it i...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The ecology of environmentalism
- The concept of "nature" is a romantic invention. It was spun by the likes of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the 18th century as a confabulated utopian contrast to the dystopia of urbanization and materialism. The traces of this dewy-eyed conception of the "savage" and his unmolested, unadulterated surroundings can be found in the more malignant forms of fundamentalist environmentalism.At the othe...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The wages of science
- In the United States, Congress approved, last month, increases in the 2003 budgets of both the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation. America is not alone in - vainly - trying to compensate for imploding capital markets and risk-averse financiers.In 1999, chancellor Gordon Brown inaugurated a $1.6 billion program of "upgrading British science" and commercializing its...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Paternity testing - are you raising someone elses child?
- The dawn of the DNA testBack in the 1700s, the best way to determine paternity was by a good hard look and the child, followed by a good hard look at the father. Enough coincidences and maybe a relationship could be proposed. A hundred years later, eye color was discovered to be a paternity identifier. This theory has had its flaws exposed because of recent DNA advances. We now kno...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Feb. 12 is darwin day -- secular americans celebrate bday of evolution champ
- This Feb. 12 marks the 196th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth!The day has special significance for America's nearly 30 million nonreligious people. In the humanist community, Feb. 12 is "Darwin Day.""Darwin has become an all-purpose icon for humanists, who champion reason and science while rejecting superstition and dogma," said Matt Cherry, executive director of the Institute f...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why dont moths fly to the moon?
- Surely, in the days before man invented artificial light, moths would have been attracted to the only light source at night - the moon. Wouldn't they have just kept on flying until they dropped from exhaustion? In fact does this not happen today in sparsely populated areas, where the moon is still the only night-light available?Navigation Sorry to disappoint you, but there is no ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A wake up call to the scientific community
- Nature has millions of intervowen interrelationships among the numerous flora and fauna. Such relationships are the basis for the food webs and food pyramids. These food webs and pyramids can give us a broad idea that organisms interact with each other for their food, shelter and mating. Each specific interrelationship if studied in depth can be very interesting and brings to light significant fac...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Alchemy: turning rocks to gold since the middle ages!
- Alchemy. Such a misunderstood science. I hope this article can help set things straight for whomever reads it.Alchemy is an ancient art, first practiced in the Middle Ages. It was devoted to finding a substance that would transmute, (or turn) common metals in to gold, silver or other precious metals, and also to cause immortality in humans. Alchemy was most likely the first time people dipp...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How satellite tv systems originated
- What we know as satellite tv actually had its origins in the space race which began with the launching of the satellite Sputnik by the Russians in 1957. The first communication satellite was developed and launched by a consortium of business and government entities in 1963. It was known as Syncom II and achieved an orbit at 22,300 miles over the Atlantic. The first satellite communication was betw...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Pre-empt the radiation or die
- At West Point, in a speech, President George W. Bush shared the doctrine of pre-emption with his cadets that he articulated as a countermeasure to September 11 attacks. Pre-emption, defined as the anticipatory use of force in the face of an imminent attack, has long been accepted as legitimate and appropriate under international law. In the New National Security Strategy, however, the Bush's first...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Traffic zoology
- There is a secret zoo that runs encaged along the roads.They are liquid, semi-visible goliaths that rage through the streams and chunks of ordinary traffic, with the effervescent tendrils of mile-long tales whipping behind them like Chinese dragons. Though composed of hundreds of pounds of steel, glass and plastic, they are able to pass through solid objects. They are bound by the laws of t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Glyco nutrients & stem cell production
- During the speach, Dr. Reg McDaniel talked about first seeing new stem cells in the peripheral blood of clients using glyconutrients many years ago and not recognizing these cells as stem cells. They were 10 times the size of white blood cells and they were given the name "Gee" cells for some time as that's what Dr. Reg said when he observed these new cells that no one could identify! Now we have ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Tsunami defined
- Tsunami is a Japanese term that describes a large seismically generated sea wave which is capable of considerable destruction in certain coastal areas, especially where underwater earthquakes occur.In Japanese, "Tsunami" means "Harbor Wave" or "Wave In The Harbor" It is now internationally accepted as the term that defines a "Seismic Seawave."I...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why condition your boiler water?
- A boiler is used for generating steam. It does this by heating water to its boiling point, after which steam will evaporate from it.When you boil a kettle of water, you will shut off the fire or electric power when the water comes to a boil.No so with a steam boiler. Generation of steam is a continuous process. Once a boiler is generating steam, it may take quite a long while before ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Get hot on combustion
- Energy in the form of heat is obtained when fuel is burnt in air. The release of this heat energy can be slow or can be very rapid.When fuel oil is sprayed as a fine mist in the boiler burners, it is able to burn at a relatively slow rate. When fuel is sprayed into the cylinders of diesel engines, the fuel burns in such a rapid rate that explosions occur. Fortunately, these explosions are p...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Trash talk your way to a better world
- North Americans account for less than 10% of the world's population, yet we produce 50% of the world's garbage and consume more than 33% of it's resources. If everyone consumed like the average North American, we would require three Earths!Authors Dave and Lillian Brummet offer an upbeat, proactive look at waste and resource management with their inspiring new book Trash Talk. They explain ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The valuable individual
- How can we, as individuals, participate in waste management? Because some of us are so overwhelmed with Earth's problems, we feel that our contributions have no real consequence in the end. For others, social barriers can be an issue. A lady we once knew confessed that she did not want to be seen buying used items or being concerned with power use. She was worried people would see her as cheap ? a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Diamond flashes
- Beyond magnificence and splendor, the world of diamonds evolves on stirred grounds. When the stake is so important, interests collide. But technology develops following its onward course. Here are some interesting off-stage events in the diamond industry and innovations in technology.De Beers sued by head of the Diamond BourseDerek Parsons, the president of the Diamond Bourse of the ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Energy and america
- America is entering into a time of Energy crisis. It could easily be the greatest crisis that human-kind is to face. America can not continue to lead the world econimcally and drain it dry at the same time. The National Collegiate Clean Energy Initiative is working to unite American students and citizens alike, to demand CLEAN ENERGY POLICY.ENERGY ESP ALERT!!Kevin GluckstalNA...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The joy of recycling
- I have always been an advocate of recycling. Even though I am not always convinced of its financial viability, I am thoroughly convinced of its value as a means of increasing public awareness of the cost of our consumerism. In the 20+ years I have been in the organizing profession, I have never heard anyone complain that their problem in getting organized was that they didn't have enough "stu...