6.12.2009
Element 112 has been officially recognised
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/jun/11/element-112-name-periodic-table
[So what? You may ask. Well, look at this...]
UFO Propulsion
"The power source is a reactor which uses element 115 as its fuel. In this reactor element 115 is used as a target and is bombarded with protons in a small, highly sophisticated particle accelerator. When a proton fuses into the nucleus of an atom of 115, it is transmuted and becomes an atom of element 116. Although we too can transmute elements here on earth, it is typically not done in this fashion, or at anywhere near this level of efficiency. Furthermore, we have yet to produce anything heavier than element 112.
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Some information about element 112: it is the heaviest known element in the periodic table, around 277 times more massive than hydrogen. Scientists from Germany, Finland, Russia and Slovakia were involved in the experiments surround its discovery, a team of 21 in total. There isn't that much of this stuff around: the first atom was created by Hofmann's team in 1996; six years later a research team at the RIKEN Discovery Research Institute in Japan produced another atom.
To make the atoms of element 112, physicists fired zinc ions (atomic number 30) around a 120m particle accelerator at a lead target (atomic number 82), causing the nuclei of the atoms to fuse.
[Source: guardian.co.uk]To make the atoms of element 112, physicists fired zinc ions (atomic number 30) around a 120m particle accelerator at a lead target (atomic number 82), causing the nuclei of the atoms to fuse.
[So what? You may ask. Well, look at this...]
UFO Propulsion
"The power source is a reactor which uses element 115 as its fuel. In this reactor element 115 is used as a target and is bombarded with protons in a small, highly sophisticated particle accelerator. When a proton fuses into the nucleus of an atom of 115, it is transmuted and becomes an atom of element 116. Although we too can transmute elements here on earth, it is typically not done in this fashion, or at anywhere near this level of efficiency. Furthermore, we have yet to produce anything heavier than element 112.
Is there a Life On Mars Conspiracy?
·Michael Brooks, consultant for New Scientist and the author of 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense, sends us a new perspective on the riddle of the empty planet next door.
http://timesonline.typepad.com/science/2009/06/is-there-a-mars-conspiracy.html
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http://timesonline.typepad.com/science/2009/06/is-there-a-mars-conspiracy.html
Some pesky scientists have just pointed out an appalling design error in NASA’s latest attempts to find life on Mars. This is beginning to look like a conspiracy. Does someone not want us to find life on Mars?
NASA has tried looking for signs of life on Mars precisely once, in the 1976 Viking mission. The result was positive. The reason nobody says there is life on Mars is that another experiment, part of the same mission, couldn’t find any carbon-based “organic” chemicals in Martian soil. This, NASA decided, overruled the other result: with no carbon present, there could be no microbes living on or under the surface of Mars.
Last year, the Phoenix lander repeated the carbon search and failed to find organic molecules. The problem is, we know that there ought to be organic molecules on Mars. Asteroid and comet impacts will have put them there. So what’s going on?
Both of the searches for organic molecules, it turns out, have been deeply flawed. In 2000, the chief engineer on the 1976 experiment finally admitted that his experiment was simply not sensitive enough to overrule anything. Put bluntly, it didn’t work properly – and it never had, even during testing on Earth.
Now a handful of brave NASA scientists have exposed a problem with the latest attempt to pronounce that Mars was dead.
[...]
Gilbert Levin, who ran the 1976 experiment to search for life, the one that got a positive result, thinks it’s all down to a religious conspiracy dating back to the early 1960s. When I was researching my book 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense, I travelled to Levin’s Maryland offices and listened to his account of the run-up to Viking. In 1961, he told me, the Executive Director of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, invited him to attend a meeting in Washington. When Levin arrived, he found himself among fifteen of the top scientific minds in the US. None of them knew what the meeting was about until John Olive told them he had been charged by NASA with directing an effort to look for life on other planets.
“Phil Abelson, editor of Science magazine, was sitting next to Dean Cowie, a nuclear physicist,” Levin told me. He grabbed Dean by the arm and audibly said, “Dean, let’s get out of here. The Bible says there can be no life on Mars.”
Please, do read more...NASA has tried looking for signs of life on Mars precisely once, in the 1976 Viking mission. The result was positive. The reason nobody says there is life on Mars is that another experiment, part of the same mission, couldn’t find any carbon-based “organic” chemicals in Martian soil. This, NASA decided, overruled the other result: with no carbon present, there could be no microbes living on or under the surface of Mars.
Last year, the Phoenix lander repeated the carbon search and failed to find organic molecules. The problem is, we know that there ought to be organic molecules on Mars. Asteroid and comet impacts will have put them there. So what’s going on?
Both of the searches for organic molecules, it turns out, have been deeply flawed. In 2000, the chief engineer on the 1976 experiment finally admitted that his experiment was simply not sensitive enough to overrule anything. Put bluntly, it didn’t work properly – and it never had, even during testing on Earth.
Now a handful of brave NASA scientists have exposed a problem with the latest attempt to pronounce that Mars was dead.
[...]
Gilbert Levin, who ran the 1976 experiment to search for life, the one that got a positive result, thinks it’s all down to a religious conspiracy dating back to the early 1960s. When I was researching my book 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense, I travelled to Levin’s Maryland offices and listened to his account of the run-up to Viking. In 1961, he told me, the Executive Director of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, invited him to attend a meeting in Washington. When Levin arrived, he found himself among fifteen of the top scientific minds in the US. None of them knew what the meeting was about until John Olive told them he had been charged by NASA with directing an effort to look for life on other planets.
“Phil Abelson, editor of Science magazine, was sitting next to Dean Cowie, a nuclear physicist,” Levin told me. He grabbed Dean by the arm and audibly said, “Dean, let’s get out of here. The Bible says there can be no life on Mars.”
La especulación eleva el barril de petróleo por encima de 72 dólares
·El litro de gasóleo se encarece el 4% en la última semana y se sitúa en torno a 94 céntimos por litro.
·Los expertos advierten de la posibilidad de que se dispare la tasa de inflación en unos meses.
http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=620672&idseccio_PK=1009
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·Los expertos advierten de la posibilidad de que se dispare la tasa de inflación en unos meses.
http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=620672&idseccio_PK=1009
La especulación se ha apoderado del petróleo, como lo ha hecho de otras materias primas, a través del mercado de futuros. Y, en este contexto, el barril de Brent, el crudo de referencia en Europa, superó ayer el listón de los 72 dólares (llegó a un máximo diario de 72,27), el mismo nivel de hace unos ocho meses y más del doble que en febrero. Nunca antes fue tan cierto aquel dicho que define los mercados de futuros como aquellos conjuntos de personas que venden lo que no tienen a otros que tampoco lo quieren. Pura especulación. La consecuencia: cada dólar adicional de incremento del barril encarece la factura energética mundial diaria unos 83 millones de dólares.
Y es que las expectativas de una recuperación futura de la economía mundial atraen en las últimas semanas a los inversores como moscas a la miel e incluso pueden desbaratar cualquier atisbo de recuperación. A su vez agitan el fantasma de inflaciones elevadas dentro de unos meses, como advierten los analistas.
[...]
China, por su parte, dio a conocer que en mayo las importaciones de crudo aumentaron el 5,5%, el segundo mayor incremento mensual de todos los tiempos. Eso también alimentó las expectativas de una próxima recuperación por parte del segundo mayor consumidor mundial del petróleo. Aún así, «lo cierto es que en base a la oferta y la demanda, el precio actual del petróleo no está justificado», afirma Mariano Marzo, catedrático de Recursos Energéticos de la Universitat de Barcelona. Se ha producido, en opinión de este experto, una combinación de especulación, cierto resurgimiento de la demanda y el despegue de las expectativas de recuperación.
Leer más...Y es que las expectativas de una recuperación futura de la economía mundial atraen en las últimas semanas a los inversores como moscas a la miel e incluso pueden desbaratar cualquier atisbo de recuperación. A su vez agitan el fantasma de inflaciones elevadas dentro de unos meses, como advierten los analistas.
[...]
China, por su parte, dio a conocer que en mayo las importaciones de crudo aumentaron el 5,5%, el segundo mayor incremento mensual de todos los tiempos. Eso también alimentó las expectativas de una próxima recuperación por parte del segundo mayor consumidor mundial del petróleo. Aún así, «lo cierto es que en base a la oferta y la demanda, el precio actual del petróleo no está justificado», afirma Mariano Marzo, catedrático de Recursos Energéticos de la Universitat de Barcelona. Se ha producido, en opinión de este experto, una combinación de especulación, cierto resurgimiento de la demanda y el despegue de las expectativas de recuperación.
Project EXPOSE MSM Report 2
·Major DEA Scandal & Time Magazine.
http://123realchange.blogspot.com/2009/06/project-expose-msm-report-2.html
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http://123realchange.blogspot.com/2009/06/project-expose-msm-report-2.html
This second project report is based on the first-hand documented experience of Mr. Sandalio Gonzalez, retired Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Special Agent in Charge. Time Magazine reporters Tim Burger and Tim Padgett had an opportunity to speak at length with Mr. Gonzalez and several other veteran DEA agents with direct knowledge of a major corruption case involving several DEA agents on drug traffickers’ payrolls in Colombia. The involved corrupt US officers were also directly involved in helping Colombia's paramilitary death squads launder drug proceeds. Further presented was the documented cover up of this major scandal by the DEA and DOJ IG offices. Despite corroboration by a number of other sources, including several veteran DEA agents and other government officials with first-hand knowledge of the case, and documented evidence disclosed and provided, and despite being given an ‘exclusive’ to the story as insisted on by them, Time Magazine never published the story, and no reasons were ever provided.
Name, Title, and /or Background
Name: Sandalio Gonzalez
Title: Special Agent in Charge (Ret.), DEA
Background: Mr. Gonzalez retired from the DEA as Special Agent in Charge of the El Paso, Texas Field Division in January 2005 after 32 years in law enforcement. He began his career in 1972 at the local level in Los Angeles, California and joined the DEA in 1978.
Name of Publication and/or Editor and/or Reporter
Publication: Time Magazine
Reporter: Tim Padgett & Tim Burger
Editor: Unknown
Method
Complete blackout. No reason provided. The disclosure was supported and corroborated by three other highly credible veteran DEA agents, officials, and documents.
For the whole report, go here...Name, Title, and /or Background
Name: Sandalio Gonzalez
Title: Special Agent in Charge (Ret.), DEA
Background: Mr. Gonzalez retired from the DEA as Special Agent in Charge of the El Paso, Texas Field Division in January 2005 after 32 years in law enforcement. He began his career in 1972 at the local level in Los Angeles, California and joined the DEA in 1978.
Name of Publication and/or Editor and/or Reporter
Publication: Time Magazine
Reporter: Tim Padgett & Tim Burger
Editor: Unknown
Method
Complete blackout. No reason provided. The disclosure was supported and corroborated by three other highly credible veteran DEA agents, officials, and documents.
6.11.2009
El misticismo en la mecánica cuántica: una controversia olvidada
·El debate sobre mente y materia se ha reducido a la dicotomía ciencia versus religión.
http://www.tendencias21.net/El-misticismo-en-la-mecanica-cuantica-una-controversia-olvidada_a3370.html
A principios del siglo XX, un grupo de físicos europeos revolucionó el mundo al desvelar el extraño funcionamiento de la materia a nivel microscópico. Fue entonces cuando ciertas mediciones revelaron que, de alguna manera, la conciencia humana podía influir en la composición de la realidad. Inmediatamente, se creó un debate entre los físicos materialistas -que negaban cualquier subjetivismo en la ciencia- y los físicos idealistas, que defendían que el ser humano podía ser a un tiempo actor y observador del mundo. Este apasionante debate decayó a mediados del siglo XX, dando paso a la consabida dicotomía “ciencia vs. religión". El historiador Juan Miguel Marín, de la Universidad de Harvard, propone sin embargo que los físicos actuales no olviden las interpretaciones iniciales de los físicos fundadores de la teoría cuántica, porque a través de ellas podría enriquecerse la perspectiva de la física moderna.
Juan Miguel Marín, historiador de la Universidad de Harvard, acaba de publicar en el European Journal of Physics un artículo en el que habla de la controversia entre misticismo y materialismo que, a principios del siglo XX, se generó a partir de los descubrimientos de la física de partículas.
Marín se pregunta en dicho trabajo si el misticismo tiene aún un lugar en la mecánica cuántica de hoy día o, por el contrario, la idea de que la mente juega un papel en la creación de la realidad ha sido trasladada ya por completo al ámbito de las reflexiones filosóficas.
En la revista PhysOrg.com, que publica una síntesis del artículo del historiador con declaraciones suyas, se explica que el origen del debate se produjo en Alemania, en los años 20 del siglo pasado, y que estos “enfrentamientos” entre físicos materialistas e idealistas de entonces fueron muy distintos a los debates que hoy día generan entre científicos religiosos y científicos ateos.
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http://www.tendencias21.net/El-misticismo-en-la-mecanica-cuantica-una-controversia-olvidada_a3370.html
A principios del siglo XX, un grupo de físicos europeos revolucionó el mundo al desvelar el extraño funcionamiento de la materia a nivel microscópico. Fue entonces cuando ciertas mediciones revelaron que, de alguna manera, la conciencia humana podía influir en la composición de la realidad. Inmediatamente, se creó un debate entre los físicos materialistas -que negaban cualquier subjetivismo en la ciencia- y los físicos idealistas, que defendían que el ser humano podía ser a un tiempo actor y observador del mundo. Este apasionante debate decayó a mediados del siglo XX, dando paso a la consabida dicotomía “ciencia vs. religión". El historiador Juan Miguel Marín, de la Universidad de Harvard, propone sin embargo que los físicos actuales no olviden las interpretaciones iniciales de los físicos fundadores de la teoría cuántica, porque a través de ellas podría enriquecerse la perspectiva de la física moderna.
Juan Miguel Marín, historiador de la Universidad de Harvard, acaba de publicar en el European Journal of Physics un artículo en el que habla de la controversia entre misticismo y materialismo que, a principios del siglo XX, se generó a partir de los descubrimientos de la física de partículas.
Marín se pregunta en dicho trabajo si el misticismo tiene aún un lugar en la mecánica cuántica de hoy día o, por el contrario, la idea de que la mente juega un papel en la creación de la realidad ha sido trasladada ya por completo al ámbito de las reflexiones filosóficas.
En la revista PhysOrg.com, que publica una síntesis del artículo del historiador con declaraciones suyas, se explica que el origen del debate se produjo en Alemania, en los años 20 del siglo pasado, y que estos “enfrentamientos” entre físicos materialistas e idealistas de entonces fueron muy distintos a los debates que hoy día generan entre científicos religiosos y científicos ateos.
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La personalidad creativa
http://gnosistema.blogspot.com/2009/06/la-personalidad-creativa.html
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ha dedicado más de 30 años a la investigación de la creatividad buscando entender cómo las personas viven y trabajan, para hacer más comprensible el misterioso proceso por el que surgen las nuevas ideas y cosas nuevas. Según él, si se tuviera que expresar con una sola palabra lo que hace a la personalidad creativa diferente de los demás, es la complejidad. Un ser creativo, en lugar de ser un “individuo”, es “multitud efervescente”. A continuación les dejo un resumen de los 10 rasgos característicos de la personalidad creativa:
1. Las personas creativas tienen mucha energía física, sin embargo, suelen gustar del reposo silencioso. A pesar de trabajar muchas horas, concentradamente, rebosan un aura de frescura y entusiasmo que contagia. Con todo no son hiperactivas ya que saben matizar los ritmos de actividad y ocio.
2. Quienes son creativos suelen ser inteligentes a la vez que ingenuos, simultáneamente. Según parece, después de superado un cierto umbral en el coeficiente intelectual (aproximadamente 120), este no parece estar relacionado más con un rendimiento superior. Tal como lo analizó Howard Gardner al estudiar la personalidad de muchos genios creativos, una cierta inmadurez, tanto emocional y mental, pueden ir de la mano con el más profundo conocimiento ya que facilita el uso del pensamiento tanto convergente (que apunta a una solución específica frente a un problema) y como divergente (que consiste en la fluidez, flexibilidad , capacidad de cambiar y originalidad en la generación de asociaciones inusuales).
3. La gente creativa combina juego y disciplina, responsabilidad e irresponsabilidad. No hay duda de que una actitud juguetona es típica de las personas creativas, sin embargo esta también posee una dosis importante de obstinación, paciencia y perseverancia.
4. Las personas creativas alternan entre la imaginación y la fantasía, y un arraigado sentido de la realidad. Claro está, toda creación artística o científica es ir más allá de lo que ahora consideramos real, es crear una nueva realidad. Sin embargo, esta “fuga” a la imaginación no es ir a la tierra del nunca jamás. En general se cree que los artistas, músicos, escritores, poetas y pintores viven sumergidos en la fantasía, mientras que los científicos, políticos y empresarios son realistas. Esto puede ser cierto en términos de las actividades rutinarias. Pero cuando una persona comienza a trabajar creativamente todo ello cambia.
5. Las personas creativas suelen ser extrovertidas e introvertidas. Los individuos creativos parecen mostrar ambos rasgos simultáneamente.
6. Un creativo suele ser humilde y orgulloso al mismo tiempo. Los creativos son conscientes y respetuosas de la larga serie de contribuciones anteriores a ellas. Además, son conscientes del papel que desempeña la suerte en sus propios logros. Al mismo tiempo, saben que han logrado mucho; y este conocimiento les proporciona una sensación de seguridad e incluso el orgullo.
7. Las personas creativas, en cierta medida, escapan a los rígidos estereotipos de género. Las personas creativas son más propensas a tener no sólo los puntos fuertes de su propio género, sino los del otro también.
8. Ser creativo es ser a la vez rebelde y conservador. Es imposible ser creativo sin haber interiorizado un patrón cultural.
9. La mayoría de las personas creativas son muy apasionadas de su trabajo, sin embargo, pueden ser muy objetivas sobre él también. Sin la pasión, más pronto que tarde pierden interés por la labor que realizan.
10. La apertura y la sensibilidad de los seres creativos a menudo los expone al sufrimiento y el dolor, aunque también, a una gran dosis de diversión. El profundo interés que sienten y el deseo de participación en tareas que, a menudo, no tienen recompensa, puede hacerlos sentir aislados. Además, el pensamiento divergente que poseen pueden mostrarlos como delirantes o desviados para los demás, por lo que la persona creativa puede sentirse aislada e incomprendida. Pueden también experimentar un sentimiento de pérdida o vacío cuando, por alguna razón, no pueden trabajar y cuando sienten que la creatividad se diseca.
[Fuente: gnosistema.blogspot.com]1. Las personas creativas tienen mucha energía física, sin embargo, suelen gustar del reposo silencioso. A pesar de trabajar muchas horas, concentradamente, rebosan un aura de frescura y entusiasmo que contagia. Con todo no son hiperactivas ya que saben matizar los ritmos de actividad y ocio.
2. Quienes son creativos suelen ser inteligentes a la vez que ingenuos, simultáneamente. Según parece, después de superado un cierto umbral en el coeficiente intelectual (aproximadamente 120), este no parece estar relacionado más con un rendimiento superior. Tal como lo analizó Howard Gardner al estudiar la personalidad de muchos genios creativos, una cierta inmadurez, tanto emocional y mental, pueden ir de la mano con el más profundo conocimiento ya que facilita el uso del pensamiento tanto convergente (que apunta a una solución específica frente a un problema) y como divergente (que consiste en la fluidez, flexibilidad , capacidad de cambiar y originalidad en la generación de asociaciones inusuales).
3. La gente creativa combina juego y disciplina, responsabilidad e irresponsabilidad. No hay duda de que una actitud juguetona es típica de las personas creativas, sin embargo esta también posee una dosis importante de obstinación, paciencia y perseverancia.
4. Las personas creativas alternan entre la imaginación y la fantasía, y un arraigado sentido de la realidad. Claro está, toda creación artística o científica es ir más allá de lo que ahora consideramos real, es crear una nueva realidad. Sin embargo, esta “fuga” a la imaginación no es ir a la tierra del nunca jamás. En general se cree que los artistas, músicos, escritores, poetas y pintores viven sumergidos en la fantasía, mientras que los científicos, políticos y empresarios son realistas. Esto puede ser cierto en términos de las actividades rutinarias. Pero cuando una persona comienza a trabajar creativamente todo ello cambia.
5. Las personas creativas suelen ser extrovertidas e introvertidas. Los individuos creativos parecen mostrar ambos rasgos simultáneamente.
6. Un creativo suele ser humilde y orgulloso al mismo tiempo. Los creativos son conscientes y respetuosas de la larga serie de contribuciones anteriores a ellas. Además, son conscientes del papel que desempeña la suerte en sus propios logros. Al mismo tiempo, saben que han logrado mucho; y este conocimiento les proporciona una sensación de seguridad e incluso el orgullo.
7. Las personas creativas, en cierta medida, escapan a los rígidos estereotipos de género. Las personas creativas son más propensas a tener no sólo los puntos fuertes de su propio género, sino los del otro también.
8. Ser creativo es ser a la vez rebelde y conservador. Es imposible ser creativo sin haber interiorizado un patrón cultural.
9. La mayoría de las personas creativas son muy apasionadas de su trabajo, sin embargo, pueden ser muy objetivas sobre él también. Sin la pasión, más pronto que tarde pierden interés por la labor que realizan.
10. La apertura y la sensibilidad de los seres creativos a menudo los expone al sufrimiento y el dolor, aunque también, a una gran dosis de diversión. El profundo interés que sienten y el deseo de participación en tareas que, a menudo, no tienen recompensa, puede hacerlos sentir aislados. Además, el pensamiento divergente que poseen pueden mostrarlos como delirantes o desviados para los demás, por lo que la persona creativa puede sentirse aislada e incomprendida. Pueden también experimentar un sentimiento de pérdida o vacío cuando, por alguna razón, no pueden trabajar y cuando sienten que la creatividad se diseca.
Antipsychotics get tentative OK for kids
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-06-10-psychiatric-drugs-children_N.htm
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With varying degrees of enthusiasm, a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee Wednesday concluded that three newer antipsychotic drugs already widely used "off-label" in children and teens are "acceptably safe" and effective in treating them for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. However, because of the risks involved with the drugs — mainly weight gain, sleepiness and increases in blood fats and sugars — several panel members expressed concerns about their inappropriate use in pediatric patients who don't have schizophrenia or bipolar disorder or are younger than the age range studied. "I'm a little concerned … that soon we'll be seeing 4-, 5- and 6-year-olds treated with these agents," said Kenneth Towbin, a psychiatrist with the National Institute of Mental Health who specializes in children and adolescents. AstraZeneca's Seroquel, Pfizer's Geodon and Eli Lilly's Zyprexa are approved for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in adults. Two other antipsychotic drugs, Risperdal and Abilify, are approved for those conditions in patients under 18. "I think everybody agrees that we want more medications, rather than fewer," [What!!!] said panelist Gail Griffith, a consumer representative[So, a consumer representative is basically saying, 'consumers want more drugs for their kids'???] from Washington, D.C.
Read more...'Ultracool subdwarf' stars speeding through Milky Way
·A recently discovered family of peculiar wandering stars may include a visitor from another galaxy, scientists believe.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/5489268/Ultracool-subdwarf-stars-speeding-through-Milky-Way.html
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/5489268/Ultracool-subdwarf-stars-speeding-through-Milky-Way.html
The stars, described as "ultracool subdwarfs" follow very unusual paths around our galaxy, the Milky Way.
They have low temperatures and are small enough to be close to planet-like objects.
Only a few dozen ultracool subdwarfs, which are up to 10,000 times fainter than the Sun, have been identified.
One of the oddest aspects of the stars is the rapid speed at which they travel. They have been clocked at more than a million miles per hour.
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Astronomers found that the stars had bizarre orbits. Some plunged deep into the centre of the Milky Way on eccentric, comet-like tracks. Others made slow, swooping loops far beyond the Sun's orbit.
Unlike the majority of nearby stars, most ultracool subdwarfs spent a lot of time thousands of light years above or below the galactic disc.
At least one of the objects - a star designated 2MASS 1227-0447 in the constellation Virgo - has an orbit indicating that it might have originated in another galaxy.
Read more...They have low temperatures and are small enough to be close to planet-like objects.
Only a few dozen ultracool subdwarfs, which are up to 10,000 times fainter than the Sun, have been identified.
One of the oddest aspects of the stars is the rapid speed at which they travel. They have been clocked at more than a million miles per hour.
[...]
Astronomers found that the stars had bizarre orbits. Some plunged deep into the centre of the Milky Way on eccentric, comet-like tracks. Others made slow, swooping loops far beyond the Sun's orbit.
Unlike the majority of nearby stars, most ultracool subdwarfs spent a lot of time thousands of light years above or below the galactic disc.
At least one of the objects - a star designated 2MASS 1227-0447 in the constellation Virgo - has an orbit indicating that it might have originated in another galaxy.
Uno de cada cuatro alumnos no domina las competencias básicas de catalán, castellano y matemáticas al final de la Primaria
http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=620292&idseccio_PK=1021
Tres de cada cuatro alumnos catalanes de sexto de primaria (11 y 12 años) obtuvieron la puntuación mínima exigida en la prueba de competencias básicas de catalán, castellano y matemáticas a la que se enfrentaron en mayo.
Uno de cada cuatro examinados no alcanza el nivel de suficiencia demandado, según un avance de los resultados que la Conselleria d’Educació hará hoy público.
Se trata de la primera vez que la totalidad del alumnado matriculado en el último curso de la etapa de primaria de los centros públicos y privados de Catalunya (64.400 alumnos) es sometida a una evaluación externa, o sea tutelada y corregida por profesorado ajeno a los centros [Y antes, ¿cómo sabían si habían aprendido algo?], cuyos resultados serán trasladados en los próximos días a las familias.
El umbral para superar la prueba se fjjó en la consecución de 70 puntos entre 100, puesto que las pruebas planteadas entrañaban una escasa dificultad.
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Uno de cada cuatro examinados no alcanza el nivel de suficiencia demandado, según un avance de los resultados que la Conselleria d’Educació hará hoy público.
Se trata de la primera vez que la totalidad del alumnado matriculado en el último curso de la etapa de primaria de los centros públicos y privados de Catalunya (64.400 alumnos) es sometida a una evaluación externa, o sea tutelada y corregida por profesorado ajeno a los centros [Y antes, ¿cómo sabían si habían aprendido algo?], cuyos resultados serán trasladados en los próximos días a las familias.
El umbral para superar la prueba se fjjó en la consecución de 70 puntos entre 100, puesto que las pruebas planteadas entrañaban una escasa dificultad.
La pubertad de las niñas se adelanta
·La edad de inicio de la adolescencia se ha reducido un año en una década y media.
·Ya suele producirse antes de los diez años, según el estudio más amplio hecho en Europa.
·Contaminantes químicos imitan los efectos de los estrógenos en el organismo.
http://www.lavanguardia.es/ciudadanos/noticias/20090611/53720852374/la-pubertad-de-las-ninas-se-adelanta.html
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·Ya suele producirse antes de los diez años, según el estudio más amplio hecho en Europa.
·Contaminantes químicos imitan los efectos de los estrógenos en el organismo.
http://www.lavanguardia.es/ciudadanos/noticias/20090611/53720852374/la-pubertad-de-las-ninas-se-adelanta.html
El inicio de la pubertad femenina se ha adelantado un año en sólo una década y media, según el estudio más exhaustivo realizado en Europa sobre cómo está cambiando la edad de inicio de la adolescencia. Si en 1991 la media de edad del inicio de la pubertad en las niñas se situaba en 10,88 años, en el 2006 había bajado a 9,86 años. O, lo que es lo mismo, la pubertad ya suele empezar antes de cumplirse los diez años.
"No nos ha sorprendido que la edad haya bajado, sino que haya bajado tanto en tan poco tiempo", ha declarado por correo electrónico Lise Aksglaede, investigadora del hospital universitario de Copenhague (Dinamarca) y primera autora del estudio. Sus conclusiones se han presentado en el número de mayo de la revista médica 'Pediatrics'.
Los investigadores apuntan a los disruptores endocrinos - contaminantes que actúan como hormonas en el cuerpo humano– como la causa más probable de esta tendencia. Las posibles consecuencias, aún poco investigadas, abarcan desde alteraciones emocionales hasta un mayor riesgo de cáncer de mama y diabetes al llegar a la edad adulta.
Leer más..."No nos ha sorprendido que la edad haya bajado, sino que haya bajado tanto en tan poco tiempo", ha declarado por correo electrónico Lise Aksglaede, investigadora del hospital universitario de Copenhague (Dinamarca) y primera autora del estudio. Sus conclusiones se han presentado en el número de mayo de la revista médica 'Pediatrics'.
Los investigadores apuntan a los disruptores endocrinos - contaminantes que actúan como hormonas en el cuerpo humano– como la causa más probable de esta tendencia. Las posibles consecuencias, aún poco investigadas, abarcan desde alteraciones emocionales hasta un mayor riesgo de cáncer de mama y diabetes al llegar a la edad adulta.
El Consejo Constitucional francés censura la ley contra la piratería en internet
·Considera que sólo una autoridad judicial puede cortar el acceso de un usuario a la Red.
http://www.lavanguardia.es/internet-y-tecnologia/noticias/20090610/53720695775/el-consejo-constitucional-frances-censura-la-ley-contra-la-pirateria-en-internet-parlamento-europeo-.html
http://www.lavanguardia.es/internet-y-tecnologia/noticias/20090610/53720695775/el-consejo-constitucional-frances-censura-la-ley-contra-la-pirateria-en-internet-parlamento-europeo-.html
El Consejo Constitucional censuró parte de la polémica ley francesa contra la piratería en internet, en concreto la que estipula que una autoridad administrativa puede cortar el acceso a la red.
Los miembros de este organismo argumentan en su decisión que sólo un juez tiene la competencia para impedir el acceso a la red de los internautas que hagan descargas ilegales.
Los "sabios"[Las comillas son de LaVanguardia.es] del Consejo señalan que la libertad de comunicación y expresión prevista en la Declaración de los Derechos Humanos implica "la libertad de acceder a los servicios de comunicación al público en línea" y que, por lo tanto, solo una autoridad judicial tiene capacidad de limitar esa libertad.
El dictamen del máximo órgano Constitucional da la razón así al Partido Socialista, que presentó un recurso de inconstitucionalidad del texto legislativo, al considerar contrario a la Carta Magna que se corte el acceso a internet de un cliente sin que exista una sentencia judicial que lo autorice.
En términos similares se pronunció también el Parlamento Europeo (PE) el pasado 6 de mayo, cuando aprobó una enmienda en la que señala que el corte del acceso a internet sólo puede dictarse a través de una decisión judicial.
La controvertida ley, aprobada el pasado mayo por el Senado y la Asamblea Nacional tras un largo debate parlamentario, estipula que los internautas que hagan descargas ilegales recibirán un primer aviso por correo electrónico y un segundo por carta certificada antes de que, en caso de reincidir, les corten el acceso durante una duración de seis meses a dos años.
De acuerdo con el texto, la entidad encargada de fijar las sanciones será la Alta Autoridad para la Difusión de Obras y la Protección de Derechos sobre Internet, la HADOPI, nombre con el que se conoce a la polémica normativa.
[Fuente: lavanguardia.es]
Los miembros de este organismo argumentan en su decisión que sólo un juez tiene la competencia para impedir el acceso a la red de los internautas que hagan descargas ilegales.
Los "sabios"[Las comillas son de LaVanguardia.es] del Consejo señalan que la libertad de comunicación y expresión prevista en la Declaración de los Derechos Humanos implica "la libertad de acceder a los servicios de comunicación al público en línea" y que, por lo tanto, solo una autoridad judicial tiene capacidad de limitar esa libertad.
El dictamen del máximo órgano Constitucional da la razón así al Partido Socialista, que presentó un recurso de inconstitucionalidad del texto legislativo, al considerar contrario a la Carta Magna que se corte el acceso a internet de un cliente sin que exista una sentencia judicial que lo autorice.
En términos similares se pronunció también el Parlamento Europeo (PE) el pasado 6 de mayo, cuando aprobó una enmienda en la que señala que el corte del acceso a internet sólo puede dictarse a través de una decisión judicial.
La controvertida ley, aprobada el pasado mayo por el Senado y la Asamblea Nacional tras un largo debate parlamentario, estipula que los internautas que hagan descargas ilegales recibirán un primer aviso por correo electrónico y un segundo por carta certificada antes de que, en caso de reincidir, les corten el acceso durante una duración de seis meses a dos años.
De acuerdo con el texto, la entidad encargada de fijar las sanciones será la Alta Autoridad para la Difusión de Obras y la Protección de Derechos sobre Internet, la HADOPI, nombre con el que se conoce a la polémica normativa.
6.10.2009
'Orwellian language' in schools turns pupils into 'customers'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191689/Hey-curriculum-delivery-person-leave-kids-How-Orwellian-Whitehall-speak-turning-pupils-customers.html
Schools using the 'Orwellian language of performance management' are undermining teenagers' education by turning them into 'customers' rather than students, a landmark report says today.
Teachers who are forced to use phrases such as 'performance indicator' and 'curriculum delivery' lack enthusiam for the job, the six-year investigation found.
The Oxford-based Nuffield Review, the most comprehensive study of secondary education in 50 years, said that 'the words we use shape our thinking'.
It notes: 'As the language of performance and management has advanced, so we have proportionately lost a language of education which recognises the intrinsic value of pursuing certain sorts of question ... of seeking understanding [and] of exploring through literature and the arts what it means to be human.'
Teachers are inundated with the language of measurable 'inputs' and 'outputs', 'performance indicators' and 'audits', 'targets', 'customers', 'deliverers', 'efficiency gains' and 'bottom lines', the report continues.
In a damning indictment, the report said that a culture of hitting targets, where 'cuts in resources are euphemistically called 'efficiency gains', has led to 'the consumer or client' replacing 'the learner'.
Read more...
Teachers who are forced to use phrases such as 'performance indicator' and 'curriculum delivery' lack enthusiam for the job, the six-year investigation found.
The Oxford-based Nuffield Review, the most comprehensive study of secondary education in 50 years, said that 'the words we use shape our thinking'.
It notes: 'As the language of performance and management has advanced, so we have proportionately lost a language of education which recognises the intrinsic value of pursuing certain sorts of question ... of seeking understanding [and] of exploring through literature and the arts what it means to be human.'
Teachers are inundated with the language of measurable 'inputs' and 'outputs', 'performance indicators' and 'audits', 'targets', 'customers', 'deliverers', 'efficiency gains' and 'bottom lines', the report continues.
In a damning indictment, the report said that a culture of hitting targets, where 'cuts in resources are euphemistically called 'efficiency gains', has led to 'the consumer or client' replacing 'the learner'.
6.09.2009
HOME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWRHxh6XepM&hl=es
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Estamos viviendo un periodo crucial. Los científicos nos dicen que solo tenemos 10 años para cambiar nuestros modos de vida, evitar de agotar los recursos naturales y impedir una evolución catastrófica del clima de la Tierra.
Cada uno de nosotros debe participar en el esfuerzo colectivo, y es para sensibilizar al mayor número de personas que realizé la película HOME.
Para que esta película sea difundida lo más ampliamente posible, tenía que ser gratuita. Un mecenas, el grupo PPR, permitió que lo sea. Europacorp que lo distribuye, se comprometió en no tener ningún beneficio porque HOME no tiene ningún interés comercial.
Me gustaría que esta película se convierta en vuestra pelicula. Compártelo. Y actúa.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Cada uno de nosotros debe participar en el esfuerzo colectivo, y es para sensibilizar al mayor número de personas que realizé la película HOME.
Para que esta película sea difundida lo más ampliamente posible, tenía que ser gratuita. Un mecenas, el grupo PPR, permitió que lo sea. Europacorp que lo distribuye, se comprometió en no tener ningún beneficio porque HOME no tiene ningún interés comercial.
Me gustaría que esta película se convierta en vuestra pelicula. Compártelo. Y actúa.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Everything is OK 3 (Camden Stories)
[Outstanding!! Please look for more from these guys]
It's time to wake up and for the people to reclaim this world from the forces of fear and ignorance.
These are our adventures in Camden.
Namaste. Peace. Love. Salaam. Shalom.
These are our adventures in Camden.
Namaste. Peace. Love. Salaam. Shalom.
Scientists faking results and omitting unwanted findings in research
·Faking results and omitting inconvenient truths in scientific research is more widespread than originally thought, a study finds.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5438844/Scientists-faking-results-and-omitting-unwanted-findings-in-research.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5438844/Scientists-faking-results-and-omitting-unwanted-findings-in-research.html
More than two-thirds of researchers said they knew of colleagues who had committed "questionable" practices and one in seven said that included inventing findings.
But when scientists were asked about their own behaviour only two per cent admitted to having faked results.
The findings, published in the journal Public Library of Science, are based on a review of 21 scientific misconduct surveys carried out between 1986 and 2005.
The results paint a picture of a profession in which dishonesty and misrepresentation are widespread.
[...]
Daniele Fanelli, of the University of Edinburgh, who carried out the investigation, believes that high-profile cases such as that of Hwang Woo-Suk, the South Korean scientist disgraced for fabricating human stem cell data, are less unusual than is generally assumed.
"Increasing evidence suggests that known frauds are just the tip of the iceberg and that many cases are never discovered," he said.
Please, read more...
But when scientists were asked about their own behaviour only two per cent admitted to having faked results.
The findings, published in the journal Public Library of Science, are based on a review of 21 scientific misconduct surveys carried out between 1986 and 2005.
The results paint a picture of a profession in which dishonesty and misrepresentation are widespread.
[...]
Daniele Fanelli, of the University of Edinburgh, who carried out the investigation, believes that high-profile cases such as that of Hwang Woo-Suk, the South Korean scientist disgraced for fabricating human stem cell data, are less unusual than is generally assumed.
"Increasing evidence suggests that known frauds are just the tip of the iceberg and that many cases are never discovered," he said.
Opening Doors on the Way to a Personal Robot
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/science/09robot.html?_r=1&hpw
[...]
Willow Garage, a Silicon Valley robotics research group, said that its experimental PR2 robot, which has wheels and can travel at speeds up to a mile and a quarter per hour, was able to open and pass through 10 doors and plug itself into 10 standard wall sockets in less than an hour. In a different test, the same robot completed a marathon in the company’s office, traveling 26.2 miles. PR2 will not compete with humans yet; it took more than four days.
[...]
Willow Garage was founded by Scott Hassan, one of the designers of the original Google search engine. The company’s name is a reference to a small garage on Willow Road in Menlo Park, Calif., which was Google’s first office. The company is trying to develop a new generation of robotic personal assistants. Roboticists here and at other companies envision creating something on the scale of the personal computer industry, with mechanical personal assistants taking over a lot of drudgery, from cleaning up to fetching a beer from the refrigerator.
This is not a new hope, nor is it the first time that robots have tried to open doors, navigate rooms and recharge themselves. The Beast, a robot built at Johns Hopkins University in the mid-1960s, was able to locate standard wall sockets to refuel. And devices like the inexpensive iRobot Roomba vacuum cleaner can locate and dock with a specially designed charging station.
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Willow Garage, a Silicon Valley robotics research group, said that its experimental PR2 robot, which has wheels and can travel at speeds up to a mile and a quarter per hour, was able to open and pass through 10 doors and plug itself into 10 standard wall sockets in less than an hour. In a different test, the same robot completed a marathon in the company’s office, traveling 26.2 miles. PR2 will not compete with humans yet; it took more than four days.
[...]
Willow Garage was founded by Scott Hassan, one of the designers of the original Google search engine. The company’s name is a reference to a small garage on Willow Road in Menlo Park, Calif., which was Google’s first office. The company is trying to develop a new generation of robotic personal assistants. Roboticists here and at other companies envision creating something on the scale of the personal computer industry, with mechanical personal assistants taking over a lot of drudgery, from cleaning up to fetching a beer from the refrigerator.
This is not a new hope, nor is it the first time that robots have tried to open doors, navigate rooms and recharge themselves. The Beast, a robot built at Johns Hopkins University in the mid-1960s, was able to locate standard wall sockets to refuel. And devices like the inexpensive iRobot Roomba vacuum cleaner can locate and dock with a specially designed charging station.
Sleeping on a problem can really solve it
·Sleeping on a problem really can help solve it, claim scientists who discovered a nap can improve your powers of creativity.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5476979/Sleeping-on-a-problem-really-can-solve-it-claim-scientists.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5476979/Sleeping-on-a-problem-really-can-solve-it-claim-scientists.html
Researchers found that people were able to think more laterally and quickly after a snooze and that if they dreamed the ability was even more enhanced.
The scientists believe that "incubating" a problem often leads to a solution but that the effect was increased when people entered a phase of sleep known as Rapid Eye Movement (REM).
They believe that REM- which occurs most predominantly just before we awake – helps the brain make connections between unrelated subjects.
[...]
[...] it appears REM sleep especially helps achieve new solutions by allowing the brain to make new and useful associations between unrelated ideas.
"We found that – for creative problems that you've already been working on – the passage of time is enough to find solutions," said Prof Mednick. "However, for new problems, only REM sleep enhances creativity."
The researchers said that the findings suggested that sleep was a creative process and underlined the recommendation by Nobel Prize winning chemist Friedrich Kekule who said we must "learn to dream".
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The scientists believe that "incubating" a problem often leads to a solution but that the effect was increased when people entered a phase of sleep known as Rapid Eye Movement (REM).
They believe that REM- which occurs most predominantly just before we awake – helps the brain make connections between unrelated subjects.
[...]
[...] it appears REM sleep especially helps achieve new solutions by allowing the brain to make new and useful associations between unrelated ideas.
"We found that – for creative problems that you've already been working on – the passage of time is enough to find solutions," said Prof Mednick. "However, for new problems, only REM sleep enhances creativity."
The researchers said that the findings suggested that sleep was a creative process and underlined the recommendation by Nobel Prize winning chemist Friedrich Kekule who said we must "learn to dream".
Global weapons spending hits record levels
·US accounts for more than half total increase to $1.4tn.
·China now second biggest spender in world league table.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/08/record-world-weapons-spending
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·China now second biggest spender in world league table.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/08/record-world-weapons-spending
Worldwide spending on weapons has reached record levels amounting to well over $1tn last year, a leading research organisation reported today.
Global military expenditure has risen by 45% over the past decade to $1.46tn, according to the latest annual Yearbook on Armaments, Disarmament, and International Security published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri).
Though the US accounts for more than half the total increase, China and Russia nearly tripled their military expenditure over the decade, with China now second only to the US in the military expenditure league table.
"China had both the largest absolute and the largest relative increase," says the Sipri report. The increase "has roughly paralleled its economic growth and is also linked to its major power aspirations," it adds.
Other regional powers, including India, Brazil and Algeria, also substantially increased their spending on arms, the report says.
Read more... Global military expenditure has risen by 45% over the past decade to $1.46tn, according to the latest annual Yearbook on Armaments, Disarmament, and International Security published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri).
Though the US accounts for more than half the total increase, China and Russia nearly tripled their military expenditure over the decade, with China now second only to the US in the military expenditure league table.
"China had both the largest absolute and the largest relative increase," says the Sipri report. The increase "has roughly paralleled its economic growth and is also linked to its major power aspirations," it adds.
Other regional powers, including India, Brazil and Algeria, also substantially increased their spending on arms, the report says.
Despega la misión 'Sunrise', que desvelará las claves del Sol
·Las imágenes que obtendrá serán de una "resolución sin precedentes" y permitirán estudiar el campo magnético solar.
http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=619689&idseccio_PK=1012
http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=619689&idseccio_PK=1012
El telescopio solar Sunrise, que viajará en globo estratosférico para estudiar la estructura y dinámica del campo magnético del Sol, ha despegado esta mañana a las 8:30 horas desde el Centro Espacial Esrange, cerca de la ciudad de Kiruna (Suecia).
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Un estudio primordial para el planeta
Juan Carlos del Toro, investigador del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía del CSIC, en Granada, e integrante del equipo Sunrise, ha destacado "la resolución sin precedentes" de las imágenes y espectros que obtendrá el telescopio, cuyo análisis "permitirá abordar uno de los mayores desafíos de la astrofísica actual, el campo magnético solar".
En este campo magnético hay gran cantidad de energía que se manifiesta de muy variadas formas, desde las manchas hasta las tormentas solares. Su estudio resulta primordial porque la actividad solar afecta de forma directa a nuestro planeta y porque constituye el único objeto celeste lo suficientemente cercano para estudiar un campo magnético en detalle.
Leer más...
[...]
Un estudio primordial para el planeta
Juan Carlos del Toro, investigador del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía del CSIC, en Granada, e integrante del equipo Sunrise, ha destacado "la resolución sin precedentes" de las imágenes y espectros que obtendrá el telescopio, cuyo análisis "permitirá abordar uno de los mayores desafíos de la astrofísica actual, el campo magnético solar".
En este campo magnético hay gran cantidad de energía que se manifiesta de muy variadas formas, desde las manchas hasta las tormentas solares. Su estudio resulta primordial porque la actividad solar afecta de forma directa a nuestro planeta y porque constituye el único objeto celeste lo suficientemente cercano para estudiar un campo magnético en detalle.
Crop Circles -2009 Update- Nº 20
[Formation Nº 20 @ Bishop Cannings - nr Devizes, Wiltshire - reported June 8, 2009]
6.08.2009
Image From Mars' Spirit Mission - 'The Skull'
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/p/1526/2P261833662EFFAY00P2298L7M1.HTML
[Above, original NASA image from the Spirit rover. Below, enlargement of mid-bottom part... a skull?!]
[Source: marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov]
[Above, original NASA image from the Spirit rover. Below, enlargement of mid-bottom part... a skull?!]
[Source: marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov]
Near Washington, D.C., construction crews watch for mystery 'black' wire
·A Metrorail extension risks hitting communications lines, including some used for top-secret government intelligence operations.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-black-wire7-2009jun07,0,7176956.story
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-black-wire7-2009jun07,0,7176956.story
This part happens all the time: A construction crew putting up an office building in the heart of congested Tysons Corner in McLean, Va., hit a fiber-optic cable no one knew was there.
This part doesn't: Within moments, three black SUVs drove up, half a dozen men in suits jumped out, and one said, "You just hit our line."
Whose line, you may ask? The guys in suits didn't say, recalled Aaron Georgelas, whose company, the Georgelas Group, was developing the Greensboro Corporate Center. Georgelas assumed that he was dealing with the federal government and that the cable in question was "black" wire -- a secure communications line used for some of the nation's most secretive intelligence-gathering operations.
"The construction manager was shocked," Georgelas recalled about the incident in 2000. "He had never seen a line get cut and people show up within seconds. Usually you've got to figure out whose line it is. To garner that kind of response that quickly was amazing."
[...]
"Yeah, we heard about the black SUVs [Watch video to see what those 'black SUVs' really are]," said Paul Goguen, the engineer in charge of relocating electric, gas, water, sewer, cable, telephone and other communications lines to make way for Metro.
"We were warned that if they were hit, the company responsible would show up before you even had a chance to make a phone call."
Read more...This part doesn't: Within moments, three black SUVs drove up, half a dozen men in suits jumped out, and one said, "You just hit our line."
Whose line, you may ask? The guys in suits didn't say, recalled Aaron Georgelas, whose company, the Georgelas Group, was developing the Greensboro Corporate Center. Georgelas assumed that he was dealing with the federal government and that the cable in question was "black" wire -- a secure communications line used for some of the nation's most secretive intelligence-gathering operations.
"The construction manager was shocked," Georgelas recalled about the incident in 2000. "He had never seen a line get cut and people show up within seconds. Usually you've got to figure out whose line it is. To garner that kind of response that quickly was amazing."
[...]
"Yeah, we heard about the black SUVs [Watch video to see what those 'black SUVs' really are]," said Paul Goguen, the engineer in charge of relocating electric, gas, water, sewer, cable, telephone and other communications lines to make way for Metro.
"We were warned that if they were hit, the company responsible would show up before you even had a chance to make a phone call."
Swedish pirates fire a warning shot over internet censorship
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/elections/article6452298.ece
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Sweden’s Pirate Party, which wants an internet filesharing free-for-all, is one of the surprise entrants to the European Parliament after winning 7.4 per cent of the vote.[Yeah!!!]
The party, which also wants to beef up internet privacy, was founded in January 2006 and quickly attracted members angered by Swedish laws that criminalise filesharing and authorise the monitoring of e-mails. Its membership shot up after a court in Stockholm sentenced four men in April to a year in jail for running one of the world’s biggest filesharing sites, the Pirate Bay. Voters had their revenge last night by electing at least one of the Pirate Party as an MEP.
“When the verdict was announced at 11.00am, we had 14,711 members,” said Rick Falkvinge, the party’s founder. “We tripled in a week, becoming the third-biggest party in Sweden in terms of numbers. All of a sudden we were everywhere.”
Read more... The party, which also wants to beef up internet privacy, was founded in January 2006 and quickly attracted members angered by Swedish laws that criminalise filesharing and authorise the monitoring of e-mails. Its membership shot up after a court in Stockholm sentenced four men in April to a year in jail for running one of the world’s biggest filesharing sites, the Pirate Bay. Voters had their revenge last night by electing at least one of the Pirate Party as an MEP.
“When the verdict was announced at 11.00am, we had 14,711 members,” said Rick Falkvinge, the party’s founder. “We tripled in a week, becoming the third-biggest party in Sweden in terms of numbers. All of a sudden we were everywhere.”
Vive La France. Vive La UFO Revolution!
http://www.allnewsweb.com/page6916918.php
by Michael Cohen
The words 'Nous ne sommes pas seuls' or 'We are not alone' will be somberly pronounced this week by a senior Government official of the nation that brought the world 'Liberté, égalité, fraternité'. France is set to concede that it is aware of an alien presence on earth by no later than Friday.
Paris has chosen follow the lead of maverick UFO nation Brazil and resist US pressure to continue delaying disclosure until America feels it is ready for the event.
It is believed that a telephone hot-line has been set up in Paris to deal with queries from panicky citizens. A special division of France's police department is also to be established: to handle UFO reports.
The French have gone to so much effort to protect their culture from encroaching 'Anglo-Saxon' influences and now they are preparing to protect their culture from what might be even more powerful extraterrestrial forces.
It is believed Holland and Germany are set to soon follow France's lead.
[Source: allnewsweb.com]
The words 'Nous ne sommes pas seuls' or 'We are not alone' will be somberly pronounced this week by a senior Government official of the nation that brought the world 'Liberté, égalité, fraternité'. France is set to concede that it is aware of an alien presence on earth by no later than Friday.
Paris has chosen follow the lead of maverick UFO nation Brazil and resist US pressure to continue delaying disclosure until America feels it is ready for the event.
It is believed that a telephone hot-line has been set up in Paris to deal with queries from panicky citizens. A special division of France's police department is also to be established: to handle UFO reports.
The French have gone to so much effort to protect their culture from encroaching 'Anglo-Saxon' influences and now they are preparing to protect their culture from what might be even more powerful extraterrestrial forces.
It is believed Holland and Germany are set to soon follow France's lead.
Motor magnético ya en funcionamiento: La Energía Libre ya es realidad
http://www.rafapal.com/?p=1881
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- Emplame de tuvo de PVC de 7,5cm: 2€
- 4x Pinzas cocodrilo: 1,5€
- 2x Transformadores para el cobre: 2€ en el desguace.
- Cable de corriente de 1,5mm: 1€
- Componentes del circuito: 5€
- Barilla roscada del 6 y tornilleria: 0,90€
- Clemas de conexión: 0,5€
- Maderas para los ejes y base madera: reciclaje.
- Ejes de patines en linea: reciclaje.
- Cuchilla de afeitar para escobillas: 1€
- Bridas
- Super glue
- Cinta aislante
- Estaño soldar
Recomendable:
- 2x Baterias de coche de 44Ah para las pruebas: 6€ en desguace cada una.
Lista de partes y sus precios:
- 6 imanes de neodimio: 33€.
- Emplame de tuvo de PVC de 7,5cm: 2€
- 4x Pinzas cocodrilo: 1,5€
- 2x Transformadores para el cobre: 2€ en el desguace.
- Cable de corriente de 1,5mm: 1€
- Componentes del circuito: 5€
- Barilla roscada del 6 y tornilleria: 0,90€
- Clemas de conexión: 0,5€
- Maderas para los ejes y base madera: reciclaje.
- Ejes de patines en linea: reciclaje.
- Cuchilla de afeitar para escobillas: 1€
- Bridas
- Super glue
- Cinta aislante
- Estaño soldar
Recomendable:
- 2x Baterias de coche de 44Ah para las pruebas: 6€ en desguace cada una.
Universal ‘Rubik’s Cube’ Could Become Pentagon Shapeshifter
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/06/universal-rubiks-cube-could-become-pentagon-shapeshifter/
Even by the standards of the Pentagon fringe science arm, this project sounds far-out: [...] that can be ordered to “self-assemble or alter their shape, perform a function and then disassemble themselves.” But researchers back by Darpa are actually making progress on this incredible goal, Henry Kenyon at Signal magazine reports.
One day, that could lead to “morphing aircraft and ground vehicles, uniforms that can alter themselves to be comfortable in any climate, and 'soft' robots that flow like mercury through small openings to enter caves and bunker complexes.” A soldier could even reach into a can of unformed goop, and order up a custom-made tool or a “universal spare part.”
One team from Harvard is working on a kind of “generalized Rubik’s Cube” that can fold into all kinds of shapes. Another is trying to order large strands of synthetic DNA to bind together in a “molecular Velcro.” An MIT group is building “’self-folding origami’ machines that use specialized sheets of material with built-in actuators and data. These machines use cutting-edge mathematical theorems to fold themselves into virtually any three-dimensional object.”
The Programmable Matter project is five months into its second phase, which is supposed to wind up early next Spring. When they’re done, the researchers ought to “assemble four or five three-dimensional solids of a specific size and shape from a set of building blocks.”
Intel, which has done a bunch of programmable matter work on its own, is looking beyond those basic steps. Way, way beyond. The malleable stuff could one day “mimic the shape and appearance of a person or object being imaged in real time, and as the originals moved, so would their replicas,” according to their website. “These 3D models would be physical entities, not holograms. You could touch them and interact with them, just as if the originals were in the room with you.”
[Source: wired.com]
One day, that could lead to “morphing aircraft and ground vehicles, uniforms that can alter themselves to be comfortable in any climate, and 'soft' robots that flow like mercury through small openings to enter caves and bunker complexes.” A soldier could even reach into a can of unformed goop, and order up a custom-made tool or a “universal spare part.”
One team from Harvard is working on a kind of “generalized Rubik’s Cube” that can fold into all kinds of shapes. Another is trying to order large strands of synthetic DNA to bind together in a “molecular Velcro.” An MIT group is building “’self-folding origami’ machines that use specialized sheets of material with built-in actuators and data. These machines use cutting-edge mathematical theorems to fold themselves into virtually any three-dimensional object.”
The Programmable Matter project is five months into its second phase, which is supposed to wind up early next Spring. When they’re done, the researchers ought to “assemble four or five three-dimensional solids of a specific size and shape from a set of building blocks.”
Intel, which has done a bunch of programmable matter work on its own, is looking beyond those basic steps. Way, way beyond. The malleable stuff could one day “mimic the shape and appearance of a person or object being imaged in real time, and as the originals moved, so would their replicas,” according to their website. “These 3D models would be physical entities, not holograms. You could touch them and interact with them, just as if the originals were in the room with you.”
Was David Carradine Murdered For Investigating Secret Societies?
http://cultofthedeadfish.blogspot.com/2009/06/was-actor-carradine-murdered-for.html
During a segment that aired on the Larry King Show, CNN correspondent Jerry Penacoli says the death of David Carradine “was abnormal, the death was not natural. And the evidence shows that there were ropes tied around David’s neck and around his genitalia and that they were tied together. And that there is a report — several reports that there were ropes tied around his wrists.”
Later in the segment, Penacoli says a filmmaker and director named Damian Chapa, who worked with Carradine, said he “believes that there was foul play” in Carradine’s death. “And he said that no one else knows this but his family — Carradine’s family and friends and people closest to him, but David was very interested in investigating and disclosing secret societies.”
“So whatever that means…”
It means you can end up dead.
[Source: cultofthedeadfish.blogspot.com]
Later in the segment, Penacoli says a filmmaker and director named Damian Chapa, who worked with Carradine, said he “believes that there was foul play” in Carradine’s death. “And he said that no one else knows this but his family — Carradine’s family and friends and people closest to him, but David was very interested in investigating and disclosing secret societies.”
“So whatever that means…”
It means you can end up dead.
NASA Study Acknowledges Solar Cycle, Not Man, Responsible for Past Warming
·Report indicates solar cycle has been impacting Earth since the Industrial Revolution.
http://www.dailytech.com
http://www.dailytech.com
Some researchers believe that the solar cycle influences global climate changes. They attribute recent warming trends to cyclic variation. Skeptics, though, argue that there's little hard evidence of a solar hand in recent climate changes.
Now, a new research report from a surprising source may help to lay this skepticism to rest. A study from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland looking at climate data over the past century has concluded that solar variation has made a significant impact on the Earth's climate. The report concludes that evidence for climate changes based on solar radiation can be traced back as far as the Industrial Revolution.
Past research has shown that the sun goes through eleven year cycles. At the cycle's peak, solar activity occurring near sunspots is particularly intense, basking the Earth in solar heat. According to Robert Cahalan, a climatologist at the Goddard Space Flight Center, "Right now, we are in between major ice ages, in a period that has been called the Holocene."
Thomas Woods, solar scientist at the University of Colorado in Boulder concludes, "The fluctuations in the solar cycle impacts Earth's global temperature by about 0.1 degree Celsius, slightly hotter during solar maximum and cooler during solar minimum. The sun is currently at its minimum, and the next solar maximum is expected in 2012."
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Now, a new research report from a surprising source may help to lay this skepticism to rest. A study from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland looking at climate data over the past century has concluded that solar variation has made a significant impact on the Earth's climate. The report concludes that evidence for climate changes based on solar radiation can be traced back as far as the Industrial Revolution.
Past research has shown that the sun goes through eleven year cycles. At the cycle's peak, solar activity occurring near sunspots is particularly intense, basking the Earth in solar heat. According to Robert Cahalan, a climatologist at the Goddard Space Flight Center, "Right now, we are in between major ice ages, in a period that has been called the Holocene."
Thomas Woods, solar scientist at the University of Colorado in Boulder concludes, "The fluctuations in the solar cycle impacts Earth's global temperature by about 0.1 degree Celsius, slightly hotter during solar maximum and cooler during solar minimum. The sun is currently at its minimum, and the next solar maximum is expected in 2012."
Image From Mars' Spirit Mission - 'The Cube'
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/p/676/2P186379087EFFAJQVP2265R2M1.HTML
[Source: marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov]
Panoramic Camera Non-linearized Full frame EDR acquired on Sol 676 of Spirit's mission to Gusev Crater at approximately 12:26:29 Mars local solar time, camera commanded to use Filter 2 (754 nm).
[Source: marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov]
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