7.06.2009
Anomaly in Mercury
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0907/darkmercury_messenger_big.jpg
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Is anything being done about Gary McKinnon?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1197182/Betrayal-naive-hacker-Why-MPs-doing-help-Aspergers-victim-Gary.html
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With absurd ease, Asperger's victim Gary McKinnon hacked into NASA and Pentagon computers in a bid to prove the existence of alien life. So why is the U.S. using all its might to extradite him to face 60 years in jail? And more pertinently, why are british politicians doing nothing to help him?
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'It is important to be clear that, under the terms of the Extradition Act 2003, the Home Secretary must order extradition unless certain limited conditions are met.
'The courts have already said that those conditions are not met in Mr McKinnon's case; and his attempts to defeat the U.S. request have since been dismissed by the High Court, the House of Lords and the European Court of Human Rights.'How Computers Harm Children's Brains
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1197491/How-computers-harm-childrens-future--damaging-brains.html
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Children who spend hour after hour on the computer may be damaging a vital part of their brains. Here, in a stark warning, Baroness Susan Greenfield, director of the Royal Institution and Oxford Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology, explains how this could be creating a generation blighted by obesity and gambling.
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The human brain is exquisitely sensitive to every event. We cannot complacently take it that our ways of learning and thinking will remain constant. Humans are highly responsive to change and so quick to adapt - in part because of the prefrontal cortex.
This area of the brain is more evolved in humans than in any other creature. It also forms late in our development, not becoming fully active until our teenage years.
If you damage the prefrontal cortex, your senses and movements are not impaired but you change; you become more reckless, lose a sense of sequence and consequence, of narrative and of your place in these sequences.
We know this from studies of gamblers. We know it from obese people: the fatter you are, the lower the activity of your prefrontal cortex. We know it from small children in whom the area is not developed and from schizophrenics, whose prefrontal cortex is damaged.
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The hypothesis is that if we were to scan the brains of young people who spend a lot of time playing computer games and in chatrooms, we would find that the prefrontal cortex is damaged, underdeveloped or underactive - just as it is in gamblers, schizophrenics or the obese.
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Imagine there is no robust conceptual framework. You are sitting in front of a multimedia presentation, such as a computer game or chatroom, where you are unable, because you have not had the experience of many different intellectual journeys, to evaluate what is flashing up on the screen.
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Screen life has no memory: it is reaction-action-reaction-action-reaction. If you live in that cacophonic environment for six hours or more a day and at a time when the prefrontal cortex is forming, becoming developed and active, what is going to be the effect?
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The human brain is exquisitely sensitive to every event. We cannot complacently take it that our ways of learning and thinking will remain constant. Humans are highly responsive to change and so quick to adapt - in part because of the prefrontal cortex.
This area of the brain is more evolved in humans than in any other creature. It also forms late in our development, not becoming fully active until our teenage years.
If you damage the prefrontal cortex, your senses and movements are not impaired but you change; you become more reckless, lose a sense of sequence and consequence, of narrative and of your place in these sequences.
We know this from studies of gamblers. We know it from obese people: the fatter you are, the lower the activity of your prefrontal cortex. We know it from small children in whom the area is not developed and from schizophrenics, whose prefrontal cortex is damaged.
[...]
The hypothesis is that if we were to scan the brains of young people who spend a lot of time playing computer games and in chatrooms, we would find that the prefrontal cortex is damaged, underdeveloped or underactive - just as it is in gamblers, schizophrenics or the obese.
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Imagine there is no robust conceptual framework. You are sitting in front of a multimedia presentation, such as a computer game or chatroom, where you are unable, because you have not had the experience of many different intellectual journeys, to evaluate what is flashing up on the screen.
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Screen life has no memory: it is reaction-action-reaction-action-reaction. If you live in that cacophonic environment for six hours or more a day and at a time when the prefrontal cortex is forming, becoming developed and active, what is going to be the effect?
IRS: The Real Facts
http://www.afn.org/~govern/IRSkinny.html
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Many believe that they are required to pay an "income tax" to a branch of the United States government called "The Internal Revenue Service". The origins and history of the IRS shows just how in error these beliefs are. Not only is there no law that requires most Americans to file an individual tax return, but the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) wasn't even created by an act of Congress!
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After Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan on December 7, 1941, Congress declared war, and passed the Victory Tax Act of 1942, in order to raise money to support an Army. This was done in accordance with Article I, Section 8, Clause 12, of the Constitution of the United States of America, which provides:
"The Congress shall have Power . . . To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years."
In 1942, for the first time in the history of this country, the Bureau of Internal Revenue sent out 1040 Form to the general public in the forty-eight States. This was done even though the Victory Tax Act of 1942 only applied to citizens and residents of the District of Columbia, and non-resident aliens.
Most people thought that the Victory Tax Act required everyone to file a tax return and pay tax on "income", so they voluntarily filed a Form 1040 in 1942, 1943 and 1944. On May 29, 1944, Congress repealed the Victory Tax Act of 1942, but the news media did not publicize that fact. In 1945, the Bureau of Internal Revenue decided to mass mail 1040 Forms to the general public, just to see what would happen. Why not? The vast majority of the people had voluntarily file tax returns before. Since the public believed that the Victory Tax Act was mandatory in the then forty-eight (48) States, and did not know that it had been repealed, they filled out the 1040 Forms and mailed them in, along with their checks. The Bureau of Internal Revenue was ecstatic and committed itself to continue perpetrating the fraud on the Citizens of the forty-eight (48) States. So, the Bureau of Internal Revenue has continued to send out Form 1040's each and every year since.
Please, read more...[...]
After Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan on December 7, 1941, Congress declared war, and passed the Victory Tax Act of 1942, in order to raise money to support an Army. This was done in accordance with Article I, Section 8, Clause 12, of the Constitution of the United States of America, which provides:
"The Congress shall have Power . . . To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years."
In 1942, for the first time in the history of this country, the Bureau of Internal Revenue sent out 1040 Form to the general public in the forty-eight States. This was done even though the Victory Tax Act of 1942 only applied to citizens and residents of the District of Columbia, and non-resident aliens.
Most people thought that the Victory Tax Act required everyone to file a tax return and pay tax on "income", so they voluntarily filed a Form 1040 in 1942, 1943 and 1944. On May 29, 1944, Congress repealed the Victory Tax Act of 1942, but the news media did not publicize that fact. In 1945, the Bureau of Internal Revenue decided to mass mail 1040 Forms to the general public, just to see what would happen. Why not? The vast majority of the people had voluntarily file tax returns before. Since the public believed that the Victory Tax Act was mandatory in the then forty-eight (48) States, and did not know that it had been repealed, they filled out the 1040 Forms and mailed them in, along with their checks. The Bureau of Internal Revenue was ecstatic and committed itself to continue perpetrating the fraud on the Citizens of the forty-eight (48) States. So, the Bureau of Internal Revenue has continued to send out Form 1040's each and every year since.
Crop Circles -2009 Update- Numbers 41, 42 & 43
[Formation Nº 41 @ West Down Gallops - nr Beckhampton, Wiltshire - reported July 4, 2009]
[Formation Nº 42 @ Silbury Hill - nr Avebury, Wiltshire - reported July 5, 2009]
[Formation Nº 43 @ Baltic Farm - nr Devizes, Wiltshire - reported July 5, 2009]
[Formation Nº 42 @ Silbury Hill - nr Avebury, Wiltshire - reported July 5, 2009]
[Formation Nº 43 @ Baltic Farm - nr Devizes, Wiltshire - reported July 5, 2009]
7.05.2009
7.04.2009
Conspiracy fever: As rumours swell that the government staged 7/7, victims' relatives call for a proper inquiry
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1197419/Conspiracy-fever-As-rumours-swell-government-staged-7-7-victims-relatives-proper-inquiry.html
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Families of the dead victims and an increasing number of 7/7 survivors claim there are inconsistencies and basic mistakes in the official accounts that need explanation.
And they are demanding a full public inquiry to answer key questions about what the Intelligence Services and the police did and did not know before the bombings.
Meanwhile, the Government's determined refusal to meet their demands is having a very dangerous side-effect - fuelling myriad conspiracy theories about 7/7. Books, blogs and several video documentaries point to oddities in the official accounts.
The survivors are so intent on an independent inquiry that they are now taking legal action in the High Court to try to force the Home Secretary Alan Johnson to authorise it.
Central to the puzzle is which train the four Muslims caught from Luton to London on the morning of the bomb blasts - bearing in mind that the three separate Tube explosions at Edgware Road, Aldgate and King's Cross occurred together at exactly 8.50am, followed by the red bus an hour later near Tavistock Square.
The Truth Campaign group is equally sceptical about the bombers' supposed arrival time at King's Cross.
And it is such inconsistencies that are fuelling the deepening concerns. This week, a television documentary on BBC2 called Conspiracy Files 7/7 revealed the existence of a conspiracy theorist's 56-minute video called Ripple Effect.
It accuses Tony Blair, the Government, the police, and the British and Israeli Secret Services of murdering the innocent people who died that day to stir up anti-Islamic fervour and create public support for the 'war on terror'.
Please, read more...And they are demanding a full public inquiry to answer key questions about what the Intelligence Services and the police did and did not know before the bombings.
Meanwhile, the Government's determined refusal to meet their demands is having a very dangerous side-effect - fuelling myriad conspiracy theories about 7/7. Books, blogs and several video documentaries point to oddities in the official accounts.
The survivors are so intent on an independent inquiry that they are now taking legal action in the High Court to try to force the Home Secretary Alan Johnson to authorise it.
Central to the puzzle is which train the four Muslims caught from Luton to London on the morning of the bomb blasts - bearing in mind that the three separate Tube explosions at Edgware Road, Aldgate and King's Cross occurred together at exactly 8.50am, followed by the red bus an hour later near Tavistock Square.
The Truth Campaign group is equally sceptical about the bombers' supposed arrival time at King's Cross.
And it is such inconsistencies that are fuelling the deepening concerns. This week, a television documentary on BBC2 called Conspiracy Files 7/7 revealed the existence of a conspiracy theorist's 56-minute video called Ripple Effect.
It accuses Tony Blair, the Government, the police, and the British and Israeli Secret Services of murdering the innocent people who died that day to stir up anti-Islamic fervour and create public support for the 'war on terror'.
Crop Circle depicts solar eruptions hitting Earth on July 7
http://www.examiner.com/x-2383-Honolulu-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2009m7d3-Crop-Circle-depicts-solar-eruptions-hitting-Earth-on-July-7
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A new crop picture at Milk Hill on June 21, 2009 seems to provide one of the least ambiguous indications so far, that our Sun will truly emit a series of CMEs (coronal mass ejections) toward Earth in the near future, perhaps on the full Moon of July 7, 2009.
Our best theoretical matches to the crop formation boxes were for upcoming dates of July 6 or 7, 2009. Why would those crop artists go to all the trouble of showing us sextant and orrery shapes, then coding that orrery with six rectangular boxes which mean July 6 or 7, 2009, unless something significant were going to happen at that time?
A giant breach in the magnetosphere reported by NASA on December 16, 2008 makes it far easier for solar plasma to enter into the Earth’s atmosphere. For the full 11 year period of Solar Cycle 24 which is expected to peak in 2013 according to latest estimates, the Earth will be vulnerable to any Coronal Mass Ejections directly aimed at it from the sun. If the interpretations of crop circle researchers are correct, then we will shortly directly observe the impact of solar energy from CMEs passing through the magnetosphere breach.
According to crop circle researchers, the source of the complex crop circles clearly answers the question of how extraterrestrials might communicate with an evolving planetary civilization. So Paul Allen and SETI take note for future funding projects. Extraterrestrials may be warning us through crop circles that the Solar Surf is about to go up. If so, better get those solar panels ready to ride the waves since the electric grid is sure to wash out.
Read more...Our best theoretical matches to the crop formation boxes were for upcoming dates of July 6 or 7, 2009. Why would those crop artists go to all the trouble of showing us sextant and orrery shapes, then coding that orrery with six rectangular boxes which mean July 6 or 7, 2009, unless something significant were going to happen at that time?
A giant breach in the magnetosphere reported by NASA on December 16, 2008 makes it far easier for solar plasma to enter into the Earth’s atmosphere. For the full 11 year period of Solar Cycle 24 which is expected to peak in 2013 according to latest estimates, the Earth will be vulnerable to any Coronal Mass Ejections directly aimed at it from the sun. If the interpretations of crop circle researchers are correct, then we will shortly directly observe the impact of solar energy from CMEs passing through the magnetosphere breach.
According to crop circle researchers, the source of the complex crop circles clearly answers the question of how extraterrestrials might communicate with an evolving planetary civilization. So Paul Allen and SETI take note for future funding projects. Extraterrestrials may be warning us through crop circles that the Solar Surf is about to go up. If so, better get those solar panels ready to ride the waves since the electric grid is sure to wash out.
7.03.2009
El Poder Que Mata La Muerte
http://www.elpoderquematalamuerte.com/home.html
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[Addendum...]
http://www0.un.org/ga/econcrisissummit/statements/pga_outcome_es.pdf
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[Addendum...]
http://www0.un.org/ga/econcrisissummit/statements/pga_outcome_es.pdf
"Palabras del presidente de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, a la adopción del 'Outcome Document' de la Conferencia Internacional de las Naciones Unidas sobre la crisis financiera y económica mundial y su impacto sobre el desarrollo."
NYC, 26.06.2009
NYC, 26.06.2009
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Va a irrumpir, nos decia de Chardin, la Noosfera, después de haber irrumpido en el proceso evolutivo la antropósfera, la biósfera, la hidrósfera, la atmósfera y la litósfera. Ahora es la nueva esfera, la esfera de las mentes y de los corazones sincronizados: la noósfera. Como saben noos (nus) en griego significa el espíritu y la mente unidos al corazón.
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Va a irrumpir, nos decia de Chardin, la Noosfera, después de haber irrumpido en el proceso evolutivo la antropósfera, la biósfera, la hidrósfera, la atmósfera y la litósfera. Ahora es la nueva esfera, la esfera de las mentes y de los corazones sincronizados: la noósfera. Como saben noos (nus) en griego significa el espíritu y la mente unidos al corazón.
The Placebo Effect - The Triumph of Mind over Body
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=14
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A neglected phenomenon
One of the most commonly used terms in medical language is the word placebo. The placebo effect is used as a scale for evaluating the effectiveness of new drugs. But what exactly is the placebo effect and what are its consequences in the deterministic structure of Western medicine? The placebo effect has been frequently abused by health professionals to denote and stigmatise a fraud or fallacy. Alternative therapies have often been characterised as merely placebos. But the placebo effect is not a fraudulent, useless or malevolent phenomenon. It occurs independently of the intentions of charlatans or health professionals. It is a spontaneous, authentic and very factual phenomenon that refers to well-observed but uninterpreted and contingent therapies or health improvements that occur in the absence of an active chemical/pharmacological substance. Make-believe drugs—drugs that carry no active chemical substances—often act as the real drugs and provoke therapeutic effects when administered to patients.
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Effects of positive and negative thinking
The placebo effect has been often misunderstood as a solely psychological and highly subjective phenomenon. The patient, convinced of the therapy's effectiveness, ignores his symptoms or perceives them faintly without any substantial improvement of his health; that is, the patient feels better but is not healthier. But can the subjective psychological aspect of the placebo effect account for all of its therapeutic properties? The answer is definite: the placebo effect refers to an alternative curative mechanism that is inherent in the human entity, is motivated by therapeutic intention or belief in the therapeutic potential of a treatment, and implies biochemical responses and reactions to the stimulus of therapeutic intention or belief.
Read more...One of the most commonly used terms in medical language is the word placebo. The placebo effect is used as a scale for evaluating the effectiveness of new drugs. But what exactly is the placebo effect and what are its consequences in the deterministic structure of Western medicine? The placebo effect has been frequently abused by health professionals to denote and stigmatise a fraud or fallacy. Alternative therapies have often been characterised as merely placebos. But the placebo effect is not a fraudulent, useless or malevolent phenomenon. It occurs independently of the intentions of charlatans or health professionals. It is a spontaneous, authentic and very factual phenomenon that refers to well-observed but uninterpreted and contingent therapies or health improvements that occur in the absence of an active chemical/pharmacological substance. Make-believe drugs—drugs that carry no active chemical substances—often act as the real drugs and provoke therapeutic effects when administered to patients.
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Effects of positive and negative thinking
The placebo effect has been often misunderstood as a solely psychological and highly subjective phenomenon. The patient, convinced of the therapy's effectiveness, ignores his symptoms or perceives them faintly without any substantial improvement of his health; that is, the patient feels better but is not healthier. But can the subjective psychological aspect of the placebo effect account for all of its therapeutic properties? The answer is definite: the placebo effect refers to an alternative curative mechanism that is inherent in the human entity, is motivated by therapeutic intention or belief in the therapeutic potential of a treatment, and implies biochemical responses and reactions to the stimulus of therapeutic intention or belief.
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Humans could regrow their own body parts like some amphibians, claim scientists
·Regenerating your own amputated arms and legs, broken spines and even damaged brains is the stuff of superheroes - but it could one day be a reality, claim scientists.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5710718/Humans-could-regrow-their-own-body-parts-like-some-amphibians-claim-scientists.html
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5710718/Humans-could-regrow-their-own-body-parts-like-some-amphibians-claim-scientists.html
Researchers looking into how salamanders are able to to regrow their damaged bodies have discovered that the "almost magical ability" is closer to human healing than first thought.
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The amphibians are almost unique in that if they lose a limb, a small bump forms over the injury called a blastema. Within about three weeks this blastema transforms into a new, fully functioning replacement limb without any scarring.
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Scientists, studying the Axolotl salamander, native to Mexico, had long thought the amphibious creature's capabilities were down to so-called "pluripotent" cells, which had the uncanny ability to morph into whatever appendage, organ or tissue happens to be needed or due for a replacement.
But a paper in the journal Nature debunks that notion, discovering that the regenerative process is like a much more sophisticated version of healing in humans and other mammals. They found that repairs were down to much more standard stem cells – like those in mammals – but with the ability to reorganise themselves in the correct order to rebuild the body.
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The amphibians are almost unique in that if they lose a limb, a small bump forms over the injury called a blastema. Within about three weeks this blastema transforms into a new, fully functioning replacement limb without any scarring.
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Scientists, studying the Axolotl salamander, native to Mexico, had long thought the amphibious creature's capabilities were down to so-called "pluripotent" cells, which had the uncanny ability to morph into whatever appendage, organ or tissue happens to be needed or due for a replacement.
But a paper in the journal Nature debunks that notion, discovering that the regenerative process is like a much more sophisticated version of healing in humans and other mammals. They found that repairs were down to much more standard stem cells – like those in mammals – but with the ability to reorganise themselves in the correct order to rebuild the body.
La UPC inventa un material con restos de papel para suplir a plástico y cartón
http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=626305&idseccio_PK=1021&h=
Un grupo de investigadores de la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ha desarrollado un nuevo material con unas características superiores a las del plástico y el cartón. Se trata de una sustancia elaborada a partir de los desechos de papel que aprovecha el cien por cien de la celulosa inservible.
El proceso se basa en un método ideado por el propio grupo, que ya lo ha patentado dado su carácter único. Consiste en aplicar un tratamiento biotecnológico a los restos de papel que aprovecha el material que no puede usarse en la elaboración de papel o cartón reciclado, de modo que los desechos se reutilizan en su totalidad. «Podemos transformar el polímero sintético o natural en un nuevo material, en celulosa», dice el investigador Gustavo García en referencia a las macromoléculas que componen los tejidos a tratar.
La transformación culmina con la obtención de un nuevo material que tiene aspecto de conglomerado, similar a un cartón grueso, pero con unas propiedades mayores: «Tiene mucha más resistencia que el cartón, es más próximo a la madera y dura más», destaca la jefa de la investigación, Margarita Calafell, que destaca que la clave se encuentra en la tecnología empleada.
La facilidad para moldear el material se suma a su carácter ignífugo, su impermeabilidad y su resistencia. Ello hace pensar que podría sustituir a materiales comunes como los utilizados en grandes embalajes o en soportes como palés. En el sector de la construcción, podría reemplazar a las placas de yeso o el porexpán, por lo que varias firmas ya se han interesado por él. «Nos hace falta que una empresa externa a la universidad decida producirlo para rebajar su coste», explica Calafell.
[Fuente: www.elperiodico.com]
El proceso se basa en un método ideado por el propio grupo, que ya lo ha patentado dado su carácter único. Consiste en aplicar un tratamiento biotecnológico a los restos de papel que aprovecha el material que no puede usarse en la elaboración de papel o cartón reciclado, de modo que los desechos se reutilizan en su totalidad. «Podemos transformar el polímero sintético o natural en un nuevo material, en celulosa», dice el investigador Gustavo García en referencia a las macromoléculas que componen los tejidos a tratar.
La transformación culmina con la obtención de un nuevo material que tiene aspecto de conglomerado, similar a un cartón grueso, pero con unas propiedades mayores: «Tiene mucha más resistencia que el cartón, es más próximo a la madera y dura más», destaca la jefa de la investigación, Margarita Calafell, que destaca que la clave se encuentra en la tecnología empleada.
La facilidad para moldear el material se suma a su carácter ignífugo, su impermeabilidad y su resistencia. Ello hace pensar que podría sustituir a materiales comunes como los utilizados en grandes embalajes o en soportes como palés. En el sector de la construcción, podría reemplazar a las placas de yeso o el porexpán, por lo que varias firmas ya se han interesado por él. «Nos hace falta que una empresa externa a la universidad decida producirlo para rebajar su coste», explica Calafell.
New Class of Black Holes Discovered
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/mediumblackhole/
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Only two sizes of black holes have ever been spotted: small and super-massive. Scientists have long speculated that an intermediate version must exist, but they’ve never been able to find one until now.
Astrophysicists identified what appears to be the first-ever medium-sized black hole, pictured in an artist’s rendition above, with a mass at least 500 times that of our Sun. Researchers from the Centre d’Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements in France detected the middling hole in a galaxy about 290 million light-years from Earth.
The discovery may shed some light on the origins of super-sized black holes like the one at the center of our own galaxy. These astral heavyweights top out at several million to several billion times the mass of the Sun, but their origin remains a mystery.
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The new discovery is the most convincing evidence to date that medium black holes exist. Using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton X-ray space telescope, the researchers identified a radiation source that gives off X-rays 260 million times brighter than the radiation of the Sun.
Called “Hyper-Luminous X-ray Source 1,” the structure sits on the edge of galaxy ESO 243-49. Because of the source’s physical characteristics and the pattern of its radiation, the researchers conclude it must be a black hole more than 500 times the mass of the sun: not too big, not too small, and the first of its kind.
Read more...Astrophysicists identified what appears to be the first-ever medium-sized black hole, pictured in an artist’s rendition above, with a mass at least 500 times that of our Sun. Researchers from the Centre d’Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements in France detected the middling hole in a galaxy about 290 million light-years from Earth.
The discovery may shed some light on the origins of super-sized black holes like the one at the center of our own galaxy. These astral heavyweights top out at several million to several billion times the mass of the Sun, but their origin remains a mystery.
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The new discovery is the most convincing evidence to date that medium black holes exist. Using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton X-ray space telescope, the researchers identified a radiation source that gives off X-rays 260 million times brighter than the radiation of the Sun.
Called “Hyper-Luminous X-ray Source 1,” the structure sits on the edge of galaxy ESO 243-49. Because of the source’s physical characteristics and the pattern of its radiation, the researchers conclude it must be a black hole more than 500 times the mass of the sun: not too big, not too small, and the first of its kind.
El dualismo sería una categoría más de nuestra mente
·La actividad científica no es compatible con hipótesis inmutables.
http://www.tendencias21.net/El-dualismo-seria-una-categoria-mas-de-nuestra-mente_a3438.html
http://www.tendencias21.net/El-dualismo-seria-una-categoria-mas-de-nuestra-mente_a3438.html
Dualismo y emergentismo son temas recurrentes del discurso filosófico y teológico de nuestros días. Probablemente, el pensamiento dualista sea fruto de una predisposición innata a las antinomias localizada en el lóbulo parietal inferior izquierdo del cerebro. La neurociencia ha mostrado que es posible provocar experiencias espirituales (postura emergentista) y estos experimentos nos indican que el dualismo no es “real”, sino una categoría más de nuestra mente. La actividad científica no es compatible por tanto con hipótesis inmutables, por lo que todo lo que se dice en este artículo puede que esté equivocado.
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Las etiquetas reflejan ese pensamiento dualista del que estamos hablando. En este sentido, llamar a una persona “materialista” o “espiritualista”, no sería otra cosa que llamarle “dualista cojo”, o sea que de la división entre materia y espíritu sólo considera una de ellas. En otros casos, suelen utilizarse esas etiquetas como armas arrojadizas para intimidar al contrario, como cuando se utiliza el término “reduccionista” para atacar a la ciencia. ¿Qué significa, por ejemplo, “trascendencia” en términos científicos, palabra que, por otro lado, en español está tan manida que se suele utilizar como sinónimo de importancia o relevancia?
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Las etiquetas reflejan ese pensamiento dualista del que estamos hablando. En este sentido, llamar a una persona “materialista” o “espiritualista”, no sería otra cosa que llamarle “dualista cojo”, o sea que de la división entre materia y espíritu sólo considera una de ellas. En otros casos, suelen utilizarse esas etiquetas como armas arrojadizas para intimidar al contrario, como cuando se utiliza el término “reduccionista” para atacar a la ciencia. ¿Qué significa, por ejemplo, “trascendencia” en términos científicos, palabra que, por otro lado, en español está tan manida que se suele utilizar como sinónimo de importancia o relevancia?
Crop Circles -2009 Update- Nº 40
[Formation Nº 40 @ Milk Hill - nr Stanton St Bernard, Wiltshire - reported July 2, 2009]
España encarga 18 millones de vacunas para enfrentarse a la gripe A
http://www.lavanguardia.es/free/edicionimpresa/res/20090703/53736951237.html?urlback=http://www.lavanguardia.es/premium/edicionimpresa/20090703/53736951237.html
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La ministra de Sanidad y Política Social, Trinidad Jiménez, anunció ayer que España ha encargado suficientes dosis de la futura vacuna contra la gripe A para inmunizar a 18 millones de personas, un encargo que cubriría hasta un 40% de la población. España ha firmado un preacuerdo con dos laboratorios farmacéuticos que le entregarán las dosis "cuando se vayan a servir a otros países europeos", dijo Jiménez en Cancún (México), durante una conferencia ministerial que busca soluciones para la pandemia. El Reino Unido, el país europeo más afectado, anunció ayer que piensa cambiar la estrategia. Tras estimar que a finales de agosto se podrían registrar más de 100.000 casos diarios, las autoridades británicas dijeron que ahora se concentrarán en tratar la enfermedad, en vez de intentar contenerla.
[Fuente: www.lavanguardia.es]CiU, PSC y PP rechazan una iniciativa popular para impedir los transgénicos en Catalunya
·La plataforma 'Som lo que Sembre' considera "vergonzosa" la actitud de los parlamentarios.
http://www.lavanguardia.es/politica/noticias/20090702/53736788626/ciu-psc-y-pp-rechazan-una-iniciativa-popular-para-impedir-los-transgenicos-en-catalunya-icv-pujol-er.html
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El pleno del Parlament ha rechazado con los votos conjuntos de CiU, PSC y PP tramitar en comisión una Iniciativa Legislativa Popular (ILP) a fin de declarar Catalunya como territorio libre de cultivos transgénicos y prohibir este tipo productos por sus posibles efectos negativos en la salud humana.
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La iniciativa ha sido defendida en el pleno por el portavoz de la Plataforma 'Som lo que Sembrem' Alexis Inglada, quien ha alertado que mientras que en países como Alemania y Francia se prohíben los transgénicos por sus riesgos, "aquí no vamos por aquí", porque Catalunya ya es "la nación europea que más transgénicos cultiva". "Ustedes, señores diputados, deberían preguntarse porqué", ha afirmado el portavoz de la plataforma, antes de lamentar que los gobiernos catalanes "se crucen de brazos" ante esta realidad. "A veces, en lugar de gobernar para la ciudadanía, parece que lo hagan por un puñado de empresas", ha recriminado Inglada antes de recordar que las semillas transgénicas están patentadas por multinacionales como Monsanto.
Inglada, ha calificado de "vergüenza" el debate parlamentario porque cree que los diputados no han respondido a sus preguntas y no les han concedido el "derecho de réplica". Inglada ha valorado la sesión como "el día en que la democracia tocó fondo en Catalunya" y ha lamentado que, al menos, no se permita un debate sobre los alimentos transgénicos. El portavoz considera que el trato recibido por el parlamento ha sido "asqueroso" porque no les han permitido utilizar servicios básicos como los lavabos.
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Según este portavoz, las más de 20.000 hectáreas de maíz transgénico que se cultivan en Catalunya provocan "continuas contaminaciones genéticas con toda impunidad" a las plantas biológicamente naturales debido a la polinización cruzada.
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La iniciativa ha sido defendida en el pleno por el portavoz de la Plataforma 'Som lo que Sembrem' Alexis Inglada, quien ha alertado que mientras que en países como Alemania y Francia se prohíben los transgénicos por sus riesgos, "aquí no vamos por aquí", porque Catalunya ya es "la nación europea que más transgénicos cultiva". "Ustedes, señores diputados, deberían preguntarse porqué", ha afirmado el portavoz de la plataforma, antes de lamentar que los gobiernos catalanes "se crucen de brazos" ante esta realidad. "A veces, en lugar de gobernar para la ciudadanía, parece que lo hagan por un puñado de empresas", ha recriminado Inglada antes de recordar que las semillas transgénicas están patentadas por multinacionales como Monsanto.
Inglada, ha calificado de "vergüenza" el debate parlamentario porque cree que los diputados no han respondido a sus preguntas y no les han concedido el "derecho de réplica". Inglada ha valorado la sesión como "el día en que la democracia tocó fondo en Catalunya" y ha lamentado que, al menos, no se permita un debate sobre los alimentos transgénicos. El portavoz considera que el trato recibido por el parlamento ha sido "asqueroso" porque no les han permitido utilizar servicios básicos como los lavabos.
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Según este portavoz, las más de 20.000 hectáreas de maíz transgénico que se cultivan en Catalunya provocan "continuas contaminaciones genéticas con toda impunidad" a las plantas biológicamente naturales debido a la polinización cruzada.
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