Saturday, August 27, 2005

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Scientists probe anti-ageing gene

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Scientists probe anti-ageing gene:

"Because humans have a very similar version of the gene, the hope is that it will show a way to improve our declining years.
The gene studied in the new research is called Klotho, named after a minor Greek goddess who spins life's thread.
The gene certainly seems to do that. Mice - and people - with defective forms of the gene appear to age prematurely.
Now researchers have shown that by boosting the activity of the gene, they can extend the natural lives of male mice from two to three years.
The effect is not quite so strong in female mice."

Discovery of How Klotho Gene Works Could Lead to Anti-Aging Therapy

Discovery of How Klotho Gene Works Could Lead to Anti-Aging Therapy: "Aug. 26, 2005 – Led by one of the scientist that first discovered and named the Klotho gene in 1997, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that a protein prolonging life in mice works by controlling insulin, a discovery possibly significant in developing anti-aging therapy.

Therapies based on this hormone could prov"

Thursday, August 25, 2005

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

'Magnetic flames' in molecular magnets exhibit properties akin to fire

'Magnetic flames' in molecular magnets exhibit properties akin to fire: "Yoko Suzuki, a graduate student at The City College, devised an experiment to measure the progress of a molecular avalanche through a crystal of Mn12 (manganese) acetate using an array of tiny micrometer sized Hall sensors placed underneath the specimen. Ms. Suzuki observed that the avalanche began at one end of the crystal and propagated at speeds of a few meters per second in the form of a “flame” front that released magnetic energy into the crystal. "

Out of sight, out of mind? Not really

Out of sight, out of mind? Not really: "Because the brain is effectively blind during the one-twentieth of a second of each eye movement, subjects could not see the object substitutions being made and were completely unaware that the altered visual world behaved any differently than the real world.

But their brains detected the difference.

In tests following one or two hours of exposure to the altered world, subjects confused objects that had been swapped-in reliable and predictable ways. Subjects judged different objects to be the same object at different locations, as if their brains used their eye movements to learn what images belong together to make an 'object.' "

Gambling monkeys give clues to brain chemistry | Science Blog

Gambling monkeys give clues to brain chemistry | Science Blog

Saturday, August 20, 2005

Science Blog -- Light that travels faster than light: "The telecommunications industry transmits vast quantities of data via fiber optics. Light signals race down the information superhighway at about 186,000 miles per second. But information cannot be processed at this speed, because with current technology light signals cannot be stored, routed or processed without first being transformed into electrical signals, which work much more slowly. If the light signal could be controlled by light, it would be possible to route and process optical data without the costly electrical conversion, opening up the possibility of processing information at the speed of light.
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Independent Online Edition > Americas : app2: "On a high-profile and bi-partisan fact-finding tour in Alaska and Canada's Yukon territory, Senators John McCain, a Republican, and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic senator for New York, were confronted by melting permafrost and shrinking glaciers and heard from native Inuit that rising sea levels were altering their lives.

'The question is how much damage will be done before we start taking concrete action,' Mr McCain said at a press conference in Anchorage. 'Go up to places like we just came from. It's a little scary.' Mrs Clinton added: 'I don't think there's any doubt left for anybody who actually looks at the science. "

Senators Attest to Alaska Climate Change - Yahoo! News

Friday, August 19, 2005

Consortium

The Consortium: "In going with the “Bush Wins” headlines, the news organizations downplayed their more dramatic finding that Gore would have won if a full statewide recount had been conducted in accordance with state law. Using the clear-intent-of-the-voter standard, Gore beat Bush by margins ranging from 60 to 171 votes, depending on what standard was used in judging the “undervotes.

"A document, revealed by Newsweek, indicates that the Florida recount that was stopped last year by five Republicans on the U.S. Supreme Court would have taken into account so-called “overvotes” that heavily favored Gore.

If those “overvotes” were counted, as now it appears they would have been, Gore would have carried Florida regardless of what standard of chad – dimpled, hanging, punched-through – was used in counting the so-called “undervotes,” according to an examination of those ballots by a group of leading news organizations.

In other words, Bush lost not only the national popular vote by more than a half million ballots, but he would have lost the key state of Florida and thus the presidency, if Florida’s authorities had been allowed to count the votes that met the state’s legal requirement of demonstrating the clear intent of the voter."”"

Did the GOP steal another Election

Did the GOP steal another Ohio Election?: "August 9, 2005 (freepress.org)—The Republican Party has—barely— snatched another election in Ohio. And once again there are telltale symptoms of the kind of vote theft that put George W. Bush in the White House in 2000 and then kept him there in 2004."

What they did last fall

What They Did Last Fall - New York Times: "In his recent book 'Steal This Vote' - a very judicious work, despite its title - Andrew Gumbel, a U.S. correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent, provides the best overview I've seen of the 2000 Florida vote. And he documents the simple truth: 'Al Gore won the 2000 presidential election.'"

Thursday, August 18, 2005

Dell accused of breaching software copyright: "It said that Dell has the 60th most visited website of 56,100,000 sites on the net. MCS wants punitive damages, costs, and injunctions preventing Dell from carrying on using the code. ?"

Friday, August 12, 2005

Everything Science - Everything Science

Everything Science - Everything Science: "The Search for Another World: Extrasolar Planet Detection
By: Leslie Fredericks "

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Developing a chemical-imaging camera - The Industrial Physicist

Developing a chemical-imaging camera - The Industrial Physicist

Quantum dots for sale - The Industrial Physicist

Quantum dots for sale - The Industrial Physicist

A1 Electronics.net computer hardware reviews, computer news.

A1 Electronics.net computer hardware reviews, computer news.

Evolution still being debated in Kansas

Evolution still being debated in Kansas: "
You can destroy every book about Science in the world, wipe the mind of every person on the planet, and Science would be rebuilt with the exact same structure (although maybe not in the same sequence of discoveries). It has its own error-correcting mechanism built right into it, that ensures that only the truth endures.
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Early piano practice gets brain on course for flourishing career

Early piano practice gets brain on course for flourishing career: "It is well-known that most of the world's great pianists were already practicing their scales and arpeggios while still under 10 years old, and the study, published in the Nature Neuroscience journal, shows that this is no coincidence.

Childhood is the best time in life to boost the brain's so-called white matter, according to the study, and boost the pyramidal tract, which is a major pathway of the central nervous system, transmitting signals between the brain and the pianist's fingers.

The scientists, who investigated the brains of eight concert pianists in their thirties who started practicing as young children, found that the pyramidal tract is 'more structured in pianists than in non-musicians'.
"

Rinse would dry clothes 20 percent faster | Science Blog

Rinse would dry clothes 20 percent faster | Science Blog: "Their experiments revealed that one ratio of a common detergent and fabric softener – five parts detergent, one part fabric softener – added before the spin cycle forced the clothes to shed 20 percent more water than untreated clothes. The clothes then dried 20 percent faster."

Geobacter - Google Search

Geobacter - Google Search

Geobacter Research - Uranium Bioremediation

Geobacter Research - Uranium Bioremediation

Geobacter Research - Microbial Nanowires

Geobacter Research - Microbial Nanowiresnanowire photo page

Geobacter Project - Home

Geobacter Project - Home: "UMASS-Amherst researchers report in the June 23, 2005 issue of Nature that Geobacter produces pilin-like filaments that function as nanowires to transfer electrons outside the cell onto insoluble electron acceptors, such as iron minerals and possibly electrodes. The filaments, which are only 3-5 nanometers in width (more than 10,000 times finer than a human hair), can extend more than 20 micrometers in length (more than 10 times the length of the cell)."

EETimes.com - Bacteria grow conductive wires

EETimes.com - Bacteria grow conductive wires:

"... a strain of bacteria has now surprised researchers with its ability to build conducting nanowires.

The long, very thin wires are unprecedented in biological systems, ... Derek Lovley and his colleagues at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst, Mass.) reported observing and measuring the conductivity of long wires, 3 to 5 nanometers in diameter, emanating from the Geobacter bacteria."

White LED lumen testing

White LED lumen testing

Monday, August 08, 2005

Microsoft weakens OpenGL

Microsoft weakens OpenGL: "The foundation has issued a call to arms here, over Vole’s plan to layer OpenGL over Direct3D in Vista.

Users need to have a composited desktop to obtain what Vole spinsters dub the 'Aeroglass experience'. However, the foundation fears that if an OpenGL Installable Client Driver is run under Vista, the desktop compositor will switch off and the performance will be pants.

According to the Foundation this means that if you use Vista, OpenGL performance will be slashed by half, limited and there would be no extensions will be possible to cope with future hardware innovations. The foundation does not have a clue why Vole is doing this.

It says it is technically straightforward to provide an OpenGL ICD within Vista.

It thinks that layering OpenGL over Direct3D is all part of a cunning plan and the OpenGL community should encourage hardware & software developers, and lean on the Vole to maintain OpenGL as a first class API.

It fears that if the ‘cunning plan’ is successful, games developers could move away from OpenGL and toward Vole's own Direct3D standard, here. ?"

Plastic Planes, Part Four: That's a Wrap

Plastic Planes, Part Four: That's a Wrap

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Mini-IMP Aircraft Company: "We provide plans, parts, kits, newsletters and builders assistance for the construction and completion of Molt Taylor’s Mini-IMP and Micro-IMP amateur-built aircraft."

Thirty Thousand Feet - Aviation Homebuilt and Experimental Aircraft

Thirty Thousand Feet - Aviation Homebuilt and Experimental Aircraft

Sunday, August 07, 2005

Natural Nuclear Reaction Powered Ancient Geyser

Natural Nuclear Reaction Powered Ancient Geyser: "Although water and uranium are not unique to Oklo, no other natural reactor has ever been found.

'It’s very strange that something happened only once in nature,' Meshik said. 'But Oklo is very unique.'

He explained that, after the fission process had finished, a geological shift caused the Oklo reactor to sink a few miles below the surface – where it was preserved from erosion. A few million years ago, another shift brought the uranium deposits back to the surface."

Scientists Say Everyone Can Read Minds

Scientists Say Everyone Can Read Minds

Human Affection Altered Evolution of Flowers

Human Affection Altered Evolution of Flowers: "A trio of new studies by Rutgers University scientists supports the notion pretty strongly, and the experts go on to speculate that flowers have flourished on this planet, with their beauty evolving in recent millennia, partly because humans are so attached to them.

The first study involved 147 women. All those who got flowers smiled. Make a note: all of them. That's the kind of statistical significance scientists love. Among the women who got candles, 23 percent didn't smile. And 10 percent of those who got fruit didn't smile."

ACLU Sues Pa. School District Over 'Intelligent Design' Curriculum

ACLU Sues Pa. School District Over 'Intelligent Design' Curriculum: "'Anyone with half a brain should have known we were going to be sued,' she said. 'You can't do this.'"

Hammer of the Gods: Norse Mythology

Hammer of the Gods: Norse Mythology: "With its bounty of brawny, barrel-chested gods and buxom goddesses, the ancient Norse religion of the Scandinavian and Germanic countries is truly the creation myth for fans of both pro wrestling and heavy metal music. According to Norse lore, before there was Earth (Midgard), there was Muspell, a fiery land guarded by the fire sword-wielding Surt; Ginnungagap, a great void, and Niflheim, a frozen ice-covered land. When the cold of Niflheim touched the fires of Muspell, the giant Ymir and a behemothic cow, Au?humla, emerged from the thaw. Then, the cow licked the god Bor and his wife into being. The couple gave birth to Buri, who fathered three sons, Odin, Vili, and V?. The sons rose up and killed Ymir and from his corpse created from his flesh, the Earth; the mountains from his bones, trees with his hair and rivers, and the seas and lakes with his blood. Within Ymir’s hollowed-out skull, the gods created the starry heavens. What can we say: Pure metal magic!!"

Science Leader Says President Bush Confuses Science and Belief

Science Leader Says President Bush Confuses Science and Belief: "'If [Bush] meant that intelligent design should be given equal standing with the theory of evolution in the nation's science classrooms, then he is undermining efforts to increase the understanding of science,' Spilhaus said in a statement. 'Intelligent design' is not a scientific theory.'

Evolution states that plant, animals and lower life forms are all subject to change over time, and that changes can bring about new species with differing characteristics. Humans are said to have evolved from other primates.

Christian conservatives -- a substantial part of Bush's voting base -- have been pushing for the teaching of intelligent design in public schools.

Untestable

Scientists have rejected intelligent design as an attempt to force religion into science education. They say the notion has no support from any observable evidence. Evolution, on the other hand, is a well-documented theory that explains existing evidence, which draws from fossils, DNA analyses and investigations of living things.

Intelligent design proponents claim evolution theory has holes, so alternatives should be taught. Scientists counter that evolution is among the most solid theories of science.

The idea of intelligent design is entirely untestable, scientists further argue, and if an idea can't be tested, then it can't be proved one way or the other and so is not a theory."

Grapefruit May Make Women Seem Younger

Grapefruit May Make Women Seem Younger: "A study of smells shows that the scent of grapefruit on women make them seem younger to men _ about six years younger"

Voice of Reason: The Truth Behind the Shroud of Turin

Voice of Reason: The Truth Behind the Shroud of Turin: "While science and scholarship have demonstrated that the Shroud of Turin is not the burial cloth of Jesus but instead a fourteenth-century forgery, shroud devotees continue to claim otherwise."

Voice of Reason: The Reality of Bigfoot

Voice of Reason: The Reality of Bigfoot: "This is why evidence such as the Yukon hair is so crucial to proving Bigfoot's existence. At a press conference, Coltman revealed the results of his DNA analysis. The Bigfoot hair matched that of a bison 100 percent. Bison are common in the region, and it seems likely that the locals' expectations and perceptions were influenced by the Manitoba sighting three months earlier.

The DNA result will not, of course, deter the Bigfoot believers and eyewitnesses. But it does provide an excellent example of what happens when hard evidence of a mystery is subjected to the rigors of science. This high-profile Bigfoot hair analysis by a reputable scientist also addresses a criticism often heard by monster enthusiasts: That mainstream scientists ignore Bigfoot evidence for fear of damaging their reputations in pursuit of what some would call a myth. Yet if Bigfoot or other mystery creatures do exist, they are certainly worthy of serious scientific scrutiny. At the same time, since all previous samples were found to be hoaxes, inconclusive, or from known animals, scientists' lack of enthusiasm for spending time and resources on yet more such evidence is understandable."

Making Bigger Brains

Making Bigger BrainsScary

Scientists Recover Tissue From T. Rex

Scientists Recover Tissue From T. Rex

Scientists Aim to Revive the Woolly Mammoth

Scientists Aim to Revive the Woolly Mammoth

Scientists Find Prehistoric Dwarf Skeleton

Scientists Find Prehistoric Dwarf Skeleton: "This hobbit-sized creature appears to have lived as recently as 18,000 years ago on the island of Flores, a kind of tropical Lost World populated by giant lizards and miniature elephants.

She is the best example of a trove of fragmented bones that account for as many as seven of these primitive individuals. Scientists have named the new species Homo floresiensis, or Flores Man. The specimens' ages range from 95,000 to 12,000 years old."

Scientists Build 'Frankenstein' Neanderthal Skeleton

Scientists Build 'Frankenstein' Neanderthal Skeleton: "Even though the reconstructed fossil is made up of both Neanderthal and human bones, Sawyer doesn’t believe that modern humans could have evolved from Neanderthals based on the pelvic and torso discrepancies between the two species."

Scientists Begin Reconstructing Neanderthal Genome

Scientists Begin Reconstructing Neanderthal Genome

TPMCafe || White House Involvement to Protect Abramoff?

TPMCafe || White House Involvement to Protect Abramoff?:

"This from today's LA Times ...

A U.S. grand jury in Guam opened an investigation of controversial lobbyist Jack Abramoff more than two years ago, but President Bush removed the supervising federal prosecutor and the inquiry ended soon after."

Blue Skies Only In the Eye of the Beholder

Blue Skies Only In the Eye of the Beholder

Potential New Diet Trick: False Memories

Potential New Diet Trick: False Memories: "Food preference questionnaires were given to 204 students, who in return received computer-generated analyses about their food history. Some of the students received false feedback indicating that strawberry ice cream had made then sick as a child.

After receiving the false analyses, the students suddenly 'remembered' having gotten sick from strawberry ice cream when they were little and planned to avoid the desert in the future.

False memories, it turns out, can be easily absorbed by our brains. A 2004 study shows that things that are vividly imagined can make their way into our memories."

PCI Express chipset combo 'kills battery life'

PCI Express chipset combo 'kills battery life': "vista seems about as appealing as a all expenses paid 2 week holiday in a kenwood food processor."

PCI Express chipset combo 'kills battery life'

PCI Express chipset combo 'kills battery life': "Since consumers have no real power politically or even economically over the media moguls, stealing their stuff may be the only form of protest we have left!"

Voynich Manuscript

Voynich Manuscript

Snowball Earth Culprit Found? :: Astrobiology Magazine :: Search for Life in the Universe

Snowball Earth Culprit Found? :: Astrobiology Magazine :: Search for Life in the Universe

Fresh Analysis Points to Potential for Rising Seas

Fresh Analysis Points to Potential for Rising Seas: "After a fresh analysis, scientists today warned again that global warming is threatening the stability of fragile glacier systems in the Antarctic and could lead to sea level increases worldwide.

The Antarctic region where an ice shelf known as Larsen B is found is warming faster than any other place on the planet, said Eugene Domack, a geology professor at Hamilton College.

This regional warming is disrupting natural cycles in the ebb and flow of the glacier systems that have been occurring for thousands of years.

'Which then says, okay, if this is unprecedented, maybe this is [human-caused] warming rather than some natural cycle,' Domack told LiveScience. 'Overall, this seems to fit the pattern that we would predict from global warming.'"

Physics Society President Says Intelligent Design Should Not be Taught as Science

Physics Society President Says Intelligent Design Should Not be Taught as Science: "“As Presidential Science Advisor John Marburger has explained, President Bush does not regard intelligent design as science. If such things are to be taught in the public schools, they belong in a course on comparative religion"

Physics Society President Says Intelligent Design Should Not be Taught as Science

Physics Society President Says Intelligent Design Should Not be Taught as Science: "Marvin Cohen, president of the American Physical Society (APS), has stated that only scientifically validated theories, such as evolution, should be taught in the nation’s science classes. He made this statement in response to recently reported remarks of President Bush about intelligent design, which is a type of creationism."

King David palace may have been found

King David palace may have been found: "Eilat Mazar uncovered a major public building from around the 10th century B.C., with pottery shards that date to the time of David and Solomon and a government seal of an official mentioned in the book of Jeremiah, reported the New York Times."

Men do have trouble hearing women, scientists find

Men do have trouble hearing women, scientists find: "Men deciphered female voices using the auditory part of the brain that processes music, while male voices engaged a simpler mechanism, it said. "

The History of Rock Music. Paul Simon: biography, discography, reviews, links

The History of Rock Music. Paul Simon: biography, discography, reviews, links

SPACE.com -- Trick Allows Scrutiny of Pluto's Moon

SPACE.com -- Trick Allows Scrutiny of Pluto's Moon: "Near midnight of July 11, several telescopes in Chile caught a rare and wonderful sight: the shadow of Pluto’s moon, Charon, as it passed in front of -- or occulted -- a distant star.

The observations, now being analyzed, may pin down the size of the moon and whether or not it has an atmosphere. Preliminary indications from one group seem to suggest little or no gaseous envelope."

Wired News: You Say You Want a Web Revolution

Wired News: You Say You Want a Web Revolution: "'For a user it is fundamentally different -- it feels like a real application,' said Rael Dornfest, chief technology officer for O'Reilly Media.

AJAX overcomes a severe limitation in traditional web interfaces, which must reload anytime they try to call up new data. By contrast, AJAX lets users manipulate data without clicking through to a new page, Dornfest said. That's putting an end to page refreshes and other interruptions that have handicapped wweb-based applications until now.

Web developers are creating AJAX code libraries and conventions to ease the burden of making applications that speak several computer languages. Even Microsoft is getting into the game, albeit with hooks that aim to keep it tethered to its Windows OS. The company recently announced it is developing its own AJAX toolbox, called Atlas, for web developers who use Microsoft's ASP.NET technologies to build websites.

Perhaps the best known example of AJAX is Google Maps, whose improbable drop shadows and absurdly movable maps spread shock and awe among web developers in February."

Friday, August 05, 2005

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Sony pays $1.5m over fake critic

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Sony pays $1.5m over fake critic: "Sony pays $1.5m over fake critic"

Sony's dirty little secrets

Sony's dirty little secrets:

"A class action lawsuit against Sony's Columbia Pictures units has been settled, and anyone who has gone to see Hollow Man, Vertical Limit, A Knight's Tale, The Animal or The Patriot is due US$5. Why? It all goes back to David Manning of the Ridgefield Press, whose quotes filled print and TV ads with praise for these movies. While other reviewers trashed many of these titles, Manning always managed to find something fantastic or amazing about the films. The problem?

He doesn't exist. Colombia Pictures made him up."

IE 7.0 Technical Changes Leave Web Developers, Users in the Lurch

IE 7.0 Technical Changes Leave Web Developers, Users in the Lurch:

"The most critical point in Wilson's post, in my mind, is Microsoft's admission that it will fail the crucial Acid2 browser-compliance test , which the Web Standards Project (WaSP) designed to help browser vendors ensure that their products properly support Web standards. Microsoft apparently disagrees. 'Acid2 ... is pointedly not a compliance check,' Wilson noted, contradicting the description on the Acid2 Web site. 'As a wish list, [Acid2] is really important and useful to my team, but it isn't even intended, in my understanding, as our priority list for IE 7.0.' Meanwhile, other browser teams have made significant efforts to comply with Acid2.

Microsoft blames backward-compatibility problems for the stalemate over true Web standards compatibility. Put succinctly, the company has gone its own way for so long and now has to support so many developers who use nonstandard Web technologies that it will be impossible to make IE Web-standards-compliant without breaking half the commercial Web sites on the planet. Furthermore, by halting all IE development for several years before reconstituting the IE team to create IE 7.0, Microsoft has set back Web development by an immeasurable amount of time.

My advice is simple: Boycott IE. It's a cancer on the Web that must be stopped. IE isn't secure and isn't standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators. Because of their user bases, however, Web developers are hamstrung into developing for IE at the expense of established standards that work well in all other browsers. You can turn the tide by demanding more from Microsoft and by using a better alternative Web browser. I recommend and use Mozilla Firefox, but Apple Safari (Macintosh only) and Opera 8 are both worth considering as well."

WaSP : About : Acid2: The Guided Tour

WaSP : About : Acid2: The Guided Tour: "Acid2 is a test page for web browsers published by The Web Standards Project (WaSP). It has been written to help browser vendors make sure their products correctly support features that web designers would like to use. These features are part of existing standards but haven't been interoperably supported by major browsers. Acid2 tries to change this by challenging browsers to render Acid2 correctly before shipping."

DevX

DevX

Your new hardware is already broken

Your new hardware is already broken

Thursday, August 04, 2005

Rechargeable Batteries, Battery Charger, Battery packs, Wholesale, Retail.

Rechargeable Batteries, Battery Charger, Battery packs, Wholesale, Retail.

Stardrive -- Archive Page

Stardrive -- Archive Page

The Physics of Interstellar Travel - Science Articles :: Physics Post

The Physics of Interstellar Travel - Science Articles :: Physics Post

RedNova News - Space - Quantum Entanglement and Deep-Space Propulsion

RedNova News - Space - Quantum Entanglement and Deep-Space Propulsion: Bunk.

"This author would like to propose a third (and even a fourth) application of quantum teleportation, an application with implications at least as far-reaching as the two mentioned above: propulsion. It should be possible to apply quantum teleportation to the problem of deep-space propulsion; not only is such an application possible, but, if implemented, would revolutionize space travel, even to the point of making interstellar travel (both manned and unmanned) truly feasible for the first time. Interestingly, the initial steps of applying teleportation as a propulsion method can be taken using present-day technology."

Wednesday, August 03, 2005

: "NEW DRUGS THAT MAKE YOU SMART by John Morgenthaler from MONDO 2000 - issue #2 The term nootropic comes from the Greek word meaning 'acting on the mind.' Since the invention of Piracetam by UBC laboratories in Belgium, other drug companies have been scrambling to develop their own nootropics. Some of them being researched now include; Vinpocetine, Aniracetam, Pramiracetam, and Oxiracetam. As yet, there is no nootropic drug that is FDA approved for sale in the United States, but there is plenty of motivation on the part of the drug companies to get that approval - financial analysts expect the U.S. market for cognitive enhancers - smart pills - to soon be in excess of one billion dollars per year!"

DHEA: Threat to Access? - AIDS Treatment News

DHEA: Threat to Access? - AIDS Treatment News: "The charges were dropped, but concern remains high about federal action against DHEA, especially among individuals and groups who advocate DHEA as an anti-aging treatment. There is also concern at the Healing Alternatives Foundation in San Francisco, and the PWA Health Group in New York, major HIV buyers' clubs that carry DHEA.
"

Go Ask Alice! - Columbia University's Health Q&A Internet Service

Go Ask Alice! - Columbia University's Health Q&A Internet Service: "What is your stance on a woman's right to choose?

Support it 81%
Against it 12%
No opinion 1%
Not sure 5%

* Please note that this poll is not scientific or moderated and reflects only the opinions of those users who have chosen to participate in it."

Statistics

Statistics

Common Sense for Drug Policy: Research and Data on Drug Policy

Common Sense for Drug Policy: Research and Data on Drug Policy

1238.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Actual Causes of Death in the United States, 2000

Contents | Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base | Institute of Medicine

Contents | Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base | Institute of Medicine

Why Do Canadians Outlive Americans?

Why Do Canadians Outlive Americans?: "(November 2004) Over 250,000 Americans who died in 1998—roughly one of every ten U.S. deaths that year—would have survived had they been Canadian, according to a comparison of patterns of death between the two countries.

And such “excess deaths” in the United States have been growing in number for over 40 years. In 1955, Americans and Canadians had almost the same life expectancy at birth. In 1998, however, life expectancy at birth was 76.7 years in the United States and 78.8 years in its northern neighbor—a notable divergence at a time when life expectancy among high-income countries was tending to converge.1"

Projections of Education Statistics to 2013, The Education Statistics Quarterly: Vol. 5, Issue 4 2004

Projections of Education Statistics to 2013, The Education Statistics Quarterly: Vol. 5, Issue 4 2004

The Death (murder) of Jonathan Magbie

The Death (murder) of Jonathan Magbie: "The attitude that led a judge to send a helpless, wheelchair-bound young man, who had hurt no one, to jail, is a barbaric one that our society desperately needs to leave behind.

The District of Columbia saw a tragedy last week. Jonathan Magbie, a 27-year-old quadriplegic medical marijuana patient, died while under the care of the D.C. court and jail. Magbie had been arrested for marijuana possession, and Judge Judith Retchin sentenced him to 10 days in jail, despite recommendations from officials against it. Her reason? There was a loaded gun in the car with him.

But Magbie didn't use the gun on anyone. And now I've learned it wasn't even his."

Jonathan Magbie, prisoner of the drug war

Jonathan Magbie, prisoner of the drug war

Quotes

Quotes

totse.com | A Field Guide to Critical Thinking

totse.com | A Field Guide to Critical Thinking: "A Field Guide to Critical Thinking
by James Lett

There are many reasons for the popularity of paranormal beliefs in the United States today, including:

* the irresponsibility of the mass media, who exploit the public taste for nonsense,
* the irrationality of the American world-view, which supports such unsupportable claims as life after death and the efficacy of the polygraph, and
* the ineffectiveness of public education, which generally fails to teach students the essential skills of critical thinking.

As a college professor, I am especially concerned with this third problem. Most of the freshman and sophomore students in my classes simply do not know how to draw reasonable conclusions from the evidence. At most, they've been taught in high school what to think; few of them know how to think."

totse.com | Observation of Cold Nuclear Fusion in Condensed Matter

totse.com | Observation of Cold Nuclear Fusion in Condensed Matter

Physics Today April 2002

Physics Today April 2002: "Underlying this new model is the observation that muscles in vertebrate animals generate remarkably uniform maximum force per unit cross section, about 300 kN/m2. Given that evolution has conserved this muscle property, Hutchinson and Garcia argue it's reasonable to assume that the muscles of dinosaurs such as T. rex had similar force-generating capability."

Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Building on a History of Science and Service (advanced materials, complex biological systems, energy, high performance

Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Building on a History of Science and Service (advanced materials, complex biological systems, energy, high performance computing, national security, neutron science, technology transfer, research, development, biolog y, environment, manufacturing, human genome project, solar, nuclear)

Physics Today April 2002

Physics Today April 2002: "To promote fusion, Taleyarkhan and company tried to achieve more extreme bubble conditions than in previous sonoluminescence experiments. First, they used deuterated acetone (C3D6O) so that fusionable fuel was present. To get a very high compression ratio, they used a beam of energetic (14 MeV) neutrons to generate tiny bubbles in their beaker-sized container of superheated deuterated acetone, estimating that the resulting bubbles will have a minimum radius of 10-100 nm. That's five orders of magnitude smaller than the maximum radius the expanded bubble is expected to reach.

To avoid the resistance to collapse that's frequently produced by residual vapors, the experimenters degassed the acetone. Finally, they drove the liquid with a very intense sound field. Team members performed one-dimensional hydrodynamic shock-code calculations for the conditions of their experiment to determine if fusion was possible."

Sonofusion, Acoustic Inertial Confinement Fusion

Sonofusion, Acoustic Inertial Confinement Fusion

: "My overall conclusion is that cavitation is an extraordinarily complex and rich phenomenon. Based on early reports of cavitation energies corresponding to 100,000 degrees with comparatively simple setups [3], I would judge it to be highly probably that significant, detectable increases in the rates of T-T and possibly D-T reactions should be possible using advanced cavitation methods. Details of such reactions will require further experimental and (especially) numeric simulation work to be validated and studied in detail."

Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Physics News 532, March 28, 2001

Physics News 532, March 28, 2001: "Seth Lloyd of MIT has previously addressed himself to calculating the conceivable limits on the computing power of such a black hole computer (Nature, 31 August 2000) and arrives at a maximum processing speed of about 10^51 operations/sec for a 1-kg black hole. Now Jack Ng of the University of North Carolina yjng@physics.unc.edu, 919-962-7208) extends this study by asking whether the very foaminess of spacetime, thought to arise at the level of 10^-35 m, provides an alternative way to limit theoretical computation."

Physics News 675, March 3, 2004

Physics News 675, March 3, 2004

Experimental Verification of a Negative Index of Refraction

Experimental Verification of a Negative Index of Refraction

negative index of refraction - Google Search

negative index of refraction - Google Search

fusion

fusion: "Search results for '(fusion or fuse or fused or fusing or fuses or fusions) or tokamak'"

Physics News 579, March 5, 2002

Physics News 579, March 5, 2002: "A team of scientists has claimed evidence for deuterium- deuterium fusion in a tabletop apparatus at Oak Ridge National Lab (Taleyarkhan et al., Science, 8 March 2002), but other scientists (including a separate group at Oak Ridge) are raising serious concerns about the validity of the result. In their experiment, Taleyarkhan et al. (a collaboration of scientists from Oak Ridge, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Russian Academy of Sciences) utilize sonoluminescence (SL), itself a well- studied and highly regarded area of research (see, for example, Updates 34, 299, 307, 327, and 355), in which powerful sound waves sent into a liquid tank trigger the creation of single or multiple bubbles which then collapse and release short flashes of light. Sonoluminescence, literally the conversion of sound into light, is a remarkable process in that sound itself is not a densely packed form of energy. Even the sound in the most powerful car stereo has a much lower energy density than the light in a penlight laser beam."

Portable Neutron Generators

Portable Neutron Generators

Comments on the possible observation of d-d fusion in sonoluminescence

Comments on the possible observation of d-d fusion in sonoluminescence

TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows XP/2000

TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows XP/2000

Scientists crack DNA puzzle, point to 'hot soup' at origin of life | Science Blog

Scientists crack DNA puzzle, point to 'hot soup' at origin of life | Science Blog

EFTS Particpants

EFTS Particpants:

Recordnet.com

Recordnet.com

Monday, August 01, 2005

World's First Calorie-Burning Soft Drink Launched

World's First Calorie-Burning Soft Drink Launched: "The double-blind placebo-controlled study demonstrated that Celsius does indeed burn calories, even while study participants were lying down for three hours. The amount of calories burned varies based on an individual's metabolism. According to Mendel, some subjects in the study burned up to 75 additional calories without any activity at all over the three hours measured. "

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