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Tron Creator Returns With "Soul
Code"
After nearly two decades since his last
film, Lisberger is back with a new project:
"Soul Code." Details about the script are
scant, but the science fiction story deals
with two female characters - one older,
and one younger - and the discovery of technology
that can download people's memories.
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How to pick the presidential election
winner
A San Mateo, CA man claims he can pick
the winner of the US presidential election.
Political science experts disagree, but
he has the data from the past 100+ years
showing its foolproof. Bonus - its based
on the popular Keirsey Temperament Personality
Test, which you can take for free.
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Fastest and Highest Railways: China
and Tibet
China develops with an unbelievable
pace. China manage to learn, develop and
apply GPS quicker than any of us can imagine.
While constructing the highest and fastest
railways in the world they didn't only use
this Earth Observation technique for construction,
but applied it at the same time for Earth
science research and continue to do so today.
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One Of The Many Bridges Of St. Petersburg,
Russia
A fascinating city, called the Venice
of the North, founded in 1703 by Peter the
Great, intended to be devoted to culture
and science. The many bridges were built
to go over the canals of the city.
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Fat People Have Bad Breath, It's
Science
Now there’s another good reason to
go on that diet after the holidays. Tel
Aviv University researchers have published
a study that finds a direct link between
obesity and bad breath: the more overweight
you are, the more likely your breath will
smell unpleasant to those around you.
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1 FISH 2 FISH WE ARE ALL BLUE FISH
- THE FDA's Junk Science
CareToLive member John Fish passed away
Tuesday from prostate cancer without ever
being able to take the safe and effective
immunotherapy Provenge despite an FDA panel
of experts voting overwhelmingly for approval.
The dysfunctional FDA delayed it instead.
John and his wife Marilyn joined our lawsuit
against the FDA. John asked we continue
on...
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Flying spaghetti monster defeats
anti-evolution FL school
Efforts were afoot recently on the Polk
County School Board to begin teaching the
"concept" of intelligent design in science
classes as an alternative to evolution.
But that was before the Church of the Flying
Spaghetti Monster arrived and shamed the
school board into backing down. Read more
about this somewhat merry holiday tale...
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Worms infect more poor Americans
than thought
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Roundworms may infect
close to a quarter of inner city black children,
tapeworms are the leading cause of seizures
among U.S. Hispanics and other parasitic
diseases associated with poor...
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Galaxiki - Buy your star system
Boldly going where no site has gone
before, Galxiki has created "a fictional
online galaxy (that) anyone can edit," regardless
of Star Fleet accreditation. Membership
is free, "astronomers, science fiction lovers
and creative people are welcome," and anyone
who has ever stared longingly at the stars
should come aboard.
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Gaia's Revenge, Climate Change and
Nuclear Power
Being acquainted only indirectly and
mostly through media snippets with James
Lovelock and colleagues' work developing
the Gaia Hypothesis, now Theory, I expected
to learn a lot and be intrigued enough to
dig deeper into the literature dealing with
climate change, systems science and energy.
I haven't been disappointed...but I unexpectedly
have fo
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Researchers aim to predict the unpredictable
Analysts have spent careers trying to
anticipate dips and surges in the stock
market, and meteorologists have likewise
struggled to tame long-range weather patterns.
But the imperfect science of foreseeing
when terrorists or enemy factions might
strike has proven an especially daunting
challenge.
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$cience Mag Jumps on Global Moneywagon
Scientists like money. (It's true ---
be still, my heart.) Big Science is a Big
Business, supporting nearly half the budgets
of our major universities...The trouble
is that money means politics, and politics
means shading the truth. As a result, we
get politicized science, which corrupts
real science......>>
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Facebook Social Ads: Clever Marketing
or Invasion of Privacy
While targeted marketing has been popular
for years, the launch of the internet has
allowed people to be monitored so closely
that it has been boiled down to an exact
science, allowing internet marketers to
serve up ads that more closely match a person’s
interests and buying habits. And social
networking sites are no exception.
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Red Dwarf Video Showcase on Squidoo
Red Dwarf is a British science fiction
comedy franchise, the primary form of which
comprises eight series of a television sitcom
that ran on BBC2 between 1988 and 1999,
and which has achieved a global cult following.
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Loud music without disturbing others!
WASHINGTON:You may soon be able to listen
to your front-runner music over speaker
units withoutannoying people standing nearby,
for research workers at the Korean Peninsula
Advanced Instituteof Science and Technology
have got invented a sound system, which
focuses soundwaves from respective speaker
units onto a listeningzone.
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Hear loud music without disturbing
Washington, Dec 26 : You may soon be
able to listen to your favourite music over
loudspeakers without annoying people standing
nearby, for researchers at the Korea Advanced
Institute of Science and Technology have
invented a sound system,
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Virtualization Tools - the Art of
Science!
Many experts in the field of information
technology will argue that virtualization
tools can be a very expensive proposition
as compared to running hundreds or dozens
of servers in a business or data center.For
More Information Click : http://www.ciotalkradio.com
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Social Network, the Future
Each ID reflects its essence in Ideas,
relationship… and network. Apply that
in the future of social interaction between
wavelets. With the discovery of genomics,
we’re at the brink of not just a new science,
but of discovering our potentialities as
Gods, creating worlds, defining them, and
improving with a discovery unknown...
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Earth's Climate is Seesawing, According
to Climatologists
ScienceDaily (Apr. 30, 2007) During
the last 10,000 years climate has been seesawing
between the North and South Atlantic Oceans.
As revealed by findings presented by Quaternary
scientists at Lund University, Sweden, cold
periods in the north have corresponded to
warmth in the south and vice verse.
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Satirizing Homeopathy, "I Shot the
Homeopath" (lyrics):
So, after 4 years of naturopathy school
at the University of Bridgeport 1998-2002,
where quite a fraud is going on i.e. labeling
science-ejected 'sectic articles of faith'
such as autoentheistic 'purposeful life
spirit' premises nonsectarian "scientific
medicine," I decided to write about their
requisite homeopathy. My friends the witch
doctors...
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Worms infect more poor Americans
than thought
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Roundworms may infect
close to a quarter of inner city black children,
tapeworms are the leading cause of seizures
among U.S. Hispanics and other parasitic
diseases associated with poor...
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Great Tips on how to do a Ph.D.
- from start to finish
This is a series of articles in the
prestigious science magazine that deals
with every imaginable aspect of a Ph. D.
- writing a thesis, attending a conference,
interacting with co-workers, doing research,
dealing with setbacks etc.The articles are
excellently written and have valuable tips
in them. What a wonderful resource!
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Science Daily
Science Daily -- The same heightened
electrical activity that indicates an adult
taking a treadmill test isn't getting enough
oxygen to his heart is now being measured
during labor to see if it can better identify
babies in serious distress who need immediate
delivery.
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Redeeming the Dismal Science/wOW/NUTS
A review of Joel Magnuson's MINDFUL
ECONOMICS. Allows the reviewer to show how
leftest he & author are. His premiss
distorts the benefits of Capitalism. "you
do not give $ to poor", they produce zero
jobs, they & Congress, lawyers are paracites
on society.Produce zero just take &
want more. There is no other country doing
so well financially. MOVE.
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The World's Biggest Telescope -
Popular Science
About half the size of a football field
and 21 stories tall, the largest optical
telescope ever constructed will use almost
1,000 mirrors to hunt for exoplanets—and
maybe even unlock the secrets of spacetime.
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Breaking World News!
We are providing best news! Stay current
with daily news updates in health, entertainment,
business, science, technology and sports.
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Jewish Genius
A great article regarding the origins
of the above average intelligence of the
Jewish population, couples with the above
average achievements in the sciences.
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The Science of Kissing
Your lips touch and sparks fly. You
feel like you’re melting or that you’ve
been hit with a wave of passion. We all
know how a kiss works… or do we really?
Have you ever wondered why kissing feels
so good? We pondered this same question,
so we decided to explore the science of
kissing both physically and chemically.
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Learn Object Oriented Programming
with Alice
College computer science students often
find it difficult to get started in programming
languages like C++ and Java, largely due
to the disconnect between simple middle-school
languages and advanced object-oriented programming
languages. To help bridge the gap an OOP
language called Alice was developed.
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