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Science team lands on Ice Island
Scientists in the Arctic have just carried
out the first research on a huge iceberg
the size of Manhattan. Some 16km long and
5km wide (10x3 miles), Ayles Ice Island
broke away from the Canadian Arctic coast
in 2005, but has only recently been identified.
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Global Warming -- How concerned
do we really need to be?
Global warming is real. But its causes
-- and therefore its solutions -- are more
complex than most people seem to realize.
So says astronomer Hugh Ross, founder and
president of the premiere science-faith
think tank Reasons To Believe (www.reasons.org).
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Looking at science of why we itch
and scratch
You have to scratch the itch.Itching
is as fundamental a sensation as pain and
hunger, one we share with other creatures:
"Every two-legged and four-legged animal
itches and scratches," says Dr. Gil Yosipovitch.
Yet for such a seemingly simple sensation,
it's also surprisingly complicated.
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Atmospheric CO2 to reach first danger
level by 2028: new research
Carbon dioxide concentration in the
atmosphere is likely to reach the first
climate change danger level by 2028 and
if emissions growth continues at the present
rate, the point of no return will be reached
with dire consequences by by 2046, according
to new scientific research published at
the National Academy of Sciences.
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Crackhouse opens next week « Dinosaurs:
A Creationist’s Fairy Tale
Next week, the crackhouse will open
to blow even the minds of children on narcotics
in form of stupid lies and false propaganda
deceptively in form of science and biblical
doctrine, teaching people that dinosaurs
once lived with man, the world is 6,000
years young, and evolution is the source
of all the society evils in the world..
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WPI students create wireless 3D
ring mouse
No doubt we've seen some snazzy takes
on mousing instruments, but when Popular
Science dubs your twist on the critter we
couldn't do without an Invention of the
Year, you've accomplished something. A team
of WPI undergraduate students were able
to win such an honor by crafting the MagicMouse.
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I want to sell my home! What’s
it worth?
Determining the value of St. Louis Real
Estate isn’t rocket science! Unless of
course you take the simplistic method and
place your faith in a “web site mash up”
that tries to do it from outer space!In
which case, you’ll probably wind up in
the “expired listing” column, unhappy
with your outcome, unable to move forward,
and peaved at
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I want to sell my home! What’s
it worth?
Determining the value of St. Louis Real
Estate isn’t rocket science! Unless of
course you take the simplistic method and
place your faith in a “web site mash up”
that tries to do it from outer space!In
which case, you’ll probably wind up in
the “expired listing” column, unhappy
with your outcome, unable to move forward,
and peaved at
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I want to sell my home! What’s
it worth?
Determining the value of St. Louis Real
Estate isn’t rocket science! Unless of
course you take the simplistic method and
place your faith in a “web site mash up”
that tries to do it from outer space!In
which case, you’ll probably wind up in
the “expired listing” column, unhappy
with your outcome, unable to move forward,
and peaved at
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Brush up on your Evolutionary Arguments
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense --
Opponents of evolution want to make a place
for creationism by tearing down real science,
but their arguments don't hold up
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Digg... for teachers.
I'm working on a community driven site
for educators. It will hopefully become
a useful community where teachers can share
the best web resources they have found with
others. (I placed this in science, because
that is what I teach. See, teachers need
their own digg style community... we don't
have a category to post to here!)
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Dr. PS3 Running Medical Research
24/7
Game Revolution has dedicated a PS3
to doing nothing but medical research through
Folding@Home. GR's folding team climbed
past 56,000 other teams in just six days.
Please activate Folding@Home and join Team
GR (#72437), or any team for that matter.
Show everyone what kind of people gamers
are. This one is for SCIENCE!
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Government plea for plane that doesn't
land
If you can imagine a plane that can
stay in flight for years at a time and refuel
itself autonomously, then you're thinking
like a government agent (or at least a science
fiction writer).
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Why Calculus Sucks
I have an examine today for calculus
and I decided to search "why calculus sucks"
in google. These are the reasons to why
calculus sucks. Its not the the theorems
or explanations, its hours you take deriving
and integrating using simple calculations.
Plus American science and math teachers
suck.
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Is Project Manager just and Administrator?
When talking about the Project Management,
lot of people have in mind project administration.
There is some truth in it, but it is just
small part of the big picture. Project Management
is an art and science, few people really
understand it. Why? Because some project
managers do not understand this themselves,
destroying the position's perception
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Mayor Of Los Angeles Talks About
Climate Change
"I remember a time when we actually
had leaders in the white house that believed
in science" Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa puts
the blame on federal inaction on climate
change right in the lap of the people responsible
for it. He also lays out his plan for making
LA the greenest city in America.
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Nose-Picking Machines and More at
Maker Faire
This year's Maker Faire was a mixture
of spectacle and practicality—a combination
of engineering, crafts, science, and art
that seemed to sufficiently blur the lines
between all four. View the pics.
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BREAKING UPDATE: The Internet will
be Redesigned from Scratch
BBN Technologies and National Science
Foundation to Build Vast Experimental Network
Nationwide Network Capable of Running 1000s
of Experiments Simultaneously . A government
contractor that played a key role in the
Internet's birth will oversee efforts to
redesign the network from scratch
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The internet will be born anew!
The National Science Foundation announced
Monday that BBN Technologies Inc. will get
up to $10 million over four years to oversee
the planning and design of the Global Environment
for Network Innovations, or GENI.
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Biomechanical Art
With a combined passion for sculpture,
medical science, and biomechanics, this
Norwegian born artist combines the organic
structure of human anatomy directly with
the mechanical.
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House Science Dem Wants Info from
Exxon on Global Warming Grants
The chairman of the House Science oversight
subcommittee on Thursday asked ExxonMobil
to hand over a list of grants the company
awarded from 2006 to date in an attempt
to see if the oil giant is still paying
think tanks to distort public opinion on
global warming.
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Museum of misinformation posing
as science
An interesting cultural experiment is
taking place in Petersburg, Kentucky. The
experiment will shed light on the following
question: How much money and glitz does
it take to institutionalize a scientific
lie?
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What the hell is "Computer Science"
anyway?
I'm coming to the point in my life when
I need to decide what it is I want to do
(I'm 16). I've been programming for 4 years
on mac and for 6 years in general, and I'm
looking into computer science as a major,
but I just don't know what it is! I've read
the pamphlets, course outlines, etc, but
they don't just answer it..... NOW GET THE
ANSWER!
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Debunking PH Balancing
A science-based explanation of why pH
balancing in the body is a waste of time
and money.
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Medical Writer Salaries in USA
Can Write ? Will Pay - Six-Figures too.
Learn about the lucrative career option
for people of science with a penchant for
writing ..
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Look Around You... 1
This is a British science series featuring
Peter Serafinowicz (Duane Benzie from Spaced
and the voice of Darth Maul). He also co-created
this re-creation of these educational films
from the 70s. Good stuff this!
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Hume vs Gore: 18th Century Values
for a 21st Century Dilemma
Armchair science: Montreal philosophy
prof Laberge (2007) calls Al Gore, the high
priest of the missionary ecological movement
and claims Gore has turned the issue of
climate change into a moral imperative.
He uses 18th c. Scottish Enlightenment philosopher
Hume's is-ought problem to prove that the
statement "global warming is bad" is erroneous.
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U.S. Lags World in Grasp of Genetics
and Acceptance of Evolution
American Protestant Fundamentalists,
biblical literalists, continue assault on
widely accepted theory of evolution and
hamper study of genetics in U.S. educational
system, which leaves Americans scientifically
ignorant, vulnerable to manipulation by
religious and political Machiavellis, and
uncompetitive in the world-wide science
community.
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Real Life Star Trek Tricorders Almost
Here!
Peering into the body and visualizing
its molecular secrets, once the stuff of
science fiction, is one step closer to reality
with a study from researchers at the Stanford
University School of Medicine and the University
of California, San Diego School of Medicine.
'Star Trek'-type scanning may reveal genetic
activity of tumors
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