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The poem we should recite on Veterans
Day
A different take on Veterans' Day: the
reality of the government's tossing away
the Vets after they have fought wars for
the rich. Ends with a poem every thoughtful
person should recite.p.s. When will the
vets be compensated for DU exposure, Gulf
War Syndrome. When will the gov. atone to
the people of Iraq for its illegal invasion/occupation?
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OLPC Wins Popular Science Award
Popular Science has released their Best
of What's New 2006 awards. In the computing
section the One Laptop Per Child project
took home the Grand Prize.
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5 Tips to Buying a Cheap Heart Rate
Monitor
If you are health conscience, then you
have thought about purchasing a heart rate
monitor. However, you are looking for quality
as well as price. You want to know what
options are necessary to have before you
buy a cheap heart rate monitor.This article
will help you decide what bells and whistles
are needed and which you can do without.
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Water Surface as Music Controller
Toriton is a laser-based system that
uses water as a music controller. This project
is looking very promising to say the least
and could lead to more innovative uses in
the world of science. Just imagine your
DJ using one of these, see it in action
after the jump.
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Dawkins: Could Science Ever Substite
The Role Religion Plays In Lives?
Hard for atheist author Sam Harris who
likes to point out that people today believe
in God based on no more evidence than the
ancients had for believing in Zeus or Poseidon—with
the result that in addition to all the mail
he gets from Christians, he's now getting
angry letters from pagans who claim he's
insulted the their beliefs, as well.
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The Mullah’s War Against Islam
Pluralization of social thought, of
worldview is an indicator of what has been
described as “modernization”, a Gesellschaft,
when the collective conscience and individual
conscience are not in harmony. This is...
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Nifty Scientific 50
Did you hear the one about the politician
who turned into an environmental activist?
How about the poet who turned into an inventor?
Or the patients who turned into research
fund-raisers? There's a story behind every
one of the individuals and organizations
on Scientific American's list of 50 leaders
in science and technology.
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Sea Urchins are Part-Human....Shares
7077 Genes with Humans
Scientists who have sequenced the genome
of the sea urchin say these brainless and
limbless invertebrates are surprisingly
similar to humans. The genetic ties are
far closer than scientists expect and make
the sea urchin a closer genetic cousin of
humans than the worm or fruit fly
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The REAL Firefox - The Red Panda
Red pandas are found in high altitude
bamboo forests in the Himalayas, where they
feed mostly on bamboo shoots, fruit, roots
and acorns. While they are in the same family
as the famous giant pandas, they are also
related to the much more common raccoon.
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SEO Explained
Search engine optimization is part science
and part art. How well it is done has a
lot to do with the experience of the company
you've hired.
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Wii Wins Popular Science Award
"The Wii continues to gather praise
and accolade as we move ever closer to launch
day. First Time Magazine's Gadget of the
Year Poll, and now Popular Science, who
have given the Wii a Grand Award in their
Best of What's New 2006 feature. The article
gives kudos to Nintendo for choosing innovation
over horsepower."
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Spider venom, the new habanero?
A recent study indicates that the pain
receptors commonly associated with spider
bites may indeed be linked to the neuron
reaction associated with extremely hot food.
Spicy!
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Recent Gas Escape From the Moon
The science behind the recently announced
gas escape from the Moon, written by Dr.
Jeffrey Taylor, a lunar scientist quoted
in many of the other "Moon Gas" articles.
It's got a lot of good science for those
interested in a bit more than the standard
news clip (and there's pretty pictures,
too, for everyone else!)
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Higher IQs Protect Kids From Traumatic
Events
A new study found that children who
are more intelligent than their peers at
age 6 were less likely to experience traumatic
events by age 17 and, if they did, were
less likely to develop post-traumatic stress
disorder (PTSD).
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Clifford Geertz obituary
Clifford Geertz is dead. He was a major
contributor to the willfully fuzzy illogic
which continues to plague the social sciences.
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2006 Best of What’s New: Automotive
Category
Popular Science has released its list
of Best of What’s New for 2006. In the
automotive category, there are 13 winners.
To be considered a “Best of What’s New”,
it must revolutionize and change the way
we think about the future. Check out the
list for yourself.
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Do-it-yourself cancer survival
The body's own immune system can fight
the deadly cancer melanoma if scientists
can flip the system's "off" switch to "on,"
two preliminary studies suggest.
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A explosion that puts our sun to
shame
In December of 2005, a stellar flare
was observed that was approximately 100
million times more energetic than a typical
solar flare—that would be on the order
of tens of millions of trillions times more
energetic than an atomic weapon blast. This
flare is thought to be the most energetic
magnetic explosion ever witnessed by man...
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Dawkins pummelled!
Transcript of a radio show in which
Richard Dawkins is put on the back foot
by an irish journalist, over his support
of atheism in the God Delusion. (audio also
included)very interesting arguments
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Flu Pandemic: What to Do Until the
Vaccine Arrives?
Experts believe the world is overdue
for influenza pandemic. However, unless
effective action against pandemic flu is
taken now, the public faces "dire straits,"
according to a paper published in the Nov.
10 issue of Science.
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