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Creationist movie Expelled: Lies,
lies, lies
The upcoming creationist/ID movie "Expelled"
is built on lies and deception. Its premise
is that creationists are being oppressed
in the scientific community, and to "prove"
this they make up lies. ScienceBlogs and
many others have exposed the fundamentalist
zealots behind the movie. This massively
funded movie is even made out to be "rebellious"!
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Giant Hole Found In The Universe
You read it right. A massive hole, nearly
a billion light-years across, empty of stars,
gas, normal matter, and even potential "dark
matter" has been discovered using the Very
Large Array radio telescope, funded by the
National Science Foundation.
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NTU Singapore Technologies Engineering
Scholarships by RSIS
Master of Science Scholarship. RSIS
offers master scholarship program for student
NTU. This scholarship passed to science
area. The clauses is enough easy. If You
had value that is having language fluent
and good english, you it is good to gets
this scholarship.
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Take Solutions likely to debut with
small premium
Take Solutions, which focuses on life
sciences and supply chain management solutions,
will list on the bourses with 1,20,00,000
shares on Monday, August 27, 2007. Analysts
seems a bit optimistic about the listing
and they told Moneycontrol.com that the
stock may list in the price band of Rs 850-1000.
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"Beautiful":songs made from SCIENCE!
You wouldn't think the recent discovery
of baboons using natural birth control could
find its way into a pop song. Or, well,
*any* recent scientific discoveries find
themselves in any kind of hummable tune.
But isn't it time they did? Songwriters
and scientists come together to create ROCK(!)
in the Guild of Scientific Troubadours.
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Dr. Brian May - Rock N Roll Astrophysist!
Brian May of Queen is well known for
being a rockin guitarist and a legend of
Rock N Roll, but he's also an astrophysicist.
No, seriously. Not just an amateur either.
The guitar shredding May is Dr. May, having
just completed his PhD. Obviously not something
he did to put food on the table, but for
a love of science.. and rock too!
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Natural Insecticide Re-created In
The Lab
Science Daily Twenty-two years of dedicated
research has finally resulted in success:
In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a British
team headed by Steven V. Ley at the University
of Cambridge reports the first synthesis
of azadirachtin, a natural compound that
stops predatory insects from feeding.
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Neptunia Game - HarmonicFlow.com
An underwater adventure that is bound
to have you dreaming of the wide open ocean!
Slip into your wetsuit in the name of science
and dive into the fascinating world of Neptune,
god of the sea! Click away the stones in
such a way that those with a cross are released.
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New Forensic scientist's blog
I am a Forensic Science professional
that surf the web in order to find only
interesting news stories on forensic or
forensic-like topics. I hope to educate,
entertain and promote discussions among
forensic scientists, medical students and
the general public. I encourage participation
through posting comments.
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Science of Diamonds
Outlines the composition and formation
of diamonds used for diamond rings, other
jewelry and industrial applications.
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Nature or Nurture? Science May have
the Answer.
A brief discussion about psychiatric
epidemiology and how both a genetic anomaly
and a stressful environment may be the real
cause of generational abuse and/or depression.
The article also discusses why this could
serve as a beneficial genetic trait.
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Studies Report Inducing Out-of-Body
Experience
Using virtual-reality goggles, a camera
and a stick, scientists have induced out-of-body
experiences in ordinary, healthy people,
according to studies being published today
in the journal Science. The research reveals
that the sense of having a body, of being
in a bodily self, is actually constructed
from multiple sensory streams.
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Bionics In A New Age
While TV remakes the Bionic Woman, Festo
takes us into a new era of bionic limb replacement.
Advances in technology are taking us to
a level once referred to in science fiction.
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E-mail stress slowing down workers,
say researchers
E-mail is to blame for productivity
lapses and worker stress, according to a
new study by researchers from Glasgow and
Paisley universities. Psychologist Judith
Ramsay, statistician Mario Hair, and computer
science professor Dr. Karen Renaud surveyed
and monitored 177 employees in order to
find out how they deal with ...
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First out-of-body experience induced
in laboratory setting
A neuroscientist working at UCL (University
College London) has devised the first experimental
method to induce an out-of-body experience
in healthy participants. In a paper published
today in Science, Dr Henrik Ehrsson, UCL
Institute of Neurology, outlines the unique
method by which the situation is created
and the implications of its discovery.
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Aussies Angry At 'Torchwood' Scheduling
For those that thought Fox Television
gave science-fiction the cold shoulder,
they haven't seen Western Australia. Viewers
in the Australian city of Perth are angry
over a local channel's decision to move
the "Doctor Who" spinoff "Torchwood" from
9:40 p.m. on Monday to a Tuesday midnight
airing beginning Aug. 7, according to PerthNow.
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Technology's hidden past
London's Science Museum has launched
a bid to build a vast new museum on an abandoned
Royal Air Force base at Wroughton, near
Swindon.
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Pheramones - Do Pheramone Cologne's
Really work?
Human Pheramones are chemicals excreted
in perspiration and are said to have powerful
effects on human physiology and behaviour...but
can they attract a sexual partner? There
are many pheramones and pheramone cologne's
on the market that make this claim. This
report looks at the science behind these
claims, rather than the hype.
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TCS project empowers science graduates
In view of the increasing crunch of
engineering graduates, Tata Consultancy
Services (TCS) has just completed its pilot
project Ignite for transforming 500 science
graduates, drawn from 200 colleges accross
nine states into software professionals.
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Record Efficiency for Plastic Solar
Cells
A new process for printing plastic solar
cells boosts the power generated by the
flexible and cheap form of photovoltaics.
Initial solar cells made with the technique
can, according to a report in today's issue
of Science, capture solar energy with an
efficiency of 6.5 percent--a new power record
for photovoltaics products.
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Perfect the Colors in Your Photos
Here's an interesting tidbit from the
world of science: Every light source, from
the sun to a candle to a light bulb, puts
out a somewhat different range of colors.
What looks like pure white under one kind
of light appears blue or red in a different
light. Our eyes do a pretty good job of
adjusting automatically, so we don't tend
to notice this
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Weight Loss Through Robots?
n the science fiction version of the
future robots can do all sorts of things
like fly and shoot lasers. Who ever thought
robots would be turned into diet and exercise
gurus? Well 2 different projects have the
same goal: To help you lose weight.
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Warming debate: Scene 1, take 2
- The Boston Globe
Second of two parts IF THERE'S anything
climate-change crusaders are adamant about,
it is that the science of the matter is
settled. That greenhouse gases emitted through
human activity are causing the planet to
warm dangerously, they say, is an established
fact; only a charlatan would claim otherwise.
In the worlds of Al Gore, America's leading
gl
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