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Despite the best efforts of old mainstream media to suppress the ClimateGate story of collusion, obfuscation, intimidation, and censorship at the East Anglia CRU, new media has succeeded in building on the story until it has finally broken through into the daylight. IBD: What the media doesn't ...
Environment
Global Warming
We recently learned that atmospheric CO2 nourishes coral reefs using the lowly sea sponge . Now we are learning that sea creatures can ramp up shell production when exposed to higher levels of dissolved CO2 in sea water . Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists report that some ...
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Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have taken a three-neuron feedback microcircuit model and abstracted the microcircuit to a single "neuron" that behaved in an identical way to the more complex microcircuit. In other words, without losing any complexity of behaviour, they have ...
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Well-respected blogger Dennis Mangan woke up one day last week to discover his blog missing. What happened? The great and powerful Google deleted Dennis' blog . Why? No one knows -- and Google isn't saying. More from Steve Sailer . Anyone who maintains a Google blog (including blogspot and ...
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An opinion columnist at The Atlantic, Clive Crook, first dismissed the ClimateGate controversy as irrelevant. Then, he read the emails . An honest, thoughtful reading of the files made all the difference between a climate zombie, and a person with an open mind. In my previous post on ...
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In the face of danger, male brains focus on the need for action, whereas female brains focus on their own emotional response to danger, say Polish researchers. For the study, Dr. Urbanik and colleagues recruited 40 right-handed volunteers, 21 men and 19 women, between the ages of 18 and 36. ...
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... to fully realize the brain’s potential to teach us how to make machines learn and think, further advances are needed in the technology for understanding the brain in the first place. Modern noninvasive methods for simultaneously measuring the activity of many brain cells have provided a ...
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This "micro-nubbin" nerve interface-chip from IMEC provides convenient "docking stations" for nerve processes to interface. The chip is meant to serve as an experimental "eavesdropper" -- to listen in on communication between neurons. Initially, it will provide a surface for nerves to grow ...
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Nothing about the [liberated CRU emails and files] revelations surprises me. I have maintained email correspondence with most of these scientists for many years, and I know several personally. I long ago realized that they were faking the whole exercise. When you enter into a debate with any of ...
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NYTimes ClimateGate: The Very Ugly Side of Climate Science WSJ Global Warming with the Lid Off What the puppet masters of climate catastrophe never wanted you to know. MSN Money: Big Money interests like Goldman Sachs are involved in the global warming scam up to their eyeballs. Icecap: ...
Environment
Global Warming
Two interesting US developments from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) server's incontinence: 1. The US Government's National Aeronautics and Space Administration is being sued by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, for multiple, blatant, violations of the Freedom of ...
Physical Science
Unless you are an exceptional parent, you will turn your children over to an educational establishment for a significant -- perhaps the most significant -- part of his upbringing. No matter what the child represents to you, to this establishment, your child is an experiment in educational ...
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The controversy over the leaked documents from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit has just begun . We are now learning that besides the incriminating emails, the liberated documents contain a great deal of commented computer code . That is where the real paydirt is likely to ...
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There must be a default at some point. The question is: "Which kind?" If the central bank ceases to inflate, a recession begins. If the government or the central bank refuses to intervene, many banks go under. This shrinks the money supply. The recession becomes a depression. Bankruptcies and ...
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Barack Obama
The collapse of the residential market was led by massive defaults in ill-conceived “sub-prime loans”. Millions of American homes are now in default and in the process of loan modification, abandonment or foreclosure. There is no end in sight as Prime, Alt-A, and Option ARM loan resets come ...
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The blog " Air Vent " is where the entire worldwide controversy over the hacked CRU files began. And it looks as if some of the most interesting discussion and commentary on this topic is happening at the original source . Here are the items I have a problem with. * Discussion of interference ...
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Image Source It is too early to say whether the Russian government sponsored the recent hacking of British CRU (Climatic Research Unit) computers or not. Regardless, 156 megabytes of files and sensitive emails between world-renowned, influential climate scientists were spilled onto the ...
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Popular Mechanics provides information on a recent IBM "brain simulation" of 1.6 billion simulated neurons -- an attempt to "simulate the human visual cortex". Here are some fascinating details from PM: Modha's billion-neuron virtual cortex is so massive that running it required one of the ...
Physical Science
Over-reliance on one source of income is a curse to any nation, and to Russia in particular. Countries with vast energy resources -- such as Russia -- tend to be corrupt, with power and wealth concentrated at the center. As long as the criminals at the top of the regime are comfortable and ...
Medicine
Let's imagine that a Republican former vice president (say Dan Quayle or Dick Cheney) authored a similar book telling us that apocalypse was at hand unless we shoveled massive amounts of public money toward companies they've heavily invested in. Let's say the Republican-authored book also ...
