"The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, it is a reality to be experienced." - J.J. Van Der Leeuw, 'Conquest of Illusion'

Name warning for dragon sausages

Seeded on Tue Oct 14, 2008 7:27 PM EDT (BBC News)

A food company has been warned it could face legal action over the name of its Welsh Dragon Sausages.

food, warning, meat, odd-news, butcher, dragon, sausages, dragon-sausages, labelling-regulations, dragon-meat

Hope Is A Lie: Even If Obama Believes, Truth Eludes Him

Tue Oct 14, 2008 1:13 AM EDT

Truth be known, hope is a lie. And if evil truly exists apart from human ego, then evil is at it's worst in the steely lie of hope. Hope is what we use to try to make our inability to accept and surrender to the direct reality of the here and now less painful.

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space, evolution, time, election, 2008, politics, mccain, revolution, democracy, change

Secret Service Intimidates Private Citizen for Obama

Seeded on Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:34 PM EDT (TownHall.com)

On Wednesday the 1st of October I received a call on my cell while in the car with my husband. It was a woman who identified herself as calling from the Obama Campaign. The phone # she called from was 903-798-6020 which lists as "Obama Volunteers of Texarkana" (Texas).

politics, secret-service, obama, fascist, socialist, intimidation, jackboots, goon-squad, jackbooted-thugs

VIDEO: John Murtagh: Obama Dumbest Man Ever To Graduate Columbia, Harvard Law

Seeded on Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:43 AM EDT (FOXNews.com)

In this video interview John Murtagh, a victim of the terrorist group Weather Undergound co-founded by Ayers, explains his view of the Obama-Ayers relationship and just how dumb Obama would have to be in order to be telling the truth. Disclosure: video is 4:20 in length

politics, video, obama, truth, ayers, murtag, dumbest-man-ever, columbia-law, obama-ayers-relationship

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Obama/Ayers Timeline: A Serial "Meeting Of The Minds"

Seeded on Thu Oct 9, 2008 3:26 PM EDT (Nice Deb)

This Obama-Ayers timeline puts the events of their evolving relationship in perspective. It becomes evident that a serial "meeting of the minds" between Obama and Ayers was mutually beneficial to the motivations of both men.

politics, timeline, obama, ayers, obama-ayers, meeting-of-the-minds

Americans Clueless About Plans to Create New Life Forms

Seeded on Thu Oct 2, 2008 8:52 PM EDT (Live Science)

If you've never heard of the exciting field of synthetic biology, you're not alone, but you might want to get wise to the field's controversial promise to create life from scratch.

nature, science, americans, biology, create, create-life, new-life-forms, synthetic-biology, life-forms, telephone-survey

Sensor Peers into Electrons

Seeded on Thu Oct 2, 2008 4:14 AM EDT (Photonics.com)

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 1, 2008 -- Physicists have exploited a special "flaw" in diamond crystals, manipulating them into monitoring magnetic signals from individual electrons and atomic nuclei and allowing scientists to spy on some of the universe's tiniest building blocks.

science, scientists, electrons, sensor, mri, building-blocks, nmr, magnetic-resonance-imaging, atomic-nuclei, human-bodies

Specially Bred Mice May Hold Keys to Personalized Medicine

Seeded on Wed Oct 1, 2008 2:25 AM EDT (Wired News)

A panel of 36 mice could finally deliver the long-unfulfilled promise of personalized medicine.

drugs, health, mice, scientists, genetic-predisposition, personalized-medicine, specially-bred, adverse-drug-reactions

Site of Potential Lunar Colony Detailed in 3-D

Seeded on Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:32 PM EDT (SPACE.com)

Scientists have created a 3-D picture of a luminous and mountainous site on the moon that holds promise as a possible future location for a lunar colony.

space, science, moon, sunlight, 3-d, lunar-colony, peak-of-eternal-light, robotic-moon-mission

Gore Warns of Sub-Prime Carbon Catastrophe

Seeded on Mon Sep 29, 2008 7:26 AM EDT (ENS-Newswire.com)

"I believe we've reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction [applause] of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration," Al Gore declared at the opening session of the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting this we …

global-warming, gore, pollution, world-news, carbon, greenhouse-gas, carbon-dioxide, catastrophe, civil-disobedience, sequestration

Silencing Critics Using the Barack Obama Method

Seeded on Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:28 PM EDT (Bloomberg.com)

Barack Obama campaigns as if only Thomas Jefferson could match his devotion to free speech and open government.

debate, politics, jefferson, free-speech, obama, critics

Earth's Magnetic Field Reversals Illuminated By Lava Flows Study

Seeded on Sat Sep 27, 2008 7:50 PM EDT (Science Daily)

Earth's north magnetic pole is shifting and weakening. Ancient lava flows are guiding a better understanding of what generates and controls the Earth's magnetic field – and what may drive it to occasionally reverse direction.

science, earth, magnetic-field, lava-flows, north-magnetic-pole, polarity-reversal

Impressive Cognitive Abilities: Bees Can Count

Seeded on Sat Sep 27, 2008 6:35 PM EDT (Live Science)

Honeybees are clever little creatures. They can form abstract concepts, such as symmetry versus asymmetry, and they use symbolic language — the celebrated waggle dance — to direct their hivemates to flower patches.

science, honeybees, counting, bees, waggle-dance, across-species-communication, mixed-species-colonies

Unconscionable Democrats: Re-Seeding the Housing Mess

Seeded on Sat Sep 27, 2008 6:00 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

Taxpayers are naturally suspicious that political insiders and contributors on Wall Street are going to make out like bandits once Washington starts spending the $700 billion in the financial market rescue.

housing, democrats, politics, taxpayers, housing-trust-fund, capital-magnet-fund

How Your Laptop Will Just Keep Getting Faster

Seeded on Sat Sep 27, 2008 4:18 PM EDT (Popular Science - )

Since the invention of the transistor, silicon semiconductors have been king. But now silicon-based transistors are nearing the limit of their potential. Excess heat and manufacturing hurdles are impeding the development of ever-faster and -smaller processors.

technology, power, pc, laptop, graphene, spintronics, memristors, deep-in-the-lab, smaller-faster-cheaper

Biophysicists create new model for protein-cholesterol interactions in brain and muscle tissue

Seeded on Sat Sep 27, 2008 1:36 AM EDT (PhysOrg.com)

Biophysicists at the University of Pennsylvania have used 3,200 computer processors and long-established data on cholesterol's role in the function of proteins to clarify the mysterious interaction between cholesterol and neurotransmitter receptors.

cholesterol, health, brain, inflammation, protein, receptors, muscle-tissue, neurotransmitter, biophysicists, nicotinic-acetylcholine-receptor

Scientists discover why we overbid for old junk on eBay

Seeded on Fri Sep 26, 2008 3:37 PM EDT (Ars Technica)

Imagine you're sitting in front of your computer, sweating and panicky. No, the air conditioning is not broken. And no, you didn't forward an inappropriate e-mail to your boss. Instead, you're in the final few minutes of bidding in an eBay auction.

ebay, junk, auction, odd-news, bid, bidding, behavior, irrational, brain-imaging, economists

Uncork the Wine: Machine vision automates inspection of wine-bottle labels

Seeded on Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:41 PM EDT (Vision-Systems.com)

California wine-maker Kendall-Jackson believes in using automation to increase production while increasing quality at the same time.

technology, wine, quality, automation, inspection, machine-vision, wine-bottles

IBM Claims Progress In Building 22-Nanometer Chips

Seeded on Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:53 PM EDT (InformationWeek.com)

IBM is getting around the physical limitations of lithography methods by using mathematical techniques called computational scaling.

technology, chips, ibm, semiconductor, microprocessors, lithography, mathematical, 22-nanometer, computational-scaling

McCain's Sandbag: Revenge on Obama, Served Cold?

Seeded on Thu Sep 25, 2008 9:10 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)

John McCain's actions today — taking a call from Barack Obama at 8:30 a.m.

revenge, politics, mccain, obama, joint-statement, economic-hero

Microway Offers Scalable Server For High Powered Computing

Seeded on Thu Sep 25, 2008 1:47 PM EDT (InformationWeek.com)

NumberSmasher vSMP features Intel's Xeon CPU and compiler technology and has 1,024 GB of shared DRAM for reduced simulation times, preprocessing, and parallel applications.

technology, intel, simulation, parallel, xeon, compiler, microway, scalable-server, high-powered-computing, numbersmasher

Solar Wind Loses Power, Hits 50-year Low

Seeded on Thu Sep 25, 2008 1:03 PM EDT (NASA - Science@NASA)

Sept. 23, 2008: In a briefing today at NASA headquarters, solar physicists announced that the solar wind is losing power.

power, nasa, science, climate-change, solar-system, sun, cosmic-rays, solar-wind, heliosphere, ulysses-spacecraft

Black day for science

Seeded on Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:01 AM EDT (Australian News Network)

US researchers say they have made the darkest material on Earth, a substance so black it absorbs more than 99.9 per cent of light.

dark, science, black, material, darkest-material, benchmark-of-blackness

Filtering Viruses Through The Cloud

Seeded on Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:38 PM EDT (Forbes)

Anti-virus programs are notorious for acting suspiciously like the malicious software they're meant to eradicate, hijacking your PC and choking its resources by scanning files endlessly.

technology, internet, cybersecurity, anti-virus, viruses, malware, malicious-code, scan, cloud, security-software

Charlie Gibson's Gaffe

Seeded on Wed Sep 24, 2008 1:17 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

"At times visibly nervous . . . Ms. Palin most visibly stumbled when she was asked by Mr. Gibson if she agreed with the Bush doctrine. Ms. Palin did not seem to know what he was talking about. Mr.

politics, gibson, new-york-times, bush-doctrine, palin, gotcha, gotcha-moment

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