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The Wilkins Ice Shelf, a monster iceberg more than 100 kilometres across, is about to separate from the Antarctic continent and float free, possibly as a result of global warming, two German scientists said Friday. Rifts have developed in the narrow "ice bridge," which is the last link between the shelf and the Antarctic Peninsula, reported the European Space Agency (ESA), quoting scientists Angelika Humbert and Matthias Braun, who have been observing the ice using satellite photos.
Antarctica's ice sheet was formed by thousands of years of accumulated and compacted snow. Along the coast the ice gradually floats out onto the sea, forming massive ledges known as ice shelves.
Seven such ice shelves have retreated and disintegrated in the past 20 years. The Wilkins Shelf was stable for most of last century before it began retreating in the 1990s. Scientists are investigating whether unusual warming in the past 50 years is to blame.
The separation of the ice shelf from its land anchors, Charcot Island and Latady Island, would not raise world sea levels because the ice is already floating on the Antarctic Ocean.The Wilkins Ice Shelf, a monster iceberg more than 100 kilometres across, is about to... more
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With so much of life based on electronic representations of reality, humans risk losing touch with nature, says University of Washington psychologist Peter Kahn.
From web cams that offer views of wildlife to virtual tours of the Grand Canyon to robotic pets, modern technology increasingly is encroaching into human connections with the natural world. Kahn and his colleagues believe this intrusion may emerge as one of the central psychological problems of our times.
"We are a technological species, but we also need a deep connection with nature in our lives," Kahn argues.
"Robot and virtual pets are beginning to replace children's interactions with biologically live pets," Ruckert said. "The larger concern is that technological nature will shift the baseline of what people perceive as the full human experience of nature, and that it will contribute to what we call environmental generational amnesia."With so much of life based on electronic representations of reality, humans risk... more
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1. I heart mushrooms and all of the amazing things they are capable of....
2. A shameless shout out to Arik! Nice work!
For centuries hallucinogenic mushrooms have participated in a sublime relationship with humankind, thanks to their psychoactive chemicals that shift and modify the human mind. Arik Roper's exquisite painted portraits of magic mushrooms illustrate more than 90 of the known hallucinogenic species from around the world. He captures their powerful auras, adding to a tradition of Mushroom art that stretches back more than 400 years.
Popular culture critics Erik Davis and Daniel Pinchbeck provide background and testimony in elegant essays, and mushroom expert Gary Lincoff contributes notes. This beautifully designed and profusely illustrated mushroom bible will appeal to nature lovers, mushroom hunters, and enthusiasts of all things psychedelic.1. I heart mushrooms and all of the amazing things they are capable of....
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This is the motivation of Cosmic Humanism. The practical and dramatic focus of our immediate positions, as here conceived, is to present the opportunity to thoughtful individuals to participate in the development of an organic brain-mind, in which each individual functions as a voluntary and conscious neuroblast, a germinal or embryonic cell that can become a part of the emerging planetary nervous system. In Cosmic Humanism we envision Eastern mysticism and Western science as two complementary lobes of the world brain, two halfs of the earth-armature which in rotation will in time generate the current that supplies the light, warmth and power for our evolving planetary society.
The major thesis of this "search for synthesis" is that the world requires a vast "integration of knowledge" program to unify the globe spiritually and socially and give meaning and purpose to human existence. There are great difficulties facing this program of social systhesis to be proliferated by way of a world philosophy-a "universal belief-system," as Sir Julian Huxley has termed it. I have dealt with most of these problems in various contexts in the past, the most systematic treatments being in two previous volumes, "The Integration of Human Knowledge" (1958) and "Cosmic Humanism" (1966).
One of the most challenging undertakings facing our vast enterprise is the over-riding need to create a synthesis of the religions and arts of the ancient East and the sciences and technologies of the modern West. Let us glance at this project.This is the motivation of Cosmic Humanism. The practical and dramatic focus of our... more
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Madrid, España (RCN) - Novedoso invento en el país Ibérico. Cinco peces robots serán puestos en las costas de España para medir la contaminación del agua. Si la prueba funciona, más dispositivos de ese tipo serán usados en otros países europeos.Madrid, España (RCN) - Novedoso invento en el país Ibérico. Cinco... more
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There is a general rule in technology: Once it is released, or shown, to the public, it is probably already a few years old, and there is a more "advanced" version of it already in the works.... It is time to wake up...
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Honda Motor Co. has developed a way to read patterns of electric currents on a person's scalp as well as changes in cerebral blood flow when a person thinks about four simple movements — moving the right hand, moving the left hand, running and eating.
Honda succeeded in analyzing such thought patterns, and then relaying them as wireless commands for Asimo, its human-shaped robot.There is a general rule in technology: Once it is released, or shown, to the public,... more
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A documentary about the magnetic field protecting our planet from the harmful radiation of the sun and space.
Theories and empirical evidence suggest a link to climate change.A documentary about the magnetic field protecting our planet from the harmful... more
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A distinct pattern of brain waves which occurs just before we make a mistake because of a lack of attention has been discovered by scientists.
The US and Dutch researchers say the discovery could help devise attention-monitoring devices for workers such as air traffic control operators.
It may also help aid new treatments for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
The study appears online in the journal Human Brain Mapping.
The researchers, from the University of California, Davis, and the Donders Institute in the Netherlands, recruited 14 students to take part in the study, monitoring their brain activity using a recording technique called magnetoencephalography (MEG).
Each student was asked to take part in monotonous test in which a random number from one to nine flashed on a screen every two seconds, and they were asked to tap a button as soon as any number except five appeared.
The test was so boring that even when a five showed up, the subjects spontaneously hit the button an average of 40% of the time.
The researchers found that about a second before these errors were committed, brain waves in two regions were stronger than when the subjects correctly refrained from hitting the button.A distinct pattern of brain waves which occurs just before we make a mistake because... more
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March 17, 2009—As islands in eastern India disappear under rising seas, residents are losing land, homes, and farms.March 17, 2009—As islands in eastern India disappear under rising seas,... more
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A top civil servant has admitted research into bee disease has not been a "top priority" despite mounting concern about declining populations.
But Dame Helen Ghosh, of the environment food and rural affairs department, said more money was now being ploughed into solving the crisis.
The registered bee population in the UK has shrunk by between 10% and 15% but the real number may be much higher.
There are fears a Europe-wide shortage of bees could affect crop pollination.
But Dame Helen, who was giving evidence to the Commons Public Accounts Committee, played down fears food production could be affected, arguing bees were "one of many" crop pollinators.A top civil servant has admitted research into bee disease has not been a "top... more
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Japanese researchers on Monday showed off a robot that will soon strut her stuff down a Tokyo catwalk.
The girlie-faced humanoid with slightly oversized eyes, a tiny nose and a shoulder length hair-do boasts 42 motion motors programmed to mimic the movements of flesh-and-blood fashion models.
"Hello everybody, I am cybernetic human HRP-4C," said the futuristic fashionista, opening her media premiere at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology outside Tokyo.
The fashion-bot is 158 centimetres (five foot two inches) tall, the average height of Japanese women aged 19 to 29, but weighs in at a waif-like 43 kilograms (95 pounds) -- including batteries.
She has a manga-inspired human face but a silver metallic body.
"If we had made the robot too similar to a real human, it would have been uncanny," said one of the inventors, humanoid research leader Shuji Kajita.
"We have deliberately leaned toward an anime style."
The institute said the robot "has been developed mainly for use in the entertainment industry" but is not for sale at the moment.
Hamming it up before photographers and television crews, the seductive cyborg struck poses, flashed bright smiles and pouted sulkily according to commands transmitted wirelessly from journalists via bluetooth devices.
The performance fell short of flawless when she occasionally mixed up her facial expressions -- a mistake the inventors put down to a case of the nerves as a hail of camera shutters confused her sound recognition sensors.
The preview was a warm-up for her appearance at a Tokyo fashion show on March 23.
Like her real-life counterparts, robot model HRP-5C commands a hefty price -- the institute said developing her cost more than 200 million yen (two million dollars)...
Are they just going to create a robot for every profession there or what?Japanese researchers on Monday showed off a robot that will soon strut her stuff down... more
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So now it begins. Papua New Guinea, Tuvalu, Kiribati, the Maldives, Vanuatu... Names of islands that are now experiencing the effects of sea level rise that threatens the existence of life. However, we won't see this on the MSM, because to report on this would then have people actually seeing that climate change/global warming is indeed happening. And in the case of the Carteret Islands, where will the people go? The man quoted in this article stated it should be the industrialized nations that caused this that have to pay for it.
What do you think?
This is a serious problem we have to plan for. Imagine if this were Bangladesh. Where are we going to place all of the climate refugees from these most vulnerable locations? Will the US take some? China? How could Australia when it is now suffering the effects of it as well and water resources are already strained?
Another report that came out last week stated that the US is woefully unprepared for the effects of climate change. California would be a good example of that right now. Why does it seem to me as though we are all in slow motion as this begins to play out? We were warned about this years ago. And still we sit waiting for a meeting in Copenhagen where a group of elitist world leaders will sit and continue to bicker and hash this and that out to best suit their own agendas, while islands sink.
Unbelievable.So now it begins. Papua New Guinea, Tuvalu, Kiribati, the Maldives, Vanuatu... Names... more
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In his his first interview since taking office, Energy Secretary Steven Chu didn't hold back on what's at stake for California if the nation doesn't act to stop global warming: vanishing vineyards, fading farms, and major cities abandoned.
Why so dire? Because some of the anticipated impacts of climate change include water shortages in the Upper Midwest and West, which could decimate California's agricultural production -- the largest in the nation. One worst case scenario he described would have 90% of the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountain range -- one of the state's major storehouses of fresh water -- disappearing as global temperatures rise.
His talk with the Los Angeles Times echoed two recent reports -- one, released in January, projected global crop shortages as a result of climate change. A study last year by UC Berkeley researchers suggested that about $2.5 trillion of the state's real estate is at risk, including land used for agriculture.
"I don't think the American public has gripped in its gut what could happen," Chu said. "We're looking at a scenario where there's no more agriculture in California...I don't actually see how they can keep their cities going," either.[TURN YOUR VOLUME UP]
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Horoscope enthusiasts will be happy to hear that a grand cosmic force does indeed seem to be responsible for controlling the direction of all life on Earth. However, this grand cosmic cycle has more to do with extinction than finding a tall, handsome stranger.
Early last year, research revealed that the rise and fall of species on Earth seems to be driven by the undulating motions of our solar system as it travels through the Milky Way. Some scientists believe that this cosmic force may offer the answer to some of the biggest questions in our Earth’s biological history.
The University of California, Berkeley found that marine fossil records show that biodiversity increases and decreases based on a 62-million-year cycle. At least two of the Earth's great mass extinctions-the Permian extinction 250 million years ago and the Ordovician extinction about 450 million years ago-correspond with peaks of this cycle, which can't be explained by evolutionary theory.
Our own star moves toward and away from the Milky Way's center, and also up and down through the galactic plane. One complete up-and-down cycle takes 64 million years- suspiciously close to the Earth's biodiversity cycle.Horoscope enthusiasts will be happy to hear that a grand cosmic force does indeed seem... more
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A new study on climate change says that the Arctic is warming up so quickly that the region's summer ice cover could vanish as early as 2013, decades earlier than some had predicted.
The data "appears to be tracking the most pessimistic of the models", Warwick Vincent, director of the centre for Northern Studies at Laval University in Quebec, said on Thursday.
The year "2013 is starting to look as though it is a lot more reasonable as a prediction", he told the Reuters news agency.
"But each year we've been wrong, each year we're finding that it's a little bit faster than expected."
Damage 'unstoppable'
A team of scientists have spent the last 10 years on Ward Hunt Island, a remote spot at least 4,000km northwest of Ottawa, studying the summer ice cover in the Canadian Arctic, a few degrees from the North Pole.
After sharing his findings with the Canadian parliament, Vincent said: "I was astounded as to how fast the changes are taking place. The extent of open water is something that we haven't experienced in the 10 years that I've been working up there.
"We are losing, irreversibly, major features of the Canadian ice scape and that suggests that these more pessimistic models are really much closer to reality."A new study on climate change says that the Arctic is warming up so quickly that the... more
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Up until the 1990s, no research had ever been conducted to determine the impact of fluoride on the pineal gland - a small gland located between the two hemispheres of the brain that regulates the production of the hormone melatonin. Melatonin is a hormone that helps regulate the onset of puberty and helps protect the body from cell damage caused by free radicals.
It is now known - thanks to the meticulous research of Dr. Jennifer Luke from the University of Surrey in England - that the pineal gland is the primary target of fluoride accumulation within the body.
The soft tissue of the adult pineal gland contains more fluoride than any other soft tissue in the body - a level of fluoride (~300 ppm) capable of inhibiting enzymes.
The pineal gland also contains hard tissue (hyroxyapatite crystals), and this hard tissue accumulates more fluoride (up to 21,000 ppm) than any other hard tissue in the body (e.g. teeth and bone).Up until the 1990s, no research had ever been conducted to determine the impact of... more
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(NaturalNews) Due to the effects of global warming and deforestation, more than half of the Amazon rainforest may be destroyed or severely damaged by the year 2030, according to a report released by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
The report, "Amazon's Vicious Cycles: Drought and Fire," concludes that 55 percent of the world's largest rainforest stands to be severely damaged from agriculture, drought, fire, logging and livestock ranching in the next 22 years. Another 4 percent may be damaged by reduced rainfall caused by global warming. This is anticipated to destroy up to 80 percent of wildlife habitat in the region.
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By 2100, the report adds, global warming may cause rainfall in the Amazon to drop by 20 percent and temperatures to increase by 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). This combination will increase the occurrence of forest fires, further accelerating the pace of deforestation.
The Amazon contains more than half of the planet's surviving rainforest and is a key stabilizer of global climate. The report notes that losing 60 percent of it would accelerate the pace of global warming, affecting rainfall as far away as India.
WWF warned that the "point of no return" for the Amazon rainforest, from which ecological recovery will be impossible, is only 15-25 years in the future, much sooner than has previously been supposed.
"The Amazon is on a knife-edge," said WWF-UK forests head Beatrix Richards, "due to the dual threats of deforestation and climate change."
She called for the countries discussing global climate change at an international conference in Bali to take the importance of forests into account.
"At the international negotiations currently underway in Bali, governments must agree a process which results in ambitious global emission reduction targets beyond the current phase of Kyoto," she said. "Crucially, this must include a strategy to reduce emissions from forests and help break the cycle of deforestation."(NaturalNews) Due to the effects of global warming and deforestation, more than half... more
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Parts of the world may have to be abandoned because severe water shortages will leave them uninhabitable, the United Nations environment chief has warned.
Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment Programme, said water shortages caused by over-use of rivers and aquifers were already leading to serious problems, even in rich nations. With climate change expected to reduce rainfall in some places and cause droughts in others, some regions could become 'economic deserts', unviable for people or agriculture, he said.
Steiner argued that only urgent action to combat global warming and poverty could prevent the creation of thousands of 'environmental refugees'. Previous UN agreements to reduce global warming emissions and the Millennium Development Goals on poverty had not been met. His warning echoes those of other environment leaders, who have said that water shortages could be the greatest threat posed by climate change.
'In many ways [water] is the most dramatic expression of mismanagement of natural or nature-based assets,' Steiner said. 'The day a person or a community is bereft of water is the day that your chance of even the most basic life or livelihood is gone and economic activity seeps away.
'Unchecked climate change will mean that some parts of the world will simply not have enough water to sustain settlements both small and large, because agriculture becomes untenable and industries relying on water can no longer compete or function effectively. This will trigger structural changes in economies right through to the displacement of people as environmental refugees.'
Steiner said it was not possible to identify specific places at risk, but said vulnerable areas were those which were already considered to be 'water scarce' because of dry weather and a lack of infrastructure to store and transport water. Last week a study of the water footprints of 200 nations led by conservation group WWF warned that 50 countries were already experiencing 'moderate to severe water stress on a year-round basis'.
This week experts from the UN Convention to Combat Desertification meeting in Turkey will warn that high food prices and endemic droughts are jeopardising the lives of hundreds of millions of people, particularly in Africa.
Some of the most dramatic examples of water shortages this year include conflict-stricken Sudan, the dramatic drying of Lake Faguibine in Mali on which 200,000 mostly nomadic people depend, fatal clashes over drying boreholes in northern Kenya, and economic and social crisis on the sparsely populated border between Bolivia and Argentina, according to Unep. Oxfam has estimated that 25 million people have been affected by the most recent drought in Ethiopia.
Rich nations are not immune. California has declared a state of emergency over water shortages, Australia has committed billions of dollars to cope with drought, and governments in Europe have been forced to ship in water to stop communities running dry.
'A plant, never mind a human being, simply cannot live without water,' said Steiner. 'It's not a matter of how we can live for three years without some water; these are not the kind of things we can do for a while and recover.
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The current elections discussions, now focusing on race, men, and women, and age, and who is voting for who, have taken a very interesting turn. It cannot be denied that the media has an influence over the outcome of any election due to its size, power, and reach, and especially its ownership structure. It can be argued that the division tactics being used by the Republican party can be traced back to the division tactics from the times of slavery in the Americas: dividing the old from the young, the men from women (as in polls suggesting that white women favor Obama, white men favor McCain), and of course dividing each race from another.
The following is a speech allegedly delivered by Willie Lynch on the bank of the James River in the colony of Virginia in 1712. Lynch was a British slave owner in the West Indies. He was invited to the colony of Virginia in 1712 to teach his methods to slave owners there. The term “lynching” is derived from his last name.
(I am obligated to also say that this speech is reported to not have happened by some researchers, but is still widely used and quoted by many who discuss the past and current divisions among citizens of all races in the United States and around the world. While this speech may not be authentic, it is hard to deny the message rings true, even today)
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Gentlemen, you know what your problems are; I do not need to elaborate. I am not here to enumerate your problems, I am here to introduce you to a method of solving them. In my bag here, I HAVE A FULL PROOF METHOD FOR CONTROLLING YOUR BLACK SLAVES. I guarantee every one of you that, if installed correctly, IT WILL CONTROL THE SLAVES FOR AT LEAST 300 HUNDREDS YEARS. My method is simple. Any member of your family or your overseer can use it. I HAVE OUTLINED A NUMBER OF DIFFERENCES AMONG THE SLAVES; AND I TAKE THESE DIFFERENCES AND MAKE THEM BIGGER. I USE FEAR, DISTRUST AND ENVY FOR CONTROL PURPOSES. These methods have worked on my modest plantation in the West Indies and it will work throughout the South. Take this simple little list of differences and think about them. On top of my list is “AGE,” but it’s there only because it starts with an “a.” The second is “COLOR” or shade. There is INTELLIGENCE, SIZE, SEX, SIZES OF PLANTATIONS, STATUS on plantations, ATTITUDE of owners, whether the slaves live in the valley, on a hill, East, West, North, South, have fine hair, course hair, or is tall or short. Now that you have a list of differences, I shall give you an outline of action, but before that, I shall assure you that DISTRUST IS STRONGER THAN TRUST AND ENVY STRONGER THAN ADULATION, RESPECT OR ADMIRATION. The Black slaves after receiving this indoctrination shall carry on and will become self-refueling and self-generating for HUNDREDS of years, maybe THOUSANDS. Don’t forget, you must pitch the OLD black male vs. the YOUNG black male, and the YOUNG black male against the OLD black male. You must use the DARK skin slaves vs. the LIGHT skin slaves, and the LIGHT skin slaves vs. the DARK skin slaves. You must use the FEMALE vs. the MALE, and the MALE vs. the FEMALE. You must also have white servants and overseers [who] distrust all Blacks. But it is NECESSARY THAT YOUR SLAVES TRUST AND DEPEND ON US. THEY MUST LOVE, RESPECT AND TRUST ONLY US. Gentlemen, these kits are your keys to control. Use them. Have your wives and children use them, never miss an opportunity. IF USED INTENSELY FOR ONE YEAR, THE SLAVES THEMSELVES WILL REMAIN PERPETUALLY DISTRUSTFUL. Thank you gentlemen.”
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"Will India of the 21st century produce a Barack Obama?" So asks the title of a debate program on a leading Indian television channel. Ever since the Wednesday morning that shook the world, popular Indian list serves have kept popping questions like "When will India have its own Obama?"
The poser illustrates the most significant impact of the Obama victory on India, as perhaps on many other countries across continents. In popular discourse, the question takes precedence over the subject that pundits of the region prefer to discuss: the strategic and economic implications of the event for India and its relations with Pakistan.
The dominant response to the victory of the Democratic candidate with a vital difference deals a heavy blow to India's far right, flatteringly described as "the Hindu right" (as reportedly also to Western Europe's anti-immigrant warriors). It is all badly timed for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the political front of the "parivar" (the far-right "family"), preparing for a series of state-level elections as a run-up to the parliamentary polls early next year.
The party has made majoritarianism its main plank in the campaign for these elections. With its hoodlum hordes helping it on, it has unleashed major offensives against religious minorities - Muslims and Christians - across the country, especially in Kashmir and states where the BJP either wields or shares power. So far as the party is concerned, the American people have only set a bad precedent by letting majority-minority considerations make no difference to their mandate and to their democracy.
Little wonder, the BJP stands out in its lukewarm response to the Obama victory that has given oppressed minorities in the US and elsewhere a new sense of liberation. Even Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has cherished his special ties with George W. Bush as dearly as India's "strategic partnership" with the US, has evinced greater enthusiasm. Singh has spoken of Obama's "extraordinary journey" as "inspiring for people around the world." Sections of the left, the staunchest opponent in India of the "strategic partnership," have hailed the change in Washington as "historic.""Will India of the 21st century produce a Barack Obama?" So asks the title... more
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