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by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The establishment derides conspiracies and, for awhile, it was fashionable to deny the existence of 'conspiracies'. In fact, conspiracies are how things get done. Ve...
posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories -Sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean grew by an average of 13,000 square miles a day last month. Great news, right? Well, not so much. For one thing, it was January. Mid-winter. Sea ice cover is supposed to g...
posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories -Heavy rains caused mud and water to overflow basins and flood streets and homes north of Los Angeles.
posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories -When Hubble Space Telescope first photographed the strange comet-like object p/2010 a2 I just knew it would get attention among the X-Files crowd. The "X" pattern of dust debris, presumably from an asteroi...
posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories -NASA planned to try and launch Endeavour on Monday morning when weather predictions were somewhat better.
posted by Alison at Creekside -Canwest : "Because the president cannot rely on Congress to pass the legislation ... sources say the agreement as structured would allow the White House to use executive power to treat sectors of the Cana...The “Coca Cola conspiracy” and the obesity epidemicIn 1973, Richard Nixon’s Secretary of Agriculture, Earl Butz, altered US farm policy to permanently subsidize the increased production of corn, opening a new era in which corn-based processed foods would become far cheaper than their rivals. The convenience and fast food industries were poised to take off. Soft drinks that cost pennies to produce could be marketed at phenomenal profit. Corn derivatives would find their way into virtually every processed food.
Image via WikipediaRobert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) are the cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin.
How Well Do Scientists Understand How Changes in Earth's Orbit Affect Long-Term Natural Climate Trends?
The notion that scientists understand how changes in Earth's orbit affect climate well enough for estimating long-term natural climate trends that underlie any anthropogenic climate change is challenged by findings just published.
- Climatologists Forecast Completely New Climates
- Meteorologists See Future of Increasingly Extreme Weather Events
- Astronomers Discover That The Earth's Magnetotail Charges The Surface Of The Moon
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24759
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