Image via Wikipedia- Google FriendConnectposted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoThe Pacific Seahorse would seem to be a movie natural. This fish is dramatic yellow in color, with sparkling eyes and a hairdo-looking tuft on its head that would be at home on a Dr. Seuss character. But f...
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Environmental activist Tzeporah Berman of Forest Ethics presents BC Premier Gordon Campbell with a "green award" at the Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009. The previous month Campbell hired B... - posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoNaturalist Mark Fraser is back with a look this time at the Virginia creeper clearwing moth. According to Mark, the insect "has evolved to be a mimic of a wasp and looks similar to a paper wasp. They even ...
- posted by (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 6 hours ago*Do we live in a world of deception?* I asked myself this question after viewing the phenomenal material from the Paris multimedia company "BUF". It occurred to me 'easy' to distort or even simulate reali...
- posted by Sarah Dowdey at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoIt's easy to imagine the Arctic ice cap as it looks on a globe -- pinned firmly to one spot. However, that's not the case. Sea ice is free to roam when it breaks up, bobbing out of the Arctic ...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoThis is a fun little Friday post. Something lite. Two students from the Swedish School of Textiles in Borås has developed a textile that works like a musical instruments. Sort of. Jeannine Han and Dan Rile...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoScientific tests have shown that 51 decapitated bodies found in southern England were executed Viking raiders.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoThe pill reduced women's risk of dying from bowel cancer and other diseases.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoThe Svalbard Global Seed Vault now houses the world's most diverse collection of seeds.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoNearly 65 years after the conclusion of World War 2, victims of Nazi atrocities are still being discovered.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoDog growls may all sound the same to human ears, but they hold more specific meanings for dog listeners, according to a new study.
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoThe European settlement of Greenland may sound like a minor folly by some ancient Vikings irrelevant to modern times. But a generation of anthropologists and climate scientists has put a different face on ...
- posted by Clark Boyd at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoThis is Yamaha's RMAX unmanned aerial vehicle, which according to the company's website is "to be used in agriculture for the purpose of crop dusting, and also to serve...for observation/monitoring." Now, ...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoIn this final part of our three-part series, we examine sea ice extent, extraterrestrial warming, IPCC errors, and hacked e-mails. The topics we've covered this week just scratch the surface, of course; th...
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoAn underwater fly that builds a covering of pebbles and sand by gluing them together could point the way for developing a glue that works while wet.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoGeorge Mallory's camera may contain evidence of whether he and Andrew Irvine were the first to summit Everest.
- posted by (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 18 hours ago*TV-advertisements can be quite annoying* and they can be an Art that one really enjoys. Making TV-commercials isn't everybody's piece of cake. Then it requires many more skills than just putting a text o...
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As PMO spokesthingey Dimitri Soudas pitches it somewhat awkwardly on YouTube : *Ask Your Questions to Prime Minister Harper* Submit your questions for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in his resp... - posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoHM Cancri has been confirmed as a binary system of two white dwarfs orbiting one other so close, they complete one orbit every 5.4 minutes. With a year this short, it's little wonder HM Cancri is a record ...
- posted by Gene Charleton at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe Hoover Dam Bypass bridge is almost 2,000 feet long, carries four lanes of traffic and a sidewalk, so tourists can get a good view of the dam.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWhere's the real conspiracy, and what does climate denialism say about the state of American democracy?
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoI use Google Maps all of the time. Not just to get directions to drive somewhere, but also to find out how far it is to walk somewhere. And there's also a public transit feature, which I don't use because ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoNew insights into brain activity could explain how memories are formed and how they change over time.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoZookeepers thought that "Mr. Shuffles" had died during labor, but the calf pulled through.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe genetic code of an entire family reveals mutations aren't passed on to children as commonly as thought.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoBirds that appear to be half-hen, half-rooster aren't quite as mixed up on the cellular level.
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIf this is your first exposure to the Friday News Feedbag...we're glad to have you in the club. Welcome to Feedbag Nation, which stems from our weekly science news podcast that you can subscribe to here on...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe science of geology may be considerably older than once thought.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA new infrared telescope has found 16 previously unknown asteroids that swing close to Earth.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agoGiven that the Cons blocked the Military Police Complaints Commission from receiving documents on the Afghan detainees : "Canada's former top military police officer, retired navy captain Steve Moore, adv...
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoGiven the inherent complexity of English, reading to young children is critical to developing their language skills.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIf you want to grow a truly massive earthquake, you've got to give it space. Scientists have known this basic fact for years -- more powerful earthquakes ramp up the shaking by breaking along huge stretche...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIf you think the newly installed panoramic view cupola on the International Space Station is cool, I’ve got a room for you on the moon -- with a view. It's definitely a fixer-upper but well worth the effor...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWhat did the "Climategate" scandal really expose -- a problem with climate science, or the modern media echo chamber? A special article from the pages of Skeptical Inquirer magazine.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAs the Internet goes crazy about the LHC shutdown in 2011 (a shutdown that is actually in the LHC schedule rather than anything sudden), what's the plan for the world's largest particle accelerator?
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoCombustible ice sounds like it belongs in Star Trek--and from the photos it looks that way, too. While the reality isn't that extreme, this energy source does involve high-seas adventure, phase changes, an...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe 40,000-year-old site may hold the world's southernmost traces of early human life.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe original Giotto painting (L) and the same artwork under ultra-violet rays (R). Art restorers working in Florence’s Santa Croce church have shed new (ultraviolet) light on Giotto’s faded paintings, disc...
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAn experiment that detonated a bomb similar to the so-called "underwear bomber's" shows that the plane would have withstood the impact.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days ago2010 could be the "tipping point" where the number of babies born to minorities outnumber white babies.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA long cooling period may have led to famine in Greenland and Iceland more than 1,000 years ago.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoNew evidence suggests that our human ancestors 2 million years ago were eaten by a large crocodile that lurked at the water's edge before closing its jaws on victims and drawing them under to their death. ...
- *Looking at the news today* it somewhat scares me what is happening on our planet. Working up the Past is one thing, looking to the Future another. Both suffer from the same phenomenon: anthropocentrism. ...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoNo, this is not a new model Jedi TIE Fighter -- it's the very real International Space Station passing across the field-of-view of a German Earth-watching satellite known as TerraSar-X . This radar image, ...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoI saw the movie, Hurt Locker, and wondered how that bomb suit could protect someone from death. Dvice has a great piece up that explains just that. The so-called explosive ordinance disposal suit has two l...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoSuicide is not just a human behavior -- and it can help us understand human suicide.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoJust in time for Spring training. This electronic shirt analyzes a baseball pitcher's throw. That could keep the athletes in good form and reduce injuries, which cost the MLB organization $54 million a yea...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 days agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Thanks to the increasingly absurd, bought-and-paid for Supreme Court, corporations are now people but *real* people can be declared Orwellian 'un-persons' with but a...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoGrocery stores and consumers may want to rethink how they store their produce.
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoIn Part One of our series, we looked at polar bears, hockey sticks, Medieval Warm Periods and Little Ice Ages, among other topics. Today our list includes water vapor, volcanoes, and CO2. As with Part I, I...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoIt was the blockbuster environmental deal of a lifetime: Florida Governor Charlie Crist announced in 2008 that the state was going to buy 180,000 acres of wetlands from United States Sugar Corporation. The...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe epic start-up drama surrounding the world's most powerful particle accelerator just took another painful twist.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThere's flame in the trenches, but not the one Space Exploration Technologies was hoping for, as it counted down Tuesday afternoon to the first test-firing of its new Falcon 9 rocket. Two seconds before th...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 days agoHEALTH - Canadian researchers have discovered a virus which causes a mild runny nose, but also kills cancer cells. Treatments using the virus are expected to start in 2012. The virus was first learned of ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe Maldives government has banned shark fishing in its 35,000 square miles of sovereign waters.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThese ancient DNA samples could open the door to cloning long-extinct species.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoA research team from IBM and Stanford announced that they have developed a new, inexpensive method for plastic recycling that could eliminate downcycling, resulting in higher quality products. One of the m...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoJewish sites are as much a part of Egypt's culture as Muslim mosques or Coptic churches, according to Egypt's Ministry of Culture.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoA gas company building an underwater pipeline stumbled upon several wrecks, some dating back 800 years.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 3 days agoRahim Jaffer, ex-Reform/Alliance/Con MP, anti-drug crusader, hubby to federal Con cabinet minister Helena "hell hole" Guergis : Busted for driving at nearly twice the legal speed limit, cocaine possession,...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoNeva Morris, of Ames, Iowa, at age 114 years, 216 days, is now the oldest living American.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoIn a covert operation, the team behind the Academy Award-winning documentary film "The Cove" has captured video footage that they say proves a popular California sushi bar illegally sold whale meat, accord...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe discovery could lead to new, powerful treatments for pain.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoA new bill in South Dakota urges science teachers to frame global warming as a debate.
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 3 days agoRecently, a friend asked the following, completely valid, question: "What do you have to say about the reports of these protesters being executed?" *My short answer is this:* I don't approve of any form...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoWith a little genetic engineering, tobacco and other plants can be harnessed to clean up environmental pollutants.
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoSmart phone malware could tap into your phone's microphone, GPS and even your battery.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoWelcome to the 144th Carnival of Space! For those of you who have participated in this weekly cosmic party, you know the drill, but if you're a newcomer, prepare yourself for an experience beyond measure. ...
- *My wife shoveling snow*. On March 9, 2010 she cleans the patio of our house near Granada. *Update March 10*: a warning is out for Thursday 11 and Friday 12 for more snow... ...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 3 days agoDespite a nearly endless barrage of reporting on Iran's nuclear energy program, the US government's push for a new round of sanctions, and on-going efforts to foment regime change in the Islamic Republic, ...
- *Once Ubuntu Karmic or Mint Helena are* installed, it might happen that you are reminded to update the basic set-up. That occurs in an automagical way for you when you click 'Ok'. The first time this will...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoA new VH1 show called “The Price of Beauty,” hosted by Jessica Simpson, will premiere soon. The theme of the show is the extreme measures that some women will endure to look beautiful. It’s a worthy subjec...
- posted by Lauren Effron at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoWith disasters striking Haiti, Chile and most recently Turkey, it seems like there is no end in sight for the earthquake-weary. New evidence released from Ohio State University (OSU) shows that the 8.8-mag...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoA glass a day could keep excessive weight gain at bay.News Surfing
Rising prices and better alternatives may mean curtains for netbooks.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8421491.stmHard drive evolution could hit Microsoft XP users http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8557144.stm
DR Congo ring may be giant 'impact crater'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8526093.stm
War Is Sin
http://www.canadiansagainstwar.org/component/content/article/33-viewpoint/278-war-is-sin
It's All Spelled Out in Unpublicized Agreement - Total Defeat for U.S. in Iraq
http://www.canadiansagainstwar.org
Turkey, Angry at U.S., Pledges Support for Iran
http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/9597
'Néjàd Vu, All Over Again:
http://www.wideasleepinamerica.com/2010/03/nejad-vu-all-over-again-medias.html
Texas Social Studies Curriculum Vote Bring Out Worst in AP Bias, Labeling
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2010/03/12/texas-social-studies-curriculum-vote-bring-out-worst-ap-bias-labeling
The Unpersuadables
http://www.celsias.com/article/unpersuadables/#comment-2083
Recaps the Monbiot article. When I commented elsewhere..my quip vanished. So...
There's a classic flaw of logic exploited by those who want to state the parameters of an argument. George has used Strawman Argumentation to its fullest advantage.
The R.C. church calls people names by arbitrary categories of their choosing to highlight their positions relative to theirs.
So it is with Anthropological Global Warming. 'Deniers' : a category attributed to those with other ideas as if their were only a Go - No Go duality of choice.
Water vapour is the medium for heat exchange most familiar as a generator of weather. Why assertions that a gas gobbled by plants - and present at far higher concentrations in the past - is going to run away as an atmospheric component and ruin our ecology because of a static model of restricted choice of environmental factors operating on the thinnest of observational timelines and reports is a hard sell once you appreciate that an Open - i.e. Chaotic - System is inherently incalculable.
But...but...but...Industry buys false studies !
And you think government and those with opposing views don't ? A straw poll of scientists seeking funding for projects will quickly reveal the true drivers behind much 'science' : merchandising and deception. ( Do you have any idea how much money changes hands to influence legislation ? ) Ditto reporting in the monopoly media. In fact, if you were to regard history ( his story ) as the tall tales of the victors in strife, you would be pretty well on target.
I wouldn't have bothered checking out the possibility that the nutcups of Pyjamas Media might have a point besides the one on their head...except I did find items which caused me to investigate - and Big Coal's $80 million advertising campaign for the Oxymoron 'Clean Coal' and suppression of the dangers of Coal Ash are not sufficient supposition to claim all contrary opinion bought.
The initial effort of corralling this story turned almost immediately into a political hot potato once Climategate developed. Another underappreciated fact is that the bloc of Third World countries who essentially blocked Copenhagen's 'mandate' looked at the programme of charging for use of fire at a higher rate for the poor than for the rich and said it was a scam favouring polluters.
I have yet to see a plausible argument to the contrary.
How Wikipedia’s green doctor rewrote 5,428 climate articles
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/19/lawrence-solomon-wikipedia-s-climate-doctor.aspx
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