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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Friday, June 4, 2010

4 June - Off the Beaten Path

Unexplained Mysteries

Carbon 'burp' kick-started end of ice age
Posted 6-1-2010 | 48 comments
A massive repository of carbon dioxide under the sea may have started global warming at the end of the last ice age....

How to detect crime before it happens
Posted 5-30-2010 | 12 comments
Its like something out of Minority Report, scientists are researching ways to detect a crime before it happens....

Aircraft sets hypersonic record at Mach 6
Posted 5-28-2010 | 14 comments
The X-51A Waverider has set a new hypersonic flight time record at six times the speed of sound....

Scientist 'infected' with computer virus
Posted 5-27-2010 | 24 comments
A British scientist claims that he has become the first ever person to become infected with a computer virus....

"Little ice age" to begin in 2014 ?
Posted 5-23-2010 | 74 comments
A prominent scientist in Russia has predicted that we could enter another ice age as soon as in four years time....

Scientist accused of playing God
Posted 5-23-2010 | 31 comments
The scientist who recently announced the creation of the world's first synthetic life has been accused of playing God....

'Artificial life' breakthrough announced
Posted 5-21-2010 | 9 comments
Scientists in the US have announced the development of the world's first synthetic living cell....

Ball lightning is all in the mind, say physicists
Posted 5-20-2010 | 21 comments
Austrian physicists have claimed that ball lightning doesn't actually exist and that it is simply a trick of the mind....

Futuristic 'Robofish' could police harbours
Posted 5-20-2010 | 1 comment
Shoals of robotic fish could be released in to harbour waters in an attempt to detect and track pollution....

Face of mystery medieval knight revealed
Posted 5-19-2010 | 12 comments
The face of a medieval knight who died 700 years ago has been revealed through the use of forensic techniques....

Girl grows two new kidneys
Posted 5-18-2010 | 13 comments
A young girl has baffled doctors by growing two replacement kidneys when her existing ones both failed....

Scientists build nanoscopic spiderbot
Posted 5-15-2010 | 10 comments
The tiny molecular robot is built from DNA and is a mere four billionths of a metre in diameter....






Common carbohydrate blocks malaria


The progressive blogosphere is almost entirely professionalized, and inextricably linked to existing media companies and advocacy organizations.

( The Long Tail means there are always new blogs - and there is room for them. But...it will become increasingly difficult to attract readers by seeming a big fish in a small pond as the pond grows bigger. opit )


The Role of Race and Gender in Ontario's Racialized Income Gap


Gulf oil spill: BP to go ahead with $10bn shareholder payout


Bobby Jindal Asks Obama To End Moratorium On Deepwater Drilling



Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, along with Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa, resigned Wednesday due to a dispute over plans to relocate the U.S. Marine Air Station at Futenma, in the southern part of Okinawa, to Oura Bay in the north.

U.S. 'secret war' expands globally as Special Operations forces take larger role

Special Operations forces have grown both in number and budget, and are deployed in 75 countries, compared with about 60 at the beginning of last year. In addition to units that have spent years in the Philippines and Colombia, teams are operating in Yemen and elsewhere in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia.
Commanders are developing plans for increasing the use of such forces in Somalia, where a Special Operations raid last year killed the alleged head of al-Qaeda in East Africa. Plans exist for preemptive or retaliatory strikes in numerous places around the world, meant to be put into action when a plot has been identified, or after an attack linked to a specific group.
The surge in Special Operations deployments, along with intensified CIA drone attacks in western Pakistan, is the other side of the national security doctrine of global engagement and domestic values President Obama released last week.
One advantage of using "secret" forces for such missions is that they rarely discuss their operations in public.


Afghanistan Sun

US attendees at ‘world government’ meeting may be breaking law: activists

Activists protesting outside this year's meeting of the secretive Bilderberg Group say American citizens attending the meeting may be breaking the law.
The 56-year-old group, which hosts some of the world's most influential financiers and politicians on annual basis, has been alleged to have been the driving force behind the launch of several wars and behind a push to create a single global government -- a claim that many observers describe as not credible.

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