Type A Personalities Have the Edge in Procreating

Many evolutionary scientists believe that those thousands of years of human behavior are no artifact: modern men still strive for status partly because it is an evolutionary advantage for improving reproductive success. But other researchers have disputed that theory by citing data showing that wealthier, higher-status men do not in fact have more children than their less moneyed, lower-status peers. (See pictures of Barack Obamas family tree.)

Now a new study in the Journal of Personality offers another theory: it is not necessarily wealth that facilitates procreation but a more basic and deeply ingrained evolutionary trait ? having a Type A personality. The study finds that adolescents who say they always take charge, tell others what to do, anger quickly, get into fights easily, and walk, talk and eat fast end up having more kids than others when they grow up. Thats true regardless of the kids performance in school.

Skeptics Take on the Origins of Success

The following figure shows the temperature trends (mean annual temperature) for long-term stations in western Montana. No long-term warming is observed.

The same study provides the following figure showing the decreasing area of the Sperry Glacier over the available timeframe of observations (left). The graph (right) shows the glacier area versus year.

More than 100,000 Britons have downloaded ?certificates of de-baptism? on the Internet to cut ties with the Christian faith.

Some of these atheists argue that they were baptized when they were too young to make the decision, and now that they?re able to make a choice, they want to renounce their Christian baptism.

?We now produce a certificate on parchment and we have sold 1,500 units at three pounds ($4.35) a pop,? said National Secular Society (NSS) president Terry Sanderson to Agence France-Presse.

NSS? de-baptism initiative follows closely behind the British Humanist Association?s ?There?s probably no God,? bus ads. Dozens of buses across England carried the atheist ad that encouraged people to stop worrying and enjoy their life since there is probably no God.

Britain?s de-baptism movement, meanwhile, has thus far spread to Spain, where a man has gone to court to have his baptism record erased, according to the International Herald Tribune.

The spontaneous protest erupted after a van filming digital footage for the internet giants controversial Street View service was spotted entering Broughton in Buckinghamshire.

The distinctive vehicle ? which had a tripod-mounted camera on its roof ? was forced to turn back after neighbours united to block the road through the picturesque village.

Residents decided to take a stand amid fears that the 360 degree images posted on the street-level mapping service could be used by criminals to scope out potential targets. Privacy campaigners have also claimed that the pictures, which can be seen around the world, may breach data protection laws.

Google Street View launched in 25 British cities last month and its camera vans are now criss-crossing provincial towns and villages to build up a near-complete virtual representation of the country.

Climbers ascending Weissmies (4023 m) in the Swiss Alps are dwarfed by the crevasse they have just crossed. The crevasse wall clearly shows the accumulation layering, the most prominent of which bound a year?s accumulation of snow. The yellowish layers mark deposits of Saharan dust which is commonly transported by wind over central Europe. JA

So, what happens when you?re a Republican Senator and you get caught making false statements about gifts you accepted from constituents? Well, if you?re Duke Cunningham, you go to prison. If you?re Ted Stevens, you lose your Senate seat. And once that has been accomplished, the case against you is dropped because of prosecutorial misconduct.

But what happens if you?re a Democrat Senator who gets gifts from Countrywide mortgage and AIG, and return, writes legislation they directly benefit from? Nothing, that?s what happens.

What happens if you?re the Democrat Chairman of the House Committee that writes tax law, and you get caught not paying your taxes? Nothing, that?s what happens.

What happens if you?re the Democrat Chairman of the House Banking Committee and you spent years fighting against regulating an industry your boyfriend was a key executive in? Nothing, that?s what happens.

Are Smart Drugs the Answer to Bad Moods?and a Bad Economy?

Making a Thin Client on Fat Hardware: Part 1

One of the key issues that comes up in deployments is what to use for your edge device - that is, the device that sits in front of the user. A lot of customers have invested a bunch in their desktops, and while they want to get away from managing them, they?re not too keen on just throwing out everything and replacing everything with Thin Clients.

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The top ?green? model advertised online was the Chevy Malibu, which received 1.4 million ad impressions promoting its fuel-efficiency or hybrid design, followed by the Lexus LS hybrid (1.2 million) and Lexus RX hybrid (1.0 million).

Terry Holdbrooks stood watch over prisoners at Gitmo. What he saw made him adopt their faith.

Army specialist Terry Holdbrooks had been a guard at Guantánamo for about six months the night he had his life-altering conversation with detainee 590, a Moroccan also known as "the General." This was early 2004, about halfway through Holdbrookss stint at Guantánamo with the 463rd Military Police Company. Until then, hed spent most of his day shifts just doing his duty. Hed escort prisoners to interrogations or walk up and down the cellblock making sure they werent passing notes. But the midnight shifts were slow. "The only thing you really had to do was mop the center floor," he says. So Holdbrooks began spending part of the night sitting cross-legged on the ground, talking to detainees through the metal mesh of their cell doors.

Human heart can grow new cells, study finds

?Fundamental breakthrough? will likely lead to new treatments

It was long thought that the human heart, like the brain, was unable to grow new cells after birth. But today scientists announced the first evidence that new heart cells are made throughout a persons life.

For instance, the finding could help doctors design treatments for the damage caused by heart attacks, which was previously thought to be irreversible.

The researchers now postulate that the heart does in fact have stem cells, and that these may be harnessed for therapeutic treatments.

A study published in the March 30 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that in cats, brain cells can be restored after neurological damage by adding more insulation called myelin to neurons.

In the cats, if myelin was restored to cells that had lost it, they were able to regain their lost functions.

Man-made global warming advocates are scrambling to explain away the fact that 2008 has so far been the coolest year in five years, as climate change alarmists face embarrassment amidst a barrage of evidence that the planet has embarked on a clear and natural cooling trend.

?The first half of 2008 was the coolest for at least five years, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Wednesday,? reports Reuters, adding that it may actually be the coolest since 2000, but the rest of the article is a strained and bias effort to pin the blame solely on the periodic weather event La Nina.

A dramatic cooling trend is being observed across the planet even as people like Al Gore continue to claim that the threat of global warming mandates the poor and middle class be hit with CO2 taxes in order to prevent climate change.

Both anecdotal evidence and hard data indicates that the planet is in the beginning stages of a significant downturn in global temperatures.

The look on your face?

Cherry blossoms bloom in Washington

We all are used to seeing photographs of the built environment that are current as well as ones that are historical - but rarely to we see them so vividly juxtaposed, bringing home the reality contained within dusty and scratched black-and-white images from the past.

These images capture critical moments from one the most incredible sieges in modern history and contrast them with the relative calm current state of the city.

Thousands froze to death and  food supplies were so scarce people turned to wallpaper glue and leather boots as emergency sources of sustenance.

Particularly powerful are the then-and-now photographic montages that show something being built and later completed, or that pair ordinary pedestrians from the present with struggling people of the past.

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The Council in Assisi, Summer 2008    Photo: Marisol Villanueva, courtesy the Grandmothers Council

The Grandmothers Mission Statement

WE, THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THIRTEEN INDIGENOUS GRANDMOTHERS, represent a global alliance of prayer, education and healing for our Mother Earth, all Her inhabitants, all the children, and for the next seven generations to come. We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth and the destruction of indigenous ways of life. We believe the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future. We look to further our vision through the realization of projects that protect our diverse cultures: lands, medicines, language and ceremonial ways of prayer and through projects that educate and nurture our children. 

  

Sisters make people happy

Researchers quizzed 571 people aged 17 to 25 about their lives and found those who grew up with sisters were more likely to be happy and balanced.

The University of Ulster said having daughters made a family more open and willing to discuss feelings.

They said the influence of girls was particularly important after distressing family events such as marital break-ups.

The findings are due to be presented at the British Psychological Society in Brighton on Thursday.

During the study, participants filled in psychological questionnaires which researchers used to assess a range of issues, including whether they had a positive outlook and any mental health problems.

Lead researcher Professor Tony Cassidy said: "Sisters appear to encourage more open communication and cohesion in families.

Gold nanospheres that bake tumours to death by attracting the heat of low-powered lasers have been developed by scientists in California.

"You could send a person home, have them shine a laser on the specific part of the body with cancer for a couple weeks, and they could be cured of cancer," says Professor Jin Zhang of the University of California in Santa Cruz who helped develop the nanoparticles.

To create the gold nanospheres, the scientists started with nanospheres made from cobalt, then replaced the cobalt atoms with gold atoms, using the same process that turns the calcium in dinosaur bones into fossils.

The gold nanospheres are then coated in antibodies that detect, and then latch onto, cancer cells.

"With this new particle we can specifically target the agent for tumour cells, to enhance its therapeutic effects," while minimising the painful side effects of current chemotherapy for cancer patients.

ScienceDaily (Mar. 31, 2009) ? Scientists studying a mysterious neurological affliction in cats have discovered a surprising ability of the central nervous system to repair itself and restore function.

In a study published March 30, 2009 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison reports that the restoration in cats of myelin ? a fatty insulator of nerve fibers that degrades in a host of human central nervous system disorders, the most common of which is multiple sclerosis ? can lead to functional recovery.

"The fundamental point of the study is that it proves unequivocally that extensive remyelination can lead to recovery from a severe neurological disorder," says Ian Duncan, the UW-Madison neuroscientist who led the research. "It indicates the profound ability of the central nervous system to repair itself."

It is already known that many non-human primates and monkeys can count, and even domestic dogs have been found to be capable of simple additions.  But this is the first time the ability has been seen in chicks with no prior training. 

Scientists from the universities of Padova and Trento have demonstrated chicks? ability to add and subtract objects as they were moved behind two screens. Lucia Regolin, an author of the study, said the animals ?performed basic arithmetic? to work out which screen concealed the larger group of objects.

The findings are reported in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The birds, she said, were able to ?count? the balls that were moved to work out which screen hid the larger set at the end of the transfer.

?They still chose correctly - adding up the numbers based on groups of objects they couldn?t see at that moment.?

Read more about Chicks Doing Arithmetic.

"After nearly four hours of passionate debate from supporters and opponents of the measure, the House approved the bill by a vote of 95-52 shortly after 9 p.m. The legislation, S.115, gives same-sex couples the right to marry in Vermont. The bill will be brought up again Friday for final approval, then return to the Senate, where changes to language must be approved. Should the Senate OK those changes, the bill will head to Douglas? desk and a promised veto.  That veto ? which Douglas declared last week he would deliver ? would not kill the legislation. Instead members of the House and Senate will try to override the veto by securing a two-thirds majority of support in each chamber. The Senate would need 20 votes; the House would need 100 with all members in attendance."

Event: Flood
Location: (Non-Localized) MultiCountries Angola, Namibia, Zambia, Botswana
Number of Deads: 92 persons

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Müllers formula predicts that these color combinations will be considered ugly by most people:

While these will be liked. How is this possible?

Take the combination below. All three colors have the exact same hue of blue. The only difference between the colors is their brightness.

Now pair the last combination with the "ugly" combination on the left and the "nice" combination on the right:

Cuck-who? Amazing new call caught on video

Scientists have reported a strange twist in the tale of Europe?s harbinger of spring the Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus. In a dramatic discovery, returning cuckoos have been heard and filmed calling with a highly distinctive variation of the normal call. The new call is best described as ?Ooo-Cuck, Ooo-Cuck?.

1. That government is more competent than corporations.

2. That government is more representative than corporations are.

3. That government is more moral, incorruptible and ethical than corporations are.

4. That government is more trustworthy because it lacks a profit motive.

Bureaucratic rules regarding who can use what equipment aboard the International Space Station are causing some hard feelings among the crew members, according to Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, who gave an interview to Russia?s Novaya Gazeta newspaper before he blasted off towards the space station on Thursday. Padalka complained that regulations will prevent him from using his American colleagues? exercise bike to stay fit in space. Worse than that, [officials] also ruled that American and Russian crew members should use their own ?national toilets?, with Russian crew banned from using the luxurious American astro-loo.

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Ballad of John and Yogi

SIR PAUL McCARTNEY has backed plans for school kids to have meditation lessons.

As a huge believer in the benefits of transcendental meditation, the BEATLES legend reckons it could be the key to making nippers more intelligent.

But Macca reckons 15 minutes of ?mind gym? is just the ticket to get the grey matter ready for reading, writing and arithmetic.

The wobbly eyebrowed Scouser said: ?I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now.

?It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.?

Macca and his old pal RINGO STARR are both on the bill at a fundraising gig for the David Lynch Foundation ? which teaches TM to kids ? at New York?s Radio City Music Hall tomorrow.

DONOVAN, EDDIE VEDDER from PEARL JAM, SHERYL CROW and MOBY are also on the bill.

Apparently 20 minutes of TM can help to lower blood pressure, reduce stress and assist the learning process.

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8.2 seconds needed to fall in love

The time needed for a man to fall in love at first sight is 8.2 seconds, scientists claim.

The longer a mans gaze rests on a woman when they meet for the first time, the more interested he is.

If it last just four seconds, he may not be all that impressed. But if it breaks the 8.2 second barrier, he could already be in love they say.

However the same is not true for women. They let their eyes linger on men for the same length of time whether they find them attractive or not.

Hidden cameras were used to secretly track the eye movements of 115 students as they spoke to actors and actresses. They were then asked to rate their conversation partners attractiveness.

The female students, however, looked at the actors for the same length of time. The researchers believe that men use eye contact to seek out fit and fertile mates.

The holonomic brain theory, originated by psychologist Karl Pribram and initially developed in collaboration with physicist David Bohm, is a model for human cognition that is drastically different from conventionally accepted ideas: Pribram and Bohm posit a model of cognitive function as being guided by a matrix of neurological wave interference patterns situated temporally between holographic Gestalt perception and discrete, affective, quantum vectors derived from reward anticipation potentials.

Roger William, a soft-spoken former chief of the Tsilhqot?in Nation in Canada, and Tim Bristol, a recreational fishing activist in the United States, have never met. They adhere to divergent cultural customs in different countries on opposite sides of rugged, glacier-sheathed mountains. But they share a common concern about the persistence of clean, untainted water and how it is becoming an ever-rarer commodity in the world.

Nature v nurture? Please dont ask

The monster Caliban, according to his master, Prospero, was ?a devil, a pure devil, on whose nature nurture can never stick?. Yet only a few decades before Shakespeare wrote The Tempest, St Ignatius Loyola had founded the Jesuit order, with its famous maxim: ?Give me the child until he is 7, and I will show you the man.?

the doctrine of the blank slate.

The idea, usually traced to the 17th-century philosopher John Locke, grew popular in the Enlightenment, fitting the mood of challenge to the supposedly innate authority of monarchy and aristocracy.

SALEM, Ore. ? A grandmother arrested for driving more than 100 miles per hour while her grandson was in the car is an employee at the Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles.

Marion County deputies arrested 53-year-old Sandra Nardi Sunday after a deputy said he clocked her going 103 on Hylo Road.

Nardi was charged with reckless driving and reckless endangerment.

DMV spokesman David House confirmed that Nardi worked there since 1988, and was also currently on paid administrative leave for matters unrelated to the driving charges.

House said Nardi was on leave since mid-March and scheduled for a personnel review, but did not elaborate on the circumstances.

The posted limit on the hilly stretch is 45 and deputies say several people have died in crashes on the road while speeding.

Nardi told the officer she was showing her 10-year-old grandson how not to drive dangerously, and to never try to drive the way she was.

This story almost speaks for itself: by tying some long-lasting flares to helium balloons and releasing them, two skeptics from New Jersey made fools out local and national media, including the thoroughly awful "UFO Hunters" show on the increasingly ill-named History Channel.

Briefcase Cake

Dart Board Cake

Previously it was assumed there only tiny populations numbering in the low 100s, and the species could go extinct almost at any moment. In 2008 the Irawaddy was listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.

The recent scientific discovery has breathed both relief and optimism into the prospects for the species. World Conservation researcher Brian Smith said this of the reversal of fortune: ?This discovery gives us great hope that there is a future for Irrawaddy dolphins. Bangladesh clearly serves as an important sanctuary for Irrawaddy dolphins, and conservation in this region should be a top priority.? Researchers also noted that even with the very unexpected and most welcome news of the much larger population?s existence, the dolphins still remain threatened by a variety of factors such as fishing net accidents, climate change, and pollution of their habitats.

Addendum, The New World Order for The People

Where socialism sought totalitarian control of a society?s economic processes through direct state operation of the means of production, fascism sought that control indirectly, through domination of nominally private owners. Where socialism nationalized property explicitly, fascism did so implicitly, by requiring owners to use their property in the ?national interest??that is, as the autocratic authority conceived it. (Nevertheless, a few industries were operated by the state.) Where socialism abolished all market relations outright, fascism left the appearance of market relations while planning all economic activities. Where socialism abolished money and prices, fascism controlled the monetary system and set all prices and wages politically. In doing all this, fascism denatured the marketplace. Entrepreneurship was abolished. State ministries, rather than consumers, determined what was produced and under what conditions.

VINELAND, N.J. - April 2, 2009 (WPVI) -- At a time when bonus has almost become a bad word, the employees of Bollinger Insurance have each received bonus checks in the amount of $1,000 after taxes.

The checks were a surprise and came out of the pocket of company CEO Jack Windolf.

"I was thrilled. The girl standing next to me, who barely new me, I turned around and I grabbed her and I hugged her and she was like, Wow, I feel closer to you now," employee Caroline Verderose said.

About a year ago, 51 percent of the company was sold and Jack Windolf got a $500,000 in deferred compensation and he shared it with all 454 of his employees.

"It was going to be the Bollinger mini economic stimulus package and it is kind of mini, its only $500,000, but every little bit helps," Windolf said.

Many of the employees have big plans for the windfall.

"We are taking two of our oldest grandchildren to Myrtle Beach for a week in June," Denise Middleton said.

The fasces of ancient Rome consisted of a bundle of rods and an ax strapped together. The Italian leader Benito Mussolini compared his followers to the rods of the fasces. Each rod by itself may be weak, but when many rods are bound together they are strong.

2. Surgery on Beating Heart

Children have been told to use sponge footballs for their evening kickabouts after neighbours complained to police about the noise of their games.

The lightweight balls will replace the standard leather and plastic makes, which local residents claimed were too loud when kicked against walls and cars.

Parents have accused their neighbours in Rainham in Kent of behaving like "killjoys" for interfering with their childrens games, pointing out that leather balls have been used for street football for more than a hundred years.

They claim that the sponge balls ? which tend to float up when kicked with any force ? will prove no substitute for the real thing and will turn their matches into a farce.

Nigel Harris, 37, said: "If this sort of thing happens all over the place I dread to think where the next generation of English footballers are going to come from.

"The kids were all quite understanding about it and have agreed to only play with the leather balls at the park."

Is this the worst job in the world?

Commenting on the keep-the-Times alive movement, Keller said: "Saving the New York Times now ranks with saving Darfur as a high-minded cause."

A district judge has denied a motion to dismiss criminal charges against a man who calls himself "The Impaler" and is accused of sending harassing e-mails to a Rochester teenager in 2007.

Sharkey, who ran for Minnesota governor in 2006 under the Vampyres, Witches and Pagans party banner, notified the court he is no longer being represented by Smith or the public defenders office. He wants to represent himself and have the court appoint a legal adviser to assist. Sharkeys next court hearing is Monday.

Sharkey claims he created The Vampyre Nation and that he was a candidate for president.

GORDON Brown yesterday forced the world?s richest countries to stump up $1TRILLION to kick-start global growth.

Mr Brown said the increased cash for the IMF included $40billion dollars from China, $100billion from the EU and the same from Japan.

The total package ? added to the amount countries have already pumped into their economies ? totals $5trillion.

I am skeptical of the troop escalation in Afghanistan. I have my doubts about whether that?s what?s needed. But if troop escalations is what?s going to happen, and if it may in fact be the right thing, the real question is, what are they going to be doing? If they?re just going to be taking it to the ?enemy,? I am confident that it will be a failed effort. And I don?t say that with any relish. ? The best course of action, I think, is to have an increase in civilian efforts to improve the lot of the average Afghan, with a clear goal to move things into the Afghans as fast as possible.

I think Predator strikes have not contributed positively. We?ve just heard so many bad things about them. They must really be killing the American image in the mind of the average Afghan. ? I think that you need a human being to go see whether or not the strike is actually targeted at a true hostile enemy, rather than a wedding party ? which has happened all too often.

Jose Merced, 46, accused the city of Euless, Texas, of trampling on his constitutional right to religious exercise, but U.S. District Judge John McBryde sided with the Fort Worth suburb last year and dismissed the Puerto Rico natives claims.

The city says animal sacrifices jeopardize public health and violate its slaughterhouse and animal cruelty ordinances.

Judge Rhesa Barksdale asked city attorney Bradford Bullock how Merceds animal sacrifices differ from a hunter bringing home a deer and butchering it.

Merceds lawyer, Eric Rassbach, said Merced sacrificed animals at his Euless home for 16 years without incident and is willing to "quadruple bag" the remains and dispose of them in a way that doesnt jeopardize the publics health.

Human Body.

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The onion-like structure is an eye

A pelvis from a woman, right

This dissection of the kidneys

With all layers of the skin removed on the left side of the head and neck

Inside the vertebral column

This view of the wrist joint

A dissection of the leg and the foot

This dissection of the backbone

The mediastinum, a central chest compartment located between the lungs, houses the heart

Dissection of the meninges and brain in situ

The sclera and cornea

On this dissection of the heart, the epicardium has been removed from all parts of the atria

Dissection of lungs in situ

The cervical spinal cord

Dissection of thorax from a posterior approach. Ribs and vertebral bodies have been resected bilaterally between the second and the ninth thoracic segments

The knee joint opened from the front shows

The Jawbone. The masseter muscle of mastication reflected back to expose the jawbone

April 2, 2009 -- Researchers concerned about an increasing amount of debris orbiting the Earth are calling for the active removal of space junk, saying it will ensure a safe environment around the planet.

More than 300 scientists and other experts who met for four days at the European Space Agency said Thursday that sharing information is a crucial first step in preventing collisions and predicting with more accuracy where derelict satellites may fall to Earth.

"We need to share more data," said Thomas Schildknecht of the Aeronautical Institute of the University of Bern. "We consider this most import and challenging part for the immediate future."

Various international agencies track the refuse in space. The U.S. Strategic Command, which monitors space debris, keeps track of 13,943 orbiting objects 4 inches or larger orbiting the Earth, and there are thousands more piece that that are even smaller.

In a finding that may open new approaches to treating heart disease, Swedish scientists have succeeded in measuring a highly controversial property of the human heart: the rate at which its muscle cells are renewed during a person?s lifetime.

Dr. Frisen realized several years ago that nuclear weapons tested in the atmosphere until 1963 had in fact labeled the cells of the entire world?s population.

The nuclear blasts generated a radioactive form of carbon known as carbon-14

Roscosmos should name the ships prime developer, which has competed to win government funds for the project.

The proposed new spacecraft should enter into service sometime towards the end of the next decade.

It will replace the venerable three-seat Soyuz capsule, which has carried Russian cosmonauts into orbit for more than four decades.

Although Roscosmos has remained tight-lipped about the upcoming presentation, the agency has quietly released its requirements for a future manned transport system to the Russian space industry.

In doing so, the agency has shed some light on the ships likely design and its possible missions.

The spacecraft, currently known only by the Russian abbreviation PPTS, for Prospective Piloted Transport System, would be able to reach low-Earth orbit or to enter orbit around the Moon.

Activists carry paper missiles and portraits of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il at a rally in Seoul on April 2.

"We dont want to see this launch go forward," department spokesman Robert Wood said.

But at the same time, the United States is carefully avoiding any suggestion that it would try to disrupt the launch and is being vague about what Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and others have said the "consequences" of the launch would be.

Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental Data

Scientists have created a "Eureka machine" that can work out the laws of nature by observing the world around it ? a development that could dramatically speed up the discovery of new scientific truths.

The machine took only hours to come up with the basic laws of motion, a task that occupied Sir Isaac Newton for years after he was inspired by an apple falling from a tree.

Step wise French manicure for better results

French manicure has always been one of the most fashionable ways to show off your beautiful hands. All you women out there! Stop spending dollars in a beauty parlor to get French manicured nails. Start doing it yourself through the ways I suggest you.

Be assured! The steps will surely work out the best for you and your hands. You won?t believe, it was done by you in the most inexpensive way and you will also save a good amount of money to buy the latest sexy gown you saw in the nearest shop!

Kathy Griffin on Gay Marriage?WTF?

Kathy Griffin showed up in support at a rally following a Prop 8 protest march from Berkeley to the California State Capitol in Sacramento.

During her address to the participants, Griffin stated:

?Even I can?t find anything funny about Prop 8?. She also asked a few questions of Prop 8 supporters including, ?What the fuck is it to you?? She also asked, ?Why does anyone even care if gay people get married?? and stated ?You would never in a million years go up to a person of color and say ?well, you know, well, I hear that Black people want to get married now. I mean, it?s fine if they live together. You would cringe, would you not? ?I hear that Mexicans want to vote! There goes the neighborhood!? Right? It would sound absolutely silly. And yet, across the state, people are having dinner conversations saying, ?well, do gay people really have the right to get married?? Yes! Domestic union, domestic partnership is not the same.?

Obamas $163,000 Tax Bomb

The House and Senate are preparing to pass President Barack Obamas radical budget blueprint, with only minor modifications, by using (abusing would be more accurate) the budget "reconciliation" process. This process circumvents the Senates normal rules requiring 60 votes to prevent a filibuster. Reconciliation was created by Congress in the mid-1970s to enforce deficit reduction, the opposite of what the president and his party are aiming for.

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Beauty from the Sky

Most Persuading and Scaring Examples of Negative Advertising

How non-organic food affects your organism:

Smoking harms your lungs:

Mitt Romney?s political career is built on the idea that he can manage money, cut budgets, and stretch dollars. He was originally the CEO of Bains Capital Management before he took the job of trying to save the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City?and he succeeded in making those Olympics a success. He was elected Governor of Massachussetts in 2002 and, more recently, ran for President in 2008. Both campaigns centered around the idea that because Romney was a businessman, a millionaire, and the savior of the Olympics he could save the government from financial failure. However, Romney appears to have made the same mistakes regarding housing as everyone else in the market. Zillow.com now lists two of his massive mansions, collectively valued at roughly $10 million.

For those who followed the 2008 campaign closely, John McCain?s appearance on The View was?.well actually it was nothing that exciting. They argued, as expected. However, the appearance was certainly invoked a heated and confrontational debate between the five women at The View and John McCain. Apparently he is holding a bit of a grudge about the whole ordeal.

The rest of the cost, approximately $249.5 billion, would go to the inheritors of estates worth over $7 million. Paris Hilton, get excited.

Man cries after attempt to rob liquor store fails

TRENTON, N.J. ? Police say a 19-year-old who tried to rob a liquor store sat down and cried after 76-year-old owner locked him in the store. The man was accused of trying to rob Sykes Liquor Store in Trenton Monday night. Police said the owner, who was behind the counter, triggered the lock after the man grabbed a bottle of Hennessy cognac and bolted for the door.

The man then allegedly pulled out a handgun and demanded to be released. But the owner said he saw that the gun was a fake, refused to unlock the door and called police.

Police said the suspect threw away the gun, slumped to the floor and was crying when officers arrived to arrest him.

A WOMAN glued her eye shut after she mistook a bottle of nail glue for eyedrops.

Paula Griffin, 29, woke with blurred vision and mistakenly squirted the hazardous substance into her right eye, gluing it shut for eight hours.

Eye specialists at Bournemouth Hospital in Dorset cut off her lashes to prise it open again and warned her she could lose her sight.

The company secretary, from Bournemouth, revealed she was still sleepy when she grabbed the bottle from the bathroom shelf.

?By the time I realised what had happened, it was too late and I couldn?t dodge the liquid completely,? she said.

?I managed to stop it hitting the centre of the eye, and doctors told me later that it saved me from permanent damage.?

She said it was agonising and burning so she shut her eye when her eyelashes became stuck together.

Doctors gave her paraffin to help dissolve the glue and she had to take a week off work.

She has a cut across her eyeball and now wears false eyelashes.

Dr. Hershel Samuels, an orthopedic surgeon, put his hand on the worker?s back. ?Mild spasm bilaterally,? he said softly. He pressed his fingers gingerly against the side of the man?s neck. ?The left cervical is tender,? he said, ?even to light palpation.?

Yet the report Dr. Samuels later submitted to the New York State Workers? Compensation Board cleared the driver for work and told a far different story: no back spasms, no tender neck. In fact, no recent injury at all.

?If you did a truly pure report,? he said later in an interview, ?you?d be out on your ears and the insurers wouldn?t pay for it. You have to give them what they want, or you?re in Florida. That?s the game, baby.?

not everyones view of life is the same....

A blind girl hated herself because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She told her boyfriend, If I could only see the world, I would marry you.

One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the bandages came off, she was able to see everything, including her boyfriend.

He asked her, ?Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?

The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind. The sight of his closed eyelids shocked her. She had not expected that.

The thought of looking at them the rest of her life led her to refuse to marry him.

Her boyfriend left in tears and days later wrote a note to her saying: Take good care of your eyes, my dear; for before they were yours, they were mine.

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Pet shop has 2-nosed bunny

Iris Bergeron, an employee of Purr-Fect Pets in Milford, Conn. holds a bunny that has two noses.

MILFORD, Conn. - Its no April Fools joke. The baby bunny really does have two noses.

A Connecticut pet shop worker found the nosey bunny in a delivery of 6-week-old dwarf rabbits that arrived at the Milford store last week. Both noses have two nostrils.

The owner of the Purr-Fect Pets shop says hes never seen anything like it in 25 years in the business. He says the bunny eats, drinks and hops around like the rest of the litter.

Beardsley Zoo director Gregg Dancho says the deformity could be the result of too much inbreeding or the parents exposure to pesticides or poisons.

Store workers have begun a naming contest with Cyrano de Bergerac and Deuce among the contenders so far.

Holding On
Amanda Hendersons husband Patrick worked as a recruiter at the armys recruitment station in Longview, Texas. A veteran of the Iraq war, Sgt. 1st Class Henderson struggled with the pressures placed on recruiters, who until recently were ordered to enlist at least two new soldiers each month. Forced to work long hours at a task he didnt want, Henderson hung himself in a shed behind his house in September, 2008.

Wounded
Amanda, who has lost her boss and husband to suicide in the last year, has left recruiting and returned her former job as a supply sergeant.

Precious Things
Amanda preserves Patricks bar-napkin proposal to her. "Some days I say Ive got to go on," she says. "Other days Ill just sit and cry all day long."

The hunt for Sumatras killer tigers

Fear often seems to begin with a road.

Driving into tiger territory, all voices in the jeep gradually fell silent.

The only sound was the thick vegetation swishing against the windows as we lurched along the muddy track.

The forest in Jambi province, Sumatra, is the site of Indonesias newest conflict. Tigers are killing people here at the rate of one a week.

As their forests disappear under loggers saws or to make way for plantations, Sumatras endangered tigers are, quite simply, turning to humans for food.

We were on our way to the site of one attack. Soon, the tell-tale signs of illegal loggers appeared out of the forest - piles of wood, neatly stacked in a small clearing. We pulled up, and started down their tracks into the forest.

For Indonesias tiger catchers, this is their daily commute.

LAPD officer is accused of torching his car and lying about his shooting

URGENT ACTION ALERT: The Obama-Pelosi-Reid budget would allow Congress to enact socialized medicine without meaningful debate by allowing for health care reform to be voted on under the rules of reconciliation?rules not meant for health care reform.  This would mean the voice of dissenting opinion would not need to be heard because only 51 votes would be needed in the Senate rather than the traditional 60 to pass health care legislation.  

Urge them to VOTE YES on Sen. DeMint?s Healthcare Freedom Ammendment to the budget and stop Congress from setting the stage for socialized medicine.  Each of these Senators publicly claims to be fiscally responsible, and they have a chance to prove it by voting in favor of the Healthcare Freedom Ammendment

Action Item 1: Call These Senators

The police in Maine say seven teens and young adults have been arrested after a video was posted on YouTube that showed them setting off Molotov cocktails inside a vacated building and then rolled credits naming those involved.

The Waterville, Maine, police say the suspects broke into a former Boys & Girls Club through a window. The police seized the YouTube video showing the group making and throwing the devices, which exploded and caused flames as high as 20 feet.

The police say the video, which has since been taken off the video-sharing website, showed the faces of the suspects as well as text naming those pictured. Each is charged with arson and burglary.

Ecstasy of identity: the energy. More personal than the personal.

The reason

He became Real Dan Lyons.

Better to be a ghostwriter of the self than of the other. The nausea?s still there, but at least it?s endurable.

Image sources: Vincent Bousserez

They were also less likely to feel tired or mentally drained, the findings, presented at the British Psychological Society annual conference in Brighton show.

Prof David Kennedy, director of the brain, performance and nutrition research centre at Northumbria University, and a co-author of the study, said that chocolate could be beneficial for mentally challenging tasks.

The findings suggest students who binge on chocolate when revising for exams may gain a real benefit from doing so.

"For things that are difficult to do, mentally demanding things that maybe crop up in your work it could help," Prof Kennedy said.

The flavanols, part of a group of chemicals called polyphenols, work by increasing the flow of blood into the brain.

The findings show that they could do the calculations more quickly and more accurately after they had been given the drink.

It is a singular experience. No where else on earth can you see, well, earth. Not like this at least; earth the way it really looks, without distortion. As you walk down along the walkway, bathed in a soft blue light from the back-lit stained-glass surrounding you everything sounds strange; you can hear your own breathing as if it was someone else right up against your ear.

Multiple Suns Again

Again a phenomena of multiple suns has appeared in Russian skies.

It?s not something unique, it happened before and it looks really nice.

The corporations want nothing less than full control of the land, the end of normal animals so they can substitute patented genetically engineered ones, and the end of normal seeds and thus of seed banking by farmers or individuals.

Rosa DeLauro and Stanley Greenburg have a great deal to account for in attempting to force through a mislabeled ?food safety? bill with hidden intent to wipe out farmers and harm everyone.

April 1, 2009 -- The wreck of the first U.S. ship sunk during World War II has been revealed in detail for the first time on the seabed off southeastern Australia, researchers said Wednesday.

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - At least four people were shot and dozens of people were taken hostage Friday at an immigration services center, according to officials and news reports.

At least 41 hostages were in the building of the American Civic Association, The Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin reported. Nearby apartments in this city in western New York state were being evacuated.

The condition of those shot wasnt immediately clear.

A man went into a building and started shooting, according to police scanner traffic reported by WBNG-TV. The gunman had a high-powered rifle, Mayor Matthew Ryan told the newspaper.

When the shooting started, people escaped to the basement in search of safety. More than a dozen people were hiding in a closet for more than an hour.

Some people were being escorted out of the building, WBGH reporter Sophia Ojeda said.

Sharon Lashes out Over Osbourne Addiction Struggles

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sharon Osbourne lashed out on Thursday at suggestions that her familys history of drug and drink addiction made them unsuitable to host a TV variety show.

Osbourne, her Black Sabbath husband Ozzy and children Jack and Kelly -- who shocked and delighted audiences on their reality show "The Osbournes" -- make their return to U.S. television as a family next week as hosts of a show featuring, skits, audience pranks and a sprinkling of four-letter words.

Kelly, 24, recently completed a second stint of rehab for addiction to painkillers, while Jack, 23, has struggled with alcoholism and Ozzy has spoken frequently of earlier addiction to drugs and drink.

"I am really angry. Do you know how many people in this country alone suffer from addiction?

"All my family are examples of being truthful about their condition and working though it and trying to better themselves," she said.

CT scan reveals hidden face under Nefertiti bust

BERLIN ? Researchers in Germany have used a modern medical procedure to uncover a secret within one of ancient Egypts most treasured artworks ? the bust of Nefertiti has two faces. A team led by Dr. Alexander Huppertz, director of the Imaging Science Institute at Berlins Charite hospital and medical school, discovered a detailed stone carving that differs from the external stucco face when they performed a computed tomography, or CT, scan on the bust.

The findings, published Tuesday in the monthly journal Radiology, are the first to show that the stone core of the statue is a highly detailed sculpture of the queen, Huppertz said.

"Until we did this scan, how deep the stucco was and whether a second face was underneath it was unknown," he said. "The hypothesis was that the stone underneath was just a support."

Many see the hormone-free label as a proxy for a wider set of issues. Is it right or necessary to speed up the development and boost the milk output of our dairy cows? Doesnt use of hormones go hand-in-hand with use of antibiotics to treat cows sickened by the exertion of round-the-calender milk production? Might there be some health problems associated with synthetic hormones that we just havent identified yet?

Funeral home accused of cutting off mans legs to make him fit into his coffin

Police have launched an investigation after claims an American mans legs were severed so he could fit into his coffin.

Investigators in South Carolina exhumed the body of James Hines, who was 6ft5in, yesterday.

Undesirable evidence: Dark rumours are circulating claiming that a funeral home severed the legs of 6ft5in James Hines, above, so they could fit him in his coffin

They described what they found as undesirable evidence - and said nothing more. The coroner refused to confirm what they had seen.

Mr Hines - a minister - died in 2004 of skin cancer.

His widow, Ruth Hines, told local media: According to the measurements on the casket, and the funeral director, we asked him, Was this suitable for his length? and he said, Yes that will be perfect.

But when an employee of the funeral home - Cave Funeral Services - contacted media police to claim extreme measures were taken, the investigation was launched.

Loincloths hot among Japan woman

Mar 30 - The latest in "womens liberation" is a product making a comeback in Japan that makers claim allows women to ditch tight-fit underwear -- loincloths.

A black bloc refers to a tactic, developed in the 1980s by anti-nuclear activist autonomists, whereby participants attended protests and marches wearing black clothing, ski masks and motorcycle helmets with padding, steel-toed boots and often carrying their own shields and truncheons.^[1] The clothing is used to avoid being identified by authorities, and to theoretically appear as one large mass, promote solidarity, and create a clear revolutionary presence.

Black blocs gained broader media attention outside Europe when a black bloc caused damage to property of GAP, Starbucks, Old Navy, and other retail locations in downtown Seattle during the 1999 anti-WTO demonstrations.^[2]

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Should Bike Riders Be Taxed?

I subscribe to the idea that we should tax things we want less of, not more of. I stole that idea from Hendrik Hertzberg?s well-argued New Yorker comment, in which he suggests ?scrapping the payroll tax altogether and replacing the lost revenue with a package of levies on things that, unlike jobs, we want less rather than more of?things like pollution, carbon emissions, oil imports, inefficient use of energy and natural resources, and excessive consumption.? I think the same rules should apply here.

Ben Southall, an adventurer from Petersfield, is one of 50 people hoping to land the £70,000-a-year post looking after the idyllic island in Australia.

The competition was set up by tourism managers in Queensland.

Voting is already under way, with the most popular hopeful getting a wildcard into the final 10.

The other nine finalists will be picked by the competitions board.

Interviews to find a winner are scheduled for 3 May, before the new island caretaker starts a six-month contract on 1 July.

Mr Southall currently has 190 votes, although a Taiwanese contestant is leading the way with 12,300 votes.

The other British contenders are Sarah Louise Lane, from London, Holly Smale, from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, and Douglas Stidolph, from Guildford, Surrey.

"It looks like this could be a crazy year.

THE PROJECT
In the summer of 2007, artist and medical student Satre Stuelke started the Radiology Art project. Dedicated to the deeper visualization of various objects that hold unique cultural importance in modern society, this project intends to plant a seed of scientific creativity in the minds of all those inclined to participate.

METHODS
Stuelke acquires the images on an older four-slice CT scanner that is used for research. Most scan parameters include a 120kV tube voltage, 100mA current, 0.625mm slice thickness and interval, 1:1 pitch, 1.25mm beam collimation, and a speed of 1.25mm/rotation. The resulting DICOM images are then processed in Osirix software on a Macintosh iMac computer. Colors are assigned based on the varying densities of materials present throughout the object. Depending on the spread of densities within a particular subject, black or white backgrounds are chosen. Images are further processed in Adobe Photoshop for proper contrast and balance.