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Your skepticism is well warranted.

You'd lose that bet.

The Kyoto treaty had nothing to do with reducing CO2 emissions. It doesn't meaningfully affect India or China, each soon to dwarf the US in emissions, and no one is making any real changes to meet their goals - just paying the fines. The Kyoto treaty was a thinly disguised attempt to tax America and transfer our wealth to other countries. Sacrifice for no real benefit. Gee, sounds like socialism.

Just because you think one performance/pollution tradeoff is optimal, that doesn't mean that others must necessarily agree. You might not see driving a smaller car as a reduction in your standard of living, but you don't get to choose the values that others live by. If it weren't important to them, they wouldn't pay such a substantial premium to drive big vehicles.

Fusion has been 20 years away for 50 years now - I'm not holding my breath. These new pebble-bed fission reactors look quite practical, however, and would solve the various problems associated with fossil fuels neatly - *if* that power can be used to heat houses and run cars. If dense hydrogen storage is possible it would be a huge help in solving the infrastructure problem, and funding has been directed to that research effort. It already seems to be producing results, assuming these guys aren't full of shit. Good old American, err, Danish ingenuity!

Honestly, are you really interested in reducing CO2 emissions? Or are you only really focused on trying to remove the status symbols of people who beat you at life?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/09/05090 6081607.htm

The Dragon Storm

Megalightning at Saturn

Titan puzzles scientists

Did you ever notice how science changes its anwsers so damn often. But the Bible stays the same.

Actually, real scientists have used this event to prove a hypothesis. In 1999, Chandra X-Ray center suggested that the shape of the rings resulted from a cavity, caused by the explosion, in the dust and gas surrounding the star. They predicted that the supernova explosion would produce a shock wave which would hit the edges of the cavity and produce a dramatic increase in X-Rays. This is happening as predicted. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/08/05082 1234547.htm

You see, that's the difference between science and superstition. Science makes predictions which can be tested. That's why it sometimes changes. Superstition is not testable. That's why it stays the same.

Well, I did look it up. See http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/07/99071 2080500.htm

And I found you were wrong. It is a natural phenomenon. You are a complete moron.

I wasted 45 seconds of my life to find this for you.That's 45 seconds you owe me!

When I was looking around for some more news on this, I came across this article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/08/01080 7080356.htm Seems like the regenerative abilities of MRL mice have been know for quite a while. Seems like Professor Ellen Heber-Katz did the initial discovery in 1998.

Now, it will be interesting to compare this gene with previously covered longevity gene discovered in fruit flies - Indy. What proteins do they encode, what are their roles etc?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/12/00121 5082220.htm

Running a quick and dirty comparison analysis using Genebank BLAST shows no obvious similarities.

Or faster :)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/08/05082 1225731.htm

..and so I'll provide an answer

There is actually a lot of evidence backing my point...

This is hardly "insider" stuff--it is "popular science" material my friend. Hormones affect sleep, sleep affects hormones and so on...it is all linked and involves more than cognitive abilities are physical alertness. Sleep deprivation (especially long-term/chronic) can affect growth, metabolism, aging, sex drive...everything. There is no way a single drug that merely keeps you physically and mentally alert without sleep would be healthy if used chronically.

For example it has been long known that you can have very long lasting nuclear batteries using betavoltaics (couple of a source of beta radiation and a p-n junction and you have your battery), but would you put it on your lap that is the question.

Either it has so much shielding that it is too heavy, or it is nice and light and will make you grow another set of legs (or something else down there...).

But I remember that there was an article about someone developing such a battery here the link, I think.

It's pretty easy to block the transfer of memories from short term to long term. That's one of the reasons why people who have been in serious trauma often forget what happened right before.

Removing long-term memories is more of a challenge. There have been some studies that suggest that recalled memories can be blocked, though it's not as permanent as people thought.

Movies like the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind may be fun to watch, but that sort of surgical removal of memories doesn't seem to be possible. What seems to typically happen is that the connections to recall certain memories are weakened over time due to disuse. My understanding is that those synaptic connections are eventually "reused" in the formation of new memories, though the specifics are very complicated.

On the other tentacle, some researchers have found certain brain abnormalities that seem associated with the psychopathic syndrome.

I am of the opinion that if an objective test for this is ever developed, the politicians currently in power will pass legislation suppressing the test, since there is a high probability that said politicans will be revealed as psychopaths.

How about the first long-term study conducted on video games shows no link to violence I submitted earlier this week? Clearly of inferior importance when compared to say, a WoW trading card game. :P

• The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why We Follow Destructive Bosses and Corrupt Politicians--and How We Can Survive Them
• Kurt Vonnegut vs. the !&#*!@ (scroll down to "To say somebody is a PP is to make a perfectly respectable medical diagnosis")
• How to spot a psychopath at work
• Is your boss a 'corporate psycho'?
• Psycho parasites lurk in most surprising spots
• USC Study Finds Faulty Wiring In Psychopaths
• The Origins of Antisocial Behaviour, Twin Study
• Original sinners? Evidence that psychopaths are born, not made

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/04111 8104010.htm

And other websites put the date at which Humans came to North America to about 50,000 years ago.

our own gene pool is fairly well stocked http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/05032 5234239.htm

Sometimes technology development is harder than we think it ought to be, sometimes it's easier. The harder stuff is just naturally going to be slower; the easy stuff (like electronics has been the past couple of decades) makes us impatient in other areas. Science fiction's generally rosy portraits of future advances are probably also part of the problem.

On the other hand, maybe Huebner is right - we're about to enter an inevitable period of slowdown and even loss, similar to the dark ages after the Greeks and Romans. The parallels between the US and the Roman empire are pretty interesting...

Luckily we do have some competition in space that might revive things again...

the girl was definitely talking about algae, grass and some 'rough' weeds, not bacteria.

Here is a better article on the subject:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/05020 4115304.htm

From here:

This is bound to confuse everyone in Indiana, as well. http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&arti cle=UPI-1-20050719-14180600-bc-us-daylighttime.xml

I don't know how many - but here are four recent murder cases that claim video games were a part of the problem - or in one case actually taught the "perp" how to commit the crime. This was the first 4 answers under google news to your question... http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articl e?AID=/20050725/APN/507251163 http://www.betanews.com/article/GTA_Battle_Goes_to _the_Courts/1121894331 http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/12180380. htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&arti cle=UPI-1-20050721-14014500-bc-us-playstation.xml

See, if you actually were applying the principles of evolution to the human race, you might have a cogent argument. As it is, you seem to be misusing the notion of evolution to apply a thin veneer of respectability to your preconceived beliefs.

"Evolution", for something with the long, long reproductive cycle of humans, takes tens of thousands of years to produce significant differences. To get an evolutionary difference in intelligence or learning ability, then, we'd need all of the following to hold:

a) Environmental pressures that select strongly for intelligence/learning on one population.
b) Environmental pressures that select weakly or negatively for intelligence/learning on the other population.
c) Effective continuance of that selective disparity for tens of thousands of years.

If you were truely applying "the principles of evolution", you'd be able to isolate and explain all of those factors. As it is, though, it's not at all clear what type of environment would select for intelligence/learning significantly better than another environment, and it's not clear that such environments could have been maintained over the last 50,000 years. It's also not clear that the answer wouldn't be "sub-Saharan Africans---similar to having vastly higher genetic diversity than the rest of the world---also have both the lowest and the highest adaptations for intelligence/learning, making societal notions of ethnicity useless in this regard.

In other words, if you truly were applying "the principles of evolution", you would come to the conclusion that this is a question we don't have enough information to answer, and one that almost certainly doesn't fall neatly along "racial" lines.

If you're just using "evolution" as a magic incantation to try to justify your predjudices, though, then, yeah, people will call you racist. And they'd be right.

Actually I read a lot of studies, and they seem in agreement - when the whole picture is taken into account, corn ethanol is a large net loser. Ethanol from Biomass isn't, depending on the transport methods. Here is another study for example that shows Corn ethanol as a net loser (nothing to do with Pimental) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/05032 9132436.htm

...either your civil liberties or your soul, take your pick. (All on the taxpayer's dime, of course...)

I keep telling myself I need to learn how to weld. I really do

Make sure you're well ventilated.

"Nevertheless, the data seem to suggest notable effects of the month/season of birth on the length of a woman's fertile life...The next phase of the research was seeing whether the season of birth of the women in the study influenced their psychological profile -- affecting their susceptibility to conditions such as anxiety and depression, for example. 'Results so far seem promising.'"

The effect is far from being conclusively proven, but if you discard the traditional astrological mechanism that the planets cause certain personalities instead of simply being correlated with them, its a plausible, logical hypothesis.

In regards to the sun I work with my shirt off and let the window open for about an hour a day. I have a 'jekyl/hyde' tan where half of my body is becoming bronze as the other is pasty. I should look into knocking out this wall here and putting in a window.

In regards to the sun I work with my shirt off and let the window open for about an hour a day. I have a 'jekyl/hyde' tan where half of my body is becoming bronze as the other is pasty. I should look into knocking out this wall here and putting in a window.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/03/04030 3080222.htm

Per the Phd working on it:(last sentence in article)

"We are not yet at break-even," Taleyarkhan said. "That would be the ultimate. I don't know if it will ever happen, but we are hopeful that it will and don't see any clear reason why not. In the future we will attempt to scale up this system and see how far we can go."

Slashdot is full of nay sayers , and detractors .

I am optimistic they will make headway with this because it already
cost thousands of times less to build, and the materials involved
are common, simple, and inexpensive .

Bubble fusion just makes sense monetarily .

Price and availability do have an affect on science .

Ask the dying bucket of bolts called ISS .

ITER is a grand idea, but to scale to power plant abilities
it would cost far more then the billions already slated for
a so called small reactor .

Size alone of these reactors would border on the super collider
that was started in texas then abandoned and now used to urban
warfare combat training . *sigh*

A bubble fusion reactor on the other had could end up powering
cars, homes, boats , planes, spacecraft, etc etc .

Once they get past break even, something ITER hasn't done yet ,
then we could see something amazing .

Budget limitations will make bubble fusion more appealing to
more scientists due to its low cost to experiment in restrospect
to plasma based toriod magnetic monsters costing billions .

Keep in mind Acetone is urine, and we could end up taking a leak
to power our world, pretty ironic if u ask me .

Peace,
Ex-MislTech

A few weeks ago, a lake mysteriously went missing in Russia. Back then, many people suspected that the lake had gotten fed up with the villagers throwing garbage into it, and just walked away. I guess we now know where it went :7

The bay of Fundy moves more water in and out every 13 hours than
all the water of all the rivers in the world combined .

If we could figure out a way to harness it, we would be good on
power for a VERY long time indeed .

http://www.valleyweb.com/fundytides/

The 3 gorges damn is huge, the world's largest dam at present time,
but the power generation possible at fundy is just staggering .

I think underwater screened turbines would prevent sea life
from being churned up, and prevent silting like the 'dam'type
hydro electric tidal generators built in france .

Some under sea power turbines are being deployed near malaysia .

Also in the fusion arena, I think the bubble fusion principle
makes alot more sense economically, and has already demonstrated
that it will work .

Keep in mind it is not cold fusion, it is high temp based .

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/03/04030 3080222.htm

Peace,
Ex-MislTech

TF.

I work on sort-of-related stuff in condensed matter physics, and I have skimmed through some papers about the subject, and I had the same thought as the parent (though I was too lazy to post) - that it's cool, but not quite "revolutionary" and that other groups have come up with single-molecule transistors before.

Here's a link describing what two groups published in Nature back in 2002 about single molecule transistors (maybe what the parent post was referring to):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/06/02061 3073522.htm/

I briefly scanned through the Nature "News and Views" that introduces and supplies background for this recent paper (from today's Nature) and it looks like the main innovation is that the group used a different technique from earlier molecule transistors. According to that Nature article, previous groups relied on metalmoleculemetal types of molecular junctions. Apparently, these junctions have extra geometric complexity due to the metal-molecule coordination that can complicate the charge transport measurements. This group avoided the "geometric uncertainty" by using a junction on a semiconductor (silicon) instead of a metal. They apparently added a carbon atom with an unpaired electron as a 'dangling bond' on the surface of the silicon electrode to form the molecule-electrode interface. The interface is then a covalent bond, instead of the more complicated coordination bond from other molecular junctions. Anyway, that's why I gathered from a quick reading of the Nature summary article, but I don't know about the subject in much depth.

There's definitely a lot of potential with this stuff, though.

*repeated information*

http://www.europositron.com/en/techniques.html

This should step up the issue of power vs. weight.

Further "power" innovations such as this might
take effect soon as well :

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/03/04030 3080222.htm

If they achieve this, forget cars, this will change the entire world forever .

Cheap water, cheap power, cheap travel,
cheaper food, and an infinitely cleaner world .

Peace,
Ex-MislTech

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/03/04030 3080222.htm

Peace,
Ex-MislTech

http://www.europositron.com/en/techniques.html

This should step up the issue of power vs. weight.

Further power innovations not needing batteries are on the horizon:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/03/04030 3080222.htm

If they achieve this, forget cars, this will change the entire world forever .

Cheap water, cheap power, cheap travel,
cheaper food, and an infinitely cleaner world .

Peace,
Ex-MislTech

Of course there's also this study which shows little to no benefit to melatonin supplements.

you linked to one site... that's not science, thats biased FUD

You didn't bother to check the links, did you?

Sciencedaily is merely a site that collects university press releases and stories all related to science. They have no mission or agenda. Take a look for yourself.

Violent Video Games Can Increase Aggression

Report Shows 'Unequivocal Evidence' That Media Violence Has Significant Negative Impact On Children

Violence Is A Learned Behavior, Say Researchers At Wake Forest University

Gratuitous Media Violence Can Increase Violent Responses To Provocation, Acceptance Of Violence, Studies Show


Violent Music Lyrics Increase Aggressive Thoughts And Feelings, According To New Study; Even Humorous Violent Songs Increase Hostile Feelings


That said, the decision to ban violent video games should be a local one. If people wish to accept the risks the might come with allowing violent video games in their city, town, etc, that's fine and it's no one else's business.

Likewise, places that don't wish to accept the risks shouldn't be forced to.

If people want to live in "Safetyland", let them create such a place.

And if people want "Anarchyville", let them create a place.

But we should never advocate that one philosophy be THE single philosophy over the entire country. Let people find or make the place that's right for them.

Violent Video Games Can Increase Aggression

Report Shows 'Unequivocal Evidence' That Media Violence Has Significant Negative Impact On Children

Violence Is A Learned Behavior, Say Researchers At Wake Forest University

Gratuitous Media Violence Can Increase Violent Responses To Provocation, Acceptance Of Violence, Studies Show


Violent Music Lyrics Increase Aggressive Thoughts And Feelings, According To New Study; Even Humorous Violent Songs Increase Hostile Feelings


That said, the decision to ban violent video games should be a local one. If people wish to accept the risks the might come with allowing violent video games in their city, town, etc, that's fine and it's no one else's business.

Likewise, places that don't wish to accept the risks shouldn't be forced to.

If people want to live in "Safetyland", let them create such a place.

And if people want "Anarchyville", let them create a place.

But we should never advocate that one philosophy be THE single philosophy over the entire country. Let people find or make the place that's right for them.

Violent Video Games Can Increase Aggression

Report Shows 'Unequivocal Evidence' That Media Violence Has Significant Negative Impact On Children

Violence Is A Learned Behavior, Say Researchers At Wake Forest University

Gratuitous Media Violence Can Increase Violent Responses To Provocation, Acceptance Of Violence, Studies Show


Violent Music Lyrics Increase Aggressive Thoughts And Feelings, According To New Study; Even Humorous Violent Songs Increase Hostile Feelings


That said, the decision to ban violent video games should be a local one. If people wish to accept the risks the might come with allowing violent video games in their city, town, etc, that's fine and it's no one else's business.

Likewise, places that don't wish to accept the risks shouldn't be forced to.

If people want to live in "Safetyland", let them create such a place.

And if people want "Anarchyville", let them create a place.

But we should never advocate that one philosophy be THE single philosophy over the entire country. Let people find or make the place that's right for them.

Violent Video Games Can Increase Aggression

Report Shows 'Unequivocal Evidence' That Media Violence Has Significant Negative Impact On Children

Violence Is A Learned Behavior, Say Researchers At Wake Forest University

Gratuitous Media Violence Can Increase Violent Responses To Provocation, Acceptance Of Violence, Studies Show


Violent Music Lyrics Increase Aggressive Thoughts And Feelings, According To New Study; Even Humorous Violent Songs Increase Hostile Feelings


That said, the decision to ban violent video games should be a local one. If people wish to accept the risks the might come with allowing violent video games in their city, town, etc, that's fine and it's no one else's business.

Likewise, places that don't wish to accept the risks shouldn't be forced to.

If people want to live in "Safetyland", let them create such a place.

And if people want "Anarchyville", let them create a place.

But we should never advocate that one philosophy be THE single philosophy over the entire country. Let people find or make the place that's right for them.

Violent Video Games Can Increase Aggression

Report Shows 'Unequivocal Evidence' That Media Violence Has Significant Negative Impact On Children

Violence Is A Learned Behavior, Say Researchers At Wake Forest University

Gratuitous Media Violence Can Increase Violent Responses To Provocation, Acceptance Of Violence, Studies Show


Violent Music Lyrics Increase Aggressive Thoughts And Feelings, According To New Study; Even Humorous Violent Songs Increase Hostile Feelings


That said, the decision to ban violent video games should be a local one. If people wish to accept the risks the might come with allowing violent video games in their city, town, etc, that's fine and it's no one else's business.

Likewise, places that don't wish to accept the risks shouldn't be forced to.

If people want to live in "Safetyland", let them create such a place.

And if people want "Anarchyville", let them create a place.

But we should never advocate that one philosophy be THE single philosophy over the entire country. Let people find or make the place that's right for them.

and i only ever use it for the Opie and Anthony show.

i know a very sizeable portion of subscribers are there for the same reason.

and consider how many sirius owners are buying that equipment just for stern, and will likely hardly explore the service after receiving it (which they won't have long to do, because sirius is going down faster than .... something that goes down very fast pending a stupid business decision[see: 1/2 a billion dollars for howard stern + fewer subscribers than xm]).

the market for satellite radio is about 4-5 million big including xm and sirius, relatively small compared to ipod owners and internet radio streaming listeners. and neither sat radio services have eeked out a signifcant presence in the place where it really matters - the auto industry. the furthest it's gotten is xm included in hyundais (http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Bu siness&article=UPI-1-20050323-16064200-bc-us-hyund ai-xm.xml), hardly braggable.

We Have Ignition! Carbon Nanotubes Explode When Exposed To Photo Flash

I beg to differ.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/02/99022 3083631.htm

There's another article somewhere out there, but I'm lazy in finding it. There's actually a physicist in Korea who has developped a medium through which light goes very slow. So slow, in fact, that you can outrun it with a brisk walk.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/08/03081 3070545.htm

The NIST (and many others) has been working with a bunch of other people on this for a while.