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Worst places to live in Great Britain

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:45:13 GMT

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Worst places to live 2007

Noisy neighbours, Asbo kids roaming the town centre at night, drugs, shootings and binge drinkers throwing up on the streets –

Channel 4’s Location, Location, Location property show has compiled the list of the UK’s least desirable towns.

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1. Middlesbrough

High crime levels and drug use coupled with poor health and education standards

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2. Hull

Hull, former deputy prime minister John Prescott’s constituency, has been rated the most obese, stupidest and most snoring town in England

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3. Newham - east London

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4. Nottingham - East Midlands

the historic home of Robin Hood

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5. Merthyr Tydfil - south Wales

Once one of the iron-working capitals of the world

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6. North East Lincolnshire - eastern England

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7. Islington - north London

The third cheapest square on a British Monopoly board

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8. Blaenau Gwent - south Wales

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9. Mansfield - East Midlands

DH Lawrence described Mansfeild as “that once romantic now utterly disheartening colliery town” in Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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10. Knowsley - Merseyside

Secret circle of the Sahara

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:02:48 GMT

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Hmmm. What is that? Could it be the eye of a hurricane? Jupiter's Great Red Spot turned blue? An ammonite? All acceptable guesses. The phenomenon sits in barren Northwest African terrain of the Mauritanian Sahara. A mystery that has intrigued scientists, geologists, astronomists and laypersons alike since its visual discovery by orbiting astronauts during the dawn of space travel. Le Guelb er Richat, or the Richat Structure.

The 50 km diameter structure, also referred to as the "Eye of Africa", is located just a little off the beaten path in Northern Mauritania, not far from Ouadane or from the route of the endangered Dakar Rally.

Like the Nazca Lines in Perú, the Richat Structure is best seen from above. Way above.

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A question science can't answer?

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:49:55 GMT

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"Can anybody think of a question science can't answer?"

"Is there a God?" shot back a boy near the window.

"Good," said Mr. Campbell, an Anglican who attends church most Sundays. "Can't test it. Can't prove it, can't disprove it. It's not a question for science."

I despise that chicken-hearted answer. There are two reasonable ways to address that. One is to accept the usual open-ended, undefined vagueness of the god entity and point out that the reason it can't be answered is that it is a bad question — it's not even wrong. Science doesn't answer it, but then no discipline can, because it's a garbage question like "what color are invisible elephants?" If that's what window-boy intends with his petty little gotcha, he deserves to have the inanity of his idea disparaged.

The other approach

pin the question down. What god? What actions has it taken in the natural world? How does it influence us specifically? Then you can tackle that god with science by testing the purported effects it has

Tags: religion, science, atheism, god

A question science can't answer?

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:49:55 GMT

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"Can anybody think of a question science can't answer?"

"Is there a God?" shot back a boy near the window.

"Good," said Mr. Campbell, an Anglican who attends church most Sundays. "Can't test it. Can't prove it, can't disprove it. It's not a question for science."

The other approach

Tags: religion, science, atheism, god

A question science can't answer?

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:49:55 GMT

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"Can anybody think of a question science can't answer?"

"Is there a God?" shot back a boy near the window.

"Good," said Mr. Campbell, an Anglican who attends church most Sundays. "Can't test it. Can't prove it, can't disprove it. It's not a question for science."

The other approach

Tags: religion, science, atheism, god

A question science can't answer?

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:49:55 GMT

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Clip Source: scienceblogs.com

"Can anybody think of a question science can't answer?"

"Is there a God?" shot back a boy near the window.

"Good," said Mr. Campbell, an Anglican who attends church most Sundays. "Can't test it. Can't prove it, can't disprove it. It's not a question for science."

The other approach

Tags: religion, science, atheism, god

A question science can't answer?

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:49:55 GMT

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Clip Source: scienceblogs.com

"Can anybody think of a question science can't answer?"

"Is there a God?" shot back a boy near the window.

"Good," said Mr. Campbell, an Anglican who attends church most Sundays. "Can't test it. Can't prove it, can't disprove it. It's not a question for science."

The other approach

Tags: religion, science, atheism, god

A question science can't answer?

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:49:55 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: scienceblogs.com

"Can anybody think of a question science can't answer?"

"Is there a God?" shot back a boy near the window.

"Good," said Mr. Campbell, an Anglican who attends church most Sundays. "Can't test it. Can't prove it, can't disprove it. It's not a question for science."

The other approach

Tags: religion, science, atheism, god

A question science can't answer?

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:49:55 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: scienceblogs.com

"Can anybody think of a question science can't answer?"

"Is there a God?" shot back a boy near the window.

"Good," said Mr. Campbell, an Anglican who attends church most Sundays. "Can't test it. Can't prove it, can't disprove it. It's not a question for science."

The other approach

Tags: religion, science, atheism, god

Moodstream

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:55:17 GMT

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The world's largest stock imagery company, Getty Images, this week released a new mashup that leans on the company's vast stock image and audio assets. The flash app called Moodstream draws on Getty's photo, video, and audio collections to create what the company calls a "powerful brainstorming tool designed to take you in inspiring, unexpected directions." The mashup debuted earlier this week at the Webby Award Film and Video Awards after party in New York.

Moodstream adjusts its output based on settings users input via sliders that describe their state of mind. Happy to Sad, Humorous to Serious, etc. Users can also control the type of transitions between image assets, the amount of color vs. black and white imagery, and the type of music. The app comes with 6 preset moods as well. Once you've entered your mood settings, the application delivers a steady stream of video clips and still images set to short snippets of music.

Positive thinkers 'avoid cancer'

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:24:30 GMT

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The role of mental outlook in cancer is controversial

Women who have a positive outlook may decrease their chances of developing breast cancer, say Israeli researchers.

The small study, published in the BioMed Central journal, also found that getting divorced, or being bereaved could increase the risk.

But the researchers admitted that women were questioned after their diagnosis, which might significantly change their outlook on life.

UK experts said it was hard to compare different women's emotional stresses.

The role of mental outlook on cancer remains controversial, with some studies suggesting that it might play a role.

Meanwhile, others have found no significant effect, either on the likelihood of developing the illness in the first place, or on your chances of surviving it.

The latest study looked at 255 women with breast cancer and compared their answers in a questionnaire on mental outlook and life events with 367 healthy control subjects.

BBC: The Lost Gospels

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:27:40 GMT

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The Lost Gospels - 59 min

Aired: March 15, 2008 on BBC 2 Anglican priest Peter Owen Jones explores the huge number of ancient Christian texts that didn't make it into the New Testament. Shocking and challenging, these were works in which Jesus didn't die, took revenge on his enemies and kissed Mary Magdalene on the mouth. Pete travels through Egypt and the former Roman Empire looking at the evidence of a Christian world very different to the one we know, and finds over seventy gospels, acts, letters and apocalypses all circulating in the early Church. .... http://Atheistmedia.blogspot.com«

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BBC: The Lost Gospels

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:27:40 GMT

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The Lost Gospels - 59 min

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Breaking: Bigfoot’s Body Apparently Found

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:02:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The creature was discovered by Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, who are keeping the exact location a secret as they claim there are a whole troup of the animals still living. Tom Biscardi of Searching for Bigfoot has been a veteran Sasquatch tracker for years and traveled to Georgia to view the find last weekend. A team of scientists have been carrying out tests on the body and, along with the Tom Biscardi, they will release DNA and photographic findings to the media at a press release in Palo Alto, California,

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Hunting for Bigfoot has been one of the favourite pastimes of many a hunter for the past few decades. Also known as Sasquatch, the creature is allegedly ape-like and said to inhabit the remote forests of northwest America and British Columbia, Canada. Yet, despite dozens of sightings there is still no definitive evidence that the elusive hairy being exists. Until now.

Searching for Bigfoot, a company whose sole aim is to find Bigfoot has released teaser evidence that the creature is in fact real, or was. Pictures of a deceased Bigfoot-esque animal found in northern Georgia have been released, along with some fascinating furry facts and figures.

The creature is seven feet seven inches tall.

It weighs over five hundred pounds. The creature looks like it is part human and part ape-like.

It is male.

It has reddish hair and blackish-grey eyes.

It has two arms and two legs, and five fingers on each hand and five toes on each foot.

Bigfoot?

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 03:39:30 GMT

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(CNN) -- A pair of Georgia men faced more than a half-hour of skeptical questions from reporters Friday as they defended their claim that they stumbled upon the body of Bigfoot while hiking in a remote North Georgia forest.

Introduced by a publicist and beside a man who promoted what turned out to be a fake Bigfoot discovery in 1995, Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer repeatedly said that their claim is not a hoax and that scientific analysis will prove it.

"We were not looking for Bigfoot. ... We wouldn't know what we were doing if we did," said Whitton, a police officer on leave after being shot in the hand while making an arrest. "I didn't believe in Bigfoot at the time. ... But you've got to come to terms with it and realize you've got something special. And that's what it was."

"It seems that the stalkers have busted us in a hoax," he says in the video. But then adds, "we still have a corpse. We just wanted to give you something to do for the weekend."