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Types of cloud

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:49:49 GMT

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The Science of Gossip

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 06:31:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Psst ,Did you know......................

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Why is news about others so irresistible?

our fixation on popular culture reflects an intense interest in the doings of other people; this preoccupation with the lives of others is a by-product of the psychology that evolved in prehistoric times to make our ancestors socially successful

. Most researchers agree that the practice involves talk about people who are not present and that this talk is relaxed, informal and entertaining. Typically the topic of conversation also concerns information that we can make moral judgments about.

Although everyone seems to detest a person who is known as a “gossip” and few people would use that label to describe themselves, it is an exceedingly unusual individual who can walk away from a juicy story about one of his or her acquaintances, and all of us have firsthand experience with the difficulty of keeping spectacular news about someone else a secret.

gossip is one of the best tools that we have for comparing ourselves socially with others

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Our Feet and Our Organs

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:24:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "The Organs of your body have their sensory touches at the bottom of your foot, if you massage these points you will find relief from aches and pains as you can see the heart is on the left foot. Typically they are shown as points and arrows to show which organ it connects to. It is indeed correct since the nerves connected to these organs terminate here. This is covered in great details in Acupressure studies or textbooks.

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How do you make the object of your affections fall in love with you?

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:55:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A person's smell provides clues about their genetic make-up. We are programmed to sniff out those whose genes are different to our own. This apparently helps ensure any children born will have broad immunity against disease.

Those looking to impress should also keep conversation to a minimum and concentrate on their appearance.

Research shows that 55 per cent of first impressions are based on how we look rather than what we say.

Getting off the sofa and out and about is also important.

'Meeting a lot of people is key,' Mr Robinson said. 'Sitting there moping and eating chocolate is not going to get you anywhere.

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If you fancy someone and want them to fall for you the usual plan of action involves flowers, chocolates or just a few meaningful glances.

But if you really want to win hearts get them on a rollercoaster.

White-knuckle pursuits apparently create a rush of the hormone that makes us fall in love, a science conference heard yesterday.

Phenylethylamine is vital in the science of attraction, according to author Richard Robinson.

Mr Robinson, whose books include Why The One You Fancy Never Fancies You, said: ' Phenylethylamine is secreted when you see someone across the room that you really, really fancy.

'It is the hormone of euphoria, it is the hormone of joy and ecstasy.'

He told the British Association's Festival of Science in Liverpool that not wearing perfumes to let your own natural scent shine through was also important.

Tags: society

How to swat a fly

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:12:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Great stuff. So there is a science behind swatting a fly.

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

1) Resist in-flight swatting. The housefly is the Ferrari of the insect world and can change course in as little as 30 thousandths of a second.

2) Sneak up. "You want to position the swatter slowly, before the final flick."

4) Use a stealth swatter, one that does not contrast much with the background.

5) In the new study, he has found that, long before the fly leaps, its tiny brain calculates the location of the impending threat, comes up with an escape plan, and plonks its legs in an optimal position for takeoff in the opposite direction

Assuming the fly will to travel away from you, aim beyond the insect. "The fly is going to be flying away from your swatter, so you want to anticipate that and swat beyond the fly."

Prof Dickinson has been studying fly aerodynamics for two decades and says he is now fed up being asked how to kill them. "

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Outer-space sex

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:51:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: For all these reasons, Logan said spontaneous sex in space could be "a little underwhelming."

"It's a pretty messy environment, when you think about it," he said. "And for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. However ... I can well imagine how compelling, inspiring, and quite frankly stimulating choreographed sex in zero-G might be in the hands of a skilled and talented cinematographer with appropriate lighting and music."

When the crowd tittered, Logan added, "I'm not kidding: Sex in zero-G is going to have to be more or less choreographed. Otherwise it's just going to be a wild flail."

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LAS VEGAS - Having sex in the weightlessness of outer space is the stuff of urban legends and romantic fantasy — but experts say that there would be definite downsides as well.

"The fantasy might be vastly superior to the reality,"

"Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival," said Vanna Bonta,

However, off-Earth romantics will have to cope with some practical challenges:

Sex in space would likely be "hotter and wetter" than on Earth, Bonta said, because in zero-G there is no natural convection to carry away body heat. Also, scientists have found that people tend to perspire more in microgravity. The moisture associated with sexual congress could pool as floating droplets.

it was challenging even to kiss

You actually have to struggle to connect and stay connected

males might notice a "slight decrease" in penis size due to the lower blood pressure

Save the acrobatics for post-play vs. foreplay,"

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Why are conservatives happier than liberals

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:12:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Analyzes with data from 9,000 people across 10 countries uncovered the pattern that, not only do right-wingers report greater life satisfaction across cultures, but the gap widens in those countries where quality of life is low.

Finally, the authors looked at U.S. data spanning the past 30 years, and found that increasing economic inequality is associated with the decrease in the nation’s overall happiness. But noted they found that liberals’ self-reported happiness decreased more steeply than that of conservatives.

IMO to screw someone is better than to be screwed...........which is not wrong

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Conservatives are happier than liberals. This according to a 2006 Pew Research Center survey cited in a paper published this month in Psychological Science.

But New York University researchers set out to isolate the reasons why right-wingers would have greater subjective well-being than left-wingers.

They collected data from nearly 1,200 people from the 2000 American National Election Study and found that above the effects of gender, marital status, income, religion and age, the reason for this happiness disparity can be distilled to the separate ideologies of liberals and conservatives.

The authors argue that a conservative belief acts as a psychological buffer in a world of increasing inequality. The idea is that conservatives tend to rationalize inequality as the result of a fair process in a meritocracy, whereas liberals tend to see inequality as inherently unjust.

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The Science of Appetite

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:43:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Special Health Report :Interesting articles from the "time magazine"

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The Science of Appetite

Nature prefers you fat, but you can take control. New research could explain better approaches to dieting and how to curb your appetite

How to Curb Your Appetite

The Big Three

A New Diet Equation

The Science of Appetite

Special Health Report

The Way We Eat

Why we're hardwired to crave the wrong things - and what new research says we can do about it

What Makes You Eat More Food

Seven ways our bodies tell us we're hungry--even when we're not

A New Diet Equation

By Carolyn Sayre

Where you gain weight on your body may play a significant role in how you can lose it

Shocking Pink Dragon Millipede - Desmoxytes purpurosea

Tue, 27 May 2008 23:00:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hot, hot mama with a hundred legs..how sexy

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Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:46:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Einstein, who was Jewish and who declined an offer to be the state of Israel's second president, also rejected the idea that the Jews are God's favoured people.

"For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them."
In his later years he referred to a "cosmic religious feeling" that permeated and sustained his scientific work. In 1954, a year before his death, he spoke of wishing to "experience the universe as a single cosmic whole". He was also fond of using religious flourishes, in 1926 declaring that "He [God] does not throw dice" when referring to randomness thrown up by quantum theory.

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"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." So said Albert Einstein, and his famous aphorism has been the source of endless debate between believers and non-believers wanting to claim the greatest scientist of the 20th century as their own.

A little known letter written by him, however, may help to settle the argument - or at least provoke further controversy about his views.

Einstein penned the letter on January 3 1954 to the philosopher Eric Gutkind who had sent him a copy of his book Choose Life: The Biblical Call to Revolt. The letter went on public sale a year later and has remained in private hands ever since.

In the letter, he states: "The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this."

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Weird Things Series

Sat, 10 May 2008 19:14:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I don't really know which one that fact/real....

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A Key Issue In Global Food Crisis

Sat, 10 May 2008 06:47:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "The first thing to do is to have good soil," said Hans Herren, winner of the World Food Prize. "Even the best seeds can't do anything in sand and gravel."

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Through biotechnology and crossbreeding, science has provided the kind of genetically engineered seeds to feed the world. Now the major problem is the soil they’re planted in.

While seeds are improving, the world’s soil is getting worse and famine continues to spread. Some scientists believe that better dirt will be the key solution to the economically triggered global food crisis.

About one-fifth of the world’s cropland is considered damaged as soils around the world are deteriorating. According to a World Resources Institute study, poor soil quality has cut crop production by about one-sixth and some scientists are calling it a slow-motion disaster

Experts says the current global food crisis is mostly based on market forces, speculation and hoarding. But droughts and floods, plant diseases and pests, and often, poor soil contribute heavily

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The Science of Cyclones

Wed, 07 May 2008 08:46:14 GMT

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The catastrophic cyclone that hit Myanmar hints at the shape of things to come in a warming world — but probably not for the reason you think. Chris Mooney, the author of "Storm World," argues that the tragedy says more about the sad state of infrastructure in the developing world than it does about the raw impact of climate change. However, shifts in climate will likely accentuate that global rich-vs.-poor split.

Mooney has been focusing on the intersection of science and politics for years - in his Weblog, aptly titled "The Intersection," as well as in his first book, "The Republican War on Science."

"Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics and the Battle Over Global Warming" traces more than a century of often-sharp disputes over climate science. Mooney, who grew up in New Orleans, was moved to delve deeply into the subject by Hurricane Katrina, one of the most politically charged storms in U.S. history.

Tags: cyclones, storms, infrastructure, rich, poor

The science of Addiction

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:24:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Flash - why we feel -" High "

Clip Source: learn.genetics.utah.edu

Mouse Party

Note:

The simplified mechanisms of drug action presented here are just a small part of the story. When drugs enter the body they elicit very complex effects in many different regions of the brain. Often they interact with many different types of neurotransmitters and may bind with a variety of receptor types in a variety of different locations. For example, THC in marijuana can bind with cannabinoid receptors located on the presynaptic and/or postsynaptic cell in a synapse.

Where applicable, this presentation primarily depicts how drugs interact with dopamine neurotransmitters because this website focuses on the brain's reward pathway. Mouse Party is designed to provide a small glimpse into the chemical interactions at the synaptic level that cause the drug user to feel 'high'.

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nemphilian giants and biblical referances!!

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:17:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: yeah uuuuu these skulls are real and the people that found them are real and fairy tales and myth have a grain of truth in them and graves don't lie soooo look at this website and cringe

im bored this is awesome

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Of the many archaeological mysteries, one of the most enigmatic has been discoveries of giant prehistoric human skeletons...What mysterious people constructed earthen forts, burial mounds, macadamized roadways? Who left pictographs, inscribed stones and giant skeletons to be discovered?...

Genesis 6:4 tells "There were Nephilim (giants) on the earth in those days and afterwards"

As far as this writer knows, the only evidence that science possesses of these creatures at the moment is a few teeth, some lower jawbones and possibly a piece of distal humerus. (Isn't it laughable that, ever since Darwin's time, science has been trying to make a man out of a monkey? Now, faced with the possibility of giant humans, they are trying to make monkeys out of men!)