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Extreme Nature Pics

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:09:46 GMT

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Clip Source: bbs.keyhole.com

Colca Canyon, Peru : Deepest Canyon on the Earth

Vredefort Crater, South Africa : Largest impact crater on the Earth

ScoresbySund Fjord, Greenland : Longest & Deepest Fjord on the Earth

Mera Peak, Nepal : Highest Vertical Drop

Dead Sea, Israel & Jordan : Lowest Elevation on the Earth

Angel Falls, Venezuela : Tallest water fall on the Earth

Wilkes land, Antartica : Thickest Ice Sheet on the Earth

Tags: photography, nature, science

Einstein said....And I quote!'

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:34:47 GMT

clipped by: PspMistress

Clip Source: rescomp.stanford.edu

Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

Tags: quotes, einstein

Why are there only two sexes?

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:16:27 GMT

clipped by: kwonsu

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Why are there only two sexes?

Scientists in Britain believe that the reason there are only two sexes is due to a bacterial infection our ancestors caught about two billion years ago.

There is no end to the diversity of life on Earth, so why most species have only two sexes has been puzzling scientists around the world for many years.

Mushrooms have as many as 36,000 sexes, and a strange growth called slime mould has about thirteen. But these are rare exceptions to the almost universal rule that life on earth is divided into two sexes.

An evolutionary mystery

Mushrooms have 36,000 sexes

This presents an evolutionary mystery; If we had a hundred sexes, and could mate with any one of them, our chance of finding a partner in our surrounding environment would be 99%.

Professor Laurence Hurst, of Bath University, England, explains the problem: "For example, imagine that you are in a disco and the lights have gone out. You're looking for somebody to go home with and the law is the first person you bump into is the person you choose.
If there are only two sexes, then on average, half the time the person you meet is not going to be a potential mate."

Bacteria in the genes

So the question is why we only have two sexes, if it appears to make the survival of species more rather than less difficult. Professor Hurst believes it's all down to how we inherit a particular set of genes, called mitochondrial genes.

Half of the people you meet will not be a potential mate

Unlike the genes carried in the nucleus or centre of our cells, mitochondria are found in material outside the nucleus. And unlike genes in the nucleus, mitochondrial DNA can copy itself very rapidly. Professor Hurst, speaking at the Festival of Science in Sheffield, believes mitochondrial genes are the remains of a bacterial infection caught by our distant ancestors.

Tags: sex, evolution, genes, people, science

Albert Einstein's Quotes

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:25:22 GMT

clipped by: kwonsu

Clip Source: rescomp.stanford.edu

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

Tags: einstein, quotes, people, life, humor

Startling scientific discovery

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:59:14 GMT

clipped by: kwonsu
clipper's remarks: The study fails to mention that the element is abundant in Federal and State buildings

Clip Source: mail.google.com

The discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science has been just announced. It's tentative name is "Administratium."

With1 neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 111 assistant deputy neutrons, it has an atomic mass of 312. They are held together by a force called morons, surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. I t has no electrons,so it is inert. However, it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A small amount of Administratium causes a reaction to take over four days when it would usually take a second.

Administratium half-life is 3 years; it doesn't decay but undergoes a reorganization. In fact, its mass will increase over time, since each reorganization causes some morons to become neutrons forming isodopes.

This moron-promotion process leads scientists to believe that Administratium is formed if morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is known as "Critical Morass."

Tags: science, scientific, discovery, physics, humor

ZEN - Visually rich, funny, intuitive, basic introduction

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:50:29 GMT

clipped by: kwonsu

Clip Source: www.do-not-zzz.com

Tags: religion, spirituality, people, science, zen, buddhism, japan

Geostationay Banana Over Texas

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:52:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: wtf?!

Clip Source: blog.wired.com

The Geostationary Banana Over Texas is an art intervention that involves placing a gigantic banana over the Texas sky. This object will float between the high atmosphere and Earth's low orbit, being visible only from the state of Texas and its surroundings.
From the ground the banana will be clearly recognizable and visible day and night; it will stay up for approximately one month.

Tags: geostationary, banana, science, technology, space, fruit, food, texas

Conjoined girls growing up

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:11:33 GMT

clipped by: kwonsu

Clip Source: youtube.com

[Video]

These girls show a lot of courage. It has had to have been tough on them and their parents. I hope they have a healthy good life.

Tags: science, health, amazing, two heads, people, life

Brain Fitness Program: Enhancing Mental Abilities

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:34:57 GMT

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Clip Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com

Older Brains Act Younger - Scientific Breakthrough Enhances Mental Abilities

People 60 years or older can improve their memory by 10 years or more. That's the findings of a new study published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The randomized, controlled study looked at the effects of the Brain Fitness Program, a computer-based set of exercises. It was developed by Posit Science Corporation, a San Francisco company that promotes brain health. Researchers tested 182 people aged 60 to 87. They gave each participant a standardized, clinical cognitive assessment before and after the study. The experimental group worked on the brain exercises in their homes for about 8 weeks. One control group was given no special instruction while another control group watched educational DVD's.

Study results show that 93% of the participants working on the brain exercises had an increase in the rate of processing information, meaning they would likely think and act faster. The average participant was 71, but after the training was able to process information reliably at the speed of someone in their twenties.

"Even more important," according to study co-author Dr. Henry Mahncke, "These improvements generalized to standardized measures of memory that are related to real life functions. It's noteworthy when gains at specific tasks generalize to things that matter in daily living. The average change on these measures showed a clinically and statistically significant improvement in memory, and many participants showed gains equal to the amount of decline that usually happens over 10 years of aging."

Follow up tests indicated that the improvements last beyond the training.

The Brain Fitness Program is based on brain plasticity, the brain's ability to change throughout life if provided with the right kind of exercises. This means mental functions such as memory can be improved at any age.

Tags: people, science, mind, brain, fitness

New Phenomena on the Sun

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:01:49 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nasa.gov

New Phenomena on the Sun

A NASA Science Update at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, March 21 will be held to discuss never-before-seen observations from an international mission studying the sun.

For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

The Hinode spacecraft, Japanese for "sunrise," launched in September 2006 to study the sun's magnetic field and how its explosive energy propagates through the different layers of the solar atmosphere. The spacecraft was known previously as Solar B.

Tags: nasa, press, update, sun, science, tv, stream, hinode

Amazing Hubble Photos

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:33:50 GMT

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Clip Source: www.skyimagelab.com

Helix Nebula

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Eye of God Photo
The Helix Nebula
NGC 7293

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Cartwheel of Fortune

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Hubble Cat's Eye Nebula
NGC 6543

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Hoag's Object
Strange Ring Galaxy

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Eskimo Nebula
NGC 2932

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Hubble Hourglass Nebula
MyCn18

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Kepler's Supernova Remnant

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Hubble Red Rectangle

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Spirograph Nebula
IC 418

Tags: space, astronomy, hubble, science, nebulas, telescope

Knowing and managing our emotions

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:40:33 GMT

clipped by: kwonsu

Clip Source: eqi.org

Resentment, Bitterness

Disappointment

Discouragement, Hopelessness

The Positive Value of Negative Emotions

Managing Negative Emotions

Importance of our Emotions

Primary and Secondary Emotions

List of Common Negative Feelings

Emotional Needs

Emotional Honesty

Men and Emotions

Tags: emotions, feelings, anger, depresion, people, science, life

Atheism's Big List of Quotations by Richard Dawkins

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:27:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks:

Clip Source: www.positiveatheism.org

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
-- Richard Dawkins (attributed: source unknown)

Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.
-- Richard Dawkins, "Religion's Misguided Missiles" (September 15, 2001)

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
-- Richard Dawkins, in "Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder," The Richard Dimbleby Lecture, BBC1 Television (12 November 1996)

Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private virgins in the next.
-- Richard Dawkins, "Religion's Misguided Missiles" (September 15, 2001)

Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr's death will send them straight to heaven.
-- Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
-- Richard Dawkins (attributed: source unknown)

To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion.
-- Richard Dawkins, The Devil's Chaplain (2004)

If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise they should just shut up about it.
-- Richard Dawkins (attributed: source unknown)

You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in evolution.
-- Richard Dawkins, in Lanny Swerdlow, "My Sort Interview with Richard Dawkins" (Portland, Oregon, 1996)

Tags: evolution, creationism, dawkins, darwin, religion, atheism, spirituality, people, science

Startling new scientific discovery

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:50:36 GMT

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Clip Source: www.findarticles.com

A major research institution has recently announced the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. This new element has been tentatively named "Administratium."

Administratium has 1 neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 111 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by a force called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since Administratium has no electrons, it is inert.

However, it can be detected as it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A minute amount of Administratium causes one reaction to take over four days to complete instead of less than a second.

Administratium has a normal half-life of three years; it does not decay but instead undergoes a reorganization. In fact, Administratium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization causes some morons to become neutrons forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron-promotion leads some scientists to speculate that Administratium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as "Critical Morass."

Tags: humor, humour, science, people, jokes, funny, administratium

Creationists defeated in Kansas school vote on science teaching

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:55:23 GMT

clipped by: kwonsu

Clip Source: www.unconfirmedsources.com

TOPEKA>
School authorities in the American heartland state of Kansas have delivered a rebuff to subscribers of intelligent design by voting to banish language challenging evolution from new science guidelines.

Reacting furiously to the vote, Rev. Kyle Hingerman, pastor of The Fire and Sword Church of Jesus,in Topeka, lashed out at the State School Board.

"They say we're descended from a bunch of dirty monkeys!" he fumed. " How can they deny the unerring, factual, word of God? Don't they read the bible? Everyone knows that God made a beautiful Caucasian Eve and a handsome Adam, with convenient leaves hiding...er, things!"

"Those lying archeologists, " he roared, " ...making and hiding fossils to prove their fake case! EVOLUTION!, a filthy and dirty word," he roared, as the congregation poured out of the church and headed for the local middle school and science teacher Harold Aston.
"Burn the infidel at the stake!" Shouted one parishioner
As the pupils watched in dismay, Aston was dragged out of the classroom and into the schoolyard, where, with a single stroke of the sword he was beheaded by Rev. Hingerman as the the crowd cheered its approval.
"Now let's find that Charles Darwin guy!" someone shouted.
" Return to the church." said Hingerman as he wiped his sword. "There's enough hatred, fear, superstition and blasphemy being spread by these evolutionists. Peace and Love, that's what we need!"
The congregation returned to the church singing the hymn, " This is my Father's World."

Tags: people, evolucionists, darwin, creationists, kansas, religion

Clipmarks | kwonsu's 'science' clips

Extreme Nature Pics

Einstein said....And I quote!'

Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein

Why are there only two sexes?

Albert Einstein's Quotes

Startling scientific discovery

ZEN - Visually rich, funny, intuitive, basic introduction

Geostationay Banana Over Texas

Conjoined girls growing up

Brain Fitness Program: Enhancing Mental Abilities

Older Brains Act Younger - Scientific Breakthrough Enhances Mental Abilities

New Phenomena on the Sun

Amazing Hubble Photos

Helix Nebula

Eye of God Photo The Helix Nebula NGC 7293

Cartwheel of Fortune

Hubble Cat's Eye Nebula NGC 6543

Hoag's Object Strange Ring Galaxy

Eskimo Nebula NGC 2932

Hubble Hourglass Nebula MyCn18

Kepler's Supernova Remnant

Hubble Red Rectangle

Spirograph Nebula IC 418

Knowing and managing our emotions

Atheism's Big List of Quotations by Richard Dawkins

Startling new scientific discovery

Creationists defeated in Kansas school vote on science teaching

Eye of God Photo
The Helix Nebula
NGC 7293

Hubble Cat's Eye Nebula
NGC 6543

Hoag's Object
Strange Ring Galaxy

Eskimo Nebula
NGC 2932

Hubble Hourglass Nebula
MyCn18

Spirograph Nebula
IC 418