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Exploring the "lost city" of Mycenaeans

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:30:58 GMT

clipped by: invictus
clipper's remarks: Professor Daniel J. Pullen is unearthing a 3600-year-old "lost city" in Aegean coast.

Clip Source: www.eurekalert.org

Along an isolated, rocky stretch of Greek shoreline, a Florida State University researcher and his students are unlocking the secrets of a partially submerged, “lost” harbor town believed to have been built by the ancient Mycenaeans nearly 3,500 years ago.

“This is really a remarkable find,” said Professor Daniel J. Pullen, chairman of FSU’s Department of Classics. “It is rare indeed to locate an entire town built during the Late Bronze Age that shows this level of preservation.”

The settlement, referred to as Korphos-Kalamianos by Pullen and Tartaron, rests on the shores of the Saronic Gulf in the western Aegean Sea about 60 miles to the southwest of the Greek capital, Athens.

Tags: archaeology, aegean, mycenaean, lost city, science

24 Hours in Photos

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:44:49 GMT

clipped by: righthand

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

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Seoul, South Korea: President Lee Myung-Bak and his wife, Kim Yoon-Ok, cheer with army cadets during a graduation ceremony

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Alaska, US:

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Ohio, US: A fox squirrel

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Paris, France: Tourists mill around the Place du Trocadero, overlooking the Eiffel Tower

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Florida, US: The space shuttle Endeavour sits on its launchpad prior to lift-off at the Kennedy Space Centre

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New York, US: Posing with Madonna after she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, rocker Iggy Pop mugs for photographers

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Washington, US: Members and supporters of the Washington Region Religious Campaign Against Torture hold a rally on Capitol Hill

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Bangkok, Thailand: Suspected Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout

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Los Angeles, US: Models prepare backstage

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Beijing, China: Government employees walk outside the Great Hall of the People

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Beijing, China: A Chinese migrant worker sorts and categorises a mound of plastic bottles at a recycling centre

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Palenque

Tags: photos

SYMPTOMS OF RELIGIOUS ADDICTION

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:01:43 GMT

clipped by: dakotayii
clipper's remarks: The ultimate temptation of the believer is to assume that his or her way to God is the best or only way for others. The particular Way to God becomes what is adored, not the ineffable and incomprehensible Mystery to which we give the name of God.

In essence we have become addicted to the certainty, sureness or sense of security that our faith provides. It is no longer a living by faith, with hope and growing in unconditional love.

adapted from When God Becomes a Drug, by Leo Booth

Clip Source: www.lexpages.com

Inability to think, doubt, or question religious information and/or authority

Black-and-white, good/bad, either/or simplistic thinking: one way or the other

Shame-based belief that you aren't good enough or you aren't doing it right

Magical thinking that God will fix you/ do it all, without serious work on your part

Scrupulosity: rigid obsessive adherence to rules, codes of ethics, or guidelines

Uncompromising judgmental attitudes: readiness to find fault or evil out there

Compulsive or obsessive praying, going to church or crusades, quoting scripture

Unrealistic financial contributions

Believing that sex is dirty; believing our bodies or physical pleasures are evil

Conflict and argumentation with science, medicine, and education

Manipulating scripture or texts, feeling specially chosen, claiming to receive special messages from God

Attitude of righteousness or superiority: "we versus the world," including the denial of one's human-ness.

Tags: religion

Nanowires prefer Deep Purple

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:45:10 GMT

clipped by: pokkets
clipper's remarks: The band, not ultra violet, but apparently they weren't offered a very wide selection, and the wires grown by exposure to Deep purple are described as kinky. The intention is for wires to grow straight,which can be done more easily with the standard plasma.
But they also said, if they ever find a use for kinky nanowires, they know what to do.
There was no mention of the way the wires grew with the other music, but I imagine the growth can be as varied as the type of music. They mention that it didn't like the German music. I wondered if nanowires like polkas

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Anna Salleh

Silicon nanowires grow more densely when blasted with Deep Purple than any other music tested, says an Australian researcher.

This mesh of nanowires was inspired by the Deep Purple track 'Smoke on the Water'

David Parlevliet, a PhD student at Murdoch University in Perth, presented his findings at a recent Australian Research Council Nanotechnology Network symposium in Melbourne.

One way he grows the nanowires involves blasting a voltage through silane gas to produce a plasma that pulses on and off 1000 times a second.

Parlevliet says one day his supervisor wondered what would happen if the usual method of generating the pulsed plasma was replaced with music instead.

"Instead of using the pulse from the pulse generator, I plugged the music player in," he says.

Parlevliet tested the effect of Deep Purple's 'Smoke on the Water', Chopin's 'Nocturne Opus 9 No 1', Josh Abrahams' 'Addicted to Bass', Rammstein's 'Das Modell' and ABBA's 'Dancing Queen'.

These Stats will make you sick

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:08:02 GMT

clipped by: constantskeptic
clipper's remarks: 3,845 dollars per second

Clip Source: democrats.senate.gov

That Amounts to…

$332,258,064 Per Day

Current Cost of War in Iraq Is Almost $11 Billion Per Month. “In FY2007, DOD’s monthly obligations for contracts and pay averaged about $12.3 billion including about $10.3 billion for Iraq and $2.0 billion for Afghanistan.” [CRS Report, 2/22/08]

$13,844,086 Per Hour

$230,734 Per Minute

$3,845 Per Second

U.S. Has Already Spent $526 Billion on War in Iraq. “This $700 billion total covers all war-related appropriations from FY2001 in supplementals, regular appropriations, and continuing resolutions including not quite half of the FY2008 request. Of that total, CRS estimates that Iraq will receive about $526 billion (75%), OEF about $140 billion (20%), and enhanced base security about $28 billion (4%), with about $5 billion that CRS cannot allocate (1%).” [CRS Report, 2/22/08]

Tags: iraq war, iraq, stats, sick

How to destroy a nation

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:34:55 GMT

clipped by: deb2012
clipper's remarks: hmmm.

Clip Source: www.opednews.com

"If I were given the power to take down a nation, how would I do it?"

Control the nation's monetary system.

Tax the population, incurring massive debt. Institute various handouts.

Import foreign workers for one third of American wages.

Pit American workers against immigrants to keep the focus off the various trade agreements; the more hatred and chaos, the better. The people must never see these issues as pertaining to class, but rather intolerance, racism and bigotry.

keeping the field limited to a two party system, where only the wealthy need apply.

Set up a dysfunctional Department of Education to dictate to the states insane mandates, regulations and policies to dumb down the future generation.

Institute perpetual war, borrowing billions for destruction, while filling the coffers of corporate hucksters

Keep the multitudes distracted with ball games, theme parks, shopping malls, expensive automobiles, environmental activism, OJ, Paris Hilton, pit bulls and Rosie O'Donnell.

Tags: politics