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Is "ElectroSmog" Destroying the Planet's Bee Population?

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:56:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Lot of research into animals, such as birds following natures forces, would tend to add credence to this theory.

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left." -

Albert Einstein

Mobile phones, Wi-Fi networks, electric power lines are sources of "electrosmog" disrupting nature on an unprecedented, massive scale causing birds and bees to lose their bearings, fail to reproduce and die, according to controversial research by Dr. Ulrich Warnke, a lecturer at the University of Saarland, in Germany, who has been studying the effects of man-made electrical fields on wildlife for more than 30 years. Warnke believes that "an unprecedented dense mesh of artificial magnetic, electrical and electromagnetic fields" is being generated, disrupting the "natural system of information" on which the species rely. Bees are able to change the polarity of their antennae at will, which enables them to navigate using the Earth's magnetic fields.

Tags: environment, science

computer network processing data from LHC

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:00:08 GMT

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Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

'The Grid' will see 80,000 computer network processing data from LHC

By Roger Highfield, Science Editor

Last Updated: 12:01am BST 07/09/2008

Large Hadron Collider superconducting magnet: The Grid allows computer users to tap computer power anywhere on the planet

Supercomputer 'virtual human' to help fight disease

What's the future for planet Earth?

Larry Brilliant, of Google.org: Internet 'is pandemic early warning system'

A network of around 80,000 computers worldwide is being readied for a deluge of data when the Large Hadron Collider starts up, marking a new phase in the use of the web.

The machine will slam subatomic particles called protons together to recreate conditions not seen since an eyeblink after the Big Bang of creation and explore new realms of nature, including finding the Higgs particle that plays a starring role in current theory, holding it together, and helping to endow matter with mass.

The data will be used by around 10,000 researchers around the world.

Tassie devil's top Fathers' Day with new joey

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:29:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The species may have hope of survival.

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Healesville Sanctuary in Victoria is celebrating Father's Day with one of its Tasmanian devils becoming a father for the first time.

The announcement coincides with Threatened Species Day and is part of the Tasmanian devil breeding program, aimed at ensuring the animal's survival.

A contagious cancer disease has now affected 60 per cent of devils in Tasmania and has led to mainland breeding centres being set up.

Healesville's curator of life sciences Russell Traher says the joey's birth is significant for the Sanctuary.

"It's the first Devil we've produced as part of the mainland ark, we've got a number of partners on the mainland that we're working with," he said.

"Zoos in another three states, and this devil is about four months old and she should start coming out of the pouch in the next couple of weeks."

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CERN fires up new atom smasher to near Big Bang

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:12:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: We should have beat them to this......

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

CERN fires up new atom smasher to near Big Bang

GENEVA - It has been called an Alice in Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the universe — or dangerous tampering with nature that could spell doomsday.

Whatever the case, the most powerful atom-smasher ever built comes online Wednesday, eagerly anticipated by scientists worldwide who have awaited this moment for two decades.

The multibillion-dollar Large Hadron Collider will explore the tiniest particles and come ever closer to re-enacting the big bang, the theory that a colossal explosion created the universe.

The machine at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, promises scientists a closer look at the makeup of matter, filling in gaps in knowledge or possibly reshaping theories.

CERN hopes to recreate conditions in the laboratory a split-second after the big bang, teaching them more about "dark matter," antimatter and possibly hidden dimensions of space and time.

Tags: cern, big, bang, atom, smash

Menstrual Blood May Save Lives

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:45:39 GMT

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Clip Source: www.impactlab.com

Menstrual Blood May Save Lives

Finding life’s greatest secrets in the most unusual places

Many refer to it as ‘nature’s curse on women’. It’s commonly thought of as unclean. In some cultures, women are not even allowed to cook during those days of month. But, path-breaking new research could change the way people view the menstrual cycle. And it’s here in India, for the first time ever. The blood that uselessly leaks away from a woman’s body every month until she hits menopause is a good source of stem cells, which are still at an early stage of development and retain the potential to turn into many different types of cell.

Tags: science

Some Animal "awww" Pictures

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:16:13 GMT

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Clip Source: www.darkroastedblend.com

Big-eyed beauty... A face that launched 10,000 hikers (up the tree) -

Sun Bears or Malayan Sun Bears are the smallest bears in the world (more pics... this one does not seem very happy) -

Baby orangutan at 4 hours after birth:

Tags: animals, nature, photos

Words of Life

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:13:22 GMT

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Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him. John 6:27

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At this very moment you and I are either committing [selfishness], or about to commit it, or repenting it.

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You cannot slander human nature - it is worse than words can paint it.

Spurgeon on Amazon

'The Grid' will see 80,000 computer network processing data from LHC

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:59:17 GMT

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Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

A network of around 80,000 computers worldwide is being readied for a deluge of data when the Large Hadron Collider starts up, marking a new phase in the use of the web.

Around 300 computer centres in 50 countries will handle data from the vast atom smasher for the next decade, marking what will be the biggest computing exercise in history.

When the experiments get running at the LHC, the four great "eyes" of the machine start observing collisions, they will generate 15 million gigabytes of data every year, that is equivalent to one thousand times the information printed in the form of books annually.

Tags: lhc, data, network

21st-Century Ziggurat Could House 1 Million People -a Sustainable City of the Future

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:10:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The castle, or town, surrounded by farmlands.

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

To archaeologists and those who like their history, a ziggurat is a terraced pyramid (image), native to the ancient Mesopotamian valley and Iran. Used as shrines and for escaping from rising flood waters, the ziggurats have revealed much about the culture surrounding their construction.

However, the ziggurat is about to enter the common vernacular, hopefully, as something a little more modern.

Under the watchful eye of Dubai-based Timelinks, an environmental design company, a new project entitled Ziggurat is being proposed as a sustainable city of the future. Able to hold up to a million people, but taking up only 2.3 square kilometers – a tenth of the original land needed for such a group of people – the designers believe that the power of nature will support the Ziggurat.

“Ziggurat communities can be almost totally self-sufficient energy-wise,” said Ridas Matonis, Managing Director of Timelinks. “Apart from using steam power in the building we will also employ wind turbine technology

21st-Century Ziggurat Could House 1 Million People -a Sustainable City of the Future

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:53:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: click and read the rest story

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

However, the ziggurat is about to enter the common vernacular, hopefully, as something a little more modern.

“Ziggurat communities can be almost totally self-sufficient energy-wise,” said Ridas Matonis, Managing Director of Timelinks. “Apart from using steam power in the building we will also

Tags: zigurat, iran

Electronic smog 'is disrupting nature on a massive scale'

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:29:19 GMT

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Clip Source: www.independent.co.uk

Mobile phones, Wi-Fi systems, electric power lines and similar sources of "electrosmog" are disrupting nature on a massive scale, causing birds and bees to lose their bearings, fail to reproduce and die, a conference will be told this week.

Dr Warnke, a lecturer at the University of Saarland, in Germany, adds that the world's natural electrical and magnetic fields have had a "decisive hand in the evolution of species". Over millions of years they learned to use them to work out where they were, the time of day, and the approach of bad weather.

His research has shown that bees exposed to the kinds of electrical fields generated by power lines killed each other and their young, while ones exposed to signals in the same range as mobile phones lost much of their homing ability.

Tags: environment, i-extinction, i-risks, i-increase

Bookmark pictures

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:03:33 GMT

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Fractals: The Colors Of Infinity

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:35:41 GMT

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Clip Source: underdogcinema.com

Fractals: The Colors Of Infinity

Arthur C. Clarke presents this unusual documentary on the mathematical discovery of the Mandelbrot Set (M-Set) in the visually spectacular world of fractal geometry. This show relates the science of the M-Set to nature in a way that seems to identify the hand of God in the design of the universe itself. Dr. Mandelbrot in 1980 discovered the infinitely complex geometrical shape called the Mandelbrot Set using a very simple equation with computers and graphics.

Tags: science, video, documentary, fractals

"nature" dresser

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:39:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Like the writing on this...find old piece, paint, then put on decal...cool

Clip Source: www.countryhome.com

Russia's Round Ice

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:53:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This looks like something that should be in an X-Files episode. They should use this for their 3rd movie & it could actually be a successful one.

Clip Source: englishrussia.com

The Round Ice

Recently a lot of strange round-ice formations have been met in Russia. People don’t know what causes ice to form first big ice circles and then ones of smaller size appear around the mother-formation.

Tags: ice, russia, environment, nature