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Politicians and Healthcare

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:35:37 GMT

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The 1,990-page bill is breathtaking in its bone-headed audacity. The notion that a small group of politicians can know enough to design something so complex and so personal is astounding. That they were advised by "experts" means nothing since no one is expert enough to do that. There are too many tradeoffs faced by unique individuals with infinitely varying needs.

Competition is a "discovery procedure," Nobel-prize-winning economist F. A. Hayek taught. Through the competitive market process, we producers and consumers constantly learn things that force us to adjust our behavior if we are to succeed. Central planners fail for two reasons:

First, knowledge about supply, demand, individual preferences and resource availability is scattered -- much of it never articulated -- throughout society. It is not concentrated in a database where a group of planners can access it.

Second, this "data" is dynamic: It changes without notice.

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How Dinosaurs Got Their Iconic Look

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:08:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Saurpods may have evolved after their ancestors fattened up on prehistoric junk food.

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The recently documented sauropodomorph, described in the latest Proceedings of the Royal Society B, lived around 200 to 183 million years ago in South Africa and was nearly 30 feet in length.

"It had a rather long, slender neck and a heavy, barrel-shaped body," Adam Yates, lead author of the paper, told Discovery News, adding that the dinosaur also sported a big nose and was cheek-less.

"The teeth were braced on the outside by a sheet of bone that may indicate the animal was a foliage stripper, which in other words means that when feeding, it grabbed large mouthfuls of browse and pulled backwards to strip the leaves from the branches,"

The iconic sauropod body structure could have evolved when "proto-sauropods began to specialize on bulk-feeding of perhaps lower quality browse," Yates said. In other words, these types of dinosaurs evolved by fattening up prehistoric junk food.

They needed bigger guts to deal with it

which in turn slowed them down, making them vulnerable to predation

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Scalar Energy....the new Frontier of Healing/Health

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:22:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: .....the world post BigPharma medicine....EXCITING AND MOST COMPREHENSIVE EXPOSE.

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"Scalar-Energy and Scalar-Waves in Healing"

This video describes with simplicity and clarity the science of scalar energy - the energy that underlies the healing technologies that are at the core of the new global healing system.

It will take you on a journey of discovery, past the barriers of quantum and wave-energy physics, into a space of new awareness where "knowing" replaces "book knowledge".

It provides new insights into the controlling cause of all events and phenomena we observe in our world and in our lives in an easy to understand way, without compromising scientific accuracy.

This video has been proclaimed as a landmark video in the understanding of life energy and it is gaining acceptance as an educational aid in the teaching of enlightened science.

Students Who Exposed 30-Year-Old Wrongful Conviction Being Targeted By Chicago DA

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:25:09 GMT

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Students Who Exposed 30-Year-Old Wrongful Conviction Being Targeted By Chicago DA

It's shocking that the state would rather keep an innocent man behind bars than admit a mistake.

There's a very important editorial in The Nation this week that I hope everyone will take the time to read. It's about the wrongful conviction of Anthony McKinney, who's been in prison for thirty-one years for a murder he did not commit. I'm posting the relevant portions below.

On the evening of September 15, 1978, a white security guard named Donald Lundahl was murdered in a robbery gone awry in a racially fraught southern suburb of Chicago. Police fingered Anthony McKinney, an 18-year-old African-American with no criminal record, as the killer. The prosecution sought death by lethal injection; the judge sentenced McKinney to life in prison.

Following her election that November as Cook County State's Attorney, hardline career prosecutor Anita Alvarez fought the discovery of new evidence,

Dr. Russell Blaylock.."Swine Flu is one of the MILDEST in History"

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:46:59 GMT

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Swine Flu -- One of the Most Massive Cover-ups in American History

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By Dr. Russell Blaylock (www.russellblaylockmd.com)

What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments never have learned anything from history or acted on principles deduced from it.” G.W.F. Hegel

I have been following the evolving “pandemic” of H1N1 influenza beginning with the original discovery of the infection in Mexico in March of this year. In the course of this study I have tried to utilize as my sources high-quality, peer-reviewed journals, data from the CDC and accepted textbooks of virology.

Pregnant Women NOT at Special Risk from Swine Flu

In the beginning, even before it was declared a level 6 pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), a group of “scientists” were sounding the alarm that this might indeed be the terrifying, deadly pandemic they had been expecting for over half a century.

Swine Flu- One of the Most Massive Cover-ups in American History

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:54:20 GMT

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Swine Flu -- One of the Most Massive Cover-ups in American History

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By Dr. Russell Blaylock (www.russellblaylockmd.com)

What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments never have learned anything from history or acted on principles deduced from it.”

Lucky Man !!

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:04:26 GMT

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A Scottish game warden who bought a metal detector for a new hobby discovered a £1m hoard of Iron Age jewellery - on his first outing.

Five days after taking delivery of the £240 metal detector and seven steps into his first treasure hunt, David Booth unearthed four 2,300-year-old torcs made of pure gold.

It has been described by experts variously as "prime Iron Age bling" and the most significant discovery of Iron Age metalwork in Scotland, reports The Times.

ir Drummond Safari Park in Stirlingshire, said: "I saw a gli

Mr Booth, 35, a warden at Blampse of one of them, then uncovered the rest of the hoard.

"They were in a wee group. Half me was saying, 'that does look important', but I was thinking I couldn't be that lucky on my first go.

"I took them home, gave them a wee clean up and went online. I looked at some torcs and kind of guessed this was iron age history."

stretch mark removal

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:22:07 GMT

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Meanwhile, dermatologists continue to search for other techniques that can stimulate healing within the deeper, the collagen containing layers of the skin. The discovery of such techniques will allow any patient with stretch marks to select a removal method from a larger range of options.

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Dead Star Encased in Diamond Shroud

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:35:21 GMT

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Diamond in the Sky

Nov. 5, 2009 -- Astronomers have just solved a decade-old mystery that explains the unusual behavior of a neutron star -- the dense, hot corpse left behind after a massive stellar explosion -- at the center of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant.

It wasn't the X-rays streaming from the center of the supernova remnant that astronomers found puzzling. It's why the beams weren't pulsating as expected. Now the scientists know why: The neutron star is covered with a thin atmosphere of carbon, which acts like a giant bulb to smooth light in all directions.

The findings help to illustrate the extreme nature of these entities.

"The carbon is unique," Wynn Ho, a researcher with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, told Discovery News. "The neutron stars that have been detected with atmosphere have evolved with hydrogen, and that's what we'd expect because hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe."

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3 Year Old Digs Up Rings In Time For 50th Anniversary

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:53:10 GMT

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Ryan Baima, 3, loves to dig in his yard, and it was while he was digging recently that he made an incredible discovery.

He brought a ring, caked with dirt, over to his mother

Luna Baima says she didn't think much of it, until Ryan asked if she wanted the other one.

That's when it clicked in her head, that her son had likely just found someone's engagement ring and wedding band.

Luna began asked neighbors about the rings, and one neighor remembered that 33 years ago, a woman named Joan Mulligan had lost her rings while weeding in the yard.

She had offered a reward to children in the neighborhood, and they searched for days, but the rings were never found.

Ryan and Joan met on Tuesday. Ryan gave Joan her rings, and she gave him $50s

She is going to have them repaired and then plans to wear all four wedding of her wedding and engagement rings.

Joan says this is especially meaningful, because she and her husband William will celebrate their 50th anniversary next year.

Hormones are the Switch For the Lantern Shark

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:03:11 GMT

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That is the link to the video that wouldn't clip. The article is fascinating...

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The safe answer to how a lantern shark turns its luminescence on and off is: “Any way it wants.” Now researchers have looked into the belly of the beast and found that three hormones act as on-off switches for these glow-in-the-dark sharks. It is the first discovery of hormones controlling bioluminescence in animals, the scientists report in the November 15 Journal of Experimental Biology.

In all animals investigated up to this point, luminescence is triggered by nerve cells. Finding a parallel pathway to bioluminescence — one that’s controlled by hormones, not nerves — strongly supports the notion that light-emitting powers have evolved multiple times in animals, comments marine scientist Jim Gelsleichter of the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, who was not involved in the research.

The light-emitting cells in some sharks aren’t connected to prominent nerve cells, and the slow onset of their glow hinted that something other than nerves were involved.

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:45:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: November 6, 2009

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That is what Lawrence Lessig, the Harvard University law professor and renowned open-access advocate, told a theater of higher ed technologists Thursday at the 2009 Educause Conference here. In his talk, Lessig described how digital and Web technology has exploded the conditions under which copyright law had been written.

“If copyright law, at its core, regulates something called ‘copies,’ then in the analog world… many uses of culture were copyright-free,” he explained. “They didn’t trigger copyright law, because no copy was made. But in the digital world, very few uses are copyright-free because in the digital world … all uses produce a copy.”

The paradigm for copyright law enforcement emerged out of this "analog world" as a way of ensuring authors were remunerated for their contributions to culture, thereby creating an incentive to make further contributions and drive the progress on human art and discovery forward, he said.

Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:07:55 GMT

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The Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, just cannot catch a break. First, a coolant leak destroyed some of the magnets that guide the energy beam. Then LHC officials postponed the restart of the machine to add additional safety features. Now, a bird dropping a piece of bread on a section of the accelerator has, according to the Register, shut down the whole operation.

The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine.

the idea of time traveling particles returning from the future to prevent their own discovery is beginning to seem less and less far fetched.

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Oprah Winfrey Leaves Network TV

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:31:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Wow, this is huge. How will people who don't have cable follow Oprah now? Perhaps Obama should get involved.

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EXCLUSIVE:

One of the biggest questions in the TV biz has been when, and even if, Oprah Winfrey would give up her daytime syndicated talk show to focus on OWN, her long delayed Oprah Winfrey Network in 70 million homes that was supposed to launch in place of the Discovery Health Channel

Discovery Communications chief David Zaslav has demanded that Oprah "move it or lose it" -- move her talk show to OWN, or risk losing the Oprah Winfrey Network altogether

Winfrey and Discovery will issue a press release announcing OWN's on-air launch for the start of 2011. And, in several weeks, Oprah will tell the public that she's ending her syndicated Chicago-based daytime talk show when her current deal runs out and moving it to OWN headquarters in Los Angeles probably as soon as mid-2011.

Hardest hit by the news will be CBS Television Distribution which syndicates the show

Also hit will be ABC's owned-and-operated stations which make up Oprah's core station group, and also Sony TV execs

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The life of Albert Einstein -

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:40:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, E = mc2. Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."

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The life of Albert Einstein - part 1

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Einstein's many contributions to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled mechanics with electromagnetism, and his general theory of relativity, which extended the principle of relativity to non-uniform motion, creating a new theory of gravitation. His other contributions include relativistic cosmology, capillary action, critical opalescence, classical problems of statistical mechanics and their application to quantum theory, an explanation of the Brownian movement of molecules, atomic transition probabilities, the quantum theory of a monatomic gas, thermal properties of light with low radiation density (which laid the foundation for the photon theory), a theory of radiation including stimulated emission, the conception of a unified field theory, and the geometrization of physics.

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The life of Albert Einstein - part 2

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The life of Albert Einstein - part 3

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The life of Albert Einstein - part 4

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The life of Albert Einstein - part 5

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Clipmarks | Discovery Clips

Politicians and Healthcare

How Dinosaurs Got Their Iconic Look

Scalar Energy....the new Frontier of Healing/Health

Students Who Exposed 30-Year-Old Wrongful Conviction Being Targeted By Chicago DA

Dr. Russell Blaylock.."Swine Flu is one of the MILDEST in History"

Swine Flu- One of the Most Massive Cover-ups in American History

Lucky Man !!

stretch mark removal

Dead Star Encased in Diamond Shroud

3 Year Old Digs Up Rings In Time For 50th Anniversary

Hormones are the Switch For the Lantern Shark

A Call for Copyright Rebellion November 6, 2009

Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider

Oprah Winfrey Leaves Network TV

The life of Albert Einstein -

The life of Albert Einstein - part 1

The life of Albert Einstein - part 2

The life of Albert Einstein - part 3

The life of Albert Einstein - part 4

The life of Albert Einstein - part 5