tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35178062009-04-27T19:55:21.162-07:00Things you might have missed if you get most of your news from television.Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comBlogger295125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517806.post-32661910755884950582009-04-27T19:44:00.000-07:002009-04-27T19:55:21.177-07:00

The Whole-Cannabis Lozenge May Cure Flu(SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE), 4-27-09)Cannabis Science Inc. Reports on Prospective Life Saving Treatments for H1N1 Swine Flu and H5N1 Bird Flu in View of the Current Global ThreatCannabis Science Inc. (OTCBB: GFON.OB), an emerging pharmaceutical cannabis company, reported today on the current state of development of its whole-cannabis lozenge in response

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'Map Of Science' Shows Scientists' Virtual Trails Through Online ServicesScienceDaily (Mar. 11, 2009) - Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have produced the world's first Map of Science-a high-resolution graphic depiction of the virtual trails scientists leave behind when they retrieve information from online services. . . . The research, led by Johan Bollen, appeared recently in PLoS One.

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Pope Bennie the Rat Slams ObamaThe link above will take you to the story about the deranged old men in the Vatican who have no right to speak of morality. Below are a few comments readers of the story left and with whom I happen to agree.I cringe when the Catholic church has an opinion..We the US attacked a country ..unprovoked....killed women, children, innocent men...soldiers. . . . Church said

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Harvard Med Students Expose Big Pharma's Influence on Campus(DUFF WILSON, New York Times, March 2, 2009)In a first-year pharmacology class at Harvard Medical School, Matt Zerden grew wary as the professor promoted the benefits of cholesterol drugs and seemed to belittle a student who asked about side effects. . . . Mr. Zerden later discovered something by searching online that he began sharing

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Chemical Dumbing Down of America

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Discussing the Global Brain and the Future of the Web (Video)At the DemoFall08 conference, back in September 9th there was a discussion titled "Where the Web is Going." After introductions and an overview of the participants, the panel discussion starts at 5:40 with the following people: * Howard Bloom, author of The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century * Peter

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A few of the companies using the poison Melamine

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517806.post-14524106762772845642008-09-29T19:48:00.001-07:002008-09-29T19:48:20.383-07:00

Happy birthday to GNU! ... Open Source Rules!Software should be free, and the using community should be responsible for its development.For more information, please see: www.gnu.org

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517806.post-25977197898716043102008-08-25T21:22:00.000-07:002008-08-25T21:27:19.094-07:00

Why Neanderthal man may not have been as stupid as he looks(Steve Connor, The Independent, 26 August 2008)Neanderthals were not as stupid as they have been portrayed, according to a study showing their stone tools were just as good as those made by the early ancestors of modern humans, Homo sapiens. . . . Scientists who spent years learning how to make replicas of the stone instruments used by

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517806.post-1838893242260778942008-08-07T18:43:00.000-07:002008-08-07T19:18:28.490-07:00

'Major discovery' from MIT primed to unleash solar revolutionIn a revolutionary leap that could transform solar power from a marginal, boutique alternative into a mainstream energy source, MIT researchers have overcome a major barrier to large-scale solar power: storing energy for use when the sun doesn't shine. . . . Until now, solar power has been a daytime-only energy source, because storing

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517806.post-68078324957072248752008-08-07T14:23:00.000-07:002008-08-07T14:50:54.875-07:00

TED talk by Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the WebWhen you consider the fact that everything that is happening on the Web at this very moment was completely unpredicted just a decade ago, and the fact that today the Web is still less than 5,000 days old, it certainly gives one a reason to wonder what must be yet coming at us. At the 2007 TED Conference, Kevin Kelly makes a few

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Sleeping soundly 'boosts memory'(BBC News, 14 July 2008)Researchers found sleep appears to have a dramatic impact on the way the brain functions the next day. . . . It appears to strengthen connections between nerve cells in the brain - a process key to both learning and memory. . . . The researchers studied a group of 32 volunteers who were taught a new skill or shown images they would later

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Study: 'Magic mushrooms' have long benefit(MSNBC, July 1, 2008)In 2002, at a Johns Hopkins University laboratory, a business consultant named Dede Osborn took a psychedelic drug as part of a research project. . . . She felt like she was taking off. She saw colors. Then it felt like her heart was ripping open. . . . But she called the experience joyful as well as painful, and says that it has

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Medical plants 'face extinction'(BBC News, January 19, 2008)Hundreds of medicinal plants are at risk of extinction, threatening the discovery of future cures for disease, according to experts. . . . Over 50% of prescription drugs are derived from chemicals first identified in plants. . . . But the Botanic Gardens Conservation International said many were at risk from over-collection and

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517806.post-91676170793157563502007-12-11T09:07:00.000-08:002007-12-11T09:14:13.400-08:00

Human evolution is 'speeding up'(Anna-Marie Lever, BBC News, 11 December 2007)Humans have moved into the evolutionary fast lane and are becoming increasing different, a genetic study suggests. . . . In the past 5,000 years, genetic change has occurred at a rate roughly 100 times higher than any other period, say scientists in the US. . . . This is in contrast with the widely-held belief that

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517806.post-66704027219562686422007-09-22T14:51:00.000-07:002007-09-22T15:00:54.723-07:00

List of Genetically Modified Foods on your grocery shelfTrue Food Now! has an interesting list of many common foods that you see on the store shelves every day that have been genetically modified. [Click link above for complete listing] For example, under the chocolate category:GENETICALLY ENGINEERED INGREDIENTS [IN]Cadbury (Cadbury/Hershey's) Mounds Almond Joy York Peppermint Patty Dairy Milk

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517806.post-33965520898331863602007-07-10T17:21:00.000-07:002007-07-10T17:24:31.591-07:00

Michael Moore Busts Wolf BlitzerIn case YouTube drops the video I've linked to below, I'm following it with a transcript from this interesting exchange between Moore and Blitzer.TRANSCRIPT OF THE ABOVE INTERVIEW:BLITZER: Michael Moore is joining us now live from Detroit. Michael, thanks very much for coming in. You want to respond to anything ...MOORE: First of all, Wolf, yeah, well -- yeah, I'd

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517806.post-2070175657786834252007-03-14T19:24:00.000-07:002007-03-14T19:47:30.799-07:00

Expedite the Move Towards a Solar-Electric Economy via Tesla MotorsElon Musk is an Internet / rocket-launch / electric-car / solar-power entrepreneur. Musk has a grand plan. It all starts with a sports car.Musk was born and grew up in South Africa. In 1995, Musk went onto a graduate program in energy physics at Stanford. He dropped out to start Zip2, which was acquired by AltaVista for US$307

Halhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16435726352424686973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517806.post-86547227990750623632007-03-02T09:58:00.000-08:002007-03-02T10:06:56.040-08:00

Species under threat: Honey, who shrunk the bee population?(01 March 2007, The Independent)Across America, millions of honey bees are abandoning their hives and flying off to die, leaving beekeepers facing ruin and US agriculture under threat. And to date, no one knows why. It has echoes of a murder mystery in polite society. There could hardly be a more sedate and unruffled world than beekeeping

An Old Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468339733863179942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517806.post-1158183561410240422006-09-13T14:29:00.000-07:002006-09-13T14:39:21.490-07:00

Neanderthals' may have survived longer than previously thought(BBC NEWS, 13 September 2006)A study in Nature magazine suggests the species may have lived in Gorham's Cave on Gibraltar up to 24,000 years ago. . . . The Neanderthal people were believed to have died out about 35,000 years ago, at a time when modern humans were advancing across the continent. . . . The new evidence suggests they held

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517806.post-1154137236132323232006-07-28T18:37:00.000-07:002006-07-28T18:40:36.146-07:00

Agent Orange 'caused gene damage'(BBC News, 28 July 2006)New Zealand troops who served in the Vietnam War suffered significant genetic damage from exposure to Agent Orange, a study suggests. . . . The chemical was used by the US military in Vietnam in the 1960s. . . . It has been blamed for a variety of medical conditions suffered by soldiers and up to four million Vietnamese. . . . The US

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517806.post-1153497090069682242006-07-21T08:45:00.000-07:002006-07-21T08:51:31.910-07:00

Bees and flowers decline in step(BBC News, 21 July 2006)Diversity in bees and wild flowers is declining together, at least in Britain and the Netherlands, research shows. . . . climate change and modern industrial farming are possible factors in the linked decline. . . . There is a chance, they say, that the decline in pollinating bees could have detrimental effects on food production. . . . The

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Hackers stepping up attacks on Pentagon(Siobhan Gorman, Baltimore Sun, July 2, 2006)The number of reported attempts to penetrate Pentagon computer networks rose sharply in the past decade, from fewer than 800 in 1996 to more than 160,000 last year - thousands of them successful. At the same time, the nation's ability to safeguard sensitive data in those and other government computer systems is

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517806.post-1151335649628376842006-06-26T08:25:00.000-07:002006-06-26T08:27:29.666-07:00

Lab tuned to gravity's 'ripples'(BBC News, 26 June 2006)One of the great scientific experiments of our age is now fully underway. . . . A German/UK team has put the giant GEO 600 gravitational wave detector in a continuous observational mode. . . . The Hanover lab is trying to detect the ripples created in the fabric of space-time that sweep out from merging black holes or exploding stars. . . .

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517806.post-1151080091179476672006-06-23T09:24:00.000-07:002006-06-23T09:28:11.200-07:00

'Thirst For Knowledge' May Be Opium Craving(ScienceDaily, June 20, 2006)Neuroscientists have proposed a simple explanation for the pleasure of grasping a new concept: The brain is getting its fix. . . . The "click" of comprehension triggers a biochemical cascade that rewards the brain with a shot of natural opium-like substances, said Irving Biederman of the University of Southern California. He

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