Thursday, January 17, 2008
There Is No Need For Sleep
Could we ever live without sleep? I bet someday people will be doing just that! It's possible if we can change our mind and body's make-up to something more like an animal, like a Great White shark, they don't sleep. And if that happened life would be completely different...
What Creationists Can't See
Any mass fossil graveyard in the creationists' eyes is the work of Noah's Flood, never mind the real factors behind the mass graveyards, such as the mass bodies of animals drowned in a failed attempt to cross a river at flood stage gradually accumulating in one spot over periods of time in a scenario similar to mass migration of wildebeest.
Circuit Inverter : Inverter 100W by IC 4047 + 2N3055
This circuit Inverter input 12V (battery 12V) to out 220V 50HZ, Eesy circuit because less component to use. It use IC 4047 (oscillator 50HZ) and Power Transistor 2N3055 x 2 ,OUTPUT Power 100W
Jan. 18, 1778: Cook Blunders Into Paradise
1778: Capt. James Cook makes landfall in Waimea Bay on Kaua'i, becoming the first European to set foot in the Hawaiian Islands.
Silicon Nanowires Turn Heat to Electricity
Scientists have developed silicon nanowires which convert heat into electricity at a rate 100 times greater than that of typical silicon. The developers are hopeful that this technology will allow the harvesting of waste heat as a power source, improving the efficiency of various computer chips and appliances.
Gravity. Is it really a pulling force?
What is the evidence that gravity is a pulling force? Nothing. Nothing at all. Did you know a better evidence? An apple falls to the ground. Therefore, it is stated, the Earth pulls the apple. And with that the evidence is exhausted.
Nice chewy Pizza Hut silicon cheese is Polymethylsiloxane
Don't say cheese say Polymethylsiloxane - a silicon product used in Pizza Hut cheese. Pizza Huts cheese supplier Leprino Foods uses a silicone-based industrial chemical in the patented manufacturing of Pizza Cheese
Scientists Clone Human Embryos
Scientists in California have said to produce embryos that are clones. The new report documents embryos made with skin cells. This is not the first time this has been made. In 2005 it was tried but it didn't mature enough and it wasn't producing...
British scientists get licence for hybrid embryos
A scientist has cloned himself. Fertility doctor Samuel Wood created embryo copies of himself in the first experiments to successfully make clones of adult people. Despite being viewed as a major medical breakthrough, there is already a ethical storm over the controversial procedure . . . Part-human, part-animal embryos will be created...
Swiss study in mice may lead to new pain drugs
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Enhancing a natural pain-filtering mechanism in the spine helped relieve chronic pain in mice without the unwanted side effects of current pain relievers, Swiss researchers said on Wednesday. They honed in...
Virtual reality 3.0: No longer a dream
Virtual reality technology allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment. By converting traditional 2-D media to life-like 3-D objects, Irvine-based EON Reality, Inc.
Giant Rat Found in South America
The fossilized skeleton of giant rodents have been found in Uruquay. This oversized rat weighs in at an estimated 3,000 pounds.
Bookstore Promotes itself by Letting You Ban the Books
All in the name of family values, of course! t's called Abunga, and their motto is "Empowering Decency as your Family Friendly Bookstore". What that means is that they allow bookstore members to vote against books, and if enough people reject a book, the store removes it from its database. Sure hope people don't ban the "wrong books"...
A real life Spiderman on the drawing board?
Fertility watchdogs approve first human-animal hybrids. This is like some kind of screwed up sci-fi movie. Groups at 2 UK Universities have been given the go-ahead to start working on human-animal hybrid embryos!
Parasite May Lead to Schizophrenia
An amazing new finding suggests a common parasite carried by animals may increase the risk of schizophrenia. Toxoplasma gondii parasite, an organism carried by carried by cats and farm animals was found to increase the risk of schizophrenia by 24 percent among individuals.
Catastrophism
The opposite of Uniformitarianism and the Geologic Time Scale. Evidence for cataclysmic activity on earth. The Noachian Flood. A theory worth reinvestigation
Fact or Fiction?: Living People Outnumber the Dead
The human population has grown so large that people alive today outnumber all those who have ever lived, says suggests one theory. An article from Scientific American that separates out the fact from fiction on this important topic.
Parasite May Lead to Schizophrenia
An amazing new finding suggests a common parasite carried by animals may increase the risk of schizophrenia. Toxoplasma gondii parasite, an organism carried by carried by cats and farm animals was found to increase the risk of schizophrenia by 24 percent among individuals.
Major Geek Cred
I dreamed up the idea shortly after the Swiss Alps 3D terrain was released in Google Earth. I wanted a way to illustrate how cool I thought the new data was, and someone had coincidentally sent me the Swiss fighter YouTube video.
BA1404 HI-FI Stereo FM Transmitter
When you want to create your own radio station, transmit the music around the house, or simply create a wireless link between your iPod and a receiver in your car, this transmitter will let you do these things easily.
Creationism vs. Evolution: Setting the record straight
A creationist libels Ian Jobling and gets his head handed to him. A fun read.
And I Thought New York City's Rats Were Huge [pics]
Uruguayan scientists describe a new megarodent species that they discovered in a dusty old museum crate. Includes artist's rendering of the animal and photos of the fossils.
Questions Delay Creationist Master’s Degrees
Scientists fearful that Texas was about to approve a program to offer online master's degrees in science education — from a creationist perspective — received some good news Tuesday.
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