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POPSRussian scientists challenge 'man-made' global warming theory.
“We found that the level of CO2 had fluctuated greatly over the period but at any given time increases in air temperature preceded higher concentrations of CO2,” says academician Kapitsa, who worked in Antarctica for many years. Russian studies showed that throughout history, CO2 levels in the air rose 500 to 600 years after the climate warmed up. Therefore, higher concentrations of greenhouse gases registered today are the result, not the cause, of global warming. Critics of the CO2 role in climate change point out that water vapours are a far more potent factor in creating the greenhouse effect as their concentration in the atmosphere is five to 10 times higher than that of CO2. “Even if all CO2 were removed from the earth atmosphere, global climate would not become any cooler,” says solar physicist Vladimir Bashkirtsev. The hypothesis of anthropogenic greenhouse gases was born out of computer modelling of climate changes. Russian scientists say climate models are inaccurate si
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POPSEvolution of cooperation Another example of the selfish gene. What would be more interesting for me is to see cooperation (it can begin in human:) which is not based on survival only.
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POPSComplex view is needed These properties point toward a much more complex view of the organism, not just as ulcer-pathogen or cancer-pathogen, but as an organism that has its costs and benefits to us
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POPS"My Guantanamo Diary" All About Naive
And this is how Mahvish Rukhsana Kahn,assesses every one of her clients. She accepts without question detainee stories of widespread torture, brutal interrogation, commonplace Quran desecration and illegal confinement. But she never bothers to reference al Qaeda's "Manchester Manual," that instructs its members to allege torture and abuse as part of their defense against Western legal systems. Besides her sympathies for the "innocent" Afghans, Kahn grew openly contemptuous of the American military men and women serving there. She describes mocking a posted "Soldier's Creed" to a guard and how she had to learn "the military's sneaky speak" - her description of terms commonly used in the detention process. She refers to one female guard repeatedly as "Rodent Face," and repeats one detainee's story about how he found the guards "androgynous" and that "we can find no sign of manhood in this army." If she was bothered by these attitudes, she doesn't mention it.
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POPSMyriad's Flurizan Fails There were plenty of reasons to be skeptical, so this doesn't neccesarily dent the amyloid hypothesis. Still a disappointment. Myriad's diagnostic test business is cushioning the blow. Click on the article to read a nice take from Adam Feuerstein over at TheStreet.com.
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POPSThe Journal of Unlikely Science I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas J. Watson ., IBM Chairman, 1943 Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. - Popular Mechanics, 1949
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POPSCan parasites influence the language we speak? "These costly interactions especially come from interacting with people who do not belong to your society or group, whose immune systems are adapted for a separate set of parasites than your own," adds Fincher. n the parasite-rich forest populations, interacting with others came with a high chance of contracting a lethal illness, making parasites an evolutionary driving force.
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POPSThe Occult Nature of Light "Both God and Light exist outside of space & time." "There is something very suggestive about no-space, no-time, Light, and God. I don't know what it is but there's something deep and profound here that I wish I understood." "Light propagation may actually create space & time. The zero point field inertial hypothesis implies that the most fundamental property of matter, namely mass, is created by light." - Dr. Bernard Haisch, astrophysicist, author of "The God Theory"
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