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News Briefs 30-01-2009

Finding the extraordinary in an ordinary day…

  • S’cuse me while I kiss the electric sky.
  • Moving matter with light.
  • A 5,000 year old calendar in Canada.
  • What science can’t tell us.
  • Organic computing by way of carbon computers.
  • Was “Darwin Wrong”? The insightful (and potentially inciting) answer, courtesy of New Scientist.
  • Day of the Locusts, no more? More here on reversing the eighth plague.
  • Blind man shocks lab-coats with what he sees.
  • Sculpting the impossible… Solid renditions of visual illusions.
  • Is this the 50’s or 1999? Modern day Doc Brown toils away on time machine.
  • Comet impact theory disproved?
  • NASA ‘Smoking man’ to unveil truth about UFO’s? Inquiring minds want to know.
  • And apparently so do the Danes – Danish Air Force opens its UFO archives.
  • Re-building Teotihuacan for the interwebs.
  • Did an Italian journalist ‘invent’ the Loch Ness Monster in 1933?
  • Next stop on Thomas Friedman’s thermometer… Global Weirding.
  • A flu vaccine for life, the universe and everything.
  • Burying crop bales at sea may just fix global warming
  • Forget the LHC, check out the giant particle accelerator in Centaurus A.
  • Finally – A way to simultaneously battle the force and the elements.
  • Night of the living dead road worker? Take your next exit.

Many thanks to Greg, RPJ and Perceval

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  1. Weapon against locusts.
    [quote]Once researchers determined that serotonin causes the change, they gave locusts drugs that blocked serotonin and then exposed them to situations that normally cause swarming. But the change didn’t occur.[/quote]

    NONSENSE!

    Every Cog soldier worth his tags, knows that the best weapon against the Locust is a revved Lancer.

    Take that, serotonin! 😉

    —–
    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

    1. nah
      DARPA is more into little robot locusts. They would function approximately like SIMD computers, where a bunch of simple CPUs follow a single stream of instructions, doins the same computation on different data.

      These robot locusts would be similar, but instead of eating data, they will eat your crops.

      —-
      It is not how fast you go
      it is when you get there.

  2. Darwin was wrong!
    What an ‘own goal’ for New Scientist. When will they ever learn that despite saying NO inside the magazine, given that they state DARWIN WAS WRONG in huge letters on the cover simply gives creationists all the ammunition they need to persue their arguments against science.

    Desire to sell copies obviously overcame common sense, something I would not have expected from New Scientist.

    Regards

    Nostra

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