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News Briefs 07-07-2006

By Katon

TDG – the place to be for all of us thinking mouse potatoes.

  • Gene reveals mammoth coat colour.
  • Age of the Sierra Nevada revealed.
  • Two centuries after he dropped anchor in Botany Bay, Capt James Cook has sailed into a political storm in Australia, the country he put on the map.
  • In his new book, Arcadia: The Solution to the Templar Code (Amazon US & UK), code-buster Clifton Power claims to have solved the mystery of the cryptic letters on the Shepherd’s Monument.
  • Acoustics and Mayan Architecture.
  • Mystery object found in supernova.
  • Brown Dwarf = Bad Weather: Failed stars found to have astonishing weather patterns, such as iron rain.
  • Astronauts to go farther on Saturday’s spacewalk.
  • NASA’s Mars mission faces rocky future.
  • Weapons in outer space.
  • In the first paper on music theory that the journal Science has printed in its 127-year history, composer reveals musical chords’ hidden geometry.
  • Can they make you invisible? Rescuers could use this beam of light to peer through rubble after an earthquake, while doctors could gaze at a damaged lung after making a patient’s skin and ribs vanish.
  • Global Warming, a Lost Cause?
  • The ice cream man cometh… to save a melting world.
  • Biologists solve plant growth hormone enigma.
  • On microchips, beams of light traveling through microscopic waveguides may soon replace electric currents traveling through microscopic wires.
  • New ion trap may lead to large quantum computers.
  • Solitons could power molecular electronics, artificial muscles. Did Star Trek get it wrong about Data’s positronic net?
  • The big sleep: There may be a link between the way memories are formed and the adverse effects of sleep deprivation.
  • Baboons talk with their hands.
  • Getting soccer down to a science: Scientists and mathematicians are trying to create a formula for the perfect penalty shot.
  • Fifty of the world’s leading conservation experts call for urgent rescue mission to save frogs, newts and other amphibians from extinction.
  • Duh! Research of the Day: Warming climate plays large role in Western US wildfires. A close second.
  • Even though they’ve been immunized, 40% of UK’s coughing kids show evidence of whooping cough infection.
  • Go-ahead granted for UK hacker’s extradition.
  • Consultant who hacked FBI’s computers in 2004 says, frustrated by bureaucracy, agents approved and aided the breach.
  • ‘Security’ fight expanded: With only a letter, FBI can gather private data.
  • Man raided by FBI, ATF, and Canadian Law Enforcement after handing out ‘subversive’ Alex Jones material.
  • No worries – it’s just unexplained cracks in reactor cores.
  • The psychopaths among us: Research shows they’re oblivious to the obvious.
  • A matter of taste: Americans read food labels, then eat the bad stuff anyway.
  • Here’s a preview of tonight’s Sci-Fi channel special, ‘Quest for Atlantis: Startling New Secrets’.
  • Arggh! Pirate news for me ‘n Rico: Walking the plank on Scotland’s west coast. I was planning to see Pirates of the Caribean: Dead Man’s Chest today, but the critics are really slamming it.
  • Homeless farmer forced to sell home-made robots. What a headline!
  • Tahoe bear takes to the back seat of a vintage red Buick convertible, snacks on pizza, and then swills Jack Daniels, an Absolut and tonic, and a beer. First the video of a bear snoozing in a backyard hammock, and now this. What’s up with bears this year?
  • Mouse potatoes, himbos, googling and drama queens make cross-over from pop culture to mainstream English. Sorry, Jameske – it looks like shemale didn’t make the cut.

Thanks Clifton.

Quote of the Day:

Global warming may or may not be the great environmental crisis of the next century, but—regardless of whether it is or isn’t—we won’t do much about it. We will (I am sure) argue ferociously over it and may even, as a nation, make some fairly solemn-sounding commitments to avoid it. But the more dramatic and meaningful these commitments seem, the less likely they are to be observed. Little will be done… Global warming promises to become a gushing source of national hypocrisy.

Robert J. Samuelson, Newsweek, July, 1997

Kat
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18 Comments

  1. Wrong about thinking?
    >>TDG – the place to be for all of us thinking mouse potatoes.

    Friday’s News Briefs took a solid 8 hours of diligently searching the internet, yet it’s now 18 hours after posting, and no one’s thought of a single thing to say. So let me remind all of you…

    We editors are all unpaid volunteers, and as such (oh, dear, I’m beginning to sound like Snape), we rely on your feedback for reinforcement. I don’t know about the guys, but for me, it’s plum depressing when you lot don’t say anything.

    I hope I wasn’t wrong about us being thinking mouse potatoes.

    Kat

    1. hey i have 3 comments !
      – lack of responses:

      Well, it has been hard to log in lately. Greg says it is a known problem, and poses no security risk. I believe that. Nevertheless, this will discourage a lot of people, who think that their login doesn’t work. Once they give up, they don’t have a way to complain about it.

      – global warming being a “lost cause”:

      Yes I believe it is a lost cause. What is happening is still a debate over who is at fault. For one thing, we won’t know for a long time. But more importantly, the folks who are convinced the have found the guilty ones – what do they propose to fix the problem?

      Suppose the cause is human activity. It does seem likely. Most of the guilty have been dead for a long time. Some of them are still alive. Suppose we arrest all of them. How does that help? It doesn’t.

      There is too little effort in dealing with the problems, and too much effort in arguing about whether it is happening at all, and who is to blame. If global warming is indeed happening at the rate that the popular press tells us, it is way too late to stop it.

      – light-based microchips:

      Chips that did some of their on-chip communication with light have been working for some years now. This is also quite interesting for multi-layered chips, where you stack a number of chips on top of each other. It has some nice advantages. For example, the light connections are not restricted to paths fixed at manufacturing time. Instead, they can vary more dynamically. This is a nice thing, for reconfigurability. Whether this will make it to the market is a question of demand for very complex CPUs.

    2. Thanks, Kat
      I read the articles on musical chords’ hidden geometry, ‘subversive’ Alex Jones material and psychopaths among us.

      TDG and Sploid are my main sources of news. I also read a lot of blogs.

    3. Your news always top class
      Kat, I always enjoy your news items and appreciate the time it takes you to find them for us. However, I often save your news until Saturday to read as otherwise it would be a ‘dead’ day, so I’m usually hours behind everyone else.

      I don’t often post comments unless I have something worthwhile to contribute or I get really ‘stirred’! This doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate your hard efforts, just that I think silence is better than babble (not that I’m saying others post babble – lots of folk have very interesting things to say on subjects that I don’t know a great deal about.)

      We love you – please don’t ever think otherwise.

      Regards, Kathrinn.

    4. thinking mouse potato
      Dear Kat,

      I only get the chance to read TDG
      whilst I’m at work (when I’m supposed
      to be working). I guess you wouldn’t
      appreciate the irony in that I’m
      technically being paid to read TDG
      while you edit as an unpaid volunteer.
      Anyway I don’t get much chance to comment.
      I like your political posts but my
      favourite reading is anything on the
      Skinwalker Ranch or related topics or
      about the role of hallucinogens in
      civilisation or shamanism or this
      Electric Universe theory.

      best regards

  2. Quest for Atlantis
    Just watched the Q/A show. Pretty good as these things go. I’ve met the gang from the A.R.E. (Cayce’s organization) and they are all fairly earnest researchers. My only critique (which may have only been the way the show was edited) was that everything leads to Atlantis. With the entire world having a sea level about 400 ft lower, every research project could be on the right track — just not necessarily Atlantis.

    The only other point was that Greg Little found a sea anchor that tested to 500 years old. That would be about perfect for the Chinese being in the Bahamas in 1421.

    X_O

    1. the sea
      I don’t get that show here, as far as I know.

      Of course at some time not that long ago, the sea level was considerable lower in the oceans. It was also even lower than that in the Black Sea, before the Bosporus broke open, maybe 7000 years ago. Add to that the simple observation that humans settle on the shores of seas and oceans, and you would expect that many settlements are now covered by water. And by a few thousand years worth of sediment. Most of these things will never be found, since a lot of it was built from materials that are not durable enough.

      About that sea anchor – how do they know it is Chinese ? Is it of a design typical for Chinese anchors, and different from European anchors? 500 years old puts it back to 1506 or so, by which times the Europeans were in the area. Unless of course Greg Little found it several decades ago.

      1. sea anchors
        These anchors were local rock that could be dated by testing for the age of the shells. I have no idea how accurate that can be determined, but it would have to be better than 70 years to separate the supposed Chnese visit and Columbus. Multiple holes were drilled through the stone — a technique which is found in various regions. I need to read the 1421 book to see if they claimed that technique for the Chinese. I do know that the author claimed that all the artifacts related to the Bimini ‘road’ were related to a major drydocking/rebuilding of one of the junks that the Chinese had damaged in a storm.

  3. UK hackers extradition…..
    last we will see of him. He upset and embarrased a few people.

    Great news Kat! Your efforts are very much appreciated by many many people.

  4. Your work is always appreciated
    But i have no time at present. Am caught up in one of those work restructures that we just had to have and unfortunately i have no time other than a quick glance at TDG.

    AAiek

      1. Aha!
        My fellow ‘bear news’ poster. I’m betting he (the bear, not Paul) liked the Jack Daniels best. 😉

        I wasn’t fishing for compliments. I just like to know which articles people find interesting.

        Kat

        1. psychopaths
          ooooo! I am the ‘bear news’ poster… am I? There is Front Page news story here in TO about an excon teaching kids how to swim. I think he has to be a psychopath. Interesting tie in with your ‘The psychopaths among us’ link. But still, I am that ‘bear news poster’ guy, right!

    1. many of them
      such players who will not go to jail, yes they will look for new jobs.

      But then, it remains to be seen in the Italian courts, whether breaking the law is illegal. Or illegal enough to be punished. Stay tuned.

  6. Regarding Atlantis!
    For info on both Atlantis and other civilizations of that time, I found Dweller on Two Planets or the Dividing of the Way illuminating. The author usually gives two names for these other civilizations – the one that they used at the time, and the current name we’re more familiar with.

    There’s a so-called sequel titled ‘Earth Dweller’s Return’ which imho is not by the same author, although it claims to be. I found ‘Dweller’ to be far superior to the pale imitation offered by ‘Return’, so I’d advise you to ignore the 2nd volumn.

    Some of what Blavatsky wrote about Atlantis is interesting too; and you can read that on the web. I don’t remember anything about Athens in particular, but then, my memory isn’t what it used to be. A lot of her Atlantis material is in ‘Isis Unveiled’. Here’s for Blavatsky’s Atlantis material.

    Kat (On Kennc’s Comment Page Without Permission To Delete Kennc’s Comment And Write Her Own Comment!!!)

    http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/Atlantis/timaeus_and_critias.html

    What do you think?

    kennc

    P.S. Why did you delete my origional post? Plato claimed that Athens had a very high civilization too and that it won a war against Atlantis!
    Both civilizations were destroyed at about the same time!

    If you are going to do this when there was nothing objectionable in my post, I won’t respond to any of your posts again! I want and deserve an answer!!! Of course, I could ask Greg to find out for me!!! Yes, I am a little more than mildly upset!!! You don’t rewrite what I write!!! Why didn’t you just reply with your comments? I want and deserve an answer!!!

    1. deleted post
      Oh, dear – I had no idea I deleted anything. I only intended to post a reply. Sorry about that! My abject apologies. It was an accident.

      Maybe it’s a glitch in the system, because I thought for sure I just clicked on the reply button as usual. Then again, maybe I was more tired than I thought – it was pretty late when I posted what I thought was a reply.

      Kat

      Addendum: I’ve figured out how this accident happened, and what I can do about it. If you email me, telling me what your original post said, I’ll fix everything back the way it’s supposed to be.

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