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Junk Science 101: Alcohol on TV Promotes Drinking

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TV booze ads can increase the likelihood of leering It’s often said that one man’s junk is another man’s treasure. Well, the same thing can be said about junk science and in particular, this study, which is a treasure to dump on. Widely reported everywhere , in a revelation so stunning it’ll reverse daylight savings time, researchers concluded that if you give people (especially predominantly self-admitted booze-hounds) free booze and show them a booze-themed film, well, they tend to drink. This comes hot on the heels of unreleased data from The Shark Guys Institute that shows that when having people over for a barbecue, ... Read Full Story

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Organism Earth: The Gaia Theory...

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The Gaia Hypothesis: "The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living entity capable of maintaining the Earth's atmosphere to suit its overall needs and endowed with faculties and powers far beyond those of its constituent parts...A complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet." "To what extent is our collective intelligence also a part of Gaia? Do we as a species constitute a Gaian ... Read Full Story

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A Satellite Shoot-Up

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USS Shiloh: SM-3 Missile Test One of biggest stories in the news over the past week or so has been how to deal with a satellite on a collision couse with Earth. The final decision was to try and blast it right out of the sky. But, how does one go about shooting a 5000lb satellite that's miles above the surface of the earth? read more » Technorati Tags: Environment International News Science Technology Array Read Full Story

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Japanese Satellite to Provide Hyper-speed Wireless Internet Service

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Japan's KIZUNA satellite, successfully launched from the Tanegashima Island Space Centre on a domestically developed, Mitsubishi H-2A rocket will introduce a new era of hyper-speed data communications across Asia. How fast is hyper-speed? Try 1.2 Gbps... the "G" stands for Giga (billion) . read more » Technorati Tags: Computers International Life Miscellaneous News Science Technology Read Full Story

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Key to Suspended Animation? Sewer Gas

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Researchers have discovered that exposure to hydrogen sulfide - the chemical that gives sewer gas and rotten eggs their putrid smell - can put mice in a state of suspended animation. If similar exposure could do the same for humans, it could open up whole new areas of medicine and experimental research. "Hydrogen sulfide is the stinky gas that can kill workers who encounter it in sewers; but when administered to mice in small, controlled doses, within minutes it produces what appears to be totally reversible metabolic suppression," says Warren Zapol, MD, chief of Anesthesia and Critical Care at Massachusetts General Hospital. Zapol and ... Read Full Story

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U.S. Forest Service to Adapt Woodland Management to Climate Change

Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell has directed the agency's regions and research stations to jointly produce draft "landscape conservation action plans" by March 1 to guide its day-to-day response to climate change.In a memo earlier this month requesting the plans, Tidwell said climate change is "dramatically reshaping" how the agency will deliver on its mission of sustaining the health and diversity of the nation's forests . He focused...

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Decoding an Ancient Computer: Greek Technology Tracked the Heavens

If it had not been for two storms 2,000 years apart in the same area of the Mediterranean, the most important technological artifact from the ancient world could have been lost forever.The first storm, in the middle of the 1st century B.C., sank a Roman merchant vessel laden with Greek treasures. The second storm, in A.D. 1900, drove a party of sponge divers to shelter off the tiny island of Antikythera, between Crete and the mainland of...

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Risk-Taking Teens Have More Mature Brains

Editor's note: The orignal online version of this story was previously posted. We often hear that teens are irresponsible because their brains are immature. But, contradicting that idea, teen turmoil is completely absent in more than 100 cultures around the world [see “ The Myth of the Teen Brain ,” by Robert Epstein; Scientific American Mind , April/May 2007]. Nevertheless, neuroscience studies do indeed suggest that the gray matter in...

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The weird science of rats and the smell of road rage

unleaded gasoline = rage neurotransmitters; drug users rate hazardous substances better than legislators; #nuttsack; feeling air/communication; migratory bats; raptors feet of death

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