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If you’re reading these words, you can thank science. Today’s society is flush with examples of how the scientific method pays off, from that ordinary pain medicine sitting in your cabinet to the big ole internet to futuristic vehicles whiz down the highway. For science lovers, it’s a mystery why so many students have to be goaded, coaxed and pushed into studying it. Especially when their lives are surrounded by it (even M&Ms in a candy jar can become science).

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Hurricane Earl Eyes US: Hurricane Warning Flags Flying on East Coast
Symon Sez 4 days ago

Hurricane Earl 1915Z IR Rainbow Image 09.01.10-Click Image for Real time Loop Click Here For The Most Recent Update Regarding Hurricane Earl’s Brush with the US East Coast Hurricane Earl 1915Z Visible Satellite Image 09.01.10-Click Image for Real Time Loop If you recall, yesterday I mentioned that one aspect of the forecast regarding Hurricane Earl was the dry air in which Earl was moving into.  I had thought that perhaps dry air might work its way into the circulation of the hurricane and perhaps limit its intensity potential or even bring it down a notch or two.  At 5 AM on Wednesday September 1, 2010 the National Hurricane Center included this bit of information near the end of it’s discussion: ” …WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS A TONGUE OF MID/UPPER-LEVEL DRY AIR WRAPPED MORE THAN HALFWAY AROUND THE CYCLONE.”  I honestly had been surprised that they had not mentioned that potential earlier because the the scale of the dry air ahead of the storm was rather la

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Pre-empting on the solar curve fit
Watts Up With That? 1 week ago

Guest post by David Archibald We return to Dr Svalgaard’s plot of four solar parameters, updated daily at: http://www.leif.org/research/TSI-SORCE-2008-now.png There are a couple of things to note. Firstly, the solar Mean Field, which is the top line, went into the Solar Cycle 23/24 transition being neat and regular like a heartbeat, and has come out choppy and arrhythmic. Secondly, the F10.7 ramp up continues to be very flat indeed. The line of best fit of the F10.7 flux, currently at 82, equates to a sunspot number of 24. In terms of sunspot number, the rate of ramp up over the last year is 11 per annum. At two years into the cycle, this will be the maximum rate of increase we will get. One of the accepted solar cycle prediction methodologies is a curve fitting exercise two years after the month of solar minimum, which was December 2008. Inspired by the fact that NOAA et al called 2010 the hottest year ever when it was only half over, we have decided to go early and curve fit now. The

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Higher-Dimensional Geometry over Finite Fields (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series: Information and Communication Security)
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Lengthening implants for differring leg sizes
rndsync's Blog

Orthopedic surgeon Robert Bruce, M.D., from Emory University, offers patients a different kind of procedure that lengthens limbs through a metal rod that is implanted into the patient’s leg bone. The ISKD works in synergy with the body’s natural bone healing process to achieve lengthening. As the implant expands, it stimulates the bone to grow around it, and the new growth strengthens over time. It is designed to lengthen for a predetermined distance and then stop. Full recovery typically takes at least a year. The Intramedullary Skeletal Kinetic Distractor was FDA-approved in 2001 and is generally covered by health insurance, according to the International Center for Limb Lengthening in Baltimore.

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Bird flu coming back?
rndsync's Blog

The dreaded H5N1 is not completely gone. While WHO declared H1N1 pandemic over, there are other forms of flu viruses that are lying dormant and can raise their ugly heads. Webster, chairman of the virology and molecular biology department at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, says that bird flu remains a possible threat and could be the cause of the next global outbreak. Although bird flu deaths have been dropping over the last few years, they have started to rise in Egypt, Webster added. Human to human transmission of H5N1 has not been possible so far. However, these viruses mutate and they jump species say birds to pigs and then to humans all the while mingling and exchanging genes with other flu viruses like H1N1. The Egyptian Central Public Health Laboratories, a National Influenza Center of the WHO Global Influenza Surveillance Network (GISN), confirmed the woman had A(H5N1) avian influenza infection. 112 laboratory confirmed cases of Avian inf

Dr. Todd’s List of the Worst Foods, Grocery Edition
Something Worth Smiling About

Back by popular demand, the list continues.  I would imagine that this list could be endless.  After all, we are a processed food society.   That is why this edition is the grocery store list. Rule of thumb, once you get past the produce section of the grocery store, there is not much that is truly healthy.  The back wall with the meats and the other side with the dairy are pretending to be healthy but buyers beware. The meats are full of fat, salt, and hormones, while the dairy section is cholesterol, fat, and even more hormones.  A lot of the animals we eat are animals that either were already scavengers or we made them into scavengers by feeding them a poor diet of things they don’t eat in the wild.  So without further ado, let’s get to the list. The Snack Section               The Snack Section, where nothing is good for you.  Not a whole lot of natural foodstuffs in the chip aisle at the grocery.  I say when you get to the row with the chips on one side and the soda on the other j

Religion, Science, And Questions
Sleeping in Sundays

I’ve been out of town visiting family for a couple days, hence a lack of posts. You’ve managed, I’m sure. So, Steven Hawking is coming out with his new book this week, detailing his thoughts on the origins of the universe, universal development, and some other big questions. And, to go along with that release, CNN did it’s journalistic darnest and whipped up an article entitled “Steven Hawking: God Didn’t Create Universe,” (which is about as surprising a title as “Pope: Catholic Church Still Relevant”). It’s a pretty worthless article, the length of a poorly-written greeting card and with about as much depth. Why post on it, then? It highlights the ever-present “Science vs. Religion” tendency/reality/myth/whatever you might call it. Opinions about the relationship between religion and science are about as numerous as people are. Unlike, say, the Intelligent Design argument, which has about as much intellectual cred

Stephen Hawking: Pop-Physicist Gone Wild
Drerniezarra's Blog

Recently, Stephen Hawking, the famed pop-physicist went off on aliens, earth visitations and take-overs and, most recently, stated that God did not create the Universe.  What new evidence does Hawking have that other scientists do not have, for him to draw this new conclusion?  I guess “religion” doesn’t work for him, so it God cannot be the Creator.  He has reversed himself of whether there is a God who created the universe in the beginning.Referring to an Einstein quote that “God does not play dice with the Universe,” Hawking added, “Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”  Hawking seems bothered that he is unable figure out God–let alone the Universe.  He alludes to this in his interview with Diane Sawyer, of a few years ago.  Stephen Hawking tells Diane Sawyer: Science will win over religion:Physicist Stephen Hawking tells Diane Sawyer there’s no way to reconcile religion and scienc

God and Stephen Hawking...Some Thoughts
Renewed Mess

Stephen Hawking has concluded that there is a scientific explanation for the making of our world, thus no god was required. His argument is generally aimed at the fairly popular teleological argument for the existence of God. That argument goes something like this: the order of creation suggests a creator. After all, chaos does not naturally progress toward order. Hawking is arguing that the vastness of creation provides enough room in probability for creation to occur without a creator. In simple terms, the teleological Sunday School teacher says, “If you explode a dump truck full of bricks, it will not create a 7-11.” Hawking suggests that it may very well do just that, if you have an infinite number of dump trucks. As expected, various religious leaders are scrambling to answer Stephen Hawking. That’s an intimidating task for two reasons. First off all, when it comes to physics, astrophysics, and anything of the like, Hawking is an expert and certainly not one that the average pasto

Sufferin' Shellfish!
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- – I realize that it’s hard to form an emotional attachment with a crustacean.   I also know that Klingons eat some of their food raw and wiggling.  I am glad, however, that a restaurant in Sacramento, California will no longer serve a cruel dish that’s often called “dancing shrimp” or “dancing prawns.”  The dish’s name is a reference, you see, to the writhing that the animals engage in when their protective shells are ripped off and acidic lemon juice is squeezed onto their raw flesh before they are eaten alive... Scientific research has demonstrated that prawns feel pain, just as other animals do.  A 2007 Queen’s University Belfast study found that when prawns have acid dabbed onto one of their antennae, they respond by grooming the affected area and rubbing it against the side of the tank, just as a dog might lick an injured paw.  When given painkillers, the prawns felt no need to groom or rub their acid-dabbed antennae.  The re

Meltdown of the climate 'consensus
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So much for the “vindication” of the IPCC consensus engineers… Meltdown of the climate ‘consensus’ – NYPOST.com –trutherator

Tips for Easy Back-to-School Transitions Part-2
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 Tips for Easy Back-to-School Transitions Part-2 Talk about feelings Encourage children to describe how they feel about the “new year” and try to ease any fears they may have. Parents may also feel sad or fearful about their children going off to kindergarten or being transferred to a learning environment for older children. If your emotions are too obvious, you may spoil your child’s enthusiasm for the first day. Exude confidence and good feelings when saying good-bye. Avoid yelling if your child resists getting up from bed, brushing his teeth, or getting dressed, and expect an occasional meltdown. Beginning something new can be stressful and adjustment takes a lot of concentration and effort. Child care professionals, teachers, and families should expect–and be prepared to handle–a few tears and other emotional displays from young children.

The windup girl, Paolo Bacigalupi
Bananas in the Falklands

So with this co winning the Hugo for 2010 along with The City by China Mieville (my blog) means this blog usually picks up on interesting books, congrats too to Charlie Stross too for the short story (my blog). isbn: 9781597801584 covers some interesting ground – the saint sigmound types (my blog) are trying with monsanto’s help to classify fussy eaters as mentally deranged.  Brussels Sprout growers clearly have ethics since this once a year vegetable gets a bad press for ‘gas’. honest healthy food or a license to profit and very fat people. Is all gm food bad ? or does terminator genes,patents  and suing farmers for the wind spreading seeds make the food business evil – Fructose is another example.  The other example is Jamie Oliver and ‘turkey’ (also my blog) Good food ? – you decide.  Is chicken meat, or fat, bread, water, flavoring and sugar also classed as a turkey twisier? Yep this is a book about food set in the future with Thailan