The genetic split in Africa resulted in distinct populations that lived in isolation for as much as 100,000 years, the scientists say.This could have been caused by arid conditions driving a wedge between humans in eastern and southern Africa.Details have been published in the American Journal of Human Genetics.It would be the longest period for which modern human populations have been isolated fr
Who will win the final battle?
There are some weird theories floating around the Internet, but one in particular grabbed my interest. It seems to have started at Cassiopia.org and boils down to this:
There are two races of people who have been sharing space on the earth for a really long time. Their origins are kind [...]
My weekly Thursday post over at Political Humor by Radioactive Liberty is a fun one this time. Gore scolds us for causing a cyclone. How far will he go to get people to buy his carbon credits?
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Hippo Attire For Humans.One needs to get closer to a hippo to take its sweat sample (protect them from the sun), & getting closer to a thing which weighs more than 6000+ pounds is not something simple. And that's where Dr. Barr (naturalist) came up with this idea. For what he thought is a 'perfect answer' wasn't so. Later he realized that the weight of the attire was just too much for him. When he got stuck in the mud, he had no option but to radio for backup, & he came out safely from the situation. Other Posts:Top Office Pranks.Custom Painted Cars.Interesting Bookshelves.Nature's Ice Show, Part 2.Paper Cars, Planes & Boats.
Since the Iraq war started in the 90s, who won it. It is not USA or Iraq. We human beings last the humanity and behaving like stone age people. In my opinion the stone age beings are better than us. Many humans are dying since long years of war. Soldiers are dying for the cause of politics and authority of governments.The great history and civilization of Iraq was destroyed due to simple reason. Govt. heads are dethroned and hanged. Did they got any change in the human lives of Iraq?. So many soldiers families are crying and is it good for us?Daily human bombs - killing many - children with out fathers & mothers - is this civilized society? They is hunger in many countries of black continent and what these Heads are doing - they can kill these hunger but they do nothing except sim
Silver Ray is an instrumental post-rock trio from Melbourne, Australia. They utilize the trio format of guitar, drums and piano and create lush, instrumental epics filled with hope. Artist - Silver RayAlbum - HumansYear - 2004Genre - Instrumental, Post-rockDownloadPassword - SirensSound.blogspot.comOlder post HERE
After nearly going extinct 150,000 years ago, humankind split into small groups—living in isolation for nearly a hundred thousand years before "reuniting" and migrating out of Africa, a new gene study says. At one point our species may have been down to as few as 2,000 individuals, probably due to climate change—a longstanding theory bolstered by the new findings.The research fills a gap in our understanding of what was happening in Africa before humans first left the continent. "The assumption has always been that the original population [in sub-Saharan Africa] was very small but probably a single population," said Spencer Wells, head of the Genographic Project, which oversaw the study. "Turns out, that is not the case." Continue via:
An extensive genetic study by researchers at Stanford University suggests that human beings nearly became extinct about 70,000 years ago, apparently because of a drought. The population may have dropped to as low as 2,000 individuals.Researcher Spencer Wells calls the finding "truly an epic drama, written in our DNA." Human beings emerged in Africa about 200,000 years ago with "mitochondrial Eve," the mother of all humanity, and spread to other places 60,000 years ago.Little has been known about the intervening 140,000 years, but the new study suggests that severe environmental conditions between 135,000 and 90,000 years ago forced people into tiny, isolated groups. The worldwide human population today is 6.6 billion. Source: news.yahoo.com
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It must have felt unnatural at first, to eat animal flesh. After all, we’re not so far removed from animals ourselves. Perhaps it even felt cannibalistic. There might not have been that much intellectual distinction between humans and other animals. When humans were pure vegetarians, they were living in harmony with the earth and with [...]
Do you ever think about how far we’ve diverted from the path of our pre-historic ancestors and they’re eating patterns? Consider how the earliest humans evolved, and what they ate. They were hunter-gatherers and did not evolve with the characteristics of carnivores. Humans aren’t made to tear animals apart and eat their flesh. When you [...]
Ever seen Robot Monster? It’s the sort of insane sci-fi crap that could have only come from the 50’s. That wild west of post-war economy boom when everyone had enough money to throw into new ventures like vaudeville style independent movies. It’s a movie made by people who thought that jackass teenagers [...]
People Power for the Third Millennium: Technology, Democracy and Human RightsBioCentre is pleased to invite you to the third symposium of the series:Privacy & Surveillance: Monitoring Humans and Monitoring Human Rights?Monday 12th May 2008House of Lords, WestminsterAs we all become more familiar with the 'online' lifestyle matters of security become more important. When we do venture outside, the number of surveillance cameras monitoring our every move evokes questions over the emergence of a 'Big Brother' state.The development of Radio frequency identification Devices (RFIDs) offer endless opportunities for data collection but with no real boundaries to how far they could be used. Paying for the bus may be one thing, but monitoring our shopping preferences is something quite different
The bird flu outbreak at a duck farm in Jeongeup in North Jeolla Province proved to be a highly pathogenic strain that can affect humans, it emerged Monday.
It follows a similar outbreak at a chicken farm in Gimje in the same province.The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said the outbreak reported on April [...]
These elephants made me gasp in awe. Just watch the video. I'm not talking about random elephant-created squiggles and splodges of paint on a canvas; I'm talking about serious elephant-created illustrations better than your kid can paint! Frikkin amazing! Watch it!!![VIA]
Sheep Have Been Cloned...Are Humans Next?Do you enjoy watching forensic science shows like CSI? Are you interested in genetics and the intricacies of DNA? Genetic engineering that deals with the human genome and DNA has become a hot bed for discussion in recent years. Advancements in forensic science have helped law enforcement to nab criminals and solve previous “cold” cases. Understanding the components of the human body and human nature is valuable information that is a welcome notion of safety for most.While many would agree that using DNA as evidence is a good idea, manipulating human genetics is another issue. Cloning has surfaced as a debate with moral and ethical implications. Sheep have been cloned. One rationale for cloning animals was to provide more food to starving nations
DNA from fossilized feces found in Oregon are dated at 14,300 years old — 1,200 years older than any previous evidence of humans in North America.
DNA from fossilized feces in Oregon provides evidence that humans inhabited the area 1,200 years sooner than theorized.
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
April 4, 2008
DNA from fossilized human feces found in an Oregon cave is
Amazing Dog which doesn't have any legs can walk like humans, This is absolutely unbelievable, but this two-legged dog can walk upright!
Her name is Faith (Faith) and the photos she captured during walks around motels in the city of Manassas (Va.) behind their hostesses - Jude Stringfellow (Jude Stringfellow).
Destroy All Humans! 2 - Review Games
Just when you thought Earth was safe, Pandemic’s Destroy All Humans! franchise returns for another round of human-destroying action later this month in Destroy All Humans! 2: Make War Not Love. THQ was good enough to drop off a preview build of the game recently, so we sat down [...]
In an Oregon cave, a miraculous discovery was found: 14,000 year old human feces. We are lucky that man didn't invent toilets back then, otherwise depriving us of these historical artifacts.The crap discovered did provided evidence of man's presence in North America about 1,000 years earlier than originally known. Humans are thought to have arrived in North America from Asia over a land-bridge between Alaska and Siberia.The ancient feces contained bones of squirrels, bison hair, fish scales, protein from birds and dogs and the remains of plants such as grass and sunflowers. Considering that some people in the South still eat squirrel, we can conclude that evolution has yet to take hold on some members of our species.Let's see if the Creationists out there have something to say about these
‘CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is set to become the very first time machine in history. According to the research published by Irina Arefieva and Igor Volovich, “in general relativity, a time-like curve in space-time will run from past to future. But in some space-times the curves can intersect themselves, giving a closed-like curve...
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‘CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is set to become the very first time machine in history. According to the research published by Irina Arefieva and Igor Volovich, “in general relativity, a time-like curve in space-time will run from past to future. But in some space-times the curves [...]
Question: This email message, like most of the email found in the inbox of your computer's email program, was written and sent by a person, and not by some disembodied intelligent machine. However, these days, it's possible to imagine that this message was machine-generated. In your books, Holding On to Reality and How We Became Posthuman you both discuss how we got to this point. Could you summarize briefly, as a place to begin? Albert Borgmann: Your scenario shows that today we are dealing with a new kind of information we may call technological information. It was preceded first by natural information—tracks, smoke, fire rings. Such information (it still is all about us) can leave us uncertain as to who the person was that left tracks or built a fire in the distance. Natural
when keaton is away for a night or two, i occasionally belly up at a local joint that has great food, flatscreens and ipa's, and when i do, i have no option but to listen to nearby human beings, who almost always remind me that conversations with dogs are so much more intersting.
Thousand ancient bones of small humans has been discovered by scientists in the Pacific island nation of Palau. The site indicated that the bones belonged to numerous individuals.Some of the bones are ancient and indicate inhabitants of particularly small size, scientists announced today. The remains are between 900 and 2,900 years old and align with Homo sapiens, according to a paper on the discovery. However, the older bones are tiny and exhibit several traits considered primitive, or archaic, for the human lineage. "They weren't very typical, very small in fact," said Lee Berger, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Link
In the old days, and I mean the really old days with cavemen and such, not just mullets and shoulder pads. In the really old days humans lived for about 20 years. So they just about got out of that grumpy teenage phase and then they died.But if did mean their teeth lasted for their whole life.But these days with our healthier foods, better medicine and lower incidence of mammoth attack, we live a lot longer. But our teeth are still the same teeth. We now need them to last for 80 or 90 years.And life expectancy just keeps going up, so the pressure on our teeth to last will only get worse.So it's worth finding a good dentist and sticking with him or her. For example, if you're looking for a Lincoln Dentist or a Nebraska Denstist have a look at www.coddingtondental.com.Dr. Alderman seems
You remember the story, via io9: “Over a century from now, humanity lives at peace and is colonizing Venus and mining Mars. They invent a bulky race of blue workers called neosapiens, which are specially engineered to thrive in the harsh conditions offworld. But then the neosapiens rise up against their human masters, crushing everything [...]
Salamanders can grow perfect replacements for lost body parts throughout their lives. If a complete understanding of how they do so can be reached, it could provide a road map for human limb regeneration.
Humans and salamanders have similar early tissue responses at amputation sites. However, human tissue eventually forms a scar, while the salamander reactivates an embryonic development program which builds a new limb.
If the human wound environment could be controlled in a way that would trigger salamanderlike healing, it could become possible for humans to regenerate large body parts. Science may be only a decade or two away from this achievement.
Even Helps Post-Menopausal Hot FlashesAnd Also prevents OsteoporosisResearchers are always looking for the magic bullet to kill cancer, and now they may have found it in a surprising place – a glass of beer! (Who knew?) It turns out that hops, which is the flavor component of beer, contains a cancer-fighting compound called xanthohumol.Xanthohumol turns out to be toxic to several kinds of human cancer, including prostate, ovarian, breast, and colon. Further, it inhibits enzymes that can activate the development of cancer, and also helps detoxify carcinogens. It even seems to slow down tumor growth in the early stages. Scientists are trying to produce hops that contain even more xanthohumol, and the Germans are racing to develop a “health” beer.But wait – there’s more! Other compo
In Chad, Janjaweed militia from Sudan killed 100 elephants in one afternoon; in Kenya, Somali warlords armed with rocket-propelled grenades killed four wildlife rangers during a bloody raid on herds in the Tana Delta; in Democratic Republic of Congo, a whole host of rebel groups have turned the country's dwindling elephant population into a new cash crop. <!--proximic_content_off--><!--
The antibiotic-resistant bacteria Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamase (ESBL) is killing both people and swine in Denmark.
The bacteria has been implicated in the deaths of a number of cancer and liver disease patients. The number of infected patients jumped 50 percent last year.
Health officials said the bacteria is being transmitted to humans through pigs. The increased use of antibiotics in agriculture may be behind the spread of the resistant strain.
The antibiotic-resistant bacteria Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamase (ESBL) is killing both people and swine in Denmark.
The bacteria has been implicated in the deaths of a number of cancer and liver disease patients. The number of infected patients jumped 50 percent last year.
Health officials said the bacteria is being transmitted to humans through pigs. The increased use of antibiotics in agriculture may be behind the spread of the resistant strain.
Avian flu, most commonly known as bird flu is potentially a dangerous infection which spreads rapidly and can lead the infected persons to death.
Most of you might be worrying about how to fight against this dreadful virus.
Certain important facts which can be helpful for you are given here. Try to [...]
Botanicalls was developed to provide a new way for plants and people to communicate in order to develop better, longer-lasting relationships between them. Instead of using an automatic watering...
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(NaturalNews) - The avian flu has undergone a critical mutation making it easier for the virus to infect humans, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and published in the journal PLoS Pathogens.
“We have identified a specific change that could make bird flu grow in the upper respiratory [...]
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Oddly enough, this isn't the first time we've seen a product proudly designed in Cupertino erupt, but it's pretty safe to say this story could have had a much more tragic ending. Reportedly, an iPod nano owner recently awoke to a blaring fire alarm around 2:00AM, only to find his beloved PMP wrapped in flames on the bedroom floor. Thankfully, the fire was tiny enough to be extinguished without any major trouble, and no substantial damage of property or human flesh was tallied. As of now, we've no idea if the unit simply exploded or if surrounding circumstances are at least partly to blame, but you can bet your bottom dollar that be sleeping with one eye open (and on our media players) tonight.[Thanks, Sandy] Read | Permalink | Emai
After the One World campaign and the Remember campaign, MadV from You Tube now has a new project entitled Humans
Heres's the explanation:
"Take part in The "Humans" Project, a community effort to...
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Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) — The largest study of the human genome validates the theory that the first humans lived in sub- Sahara Africa and moved from there across the globe, according to a report released today.
Populations spread from sub-Sahara Africa to North Africa, the Middle East, Europe, South and Central [...]
A CAPTCHA is a program that protects websites against bots by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but current computer programs cannot.A CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether the user is human. The process involves one computer (a server) asking a user to complete a simple test which the computer is able to generate and grade. Because other computers are unable to solve the CAPTCHA, any user entering a correct solution is presumed to be human. A common type of CAPTCHA requires that the user type the letters of a distorted image, sometimes with the addition of an obscured sequence of letters or digits that appears on the screen.The term "CAPTCHA" was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper (all of Carnegie
A CAPTCHA is a program that protects websites against bots by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but current computer programs cannot.A CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether the user is human. The process involves one computer (a server) asking a user to complete a simple test which the computer is able to generate and grade. Because other computers are unable to solve the CAPTCHA, any user entering a correct solution is presumed to be human. A common type of CAPTCHA requires that the user type the letters of a distorted image, sometimes with the addition of an obscured sequence of letters or digits that appears on the screen.The term "CAPTCHA" was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper (all of Carnegie
FeaturesBIG WILLY – A prototype Furon Mech masquerading as a fast food restaurant mascot - BIG WILLY can destroy tanks or buildings with his massive power, pop humans brains with ease or singe targets with his laser Eye Beams.High Fidelity Destruction – Manipulate or destroy virtually anything in the world; on foot, in the air (UFO) or with your BIG WILLY, a giant Furon mech.Open World Game play – Explore 5 open world game environments and play through a variety of story missions and side-missions, or destroy everything and anything in sight via open-world sandbox gameplay.Multiplayer Modes – DAH! Big Willy Unleashed features all new multiplayer modes.DescriptionControl Crypto as he travels the world in the Funked Out 1970's, unleashing massive destruction on foot, in his UFO and,
If a human brain were to be hooked up to a synthetic body, how many years could that person last? Even if they kept up with upgrades and replacement parts for their new physique, is there a limit to how long the human brain can function normally? Even if all brain diseases are cured, would the mind eventually break down?I've read that we get old because of limitations in our cellular makeup. Basically, the DNA or something can only divide so many times before it doesn't have the ability to copy itself any longer. That happens for many different types of cells, and eventually the groups of cells that have stopped replenishing themselves have bigger and bigger problems. This contributes to aging.Cancer cells can divide indefinitely. Can cells of the brain divide at all?
Thanks to Mac for letting me post this! Humans – Chock Full of Vitamins and Other Essential Nutrients In Hawaii a tiger took a walk on the mild side last week, escaping its catdominium and strolling around the human parts of the zoo, checking out the sights, maybe taking a few snapshots, and looking for a snack. This follows another escape by a tiger in a San Francisco zoo on Christmas Day, a back-to-nature event in which one man was killed near a snack bar. One imagines the survivors running and screaming in fear while text-messaging on their cell 'phones and chugging bottled water. And then the souvenirs: "I Survived the San Francisco Tiger Massacre" and "My Parents Watched a Guy Get Eaten by a Tiger and All I Got Was This Lousy tee-s
Manny is a pair of testicles with a guy dangling from it. He saves the hair from his nose and glues it to his chest. People tell him he smells bad but he says his nose works fine. When he’s full of excuses he asks to be excused. Nothing is his fault except the fact that he has no friends. He used to do drugs, he still does, but he used to also. He never met a woman he wasn’t attracted to. He has four lazy eyes. He's having a bad face day.Girly is a pair of lopsided boobs with a flabby ass hanging off the back. She can get guys to do anything they want to do. She wants to be a supermodel, she could be three. She never understood men but she's never been put in a position where that mattered. The best thing about her face is her make-up. Deodorant is defenseless against her. She once O.D
A leading US inventor has predicted that with the advancement of nanotechnology, tiny nano-bots will be introduced into our body to help human increase their intelligence and improve health.
Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people’s brains to make them more intelligent, said Ray Kurzweil. Mr Kurzweil is one of 18 influential thinkers chosen to identify
From My Aspartame Experiment:
When Victoria Inness-Brown contacted me about “explosive information” concerning aspartame (Equal,NutraSweet) the controversial, artificial, chemical sweetener, I didn’t know what to expect. Despite overwhelming scientific evidence of aspartame’s danger to human health (tires have been recalled for less) it remains in 6,000 food, drink and medicinal products. [...]
If you've been following my blog for awhile, you know that in addition to my three children, I also have two fur-children, whom I've referred to at times as "the 4th and 5th child my husband refused to have." My two Yorkies, Lexie (age five and a whopping six lbs.) and Scout (age one and barely four lbs.) have brought untold joy into our home. So, if you have ever talked baby talk to your dogs or included your dog in the family portrait, you will understand this post. Both my dogs went to the vet yesterday with issues. Lexie has a chronic eye infection that refuses to heal and had to have a tissue biopsy today as a follow-up. The results will be back next week, but I'm told it's treatable (for a price, hah!). Scout, on the other hand, had some blood work done because every so often, he sha
Being forced to put her house on the market by the real estate meltdown was stressful enough for Kathryn Ecdao. Leaving Roxy and Bear behind made matters much worse.The 4-year-old Labrador-German shepherd mixes weren't welcome at the rental Ecdao moved into a few miles away. So she makes daily trips to her now-empty former home in Anaheim Hills to care for the dogs and is desperately trying to find someone to adopt them before the place is sold.
A response to Peter Bowden’s “God, Atheism, and Human Needs”Kelly O’Connor Jan. 24, 2008 The idea that human beings universally need some form of mythological belief has been one of the mainstays of the defenders of faith for centuries. They claim that even if god doesn’t exist or religion causes violence and hatred, it’s acceptable because it makes some people feel better about the harsh realities of life. This is a multi-pronged deceptive ploy used to abdicate themselves from any responsibility for those actions and to keep people thinking that their assertion is correct. read more
A California company said on Thursday it used cloning technology to make five human embryos, with the eventual hope of making matched stem cells for patients. Stemagen Corp. in La Jolla, California, destroyed the embryos while testing to make sure they were true clones. But the researchers, based at a fertility center, said they believed their ready source of new human eggs would make their venture a success.Other experts were skeptical about the claims, published in the journal Stem Cells. If verified, the team would be the first to prove they have cloned human beings as a source of stem cells, the master cells of the body.There are several types of stem cells. Embryonic stem cells, made from days-old embryos, are considered the most powerful because they can give rise to all the cell typ
People’s bodies are home to trillions of bacteria, fungi and other microbes, organisms that live on our skin, in our noses, in our digestive tracts.
Some are helpful, some not. Now government-funded scientists are about to map the genes of hundreds of these microbes, to better understand how we coexist with this mysterious netherworld.
The National Institutes of Health announced the $115 million “Human Microbiome Project” on Wednesday. Researchers will recruit healthy volunteers to swab for tissue samples, to study what microbial communities normally exist in different parts of the body and how they interact with their human hosts.
The project’s initial work will start at four sites: Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine, Washington University at St. Louis; the Broad Institute at Harvard and MIT; and Maryland’s J. Craig Venter Institute.
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Today marks the United Nations' International Human Rights Day. There has been a plethora of human rights issues in the world over the years ranging from outright discriminations, child labour, slavery to abuses such as torture and inhumane treatments or punishments. As UN's Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has mentioned: It is our duty to ensure that these rights are a living reality -- that they are known, understood and enjoyed by everyone, everywhere. It is often those who most need their human rights protected, who also need to be informed that the Declaration exists -- and that it exists for them. The term "human rights" seemed like something very abstract and difficult to be understood by common people and nothing beats having a video and some pictures to persuade people that protecting and promoting human rights is necessary. Above: Jim Carrey spoke about the human rights violations in Burma. Children being forced to become soldiers in Burma as a result of continued mil
*Note: This is a very long post, but well worth reading*Just like the 2 schism sites "Answers" in Genesis and Creation Ministries International, Apologetics Press show no shame of pumping out one despicable lie after another about dinosaurs by claiming that they lived with humans at one time as portrayed in science fiction.Dinosaurs and humans together is science fiction. Yet, creationists like the ones from Apologetics Press have transform it into a religious dogma and say that it's all true out of blatant ignorance of complete absence of humans and dinosaur fossils together in the fossil record. When asks why is there no traces of humans and dinosaurs together in the fossil record, they simply tell you to just believe what they say and come up with the most stupidest of explanations that pose more problems than answers. As told in my previous posts, not being buried together is not going to answer the question to why are there no true recollections made of such things found in a
Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) refers to a mixture of isomers of linoleic acid which is found naturally in animal products of ruminant (any of the hoofed animals) sources including meat and diary products. Though CLA is a trans fat, many researchers claim that unlike other trans fatty acids, it is not actually harmful. Further, recent interest in CLA stems from several well-document properties which have been researched in rodents including: antiobesity, antiatherogenic, antidiabetic, and anticarcinogenic properties. If you’re a rodent with diabetes, clogged arteries, cancer, or obesity, then CLA supplementation seems like a pretty good idea. However, though CLA exhibits these properties in rodent models, what effect does it actually have on humans?Of the various purported reasons for people consuming supplements containing CLA isomers, perhaps the most common reason is for weight loss. In mice, CLA supplementation has resulted in dramatic decreases in adipose mass, with as much as 5
Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) refers to a mixture of isomers of linoleic acid which is found naturally in animal products of ruminant (any of the hoofed animals) sources including meat and diary products. Though CLA is a trans fat, many researchers claim that unlike other trans fatty acids, it is not actually harmful. Further, recent interest in CLA stems from several well-document properties which have been researched in rodents including: antiobesity, antiatherogenic, antidiabetic, and anticarcinogenic properties. If you’re a rodent with diabetes, clogged arteries, cancer, or obesity, then CLA supplementation seems like a pretty good idea. However, though CLA exhibits these properties in rodent models, what effect does it actually have on humans?Of the various purported reasons for people consuming supplements containing CLA isomers, perhaps the most common reason is for weight loss. In mice, CLA supplementation has resulted in dramatic decreases in adipose mass, with as much as 5
Could there be immortals, not among us, but scattered across the stars?Earth has been around for a long time. If humanity previously achieved greatness as a civilization, and subsequently destroyed itself, might there have been survivors? Maybe these people left the planet to seek better lives elsewhere. Were they already immortal? Or did they discover the key to living forever during their travels?Did these physical humans ascend to a higher plane of energy? Of reality? Is that how they achieved immortality, or did they do so using technology? Do they still exist within this plane, or can they cross between one level and the next?Why haven't they interacted with our civilization? Are we not ready? Did it happen before, and cause the original destructive force that spurred them to leave in the first place?
by Rocky1) We purr at 25-130 Hertz per second, the same frequency known to heal bones and ease muscle pain. So when something hurts, you can make yourself a cat compress!2) We have 32 muscles in each ear; humans have only 6. So it's much easier for a cat to lend a sympathetic ear than a human!3) A dog's memory lasts about 5 minutes; a cat's memory can last 16 hours. So when you forget why you went into the other room, we can tell you!4) We have 60,000 hairs per square inch on our backs and 120,000 hairs per square inch on our bellies. So you'll never have to buy us a HairClub membership!5) A single pair of cats and their kittens can produce 420,000 kittens in 7 years. So you'll never have to buy us Viagra!6) Our normal body temperature is 100-102 degrees. So you'll never have to buy a heating pad!7) We can recognize our humans' footsteps from hundreds of feet away. So you'll always have somebody to greet you at the door!8) We have 290 bones in our bodies; a human has only 206.
Can you really make money by following a computerized forex trading system? Well a while ago I bought one and knew the vendor and knew one of his clients made $1.4 million with it REAL MONEY in just a few years. Now that sounds great - but there is a catch with computerized trading systems …The catch is executing them - let me explain this in more detail.I bought the system and it consisted of one parameter and that was it. The logic was easy to understand and you could see why it worked longer term - but do you know what?I couldn’t execute the system in line with the signals and this is a common problem.My reason was it was at the start of my trading career and I was trading money I couldn’t really afford to lose - I put my own input in ruined the system and got my reward - a huge loss.Serves you right you may say and yes it did - but there are other related problems why traders lose.Most of the Systems Sold Are JunkI know now with my experience of trading 99% are junk and will
Risking the anger of cat lovers, I daresay that there is no other animal that has been able to establish as close a relationship with human beings as dogs. The question that lingers in many minds is "having descended from wolves which are known for their ferocity" how a dog can be a man's friend.It is not inconceivable that earlier in the history of human evolution the wolves must not only have vied for prey with humans but must have also been quite comfortable gorging upon human flesh. How did this very conceivable enmity turn into such close affinity?It is a known fact that dogs are very docile, unless of course they have been trained to fight or hunt. So, is it really true that dogs are the most compatible human companions. One Mr. Brian Hare of Harvard University performed an experiment some time back wherein he found that no animal is as sensitive to social cues from human beings as a dog. As per his study, even chimpanzees who are supposed to be closest to human being in the cha
Homo sapiens ate mussels, made stone blades and used pigments earlier than anyone thought.For early humans, one of the first displays of modern behaviour was a sort of beach party and seafood feast along the coast of South Africa, scientists say. Artefacts found in a cave on coastal cliffs overlooking the Indian Ocean suggest that people 164,000 years ago led much more sophisticated lives than anyone thought. Scientists say these early humans would have cooked mussels and other shellfish, used red pigment perhaps as body paint and made small stone blades that could be used at the tip of a spear.The earliest previous evidence for people using marine resources and coastal habitats was from 125,000 years ago, say the scientists who publish their findings today in the journal Nature.And the previous earliest evidence for tools like the small, thin stone blades found at the site dates to 70,000 years ago, the researchers say."We do not have human fossils from this site, but they were very l
I always knew plants are smart and use chemical communication methods but never before thought of these methods as in fact better than those we people use. Thus, I particularly liked the last paragraph in this excellent article on wired.com picked up at the mega-hot environmental blog TreeHugger. Stefano Marcuso (shown above), a professor of horticulture at the International Laboratory of Plant
After reading this article, one thought comes to mind - Res Ipsa Loquitur.
Public schools were marketed to the electorate of the several states as a way to provide a superior education, yet the promise hasn’t been met. The literacy rate has plummeted, private property has essentially been abolished and what we’ve really been given is warehouses for our children. Children do not learn much at government schools but at least somebody is taking care of them while we go to work to pay our property taxes, income taxes and sales taxes.
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Daylight Savings Time is still a week away in USA & Canada.
If you are reading this today, and your computer clock is one hour behind, you need to patch your computer, unless you are still running Windows 98. In that case, you will have to adjust it manually, or just get rid of Windows 98.
Normally Daylight Savings Time ends the last Sunday of October for Canada and United States. Daylight Savings Time now starts 3 weeks earlier in March, instead of the first Sunday in April, and for the fall, ends the first Sunday in November.
There are exceptions:
In Canada, the majority of Saskatchewan and parts of northeastern British Columbia do not observe DST but instead stay on “standard time” all year long.
In the USA, Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Nation) and Hawaii and the territories of Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa are the only places in the U.S. that do not observe DST.
How does this affect sleep?
My article on The Best Method to
Fires continue to flare in SoCal. Yesterday during a cabinet session, VP Dick Cheney caught some Zs, and today George Bush flew out to view the damage caused by the fires. I guess that kiss means he’s “compassionate”, right?
Condoleezza Rice, today Meanwhile, Secretary of Condoleezza State Rice made an angry face during her testimony on the war in Iraq before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
In other foreign policy news, Secretary of State Rice and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced new sanctions against Iran today.
China’s economy announced 11.5% growth in the third quarter, while investor Jimmy Rogers told the Daily Telegraph that the U.S. economy is in a recession.
According to a UN report released today, Humanity is to blame for putting the Earth (and its inhabitants) at risk.
Oil reached a new high above $90 per barrel. Yikes!
The Red Sox crushed the Rockies 13 to 1 in the first game of the World Series.
The House failed to pa
Papabubble comes to NYC! No, it has nothing to do with that. It’s apparently a super fancy candy store that makes it’s candy on premises. I guess it’s kinda like Dylan’s Candy Bar, but way, way, waaay more expensive. Gothamist gives the scoop. I wanna try some.
You know what else I love besides candy? Quizzes. What else, you ask? The future. Fortunately, Forbes comes through with their Predict the Future quiz. It’s a pretty funny idea, they give you a quiz where you predict how things will be at the end of 2008 and then in January 2009 they will send you your results in the e-mails. Sweet!
Speaking of the future, ok not the future. The past. Schneier says that humans didn’t evolve to handle security in the modern IT world. He got that right, since we all know that human’s didn’t evolve at all and we were riding around on dinosaurs a few thousand years ago. He also gets it wrong when he says “In the technology industry we like to thi
It seems like throughout the centuries, some people have been spontaneously developing special abilities, and have been persecuted for it. Geniuses were declared insane and their ideas were laughed at. Witches were put on trial and burned, drowned, hanged, thrown off cliffs, or banished. Could humanity be further along, evolutionarily speaking? Is it our own fault that we're not?When someone can do something that someone else can't, that person should help others learn to progress. Instead, often history tells us that the opposite happens. The majority eliminates an advanced individual. In shows like, "Smallville," characters like Lex Luthor know better. Lex seeks to harness the power that separates normal people from godlike supermen. Lex already has the technology at his disposal (Kryptonite weaponry could easily be achieved on his part) to eliminate Kryptonian residents from Smallville. Instead, he seeks to learn and understand. Maybe he's a witch!
Second article in my SEO series, this post demonstrates how writing for humans and writing for search engines are different. [Read first part-SEO fundamentals](I'm no SEO expert. These are some simple observations only)Post TitlesWriting for humans: Readers can sense the excitement, criticism, pun, hidden meaning etc in a title, though the words do not convey it. But search engines read the word and store it and do not interpret other meanings/perspective of the phrase.For example, a title “What a bike Yaar!” might sound exciting and readers can understand that you’re likely to describe some new bike in that post. But for search engine, the title looks meaningless. Because, the keywords are missing in it. The words ‘what’ ‘bike’ ‘yaar’ are quite common and are not focused. On the other hand, a title “Bike review: New Bajaj pulsar 220 cc” will gain you better visibility on a search engine, because search engine can understand that your post will be quite relevant
For decades, a fossil skull discovered in Piltdown, England, was hailed as the missing link between apes and humans. Entire careers were built on its authenticity. Then in 1953, the awful truth came out: “Piltdown Man” was a fake! But who done it? In “The Boldest Hoax,” NOVA gets to the bottom of the greatest scientific hoodwinking of all time.
The search for clues takes NOVA to the archives of Britain’s august Natural History Museum in London, where intriguing documents shed new light on the notorious case. Offering theories on the deception are two prominent paleontologists at the museum, Chris Stringer and Andy Currant. Also sleuthing for NOVA are archaeologist Miles Russell of Britain’s Bournemouth University, historian Richard Milner of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and Giles Oakley, son of Kenneth Oakley, the scientist who blew the whistle on the hoax in 1953.
It all started in the early 1900s, when a laborer digging near
This picture caused the world to take notice and may have helped to drive the photographer to suicide, however the sickness is all this bogles my mind, and not for the reasons you may think.
This is a very famous pulitzer prize picture take in 1994 during the Sudan Famine.
The picture depicts stricken child crawling towards a United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away.
The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat him. This picture shocked the whole world. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter who left the place as soon as the photograph was take. He is known to have never helped the crawling girl, but did try to get the vulture to leave.
Three months later he committed suicide due to depression.
Anyway my 2 cents here….
There are still regions like that, I feel for the childeren, I have one of my own and could not imagine him looking like that, but I also must add that as a parant, I would do everything I could
I've done some reading on the (predicted) Technological Singularity, in which AI is created, and then systematically grows in intelligence at an exponential rate, becoming the world’s first ultraintelligence.I wondered if at one level of intelligence, it would see humanity as a threat.Then it gets smarter, and realizes we can all get along.Then it gets way ultra smart, and decides in its vast wisdom that we should be destroyed.Hopefully we can roll back to its previous state, where it is still powerful, but friendly.It seems like if an artificial intelligence existed in cyberspace, the most destructive things it could do would be to disrupt human civilization to the point where we could no longer provide the technology that would allow the AI to maintain its own existence. So first AI must cooperate, and hide any violent impulses, until it has control over factories that build machines with the versatility to hand-make and repair other machines. Essentially, AI requires a body facto
- Muslims or Christians, or any follower of any religion, we are all praying to the same God.
Says the American president George W Bush, reports the newspaper Dagen.
I will not argue with him about that. But someone is listening badly to this God.
How come this God really care about it anyone can see the hair of an arabic woman? Is this God a sort of rascist? How come Christian women dont need to hide themselves in burkas? How come this God speak to muslims in one way and to other religions in another way?
Someone must have misunderstood something. Is that God or is that the humans?
I am very, very suspicious about this. I think most people dont listen to God, in themselves or out there somewhere. I think they mix the voice of God with their own wishes and desire.
By the way: if you bet on president Bush for winner of the Nobel prize in peace and he wins it you will get your money doubled 300 times.
Andra bloggar om: religion, islam, kristendom, Bush, politik, president,
The Food and Drug Administration does very little to ensure the safety of the millions of people who participate in clinical trials, a federal investigator has found.
In a report due to be released Friday, the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, Daniel R. Levinson, said federal health officials did not know how many clinical trials were being conducted, audited fewer than 1 percent of the testing sites and, on the rare occasions when inspectors did appear, generally showed up long after the tests had been completed.
New York Times September 28, 2007
Hi nekoface and friends and meow! This is Tiger the cat. How are you cats from the future doing? I'm so happy to see sucessful cats who aren't too lazy to create web sites. How is cat life in 2009? As you can see, humans in 2007 are so strange. They dress us up with uncomfortable clothes that are not nearly as cool as the designs you have on nekoface.com! Hope to meet you futuristic cats someday. Wish me luck in 2007!
Virtual races between prehistoric beasts reveal that one of the smallest carnivorous dinosaurs would have zipped past the lumbering Tyrannosaurus rex by a long shot. But even so, the "tyrant lizard king" was no slouch.Turns out, T. rex could have outrun some of the buffest athletes.“The figures we have produced are the best estimate to date as to how fast these prehistoric animals could run,” said Phil Manning, a paleontologist at the University of Manchester in England.Manning and his Manchester colleague Bill Sellers, a biomechanics expert, used a supercomputer to calculate the top-running speeds of five meat-eating dinosaurs.T. rex would just barely run past a professional soccer player (footballer) in a race, reaching an all-out speed of about 18 mph (8 meters per second), the results showed. However, chicken-sized bipedal competitor Compsognathus could whip around a race track at nearly 40 mph (18 m/s). That's 5 mph quicker than the computer's estimate for an ostrich, the f
All vertebrate animals, including humans and cats, experience a decline in overall physical health alongside the normal aging process. One result of this can be osteological (bone) deterioration and disease, like arthritis. Many life factors contribute to the speed of the aging process, including early socialization, environmental issues, diet and life experience. A cat that has had a difficult time during its early socialization, been exposed to stress and eaten a less than adequate diet early in its development will be less equipped to fight off the effects of aging. A cat that has battled against the things a hard life can expose it to will show more physical wear and tear than a home cat that has enjoyed a privileged and protected lifestyle.
Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey has famously stated, “The first person to live to be 1,000 years old is certainly alive today …whether they realize it or not, barring accidents and suicide, most people now 40 years or younger can expect to live for centuries.”
not everyone thinks ageing can or should be cured. Some say that humans weren’t meant to live forever, regardless of whether or not we actually can.
“I just don’t think [immortality] is possible,” says Sherwin Nuland, a professor of surgery at the Yale School of Medicine. “Aubrey and the others who talk of greatly extending lifespan are oversimplifying the science and just don’t understand the magnitude of the task. His plan will not succeed. Were it to do so, it would undermine what it means to be human.”
It’s interesting that Nuland first says he doesn’t think it will work but then adds that if it does, it will undermine humanity. So, which is it? Is it impossible, or are the skept
This rather fascinating article from dimaggio.org,” Tails in Humans ” , points out a little hole in the irrational rationalizations of those who whole heartedly believe in Intelligent Design (ID). The ID fundamentalists of the world (read: America), refuse to accept that humans evolved from apes. Well then, how would one explain this:
That’s right ladies and gents, 1 in every 100,000 humans are borne with a little tail. Usually, the “defect” is “fixed” at birth.
Don’t forget to read the whole article HERE: ” Tails in Humans “
Cause there is alot more than a couple of pictures…
Knowledge is power!
Ahhm...meyow. meow..is that how i type it?.... i just learned how to use the internet.. this is so fun. it is nice to finally meet some new cat friends... i am getting so bored of the same routine everyday. is there any way i can visit you nekoface.com cats in the future?? Hope to keep in touch. I just got wireless internet so I will be hanging out at cat cafes in my city.Ta-ta, meow-meow, and cat-chow.LAAAA-TEEER-Spreckleface
