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  • Uncle Sam’s Scientists Busy Building Insect Army (Toronto Star)
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Saturday, April 1, 2006 by the Toronto Star
    No, it’s not an April Fool’s joke: Defence research agency creates landmine-sniffing bugs
    by Lynda Hurst
    A rocky foreign terrain. Platoons of remotely controlled cyborg-insects sniffing out landmines, transmitting their location back to human handlers.
    Can you picture it? No?
    Well, that’s the difference between you and the scientists, "extreme thinkers," at DARPA, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, where soldier (…)

  • Greenland ice cap breaking up at twice the rate it was five years ago, says scientist Bush tried to
    19 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Climate change: On the edge Greenland ice cap breaking up at twice the rate it was five years ago, says scientist Bush tried to gag by: Jim Hansen on: 17th Feb, 06 A satellite study of the Greenland ice cap shows that it is melting far faster than scientists had feared - twice as much ice is going into the sea as it was five years ago. The implications for rising sea levels - and climate change - could be dramatic. Yet, a few weeks ago, when I - a Nasa climate scientist - tried to talk to (…)

  • Bush Regime at War with the Earth: Top NASA Scientist Says So
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Top NASA Scientist Warns Global Warming Is Here, Claims Censorship by Bush Regime Jan-29 2006
    NASA’s top climatologist accused officials President Bush’s administration of trying to keep secret a warning he issued about potentially catastrophic changes in Earth’s climate caused by rapidly rising levels of greenhouse gases. Do you think global warming is a real and present danger?
    Dr. James Hansen, 63, of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University’s Earth (…)

  • From Physics to Religion, Time & Distance Are An Illusion
    24 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There are no well defined boundaries between any thing or any people ...except in ignorant minds. Peace, happiness, wholeness, love, all exist right here, today, right now in this moment ...only the mind leads you astray.
    In order to fathom reality, you must let go of the concept of time and distance, and other illusions created by men. Those who adhere to time as a measurement, as a truth, will always find themselves imprisoned and constrained ...indeed, believing in time becomes a source (…)

  • We Will Educate Our Colleagues, the Policy Community, the Media, and Our Patients
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Physicians for a National Health Program Meet in Philadelphia
    by Andy Coates
    Physicians for a National Health Program held its annual meeting on December 10, 2005. Originally planned for New Orleans, it was relocated to Philadelphia after Hurricane Katrina. Founded in 1987, the organization has over 14,000 members nationally. PNHP advocates and educates for a single national health insurance plan: in the words of PNHP National Coordinator Quentin Young, MD, "everybody in, nobody out." (…)

  • Political Science
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by JOHN HORGAN
    Last spring, a magazine asked me to look into a whistleblower case involving a United States Fish and Wildlife Service biologist named Andy Eller. Eller, a veteran of 18 years with the service, was fired after he publicly charged it with failing to protect the Florida panther from voracious development. One of the first species listed under the Endangered Species Act, the panther haunts southwest Florida’s forests, which builders are transforming into gated golf communities. (…)

  • Polar bears drown as ice shelf melts
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Will Iredale
    SCIENTISTS have for the first time found evidence that polar bears are drowning because climate change is melting the Arctic ice shelf.
    The researchers were startled to find bears having to swim up to 60 miles across open sea to find food. They are being forced into the long voyages because the ice floes from which they feed are melting, becoming smaller and drifting farther apart.
    Although polar bears are strong swimmers, they are adapted for swimming close to the (…)

  • What’s Wrong With Intelligent Design as Science?
    2 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An intensifying battle over intelligent design (ID) to be taught in science classes has been emerging across the United States, alarming scientists and educators who consider ID as a political ploy to repackage religion under the guise of “alternative science” to undermine the scientific theory of evolution. Policymakers in 24 states are weighing proposals to introduce ID in their public school curricula. Whether ID is a religious belief or a scientific theory is at the heart of the (…)

  • A Sociologist Confronts ’the Messy Stuff’
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By CLAUDIA DREIFUS
    Troy Duster is emphatic: the genomic revolution is moving way too fast.
    In more than a dozen books and articles, Dr. Duster, immediate past president of the American Sociological Association, urges geneticists to slow down and check their methods as they search for links between genes, disease and race.
    A professor of sociology at New York University, Dr. Duster, 69, wrote "Backdoor to Eugenics" and contributed to "Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind (…)

  • Our Employers, Ourselves
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Eric Hellweg
    IBM once set one of its Linux commercials on a basketball court. But other than that, the worlds of Big Blue and professional basketball have rarely crossed lanes. This month, though, they were linked by what promises to become one of the most volatile workplace issues of the next decade: genetic testing.
    After it was revealed that Chicago Bulls star center Eddie Curry had a heart arrhythmia, the Bulls said he’d have to take a DNA test before the organization would tender (…)