There is heated debate in the environmental movement whether it would be better to back the Government's proposals or reject them as too weak.

Posted: 10:33:22 PM  

In the days of Mideavel (MidEvil), they KNEW; invention of the wheel:

Ex-FBI interrogator says harsh methods didn't work

A former FBI interrogator who questioned al-Qaida prisoners testified Wednesday that the Bush administration falsely boasted of success from extreme techniques like waterboarding, when those methods were slow, unreliable and made an important witness stop talking.

Painful, terrifying, unnessesary ... and "confessions"?

Posted: 10:18:38 PM  

Contrary to the notion that daydreaming is a sign of laziness, letting the mind wander can actually let the parts of the brain associated with problem-solving become active, a new study finds.

NO SUPRPRISE to US ... we are called DREAMERS ... not for no reason ... we kNOW!
Not everybody is here on earth to daydream ...
One can WONDER where THOUGHTS come from?

Posted: 10:12:57 PM  

NOT A SUNSPOT:

Solar activity comes in many forms. Today, astronomers are monitoring an enormous patch of seething magnetism churning through the sun's surface in a splash of bright, white froth. It is not a sunspot, but it is worth a look.

The active region could be a "proto-sunspot"--a sunspot struggling to form, but not quite able to organize its own magnetic fields into a coherent, dark core. Or it could be a "sunspot corpse"--the decaying remains of a farside sunspot turning toward Earth at the end of its short life. Whatever it is, its magnetic polarity identifies it as a member of new Solar Cycle 24--and that makes it a sign of things to come.

Posted: 7:32:31 AM  

A string of news articles on vaccines contained in GM food have hit the media over the last few days. The articles talked about research being carried out to see if it would work. But that is exactly what it is, re-search.
Current scientists, on a lower level, re-doing the work that has been proven to work at an equivalent or higher level years ago.

The New Scientist article below publicly reported in 2005 that Arizona State University’s re-search from 2003 successfully created 'Genetically engineered potatoes containing a hepatitis B vaccine' which caused human volunteers to produce a 'large number of extra antibodies'. The research shows that GM food can be used to pass genetic material to humans and cause changes in the human body.

Posted: 7:21:02 AM  

The strange part is that researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M's AgriLife Extension Service say making "zombies" out of fire ants is a good thing.

"It's a tool — they're not going to completely wipe out the fire ant, but it's a way to control their population," said Scott Ludwig , an integrated pest management specialist with the AgriLife Extension Service in Overton , in East Texas .

Posted: 7:18:09 AM  

Each country's health experts must decide if infected people should immediately be treated with antivirals, Shindo said — a decision that also must take into account how many antivirals are available.

Posted: 7:06:46 AM