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Real Name: Kurt
Location: Sydney, Australia
Joined:2-4-2007
Make pokkets a Guide: follow clipper
About me
I'm an Australian living in Sydney, in a house with my brother and 6 husky/shepherds. He watches TV while I use the computer. My dog Lani hates the computer because she'd rather go walking. I like to try and find out how things work, since discovering what is beneath the cover, can show a new way of looking at something you know, but which can now be understood More clearly.
"I may be guilty of being an idealist, ( ..and a bad poet - but that is more painful) - but I have never had the courage to believe in nothing"
Don Quixote, played by Alonzo Quijana, played by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, played by Peter O'Toole in
"Man of La Mancha"

"We do say that it is the duty, and the responsibility of the community, and particularly those more fortunately placed to see that our less fortunate fellow citizens are protected from those shafts of fate which leave them helpless and without hope, this is the objective for which we are striving. It is, as I have said before, the Beacon: the light on the hill to which our eyes are always turned and to which our efforts are always directed."
Ben Chifley December 1949
Prime Minister of Australia
13 July 1945 – 19 December 1949

Today the community is Global.
Why I use Clipmarks
Clipmarks helps me learn, because when I clip something, it forces me to read it, so the bits I clip can carry the story, rather than think I know about something by reading the headlines.
Clipmarks shows people agree about far more things than they disagree.
In the big picture, Clipmarks can help fill a lot of the gaps, and the way messages can be seen both by subject, and by popular opinion, provides a link between the two. Every clipper's clip is posted, because the clipper is satisfied that the clip reflects their point of view, shows a topic of interest, or because they need a safe place to put their bookmarks, with pictures, in case their system crashes.
We need the people to save the world, politicians can't understand the situation while they are isolated in a power bubble. Clipmarks is a great way pick up stories that aren't in the headlines, but are often more important. To see if other people are thinking the same thing I am (or vice versa), and learn by the way they think. It keeps my mind active and shows me how much I have to learn.
I like the way the clips are listed as clipped, so any range of things might be there. It's easy to learn something by surprise.
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Amazon Drought reduces Carbon Sinks
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by pokkets  3-8-2009   
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Lunar Cycle affects Cyclone strength
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by pokkets  3-8-2009   
 Known as Hurricanes, Typhoons and Cyclones, depending on the location Scientists have noticed the pattern, but are yet to discover the mechanism behind the variations
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Shells 'thinning due to fossil fuels
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by pokkets  3-8-2009   
 Organisms the size of sand grains are helping scientists to document the problem of ocean acidification
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Scientist calls for robot ethics rules
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by pokkets  12-21-2008    1
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Global Methane Levels move up again
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by pokkets  12-15-2008   
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Yawning cools the brain
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by pokkets  12-15-2008    3
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Mobiles distract more than passengers
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by pokkets  12-15-2008   
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Single cell giant up-ends early evolution
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by pokkets  12-15-2008   
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Tibetan glaciers rapidly melting
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by pokkets  12-15-2008   
  The Water supply of nearly a billion people in South Asia in peril? Rather euphemistic way of describing it.! The effects will be devastating. A combination of drought, and Rivers that have become sewers never being purged, to say the least. There is no reason to believe that the melt will do anything but what it has continued to do so far...accelerate. Once scientists were often surprised. Now they are stunned. Why? They once had some fool idea they knew what they were talking about...but they were wrong. At least according to the reports we've had ACCESS to.
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'Leaky' optic fibres full of possibilities
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by pokkets  12-15-2008   
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Father of modern astronomy found
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by pokkets  12-15-2008    1
 The location of the tomb of Nicolas Copernicus has been confirmed with DNA testing
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'Sneaky' photos could steal your keys
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by pokkets  12-15-2008    2
 The program was developed to warn people? ....Yeah right ! To watch out for people using the program
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Mammoth genome may explain extinction.
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by pokkets  12-15-2008   
 Perhaps after the ice age, woolly mammoths just overheated? Global warming means most of the Mammoths that have been in the deep freeze for 10,000 years, will thaw out. The next species on the agenda, is Neanderthal Man.
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'Nuclear family' found in ancient grave
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by pokkets  12-15-2008    2
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Tiny plankton weaken mighty continents.
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by pokkets  12-15-2008   
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Silk the key to rebuilding bone
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by pokkets  12-15-2008   
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Carbon Trading Scheme 'discounts altruism'
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by pokkets  12-15-2008   
 If people save energy with new technology out of their own pocket. The carbon points they save will be used or traded by contracted energy suppliers and industries.
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Empathetic virtual humans on the way.
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by pokkets  12-15-2008   
 They'd be great for advertising and PR work. Perhaps even election campaigns
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Fifth of the world's coral dead: report
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by pokkets  12-15-2008    1
 The estimates of impact of Greenhouse gas, and environmental degradation are conservative. Generally things such as food chains are breaking down more rapidly than expected. Coral is at the bottom of a significant number of marine and in turn land based food chains i.e The breakdown is accelerating
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Fingerprints reveal more than identity.
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by pokkets  12-15-2008    3
 For tracking people who aren't using their mobile phones
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Crop pests changing with pesticides
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by pokkets  11-17-2008    2
 And they will also change with Genetically Modified Crops
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Southern ocean close to acid tipping point
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by pokkets  11-10-2008   
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Spray on Solar Cells a step closer
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by pokkets  11-9-2008    1
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Electric eels inspire bio-battery idea
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by pokkets  10-22-2008   
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Seed size points to climate impact
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by pokkets  10-22-2008    2
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Rock shows earth got off to hot start
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by pokkets  10-22-2008   
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Dead Star flings out gamma rays
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by pokkets  10-18-2008   
 It's funny they describe a star's behavior as odd, We've only just started looking
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Searching the Web a workout for the brain
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by pokkets  10-15-2008   
 The net stimulates the Brain? So does Advertizing.
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Kuiper belt free of Plutoids
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by pokkets  10-13-2008   
 Plutoids are objects that are similar size objects to Pluto in the distant reaches of the Solar System. Maybe Pluto will get promoted again, and we could even call a few more Planets. Surely there's room for a few more there's plenty of Space
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Aloe Vera and Garlic top herbal charts
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by pokkets  10-10-2008   
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Microscope reveals developing fish embryo
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by pokkets  10-10-2008   
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High speed crash makes galaxies 'sterile'
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by pokkets  10-10-2008   
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Ultrathin films form 'warm' superconductors
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by pokkets  10-8-2008   
 Superconductors are particularly efficient, because they can carry a current, with very little 'resistance' where much energy can be lost in the form of heat.
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Nanofood safety proposal 'NOT good enough'
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by pokkets  10-8-2008   
 Why? because it is DANGEROUS. It does nothing to benefit the consumer, but is a means of increasing profits by extending shelf life and appearance. There is a barrier called the Blood-Brain barrier, where the pores through osmosis will only admit a certain number of chemicals. with small molecular size, and identity. Nanofood elements throw a new invasive potential into the mix generally when there are alternatives that are much more healthy.
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Study unravels bacteria's Stress buster
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by pokkets  10-8-2008   
 It's described as a "global response' which is far more detailed that they once believed.. It can also show where the responses of animal cells in general can have a mechanism that can be compared.
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Medical students fail drug tests
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by pokkets  10-8-2008    1
 They were generally unaware of street names of common recreational drugs, a knowledge that can be critical in diagnosis, and the prescribing an antidote or remedy. Very often the information given is from people who are delirious, feel threatened, concerned about being responsible for an overdose, or hysterical because of the fear someone they know well may not survive. They can find it hard to trust a doctor without a clue.
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Tassie devil highlights species decline
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by pokkets  10-8-2008    1
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Arctic ocean covered by thin ice
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by pokkets  10-8-2008    1
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Earliest animal footprints uncovered
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by pokkets  10-6-2008   
 Scientists didn't 'know' Pre-Cambrian life was well developed, they just seemed to reach their conclusions with too little evidence
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Scientists create solar cells with a twist.
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by pokkets  10-6-2008    2
 I suppose it won't be hard to have the power to at least power a Laptop. Perhaps a Solar powered tent for camping. We are finding new ways to transform energy into media we can use, and it, with the open information on the web is only bound to improve dramatically
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