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POPSPopulation, Arithmetic and Energy Since we're now being told, that oil reserves are far more depleted than they chose to tell us, this video is more relevant than ever. It may seem boring at first, but believe me, it isn't. Anyone with a basic understanding of arithmetic will know, that we're headed for some hard times ahead and not too far off into the future, either. Please watch all 8 parts. It's worth it.
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POPSCU study: Showers can spray hot and cold running germs IMHO, this is another attempt to seed panic in society. I mean... who not taking showers? Even more harmful attack than last year's salmonella scare. I not mention swine flu, it's pretty done already. But they urge to keep tensions in public mind. What for now? GOP ruling is over for good... Remember: running water is not contain any significant amount of flora and what it contain is regular common bacteria, which was coexisted with us and even existed long before us. Sure, unless it wasn't allegedly poisoned. But that is another story, my friends...
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POPSDitching binary will make quantum computers more powerful Brilliant! Jonathan Home at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, says Neeley's team needs to extend its basic system in such a way that two or more qudits can transport information between them, which would allow more complex computational operations to be undertaken. "Designing the sort of system where two qudits interact, but still retain the interesting properties of a five-level system, will be a major challenge," Home says. Did he say "challenge"? I bet we're going to see this working anytime soon.
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POPSReform Supporters Outnumber Critics At Town Halls And when Rep. Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) held a forum on health care reform he drew an overflow crowd, with a majority on the Democratic lawmaker's side. "A large majority of those present at the first discussion applauded Lujan when he stressed several times that he was in favor of a public option and when Lujan and other panelists criticized insurance companies."
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POPSBoulder Rocks! I wouldn't call Boulder affluent in the same sense that other areas are affluent (though we do have our problems with the idle trustifarians and the like) more a town that was build and developed with the future in mind. Also helps to have some pretty resilient institutions around like the University of Colorado and the federal campus (NOAA, NIST, NCAR).
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POPSRachel Maddow guest Dr. Warren Hern discusses climate of political terror in the US Dr. Warren Hern is the head of the Boulder Abortion Clinic, and one of the last doctors in America who still performs late-term abortions . He's lived with death-threats & actual attempts on his life for decades. And the same violent rhetoric from the anti-abortion fringe that spawned a series of homegrown American terrorist snipers and bombers that have killed people and destroyed property is being turned on proponents of healthcare reform in America. Think about it.
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POPS"Monolith on Mars" more: A spokesman for the university's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory said: "It would be unwise to refer to it as a 'monolith' or 'structure' because that implies something artificial, like it was put there by someone for example. "In reality it's more likely that this boulder has been created by breaking away from the bedrock to create a rectangular-shaped feature."
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POPSRepublican moms for marijuana: 'Time to legalize is now' My official stance is "weed is a bad idea." My unofficial stance is when the government is telling me what I can do in my personal time, then the government can suck it. From my experience with weed, it does absolutely nothing for me. I've had friends that sit around giggling and I'm like WTF? is going on....this stuff is crap. Maybe it wasn't good quality.....I dunno. Anyway, keep the drugs away from the kids. Alcohol is much worse IMO. But as an American, I want to have the choice. I don't want the damn government telling what I can smoke, eat, or drink.
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POPSSticker Shock Threatens To Stall Health Care Overhaul even if that means it will take longer for the economy to recover." costs are "a boulder no one can move." The White House has said "it it can save $622 billion in health care costs over the next 10 years by paring hospital subsidies to the uninsured, changing how certain Medicare payments are made to providers, and cutting waste and fraud from Medicare and Medicaid." The rest would likely be paid for in tax increases. The Congressional Budget Office analyzed the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, which would subsidize people to help them pay for insurance premiums, and found that "those subsidies alone would cost an estimated $1.28 trillion." "Tanner warned"and CBO officials agreed"that such initial estimates are the 'floor, not the ceiling' on costs" (Lightman and Douglas, 6/19). Republicans and Democrats alike are questioning those costs, The Los Angeles Times reports. On ABC's "This Week”, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,
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POPSRacism on Campus (University of Colorado)
This is a message I came across Tuesday morning that was sent to my Webmail inbox. “Black Bitch” is the subject of the message. My first thought? This has to be a joke, right? Someone is trying to play a game with me, right? With further reading and analysis, I realized someone was not playing a game with me. My life has been threatened, and I do not stand alone. Listen to me please, MY LIFE HAS BEEN THREATENED. There are two other members of the small Black community here at CU that have received similar hate messages within the past year that I know of - me being the first Black female that has received such a hateful message, again, that I know of. A Colorado e-mail address sent this message to me, meaning someone on the CU Boulder campus could have logged on to any Internet connection and sent me this message entitled “Black Bitch.” I am angry. I am hurt. I am sad. I am confused. Why was I pinpointed? Why has it become okay to send hateful, hurtful messages
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POPSAnimals can tell right from wrong This thinking is another indicator of a change in human assumptions about animal consciousness -- from uncaring reductionism to reflective respect. This is not new. In 1966, Conrad Lorenz made much the same point in On Agression, but noted that humans are the only animals whose moral principles against violence are so often breached in the form of murder and war.
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POPSDrugs, elephants and American prisons
Attitudes towards drug use, particularly marijuana, are changing. The main reasons for the shift -- baby boomers, a generation familiar with drug use, are in charge of the country’s institutions; the dismal economy makes people question public expenditures that do not seem essential; and the drug violence in Mexico that has begun spilling across the border. The argument for legalizing marijuana, and eventually other drugs, is straightforward: it would transform a law-and-order problem into a problem of public health. Where it belongs. At the annual “smoke-out” held April 20 in Boulder, Colorado, an estimated crowd of more than 10,000 lit up marijuana joints on the campus of the University of Colorado. The smoke hung over the scene like a grey blanket. Overhead, an aircraft dragged a banner with the words “Hmmm, smells good up here.” Police watched but made no arrests and issued no fines. The author correctly states that the war on drugs is political. It should be ended.
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POPSCops: Woman Taped Puppy To Refrigerator
Toll added, "I know this looks really bad, but the dog bites. He is aggressive." Jurczenia asked how long the puppy had been taped upside down to the side of the refrigerator. "Not long," Toll replied. "Like 20-30 minutes. It was just until he calmed down." The reports note that when Beck saw his dog stuck to the refrigerator, he told Toll, "Take him down," adding, "You are so sick!" Toll replied, "No, you are sick for not caring enough about me to get rid of the dog." The animal, whose paws had been bound with elastic hair ties, was clearly in pain and "yelped and screamed loudly" as cops worked to free him. "Rex just lay motionless, but breathing, on his kennel after he was removed from the tape." The puppy was handed over to the Boulder Valley Humane Society. Toll, seen in the above mug shot, was turned over to county jailers. Beck, who was arrested in connection with his scuffle with Toll, was not charged with animal abuse. Though he did reportedly tell police, "We were going to ge
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