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POPSRescuers Launch All-Out Search For Signs of Missing Climbers Earlier, it was said that Gullberg's belongings were scattered across the ice near his body. Now, it is mentioned that his body is at the bottom of a headwall. I thought he may have been left behind, so they other two could find help. Now, it seems to be the other way around. He may have fallen in his bid to find help for the other two.........only guesses
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POPS'Lost' music instrument recreated video at source. The result was a 2.4m (8ft) -long thin straight horn, with a flared bell at the end. Hard to play It is an unwieldy instrument with a limited tonal range that is hard to play. But played well, it gives Johann Sebastian Bach's motet a haunting feel that couldn't be reproduced by modern instruments.
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POPSKeep working 'to avoid dementia' As an ex teacher, with no desire to go back to work, living where there is an imminent teacher shortage, I don't believe this. Be it true or not. And I reckon most of these "cures" are stabs in the dark or, at best, educated guesses.
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POPS4 die from rare strain of meningitis in Fla. This again seems odd, being that Wellington, FL is not that far from Miami-Dade area. Could the Polo thing and this be related to the stolen virus from Ft. Detrick http://bit.ly/jAHdZ Anyone with CDC type knowlede have any guesses?
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POPSThink you're anonymous online? Don't count on it
More: That might not sound like a big deal until one considers an example: "First, we can immediately find his political orientation based on his strong opinions about Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times and Fahrenheit 9/11. Strong guesses about his religious views can be made based on his ratings on Jesus of Nazareth and The Gospel of John. He did not like Super Size Me at all; perhaps this implies something about his physical size? Both items that we found with predominantly gay themes, Bent and Queer as folk were rated one star out of five. He is a cultish follower of Mystery Science Theater 3000. This is far from all we found about this one person, but having made our point, we will spare the reader further lurid details."…Back in 2000, a Carnegie Mellon researcher took a look at 1990 US census data and concluded that 87 percent of all Americans could be uniquely identified based on only three items: ZIP code, gender, and date of birth.
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POPSGlobal warming alarm has always been a political movement (regardless of their lack of expertise in the issue)? The process of coopting science on behalf of a political movement has had an extraordinarily corrupting influence on science -- especially since the issue has been a major motivation for funding. Most funding for climate would not be there without this issue. And, it should be added, most science funded under the rubric of climate does not actually deal with climate, but rather with the alleged impact of arbitrarily assumed climate change. All impacts depend on regional forecasts, and quoting the leading scientist at the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (widely regarded as the foremost atmospheric modeling center), Tim Palmer, such forecasts are no better than guesses.
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POPSPornology <<<This, to me, sounded completely wrong. the root of the word 'porn' has no relation to any word that might be related to fruit or apples. Now pomme might be more appropriate, There's the French word pomme which means apple. There's Italian pomo which is also apple. Latin for apple is Malum, -i. In Greek it's μήλο or melo. That well-known word, pornography is based on the Greek word, pornographia, which derives from the word porne, or prostitute. So, strictly, pornology means knowledge of or study of prostitutes. It's not what you would call a common word. In fact, I don't think it's a word at all. Back at home I did some internet searching and discovered a blog by a lady of a certain age (http://dabrah.blogspot.com/2007/11/quizzing-quizmaster.html) who had seen the exact same question and answer at a quiz a few months ago. She, too felt there was something wrong, but she took it no further. I have to look into these things and embarked on a detective mission to work out wher
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POPSNo, blogodytes: Obama doesn't think Chirac is Prez Latest blog misinformation - which is posted on Clipmarks as well - guesses that Obama has the French presidents mixed up. As always with anti-Obama emails and blogs, it's nonsense. Search for Chirac on CM if you want to see it. Note that my clip is from right-leaning Newser.
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POPS2009 Oscar Winner Predictions : Chance of Victory Much speculation have already begun about who is going to take home the maximum number of Oscars this year. While it was easier to predict the 2009 Oscar nominees, it is actually difficult to make accurate guesses on who the winners are going to be.
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POPSBlurring the Boundary Between Perception and Memory
Memory itself is not like a video-recording, with a moment-by-moment sensory image. In fact, it’s more like a puzzle: we piece together our memories, based on both what we actually remember and what seems most likely given our knowledge of the world. Just as we make educated guesses in perception, our minds’ best educated guesses help “fill in the gaps” of memory, reconstructing the most plausible picture of what happened in our past. The most striking demonstration of the minds’ guessing game occurs when we find ways to fool the system into guessing wrong. When we trick the visual system, we see a “visual illusion”—a static image might appear as if it’s moving, or a concave surface will look convex. When we fool the memory system, we form a false memory—a phenomenon made famous by researcher Elizabeth Loftus, who showed that it is relatively easy to make people remember events that never occurred. As long as the falsely remembered event could plausibly have occurred, all it takes
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