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POPSScience Research Needs Continuity Science Research needs continuity that cannot be found through the use of a market forces model. This article sums up the setback in alternative source energy research which happened in the 1980's. We may now be ready to set things right, f we continue to fund scientific research for alternative energy sources, such as algae. Carefully read the story of how we, yes we, abandoned alternative sources of energy and played our fiddles while the oil burned up our economy. Ooops! Now we bemoan the fact. On the positive side, one thing is different now, and that is the ability of people, including scientists, to get their message across without the help of traditional media. Journalists and their bosses failed miserably to report on these issues, so greedy people who only look out for themselves were able to bring us, as a nation, to our knees with the high price of energy and the destruction of our economy.
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POPSEarth On Track For Epic Die-Off, Scientists Say "If we redouble our conservation efforts, we can stem the tide of extinctions and have those species around in the future," Barnosky said. "There is a bit of urgency here. By demonstrating that we have already lost 15 to 42 percent of mammalian diversity, the question is, do we really want to lose any more? I think the answer to that is pretty obvious."
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POPSPatient trapped in a 23-year 'coma' was conscious all along Mr Houben said: 'All that time I just literally dreamed of a better life. Frustration is too small a word to describe what I felt.' His case has only just been revealed in a scientific paper released by the man who 'saved' him, top neurological expert Dr Steven Laureys. 'Medical advances caught up with him,' said Dr Laureys, who believes there may be many similar cases of false comas around the world. The disclosure will also renew the rightto- die debate over whether people in comas are truly unconscious. Mr Houben, a former martial arts enthusiast, was paralysed in 1983.
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POPSpharmaceutical manufacturing First and foremost, Xcelience is the industry expert in formulation development. From analysis through formulation and manufacturing, our extensive background and impressive talents are becoming well known throughout the scientific world. Xcelience is taking industry standards, and kicking it all up a notch. We are taking pride in becoming a market and trend leader, because all good things come with a little bit of change and a little bit of imagination.
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POPScapsule filling machine First and foremost, Xcelience is the industry expert in formulation development. From analysis through formulation and manufacturing, our extensive background and impressive talents are becoming well known throughout the scientific world. Xcelience is taking industry standards, and kicking it all up a notch. We are taking pride in becoming a market and trend leader, because all good things come with a little bit of change and a little bit of imagination.
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POPSJohn Lichfield: French are starting to worry about healthcare Full Article: Quite apart from the outdated or mendacious statistics hurled around, the comparison with the British approach was deliberately misleading. Mr Obama has never suggested the cumbersome NHS model – state-run, funded from taxation and free at the point of access – should be imported to America.
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POPSScience Ponders Zombie Attack more: "Professor Robert Smith? (the question mark is part of his surname and not a typographical mistake) and colleagues wrote: "We model a zombie attack using biological assumptions based on popular zombie movies. Even so, their analysis revealed that a strategy of capturing or curing the zombies would only put off the inevitable. In their scientific paper, the authors conclude that humanity's only hope is to "hit them hard and hit them often". They added: "It's imperative that zombies are dealt with quickly or else... we are all in a great deal of trouble." According to the researchers, the key difference between the zombies and the spread of real infections is that "zombies can come back to life". Professor Neil Ferguson, who is one of the UK government's chief advisers on controlling the spread of swine flu, said the study did have parallels with some infectious diseases.
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POPSScience ponders 'zombie attack' Professor Ferguson joked: "The paper considers something that many of us have worried about - particularly in our younger days - of what would be a feasible way of tackling an outbreak of a rapidly spreading zombie infection. "My understanding of zombie biology is that if you manage to decapitate a zombie then it's dead forever. So perhaps they are being a little over-pessimistic when they conclude that zombies might take over a city in three or four days," he said. << I think that some people have too much time on their hands... :-)
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POPSNegative Thinking Can Make You Happier You might expect that a walk down memory lane to the start of a new love would brighten anyone’s mood—and it did, to some extent. But the researchers found that the subjects who were asked to “subtract” their partner from their lives and consider an alternate reality came out of the experience feeling far happier than those who had shared their true stories. This seems contradictory to conventional wisdom, in which we are taught that showing gratitude for all we have can increase our happiness. But in a Scientific American article, Sonja Luubomirsky, a psychology professor at UC Davis and the author of The How of Happiness: A New Guide to Getting the Life You Want, suggests that the “subtraction” model used in the new research is still a form of showing appreciation for our lives.
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POPSA Changing Worldview This adequate epistemology will be, above all else, humble. It will recognize that science deals with models and metaphors representing certain aspects of experienced reality, and that any model or metaphor may be permissible if it is useful in helping to order knowledge, even though it may seem to conflict with another model which is also useful. (The classic example is the history of wave and particle models in physics.) This includes, specifically, the metaphor of consciousness. The ontological stance of the universe as holarchy appears to have great promise as the basis for an extended science in which consciousness-related phenomena are no longer anomalies, but keys to a deeper understanding; a science that transcends and includes the science we have. The implications of research on consciousness go even further. They suggest interconnection at a level that has yet to be fully recognized by Western science.
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POPSA Fight For The Amazon That Should Inspire The World
Of course, fossil fools will argue that the only alternative to burning up our remaining oil and gas supplies is for us all to live like the indigenous peoples in the Amazon. But next door to Peru, you can see a very different, environmentally sane model to lift up the poor emerging – if only we will grasp it. Ecuador is a poor country with large oil resources underneath its rainforests – but its president, Rafael Correa, is offering us the opposite of Garcia's plan. He has announced that he is willing to leave his country's largest oil reserve under the soil, if the rest of the world will match the $9.2bn in revenues it would provide. If we don't start reaching for these alternatives, we will render this month's victory in the Amazon meaningless. The Hadley Centre in Exeter, one of the most sophisticated scientific centres for studying the impacts of global warming, has warned that if we carry on belching out greenhouse gases at the current rate, the humid Amazon will dry up an
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POPSRutgers Glider RU27 Flies Along Gulf Stream on Transatlantic Voyage Engineers at Rutgers had successfully deployed gliders several dozen times in places all over the world. Glider missions often lasted over a month and covered distances of 500 km or more. But this represents a grander challenge. This is the first time a robot will cross the Atlantic. The robot will make its way by gliding beneath the ocean's surface and will provide a profile of the oceans floor. You can follow the day-to-day operations and progress of the glider at a dedicated website of the Rutgers COOL here: http://rucool.marine.rutgers.edu/atlantic/. You cn also follow it on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RU27
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POPSOh, Texas, this guy runs your school board? Spoken like a true politician. Wait. . .What?? Did this guy say anything? This is why we should have stricter national standards for education. The right-wing creationists realized years ago they needed to fill the school boards and local political structures with their believers to create a nation of brainwashed zombies. This is proof of the success they’ve had getting the ignorant and the ill-informed into places of power. I’m still waiting for creationists to come up with a scientific model instead of trying to tear down one that has taken billions of years to build.
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POPSSpace and Time are forms of animal sense perception
The final option is biocentrism, which holds that the universe is created by life and not the other way around. According to biocentrism, time does not exist independently of the life that notices it. Everything we perceive is actively and repeatedly being reconstructed inside our heads in an organized whirl of information. Time in this sense can be defined as the summation of spatial states occurring inside the mind. So what is real? If the next mental image is different from the last, then it is different, period. We can award that change with the word time, but that does not mean there is an actual invisible matrix in which changes occur. That is just our own way of making sense of things. We watch our loved ones age and die and assume that an external entity called time is responsible for the crime. There is a peculiar intangibility to space, as well. Most of us still think like Newton, regarding space as sort of a vast container that has no walls. But our notion of space is fa
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POPSOne man's quest to honor America's Saturn V rocket The story of the biggest scale model rocket ever built. On April 25, 2009, history will be made. At Higgs Farm in Price, Maryland, Steve Eves will enter the history books as the person who flew the largest model rocket in history. The rocket will weigh over 1,600 pounds, it will stand over 36 feet tall and it will be powered by a massive array of nine motors: eight 13,000ns N-Class motors and a 77,000ns P-Class motor. The estimated altitude of this single stage effort will be between 3,000 and 4,000 feet and the project will be recovered at apogee.
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POPSWhich Health Quiz is Right for You? Tara Parker Pope follows up on a NYT story this week which exposed the business model of Real Age, a popular online health quiz. What most people didn't know was that their answers were being sent to drug marketers. She makes the very good -- and obvious point -- that if you take a health quiz online, it should be one backed by scientific validity. Do you take health quizzes and do you find them useful?
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POPS AlGore - Crouching Liberal - Freakin Idiot catastrophe. But the science continued to evolve, and still does, even though so many choose to ignore it when it does not fit with predetermined political agendas,” the 60 scientists concluded. In addition, an October 16, 2006 Washington Post article by reporter Christopher Lee noted that Indiana University geologist Simon Brassell found climate change occurred during the age of dinosaurs and quoted Brassell questioning the accuracy of computer climate model predictions. Global Cooling on the Horizon? In August, Khabibullo Abdusamatov, a scientist who heads the space research sector for the Russian Academy of Sciences, predicted long-term global cooling may be on the horizon due to a projected decrease in the sun’s output. See: http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060825/53143686.html http://ironcross11.blogspot.com/2006/10/algore-crouching-liberal-freakin-idiot.html
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POPS “climate change” throughout the entire solar system.
Here are some highlights: Sun: More activity since 1940 than in previous 1150 years, combined Mercury: Unexpected polar ice discovered, along with a surprisingly strong intrinsic magnetic field … for a supposedly “dead” planet Venus: 2500% increase in auroral brightness, and substantive global atmospheric changes in less than 30 years Earth: Substantial and obvious world-wide weather and geophysical changes Mars: “Global Warming,” huge storms, disappearance of polar icecaps Jupiter: Over 200% increase in brightness of surrounding plasma clouds Saturn: Major decrease in equatorial jet stream velocities in only ~20 years, accompanied by surprising surge of X-rays from equator Uranus: “Really big, big changes” in brightness, increased global cloud activity Neptune: 40% increase in atmospheric brightness Pluto: 300% increase in atmospheric pressure, even as Pluto recedes farther from the Sun This Report’s scientific data, from a variety of
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POPSPsychohistory? "Unlike betting in Las Vegas, the Iowa Electronic Markets are not designed to make money for the market operators," Amaral says. "They are designed to use the wisdom of the crowds to find out what most likely will happen by aggregating the information possessed by a large number of people. This approach extends beyond politics -- prediction markets like this one exist for everything from scientific breakthroughs to box-office profits. "These studies are important because if people have some belief that these prediction markets are doing a good job, then they will pay attention to what is going on with them,"
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POPSHeart Attack Calculator Created
They recorded details of body mass index, family history, physical activity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes were recorded. They then matched the data against healthy individuals as a scientific control. Rather then using conventional methods for analysing statistics, the researchers borrowed an approach from the computer science field of artificial intelligence, OLAP. Online analytical processing was developed in the early 1990s and was exploited primarily in industrial and commercial applications, for financial and marketing analysis. Fundamentally, OLAP provides a multidimensional view of data that allows patterns to be discerned in even the largest datasets that remain invisible even to the most expert user of spreadsheets. In a standard model, sales, purchases, pricing, customer base, and other economic measurements are used, Kostakis' colleagues at the University of Patras have adapted this system instead to accommodate the risk factors of heart disease.
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