tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38565372024-11-01T19:21:43.340+11:00Fa del bene e lassa dire<br><br>Science, Energy Carbondioxide+emissions, peak+oil, antiwar, Biology, Evolutiongiordano brunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03966248788473430768noreply@blogger.comBlogger691125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856537.post-49249968834757893062012-05-10T09:15:00.000+10:002012-05-10T09:22:13.325+10:00

The Murder of Khalid Said 13June2010 Alexandria policemen beat young man to death, says rights group | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today's News from Egypt “On Sunday, Khaled was at cyber café at around 11:30 in the evening. Two policemen asked him for money and when he said he didn’t have, they beat him,” Muhammad Abdel Aziz, lawyer with el-Nadeem, told al-Masry al-Youm. “As he was beaten up, his head hit

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Greece&nbsp; Property... prices here have dropped to as little as one quarter of what they were five years ago. The Greeks who could afford to have left. For rent signs are plastered over almost every one of the area's shabby five-storey apartment blocks. On the side streets among the North African-run mini markets and Nigerian internet cafes, newcomers from West Africa push shopping trolleys

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Athame, Witches' dagger Professor Laura Lewis .. may face the highest hurdle of all. Her mission is to make a rare-earth-free magnet, using a compound found only in meteorites. She is trying to replicate the meteorite mix of iron laid on top of nickel on top of another layer of iron. Iron and nickel, both abundant, by themselves are easily demagnetized. But in this special crystal structure,

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Winter approaches, time to fire up some Boinc &nbsp;, use yr computer &nbsp;participate in some big science - in the cold world, computer cycles heat your house and solve some big problems.. Mullers Ratchet Caenorhabditis elegans is known for his high rate of selfing that may make it susceptible to the operation of Muller's ratchet. Now evolution@home has found that this worm would indeed be

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BAMAKO, 22 March 2012 (IRIN) - Former Malian President Amadou Toumani Touré, overthrown this morning .. the Comité national pour le redressement (CNRDRE), captain Amadou Sango, has dissolved state institutions, suspended the constitution, reportedly arrested several ministers, Touré’s “incapacity to manage the crisis in the north .. irinnews

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Feminism falls to a faux male warrior myth? On 3 March, Greer wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald that she “fell in love with” the “matter-of-fact” Gillard long ago. Omitting entirely Gillard’s politics, she asked, “What’s not to like? That she’s a woman, that’s what. An unmarried, middle-aged woman in power – any man’s and many women’s nightmare”. That Gillard might be a nightmare to the

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Syria On March 5, Russia Today (RT) headlined, "Stratfor leaks: NATO commandos in illegal special ops in Syria," saying: On March 4, the Syrian Free Press claimed 100 foreign mercenaries captured after regaining control of Homs. Most were French. Others were from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and other Arab states. They had weapons supplied by America and Israel. On March 5, 13 French officers were

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___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ the purple stuff in the rind (&amp; in Kumera skin) ...alpha-mangostin, beta-mangostin, garcinone B, and garcinone E,

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Doomer Porn I am not in the Olduvai camp. The downshoot surely wont be back to the stone age. It does seem that Wage-Slave-Labour, ie Capital, depends on surplus, which depends on EROEI ie fossil fuels. Hard to envisage the post concentrated-energy ie diffuse energy economy Where I sit the wind blows every day, more or less, and the wind turbines power the entire city. Dams + geothermal +

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Pepe on Syria The Arab League's Ministerial Committee had approved the report, with four votes in favor (Algeria, Egypt, Sudan and GCC member Oman) and only one against; guess who, Qatar - which is now presiding the Arab League because the emirate bought their (rotating) turn from the Palestinian Authority. So the report was either ignored (by W\/Report_of_Arab_League_Observer_Missionestern

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he uncovered his polished bow of the horn of a wild ibex … of 16 palms; these the worker in horn had worked and fitted together, and smoothed the whole with care … This bow he set firmly against the ground, bent it, and strung it … Then he opened the lid of his quiver, and took out an arrow, a feathered arrow that had never been shot, loaded with dark pains and immediately he fitted the bitter

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Queenslanf Floods Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured the top image on February 6, 2012. Looks like AnthroCChange is going to be more precipitation, bigtime __________________________________________________ So what we need is 1) flood towers (Bangladesh is alrady building these... 6 metres? 15 metres? these could contain potable water tanks

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Leo Naphta (The Magic Mountain)... He modeled him on George Lukács, - Gee better check that out... . [Lukacs Minister of Cultural Affairs in the Nagy Government.] "Franz Kafka or Thomas Mann?" of course I read "Magic Mountain" but we are live now at the gates of the Castle, not up the Mountain. I confess I havnt read Lukács. Neither did Lukács read Tales of Genjii (ca 1000CE) and "

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6 June 2012 last chance to see: Transit of Venus Only six transits of Venus are known to have been observed by humans in 1639, 1761, 1769, 1874, 1882 2004. [I reckon Mayans must have used a pinhole in a leaf... they knew Venus better than Spaniards did] ..Venus..round black spot with a diameter.. 1/32nd of the sun... ..entire transit (all four contacts) is visible from .. New Zealand.

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NZ Wheat a Record NZ imports 46% of its wheat , less than I had thought. total Import+produced = 171kg/person 470g/day (I suppose some is 'feed' A Nth Otago (Canterbury?) farmer got a world record 15+ T/ha yield with 200kg N/ha and a decent 11T/ha with no N applied - so NZ can grow wheat (maybe this was 'feed'?) I reckon NZ should try to grow more wheat, just in case the PRC snap up the

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More On Here On Earth the Thing I wanted to say, but forgot, about 'Here On Eath', the biggest error: Tim talks twice aboout life "Breaking apart CO2" - into Carbon and Oxygen. This is a basic biochemical blunder. Any first-year undergraduate from 40 years ago would tell you that its H2O that gets split by light. The H is added to CO2 to make live stuff, the O2 comes from the water. This is

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Here on EarthTim Flannery's new book, a rapid romp through all the usual suspects on Climate. I hasten to add I support his positions almost entirely. Startlingly TF raises "the Great Bill Hamilton.... had he lived to combine ... with the expansive vision of Wallace and Lovelock ... may have become the most revered biologist of all time" Hamilton is, apparently, "the founder of sociobiology"

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what is fractional reserve lending? facebook __________________________________________________________ scientificamerican How many beings is kefir? by the late great Lyn Margulis (Lovelock invented Gaia with her, Carl Sagan was married to her) __________________________________________________________ Pakistan ISLAMABAD: Nato helicopters from Afghanistan intruded into northwest Pakistan and

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Citrus reticulata &nbsp; Tangerine Peel ('Mandarin' ex USA) Chen pi Tangeritin, a bioflavonoid &nbsp;in tangerine peel,.. shown to strengthen epithelial cell.. inhibits the metastasis of cancer cells (Bracke et al., 1996). Naturopath Bill Mitchell.. the compound increases the functional integrity of E-cadherin, .. adhesive protein found to be deficient in tissue samples of most cancer patients.

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Masaccio - the nickname means 'Rough' or 'clumsy' - something about his style.? His actual family name derived from cabinet-maker. Born 1401, which is Early, the important point in this criticism. Died in 1428 "poisoned by a jealous rival" - now, who said art wasnt important? __________________________________________________ Sapphira threatened with death by money-grubbing new death

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Fukushima more radiation than Chernobyl . Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ....Stohl and co-authors estimates about 36,000 terabecquerels through April 20. That's about 42 per cent of the estimated release from Chernobyl,.. 30/10/2011 5:28p.m. 1.7E19 Bq of xenon-133, greater than the estimated total radioactive release of 1.4E19 from Chernobyl. If it had rained that day, it could have

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Ali, ali, namamangka, pasakayin yaring bata; pagdating sa Maynila ipagpalit ng manika. Ali, ali, namamayong, pasukubin yaring sanggol; pagdating sa Malabon ipagpalit ng bagoong. Old woman, old woman paddling your boat, Give this child a ride; When you reach Manila Change it into a doll. Old Woman, old woman, beneath your umbrella, Shelter this child; When you reach Malabon Change it into

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startswithabang annual velocity change as Earth moves against the Cosmic background. Somehow there is an absolute space, a rest frame.

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Deltas One thousand years from now, 18 of the 27 megacities 0f 2025 (Chap 2) partially or wholly beneath ocean water ... once blue ice in Greenland. 'The New North' Laurence C Smith 2011 especially Osaka-Kobe, Lagos, Manila,Shanghai also Buenos Aires,Chennai, Dhaka Guangzhou, Istanbul, Jakarta, Karachi , Los Angeles, Mumbai, Ny,Rio,Shenzen &amp; Tokyo I guess its fatuous to be concerned about

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OK its Iwase ,not Iwasi Once, as a nervous schoolboy, furtively browsing the photobooks section of Smith's 2nd hand bookstore in Bond St, &nbsp;I came upon a copy of Iwase's book of Ama photos. Sadly I was too shy to purchase what is now a collectors item. wordpress ________________________________________________________________________________ Zimmerman filches independent flickr

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