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More On The Third Annual Symposium For Sustainable Food And Seed Sovereignty
Symposium panel pulls no punches on GMO effects By Jerry A. Padilla The Taos News Genetically modified organisms — GMOs — and their effect on people was a hot topic at the recent Third Annual Food and Seed Sovereignty Symposium at
- October 12th, 2008
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India: Giant Catfish Allegedly Dragging Swimmers Down and Eating Them
With photo. He caught one which tipped the scales at 161lb and was nearly 6ft long – a world record weight and far bigger than any landed before. He said: “If that got hold of you, there’d be no getting away.” An 18-year-old Nepali d
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Extremophile Organism Found 1.74 Miles Down in Earth’s Crust
Science: It sure had a long journey to get down there. Other science: Life evolved down there in the first place, and we sure had a long journey to get up here. (pdf file)
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The William Ayers/Weathermen Thing
Let’s not forget that if William Ayers is such a big bad unrepentant terrorist, then why is he walking around free? The Answer: they dropped the charges. Why did they drop the charges? Because the FBI broke the law trying to get him. It’s
- October 11th, 2008
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Another Reason To Legalize It.
Mexican drug cartels polluting Sequoia National Forest while growing marijuana.
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Fossilized Shrimp Show World’s Earliest Dagwood Sandwich
That’s the rough trade, ennit guvna? Palaeontologists led by Hou Xian-Guang, of Yunnan University, China, discovered fossilised chains of up to 20 crustaceans linked head-to-toe, the earliest record of any collective animal behaviour and perhap
- October 10th, 2008
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Superpollster
I check this site daily now. Dude averages all the polls, weighting them according to their track records, and then runs 10,000 simulations of the election.
- October 9th, 2008
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Gonzo has posted a new entry on: Gonzo Science
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Franken, Barkley, Coleman debate at UMD
When: Oct. 16 7PM Get tickets in advance at individual campaign websites, or show up on first come first serve basis
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- October 8th, 2008
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Hunting Shocker: Shooting Lead Bullets Into Animals Contaminates Them With Lead
Who could have foreseen such a thing. Also spreads up the food chain as bald eagles and other raptors eat the gut piles. I know copper bullets are more expensive but one also hears that sportsmen are really great conservationists, so I know they̵
- October 7th, 2008
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Gonzo has posted a new entry on: Gonzo Science
Embarrassing Failure of Astronomical Theory: Outer Solar System Clear of Debris
Effectively shoots down reigning theory of solar system formation and the origin of comets. But don’t expect anybody to admit that. They’re in surgery attaching lifesaving grafts to patch the theory. Live, damn you, live! This finding su
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- October 6th, 2008
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Whirlpools on the sun the size of hurricanes. See here for some videos which appear to suggest the sun has a solid surface.
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Mass Extinction Threats
Mammals: check. Amphibians: check. Reptiles: check. Birds: check. Insects: check. Plants: check. I once heard someone compare the ecosystem to an airplane, and species are the rivets holding it together. At a certain point, you lose enough rivets a
- October 5th, 2008
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Gonzo has posted a new entry on: Gonzo Science
Could Pterasaurs Fly?
Pterasaurs possibly too big to fly, according to researcher. (New Scientist subscription-only story here.) That is, unless the earth used to be smaller and had less gravity. That would solve the parallel problem of other dinosaurs being too big to ex
- October 4th, 2008
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Who Controls The Seed?
More on GMOs:Who will step up to challenge them? By Jerry A. Padilla The Taos News PART TWO Local farm activist Allen Richardson continues to raise consciousness about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and their future effect
- October 3rd, 2008
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Nicely structured Psilocybin study - preliminary phase
Love it. The current project will therefore test how these powerful experiences might be used in the treatment of drug dependence by testing the efficacy of psilocybin-assisted treatments for addiction. Previous research has suggested that the kind o
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UK foundation calls for more sensible Cannabis laws
First saw this on physorg.com. Some sensible words from a sensible foundation of British academics, researchers and science advisors. “Although cannabis can have a negative impact on health, including mental health, in terms of relative harms i
- October 2nd, 2008
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- October 1st, 2008
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pesticide safety testing program cut
Citing Cost, USDA Kills Pesticide-Testing Program The Bush administration has abruptly halted a government program that tests the levels of pesticides in fruits, vegetables and field crops, arguing that the $8 million-a-year program is too expensive-
- September 29th, 2008
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The Church of Sarah Palin: A bunch of Pentecostals going batshit-crazy in the name of Jesus. The guy with the microphone looks like the nutjob in the movie version of “Contact” who (spolier) blows up the first machine. Scary…
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- September 28th, 2008
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The Hadron Collider As Viewed By The Scientific Big Bang Dissenters
From Tom Van Flandern’s press release about the cosmology conference “Crisis in Cosmology 2,” it sounds like the Hadron Collider is the astronomy equivalent to the Wall Street bailout: Physicist John Hartnett from the University of
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Scientists’ Petition Against the Big Bang Theory
Highlights from an open letter to the scientific community published in New Scientist in 2004: The big bang today relies on a growing number of hypothetical entities, things that we have never observed– inflation, dark matter and dark energy a
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- September 27th, 2008
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Sound Of Jaunty Whistling Haunts Northern New Mexico
Farm Worker Helping To Protect Traditional Chile Crop. Taos News, Click on Valle Vista. Local Man Can’t Fucking Believe He’s Hanging Out With Percy Schmeiser
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compost and straw now potential garden poisons, thanks to Dow
Thousands of home gardens across Great Britain have failed this year because the straw, manure, or compost the gardeners used contained herbicide residue. The poison in question is aminopyralid, sold by Dow Agroscience under the names Milestone and
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On McCain not looking at Obama in Debate #1. Via TPM, “a researcher on social cognition and behavior in primates” says McCain’s refusal to look at Obama during the debates means McCain is the low-ranking monkey: McCain was afraid of
- September 25th, 2008
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Gonzo has posted a new entry on: Gonzo Science
Neanderthals Just Like People; Scientists Struggle With Concept
As per this article: The diet of prehistoric Neanderthals living in caves on the Rock of Gibraltar included seals and dolphins, showing once again that the hominids had skills rivaling those modern humans living then, according to a new study. ̷
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More Research: Mobile Phones = Cancer
Research out of Sweden: It sprung from a further analysis of data from one of the biggest studies carried out into the risk that the radiation causes cancer, headed by Professor Lennart Hardell of the University Hospital in Orebro, Sweden. Professor
- September 24th, 2008
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Newsflash: You’re getting screwed!
As if opening the wound and pouring in some salt wasn’t enough, living the “American dream” now includes swallowing whatever tripe they manage to throw together at the last minute. Oh yeah, how many hurricanes blew through the gul
- September 23rd, 2008
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Gonzo has posted a new entry on: Gonzo Science
Homeschooling now banned* in California
Simply ridiculous. California courts have held that … parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children,” Justice H. Walter Croskey said. Parents’ reasons for homeschooling their children range from religious b
- September 21st, 2008
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Hands-Free Cell Phone Use Irradiates Your Privates
Affects male fertility. According to Ashok Agarwal, PhD, head of the andrology laboratory and the director of the Center for Reproductive Medicine at the Glickman Urologoical and Kidney Institute at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. But what do I know.
- September 20th, 2008
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- September 19th, 2008
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Non-psychoactive cannabinoids in the treatment of neurodegenerative disease
Awesome. Scientists at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) have studied the effects of a drug that reduces the progression of a disease similar to multiple sclerosis in animals. This discovery represents another step in the standing fight agai
