Monthly Archives: July 2011

Cold Fusion

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Cold Fusion – For Real?

© 2011 by Linda Moulton Howe

“Those who have persisted with cold fusion research have
seen a lot of energy coming from experiments.”    – Peter Hagelstein, Ph.D., MIT


2011 Lattice Assisted Nuclear Reaction/Cold Fusion (LANR/CF) Colloquium was held
at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 11 – 12, 2011, where two dozen scientists
discussed their experimental evidence that test tube nuclear fusion is
a real effect. Illustration © 2011 by Discovery News.

to read more, go to:    http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1872&category=Science

 

Nicaragua Earthquake

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Strong earthquake 50 km from Chinandega, Nicaragua

Last update: July 3, 2011 at 1:15 pm by By Armand Vervaeck and James Daniell

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Basilica Inmaculada Concepcion de Maria in Chinandega – Panoramio picture courtesy Anthony03 – http://www.panoramio.com/photo/10298005

UPDATE 8:24 UTC : The shaking lasted for 10 to 15 seconds.

UPDATE 8:18 UTC : The earthquake caused some panic in the provinces of Chinandega, Leon and Managua

UPDATE 8:12 UTC : Nicaragua has been hit in the past by numerous killing and damaging massive earthquakes, like :
1931 03 31 – Managua – M 6.0 Fatalities 2,500
1951 08 02 – Cosiguina – M 5.8 Fatalities 1,000
1972 12 23 – Nicaragua – M 6.2 Fatalities 5,000
1992 09 02 – Nicaragua – M 7.6 Fatalities 116
2004 10 09 – Near the Coast of Nicaragua – M 7.0
2005 07 02 – Near the Coast of Nicaragua – M 6.6

to read more, go to:    http://earthquake-report.com/2011/07/03/strong-earthquake-out-of-the-chinandega-nicaragua-coast/

“Gross National Happiness”

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Former Prime Minister Of Thailand Talks National Happiness

National Happiness

When measuring the success of a country, many look to measure its GDP. What economics don’t reveal, though, is where the country stands on a happiness scale.

Former Prime Minister of Thailand Anand Panyarachun talked to the BBC about a perceptible sea change to move beyond developing just economic success.

The next generation of leaders, he says, will focus on a happiness index to measure quality of life rather than products produced.

to read more, go to:   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/29/former-prime-minister-of-_n_887096.html

 

Understanding Gratitude

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Founders, WisdomAtWork.com

Understanding The Science Of Gratitude

Posted: 07/ 1/11 08:21 AM ET

Always begin with gratitude. This is the wisdom advice that comes to us from many of the world’s indigenous and contemplative teachings. In this spirit, we begin our first blog for The Huffington Postexploring this profoundly transformative spiritual practice, and invite you to join us in taking this powerful awareness and action into your heart and onto your path of deepening spirit in daily life, work, and relationships.

The practice of gratitude antidotes two root sufferings that pervade the human experience. The first can be characterized as a feeling of “insufficiency” — not having enough or not being enough. This fundamental sense of dissatisfaction opens the way to the second kind of suffering — being incessantly busy trying to get more or be more in order to somehow fill this inner feeling of discontentment and lack.

to read more, go to:    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joel-michelle-levey/understanding-gratitude_b_888208.html

Physics of Tibetan Singing Bowls

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1 July 2011 Last updated at 04:41 ET

Tibetan singing bowls give up their chaotic secrets

By Jason PalmerScience and technology reporter, BBC News

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High-speed video of the bowls bears out how water begins its dazzling dance

Ceremonial Tibetan “singing bowls” are beginning to give up their secrets.

The water-filled bowls, when rubbed with a leather-wrapped mallet, exhibit a lively dance of water droplets as they emit a haunting sound.

Now slow-motion video has unveiled just what occurs in the bowls; droplets can actually bounce on the water’s surface.

A report in the journal Nonlinearity mathematically analyses the effect and could shed light on other fluid processes, such as fuel injection.

to read more, go to:   http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13972556

E Coli Outbreak Linked to Egypt

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30 June 2011 Last updated at 10:51 ET

E. coli outbreaks linked to Egypt

By James GallagherHealth reporter, BBC News

Fenugreek seedsEgyptian fenugreek seeds have been linked to both outbreaks

E. coli outbreaks in Germany and France could have come from seeds sourced in Egypt, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has said.

A report said there was still “much uncertainty”, but fenugreek seeds imported in 2009 and 2010 “had been implicated in both outbreaks”.

More than 4,000 people were infected during the German outbreak, 48 died.

Investigators traced the source back to a bean sprout farm in Bienenbuettel, Lower Saxony.

The outbreak in Bordeaux affected 15 people and was linked to seeds sold by a firm in the UK – Thompson and Morgan, although it said there was no evidence of a link.

to read more, go to:    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13973002

 

July 3-9

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Overall Color for the Week:    Las Vegas Pink Glitz

This week will bring challenges on all levels.  It can cause you to question many of your most closely held beliefs and aspirations. Feelings and emotions will be in the air.  There are things you thought to be forever that crumble in front of you.  It is a week in which you need most to go to your core, to see with the eyes of the heart, and to know that there is a kind of rightness behind so much of what is happening now.  There is so much glitz around.  It has blinded everyone to the truth behind the seeming.  And, as we have seen, when you get up to the glitz, it has no real value.  It just seems.  It is not what it promises. Trust your intuition in what you see and hear.  Stay centered and act from your heart.  There is much that you know that you are not accepting or even realizing.  It is time to honor yourself for all that you can do.  Communities again are forming, and there is a kind of energetic light that is drawing them together.

Balance is the key. Continue reading →

7 Wonders of the Ancient World

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Just for fun:

The Seven Ancient Wonders of The World

The Great Pyramid at Giza, Egypt

The Great Pyramid at Giza, EgyptCredit: Photo Credit: DreamstimeThe Great Pyramid at Giza is both the oldest ancient wonder and the only one still standing today. It was built as a mausoleum for the pharaoh Khufu around 2650 BC and for over 4,000 years remained the world’s tallest structure.

to see them all, go to:   http://www.livescience.com/11304-ancient-wonders-world.html

Shakespeare-A Pot Head???

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Could Shakespeare’s Bones Tell Us if He Smoked Pot?

Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer
Date: 27 June 2011 Time: 04:36 PM ET
Shakespeare Tomb
Shakespeare’s final resting place in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon.
CREDIT: David Jones, Flickr

A South African anthropologist has asked permission to open the graves of William Shakespeare and his family to determine, among other things, what killed the Bard and whether his poems and plays may have been composed under the influence of marijuana.

But while Shakespeare’s skeleton could reveal clues about his health and death, the question of the man’s drug use depends on the presence of hair, fingernails or toenails in the grave, said Francis Thackeray, the director of the Institute for Human Evolution at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, who floated the proposal to the Church of England.

Thackeray conducted a study in 2001, which found evidence of marijuana residueon pipe fragments found in Shakespeare’s garden.

to read more, go to:   http://www.livescience.com/14797-shakespeare-bones-smoked-pot.html

5 Myths About Girls and the Sciences

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Top 5 Myths About Girls, Math and Science

LiveScience Staff
Date: 27 August 2007 Time: 10:10 AM ET
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Participants in the Integrated Science Teaching Enhancement Partnership Program. InSTEP is part of the NSF’s Graduate Fellowships in K-12 Education Program and is designed to foster student interest in science while boosting teacher confidence in integrated science content and inquiry-based instruction.
CREDIT: InSTEP Program, Florida Institute of Technology

The days of sexist science teachers and Barbies chirping that “math class is tough!” are over, according to pop culture, but a government program aimed at bringing more women and girls into science, technology, engineering and math fields suggests otherwise.

Below are five myths about girls and science that still endure, according to the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Research on Gender in Science and Engineering (GSE) program:

to read more, go to:    http://www.livescience.com/7349-top-5-myths-girls-math-science.html