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This is part 1 of a 10 part video series I am making on how to create 10 different styles of basslines. The Ableton Live Project files and the other videos will be uploaded to www.cosm.co.nz over the next few weeks
Barefoot running enthusiast Ted McDonald visits Google's Kirkland, WA office to speak about his experiences with barefoot running including his role in Christopher McDougall's "Born to Run." This event took place on March 8, 2010 as part of the Authors@Google series.
Tuesday, March 02, 2010. Lynn Jorde, Ph.D. Current Topics in Genome Analysis 2010 Handout: www.genome.gov More: www.genome.gov
February 23, 2010. Laura Elnitski, Ph.D. Current Topics in Genome Analysis 2010 Handout: www.genome.gov More: www.genome.gov
January 19 2010. Nobel laureate Carol Greider, Ph.D., presents the seventh annual Jeffrey M. Trent Lectureship in Cancer Research. Learn about the groundbreaking research that won her the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. More: www.genome.gov
Day 3 Chapter 3 of the Proposition 8 Trial Re-enactment presented by MarriageTrial.com. Produced by John Ainsworth & John Ireland. Edited by Michael Legge. THE JUDGE Vaughn Walker, Chief Judge, US District Court portrayed by Ted Heyck THE PLAINTIFFS Paul Katami portrayed by Woody Schultz Jeffrey Zarrillo portrayed by Bryan Cuprill Kristin Perry portrayed by Kitty Swink Sandy Stier portrayed by Tess Harper THE PLAINTIFF ATTORNEYS David Boies portrayed by Jack Laufer Theodore Olson portrayed by Clyde FT Small Theodore Boutrous portrayed by Peter Cassone Christopher Dusseault portrayed by Jon Keel Matthew McGill portrayed by Mark Doerr Ethan Dettmer portrayed by Shawn Ryan THE PLAINTIFF-INTERVENOR ATTORNEYS Dennis Herrera, SF City Attorney portrayed by Matt Pittenger Therese Stewart, SF Deputy City Attorney portrayed by Sarah Gaboury Christine Van Aken, SF City Attorney Portayed by Kate McNeil Danny Chou, SF City Attorney portrayed by Peter James Smith SF City Attorney Ronald Flynn portrayed by Todd Waring THE DEFENDANTS Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Governor Does not appear at trial. Edmund G. Brown, California Attorney General Does not appear at trial. Linette Scott, Deputy Director of Health & Strategic Planning for the California Department of Public Health Does not appear at trial. Patrick OConnell, Clerk-Recorder County of Alameda Does not appear at trial. Dean Logan, Clerk-Recorder County of Los Angeles Does not appear at trial. THE DEFENDANT ATTORNEY Tamar ...
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Since 1941, the Food and Nutrition Board has determined the types and quantities of nutrients that are needed for healthy diets by reviewing scientific literature, considering how nutrients protect against disease, and interpreting data on consumption of nutrients. For each type of nutrient, the Board has established a Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA)-a daily intake goal for nearly all (98 percent) healthy individuals, and a "tolerable upper intake level" (UL)-the maximum amount of a nutrient that healthy individuals can take each day without risking adverse health effects. In some cases, the Board has decided there isn't enough evidence to determine the amount at which a particular nutrient is essential or harmful to health.
Teri Manolio, MD, Ph.D. Director, Office of Population Genomics, NHGRI. Genetics for Epidemiologists: Applications of Human Genomics to Population Sciences, was a short course for investigators and trainees in the field of epidemiology and related population-based sciences. It was conducted by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) on May 13-14, 2008 at Northwestern University in Chicago. The goal of Genetics for Epidemiologists (GFE) was to familiarize epidemiologists and population-based researchers with recent developments in the theory and methods of human genetics that might be applied to the study of the distribution, natural history and etiology of diseases in populations. The course consisted of eight one-hour lectures and focused on the interface between genetics and epidemiology. Emphasis was on the application of modern human genome analysis methodologies to studies of human populations through the design, conduct, analysis, and interpretation of studies which effectively answer the epidemiologic question of interest. GFE is co-sponsored by the Office of Population Genomics, NHGRI, and the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. These videocasts are provided as an educational tool for epidemiologic investigators interested in learning more about applying genomics to their work. More: www.genome.gov
Teri Manolio, MD, Ph.D. Director, Office of Population Genomics, NHGRI. Genetics for Epidemiologists: Applications of Human Genomics to Population Sciences, was a short course for investigators and trainees in the field of epidemiology and related population-based sciences. It was conducted by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) on May 13-14, 2008 at Northwestern University in Chicago. The goal of Genetics for Epidemiologists (GFE) was to familiarize epidemiologists and population-based researchers with recent developments in the theory and methods of human genetics that might be applied to the study of the distribution, natural history and etiology of diseases in populations. The course consisted of eight one-hour lectures and focused on the interface between genetics and epidemiology. Emphasis was on the application of modern human genome analysis methodologies to studies of human populations through the design, conduct, analysis, and interpretation of studies which effectively answer the epidemiologic question of interest. GFE is co-sponsored by the Office of Population Genomics, NHGRI, and the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. These videocasts are provided as an educational tool for epidemiologic investigators interested in learning more about applying genomics to their work. More: www.genome.gov
Science Reporters' Seminar on Genome-Wide Association Studies ( genome.gov ) Teri Manolio, MD, Ph.D. Senior Advisor to the Director for Population Genomics
November 20, 2008. Teri Manolio, MD, Ph.D., director of the Office of Population Genomics reported the latest on GWAS results and talked about genomics and health. More: www.genome.gov
If you have no interest in the pseudo-scientific, pseudo-philosophical ramblings of a naive and quite possibly delusional scaremonger who was probably just having a bad day, then be on your way with my blessing. If someone else had written this, I doubt I would read it to the end, or indeed at all. But I put it out there, nonetheless, for those who do wish to read it. So, still here, for the moment? Then let me proceed by repeating what I stated in the intro to the song: As a really proud new father, without a single regret at having become one, I would hate for the pro-contraception message of this song to be in any way interpreted as anti-baby, anti-family, or as being an indication of any regret on my part. On the contrary, it is because of my son's future, and any future grandchildren's future, that I have been looking more to the future, and thinking about what it could be like. (Youtube won't let me post any more here - if you would like to read my views, please see my blog entry: mindfulignorance.blogspot.com ) Credits ----- Lyrics & Music written & performed by Andy Block. Copyright (C) 2009 Andy Block The video was made using software written by Andy Block, derived from the inspirational 'sndpeek' (soundlab.cs.princeton.edu and the incredibly useful ffmpeg (ffmpeg.org My role was to add the following features: - use solid surfaces instead of wire frame - normal calculations to get more effective light working - allow an instance per track (by reorganising the ...
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Based on nearly eighty hours of conversations with fifteen all-time great programmers and computer scientists, the Q&A interviews in Coders at Work provide a multifaceted view into how great programmers learn to program, how they practice their craft, and what they think about the future of programming. Google's own Peter Norvig, Brad Fitzpatrick, Josh Block, Ken Thompson, Brendan Eiche are all featured in Coders at Work. Peter Seibel visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss "Coders at Work" as part of the Authors@Google series.
It's the ultimate buddy movie. Forty years ago, on November 19, 1969, astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean landed on the moon in one of the most important of the Apollo flights. This video shows them making a pinpoint landing on a treacherous lunar surface, finding rocks, and generally having a blast. The program features an interview with Pete Conrad, filmed a year before he died in a tragic motorcycle accident in 1999. Credit Space.com with editorial assistance.
The sociology of economists (young PhDs); real world vs. math; political economy (visible vs. invisible victims); sunk costs redux; expected utility; sustainability; vs. subsistence; soccer is a stochastic dynamic general equilibrium game!; simultaneous move game.
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between 0.05 and 1%. Marijuana has a THC content of 3% to 20%. To receive a standard psychoactive dose would require a person to power-smoke 10-12 hemp cigarettes over an extremely short period of time. The large volume and high temperature of vapor, gas and smoke would be almost impossible for a person to withstand. *If hemp does pollinate any nearby marijuana, genetically, the result will always be lower-THC marijuana, not higher-THC hemp. If hemp is grown outdoors, marijuana will not ...
Jeremy Clarkson and The Stig test drive the Ford Mustang GT500 on the Top Gear test track. Got to www.youtube.com to see a full list of all high quality videos available on the Top Gear YouTube channel and don't forget to visit www.topgear.com for all the latest news and car reviews.
Google I/O 2009 - Ignite Google I/O Brady Forrest Ignite is a series of five minute geek talks. Each speaker gets 20 slides that auto-advance after 15 seconds. We've selected 9 speakers: Leo Dirac, Michael Driscoll, Pamela Fox, Tim Ferriss, Nitin Borwankar, Kevin Marks, Andrew Hatton, Robin Sloan, and Kathy Sierra. More about their talks on radar.oreilly.com For presentation slides and all I/O sessions, please go to: code.google.com/events/io/sessions.html ... googleio2009 google "Google I/O ...
Google I/O 2009 - Writing Real-Time Games for Android Chris Pruett Do vertex arrays keep you up at night? Do you have nightmares involving framerates and event loops? If so, this session might have the cure for your condition. Chris Pruett will discuss the game engine that he developed, using it as a case study to explain the common pitfalls and best practices for building graphics-intensive applications. You'll learn how to properly pipeline game and rendering code, manage drawing surfaces ...
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Eric Schmidt speaks at the Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs, "Prosperity or Peril? The Next Phase of Globalization," hosted by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, on April 18, 2009.
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RFK Assassination: The Girl In The Polka Dot Dress (Part 2 of 3) Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcAiRnk35s0 These are video excerpts that I've edited together from "Evidence of Revision", a 6-DVD, 10 hour long documentary series that presents suppressed historical audio, video, and film recordings largely unseen by the public concerning the assassination of the Kennedy brothers, the war in Vietnam, CIA "mind control" programs and their involvement in the RFK assassination and the Jonestown massacre. The excerpt I've uploaded focuses on Robert Kennedy's run for President of the United States. The complete series "Evidence of Revision" can be viewed for free on Google Video, or can be purchased online (Google it). Fair Use Statement This video may contain copyrighted material, the use of which may not have been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. I am making this material available in an effort to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. I believe this constitutes a fair use of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material contained in this video is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml I reserve the right to block any Youtube user from my channel, and/or remove any comments posted on my videos that I feel are abusive, inappropriate, disruptive, trollish, etc..
RFK Assassination: The Girl In The Polka Dot Dress (Part 1 of 3) Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSgcr00Ou-c These are video excerpts that I've edited together from "Evidence of Revision", a 6-DVD, 10 hour long documentary series that presents suppressed historical audio, video, and film recordings largely unseen by the public concerning the assassination of the Kennedy brothers, the war in Vietnam, CIA "mind control" programs and their involvement in the RFK assassination and the Jonestown massacre. The excerpt I've uploaded focuses on Robert Kennedy's run for President of the United States. The complete series "Evidence of Revision" can be viewed for free on Google Video, or can be purchased online (Google it). Fair Use Statement This video may contain copyrighted material, the use of which may not have been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. I am making this material available in an effort to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. I believe this constitutes a fair use of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material contained in this video is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml I reserve the right to block any Youtube user from my channel, and/or remove any comments posted on my videos that I feel are abusive, inappropriate, disruptive, trollish, etc..
This concludes the two parts on the history of the universe, showing how our universe, solar system and planet Earth formed through natural and predictable processes. (Music: Rodrigo's 'Concierto de Aranjuez' adagio -- soloist Kaori Muraji) Video by potholer54, re-uploaded to show subtitles. www.youtube.com
Title: Scientific and Systematic Management of IAQ for Building Service Professionals Speaker: Dr. Ken Wai Date: Nov 18, 2008 Subject: Joint Symposium 2008-Shaping our Future Environment the role of Building Services Professionals Script: This is a typical office layout with a (1+3) system. These instruments work for me around the clock, days and nights without rest. They dont eat or drink and they never ask for pay rise. You can extend the system to the entire floor. And, you can expand the system to cover the entire building. And the IAQ data are transmitted wirelessly directly to the building service computer. From the building service computer the data can be transmitted to a database centre. As individual data as IAQ profile and this database is what you need for scientific and systematic management of IAQ. And then you can make improvements based on facts and database. And then you take the engineering approach by hitting the nail on the head. Sadly some may say they dont have the arm and hammer to hit the nail. Let us take a case study. In this study we have a (1 + 4) IAQ Profiling System at 5 sampling points as shown in this drawing. The premises is located at a high level in a 50 storey office block. The study lasted for 4 full days, started on Thursday morning, ended on Monday, overlapping the weekend. These are the results. Again a total of half-million data have been taken over 4 days. Here is the (6P, 4D) IAQ Profile at SP1, SP2, SP3, SP4, and SP5. So! All ...
Title: Scientific and Systematic Management of IAQ for Building Service Professionals Speaker: Dr. Ken Wai Date: Nov 18, 2008 Subject: Joint Symposium 2008-Shaping our Future Environment the role of Building Services Professionals Script: This is a typical office layout with a (1+3) system. These instruments work for me around the clock, days and nights without rest. They dont eat or drink and they never ask for pay rise. You can extend the system to the entire floor. And, you can expand the system to cover the entire building. And the IAQ data are transmitted wirelessly directly to the building service computer. From the building service computer the data can be transmitted to a database centre. As individual data as IAQ profile and this database is what you need for scientific and systematic management of IAQ. And then you can make improvements based on facts and database. And then you take the engineering approach by hitting the nail on the head. Sadly some may say they dont have the arm and hammer to hit the nail. Let us take a case study. In this study we have a (1 + 4) IAQ Profiling System at 5 sampling points as shown in this drawing. The premises is located at a high level in a 50 storey office block. The study lasted for 4 full days, started on Thursday morning, ended on Monday, overlapping the weekend. These are the results. Again a total of half-million data have been taken over 4 days. Here is the (6P, 4D) IAQ Profile at SP1, SP2, SP3, SP4, and SP5. So! All the half-million data taken over the 4 days period are systematically displayed here as IAQ Profiles under the keen observation of the professional engineer. As a matter of fact, on the day of completion of survey, all these IAQ Profiles were made available for submission to the owner. Lets look at the Profiles individually. Here, I have the CO2 profiles super-imposed on each other in order to demonstrate the reproducibility of these profiles. You can see CO2 level rises quickly from 9:00 onward, and drops during lunch hours and drops again at the end of the office hours. Eventually it reaches the outdoor level of 400ppm at night and over the weekend. The air quality of this office is excellent at all time, but there is a chance of over-ventilation which is wasting both energy and money. Over-ventilation costs money. The temperature is well maintained at a comfortable level of 23 to 24C during the office hours. Temperature drops quickly at the beginning of a working day and rises quickly at the end. But it is rising too quickly for a huge office block of this size. Over-ventilation costs money. This RH of this office is well maintained at a comfortable level of 60 65% during office hours. The RH profile also indicates over-ventilation. All these 3 IAQ parameters have indicated over-ventilation. Improvement certainly can be made in efficiency for cost savings and reductions of CO2 emission. Furthermore, the high temperature and RH at nights and over the weekends definitely encourage growth of moulds and insects, particularly in the months June, July, August and September. These all contribute to SBS. The formaldehyde level is low during office hours. It is well maintained below the level for excellent IAQ Standard. The drop and rise of HCHO levels are responsive to the on and off of the A/C system. This is because HCHO is very soluble in water. It is washed away quickly by the wet coils of the air-conditioner. TVOC profile is of good IAQ standard. This level is common due to the presence of furniture and carpets. The two spikes here are due to someone peeling an orange nearby. The NO2 level is well maintained at good IAQ standard. NO2 usually comes from the outdoor. Some body may want to blame this on mainland China. Carbon monoxide is fully justified to be low because it is well diluted at this high level. Part 1 Introduction Part 2 What is IAQ Profile? Part 3 We need change ! Part 4 Systematic IAQ management & case study Part 5 Global warming is man-made Part 6 Sick Building Syndrome Part 7 Ten Commandments of IAQ Part 8 Reaching for perfection
Breathing more Xenon gas. Breathing Xenon: Xenon is the heaviest non-radioactive noble gas (5x density of air) and is used for ion thrusters, general anesthetic, and various types of lighting sources. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon Xenon's anesthetic effect is 1.5 times more potent than N2O. Please do not breath Xenon without proper medical supervision and supplemental oxygen. "The anesthetic effect of inert gas xenon (Xe) was discovered more than 50 years ago. The main causes limiting its clinical application are high price, low availability (in nature the gas is present in scarce amounts), and absence of preclinical trials sufficient for norm-setting documents and further solutions allowing clinical trials of Xe." http://www.expresshealthcaremgmt.com/20050515/criticare10.shtml "These are the heaviest of the inert gases, and have some peculiarities. Xenon is, amazingly, an anaesthetic, in spite of the fact that it is inert. This is not completely explained, but is supposed to be associated with the strange behavior of xenon and water. 46 water molecules can hydrogen-bond themselves into a complex molecule with icosahedral symmetry that forms eight "cages" of the right size to accommodate xenon atoms, stabilized by dispersion forces between the xenon and the water. This 8Xe•46H2O is called a clathrate, from the Greek for a cage. Eight methane molecules can take the place of eight xenon atoms, to form an ice-like methane hydrate that can block pipe lines even at temperatures well above 0°C. Possibly the xenon encourages the formation of such clathrates in the brain, and the other smaller cages that are formed can clathrate ions important in brain function. For more information on gas hydrates, see Hydrates. " http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/phys/helium.htm#Xeno Thank you to Craig Benjamin for his assistance in filming and post production.
Breathing more Xenon gas. Breathing Xenon: Xenon is the heaviest non-radioactive noble gas (5x density of air) and is used for ion thrusters, general anesthetic, and various types of lighting sources. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon Xenon's anesthetic effect is 1.5 times more potent than N2O. Please do not breath Xenon without proper medical supervision and supplemental oxygen. "The anesthetic effect of inert gas xenon (Xe) was discovered more than 50 years ago. The main causes limiting its clinical application are high price, low availability (in nature the gas is present in scarce amounts), and absence of preclinical trials sufficient for norm-setting documents and further solutions allowing clinical trials of Xe." http://www.expresshealthcaremgmt.com/20050515/criticare10.shtml "These are the heaviest of the inert gases, and have some peculiarities. Xenon is, amazingly, an anaesthetic, in spite of the fact that it is inert. This is not completely explained, but is supposed to be associated with the strange behavior of xenon and water. 46 water molecules can hydrogen-bond themselves into a complex molecule with icosahedral symmetry that forms eight "cages" of the right size to accommodate xenon atoms, stabilized by dispersion forces between the xenon and the water. This 8Xe•46H2O is called a clathrate, from the Greek for a cage. Eight methane molecules can take the place of eight xenon atoms, to form an ice-like methane hydrate that can block pipe lines even at temperatures well above 0°C. Possibly the xenon encourages the formation of such clathrates in the brain, and the other smaller cages that are formed can clathrate ions important in brain function. For more information on gas hydrates, see Hydrates. " http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/phys/helium.htm#Xeno Thank you to Craig Benjamin for his assistance in filming and post production.
Video Axl Rose Chinese Democracy Live THIS WAS BANNED AND RESTRICTED ON YOUTUBE A FEW TIMES ALREADY ON ANOTHER CHANNEL. IF YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT YOU SEE, THEN DROP ME A MESSAGE AS TO WHY THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE, INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING TO YOUTUBE THAT THIS IS NOT APPROPRIATE CONTENT FOR EARTHLINGS. I'M AN AMERICAN, ON THE LONG WINDING UPHILL ROAD FOR TRUTH, LIBERTY, JUSTICE, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. THIS VIDEO IS A BUILDING BLOCK TOWARDS INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDING WHILE BYPASSING INFLEXIBLE DOGMATIC TENETS AND RACIST HYPOCRISY. DON'T HIDE BEHIND YOUR FAKE VEIL OF DEMOCRACY AND PERSIST IN THE UPHOLDING OF IDIOCRACY! TELL ME WHY THIS VIDEO SHOULD BE CENSORED! Thank you! While Guns N Roses Axl Rose Geffen Sebastian Bach and Best Buy work their Rick Astley off on Chinese Democracy song album promo & Dr Pepper to both dedicated & unwitting consumers, and while our President Barack Obama Sarah Palin John Mc Cain were fighting for the White House and the peoples trust, some young Chinese performing music artists have been living their daily rock and roll lives, playing, performing, developing, and recording. This video present only a facet of China's thriving music and art scene: Band #1: Yin Peng and Liu Lixin (Dimebag Darrell looking guy) from Inner Mongolia lead the way with their usual torrent of rad-rhythms and cut-throat vocals and message. Band #2: Fan Doudou, Liang Hui, and Qi Liang have been at it for a year and a half now, performing and touring across China, and has come a long way in developing the sound they want. Very recent lineup change, band is working out some kinks. Note that there were some technical issues with the on stage monitor speakers, where vocal mic couldn't be heard on stage. Band #3: Zhou Miao and Lai Jinrong have been performing and touring across the country for a few years now, and have a colorfully heavy repertoire that draws all kinds of heavy music fans. Note that they too had problems with not being able to monitor the on stage vocal mic sound, which was apparently the result of PA cabs and/or monitors being moved around a little before the show, resulting in mic-gain being turned too high and causing some feedback. There's also another band that performed that evening. A band of non-Chinese expatriates who are called "Nothingness". However, due to the 10 minute limit, I'll only present these three most defining bands of the Chinese rock scene that evening in midst of the summer Olympic heat. DEFINITION OF MONGOLOID: dictionary.com definition (may change): a. resembling the Mongols. b. Anthropology. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of one of the traditional racial divisions of humankind, marked by yellowish complexion, prominent cheekbones, epicanthic folds about the eyes, and straight black hair, and including the Mongols, Manchus, Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Annamese, Siamese, Burmese, Tibetans, Eskimos and oftenly the American Indians. c.(noun)Anthropology. a member of the peoples traditionally as the Mongoloid race. d. (usually lowercase) Pathology. (no longer in technical use) a person affected with Down syndrome. NOTE: this lowercased term is still in popular technical usage, ironically, in Taiwan. Wikipedia definition: (depends upon the user-contributors with varying degrees of scientific and non-scientific, educated and semi-educated, objective and subjective knowledge on the meaning of the terminology)
Richard C. Strohman, professor emeritus of molecular and cell biology at Berkeley, and an evolutionist, wrote in the March 1997 edition of Nature Biotechnology: "There is a striking lack of correspondence between genetic and evolutionary change. Neo-Darwinian theory predicts a steady, slow continuous, accumulation of mutations (microevolution) that produces a progressive change in morphology leading to new species, genera, and so on (macroevolution). But macroevolution now appears to be full of discontinuities (punctuated evolution), so we have a mismatch of some importance. That is, the fossil record shows mostly stasis, or lack of change, in a species for many millions of years; there is no evidence there for gradual change even though, in theory, there must be a gradual accumulation of mutations at the micro level." "We currently have no adequate explanation for stasis or for punctuated equlibrium in evolution, or for higher order regulation in cells." "We seem to lack any scientific basis with which to explain, for example, evolution." "Not necessarily so. It does suggest, however, that our evolutionary theory is incomplete." "The theory is in trouble because it insists on locating the driving force solely in random mutations." "It is becoming clear that sequence information in DNA, by itself, contains insufficient information for determing how gene products (proteins) interact to produce a mechanism of any kind. The reason is that the multicomponent complexes constructed from many proteins are themselves machines with rules of their own; rules not written in DNA." "The rules... of brain formation are not reducible to genetic maps and to the rules of genetic theory. Each higher level of organization has its own rules, and there is no continuous gradual transition from one level or hierarchy to the other." "We have been lulled into reasoning that if the gene theory works at one level--from DNA to protein--it must work at all higher levels as well. We have thus extended the theory of the gene to the realm of gene management. But gene management is an entirely different process, involving interactive cellular processes that display a complexity that may only be described as transcalculational, a mathematical term for mind boggling." "Understanding of complex function may in fact be impossible without recourse to influences outside of the genome.
Physicists find a new state of matter in a 'transistor'Full Digg post: http://digg.com/tech_news/A_new_state_of_matter_found_in_a_transistor
http://www.physorg.com/news143823997.html
Since he could speak, Brandon, now 8, has insisted that he was meant to be a girl. This summer, his parents decided to let him grow up as one. His case, and a rising number of others like it, illuminates a heated scientific debate about the nature of gender. Have the limits of child indulgence been stretched too far?Full Digg post: http://digg.com/arts_culture/Transgender_Children_Parents_Allow_Boy_to_Grow_Up_as_a_Girl
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200811/transgender-children
Rather than order educators to censor student Internet access, which had been proposed, a little-noticed provision of recently passed broadband legislation simply requires school districts receiving e-Rate discounts to do what they're trained to do: teach -- in this case teach students about online safety and cyber-bullying. Full Digg post: http://digg.com/tech_news/Congress_resists_call_to_censor_school_Net_access
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/33926
In an interview with Newsmax today, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) — Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) newly minted running mate — was asked for her “take on global warming and how is it affecting our country.” Palin said, adding, “I’m not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.”Full Digg post: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Palin_denies_global_warming_is_man_made
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/29/palin-globalwarming-manmade/
Scientists today have found a new species of water lily which helps forward the theory of evolution. Anyone who doubts this theory just visit this page.Full Digg post: http://digg.com/environment/New_Species_Water_Lily_Helps_Prove_Evolution
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/life/story/4211921p-4804623c.html
Aliens are real and have made contact with us several times, but it has been covered up for 60 years, according to Apollo 14 astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell.Full Digg post: http://digg.com/space/Apollo_14_Astronaut_Claims_Aliens_HAVE_Made_Contact
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1037471/Apollo-14-astronaut-claims-aliens-HAVE-contact--covered-60-years.html
The creationists invariably speak of the eye in hushed tones. How, they demand to know, can such a sophisticated organ have gone through clumsy evolutionary stages in order to reach its current magnificence and versatility? The salamanders of Planet Earth appear to this layman to furnish a possibly devastating answer to that question. Full Digg post: http://digg.com/general_sciences/How_Blind_Salamanders_Make_Nonsense_of_Creationists_Claims
http://www.slate.com/id/2195683
Some places have everything any family could want - economic opportunity, good schools, safe streets, things to do and a sense of community. See the top 10 Great American Towns - including homes for sale and million-dollar homes.Full Digg post: http://digg.com/travel_places/100_Best_Places_to_Live_from_Money_Magazine
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bplive/2007/index.html
"Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal."
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeFull Digg post: http://digg.com/environment/Global_change_How_do_we_know
http://climate.jpl.nasa.gov/evidence/
News of the day. You are an alien. Full Digg post: http://digg.com/space/We_may_be_extraterrestrials_after_all
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37940/113/
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