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National Inventors Month – August 2009 – Amazing 160,000 patents are granted each year in the USPTO - (USA)
Sunday, August 09, 2009 U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for August 9 WASHINGTON, Aug 09, 2009 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ —-Following is the daily “Profile America” feature from the U.S. Census Bureau: (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090226/CENSUSLOGO) SUNDAY, AUGUST 9: INVENTORS MONTH Profile America — Sunday, August 9th. Inventions make our lives easier, more enjoyable and, in some cases, save our lives. They range from the astonishing to the
http://cricketdiane.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/national-inventors-month-august-2009-amazing-160000-patents-are-granted-each-year-in-the-uspto-1-in-10-patents-are-issued-to-individual-inventors/
Earth Sciences, Science, Industry and Business - (USA)
Earth Sciences by innovations-report, the Forum for Innovations, Science, Research, Industry and Business.
http://www.innovations-report.com/reports/reports_list.php?show=4
Sceptics create a best-seller - (USA)
Professor Ian Plimer’s Heaven and Earth , a bestseller here despite being rejected by four preachy publishers , has now been released in the US - and should do some damage to global warming alarmists there, too, to judge by its Amazon ranking : Amazon.com Sales Rank: #132 in Books… Popular in these categories:… #1 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Biological Sciences > Ecology #1 in Books > Science > Earth Sciences > Me
http://climatechangefraud.com/behind-the-science/4777-sceptics-create-a-best-seller
"Growing accumulation" of Science Challenges Warming Fears - (USA)
Via US Senate Committee on Enviroment and Public Works: Scientists urge caution on global warming POLITICO By: Erika Lovley November 25, 2008 05:42 AM EST Link to Article Climate change skeptics on Capitol Hill are quietly watching a growing accumulation of global cooling science and other findings that could signal that the science behind global warming may still be too shaky to warrant cap-and-trade legislation.While the new Obama administration promises aggressive, forward-thinking environ
http://walkersunknownthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/11/growing-accumulation-of-science.html
The Teaching Company - Science in the 20th Century [Video Training] - (USA)
The Teaching Company - Science in the 20th Century [Video Training] | 5,97 GiB Taught by Steven L. Goldman | Lehigh University | Ph.D., Boston University | $374.95 AVI | 128 kbps | 640 x 464 | 36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture As the 19th century drew to a close, the age-old quest to understand the physical world appeared to be complete except for a few minor details. “It seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established,” said Albert Michelson, the fir
http://vmagz.com/?p=15310
ESA agrees on ambitious space budget: implications for ecology, climate science - (USA)
The ministers in charge of space activities in the European Space Agency's 18 Member States today concluded a successful two-day council meeting in The Hague, agreeing on a €10 billion (US$ 12.9bn) budget to undertake new initiatives in several fields and endorsing the next phases of a set of ongoing programmes. Many of the approved projects have a high degree of relevance for the study of climate change, the environment and the management of the planet's natural resources. The deal was reache
http://biopact.com/2008/11/esa-agrees-on-ambitious-space-budget.html
Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings - (USA)
Stock-Net presents custom stock ratings, powered by Caprock Analytics. These stocks, which represent a small portion of all rated stocks, highlight a sample of the strongest rated stocks from over 4,000 stocks that are actively tracked and analyzed by Caprock Analytics. To view all of the top rated stocks updated on a daily basis, please register for FREE at Caprock Analytics, login, and view the updated Stock rating lists on the website. The Caprock Analytics Strength Metric is a proprietary
http://stock-net.com/?p=904
Global Warming Redux number: I forget! - (USA)
I received this email from a friend that works at NOAA. I hope the graphs and such come through. Subject: FUN FACTS about CARBON DIOXIDE FUN FACTS about CARBON DIOXIDE Of the 186 billion tons of CO2 that enter earth's atmosphere each year from all sources, only 6 billion tons are from human activity. Approximately 90 billion tons come from biologic activity in earth's oceans and another 90 billion tons from such sources as volcanoes and decaying land plants. At 368 parts
http://patricksperry.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/global-warming-redux-number-i-forget/
Transubstantiation and the Black rubric - (USA)
Council of Trent, Session 13CHAPTER IV.On Transubstantiation. And because that Christ, our Redeemer, declared that which He offered under the species of bread to be truly His own body, therefore has it ever been a firm belief in the Church of God, and this holy Synod doth now declare it anew, that, by the consecration of the bread and of the wine, a conversion is made of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord, and of the whole substance of the wine int
http://anglicancontinuum.blogspot.com/2008/11/transubstantiation-and-black-rubric.html
What If All Atheists Left America? - (USA)
What would happen if all atheists left America?* All fields of science would be less progressive and suffer from significant personnel shortages. This would include all the general and specialized sciences of:Chemistry, Astronomy, Earth sciences, Environmental sciences, Biology, Anthropology, Psychology, Philosophy, Health sciences and many others.* Not all atheists are scientists. Many of us are in the entertainment business, radio and performing arts, too. I’m quite sure that Bill Maher, Set
http://proudatheists.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/what-if-all-atheists-left-america/
Temporary Recession or the End of Growth? - (USA)
This is a guest post by Richard Heinberg. Richard is a Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and author of five books on resource depletion and societal responses to the energy problem. He can be found on the web at www.richardheinberg.com and www.postcarbon.org. Everyone agrees: our economy is sick. The inescapable symptoms include declines in consumer spending and consumer confidence, together with a contraction of international trade and available credit. Add a collapse in real est
http://www.bearmarketinvestments.com/temporary-recession-or-the-end-of-growth
Fight TV Video Online And Science Online TV - (USA)
To those who crave for action and knowledge over the internet, maybe a dose of fight TV video online and Science Online TV can satisfy your hunger for such. Like one popular fight video site, they offer a wide variety of videos showcasing different fights of individuals using varied fighting styles or techniques. Martial arts, ultimate fighting and tons of street fighting videos are made available for people to buy and download. Not only does it show man to man fights but also female fights as w
http://www.mygr8blog.com/business/fight-tv-video-online-and-science-online-tv/
HYDROGEOLOGY: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE - (USA)
Hydrogeology: Principles and Practice Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell | ISBN: 0632057637 | edition 2005 | PDF | 389 pages | 20,4 mb Hydrogeology: Principles and Practice provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of hydrogeology and the significance of groundwater in the terrestrial aquatic environment Earlier chapters explain the fundamental physical and chemical principles of hydrogeology, and later chapters feature groundwater investigation techniques and contaminant hydrogeology. A unique
http://ebooks.mzwriter.com/miscellaneous/hydrogeology-principles-and-practice/
Long debate ended over cause, demise of ice ages – solar and earth wobble – CO2 not involved - (USA)
Watts Up With That? Friday, August 7, 2009 From an Oregon State University Media Release (h/t to Leif Svalgaard) Long debate ended over cause, demise of ice ages – may also help predict future The above image shows how much the Earth’s orbit can vary in shape. This process in a slow one, taking roughly 100,000 to cycle. (Credit: Texas A&M University ) CORVALLIS, Ore. – A team of researchers says it has largely put to rest a long debate on the underlying mechanism that h
http://truthiscontagious.com/2009/08/07/long-debate-ended-over-cause-demise-of-ice-ages-%E2%80%93-solar-and-earth-wobble-%E2%80%93-co2-not-involved
A Modest Proposal - (USA)
[Greetings! This is a guest post from Chris L from Fishing the Abyss and CRN.Info - After I discussed the concept for this article with John, he invited me to make a guest post here at VS - Thanks, John!] A MODEST PROPOSAL For Preventing the Poor Senior Citizens in America from Being a Burden to Their Children or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public It is a tragedy today to encounter men and women who have passed by the productive years of their lives – times when
http://www.verumserum.com/?p=7769
Hydrogeology: Principles and Practice - (USA)
Hydrogeology: Principles and Practice Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell | ISBN: 0632057637 | edition 2005 | PDF | 389 pages | 20,4 mb Hydrogeology: Principles and Practice provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of hydrogeology and the significance of groundwater in the terrestrial aquatic environment Earlier chapters explain the fundamental physical and chemical principles of hydrogeology, and later chapters feature groundwater investigation techniques and contaminant hydrogeology. A uni
http://www.tinydl.com/ebooks/40212-hydrogeology-principles-and-practice.html
Metagenome annotation using a distributed grid of undergraduate students - (USA)
I really tried to come up with my own pithy title for this post. First I flirted with "Pascal's Wager: Undergrads can do big science", then I tried "Public participation in science: you're doin' it right" on for size, and I quite liked "Annotathon!" and "Please note: this metagenome has been annotated by undergrads", but in the end I decided I just couldn't beat the actual title of the paper, published in today's PLoS Biology, which describes something called the Annotathon, a clever bioinform
http://thebeagleproject.blogspot.com/2008/11/metagenome-annotation-using-distributed.html
The Semantic Apocalypse - (USA)
Last week, I was privileged to be a respondent to a lecture entitled “The End of the World As We Know It: Neuroscience and the Semantic Apocalypse”. (Held at Canada’s premier interdisciplinary department: The University of Western Ontario’s Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism.) Thanks to the lecturer, Scott Bakker, and the other respondent, Ali McMillan, I’m happy to post the entire lecture here as well as the responses. Scott’s lecture aimed to provoke high-minded critical theorists o
http://speculativeheresy.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/the-semantic-apocalypse/
Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8/6/2009+ - (USA)
Windows Azure, Azure Data Services, SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series. • Update 8/7 - 8/9/2008: Electronic Health Records, Personal Health Records, other additions Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles in the following sections: Azure Blob, Table and Queue Services SQL Azure Database (SADB) .NET Services: Access Control, Service Bus and Workflow
http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/windows-azure-and-cloud-computing-posts_06.html
OMF! Baffling Creatures - (USA)
Unknown Insect Bought on eBay This is an unknown species of aphid which was found by a scientist and vice-president of the Royal Entomological Society of London, Dr. Richard Harrington, who bought this fossil on an internet auction on eBay for £20 from a man in Lithuania. The fossil itself is measured 3 to 4mm in length and was encased in a 40 to 50 million-year-old piece of amber about the size of a small pill. It is said that this aphid became trapped in the resin as it seeped from a tree mi
http://myamazingfact.blogspot.com/2008/11/omf-baffling-creatures.html
Weekend Reading, watching the world change before our eyes - (USA)
Some interesting news stories you might have missed during the Thanksgiving rush. “Transformation 101“, Kevin Carey, Washington Monthly, Nov/Dec 2008 — “Technology is driving down the cost of teaching undergraduates. So why are tuition bills going up?” “The price of dissent on global warming“, David Bellamy, The Australian, 25 November 2008 Some tentative indications that the late 20th century warming cycle might have ended. “Bad weather was good for Alaska glaciers“, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Oc
http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/weekend-37/
Unthinking dogma - (USA)
Science must always bee contested - even climate change At The Australian: IF climate change is real -- and "if" is the operative word -- every aspect of the phenomenon needs to be picked over and analysed with the utmost rigour. It is too important for anything less. But in parts of the community, rigour and climate change have become mutually exclusive terms. Distressingly large numbers of people have elevated climate change to something verging on a fundamentalist religion. True believer
http://sixthcolumn.typepad.com/duckwalls/2008/11/unthinking-dogm.html
Climate skeptic shell game: ‘Please don’t read how CO2 amplifies warming’ - (USA)
In heated political discussions, I’ve discovered that when people stretch the facts, sometimes they do it to protect their interests; but if they exaggerate and stretch things when the facts are on their side, it’s pathological and you can’t trust them on anything. As the old joke goes, ‘I once knew a guy who cheated at golf so bad that when he got a hole-in-one, he wrote down “zero” on the score card.’ Scientists at Oregon State University released a study that shows the tilt and wobble of
http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/climate-skeptic-shell-game-please-dont-read-how-co2-amplifies-warming/
Press Release :: Athentech Imaging’s Perfectly Clear® Image Correction Technology Available for Popu - (USA)
Developer of World’s Leading Image Correction Technology Also Revamps its Web Site CALGARY, Alberta, Canada (10 August, 2009) –– Athentech Imaging Inc., the world’s leading independent developer of image correction solutions, today announced that high-tech leader Apple Inc. has approved an application of the company’s remarkable Perfectly Clear ® image correction technology for its popular iPhone and iPod Touch devices. As a final step to picture taking, if desired, user
http://www.imaginginsider.com/?p=100978
Biogeochemistry: "Biogeochemical Cycles and Climate Change" - (USA)
"Biogeochemical Cycles and Climate Change" "What do the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone," global climate change, and acid rain have in common? They're all a result of human impacts to Earth's biology, chemistry and geology, and the natural cycles that involve all three. On August 4-5, 2009, scientists who study such cycles--biogeochemists- convened at a special series of sessions at the Ecological Society of America (ESA)'s 94th annual meeting in Albuquerque, N.M. They presented results of resear
http://coyoteprime-runningcauseicantfly.blogspot.com/2009/08/biogeochemistry-biogeochemical-cycles.html
Bring Back NASA’s Crazy Idea Factory - (USA)
For just less than a decade, NASA’s Institute for Advanced Concepts was the staid space agency’s big-vision mashup of Willy Wonka’s factory, DARPA and your crazy uncle’s garage workshop. And now experts want to bring it back. Instructed to pursue “revolutionary aeronautical and space concepts that could dramatically impact how NASA develops and conducts its missions,” it funded research on space elevators, antimatter harvesters and other space fiction plot devices. “The genius is in the ge
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/niac/
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