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This is pretty cool
This is pretty cool
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http://www.space.com/22002-comet-ison-t ... flyby.html
If the icy dust ball doesn't get ripped apart by extreme solar forces, some astronomers have said it could be the "comet of the century," possibly shining brightly enough to be seen during the daytime.
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This is a cool story. She found them on google earth, scientists all laughed, now they may be bigger than the giza pyramids.
http://news.discovery.com/history/archa ... 130715.htmMysterious, pyramid-like structures spotted in the Egyptian desert by an amateur satellite archaeologist might be long-lost pyramids after all, according to a new investigation into the enigmatic mounds.
Angela Micol, who last year found the structures using Google Earth 5,000 miles away in North Carolina, says puzzling features have been uncovered during a preliminary ground proofing expedition, revealing cavities and shafts.
"After the buzz simmered down, I was contacted by an Egyptian couple who claimed to have important historical references for both sites," Micol said.
The couple, Medhat Kamal El-Kady, former ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman, and his wife Haidy Farouk Abdel-Hamid, a lawyer, former counselor at the Egyptian presidency and adviser of border issues and international issues of sovereignty, are top collectors of maps, old documents, books and rare political and historical manuscripts.
For the site near the Fayum, they cited three maps in particular -- a map by Robert de Vaugoudy, dating from 1753, a rare map by the engineers of Napoleon Bonaparte, and a map and documents by Major Brown, general of irrigation for Lower Egypt in the late 1880s.
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PensFanInDC wrote:http://www.space.com/22002-comet-ison-t ... flyby.html
If the icy dust ball doesn't get ripped apart by extreme solar forces, some astronomers have said it could be the "comet of the century," possibly shining brightly enough to be seen during the daytime.
I can't wait for this.
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Psychopathic criminals have empathy switch
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Alienseddysnake wrote:This is a cool story. She found them on google earth, scientists all laughed, now they may be bigger than the giza pyramids.
http://news.discovery.com/history/archa ... 130715.htmMysterious, pyramid-like structures spotted in the Egyptian desert by an amateur satellite archaeologist might be long-lost pyramids after all, according to a new investigation into the enigmatic mounds.
Angela Micol, who last year found the structures using Google Earth 5,000 miles away in North Carolina, says puzzling features have been uncovered during a preliminary ground proofing expedition, revealing cavities and shafts.
"After the buzz simmered down, I was contacted by an Egyptian couple who claimed to have important historical references for both sites," Micol said.
The couple, Medhat Kamal El-Kady, former ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman, and his wife Haidy Farouk Abdel-Hamid, a lawyer, former counselor at the Egyptian presidency and adviser of border issues and international issues of sovereignty, are top collectors of maps, old documents, books and rare political and historical manuscripts.
For the site near the Fayum, they cited three maps in particular -- a map by Robert de Vaugoudy, dating from 1753, a rare map by the engineers of Napoleon Bonaparte, and a map and documents by Major Brown, general of irrigation for Lower Egypt in the late 1880s.
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Scientists Reprogram Adult Cells to a Pluripotent State
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This is big news in the stem cell arena.
Scientists from China have reprogrammed adult mouse cells to a pluripotent state with a few chemicals. Previously, researchers used genes inserted into the cells by an engineered virus which raised concerns about the safety of the technique for use in treating patients. But now these small molecules can cross the cell membrane without the aid of a virus and can reprogram the cell without the insertion of genes. The Scientist has the details:
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That is super cool. I'm surprised that the Google founders aren't ponying up some money for an expedition. That would be huge PR haha.eddysnake wrote:This is a cool story. She found them on google earth, scientists all laughed, now they may be bigger than the giza pyramids.
http://news.discovery.com/history/archa ... 130715.htmMysterious, pyramid-like structures spotted in the Egyptian desert by an amateur satellite archaeologist might be long-lost pyramids after all, according to a new investigation into the enigmatic mounds.
Angela Micol, who last year found the structures using Google Earth 5,000 miles away in North Carolina, says puzzling features have been uncovered during a preliminary ground proofing expedition, revealing cavities and shafts.
"After the buzz simmered down, I was contacted by an Egyptian couple who claimed to have important historical references for both sites," Micol said.
The couple, Medhat Kamal El-Kady, former ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman, and his wife Haidy Farouk Abdel-Hamid, a lawyer, former counselor at the Egyptian presidency and adviser of border issues and international issues of sovereignty, are top collectors of maps, old documents, books and rare political and historical manuscripts.
For the site near the Fayum, they cited three maps in particular -- a map by Robert de Vaugoudy, dating from 1753, a rare map by the engineers of Napoleon Bonaparte, and a map and documents by Major Brown, general of irrigation for Lower Egypt in the late 1880s.
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A star is born. No, really, a star is born!
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In Completely Unforeseeable Coincidence, Anti-Vaccine Church Hit By Measles Outbreak
Kenneth Copeland, is not a fan of vaccines, instead urging his flock to “teach our children to eat right” as part of “God’s health and wellness plan.” (And yes, in that video, Copeland promotes the completely discredited notion that vaccines cause autism.)
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The title of that article is fantastic.
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Across all these different measures, the researchers found consistent results. Simply being primed with science-related thoughts increased a) adherence to moral norms, b) real-life future altruistic intentions, and c) altruistic behavior towards an anonymous other. The conceptual association between science and morality appears strong.
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I can get behind this.
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Man...the marine biologist at my church must be super moral then....
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interesting... i reread the article and it didn't mention church a single time.
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I was commenting that, if those with "science-related thoughts" tend to have an "...adherence to moral norms" then my friend should be super moral given that he has both Christ-like thoughts and actions as well as science-related thoughts.count2infinity wrote:interesting... i reread the article and it didn't mention church a single time.
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I TELL YOU HE WAS 10 STORIES HIGH IF HE WAS A FOOT!!PensFanInDC wrote:Man...the marine biologist at my church must be super moral then....
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every experiment has their outliers...PensFanInDC wrote:I was commenting that, if those with "science-related thoughts" tend to have an "...adherence to moral norms" then my friend should be super moral given that he has both Christ-like thoughts and actions as well as science-related thoughts.count2infinity wrote:interesting... i reread the article and it didn't mention church a single time.
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lol. He works for NOAA and studies migration patterns of Carribean sea life. He basically scuba dives for a living....shafnutz05 wrote:I TELL YOU HE WAS 10 STORIES HIGH IF HE WAS A FOOT!!PensFanInDC wrote:Man...the marine biologist at my church must be super moral then....
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Indeed. I have a B.S. in biology and I generally don’t give a crap about other people. It certainly didn’t increase my sense of altruism.count2infinity wrote:every experiment has their outliers...
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