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Solving the top problems
The Copenhagen Consensus has made a list of the worlds top problems in order of priority. Their question is if we had 50 billion dollars to solve a problem, where would we be able to affect the biggest change.
This is one of those ideas that strike you as obvious once you’ve seen it but took [...]
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A video on global warming
I hope this doesn’t make anyone feel less guilty than they’d like to.
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Baseball’s concious brainwashing
Interesting take on the sub-conscious. He cites On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins which was a great book.
Your Brain on Baseball – New York Times
Over the decades, the institution of baseball has figured out how to instruct the unconscious mind, to make it better at what it does. As we know the automatic [...]
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This time a highly accomplished French socialist scientist who was one of the original proponents of the theory.
Allegre’s second thoughts
Dr. Allegre now sees global warming as over-hyped and an environmental concern of second rank.
His break with what he now sees as environmental cant on climate change came in September, in an article entitled [...]
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A Consensus?
More global warming skepticism:
‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ – backed by eminent scientists – is set to rock the accepted consensus that climate change is being driven by humans.
The programme … will see a series of respected scientists attack the “propaganda” that they claim is killing the world’s poor.
Even the co-founder of Greenpeace, [...]
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Any Excuse for a Siesta
I am definitely a proponent of naps so any ammo that will help me justify taking a nap is welcome (yet another bias I seek to find supporting evidence for).
Seed: Siesta Touted As Defense Against Heart Disease:
…in a long-term study of Greek men and women, the ones who took at least three 30-minute siestas every [...]
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In a recent study scientists were able to clone mice with better success using a specific type of adult stem cells from hair follicles rather than embryonic stem cells.
Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Mouse Clones Sprout from Adult Skin Cells — Stem cells in hair follicles prove the viability of adult stem cells to [...]
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Here’s an unexpected interruption of the interruption of Global Warming coverage. New Scientist says the oceans might be able to keep things cool here on planet Earth for a bit longer. This of course comes at the risk of hurting the deep sea creatures.
CO2 being pushed deep into the oceans – earth – 12 February [...]
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