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#6811
Quote from: Vene on October 10, 2008, 12:44:06 AM
Quote from: Kai on October 10, 2008, 12:39:33 AM
Quote from: Vene on October 10, 2008, 12:32:00 AM
Quote from: Kai on October 10, 2008, 12:29:07 AM
Quote from: Nigel on October 10, 2008, 12:24:56 AM
Hahahahahha Kai that was awesome!

Thank you. Whenever someone mentions the peanut butter video I feel the need to find a creationist vid and rip it to shreads.
In that case.

Peanut butter proves evolution (more like evilution) is false.  Damn know nothing scientists and their Darwinist religion.  They just want an excuse to buttfuck monkeys.

Sorry, my colon is cleansed for the evening. Come back tomorrow.
Will do.  Who knows, I may even grab some real creationist quotes (not that what I said is far off).

Its also nice when you can give me a creationist video or tract at the same time.
#6812
Or Kill Me / Re: BillO of Rights
October 10, 2008, 12:02:22 PM
Quote from: phaedrusthemad on October 10, 2008, 04:15:15 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 10, 2008, 12:59:16 AM
Quote from: phaedrusthemad on October 09, 2008, 01:46:05 PM
Not to defend Billo, but I think saying fuck you to my Federal Government and returning decision making to local and state governments is a GOOD thing. 

Yes, because the articles of confederation worked SO well.

UNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG!

As does our current system. 

PLEASE TO LEARN LATE 18TH CENTURY HISTORY.  :x
#6813
Quote from: Vene on October 10, 2008, 12:32:00 AM
Quote from: Kai on October 10, 2008, 12:29:07 AM
Quote from: Nigel on October 10, 2008, 12:24:56 AM
Hahahahahha Kai that was awesome!

Thank you. Whenever someone mentions the peanut butter video I feel the need to find a creationist vid and rip it to shreads.
In that case.

Peanut butter proves evolution (more like evilution) is false.  Damn know nothing scientists and their Darwinist religion.  They just want an excuse to buttfuck monkeys.

Sorry, my colon is cleansed for the evening. Come back tomorrow.
#6814
Quote from: Nigel on October 10, 2008, 12:24:56 AM
Hahahahahha Kai that was awesome!

Thank you. Whenever someone mentions the peanut butter video I feel the need to find a creationist vid and rip it to shreads.
#6815
Quote from: LMNO on October 07, 2008, 02:06:19 PM
You're not a pussy.

I can prove it.


QuoteWhy are so many people trying to debunk Intelligent Design?  It's just as good a theory as Evolution!  I mean, Darwin can't even explain the origen of life, and no one's ever seen an animal switch species.  Hell, if Darwinism is true, you could get spontaneous life forms from a jar of peanut butter!

:argh!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1msS71xL00

So, I just pulled this video out of my ass (yes, google is in my ass) a couple minutes ago.

Summary:

-My GOD when are people going to stop using the biblical geneology to determine the age of the earth. This was stupid hundreds of years ago, and it is still STUPID STUPID STUPID. This "scientist" decided that taking the 75 generations leading up to jesus would determine the age of the earth.

-Does not understand mother fucking GEOLOGY. Uses the grand canyon example like every other numb nuts. Does not realize that the earth is not like a frosted cake, or it would be, if the CAKE WAS ROCKED TO PIECES BY PERIODIC EARTHQUAKES AND CONTINENTAL DRIFTING.

-Mississippi river delta. UGH. Flood, blah blah blah young earth, bristlecone pines blah blah blah SOME ONE KILL THIS DUMB SHIT.

-Oh, and sequoias. Apparently the oldest trees are significant to geology. Yes. I'm not making shit up.

-Counting back from the population of the earth. Yes. He doesn't understand population dynamics either.

-"Hi, I'm a fossil of a Homo sapiens, and I'm 92 thousand years old"  ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

-Has absolutly no concept of how the human population over time.

-Carbon 14. Okay, blood boiling. This guy claims to be a chemist. I'm glad this fucker isn't a nuclear physisist or we would all be FUCKED with this DUMB SHIT running our power plants. Doesn't understand contamination. Oh, and lol, potassium argon. I wished WISHED he had mentioned uranium. Please please mention uranium.  :x

-blah blah blah earth is young. And fuck yes you need a long time to make fossils. OH MY GOD THIS GUY DID NOT USE A COWBOY BOOT AS A FOSSIL.

-THIS GUY USED A COWBOY BOOT AS A FOSSIL. Still cant get over it. Oh, and that boot, as far as I can see, is still a boot, and not a rock. It has to BECOME a rock, dumbfuck, before it is a fossil. Oh, and more of the same shit. Minors hats, glass jars. CALCERIC DEPOSITION DOES NOT MEAN FOSSILIZATION YOU STUPID WASTE OF MY AIRSPACE. More and more examples.

-EVOLUTIONARY THEORY DOES NOT TALK ABOUT OPALS! ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG.

-Oh, yes, we can manufacture diamonds too you idiot.

-BRAINWASHING?! I'LL SHOW YOU BRAINWASHING YOU STUPID FECAL DEPOSIT. WERE YOU THERE YOU SHITSTAIN?

-Apparently the bible is a perfectly accurate historical record now.

Now go fuck yourself, cause I can't even finish this video and stomach your ignorant bullshit one more second.

#6816
Bring and Brag / Re: IO's Photos
October 09, 2008, 06:17:51 PM
Swallowtail Butterfly, IO. Family Papillionidae.
#6817
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on October 07, 2008, 07:38:38 PM
I just had a mental image of Kai as a scholarly long-haired Bruce Campbell.

I haven't quite gotten around to grafting a chain saw to my arm just yet. Been talking with some bioengineers...
#6818
Well, if the dark void scenario is testable, its already better as a hypothesis than dark energy.

Even if it sounds completely bizarre.
#6819
Techmology and Scientism / Re: Weekly Science Headlines
October 09, 2008, 05:27:28 PM
October 8, 2008

'Glowing' Jellyfish Grabs Nobel
from BBC News Online

A clever trick borrowed from jellyfish has earned two Americans and one Japanese scientist a share of the chemistry Nobel Prize.

Martin Chalfie, Roger Tsien and Osamu Shimomura made it possible to exploit the genetic mechanism responsible for luminosity in the marine creatures. Today, countless scientists use this knowledge to tag biological systems.

Glowing markers will show, for example, how brain cells develop or how cancer cells spread through tissue. But their uses really have become legion: they are now even incorporated into bacteria to act as environmental biosensors in the presence of toxic materials.

http://snipurl.com/46dy2


Fuming Over Formaldehyde
from the Los Angeles Times (Registration Required)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention failed to act for at least a year on warnings that trailers housing refugees from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita contained dangerous levels of formaldehyde, according to a House subcommittee report released Monday.

Instead, the CDC's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry demoted the scientist who questioned its initial assessment that the trailers were safe as long as residents opened a window or another vent, the report said.

That appraisal was produced in February 2007 at the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which had received thousands of complaints about fumes since providing the trailers to families left homeless by the devastating 2005 hurricanes. One year later, FEMA and CDC reversed course and acknowledged that formaldehyde levels in the trailers were five times higher than are typically found in new housing.

http://snipurl.com/45j0t


Firm Says Test Judges Risk For Common Breast Cancers
from the Washington Post (Registration Required)

A biotech company today will begin offering the first genetic test to assess a woman's risk for the most common forms of breast cancer, reigniting debate about the growing number of unregulated genetic tests.

The test by Decode Genetics of Reykjavik, Iceland, a respected pioneer in genetic research, promises to determine a woman's risk through a simple blood sample or cheek swab. Previously, the only tests for breast cancer risk were for relatively rare genes, leaving most women with no way to assess their individual genetic predisposition.

"What this does for women is allow them to assess their personal risk for the common forms of breast cancer," said Kári Stefánsson, Decode's chief executive. "That's what you need to do to make early diagnoses or take preventive measures. This test will most definitely save lives."

http://snipurl.com/46dto


Cold-Medicine Makers Issue Warning for Kids Under 4
from the Seattle Times

WASHINGTON—The makers of cold and cough medicines said Tuesday they are voluntarily warning parents not to give their products to children younger than 4, a move negotiated in private with federal drug regulators during the past six months.

Medications with the new warning labels will appear in stores and pharmacies immediately, though experts continue to debate at what age the over-the-counter remedies may be safe and effective. The new labels also advise against using antihistamines to sedate youngsters.

Last winter, the companies agreed to discourage the use of the products in children younger than 2. Each year, drug companies sell 95 million packs of pediatric-cold medicine, generating about $300 million in revenue. More than 7,000 children are taken to hospitals annually because of adverse reactions, primarily due to accidental overdoses.

http://snipurl.com/46e76 


Citizen Enforcers Take Aim
from the New York Times (Registration Required)

... The public urge for punishment that helped delay the passage of Washington's economic rescue plan is more than a simple case of Wall Street loathing, according to scientists who study the psychology of forgiveness and retaliation.

The fury is based in instincts that have had a protective and often stabilizing effect on communities throughout human history. Small, integrated groups in particular often contain members who will stand up and—often at significant risk to themselves—punish cheaters, liars and freeloaders.

Scientists debate how common these citizen enforcers are, and whether an urge to punish infractions amounts to an overall gain or loss, given that it is costly for both parties. But recent research suggests that in individuals, the fairness instinct is a highly variable psychological impulse, rising and falling in response to what is happening in the world.

http://snipurl.com/45jc7


'Deepest Ever' Living Fish Filmed
from BBC News Online

The "deepest ever" living fish have been discovered, scientists believe. A UK-Japan team found the 17-strong shoal at depths of 7.7km (4.8 miles) in the Japan Trench in the Pacific—and captured the deep sea animals on film.

The scientists have been using remote-operated landers designed to withstand immense pressures to comb the world's deepest depths for marine life.

Monty Priede from the University of Aberdeen said the 30cm-long (12in), deep-sea fish were surprisingly "cute." The fish, known as Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis, can be seen darting about in the darkness of the depths, scooping up shrimps.

http://snipurl.com/45ji2


The Long, Wild Ride of Bipolar Disorder
from Science News

Children who grow up with the psychiatric ailment known as bipolar disorder rarely grow out of it. Almost half of youngsters who suffered from bipolar's severe, rapid-fire mood swings at around age 11 displayed much of the same emotional volatility at ages 18 to 20, even if the condition had improved for a while during their teens, according to the first long-term study of children diagnosed with the disorder.

Bipolar disorder took off with a vengeance in these kids. Initial episodes, often periods of frequent, dramatic mood swings, lasted for up to three years. Second episodes lasted for slightly more than one year, while third episodes continued for roughly 10 months.

During these periods, youngsters can veer back and forth several times a day between a manic sense of euphoria and a serious, even suicidal depression, say psychiatrist Barbara Geller of Washington University in St. Louis and her colleagues. Manic euphoria typically includes grandiose delusions or hallucinations.

http://snipurl.com/45jm0


Nanotech Comes Alive
from Nature News

Molecular nanostructures—the basic architectural elements of nanotechnology—have been replicated in bacterial cells. The research proves that nature's cellular machinery can be commandeered to mass-produce complex structures and devices for molecular-scale engineering.

Together with their colleagues, Nadrian Seeman of New York University and Hao Yan of Arizona State University in Tempe speculate that their method might lead to the merging of nanotechnology and Darwinian natural selection, in which such molecular devices could be created and improved by some artificial evolutionary pressure.

The technique, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, relies on the fact that the nanostructures in question are made from DNA, the genetic material of living cells.

http://snipurl.com/45jo6


No Nobel for You: Top 10 Nobel Snubs
from Scientific American

Every year, the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden, announces up to three winners each in the scientific disciplines of chemistry, physics, and physiology or medicine. ... And every year, there are murmurings—some louder than others—about the Nobel-worthy scientists who were overlooked. In 1974, when Jocelyn Bell Burnell was left out of the physics prize, her fellow astronomer and Nobel reject, Fred Hoyle, told reporters it was a "scientific scandal of major proportions."

Physician-inventor Raymond Damadian famously took out full-page newspaper ads protesting his omission from the 2003 Nobel for MRI technology. This year, some will be asking questions about Robert Gallo, who did not share today's Nobel for medicine or physiology with Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi.

Nobel committee proceedings are notoriously shrouded in secrecy, so it's impossible to know all the details behind how each prizewinner is chosen, especially the more recent ones. But, according to Nobel historians, most award exclusions seem to relate to one or more of these criteria: limited slots available (Nobel rules limit the number of recipients to three for each category); ambiguity over who made the crucial contribution; and lack of experience and/or reputation within one's research community.

http://snipurl.com/45jum


Task Force Says Those Over 75 Don't Need Colon Cancer Screening
from the Chicago Tribune (Registration Required)

PHILADELPHIA (Associated Press)—Most people over 75 should stop getting routine colon cancer tests, according to a government health task force that also rejected the latest X-ray screening technology.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force—in a break with other medical and cancer organizations—opted not to give its stamp of approval to the newest tests: CT colonography, an X-ray test known as virtual colonoscopy, and a stool DNA test. The panel said more research is needed.

The task force for the first time did endorse three tests and said everyone age 50 to 75 should get screened with one of them: a colonoscopy of the entire colon every 10 years; a sigmoidoscopy of the lower colon every 5 years, combined with a stool blood test every three years; a stool blood test every year.

http://snipurl.com/45k72

#6820
Techmology and Scientism / Re: Weekly Science Headlines
October 09, 2008, 05:26:34 PM
October 7, 2008

2 Japanese, 1 American Share Nobel Physics Prize
from the New York Times (Registration Required)

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (Associated Press)—Two Japanese citizens and a Japanese-born American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries in the world of subatomic physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday.

American Yoichiro Nambu, 87, of the University of Chicago, won half of the prize for the discovery of a mechanism called spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.

Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan shared the other half of the prize for discovering the origin of the broken symmetry that predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.

http://snipurl.com/459su


Infertility Patients Caught in the Embryo Debate
from the Los Angeles Times (Registration Required)

Six years of frustration and heartbreak. That's how Gina Rathan recalls her attempts to become pregnant. Finally, she and her husband, Cheddi, conceived a daughter, now 3, through in vitro fertilization. About a year later, she became pregnant with a second child, naturally. Their family was complete.

Then, a year ago, the Fountain Valley couple received a bill reminding them that their infertility journey wasn't quite over. They owed $750 to preserve three frozen embryos they'd created but hadn't used. "I don't see them as not being life yet," says Gina Rathan, 42, a pharmaceutical sales representative. "I thought, 'How can I discard them when I have a beautiful child from that IVF cycle?'"

Many other former infertility patients also appear to be grappling over the fate of embryos they have no plans to use: An estimated 500,000 embryos are in cryopreservation in the United States.

http://snipurl.com/44gwi


Where the Wild Things Are
from the Economist

Lake Baikal holds a fifth of the world's unfrozen fresh water. It is home to thousands of species of plants and animals that are found nowhere else. Its northern shores, as anyone using the Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT), a new online database, can easily discover, form part of a World Heritage site.

... If Transneft, a Russian firm that first proposed a few years ago to build an oil pipeline through the Baikal region, had been able to see all this information—including detailed maps of especially biodiverse spots and the threatened species that inhabit them—at the click of a mouse then it might have altered its plans and avoided those spots.

... That, at any rate, is the sort of thing Conservation International, the charity that conceived IBAT, had in mind when it decided to bring together as much data on biodiversity as it could in a single database, to be unveiled at the forthcoming World Conservation Congress in Barcelona.

http://snipurl.com/43cg2


Fewer Male Reptiles Due to Warming—And That's Good?
from National Geographic News

A trend toward more females and fewer males in a type of Australian reptile may actually benefit the species in the short-term, a discovery that's contrary to previous research, a new study says.

As temperatures rise due to global warming, so does the proportion of female spotted skinks, reptiles found only on Australia's island state of Tasmania. In recent years researchers have shown concern that climate change will push the reptiles into extinction by causing their young to be born of one gender, thus limiting future reproduction.

Temperature-driven gender also occurs in other reptiles, such as crocodiles and turtles. But an increase in female spotted skinks could lead to larger populations of the reptiles, experts say. The research is described online this week in the Journal of Animal Ecology.

http://snipurl.com/411o8


How White Roofs Shine Bright Green
from the Christian Science Monitor

Can you help save the planet by painting your roof white? Hashem Akbari thinks so. Global warming's complexity and momentum have led to a try-everything approach by scientists. In that spirit, Dr. Akbari offers his simple yet profound innovation for slowing that warming way down.

It has long been known that a white roof makes a dwelling cooler. That saves energy and cuts carbon emissions. But until Akbari, a researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, picked up a pencil to do the calculations, few realized the major climate effect that millions of white rooftops could have by reflecting sunlight back into space.

It turns out that a 1,000 square foot area of rooftop painted white has about the same one-time impact on global warming as cutting 10 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, he and his colleagues write in a new study soon to be published in the journal Climatic Change.

http://snipurl.com/4211m


One Quarter of World's Mammals Face Extinction
from Scientific American

The baiji dolphin is functionally extinct, orangutans are disappearing and even some species of bats—the most numerous of mammals—are dying out. A new survey of the world's 5,487 mammal species—from rodents to humans—reveals that one in four are facing imminent extinction.

"Mammal species that are just declining, not necessarily near extinction, that's 50 percent," says conservation biologist Jan Schipper of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which keeps the Red List of Threatened Species. "And 836 species—especially rodents and bats—we determined they are threatened but we don't know how threatened, because we don't know enough about them."

Schipper and more than 1,700 scientific colleagues spent the past five years surveying the state of the world's mammals. The results, published in Science to coincide with IUCN's conference on biodiversity this week, reveal that 1,139 mammals around the globe are threatened with extinction and the populations of 52 percent of all mammal species are declining.

http://snipurl.com/44b2l


Top Psychiatrist Didn't Report Drug Makers' Pay
from the New York Times (Registration Required)

One of the nation's most influential psychiatrists earned more than $2.8 million in consulting arrangements with drug makers from 2000 to 2007, failed to report at least $1.2 million of that income to his university and violated federal research rules, according to documents provided to Congressional investigators.

The psychiatrist, Dr. Charles B. Nemeroff of Emory University, is the most prominent figure to date in a series of disclosures that is shaking the world of academic medicine and seems likely to force broad changes in the relationships between doctors and drug makers.

... The Congressional inquiry, led by Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, is systematically asking some of the nation's leading researchers to provide their conflict-of-interest disclosures, and Mr. Grassley is comparing those documents with records of actual payments from drug companies. The records often conflict, sometimes starkly.

http://snipurl.com/44keh


Rock Offers Mirror-Image Clues to Life's Origins
from the Washington Post (Registration Required)

For more than 150 years, scientists have known that the most basic building blocks of life—chains of amino acid molecules and the proteins they form—almost always have the unusual characteristic of being overwhelmingly "left-handed." The molecules, of course, have no hands, but they are almost all asymmetrical in a way that parallels left-handedness.

This observation, first made in the 1800s by French chemist Louis Pasteur, is taught to introductory organic chemistry students—until recently with the caveat that nobody knew how this came to be.

But research into the question has picked up in recent years, focusing on a 200-pound chunk of rock found 40 years ago in Murchison, Australia. A meteorite that broke off an asteroid long ago, it brought to Earth a rich collection of carbon-based material from far away in the solar system.

http://snipurl.com/44kid


Chaos May Make You See 'Things'
from the Boston Globe (Registration Required)

Confusing times make for dangerous times, suggests new research that serves as a caution during the current financial crisis.

The possibility of an economic meltdown is bad enough. Worse might be a hasty response born of little more than the powerful human need to impose order—even false order—on a riotous world.

Research published in last week's journal Science doesn't address the pros and cons of any specific economic or political policy. But experiments done by Adam Galinsky, social psychologist and professor at Northwestern University in Illinois, and Jennifer Whitson, professor of management at the University of Texas-Austin, demonstrated that people who can't make sense of an out-of-control situation will trick themselves into seeing patterns or drawing connections that don't exist.

http://snipurl.com/44kx1


Nobel Medicine Prize Row as HIV Scientist Is Excluded
from the Times (London)

Three scientists who discovered the causes of the two most lethal sexually-transmitted infections, Aids and cervical cancer, have been honoured with the Nobel Prize for Medicine.

Professor Luc Montagnier and Professor Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, both from France, were awarded the prestigous accolade for identifying HIV, the virus that causes Aids, while Professor Harald zur Hausen was recognised for tracing the human papillomavirus (HPV) as the cause of cervical cancer.

While the prizes have been welcomed as richly deserved, the HIV part of the award has caused controversy because the Nobel Assembly has overlooked the claims of a third scientist who played a pivotal role in the discovery of HIV. Professor Robert Gallo, an American, is widely accepted to have identified the human immunodeficiency virus independently ...

http://snipurl.com/44l48

#6821
Techmology and Scientism / Re: Research tool - Zotero
October 09, 2008, 03:05:51 AM
I've been using it, not just for my research, but for storing records of all the books I have read.
#6822
Discordian Recipes / Re: Cooking with LMNO
October 08, 2008, 04:59:40 PM
Quote from: LMNO on October 08, 2008, 04:57:51 PM
I'll do what I can.

I'm making a Kale soup with sausage and potato tonight.  I'll see what I can do.

Thats sounds  :fap:-worthy.
#6823
Discordian Recipes / Re: Cooking with LMNO
October 08, 2008, 04:53:47 PM
I hope there will be many more days of this thread.
#6824
Techmology and Scientism / Re: Weekly Science Headlines
October 08, 2008, 01:21:42 PM
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/319/5865/905b

Students, Postdocs and professors dance their PhD's. The dances include "Dynamical and chemical evolution of blue compact dwarf galaxies.", "Transcription factors involved in developmental and growth control: Regulation of human g-globin and fos gene expression.", and "Refitting repasts: a spatial exploration of food processing, sharing, cooking, and disposal at the Dunefield Midden campsite, South Africa."

Its a bit fun to see them flailing around and realize that its not just improvisation, a choreographer actually worked with them to produce these dances based on dissertations.
#6825
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on October 07, 2008, 01:38:17 PM
that, and the impending zombie apocalypse.

I keep a baseball bat by my bed for that purpose.