When you look at a face, you look nose first
Eyes land on nose first when checking out a face, UC San Diego computer scientists say
http://www.brainmysteries.com/research/When_you_look_at_a_face_you_look_nose_first.asp
////////////////////////////In game of tennis, seeing isn't always believing
A universal bias in the way people perceive moving objects means that tennis referees are more likely to make mistakes when they call balls "out" than when they call them "in,"
http://www.brainmysteries.com/research/In_game_of_tennis_seeing_isnt_always_believing.asp
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Wednesday, 29 October 2008
CDS-291008-EEBBIE QURDY CASE-MCLWP
HW-SNOW-MKK-TRCKR DD IN M40
///////////////BDY PRISN
////////////////JUDGES ONLY INTERPRETE EXISTING LAW
/////////////////T. Rex Was a True Killer
By Jeanna Bryner, Senior Writer
posted: 28 October 2008 08:29 pm ET
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T. rex could throw around more than its vicious teeth and incredible size in the battle of survival. Its super-sized olfactory bulbs mean the carnivore could sniff out prey night or day. Credit: Courtesy of Royal Tyrrell Museum.
This CT scan of the skull of an ornithomimid dinosaur shows the olfactory bulbs (red) and the forebrain (blue). Credit: Courtesy of Yoshitsugu Kobayashi.
Tyrannosaurus rex relied on its elite nose to sniff out victims and take down live prey at night, a new study shows.
Some scientists previously had considered T. rex a scavenger of carrion, rather than a hunter, due to various features including its sense of smell. The new study, which analyzed data for a range of meat-eating dinosaurs as well as living carnivores (alligators), suggests T. rex likely was a true hunter and took down live prey such as other dinosaurs.
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Tyrannosaurus Rex and Velociraptor both had a very keen sense of smell according to a study published today. These frightening predators are believed to have used this keen sense of smell to hunt out prey, navigate and carry out activities in low-light conditions.
/////////////////RUNNING HAS NEVER BEEN SO POINTLESS
///////////////I HAVENT HEARD OF U EITHER
////////////THE BOREAL FORESTS
//////////////////ncreasing Number Of People Vaccinated Against Influenza Can Decrease Burden Of Disease (October 29, 2008) -- Two new studies published in the journal PLoS Medicine show that increasing the number of people vaccinated against influenza can decrease the burden of the disease, and not just in the individuals receiving the vaccine. ... > full story
//////////////////Statin Use Associated with Drops in PSA Levels
Prostate-specific antigen levels appear to drop after men begin using statins, according to an observational study published online by the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
The study included some 1200 men with healthy prostates who had their PSA levels measured within 2 years before filling prescriptions for a statin and again within 1 year afterward. Overall, the median PSA concentration fell by roughly 4% after statin initiation.
Despite the drop, editorialists point out that these findings do not clarify whether statins may be "preventive, therapeutic, or simply affect PSA level itself." They conclude that "only a randomized trial with histological endpoints can determine whether statins affect a man's risk of prostate cancer."
////////////////////Always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow and it will die and you will never know you had a big idea, an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through the dark canopy of leaves and touched the face of the sky. -- Bryce Courtenay
////////////////////Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss
////////////////Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
////////////////////I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams
////////////////////
///////////////BDY PRISN
////////////////JUDGES ONLY INTERPRETE EXISTING LAW
/////////////////T. Rex Was a True Killer
By Jeanna Bryner, Senior Writer
posted: 28 October 2008 08:29 pm ET
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T. rex could throw around more than its vicious teeth and incredible size in the battle of survival. Its super-sized olfactory bulbs mean the carnivore could sniff out prey night or day. Credit: Courtesy of Royal Tyrrell Museum.
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1 of 2
T. rex could throw around more than its vicious teeth and incredible size in the battle of survival. Its super-sized olfactory bulbs mean the carnivore could sniff out prey night or day. Credit: Courtesy of Royal Tyrrell Museum.
This CT scan of the skull of an ornithomimid dinosaur shows the olfactory bulbs (red) and the forebrain (blue). Credit: Courtesy of Yoshitsugu Kobayashi.
Tyrannosaurus rex relied on its elite nose to sniff out victims and take down live prey at night, a new study shows.
Some scientists previously had considered T. rex a scavenger of carrion, rather than a hunter, due to various features including its sense of smell. The new study, which analyzed data for a range of meat-eating dinosaurs as well as living carnivores (alligators), suggests T. rex likely was a true hunter and took down live prey such as other dinosaurs.
/////////////////
Tyrannosaurus Rex and Velociraptor both had a very keen sense of smell according to a study published today. These frightening predators are believed to have used this keen sense of smell to hunt out prey, navigate and carry out activities in low-light conditions.
/////////////////RUNNING HAS NEVER BEEN SO POINTLESS
///////////////I HAVENT HEARD OF U EITHER
////////////THE BOREAL FORESTS
//////////////////ncreasing Number Of People Vaccinated Against Influenza Can Decrease Burden Of Disease (October 29, 2008) -- Two new studies published in the journal PLoS Medicine show that increasing the number of people vaccinated against influenza can decrease the burden of the disease, and not just in the individuals receiving the vaccine. ... > full story
//////////////////Statin Use Associated with Drops in PSA Levels
Prostate-specific antigen levels appear to drop after men begin using statins, according to an observational study published online by the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
The study included some 1200 men with healthy prostates who had their PSA levels measured within 2 years before filling prescriptions for a statin and again within 1 year afterward. Overall, the median PSA concentration fell by roughly 4% after statin initiation.
Despite the drop, editorialists point out that these findings do not clarify whether statins may be "preventive, therapeutic, or simply affect PSA level itself." They conclude that "only a randomized trial with histological endpoints can determine whether statins affect a man's risk of prostate cancer."
////////////////////Always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow and it will die and you will never know you had a big idea, an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through the dark canopy of leaves and touched the face of the sky. -- Bryce Courtenay
////////////////////Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss
////////////////Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
////////////////////I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams
////////////////////
Sunday, 26 October 2008
FYON-FND UR OWN NICHE
ECO-NICHE FITTEST
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“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”-o wilde
/////////////////////99% OF ALL SPECIES WHO HAVE LIVED HAVE GONE EXTINCT
//////////////////WE ARE A SUBSET OF AFRICAN APES-DAWKINS
//////////////////Most Icelanders do not have a family name (such as Johnson, Smith, etc). So children have a given name and then father’s-name-son or father’s-name-daughter. Thus:
1. Jon has a son named Thor Jonsson and a daughter named Hafdis Jonsdottir.
2. Thor Jonsson has a son named Bjarni Thorsson and a daughter named Frida Thorsdottir.
3. And so forth.
///////////////////CHILDHOOD INDOCTRINATION PREVENTS RATIONALISM
///////////////DWKINS QUOTES BLAIR-EDUCN,EDUCN,EDUCN
/////////////////
/////////////////////
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”-o wilde
/////////////////////99% OF ALL SPECIES WHO HAVE LIVED HAVE GONE EXTINCT
//////////////////WE ARE A SUBSET OF AFRICAN APES-DAWKINS
//////////////////Most Icelanders do not have a family name (such as Johnson, Smith, etc). So children have a given name and then father’s-name-son or father’s-name-daughter. Thus:
1. Jon has a son named Thor Jonsson and a daughter named Hafdis Jonsdottir.
2. Thor Jonsson has a son named Bjarni Thorsson and a daughter named Frida Thorsdottir.
3. And so forth.
///////////////////CHILDHOOD INDOCTRINATION PREVENTS RATIONALISM
///////////////DWKINS QUOTES BLAIR-EDUCN,EDUCN,EDUCN
/////////////////
Thursday, 23 October 2008
CDS 231008-CARBOREXIA
//////////////////Carborexia is a cute play in the neologism game. It refers to a condition in which a person strives ardently to reduce his or her carbon footprint, much as a person with anorexia strives to reduce her or his body mass.
/////////////////The Mysterium Tremendum... and You
by Alexander Green
Dear Reader,
Last night I listened to a lecture by physicist Lawrence Krauss and was dismayed to hear his comments on scientific literacy in this country.
For example, when asked a straightforward true/false question about whether the earth revolves around the sun and takes one year to do so, half of respondents polled consistently get it wrong.
As an amateur astronomer (10-inch Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain, for kindred spirits), I find this distressing. Too many of us know next to nothing about the universe we live in.
If your neighbor doesn't know the earth revolves around the sun, he probably isn't aware that our planet is spinning on its axis at over 1,000 miles per hour and traveling through space at 67,000 miles per hour, covering over a million and a half miles a day.
He's even less likely to know that the sun itself - and its retinue of planets - is orbiting the center of the Milky Way galaxy at a hair-raising 558,000 miles per hour.
We're just hitchhikers on for a brief ride. Even at this speed, the sun takes approximately 225 million years to complete a single revolution.
Why so long? Because the Milky Way is bigger than our brains can imagine. Light, traveling 186,000 miles per second, takes 100,000 years to cross our galaxy.
Moreover, the Milky Way itself is traveling at roughly 660,000 miles per hour (and you wonder why you always feel rushed), gravitationally attracted to the Virgo cluster of galaxies. The Virgo Supercluster, in turn, is attracted to an even larger assembly of galaxies, the Great Attractor.
(Just so we're on the same page, the Great Attractor is a gravitation anomaly in intergalactic space, not Angelina Jolie.)
Like most galaxies, the Milky Way is mostly empty space. But it is home to over 200 billion stars. These stars, of course, are simply other suns. Every galaxy has billions of suns. And a recent Hubble Space Telescope image indicates there are over 240 billion galaxies in the visible universe.
The next time you go outside and look up at the twinkling lights - assuming you don't live near Broadway and 52nd - consider that there are more stars in the known universe than grains of sand on all the beaches on earth. (Billions and billions, indeed.)
Earth itself is orbiting a fairly ordinary star, a medium-size yellow dwarf. Beginning in October 1995, however, astronomers began discovering planets outside our solar system orbiting other stars. So far 313 of these "extrasolar" planets have been discovered, leading scientists to conclude that there are probably hundreds of billions - if not trillions - of planets out there.
Do any of them contain life? No one knows. But if extraterrestrial life exists, it is almost certainly weirder than anything having a drink at the Mos Eisley Cantina in Star Wars.
(As the English Astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington famously said, "Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.")
Cosmologists estimate the universe is 156 billion light-years wide and 13.7 billion years old. How do they know these things? Through reason, evidence, and experimentation. Or, more specifically, by observing and measuring the redshifts of galaxies, the abundance of light elements, and the cosmic background radiation in the heavens.
Much about the universe remains beyond human comprehension, however. As H.L. Mencken said, "Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits, nevertheless, calmly licking its chops."
When asked what happened before the Big Bang, for example, physicist Stephen Hawking replies that the question is tantamount to asking "what lies north of the north pole?"
Some things we just don't know - and likely never will.
Yet it's worth remembering that everyone who lived and died before the 20th century never had good answers to these big questions about the universe. They looked up at night and wondered. They speculated. They told each other myths. But they didn't know.
Yet now that science has finally got it right, millions haven't bothered to learn.
Richard Dawkins, the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, writes that, "After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it?"
The men and women who have visited space certainly have strong opinions on the subject. Many describe it as a near-mystical experience.
Astronaut James Irwin said, "The earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man..."
After returning from the moon, Neil Armstrong said, "I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine."
Space exploration has much to offer us, the earthbound majority. It inspires us. It teaches us brotherhood and humility. It reveals the connection between us and everything else that exists, reminding us of our place in the tapestry of creation. It provides us with a sense of wonder, a feeling of awe.
In fact, much of what we understand about the cosmos dovetails with Rudolph Otto's characteristics of religious experience: the holy; the sacred; gratitude and oblation; thanksgiving; awe before the mysterium tremendum; the sense of the divine; the ineffable; the quality of exaltedness and sublimity; powerlessness; the impulse to surrender and to kneel; a sense of the eternal; fusion with the universe as a whole.
These experiences are open to anyone who looks up at night, believers and non-believers alike.
In "Pale Blue Dot," astronomer Carl Sagan writes:
"Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and, I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
Carpe
////////////////SPIRITUAL WEALTH
//////////////////// Focus on Your Food, Not the Tube
According to research in the UK, women who watching TV while having a meal desired more food once they'd finished eating.
///////////////////Racist/casteist imbeciles exist everywhere!
//////////////////////
/////////////////The Mysterium Tremendum... and You
by Alexander Green
Dear Reader,
Last night I listened to a lecture by physicist Lawrence Krauss and was dismayed to hear his comments on scientific literacy in this country.
For example, when asked a straightforward true/false question about whether the earth revolves around the sun and takes one year to do so, half of respondents polled consistently get it wrong.
As an amateur astronomer (10-inch Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain, for kindred spirits), I find this distressing. Too many of us know next to nothing about the universe we live in.
If your neighbor doesn't know the earth revolves around the sun, he probably isn't aware that our planet is spinning on its axis at over 1,000 miles per hour and traveling through space at 67,000 miles per hour, covering over a million and a half miles a day.
He's even less likely to know that the sun itself - and its retinue of planets - is orbiting the center of the Milky Way galaxy at a hair-raising 558,000 miles per hour.
We're just hitchhikers on for a brief ride. Even at this speed, the sun takes approximately 225 million years to complete a single revolution.
Why so long? Because the Milky Way is bigger than our brains can imagine. Light, traveling 186,000 miles per second, takes 100,000 years to cross our galaxy.
Moreover, the Milky Way itself is traveling at roughly 660,000 miles per hour (and you wonder why you always feel rushed), gravitationally attracted to the Virgo cluster of galaxies. The Virgo Supercluster, in turn, is attracted to an even larger assembly of galaxies, the Great Attractor.
(Just so we're on the same page, the Great Attractor is a gravitation anomaly in intergalactic space, not Angelina Jolie.)
Like most galaxies, the Milky Way is mostly empty space. But it is home to over 200 billion stars. These stars, of course, are simply other suns. Every galaxy has billions of suns. And a recent Hubble Space Telescope image indicates there are over 240 billion galaxies in the visible universe.
The next time you go outside and look up at the twinkling lights - assuming you don't live near Broadway and 52nd - consider that there are more stars in the known universe than grains of sand on all the beaches on earth. (Billions and billions, indeed.)
Earth itself is orbiting a fairly ordinary star, a medium-size yellow dwarf. Beginning in October 1995, however, astronomers began discovering planets outside our solar system orbiting other stars. So far 313 of these "extrasolar" planets have been discovered, leading scientists to conclude that there are probably hundreds of billions - if not trillions - of planets out there.
Do any of them contain life? No one knows. But if extraterrestrial life exists, it is almost certainly weirder than anything having a drink at the Mos Eisley Cantina in Star Wars.
(As the English Astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington famously said, "Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.")
Cosmologists estimate the universe is 156 billion light-years wide and 13.7 billion years old. How do they know these things? Through reason, evidence, and experimentation. Or, more specifically, by observing and measuring the redshifts of galaxies, the abundance of light elements, and the cosmic background radiation in the heavens.
Much about the universe remains beyond human comprehension, however. As H.L. Mencken said, "Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits, nevertheless, calmly licking its chops."
When asked what happened before the Big Bang, for example, physicist Stephen Hawking replies that the question is tantamount to asking "what lies north of the north pole?"
Some things we just don't know - and likely never will.
Yet it's worth remembering that everyone who lived and died before the 20th century never had good answers to these big questions about the universe. They looked up at night and wondered. They speculated. They told each other myths. But they didn't know.
Yet now that science has finally got it right, millions haven't bothered to learn.
Richard Dawkins, the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, writes that, "After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it?"
The men and women who have visited space certainly have strong opinions on the subject. Many describe it as a near-mystical experience.
Astronaut James Irwin said, "The earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man..."
After returning from the moon, Neil Armstrong said, "I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine."
Space exploration has much to offer us, the earthbound majority. It inspires us. It teaches us brotherhood and humility. It reveals the connection between us and everything else that exists, reminding us of our place in the tapestry of creation. It provides us with a sense of wonder, a feeling of awe.
In fact, much of what we understand about the cosmos dovetails with Rudolph Otto's characteristics of religious experience: the holy; the sacred; gratitude and oblation; thanksgiving; awe before the mysterium tremendum; the sense of the divine; the ineffable; the quality of exaltedness and sublimity; powerlessness; the impulse to surrender and to kneel; a sense of the eternal; fusion with the universe as a whole.
These experiences are open to anyone who looks up at night, believers and non-believers alike.
In "Pale Blue Dot," astronomer Carl Sagan writes:
"Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and, I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
Carpe
////////////////SPIRITUAL WEALTH
//////////////////// Focus on Your Food, Not the Tube
According to research in the UK, women who watching TV while having a meal desired more food once they'd finished eating.
///////////////////Racist/casteist imbeciles exist everywhere!
//////////////////////
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