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The "clean coal" myth ignores a rather nasty problem: a toxic waste spill of 500 million gallons is underway in Tennessee and has swallowed 15 houses. Is CNN covering this? Of course not--they've got to save time for the War on Hannukkah. Since I'm locked out of the blog he mentioned this on: Was reading in this mornings paper and it said that GM built 500 ELECTRIC cars that WORKED...but later destroyed...I quess this didn't sit well with the oil companies..... If you want to cry over lost opportunities, rent the movie "Who Killed The Electric Car," which details exactly happened to the EVI, a plug-in electric car that developed a wildly fanatical following--but GM refused to sell them. Near as I can figure it, the Canadian Conservative Prime Minister is going to ask the British Queen's representative to shut down the Canadian Parliament so he won't have to undergo a vote-of-no-confidence on Monday which would likely kick him out of power in favor of a coalition partially made up of folks who want Quebec to be an independent country. Kinda like if Obama asked Sarah Palin's support (and that of the Alaska Independence Party) to get Shrub out of office before January 20--and for the same reason. The Conservatives are blocking efforts to stave off economic problems in Canada. http://www.theglobeandmail.... BLT, wanna chime in here? It's been some months since we discussed the "out-of-body-experience" illusion. This lab has taken a previous experiment (in which people are tricked into thinking a rubber hand on the table is their own) and scaled it up to produce a full out-of-body experience in the lab. http://scienceblogs.com/neu... Afterwards, the participants were interviewed, so that their perceptual experiences could be established. They reported that in the synchronous condition they had perceived the researcher's arm as their own, and that they sensed their entire body behind it. Some even spontaneously remarked with comments such as "Your arm felt like it was my arm, and I was behind it", "I felt that my own body was someone else" or "I was shaking hands with myself!". Remarkably, they also reported that the sensations evoked when the researcher squeezed their hands seemed to originate from the researcher's hand and not from their own. This illusion was vivid and robust - it persisted even though their own body was in full view, and regardless of either the sex of the researcher or the shape of their body. Furthermore, the participants exhibited anxiety when a knife was placed just above the researcher's wrist, but not when it was placed near their own. (OK, well, *I* think it's cool...and it explains quite a bit about "near-death experiences" too.) |
