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A powerful earthquake in the Palm Springs area could create seismic waves that retain their intensity as far as Bakersfield and the southern Central Coast, a science-visualization project suggests.
The simulation attempts to simulate the far-reaching impact of a 7.8-magnitude quake in...
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This article about why humans swing their arms when they walk news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090728/sc_afp/sciencearmsoffbeat
illustrates another point I have been trying to get across. One of my fascinations is how the human mind creates a reality based on stories we tell ourselves. If you...
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Carbon in Soil is Important Climate Stabilizer
Organic Agriculture has been on the fringe in America for too long. The Rodale Institute, a well-known promoter of organic methods, was not taken seriously at all back in the 70’s and 80’s. Today,...
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First, I would like to make it clear that what I have written is not written in order to anger anyone or stir up trouble: this is my opinion only. Second, I have no formal theological education; therefore I am in no position to argue with people who do.
After...
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Western media completely ignores major report from Japan’s Energy Commission
A major scientific report by leading Japanese academics concludes that global warming is not man-made and that the overall warming trend from the mid-part of the 20th Century onwards has...
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Defense attorneys in Bakersfield said a report released Wednesday by the National Academy of Sciences has validated what they've been arguing all along.
First, that crime lab evidence must not be seen as infallible by juries.
And second, that crime labs must not be operated and managed by law...
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No matter how hard we try those ID (Intelligent Design) folks, well just don't get evolution...or is it evil-lution? LOL but check it out, give him some love, ive been much too busy spending time with my family on my days off!! now that i'll be going back to work, im sure i can write some more,...
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Better Air Increases Lifespan
This study, which is at the highest level of reliability, shows that improvements to our local air quality would add months and perhaps years (given how bad our air is) to the average lifespan of Kern County residents.
In the study average...
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Well I'm Gonna move from my usual very grumpy take on things, and quote not only one of the best books I've ever read....but also from a man who has really inspired me, although I don't believe in the militant burn religion to the ground way of thinking like say Dawkins, I do think...
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Well today ill make it short and sweet...or just grumpy for I am at work while I write this, time is of the essence.
Now that President Obama has taken office do any of you think that he will bring science back to its rightful place?
I think he will....he has already said he's gonna support the...
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#1 Rule of statistics - correlation does NOT equal causation. This title caught my attention "Study: No-burn days saving lives in Bakersfield" however, as I read the article I found David Lighthall (the "scientist/statistician") said he didn’t find "specific"...
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Well my fellow Americans, Tne time to vote is rapidly aproching us, as we will venture out to vote we will change the history of our country. For better, I hope not for the wost. I was gonna write about how scientificaly illiterate McCain and Paulin are. The point is null I feel at this...
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It seems like if you wait long enough a study will come out finding something healthy in your junk-food-of-choice.
Case in point: Drinking up to six cups a day of caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee won't shorten your life span, a new study shows. In fact, coffee might even help the heart,...
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Beyond the Death of God - Scientific Challenges to Atheism
Patrick Glynn
First published in 1996.
While our attention has been riveted on the momentous political and ideological realignments that mark the century's end, we have all but overlooked a quiet revolution in scientific...
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http://news.therecord.com/a...
He got plastic to degrade in three months using cultured bacteria. Of course, if the bugs got loose in quantity, we might have to give up polyethylene...
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His Grace Bartholomew the Ecunemical Patriarch of Constinople has been voted by Time magazine as one of the most influential men of the year and has been awarded The Woodrow Wilson Award for his efforts in human rights, protecting the enviroment and dialogue between science and sprituality....
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http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/den...
This video exposes the truth that ExxonMobil and the Bush Administration have spinned Global Warming around to make it sound less threatening.
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Natural talent — good.
Steroids — bad.
That seems to be the way it goes with sports nowadays. But some bioethicists are questioning if this should be the case.
In a story in Science Progress by Arthur Caplan, John Harris, a British bioethicist, argues for steroids.
Can...
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By BILL KACZOR, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 35 minutes ago
Florida's public school science standards for the first time will use the word "evolution," although the biological concept already was being taught under code words such as "change over time."...
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He couldn't of said it no plainer. It is written in Psalms 93:1 "Yea, the world is established, it shall never be moved." He fixed Earth on a foundation of pillars. It says so right there in 1 Samuel 2:8 "For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and on...
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The debate over who's to blame for obesity — society or the individual — is an interesting one many of you have been involved in on this blog.
It makes me think of this passage from Fed Up! Winning the War Against Childhood Obesity by Dr. Susan Okie. The first sentence is a little...
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Sun, Not Man, Main Cause of Climate Change, New Study Says
By Monisha Bansal
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
December 11, 2007
(CNSNews.com) - According to a new study on global warming, climate scientists at the University of Rochester, the University of Alabama, and the University of Virginia...
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Gene makes fruit flies bisexual: study
December 10, 2007
BY JIM RITTER Health Reporter jritter@suntimes.com
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In a previous post some of us were discussing the pros and cons of religion and science; well you know the truth is we can dig up dirt on both all day. The point that I was trying to make is that science by it's very nature in our modern times is attempting to find the truth! The truth that is...
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I read newspapers from the places I have lived and those where my family and friends reside...and others on a continual basis.
As I browsed the Port Townsend Leader, a paper my parents have on their kitchen table regularly, this article caught my eye.
In disbelief, I couldn't help...
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I heard about an amazing lecture by Randy Pausch, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, an expert on Virtual Reality, and computer/human interactions. He is also dying of pancreatic cancer, and has just a short time to live. There is a tradition at Carnegie Mellon that professors will give a...
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I was looking over the various headlines today and came across this one. www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,303525,00.html
What do you think? If what the author of the article says is true, do you think it's right to allow Al Gore to keep the Nobel Peace Prize?
Could his "Inconvenient...
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As glacial ice melts, it may release into the oceans bacteria which have been isolated from us for eight million years. Remember, if you're a typical life-form on Earth, you're a bacterium.
(But if we're lucky, it'll only eat the lawyers...)...
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The U.S. government is undertaking some very ambitious and very controversial medical experiments.
The $50 million, five-year project, which will involve more than 20,000 patients in 11 sites in the United States and Canada, is designed to improve treatment after car accidents, shootings,...
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As a man not given to hero worship, infatuation or celebrity fixation I don't do a lot of ga-ga stuff where the hoi-polloi are concerned, but I have made a few exceptions over the years and Dr. Stephen Hawking is one of them. As one of the most brilliant minds in history he has captured the...
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I had heard about City of Hope from some of the cancer patients I've talked to. The revolutionary research and treatment center had always sounded like a refuge, a place some patients are thankful they've gone to or hopeful that they'll one day get the chance.
Now I had an opportunity to see...
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Oh come now! Another one? It seems that whenever a golden child/cause of the left is called into question it is automatically a cover-up or a vast right wing conspiracy. Today it is Global Warming and it's all Dubyas fault! I wasn't aware that it was a subject that was a secret to the masses or...
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I just finished this article. I never had a problem in this area, so it's difficult to relate. What do you think? Is it unethical? Does a woman's uterus fall under a different set of transplant rules than other organs? Would you do it? ...
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I am doing a story on how clinical trials work and am looking for people who have taken part in clinical trials.
If you or someone you know has been a part of a trial, please give me a call at 395-7510 or e-mail me at ehagedorn@bakersfield.com.
I'm looking for good and bad experiences, so...
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There's a story in the New York Times today about an implantable heart that has just been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
More shocking than the fact that the device has been approved is the fact that it was approved despite a meager and terrible track record.
"The...
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For everyone who doubts global warming, pay attention. Global warming is not a "myth" that some people think it is. Glacours are retreating, ice is melting, and the weather is getting worst. Some people think that global warming is real, but we can't do anything to...
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I just came across this story: Attractive parents 'have more daughters.'
The London Telegraph's story says:
"It postulates that differing "evolutionary strategies" lead parents to produce the sex that would most benefit from their own characteristics."
"So while...
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