THE ENLIGHTENMENT ENGINE

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/world/middleeast/06stone.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss The Deadsea, it's such a lively place. :)

http://www.kingtut.org/about_the_exhibition/tut_mania/currentking_tut

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Buchanan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_Library_of_Psychology%2C_Philosophy_and_Scientific_Method http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kay_Ogden

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Eiffel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pyramide.nuit.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Viollet-le-Duc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcassonne http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic-Auguste_Bartholdi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_%28goddess%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln (born 1809) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copperheads http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_assassination http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_American_Cousin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Ford http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes_Booth http://en.wikipedia.org...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapolis_Convention_%281786%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11

Good to see more research verifying the obvious: Want to slow the signs of aging and live longer? New Saint Louis University research suggests cutting back on calories could be a promising strategy. http://www.physorg.com/news134302762.html

The problem with antibiotics is that, eventually, bacteria outsmart them and become resistant. But by targeting the gene that confers such resistance, a new drug may be able to finally outwit them. Rockefeller University scientists tested the new drug, called Ceftobiprole, against some of the deadliest strains of multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus...

Thanks to salt and hot chili peppers, researchers have found a calculus-computing center that tells a roundworm to go forward toward dinner or turn to broaden the search. It's a computational mechanism, they say, that is similar to what drives hungry college students to a pizza. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080702132219.htm

http://www.livescience.com/technology/080701-chemical-robot.html

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news?slug=ap-sai-china-algae&prov=ap&type=lgns

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issyk-Kul http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholpon-Ata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal-bals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythians

Highly Redacted Inspector General Report Posted on Official Website WASHINGTON, DC - June 23 -A large portion of an Inspector General evaluation of federal wildlife programs has been blacked out prior to publication, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Even data tables have been excised from a report on Endangered...

About 2.5 years of my life in this mode -- but it was by choice for me. For these people, it is probably too except they need to swallow their shame and use craigslist.org Credit crunch forcing US middle classes to live in their cars

Pass this far and wide. Don't forget that it gets 100,000 gals a year per acre in their closed system. We could be energy independent in six months. This has a video you will never forget. Valcent Products Inc,. - High Density Vertical Bioreactor - HDVB ... Valcent's HDVB algae-to-biofuel technology mass produces algae, ... The HDVB technology...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080623/ap_on_sc/sci_odyssey_dated_3

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080605-new-pyramid.html http://www.history.com/minisites/lostpyramid I watched this program on the History Channel tonight, and I enjoyed it. I enjoyed how these researchers were basically able to go through the early stories purported about this ruler and moreorless prove that there really is no evidence...

http://www.livescience.com/history/080623-modern-neanderthals.html http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=8477062&ch=4226722&src=news

http://www.historyinternational.com/nakedarchaeologist/?page=guide I watched a really interesting program in this series the other night, in particular the episode wherein he's looking for Goliah evidence. Well, he finds none of that excepting that Goliah was actually recorded in the Dead Sea Scrolls as being something like 6 foot and 10/11 inches...

http://www.livescience.com/history/080605-ancient-shoes.html

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=8359278&ch=4226723&src=news

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Doolittle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_copper_plate_inscriptions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n68WBx91nQE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhM6Vrd8CP4&NR=1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fe_Fuge

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1814227,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-healthsci

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procopius

by H.G. Wells from Thirty strange stories (1897, 1898 ed.) Harper & Brothers Publishers New York and London WHETHER the story of Gottfried Plattner is to be credited or not, is a pretty question in the value of evidence. On the one hand, we have seven witnesses--to be perfectly exact, we have six and a half pairs of eyes, and one undeniable fact;...

Several years ago, the mad scientists at DARPA (the research and development wing of the Pentagon) conceived of a pair of binoculars that would enhance soldiers' ability to detect enemies. Danger Room informs us that DARPA has just awarded the giant defence contractor Northrop Grumman a $7.6 million contract to develop the device. Here's a snippet...

A cloud making machine !

Secret Plan To Kill Internet By 2012 Leaked? Some question if report that pay-per-view system to be introduced is a hoax, but wider march to regulate the web is documented Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Wednesday, June 11, 2008 farkItButton("Secret Plan To Kill Internet By 2012 Leaked?"); | reddit_url='http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles...

Researchers to release hacking tool that gathers information about the cellular network to which a smart phone is connected By Kelly Jackson Higgins Researchers have hacked a built-in maintenance application found on many smart phones that could open the door to hacking the cellular network itself. David Maynor, CTO for Errata Security, this weekend...

Online free press 4TW: Taking back the American press for the American sheeple! http://www.theseminal.com/2008/06/08/dan-rather-slams-the-corporate-media

THE CONCEPT OF THE TRICKSTER In many countries, in their folklore and mythology, the same kind of character, the trickster, arises. The trickster is more than someone who goes around playing jokes. He is defined by a group of characteristics, having at least some of them, and maybe all. HE IS TRICKY, IRREVERENT: He plays tricks. He'll try them on...

A virus that takes all your important files hostage and then demand money is on the loose according to security experts. This blackmailer virus uses 1024-bit key to encrypt data on user’s PC and then demands money for decryption key. http://www.intology.com/computers-internet/ransomware-virus-that-uses-1024-bit-encryption-key/

The phrase ‘nine meals from anarchy’ sounds more like the title of a bad Hollywood movie than any genuine threat. But that was the expression coined by Lord Cameron of Dillington, a farmer who was the first head of the Countryside Agency - the quango set up by Tony Blair in the days when he pretended to care about the countryside - to describe just...

Stupid defaults http://www.5min.com/Video/How-To-Eavesdrop-on-Bluetooth-Conversations-925061

http://tekgnosis.typepad.com/tekgnosis/2008/06/bildeberg-atten.html

To free their books of the estimated $1,000bn (£505bn) of sub-prime assets and $340bn of leveraged loans banks have been left carrying since the credit markets shut down last year, lenders are offering to sell these damaged assets cut-price and - crucially - are willing to lend investors the money to buy them. In other words, the banks are providing...

This week's New Scientist has a fascinating article on a possible 'grand theory' of the brain that suggests that virtually all brain functions can be modelled with Bayesian statistics - an approach discovered by an 18th century vicar. http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/05/do_bayesian_statisti.html

Jon Taylor might be impressed how so much data can be compressed and generated. Next Generation of Neural Networks - Google Talk Nov 29, 2007 [video]

http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/05/30/scientists-use-gps-to-spy-on-whale-watch-tours-uncover-ugly-secret/

Medical bots powered by sperm, clean fusion power, and two-dimensional time. http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jun/29-3-ideas-that-are-pushing-the-edge-of-science

I hate the gooks

From the Associated Press May 24, 2008 BRASILIA, BRAZIL -- A South American union was born Friday as leaders of the region's 12 nations set out to create a continental parliament. Some see the Union of South American Nations, or Unasur, as a regional version of the European Union. Summit host Brazil wants Unasur to help coordinate defense affairs...

A Swedish-born tycoon who acts as a deforestation adviser to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has stirred up controversy in Brazil for reportedly claiming all the Amazon could be bought for $US50 billion ($52 billion). http://www.smh.com.au/news/conservation/we-could-buy-the-amazon-for-52b-tycoon/2008/05/27/1211653986834.html

An interesting thought experiment

Not eating for 12-16 hours can help people quickly reset their sleep-wake cycle, according to a new study from the Harvard Medical School. This discovery can drastically improve a person's ability to cope with jet lag or adjust to working late shifts. http://parentingsquad.com/easy-way-to-reset-your-sleep-cycle-stop-eating

Since humans depend on their microbiome for various essential services, including digestion, a person should really be considered a superorganism, microbiologists assert, consisting of his or her own cells and those of all the commensal bacteria. The bacterial cells also outnumber human cells by 10 to 1, meaning that if cells could vote, people would...

http://innercitysnail.blogspot.com/

Greenhouse gas pollution has acidified the coastal waters of western North America more rapidly than scientists expected, says a study published today in Science. http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/western-oceans.html

Why the principles of first sale are important to all of us. http://williampatry.blogspot.com/2008/05/first-sale-victory-in-vernor.html