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Wednesday 9 April 2008

Archive for the 'interesting' Category

Key scientist sure “God particle” will be found soon

Wednesday 9 April 2008 @ 1:09 pm

Higgs said he believes a particle named the “Higgs boson”, which originates from the force, will be found when a vast particle collider at the CERN research centre on the Franco-Swiss border begins operating fully early next year.

Comments (0) | Posted in Intelligent Design, interesting, science and nature

France’s naked first lady

Wednesday 26 March 2008 @ 10:11 am

Mrs Nicolas Sarkozy - former model Carla Bruni - is understandably furious that a nude photo of her went on sale on the eve of her State visit to Britain with her husband.

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Men’s News Daily Contributor Exposes Media’s Misrepresentation of Intelligent Design as Creationism

Saturday 15 March 2008 @ 1:11 pm

Over at Men’s News Daily, editor Mike LaSalle has a post entitled, “Darwin Ist Tot: Intelligent Design is Not Creationism” that observes, “Science is practiced by scientists, not by priests. But recently science and religion appear to have become indistinguishable, as for example in their respective institutional intolerance of competing ideas.”

Comments (0) | Posted in Intelligent Design, interesting, media

Pacific Island Fossils Reignite ‘Hobbit’ Species Debate

Friday 14 March 2008 @ 5:23 pm

Fossils of tiny humans found on the Pacific island of Palau have fanned the flames of contention over whether another skeleton, discovered several years ago on the nearby island Flores, represents a new species of human.

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No. 1 Thing Women Do That Distracts Men

Thursday 13 March 2008 @ 12:32 pm

When a man catches sight of a beautiful woman, he loses his ability to make good decisions and focus on the task at hand, according to a new study from The University of Leuven in Belgium. Men who have the highest amount of natural testosterone are the most vulnerable to a woman’s sexual cues, reports the BBC News.

Comments (0) | Posted in human nature, interesting, men + women, sex science

Theory explains why 25 percent of cultures cut male genitals

Tuesday 11 March 2008 @ 1:09 pm

Almost 25 percent of indigenous societies practice some form of male genital cutting, ranging from circumcision to the ritual removal of a testicle. The reason, reports a Cornell scientist, may be to reduce pregnancies from extramarital sex. More subtly, it could be to reduce conflict among men.

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Photos from the Emperor’s Club VIP

Tuesday 11 March 2008 @ 1:08 pm

850KOA has obtained photos from the now-defunct Emperor’s Club VIP website, the escort service with which New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was involved in a sting. Click the images below to view our photo gallery of the site - the photos are all safe to view from work.

Comments (0) | Posted in counterPULSE, interesting, sex and metropolis

Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher

Tuesday 4 March 2008 @ 4:20 pm

“As far Moses on Mount Sinai is concerned, it was either a supernatural cosmic event, which I don’t believe, or a legend, which I don’t believe either, or finally, and this is very probable, an event that joined Moses and the people of Israel under the effect of narcotics,” Shanon told Israeli public radio on Tuesday.

Comments (0) | Posted in academic, human nature, interesting, psychology, religion, society

Humans Are Just Machines for Propagating Memes

Friday 29 February 2008 @ 11:19 am

In the 1970s, Richard Dawkins coined the term “meme” in his book The Selfish Gene to refer to aspects of human culture and how they evolve in a way that’s analogous to how genes evolve. Since then, the study of memes has become an evolving meme itself.

Comments (0) | Posted in biology, human nature, interesting

Military Turing test to make autonomous war robots legal?

Friday 29 February 2008 @ 11:01 am

Not that we’re experts on the matter or anything, but if barrister and engineer Chris Elliot knows a thing or two about legal issues, a kind of “military Turing test” could be the key to legally deploying autonomous systems in battle. As it stands, “weapons intrinsically incapable of distinguishing between civilian and military targets are illegal” — at least according to Mr. Elliot — but by testing an intelligent war machine’s ability to hone in on legitimate targets and brush off friendlies, all that could change. Of course, actually administering the test still remains a mystery, but considering that remotely controlled armed bots are currently being used in Iraq, we reckon someone’s already figuring out a solution to said dilemma.

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