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A Concrete Glimpse at the Underground Workings of AntsI stumbled across this amazing video showing a process that was used to discover what a giant subterranean ant structure looks like underground. Don't fear for the ants living in the abode, it had been abandoned by the main colony and was used to provided a surreal glimpse at the extent of ...
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Bat researchers no longer flying blind on echolocationResearchers at the University of Western Ontario (Western) led an international and multi-disciplinary study using micro-computed tomography systems to shed new light on the way bats echolocate. With echolocation, animals emit sounds and then listen to the reflected echoes of those sounds to ...
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Incredible cures ignored by science: Royal Rife and othersIn the 1950’s Dr. Royal Rife, an American inventor designed a very powerful microscope that could detect living microbes by the color of their vibratory rates. Financed by millionaires like Henry Timken, Rife invented the Universal Microscope with 5,682 parts. It was a miraculous machine that ...
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One Million Years BC: Humans Rare: the population of our ancestors was below 20,000 | Scientific American PodcastA study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences used genomic analysis of modern humans to reveal that the population of our ancestors a million years back was below 20,000. Karen Hopkin reports. At one time or another, you’ve probably said, “It’s a small world.” Well, it used to ...
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Desalinating Water Using Solar Pond and Membrane Distillation System :: Green Design and ManufacturingEcosystems of terminus lakes around the world could benefit from a system being developed at the University of Nevada, Reno that desalinates water using a specialized low-cost solar pond and patented membrane distillation system powered by renewable energy. “These lakes – hundreds worldwide – ...
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Bat researchers no longer flying blind on echolocationI was reading Richard Dawkins these days and in his Blind Watch maker, the echolocation of bats is mentioned as a mystery. This seems to put light on to the mystery. Significant finding.Anand Mallaya added 2 weeks ago
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13NASA - NASA Reproduces a Building Block of Life in LaboratoryAnother "couldn't be made except by intelligent design" bites the dust.JDP added 2 weeks ago
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13Fish Punish Fish For Bad Manners - Yahoo! News"Ethics", another of those (at aone time thought) supposedly human-only traits, rears its head further down then animal kingdom ladder ... again.JDP added 4 weeks ago
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13Solution to killer superbug found in Norway - Yahoo! NewsSo easy. But then again, think of all the profits big pharma would lose from lowered antibiotic prescriptions (and because new, more expensive antibiotics - to replace those old ones that rapidly become ineffective - would become unnecessary)! Not to mention weaning the animal industry from ...JDP added 5 weeks ago
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13Judge not lest ye be judged? Researchers explore 'moral hypocrisy' in powerful peopleFor the sake of all of us, the rich and powerful BADLY need to be "trained" to reverse this trend so they have higher standards for themselves and more tolerance / leniency with others, rather than the other way around (the way they "market" themselves, but often aren't). Electric shock, sack ...JDP added 5 weeks ago
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