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January 12, 2005


	preserved sounds Inside a bombproof vault a few blocks from the White House, Dan Sheehy is surrounded by audio ghosts: the clickety-clack of typewriters, the tumble of glass bottles inside a soda machine, a 1960s-era telephone ring. Here, sonic blasts from the... Posted by xtop at 01:35 AM \| Comments (0)

September 22, 2004


	biological ball Fire ants have developed a unique method to keep from drowning. At first hint of rising water, worker ants gather the entire colony into a ball - sometimes as big as a basketball. As the water overtakes the mound,... Posted by xtop at 01:36 AM \| Comments (0)

September 15, 2004


	brain changing Hypnosis is more than just a party trick, it measurably changes how the brain works, says a UK researcher. Hypnosis significantly affects the activity in a part of the brain responsible for detecting and responding to errors, says John Gruzelier,... Posted by xtop at 11:50 PM \| Comments (0)

August 03, 2004


	back and to the left channel requires NYT registration Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have begun work on a digital scanning apparatus that they believe will be able to reproduce sound from the only known audio recording of the assassination of President John F.... Posted by xtop at 11:31 PM \| Comments (0)

July 29, 2004


	russian woodpecker The Soviets fired the first shot in 1976. Miami Springs amateur operator Andy Clark (W4IYT, now SK) remembers it. Clark was operating a commercial aeronautical communications station, one which keeps contact with long-distance airliner flights by shortwave radio. Suddenly, powerful... Posted by xtop at 10:36 PM \| Comments (0)

July 25, 2004


	time can be turned back From Pravda, so in addition to being written in bad english, it makes no sense at all and is a horrible pack of lies, but i'm a sucker for this kinda nonsense: Neither TV nor radio companies reported the astonishing... Posted by xtop at 01:11 AM \| Comments (0)

July 02, 2004


	faketography Seven guests assembled the evening I was involved, a typical number for a group to witness a demonstration according to Dr. Eisenbud. Each guest was asked to bring at least five rolls of 3000 speed Polaroid film. Dozens of... Posted by xtop at 02:15 AM \| Comments (0)

June 28, 2004


	in the nick of time According to a prospective study on the dangers of smoking that date back half a century, cigarette smokers die an average of 10 years sooner than nonsmokers. At least half, and possibly up to two-thirds, of people who smoke from... Posted by xtop at 04:00 PM \| Comments (3)

June 22, 2004


	the rock enigma Bill Brooks, a longtime family friend, says he has witnessed the rock's growth. "When I first saw it, it was sitting in the corner of the yard," said Brooks. "It was a little rock, and over the years it's gotten... Posted by xtop at 11:53 PM \| Comments (0)

April 18, 2004


	yoda lives A DWARF mouse named Yoda has celebrated his fourth birthday, making him the oldest of his kind and far beyond 100 in human years, the University of Michigan Medical School says. Yoda owes his longevity to genetic modifications that... Posted by xtop at 01:29 PM \| Comments (10)

April 05, 2004


	whole brain atlas Posted by xtop at 12:45 AM \| Comments (0)

March 24, 2004


	monsters from the deep Scientists from Australia and New Zealand have identified more than 100 new species of fish in the waters that divide the two countries. One of the most curious discoveries made by the scientists concerned the mating habits of the deep... Posted by xtop at 12:30 AM \| Comments (0)

March 21, 2004


	time shift go The Florida International University physics professor plans to take time to task at 10 a.m. Wednesday, when he presents an experiment that involves using acceleration to speed up a digital clock by four seconds. Dolz's experiment which takes six... Posted by xtop at 10:38 PM \| Comments (0)

March 19, 2004


	darpa's wild kingdom In an August 2003 article, Los Angeles Times reporter Charles Pillar noted that DARPA has put forth some of the "most boneheaded ideas ever to spring from the government" -- including a "mechanical elephant" that never made it into the... Posted by xtop at 01:39 AM \| Comments (0)

February 20, 2004


	the ibogaine cure "Patrick was one of the worst opiate addicts, worst heroin addicts that I have ever enountered in my life," says Dr. Mash. His arms still bear the scars of years of heroin addiction, and he knows only too well what... Posted by xtop at 05:28 PM \| Comments (0)

January 09, 2004


	100 percent sloughing By all accounts, Sarah Yeargain, shouldn't be alive. But she is and some are calling it a medical miracle. Three weeks ago, the skin on Yeargain's body began sloughing off. Dr. Daniel Lozano, from the UCSD Regional Burn Center, said,... Posted by xtop at 01:32 AM

December 31, 2003


	and enter the pod people Posted by xtop at 12:54 AM

December 15, 2003


	recent spam senders Dynamite V. Epidemics Keystrokes F. Roughhouse Warlocks L. Balustrade Refile B. Deregulated Pei M. Loft Colosseum P. Clears Nasser D. Saturates Examiners K. Generously... Posted by xtop at 10:36 PM \| Comments (1)

November 10, 2003


	Wiretap Wiretap is a small, free, simple program that can record all audio feeds coming through your Mac. Lets you tinker with sound quality and compression and is easy enough for the average cretin. I've been looking for something like this... Posted by xtop at 09:12 PM

November 01, 2003


	the time travel fund Q: How does this work? A: Current scientific theory states that Time Travel may be possible, however the technology is a long way off, perhaps hundreds of years in the future. Now, assume it does become possible in say, 500... Posted by xtop at 12:50 PM \| Comments (2)

October 28, 2003


	language removal services "Given the fleshy character of speech (or what is erroneously called 'spoken language') the myriad whistling of air through secret pockets of flesh; the suck and hum of life below the workings of social whim and commentary it... Posted by xtop at 05:17 PM

October 01, 2003


	the toolmaking behavior of new caledonian crows In the experiments, a captive female crow, confronted with a task that required a curved tool (retrieving a food-containing bucket from a vertical pipe), spontaneously bent a piece of straight wire into a hooked shape -- and then repeated the... Posted by xtop at 10:52 PM

July 12, 2003


	the story of captain midnight Now HBO was airing the Sean Penn and Timothy Hutton espionage movie, The Falcon and the Snowman. It was at 12:32 a.m. Sunday, April 27, that John R. MacDougall pushed the transmit button on his console and turned into... Posted by xtop at 01:11 AM

May 14, 2003


	language extinction Linguists estimate that there are 6,809 "living" languages in the world today, but 90 per cent of them are spoken by fewer than 100,000 people, and some languages are even rarer 46 are known to have just one native... Posted by xtop at 11:29 PM

April 19, 2003


	heroin headboard "This method of mixing the heroin with other chemicals is called starching," Queens District Attorney Richard Brown explained yesterday. "It is done so as to disguise the heroin, and then the heroin is reprocessed back into its full strength ...... Posted by xtop at 04:41 PM \| Comments (1)

April 13, 2003


	SARS scambo "This spreading scourge of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome stretching from Asia to North America has all the earmarks of a novel social experiment in population manipulation aimed to culture the mass mind for the arrival of 'the Big One'-a biological... Posted by xtop at 10:12 PM \| Comments (1)

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