03.29.11
Testimony on Freshwater Loss Due to Climate Change
Earthjustice: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Hears Testimony on Freshwater Loss Due to Climate Change
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/03/28-6
Unpacking for a Disaster
Rebecca Solnit: Unpacking for a Disaster: What You Need to Survive the Unexpected
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/28
Unsafe at Any Exposure
Ira Helfand: Unsafe at Any Exposure
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/28-10
Obama’s march madness
Ralph Nader: Obama’s March Madness
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/28-13
Warmongering and the media
Intervention, Warmongering and the Media
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/03/28
‘Stop these massacres’
“Stop These Massacres”: Ex-Afghan Parliamentarian Malayia Joya Calls for End to US Occupation of Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/03/28-0
Obama’s cuts to medicaid?
Dems: Potential Cuts to Medicaid Outlined by Administration ‘Cruel’
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/28-1
Libyan horror
Rape Used as Weapon of War in Libya; Week of Horror in Ajdabiya’s Hospital
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/28-4
Radioactive water
New Pools of Radioactive Water Deepen Troubes at Nuke Plant
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/28-5
How the “peaceful atom” became a serial killer
RG mail
Nuclear power loses its alibi
by Chip Ward
Le Monde diplomatique (March 28 2011)
When nuclear reactors blow, the first thing that melts down is the truth.
Just as in the Chernobyl catastrophe almost 25 years ago when Soviet
authorities denied the extent of radiation and downplayed the dire
situation that was spiraling out of control, Japanese authorities spent
the first week of the Fukushima crisis issuing conflicting and confusing
reports. We were told that radiation levels were up, then down, then up,
but nobody aside from those Japanese bureaucrats could verify the levels
and few trusted their accuracy. The situation is under control, they told
us, but workers are being evacuated. There is no danger of contamination,
but stay inside and seal your doors.
http://mondediplo.com/openpage/how-the-peaceful-atom-became-a-serial-killer
The Collapse of Globalization
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_collapse_of_globalization_20110328/
Posted on Mar 27, 2011
By Chris Hedges
The uprisings in the Middle East, the unrest that is tearing apart nations
such as the Ivory Coast, the bubbling discontent in Greece, Ireland and
Britain and the labor disputes in states such as Wisconsin and Ohio presage
the collapse of globalization. They presage a world where vital resources,
including food and water, jobs and security, are becoming scarcer and harder
to obtain. They presage growing misery for hundreds of millions of people
who find themselves trapped in failed states, suffering escalating violence
and crippling poverty. They presage increasingly draconian controls and
force-take a look at what is being done to Pfc. Bradley Manning-used to
protect the corporate elite who are orchestrating our demise.
SFU research scientist detects iodine 131 in North Vancouver rain water and west coast seaweed
http://www.sfu.ca/pamr/print/media_releases/media_releases_archives/radiation-from-japan-reaches-bc-shores.html
03.28.11
From Cotton Candy to Rock
From Cotton Candy to Rock: New Evidence About Beginnings of the Solar System
ScienceDaily (Mar. 28, 2011) — The earliest rocks in our Solar System were more like cotton candy than the hard rock that we know today, according to research published March 27 in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Human speciation as punctuated equilibrium?
The Great Explosion
\The appearance of punctuated equilibrium at the dawn of human emergence is the hidden reality behind the Dawin myth here.
Evading scientific method
The Limits of Observation
In no other field is the task of observation shunted aside, in this case to promote the myth of natural selection.
Standing up to capitalism
Surely the time has come to stand up to the fallacies of capitalist obsession.
Neuroscience and art?
This Is Your Brain on Art
Can neuroscience explain art?
The problem here is that, as with Darwinism, fake solutions will be created as science myths. That neuroscience could clarify issues of art seems a non-brainer, but reductionist scientism is sure to find a way to not find the answer using a series of gimmicks.
Dawkins interview
http://darwiniana.com/2011/03/28/dawkins-interview-18/
Dawkins’ treatment in the media is unfair: he get’s an immense press for views that are flawed, second-rate, and appealing to science adolescents.
Can no dissenting views ever gain any traction from th e plague of poisoned memes promoted by this mediocrity?
This endless stupidity of reductionist Darwinism is going to destroy a whole civilization, such is the blight it casts on all forms of thought.
Dawkins interview
Interview with Scientist Richard Dawkins
‘Religion? Reality Has a Grander Magic of its Own’
AFP
A sculpture by the British artist Damien Hirst. Is evolution a fact?
Evolution is fact. That, at least, is what evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins argues, making his case in his new book “The Greatest Show on Earth,” which has just been published in German. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke with Dawkins about the shortcomings of religion, the grandeur of reality and the God Gene.
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Religion, sex, celibacy
The issue of sex and many religions is important, and the question here needs an answer, but won’t get one.
The problem was carefully addressed by Rajneesh, but noone will listen.
In general, the place of celibacy in many religions is related to the ‘growth of the soul’ and much else. The decline and fall of that original technique visible in the ignorance of celibate Xtians about their own history here is decadence in the extreme.
The oldest religions of India spoke of ‘tantra’ and approached sex in a very direct way.
Why are most religions anti sexual?
By DAVIDXANAOS
Added: Sunday, 27 March 2011 at 3:57 PMhttp://richarddawkins.net/discussions/608008-why-are-most-religions-anti-sexual
Why do the most religions see sexuality as something bad?
Is it even true that this applies to most religions? Or is it only a fault of the most popular Judeo-Christian religions?
Life: volcanoes and lightening
The Origin of Life
A new analysis suggests lightning and volcanoes helped make life possible. David Biello reports
‘Feathered Helmet from Beyond the Clouds’
Remarkable Fossil: 525-Million-Year-Old Discovery of ‘Feathered Helmet from Beyond the Clouds’
ScienceDaily (Mar. 24, 2011) — Researchers from China, Leicester and Oxford have discovered a remarkable fossil which sheds new light on an important group of primitive sea creatures.
Taming the Flame
Taming the Flame: Electrical Wave ‘Blaster’ Could Provide New Way to Extinguish Fires
ScienceDaily (Mar. 27, 2011) — A curtain of flame halts firefighters trying to rescue a family inside a burning home. One with a special backpack steps to the front, points a wand at the flame, and shoots a beam of electricity that opens a path through the flame for the others to pass and lead the family to safety.
First Practical ‘Artificial Leaf’
Debut of the First Practical ‘Artificial Leaf’ScienceDaily (Mar. 28, 2011) — Scientists have claimed one of the milestones in the drive for sustainable energy — development of the first practical artificial leaf. Speaking in Anaheim, California at the 241st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, they described an advanced solar cell the size of a poker card that mimics the process, called photosynthesis, that green plants use to convert sunlight and water into energy.
A Powerful Cell Motor
Structure of DNA Repair Complex Reveals Workings of Powerful Cell MotorScienceDaily (Mar. 27, 2011) — Over the last years, two teams of researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have steadily built a model of how a powerful DNA repair complex works. Now, their latest discovery provides revolutionary insights into the way the molecular motor inside the complex functions — findings they say may have implications for treatment of disorders ranging from cancer to cystic fibrosis.
Neurons and information
‘Can You Hear Me Now?’ How Neurons Decide How to Transmit Information
ScienceDaily (Mar. 28, 2011) — There are billions of neurons in the brain and at any given time tens of thousands of these neurons might be trying to send signals to one another. Much like a person trying to be heard by his friend across a crowded room, neurons must figure out the best way to get their message heard above the din.
Deconstructing Nuclear Experts
Mind the Gap
By CHRIS BUSBY
http://www.counterpunch.org/busby03282011.html
Since the Fukushima accident we have seen a stream of experts on radiation telling us not to worry, that the doses are too low, that the accident is nothing like Chernobyl and so forth. They appear on television and we read their articles in the newspapers and online. Fortunately the majority of the public don’t believe them. I myself have appeared on television and radio with these people; one example was Ian Fells of the University of Newcastle who, after telling us all on BBC News that the accident was nothing like Chernobyl (wrong), and the radiation levels of no consequence (wrong), that the main problem was that there was no electricity and that the lifts didn’t work. “ If you have been in a situation when the lifts don’t work, as I have” he burbled on, “you will know what I mean.” You can see this interview on youtube and decide for yourself.
The Kill Team
Published on Monday, March 28, 2011 by Rolling Stone
The Kill Team
Plus: An exclusive look at the war crime photos censored by the Pentagon
by Mark Boal
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/28-2
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