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News Briefs 30-11-2005

Jameske’s called in sick, so I’ve gouged out some of my sleeping time and donated it to the TDG home for lost news…

  • Expectations can help healing.
  • Feeling fat is all in the brain. Although that spare tyre around my stomach doesn’t seem to be attached to my brain.
  • While we’re at it, true love is also a chemical in the brain, and it only lasts a year. Isn’t reductionism romantic?
  • C.S. Lewis opposed a Narnia film, and criticised Walt Disney for “vulgarity”. To be fair, special effects have moved on a bit.
  • UK’s top scientist says science faces dangerous times.
  • Climate change will dry Africa.
  • Venus Express turns it’s multi-function eye back upon the Earth, as it glides towards Venus.
  • Dark energy and Einstein converge. The ultimate physics smackdown.
  • SOHO turns 10. Sunny days ahead.
  • Astronomers claim potential mini-Solar Systems.
  • Japanese asteroid probe is in trouble (again).
  • One step closer to eternal youth. A follow-up on the genetic anti-aging research mentioned recently.
  • First pictures of living human retina shows our eyes are all wired differently…and yet we see very much the same.
  • Ancient Roman anchors found in Dead Sea.
  • Big marketing push for latest Firefox browser. Hmm, it’s currently ‘commanding’ a whopping 10% of the market. Please, prove to me that the majority of people aren’t idiots by dumping your Internet Explorer and getting Firefox now…there is no contest.

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  1. Firefox
    You must be crazy! IE is a piece of crap! Everyone knows this and it’s a veritable bull’s-eye for people shooting viruses at us. Not to mention the spyware. Firefox is an extremely stable browser and for those of us who are Mac or Linux users, we will never give in to Microsoft!

    Don’t warn people off of Firefox. IE is simply an inferior browser. Blame monopoly-based corporate politics for the fact that it has 90 percent of the market.

    Lynn

      1. Nope
        Spot on Richard. IE is a piece of crap, Firefox is a far better browser (even if it was just for the tabbed browsing). It staggers my brain that IE still commands such a large part of the market…hence my plea to prove me wrong.

        Lynn, you read my statement incorrectly, I agree with you completely.

        Peace and Respect
        Greg
        ——————————————-
        You monkeys only think you’re running things

  2. Firefox
    You must be crazy! IE is a piece of crap! Everyone knows this and it’s a veritable bull’s-eye for people shooting viruses at us. Not to mention the spyware. Firefox is an extremely stable browser and for those of us who are Mac or Linux users, we will never give in to Microsoft!

    Don’t warn people off of Firefox. IE is simply an inferior browser. Blame monopoly-based corporate politics for the fact that it has 90 percent of the market.

    Lynn

  3. Climate Change and Europe too
    I heard some report this morning to the effect that the Gulf Stream had started its cooling process already.

    See also:
    Gulf Stream ‘engine’ weakening, say scientists

    Don’t worry, we are all safe!

    We can breathe easy since Harlan Watson, chief climate control negotiator for the U.S. State Department (presently in Montréal) declared:

    “Our scientists continually tell us we cannot blame any single extreme event, attribute that to climate change”

    (Only hoping the source of this ‘intelligence’ is not the same as the one they got for Iraq! Surely no one would try and fix the intelligence around the policy would they?)

  4. global warming: “political” science in action
    In keeping with my general gadfly tendencies, I’d like to recommend to the daily grail readers an article in issue #11 of The Anomalist titled “Bad Forecast- The Global Warming Myth”.

    The article does a fair job of questioning the basis of the ongoing global warming flap, though it does miss some key considerations that would further degrade the pro arguments.

    Issue #11 is available as a free pdf download at the bottom of the following page: http://www.anomalist.com/print/print.html

    The idea of global warming, much like cold fusion, is far from a settled question no matter how much either side of the argument would like for it to be so. (imo, as always)

    Tiger

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