We've been skeptical of the Three Gorges Dam project for a number of years. It isn't that dams are a bad idea, they are a great idea, it's just the the ecologists who endorsed the thing invented the absolutely perfect outcomes and assumed it would happen.
The Earth's inner core is a ball of solid iron about the size of the Moon. This iron core is surrounded by a dynamic outer core of a liquid iron-nickel alloy - along with other, lighter elements - a highly viscous mantle and a solid crust that forms the surface where we live.
That inner core is simultaneously melting and freezing due to circulation of heat in the overlying rocky mantle, according to new research . Over billions of years, the Earth has cooled from the inside out causing the molten iron core to partly freeze and solidify. The inner core has subsequently been growing at the rate of around 1 mm a year as iron crystals freeze and form a solid mass.
Zombies Ate My Research AssistantNow it can be told: the hidden truth behind the climate change hoax. Global warming may not be real, but zombies are! If you don't believe me, go argue with America's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention:
Zombie apocalypse survival guide published by US government.
Arctic Ice May 2011 - Update #1Even if it leaves you too tired to come back and read my own humble offerings - but I hope you do come back - there are two very topical blog posts that I want to recommend to you:
Tell good stories that entertain and are relevant. It is so easy to say “use simple everyday life language”, but for a scientist who are trained to do the exact opposite it hurts. Almost physically.
A new paper in Nature says the most widely used methods for calculating species extinction rates are "fundamentally flawed" and overestimate extinction rates by as much as 160 percent.
A team of scientists say they have uncovered the basis for drug resistance in acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common form of childhood cancer. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia accounts for about 23 percent of all cases of cancer in children under the age of 15, according to the National Cancer Institute.
Cosmic Embryo #5: Aiming for the moon with all rockets blazing? A critique of Breast Cancer Deadline 2020®
The multibillion dollar breast cancer enterprise has just issued its damning self-assessment:
Whole body computerized tomography (CT) scanning has helped diagnose the earliest confirmed case of coronary artery disease in history.
The Egyptian princess Ahmose-Meryet-Amon, who lived in Thebes (Luxor) between 1580 and 1550 B.C., lived on a diet rich in vegetables, fruit and a limited amount of meat from domesticated (but not fattened) animals. Wheat and barley were grown along the banks of the Nile, making bread and beer the dietary staples of this period of ancient Egypt. Tobacco and trans-fats were unknown, and lifestyle was likely to have been active.
A gene in the nucleus of muscle and brain cells named
MLIP (Muscle enriched A-type Lamin Interacting Protein)
affects heart development and the aging process, according to a study in the Journal of Biological Chemistry .
Mutations in the Lamin gene family are associated with muscular dystrophy and other degenerative heart muscle diseases.
