tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82030394056897721142024-03-05T17:03:25.323-08:00scientific documentary blogScientific documentaries; BBC, Horizon ,Cybernetics,Human Evolution,Internet,Mathematics,Natural History, Quantum Physics,Religion,Science,Reviews,Technology,Theology,Unknown Phenomena, Natural HistoryRobert McGuirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11208079029543103161noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203039405689772114.post-47436186506408757222010-06-02T02:23:00.000-07:002010-06-02T02:28:19.866-07:00Hunting the Hidden Dimension<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001PQT39M?ie=UTF8&tag=sakyanthabudt-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001PQT39M" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvs0uVmjWOYc2OUzZcq-xojVNImBXGQzILbNRARKtQ66lgwTZcjt8KDVsZLBOeHzh9O92-YNBvttTzqHf9XTGDyub8p1fIXh9rYH2zVgZZbECpKKxMXfOabjkCBayZUhIZuzWiaSpN0mTt/s1600/fractals.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br />
Determined to understand the repeating patterns he was finding in nature, French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot used an early form of computer imagery to produce his own versions, coining the recurring shapes fractals. This installment of the PBS series "Nova" examines the rules of these self-similar patterns and explores the ways these fascinating geometric configurations can be applied in the fields of science, medicine and the arts. "The Fractal Geometry of Nature".<br />
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This is an excellent hour documentary that NOVA is known for. Everything is simply described. First you'll find out what the heck a fractal is. Then you learn its applications; from finding tumors; mapping the oxygen flow of a rainforest; weaving designs on shirts; and computer graphics. The computer graphics show how lava was simulated by fractal. That example is my favorite part of the entire video.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Wireless-Reading-Display-Generation/dp/B0015T963C?ie=UTF8&tag=sakyanthabudt-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6" Display, Global Wireless, Latest Generation)" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B0015T963C&tag=sakyanthabudt-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sakyanthabudt-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0015T963C" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fractals-Chaos-Mandelbrot-Set-Beyond/dp/0387201580?ie=UTF8&tag=sakyanthabudt-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Fractals and Chaos: The Mandelbrot Set and Beyond" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0387201580&tag=sakyanthabudt-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sakyanthabudt-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0387201580" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Beauty-Complexity-Mandelbrot-Set/dp/B000MM0ZTM?ie=UTF8&tag=sakyanthabudt-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="The Beauty and Complexity of the Mandelbrot Set" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B000MM0ZTM&tag=sakyanthabudt-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sakyanthabudt-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000MM0ZTM" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sakyanthabudt-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000I8OMYY" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></div><br />
You will be opened to another subject of mathematics much like when you first learn algebra, trigonometry, or calculus. Fractals are a subject of their own. Prepare for a "mind expanding" video. And at the same time help support PBS.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/NOVA-Secrets-Mind-V-S-Ramachandran/dp/B000JJ5F8O?ie=UTF8&tag=sakyanthabudt-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">NOVA: Secrets of the Mind</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sakyanthabudt-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000JJ5F8O" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/NOVA-Elegant-Universe-Michael-Duff/dp/B0000ZG0TA?ie=UTF8&tag=sakyanthabudt-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">NOVA - The Elegant Universe</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sakyanthabudt-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0000ZG0TA" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/NOVA-Genius-Science-Einstein-Galileo/dp/B000C8STOE?ie=UTF8&tag=sakyanthabudt-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">NOVA - Genius: The Science of Einstein, Newton, Darwin, and Galileo</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sakyanthabudt-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000C8STOE" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Decoding-Reality-Universe-Information-ebook/dp/B0036FUDE4?ie=UTF8&tag=sakyanthabudt-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sakyanthabudt-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0036FUDE4" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">PBS Nova - Fractals - Hunting the Hidden Dimension</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Misbehavior-Markets-Fractal-Financial-Turbulence/dp/0465043577?ie=UTF8&tag=sakyanthabudt-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0465043577&tag=sakyanthabudt-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sakyanthabudt-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0465043577" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fractal-Geometry-Nature-Benoit-Mandelbrot/dp/0716711869?ie=UTF8&tag=sakyanthabudt-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="The Fractal Geometry of Nature" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0716711869&tag=sakyanthabudt-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sakyanthabudt-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0716711869" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fractals-Scaling-Finance-Discontinuity-Concentration/dp/1441931198?ie=UTF8&tag=sakyanthabudt-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Fractals and Scaling In Finance: Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1441931198&tag=sakyanthabudt-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sakyanthabudt-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1441931198" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sakyanthabudt-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0387201580" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gaussian-Self-Affinity-Fractals-Benoit-Mandelbrot/dp/0387989935?ie=UTF8&tag=sakyanthabudt-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Gaussian Self-Affinity and Fractals" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0387989935&tag=sakyanthabudt-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sakyanthabudt-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0387989935" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> </div>Jack Sparrow 007http://www.blogger.com/profile/17663926729530613341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203039405689772114.post-59616803543855049872010-03-18T01:00:00.000-07:002010-03-18T01:00:03.228-07:00Naked Science - The Bermuda Triangle<div style="text-align: center;">A national geographic Documentary from the series - <b>"Naked Science"</b></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFs06yoBI8ExcBC3kqacFri_VdSyL6CXTgCIc-3JmRlEo1KHDalUQra0_Rt3WI_c0rK3ytNDUB3m8TXgcCsCJNHPz0kKqHZGmsgRmXxxdBsx8G7B-vtFbdI9uKq4Od4ATVZDFjpn4KyAeZ/s1600-h/1257_ns_bermuda_triangle-1_05320299.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFs06yoBI8ExcBC3kqacFri_VdSyL6CXTgCIc-3JmRlEo1KHDalUQra0_Rt3WI_c0rK3ytNDUB3m8TXgcCsCJNHPz0kKqHZGmsgRmXxxdBsx8G7B-vtFbdI9uKq4Od4ATVZDFjpn4KyAeZ/s400/1257_ns_bermuda_triangle-1_05320299.jpg" width="500" /></a></div>Boats, airplanes, and ships have vanished in the Bermuda Triangle, but why? Is it a time warp, a "vile vortex," a mysterious electromagnetic force, or simply the weather? Follow the clues left by the most notorious disappearances and find out.<br />
<div align="center"><h3>Watch Documentary - The Bermuda Triangle</h3></div><div align="center"><iframe scrolling="no" src="http://stagevu.com/embed?width=500&height=279&background=000&uid=lpgzvppuitix" style="border: 0pt none; height: 335px; overflow: hidden; width: 500px;"></iframe></div>Jack Sparrow 007http://www.blogger.com/profile/17663926729530613341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203039405689772114.post-30425873318238753622010-03-18T00:55:00.000-07:002010-03-18T00:55:58.408-07:00Naked Science - Earth's Evil Twin<div style="text-align: center;"><b>National Geographic Documentary</b></div><br />
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Venus and Earth: roughly the same size, and once about the same distance from the sun and whose evolutions have followed similar paths. But today, Venus is described as a vision of hell. Could it be an indication of what's in store for Earth?<br />
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Watch Documentary - Earth's Evil Twin</h3><br />
<div align="center"><iframe scrolling="no" src="http://stagevu.com/embed?width=500&height=282&background=000&uid=zklboedysxya" style="border: 0pt none; height: 338px; overflow: hidden; width: 500px;"></iframe></div>Jack Sparrow 007http://www.blogger.com/profile/17663926729530613341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203039405689772114.post-80596973268129110132010-03-18T00:46:00.000-07:002010-03-18T00:46:55.580-07:00Naked Science - Death of the EarthA report by a team of leading astronomers in May 2008 seems to have finally put to rest an age old question... What is the ultimate fate of planet Earth? Traditionally, the prevailing view has been that billions of years in the future the aging Sun would loosen its gravitational grip on the planet and allow it to escape a fiery demise.<br />
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The sobering reality is quite different and the clock is now ticking for our beloved home planet. Along with a team of leading scientists carrying out pioneering research in fields of biology, climatology, geology and astronomy, Naked Science goes on a quest to investigate what the future holds for planet Earth... and throws up some shocking surprises. Great supercontinents will form and fragment with lethal consequences, the oceans will turn red before floating away into space, plants and animals will be wiped from Earth before finally, all life will be extinguished forever. Using cutting edge scientific models that can make predictions not just thousands but million and even billions of years into the future, we can now more than ever see how the forces of nature will conspire to bring about the Death of the Earth.<br />
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<div align="center"><h3>Watch Documentary - Death of the Earth</h3><br />
<iframe scrolling="no" src="http://stagevu.com/embed?width=500&height=282&background=000&uid=jyqgzopsrgtq" style="border: 0pt none; height: 338px; overflow: hidden; width: 500px;"></iframe></div>Jack Sparrow 007http://www.blogger.com/profile/17663926729530613341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203039405689772114.post-53290451590909056232010-03-18T00:32:00.000-07:002010-03-18T00:50:44.454-07:00Naked Science - Telepathy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxH2Llm4RMrCr9_k-2Z4fxOzW72jJ4Ma1OaOW3RJNM5fm9YS_24GfOReVnVGxG6jYfJHwlaTmuY0hqIsjFjPd3cIm5PcdFQyy6Rb6eKTWtynI_3b5dH4Kluj4BGC0a27I1bJuYFeZkqjxJ/s1600-h/1266_ns_telepathy-1_05320299.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxH2Llm4RMrCr9_k-2Z4fxOzW72jJ4Ma1OaOW3RJNM5fm9YS_24GfOReVnVGxG6jYfJHwlaTmuY0hqIsjFjPd3cIm5PcdFQyy6Rb6eKTWtynI_3b5dH4Kluj4BGC0a27I1bJuYFeZkqjxJ/s400/1266_ns_telepathy-1_05320299.jpg" width="500" /></a></div>Can people read your mind? Some people claim to know what they shouldn't be able to know even when they are on opposite sides of the planet. But is this just coincidence?<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Watch Documentary - Telepathy</b></div><br />
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The shape of the North American continent has changed radically over millions of years. During the great Ice Age, glaciers carved out the Great Lakes; as the Earth's temperature rose, they filled with glacier melt. The Great Salt Lake is just a shadow of its former self. And as tectonic plates continue to move, America moves closer to Europe each year. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Watch Documentary - Birth of America</b></div><br />
<div align="center"><iframe scrolling="no" src="http://stagevu.com/embed?width=500&height=279&background=000&uid=enofaeldfhek" style="border: 0pt none; height: 335px; overflow: hidden; width: 500px;"></iframe></div>Jack Sparrow 007http://www.blogger.com/profile/17663926729530613341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203039405689772114.post-76514105031623689802010-03-18T00:27:00.000-07:002010-03-18T01:10:48.610-07:00Naked Science - CometsSeason 4, Episode 4 of the Naked Science Series. This episode explores Comets. Harbingers of bad luck and/or the bringers of life? Narrated by Eric Meyers; Scientists are racing to unlock the secrets of these icy giants because they may tell us how the universe evolved, how the planets formed and how life began on Earth.<br />
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Do the sun's invisible cosmic rays influence our weather? Can solar winds impact Earth? The level of cosmic rays emitted by the sun is anything but constant. Scientists are just now discovering the ways in which the sun's fluctuating output affects our planet's weather and overall climate.<br />
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An incredible 95 percent complete fossil of a 47-million-year-old human ancestor dubbed <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinius" rel="wikipedia" title="Darwinius">Ida</a> has been discovered and, after two years of secret study, an international team of scientists has revealed it to the world. The fossil’s remarkable state of preservation allows an unprecedented glimpse into early human evolution. Discovered in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=49.9175,8.7567&spn=0.01,0.01&q=49.9175,8.7567%20%28Messel%20pit%29&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Messel pit">Messel Pit</a>, Germany, it represents the moment before anthropoid <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=180089" rel="itis" title="ITIS Taxonomy ID 180089">primates</a> (the group that would later evolve into <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=9605" rel="ncbi" title="Homo">humans</a>, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=314295" rel="ncbi" title="Hominoidea">apes</a> and monkeys) began to split from lemurs and other <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosimian" rel="wikipedia" title="Prosimian">prosimian</a> primates. This groundbreaking discovery fills in a critical gap in human and primate evolution.<br />
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Where was Jesus between the ages of 12 and 30? Did Jesus spend the missing years in India?<br />
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</div>Leading <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/theoretical_physics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_physics" rel="wikipedia" title="Theoretical physics">theoretical physicist</a> and futurist <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/michio_kaku" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0435434/" rel="imdb" title="Michio Kaku">Michio Kaku</a> looks at the revolution in <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/genetics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics" rel="wikipedia" title="Genetics">genetics</a> and biotechnology, which promises unprecedented health and longevity but also raises the spectre of a Frankenstein future of <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/genetic_engineering" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering" rel="wikipedia" title="Genetic engineering">genetically engineered</a> people. Will we, as transhumanists expect, evolve into a new species? Dr Kaku warns that we may end up in a world divided by genetic apartheid.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Evaluating intelligent design creation science and their opposition to material science or methodological naturalism.</span><br />
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</div><div align="center"><iframe scrolling="no" src="http://stagevu.com/embed?width=500&height=282&background=000&uid=ggbalhtqiylv" style="border: 0pt none; height: 338px; overflow: hidden; width: 500px;"></iframe><br />
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<iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=sakyanthabudt-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0520249267&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe>Paleontology in its early days was a difficult discipline. We had to devise a way to test and confirm the claims that were made because 19th Century pioneers were often confused by their own preconceptions, and often made simple mistakes that went undiscovered for decades. Unwary professors were sometimes made the victims of pranks, and not every respected scientist was entirely honest. <br />
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For example, Sir Richard Owen was a celebrated biologist and the foremost authority on paleofauna in the world in his time. He was credited with the establishment of the British Museum of Natural History, and of inventing the word, “dinosaur”, but he did so by suppressing the work of other scientists and taking credit for their discoveries himself. Owen was not well-liked. He had a reputation of never admitting his own mistakes, and he was often described as dishonest, malicious, and hateful. He was devoutly religious, but he was also a leading anatomist and zoologist, respected and unrivaled in each of these fields, and he was both Darwin’s superior and fiercest adversary. Unlike Darwin, Owen believed religion should guide and even override scientific research.<br />
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Throughout history, there have been many scientists who believed the universe was “created” in the same sense that Christian proponents of natural sciences still believe today. But those men who believed in God and made historic contributions to science still relied on necessarily natural methodology because that is the only way science can progress. In many cases, they found natural explanations for things previously believed to be miraculous, and they only succeeded when they did not allow religious convictions to subvert or inhibit their inquiry. None of them were able to vindicate the Bible stories, and their efforts to do so only ever indicated another origin. Thus these men wouldn’t have supported creationism as we know it today, and many of them wouldn’t have been creationists if they’d understood evolution. But Richard Owen was a creation scientist –both in the sense that he preferred magical manifestations to material mechanisms, and because he deliberately misrepresented evidence in an attempt to mislead others into believing as he did.<br />
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<iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=sakyanthabudt-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=1576835782&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe>For example, Darwin said that if his theory were true, then we should find a sort of proto-bird with unfused wing fingers, and two years later, we did. Confronted with this, Owen admitted that Archaeopteryx was a “peculiar” bird, but he dismissed it as ‘just’ a bird, and not exactly what Darwin had predicted. He couldn’t honestly accept or admit a transitional species. So Owen largely ignored Archaeopteryx’s saurian features and went on to argue how it couldn’t have evolved from reptiles by distinguishing its anatomy from pterosaurs rather than from dinosaurs. Thomas Huxley immediately exposed Owen’s deceptive analysis when he published his own counter examination.<br />
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Owen also promised his religious fellows that he would succeed where Linnaeus had failed, in finding some physical trait to distinguish humans from apes, whether it was really the case or not. First he presented similarities as differences, and when he couldn’t find any legitimate differences, he made up entirely fictitious ones. As if his authority would always remain unquestioned, he proclaimed amid other scientists in peer-review, that the hippocampus minor was a uniquely human lobe of the brain and absent among apes. Such an expert as he couldn’t have made such an obvious mistake, and his curious inability to concede any error except by way of evasive maneuver finally allowed Huxley to indict him for perjury. <br />
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Although Owen gave many lectures, wrote hundreds of scientific papers, and received honors, lands, and titles from the crown, he was also accused throughout his career of deliberate deceit, of “lying for God and for malice”, and even of writing anonymous letters to the press praising himself -in third person- while raving disdain against his colleagues. Finally, Sir Richard Owen was dismissed from the Royal Society's Zoological Council amid myriad charges of plagiarism spanning the entirety of his career.<br />
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<iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=sakyanthabudt-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0890510032&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe>Owen believed in common archetypes rather than a common ancestor, and his conduct presents an archetype of the modern creation scientists, except that they submit to peer review rarely, (if ever) and none of them are experts in anything. They’ve never produced any research indicative of their position. They cannot substantiate any of their assertions, and they’ve never successfully refuted anyone else’s hypotheses either. But every argument of evidence they’ve ever made in favor of creation has been refuted immediately and repeatedly. All they’ve ever been able to do was criticize real science, and even then the absolute best arguments they’ve ever come up with were all disproved in a court of law with mountains of research standing against their every allegation. Yet creationists still use those same ridiculous rationalizations because they will never accept where their beliefs are in error! Their only notable strength is how anyone can be so consistently proven to be absolutely wrong about absolutely everything, 100% of the time, for such a long time, and still make-believe theirs is the absolute truth. <br />
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More amazing still is how often they will actually lie in defense of their alleged truth. Every publication promoting creation over any avenue of actual science contains misquotes, misdefinitions, and misrepresented misinformation, while their every appeal to reason is based entirely on erroneous assumptions and logical fallacies. There is a madness to their method, but it is naught but propaganda. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“We don’t believe in evolution. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Evolution is an idea some people</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">have to explain life without God.”</span><br />
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<iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=sakyanthabudt-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0451529065&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe>No, evolution is science, and as such it’s a way of explaining life without magic; there’s a difference. Even at the kindergarten level, science is defined as a way of learning about the natural world; “natural” meaning, “in accordance with the laws of nature”. “Nature” is further defined as the sum of all forces or phenomenon in the entirety of perceptible reality. Everything that really exists has properties, and anything that can be objectively indicated, measured or tested is therefore natural. The supernatural is contrasted with this, being defined as that which is beyond the material universe, outside our reality, a transcendent dream-like dimension indistinguishable from the illusions of imagination, independent of, and even defiant of physical laws, and thus neither detectable nor describable by science. The evocation of inexplicable paranormal forces or supernatural entities to influence natural events or phenomenon are usually described as “miracles” but are also clearly “magic” by definition. <br />
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Creationists contend that they don’t believe in magic. But “speaking” anything into existence is an incantation, and the Bible is full of spells of one sort or another. Animating golems, or conjuring interdependent systems, and causing complex organisms to appear out of thin air -are each logically implausible and physically impossible according to everything we know about anything at all, yet this is exactly what religiously-motivated pseudoscientists actually promote! <br />
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How do we test these ideas? How can we tell them apart from any of the thousands of fables men have concocted for the ghosts and gods of other religions? How can we tell whether any of this is even real, and not something someone just made up? Because despite anyone’s assertions of personal conviction, it is impossible to distinguish miracles from subjective impressions imagined out of nothing. In the realm of fantasy, it’s easy to demonstrate psionic talents, astral entities, and magical manifestations. Until they do that in reality too, then science has nothing but nature to work with. <br />
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Those who know the necessity of naturalism can list millions of practical advantages that continue to come from that. So science requires a way to weed fiction from function through independent verification and the process of elimination. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Natural science works; creation science doesn’t.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">That’s why faith healers don’t work in hospitals.</span><br />
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The National Academy of Sciences, defines it as the systematic enterprise of gathering knowledge about the world and organizing and condensing that knowledge into testable laws and theories, –a definition further endorsed by the Academic Press Dictionary of Science & Technology. Fraudulent evangelical charlatans often say that creationism is scientific, but there’s utterly no verifiably accurate evidence behind any of their assertions, and no way to construct any hypotheses to explain any of their claims because no experiments could possibly support them, and faith prohibits believers from ever admitting when their notions would be falsified. Creationists are therefore unable to add to the sum of knowledge and instead only offer excuses trying to actually reduce what we already know. They’ve no way to recognize their own flaws and won’t correct them, so they can neither confirm nor improve their accuracy. But that’s all real science is or does. <br />
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Consequently, since the dawn of rational thought, the advancement of science has been retarded by the minions of mysticism, and profound revelations have often been opposed or suppressed by the greater part of the dominant religion, because dogmatic faith is not based on reason and zealots will not be reasoned with. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“So this is a war of the world views,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and all science is creation science. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Would you agree with that this evening? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">All science is...? Creation science.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">All truth is ...? God’s truth! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And certainly science is the search for...? Truth!”</span><br />
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<iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=sakyanthabudt-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0393061345&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe>Science is a search for truth –whatever the truth may turn out to be, even if it’s evidently not what we wanted to believe it was. In science, it doesn’t matter what you believe; all that matters is why you believe it. This is why real science disallows faith, promising instead to remain objective, to follow wherever the evidence leads, and either correct or reject any and all errors along the way even if it challenges whatever we think we know now. But creationist organizations post written declarations of their unwavering obligation to uphold and defend their preconceived notions, declaring in advance their refusal to ever to let their minds be changed by any amount of evidence that is ever revealed. Anti-science evangelists display their statement of faith proudly on their own forums, as if admitting to a closed and dishonest mind wasn’t something to ashamed of or beg forgiveness for. <br />
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They don’t want to do science. They want to un-do science! They try to segregate experimental science from historical science, ignoring the fact that both are based on empirical observations and both can be checked with testable hypotheses. Worse, they want to redefine science in general so that astrology, subjective convictions of faith, and excuses of magic can supplant the scientific method whenever necessary in defense of their beliefs. They’re only open to critical inquiry so long as that is not permitted to challenge the sacred scriptures nor vindicate any of the fields of study to which they’re already opposed. In short, everything science stands for, -or hopes to achieve- is threatened by the political agenda of these superstitious subversives.<br />
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You can believe whatever you like. As long as you admit that it is a belief, you don’t have to defend it. But if you assert your belief as a statement of fact, then you do have to defend it! Stating anything as definitely true when there is insufficient evidence to back it –is dishonest. Making such positive proclamations without any evidence at all is a matter of faith. And promising in advance to forever defend an unsupportable a-priori preference even against an avalanche of evidence against it -is apologetics, which is all creation “science” really is.<br />
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</div><b>The Code (2001),</b> is a Finnish-made documentary about Linux from 2001, featuring some of the most influential people of the free software movement. Linux is is a generic term referring to Unix-like computer operating systems based on the Linux <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/linux_kernel" href="http://www.kernel.org/" rel="homepage" title="Linux kernel">kernel</a>. Their development is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration;[citation needed] typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed, both commercially and non-commercially, by anyone under licenses such as the GNU <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gnu_general_public_license" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License" rel="wikipedia" title="GNU General Public License">GPL</a>.<br />
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Linux is predominantly known for its use in servers, although can be installed on a wide variety of computer hardware, ranging from embedded devices, mobile phones and even some watches to mainframes and supercomputers.<br />
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<b>Watch Documentary - The Code (2001)</b><br />
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</div>Do the sun's invisible cosmic rays influence our weather? Can solar winds impact Earth? The level of cosmic rays emitted by the sun is anything but constant. Scientists are just now discovering the ways in which the sun's fluctuating output affects our planet's weather and overall climate.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorology">Wikipedia - Meteorology</a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatology">Wikipedia - Climatology</a><br />
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Two worlds about to collide, and only one man can save them. Michael Pare stars in this futuristic thriller about a cop from the moon who is sent to earth to find a stolen chemical, capable of restoring its destroyed environment. But when he finds out the truth behind his mission and those who sent him, he must fight against all odds for survival. From the director of American Cyborg and Delta Force 3. Starring Michael Pare (Warriors, Eddie and the Cruisers, Streets of Fire), Billy Drago (Gun Crazy, The Untouchables, Pale Rider).Jack Sparrow 007http://www.blogger.com/profile/17663926729530613341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203039405689772114.post-77131014665232874612009-12-24T16:01:00.000-08:002009-12-24T16:03:06.939-08:00Explorer - Inside LSD<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span id="longdesc" style="display: inline;">National Geographic Channel's EXPLORER: INSIDE LSD</span></b><br />
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</div>National Geographic Channel's EXPLORER: INSIDE LSD puts this mysterious molecule back under the microscope. From psychedelics given to terminally ill patients, to reputedly the "world's purest LSD" administered in lab experiments, find out why some researchers believe this "trippy" drug could become the pharmaceutical of the future enhancing brain power, expanding creativity and even curing mental illness.<br />
Fifty years ago, psychedelics or "mind-manifesting" drugs like LSD were considered cutting-edge science. Within months of its accidental discovery in 1943 by Hoffman, free samples of LSD were arriving at the doorsteps of scientists and psychiatrists around the world to test its effects on everything from alcoholism to autism. Even the Central Intelligence Agency and the military dosed their own operatives to see if LSD could be weaponized for mind control. But this powerful hallucinogen became a street drug with a dangerous reputation, and it was eventually outlawed. Yet despite its illegality, an estimated 23 million Americans have taken LSD, and more than 600,000 try it each year.<br />
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</div>Now, after more than three decades, cutting-edge science takes on psychedelics again. At Purdue University, pharmacology professor Dave Nichols is one of a select group with permission to manufacture and experiment with LSD. His team uses some of the purest LSD ever made to study its molecular structure and effect on the brains of rats, with intriguing results. EXPLORER: INSIDE LSD shows how after chronic dosing, Nichols' rats begin to avoid social contact and mimic schizophrenic behavior in humans. Nichols believes his study may shed light on the chemical mechanisms underlying mental illnesses, potentially leading to cures.<br />
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About LSD;<br />
Lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD-25, LSD, formerly lysergide, commonly known as acid, is a semisynthetic psychedelic drug of the ergoline and tryptamine families. LSD is non-addictive, non-toxic, and is well known for its psychological effects which can include closed and open eye visuals, synaesthesia, a sense of time distortion, ego death and profound spiritual experiences, as well as for its key role in 1960s counterculture. It is used mainly by psychonauts as an entheogen and in psychedelic therapy.<br />
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Dosages of LSD are measured in micrograms (µg), or millionths of a gram. By comparison, dosages of most drugs, both recreational and medicinal, are measured in milligrams (mg), or thousandths of a gram. For example, an active dose of mescaline, roughly 0.2 to 0.5g, has effects comparable to 100 µg or less of LSD.<br />
Typical doses in the 1960s ranged from 200 to 1000 µg while street samples of the 1970s contained 30 to 300 µg. By the 1980s, the amount had reduced to between 100 to 125 µg, lowering more in the 1990s to the 20–80 µg range.<br />
Estimates for the lethal dosage (LD50) of LSD range from between 200 µg/kg to more than 1 mg/kg of human body mass, though most sources report that there are no known human cases of such an overdose. Other sources note one report of a suspected fatal overdose of LSD occurring in November 1975 in Kentucky in which there were indications that ~1/3 of a gram (320 mg or 320,000 µg) had been injected intravenously. (This is a very extraordinary amount, particularly when compared to the average LSD dosage of ~100 µg).Experiments with LSD were also done on animals; in 1962, an elephant named Tusko died shortly after being injected with 297 mg, but whether the LSD was the cause of his death is controversial<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide">Wikipedia - LSD</a><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Benders-LSD-Hallucingens-ca-1970/dp/B002RT7T92?ie=UTF8&tag=sakyanthabudt-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Mind-Benders: LSD and the Hallucingens, ca. 1970</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sakyanthabudt-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B002RT7T92" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Experimental-Compound-MER-Frenquel-LSD-25/dp/B002RT7TBK?ie=UTF8&tag=sakyanthabudt-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Experimental Compound MER 17 (Frenquel) and LSD-25: Psychosis, 1955</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sakyanthabudt-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B002RT7TBK" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Acid-Kat-Murello/dp/B000AYEIPO?ie=UTF8&tag=sakyanthabudt-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Bad Acid</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sakyanthabudt-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000AYEIPO" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Love-Statue-LSD-Experience/dp/B002FG9N7I?ie=UTF8&tag=sakyanthabudt-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Love Statue LSD Experience</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sakyanthabudt-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B002FG9N7I" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/LSD-Problem-Child-Wonder-Drug/dp/B00292M5Q4?ie=UTF8&tag=sakyanthabudt-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">LSD: Problem Child and Wonder Drug</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sakyanthabudt-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B00292M5Q4" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Firing-Line-William-Buckley-World/dp/B001E50RTO?ie=UTF8&tag=sakyanthabudt-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. "The World of LSD"</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sakyanthabudt-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B001E50RTO" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Net-Unabomber-LSD-Internet/dp/B000EMGIWI?ie=UTF8&tag=sakyanthabudt-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Net: The Unabomber, LSD and the Internet</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sakyanthabudt-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000EMGIWI" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" />Jack Sparrow 007http://www.blogger.com/profile/17663926729530613341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203039405689772114.post-21631596721184972932009-12-24T15:28:00.000-08:002009-12-24T16:15:41.827-08:00Carl Sagan's Cosmos<script src="http://www.cpalead.com/mygateway.php?pub=37304&gateid=MjAyMjM%3D" type="text/javascript"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>The Complete documentary series with Carl Sagan!</b>
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With Cosmos, Carl Sagan and his wife and co-writer, Ann Druyan, brilliantly illustrated the underlying science of his same-titled book, placing the human species within a space-and-time context that brought the infinite into stunningly clear view. The series, which originally aired in 1980 on PBS, has been seen by more than 700 million people worldwide and remains a high-water mark in miniseries history.
Sagan lucidly explains such topics as Einstein’s theory of relativity, Darwin’s theory of evolution, and the greenhouse effect, bringing the mysteries of the universe down to a layman’s level of understanding. The footage in these remastered, seven-DVD or seven-VHS sets is as fresh and riveting as it was two decades ago and is certain to fire the imaginations of a whole new generation of viewers. This is THE GREATEST television series ever.
Its original airing in 1979 inspired me to a love of science, learning, and freedom of inquiry that have shaped both my interests and intellectual curiosity. Of the hundreds of high-quality science doc series released in the interim, none approach the majesty and depth of this one. An elegant and artisitc enterprise for a well-organized, self-correcting way of reasoning and thinking about the universe/time we occupy. After a quarter of a century, this series is as captivating as it is an education.
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<b>1. The Shores of the Cosmos</b>
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<b>2. One Voice In the Cosmic Fugue</b>
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<b>3. The Harmony of the Worlds</b>
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</div>On March 23, 1989, respected chemists, Dr. Stanley Pons and Dr. Martin Fleishman made an announcement that rocked the world of science.<br />
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Their tabletop experiments with heavy water, a renewable resource readily available in ocean water, yielded enormous amounts of heat energy. Appropriately named, “Cold Fusion,” this breakthrough challenged many basic scientific concepts.<br />
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In response, a group of powerful physicists, heavily reliant upon government funding for their hot fusion research, leveled an unprecedented smear campaign against Pons, Fleishman and the entire field of Cold Fusion science. Was the discovery of Fire From Water too good to be true? Or was it the discovery of the millennium? (text from epiphanypictures.com)<br />
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</div>On April 26th, 1986, reactor four at Chernobyl nuclear power station explodes, sending an enormous radioactive cloud over Northern Ukraine and neighbouring Belarus. The danger is kept a secret from the rest of the world and the nearby population who go about their business as usual. May Day celebrations begin, children play and the residents of Pripyat marvel at the spectacular fire raging at the reactor. After three days, an area the size of England becomes contaminated with radioactive dust, creating a 'zone' of poisoned land. Based on Mario Petrucci's award-winning book-length poem, Heavy Water: a film for Chernobyll tells the story of the people who dealt with the disaster at ground-level: the fire-fighters, the soldiers, the 'liquidators', and their families. Poetry read by David Bickerstaff, Francine Brody, Juliet Stevenson, David Threlfall and Samuel West. <br />
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<b>Heavy Water: a film for Chernobyl Part Two</b><br />
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</div>Jack Sparrow 007http://www.blogger.com/profile/17663926729530613341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203039405689772114.post-67702763960344968002009-12-24T14:15:00.000-08:002009-12-24T16:15:23.973-08:00Scientific Verification of Vedic Knowledge<script src="http://www.cpalead.com/mygateway.php?pub=37304&gateid=MjAyMjM%3D" type="text/javascript"><div align="center">
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<b>Scientific Verification of Vedic Knowledge</b>
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</div>This video illustrates the great cultural wealth of the knowledge found in the <b>Vedic literatures</b> and it's relevancy in the modern world.
It is shown by means of high tech research techniques that statements and materials presented in the ancient Vedic literatures agree with modern scientific findings and reveal a highly developed scientific content.
Early indologists wished to control and convert the followers of Vedic culture, therefore they widely propagated that the Vedas are simply mythology.
Max Muller, perhaps the most well known early sanskritist and indologist was the principal architect of the Aryan Invasion Theory, designed to deprive the Indians of their Aryan Vedic heritage.
<b> Techniques used to show the agreement between Vedic Literature and Science include;</b>
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<li>Sarasvati SatelliteMarine Archaeology of underwater sites such as Dvaraka.</li>
<li>Carbon and Thermoluminescence dating of archaeological artifacts.</li>
<li>Scientific Verification of scriptural statements.</li>
<li>Linguistic analysis of scripts found on archaeological artifacts.</li>
<li>Satellite imagery of archaeological sites.</li>
<li>A study of cultural continuity in all these categories.</li>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Uncovering Potential, Discovering Controversy :</span><br />
Director: Matthew Nickels and Joshua Beagle | Genre: Documentary | Produced In: 2008<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Synopsis: </span>Produced by Joshua Beagle and Matthew Gater Nickels, Uncovering Potential Discovering Controversy discusses the topic of stem cell research, particularly in Michigan, and what it means for those who might benefit from research. Addresses both the informational and emotional aspects of the issue. This film was made prior to the passing of Michigan's 2008 proposal 2, which allows for research on embryonic stem cells.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Spirit Molecule</span> weaves an account of Dr. Rick Strassman’s groundbreaking DMT research through a multifaceted approach to this intriguing hallucinogen found in the human brain and hundreds of plants. Utilizing interviews with a variety of experts to explain their thoughts and experiences with DMT within their respective fields, and discussions with Strassman’s research volunteers brings to life the awesome effects of this compound, and far-reaching theories regarding its role in human consciousness.<br />
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Several themes explored include possible roles for endogenous DMT; its theoretical role in near-death and birth experiences, alien-abduction experiences; and the uncanny similarities in Biblical prophetic texts describing DMT-like experiences. Our expert contributors offer a comprehensive collection of information, opinions, and speculation about indigenous use of DMT, the history and future of psychedelic research, and current DMT research. All this, to help us understand the nature of the DMT experience, and its role in human society and evolution.<br />
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The subtle combination of science, spirituality, and philosophy within the film’s approach sheds light on an array of ideas that could considerably alter the way humans understand the universe and their relationship to it.<br />
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A comprehensive review of scientific findings, published in prestigious scientific journals, is presented to explain how life from other planets evolved on Earth. These first Earthlings (archae, bacteria, and cyanobacteria) contained the genes and the genetic information for altering the environment, the “evolution” of multicellular eukaryotes, and the metamorphosis of all subsequent species.<br />
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These included exons, introns, transposable elements, informational and operational genes, RNA, ribozomes, mitochondria, and all the core genetic machinery for translating, expressing, and repeatedly duplicating genes and the entire genome. Prokaryotic genes were initially combined to fashion the first eukaryotes and/or were donated and transferred to unicellular then multicellular eukaryotes and then subsequently expressed in response to biologically engineered environmental influences, often in busts of explosive evolutionary change, as typified by the Cambrian Explosion.<br />
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Genes biologically alter the environment such as via the secretion of waste products, e.g. methane, oxygen, calcium carbonate, sulphides, ferrous iron, etc., which acts on gene expression. However, these genes and life on Earth did not randomly evolve. Evolution is metamorphosis. These genes were inherited from ancestral species who acquired these genes and these genetic instructions from living creatures that long ago lived on other planets.<br />
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