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Who was responsible for Piltdown Man Hoax ?

Hint: The same scientist who gave us Evolution and Global warming!

 

Researchers are conducting a new study to determine who was behind one of archaeology's greatest hoaxes.

Piltdown Man was the name given to an alleged human ancestor unearthed in a gravel pit in England 100 years ago in the form of skull fragments that revealed it to have a large brain but a primitive jawbone and teeth. The find caused a sensation at the time, that was until it was revealed to be nothing more than a hoax. Now researchers are hoping to study the fragments in more detail to determine who might have been behind what continues to be one of the biggest archaeological hoaxes in history.

 

In a few weeks, a group of British researchers will enter the labyrinthine store of London's Natural History Museum and remove several dark-coloured pieces of primate skull and jawbone from a small metal cabinet.

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Why do plants never get sunburn ?

A 15 year study has finally determined why plants don't suffer from sunburn despite constant exposure.

A team in Glasgow has discovered that plants are able to produce a chemical sunscreen within their own leaves through a protein that is able to detect the presence of UV-B rays and initiate a protective chemical reaction. "The search for this UV-B photoreceptor was something of a Holy Grail for plant photobiologists and we were very pleased last year when we discovered that UVR8 was the UV-B photoreceptor," said professor Gareth Jenkins.

It would never have occurred to most of us to even wonder about it, but a group of Glasgow researchers have spent 15 years working out why plants don't get sunburnt. 'UV-B' rays - the most powerful part of the sun's rays - can damage both humans and plants.

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'100s of esteemed biologists' lied about evolution

The Miraculous NASA Breakthrough That Could Save Millions of Lives

There are no hospitals in space. The closest E.R. is back on Earth, and astronauts can't exactly jump in a cab to get there. So what happens if the sun burps out a massive blast of radiation while an astronaut is space-amblin' by? The NASA Biocapsule—made of carbon nanotubes—will be able to "diagnose" and instantly treat an astronaut without him or her even knowing there's something amiss. It would be like having your own personal Dr. McCoy—implanted under your skin. It represents one of the most significant breakthroughs in the history of medicine, and yes, it'll work on Earth, too.  Read More>>>>>>>>>>

Kirk Sorensen - Thorium - The Miracle Fuel?

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Huge Solar Eruption Sparks Strongest Radiation Storm in 7 Years

A powerful solar eruption is expected to blast a stream of charged particles toward Earth tomorrow (Jan. 24), as the strongest radiation storm since 2005 rages on the sun.

Early this morning (0359 GMT Jan. 23, which corresponds to late Sunday, Jan. 22 at 10:59 p.m. EST), NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory caught an extreme ultraviolet flash from a huge eruption on the sun , according to the skywatching website Spaceweather.com.   MORE>>>>>>>>

Did a Meteorite Impact Cause the Genesis Flood?

Various models explaining the pre-Flood world and the mechanisms that caused the Genesis Flood have been bantered around for years.  Several weeks ago I addressed the model of the pre-Flood world being a paradise that was destroyed by the Flood (Hold the Bible Strongly, Hold Models Loosely).  Today we are going to take a look at the Meteorite Impact Model as the mechanism that initiated the Flood.

Could a meteorite impact or impacts have been the trigger that initiated the Flood?

Does the Bible Really Talk About Snow?

Posted on January 13, 2012 by R.L. David Jolly

I’ve had people ask me if the Bible ever talks about snow and ice, considering that it was written by people that lived in the Middle East and neighboring lands.  Most people think of the areas around Israel and the eastern Mediterranean Sea as being warm to hot dry deserts.  They don’t think of it getting cold enough to snow.

Darwinian Explanations: Show or Snow?

Posted on January 13, 2012

We all know the proverbial “snow job.”  That’s putting on an entertaining song and dance without doing the assignment.  A college sophomore (wise fool) writes a 15-page term paper full of jargon that, on closer inspection, didn’t follow directions or didn’t answer the question – it reveals ignorance of the subject.  A job applicant makes an impression with humor or appearance without demonstrating ability to do the work. A junior makes up a fanciful story to cover up why he didn’t mow the lawn.  Scientists are supposed to explain things based on observation and testable hypotheses.  If Darwinians really believe that an unguided, impersonal, purposeless mechanism led to the diversity of life on Earth, they need to show the evidence.  Here are a few recent examples of evolutionary explanations.  Check whether they “show” evolution, or distract attention with a “snow” job.

Introducing: TNA! (ta-daah).  An article on New Scientist purports to show that you don’t need to start life with the familiar DNA or RNA.  A “simpler” molecule called TNA that uses threose instead of ribose might have gotten things started.  In fact, the early earth might have been a “hodge-podge world” of many different molecules that could store genetic information.  The imagination goes wild with the possibilities.

Only by getting into the nitty-gritty of the article do you come to realize that this is all guesswork.  (1) TNA is “not found in nature today.”  (2) TNA “would not have arisen on its own.”  (3) There is “no trace of TNA or its cousins in modern organisms.”  (4) “no one has actually made it in the conditions that existed on Earth before life began….”  (5) John Chaput and team at U. of Arizona intelligently designed TNA molecules and “evolved them” in their lab with purpose and intent.  (6) “Chaput points out that we still know very little about what TNA can do, because the technology to evolve the molecules in the lab is so new.”  Yet reporter Michael Marshall titled his exploration of TNA, “Before DNA, before RNA: Life in the hodge-podge world.”  Did he show any life?

Witness evolution in an English quarry:  Reporter Carl Yapp of the BBC News is going to “shed light” on evolution through amazingly-preserved fossils found in an abandoned quarry.  They’re 450 million years old, he tells us….

 

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Fracking cited as the official cause of Ohio's 11 earthquakes last year

Environmental experts are now certain that the recent earthquakes in Ohio and Oklahoma were direct results of the practice of fracking nearby, a controversial process used to obtain natural gas.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083681/Fracking-cited-official-cause-Ohios-11-earthquakes-year.html#ixzz1isfwVFPi

The 10 Inventions of Nikola Tesla That Changed The World

'Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. Throughout space there is energy.  -- Nikola Tesla, 1892 

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Nikola Tesla is finally beginning to attract real attention and encourage serious debate nearly 70 years after his death.  Was he for real? A crackpot? Part of an early experiment in corporate-government control?

We know that he was undoubtedly persecuted by the energy power brokers of his day -- namely Thomas Edison, whom we are taught in school to revere as a genius.  He was also attacked by J.P. Morgan and other "captains of industry." Upon Tesla's death on January 7th, 1943, the U.S. government moved into his lab and apartment confiscating all of his scientific research, and to this day none of this research has been made public.

Besides his persecution by corporate-government interests (which is practically a certification of authenticity), there is at least one solid indication of Nikola Tesla's integrity -- he tore up a contract with Westinghouse that was worth billions in order to save the company from paying him his huge royalty payments.

But, let's take a look at what Nikola Tesla -- a man who died broke and alone -- has actually given to the world.  For better or worse, with credit or without, he changed the face of the planet in ways that perhaps no man ever has.

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Mysterious phenomenon that has decimated honey bees linked to parasitic fly

A mysterious phenomenon that has decimated honey bee populations could be linked to a 'zombifying' parasitic fly, scientists believe.

Colony collapse disorder (CCD) is marked by the sudden disappearance of worker bees from a colony.

It was first recognised as a serious problem by U.S. beekeepers in 2006, but has also affected bee colonies across western Europe.

Under threat: Whole colonies of honey bees have been mysteriously wiped out

In some of the recorded cases, bee losses have reached levels of up to 90 per cent.

Viral and fungal infections and toxic chemicals in pesticides have all been suggested as possible explanations for CCD.

 

 

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• Mystery of the DEAD herring: What made 20 TONNES of fish wash up on Norwegian beach?

The new theory involves the parasitic fly Apocephalus borealis, which is already known to attack bumble bees.

Evidence has now emerged of the fly targeting honey bees.

The insect lays its eggs in the abdomens of bees, which start displaying 'zombie' behaviour, abandoning their hives en masse to congregate near lights.

Finally they die, and the fly larvae emerge from their bodies.

Lethal weapon: The parasitic fly Apocephalus borealis (circled) seen on the back of a bumble bee

U.S. scientists noted that hive abandonment is a primary feature of CCD.

Genetic tests also showed that both bees and flies were often infected with deformed wing virus and the fungus Nosema ceranae.

Both infections have previously been cited as possible causes of CCD, suggesting a link.

Professor John Hafernik, from San Francisco State University, said: 'We don’t know the best way to stop parasitisation because one of the big things we’re missing is where the flies are parasitising the bees.

'We assume it’s while the bees are out foraging because we don’t see the flies hanging around the bee hives. But it’s still a bit of a black hole in terms of where it’s actually happening.'

The research is published today in the online journal Public Library of Science ONE.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2081894/Mysterious-phenomenon-decimated-honey-bee-populations-globe-linked-parasitic-fly.html#ixzz1iRXAklfB

The Founding Fathers on Creation and Evolution

Forward by Bob Barney; The Plain Truth--  Think that evolution was a discovery of Charles Darwin? That is what we are taught, but simple good research shows that the idea of a non-religious origin of the universe is as old as civilaization itself. In fact, it wasn't Darwin who first proposed that man "evolved" from monkees! Lord Monboddo wrote about this idea 100 years before Darwin!  Read the shocking Plain Truth about the "theory" of evolution....

David Barton 2008

 

While uninformed laymen erroneously believe the theory of evolution to be a product of Charles Darwin in his first major work of 1859 (The Origin of Species), the historical records are exceedingly clear that the evolution-creation-intelligent design debate was largely formulated well before the birth of Christ. Numerous famous writings have appeared on the topic for almost two thousand years; in fact, our Founding Fathers were well-acquainted with these writings and therefore the principle theories and teachings of evolution – as well as the science and philosophy both for and against that thesis – well before Darwin synthesized those centuries-old teachings in his writings.

 

Apple’s Incredible New Plans Revealed

The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office have received proposals from Apple that indicate the electronics company is working on products powered by hydrogen fuel cells, that they claim have the potential to stay charged for weeks, and “eliminates the need for a bulky and heavy battery.”

Remarks by the company in the patent fillings would indicate that the proposal to shift to hydrogen fueled products was influenced not by user experience but customer awareness:

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Evolution: 'The most foolish notion ever'?

"The Shroud is not a fake"

Th Holy Shroud

New research from ENEA on the sacred Linen kept in Turin

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Enea, the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, has published a report on five years of experiments conducted in the ENEA center of Frascati on the “shroud-like coloring of linen fabrics by far ultraviolet radiation”. “Simply put: we tried to understand how the Shroud of Turin was imprinted by an image so special that it constitutes its charm, and poses a great and very radical challenge, "to identify the physical and chemical processes capable of generating a color similar to that of the image on the Shroud. "

In the following article will see how this research developed (the complete version can be found at this link: opac.bologna.enea.it/RT/2011/2011_14_ENEA.pdf ).

Scientists (Di Lazzaro, Murra, Santoni, Nichelatti and Baldacchini)  start from the last (and only) comprehensive interdisciplinary exam of the sheet, completed in 1978 by a team of American scientists from Sturp (Shroud of Turin Research Project). A starting point which all too often those who write about and dissect the Shroud prefer not to take into account, in spite what is evidenced by available information verified by an accurate control on “peer reviewed” journals, that is, approved by other scientists in objective and independent ways.  The Enea report, with a lot of fair play and almost "en passant", very clearly refutes the hypothesis that the Shroud of Turin might be the work of a medieval forger.  The hypothesis was supported – against many weighted arguments – by the results of the disputable and probably biased - C14 measurements; a test whose credibility has been rendered ​​very fragile not only by objective difficulties (the possibility that the fabric is contaminated is very high, especially since  its historical journey is only partially known), but also from proven factual errors of calculation and the inability to obtain “raw data” from the laboratories for the necessary controls.  In spite of repeated requests. An omission which in itself can throw a heavy shadow over the scientific accuracy of the episode.   More>>>>>>>>

All signs point to 'catastrophic' event

Yes there was a Noah's Ark!

Researchers have found the fossils of about 75 bus-sized whales, including more than 20 perfectly intact skeletons, over a hill in Chile's Atacama Desert, and scientists are trying to figure out how they ended up there together -- half a mile from the ocean. One scientist has hypothesized the region used to be a "lagoon-like environment" and that the whales died between two million and seven million years ago.

Dr. Andrew Snelling, director of research at Answers in Genesis, tells OneNewsNow the answer is simple: the Flood. However,  he continues, scientists' evolutionistic worldview will not allow them to go there.

London to Sydney in just two hours?

 By 2030 travellers will jet the world on a 13,750 mph spaceship

A Formula One motor racing tycoon has teamed up with an airline to develop a spaceship that could mean every city on the planet is just two hours away.

Imagine Sydney and Tokyo becoming short-haul destinations as passengers jet on a spaceship travelling at 13,750 mph.

That's the dream of India Force co-owner Michiel Mol and Dutch airline KLM who this week will announce the first British space tourist to buy a £60,000 ticket for sub-orbital flights in 2014.

Final frontier: Michiel Mol, right, with his spacecraft which he hopes will be a commercial operation in 20 years

They expect to have scheduled commercial space journeys in operation within 15 to 20 years.

Mr Mol, a 42-year-old Dutch millionaire, said: 'Being able to travel from London to Sydney in an hour and 45 minutes, that is the future.

'I think there will millions of people who would prefer to be in Sydney in a little more than one and a half hours rather than 24 hours.'

His first generation spaceship, the Lynx, will travel at 2,200 mph and he predicts it will be capable of flying four times day and doing 5,000 flights with one engine.

The spacecraft, currently being built by the Californian company XCOR Aerospace, will be unveiled next spring. Thirty-five space tourists have already bought tickets for the flights from the Caribbean island of Curacao.

Passengers will have to a minor physical test before before allowed to travel. They can call themselves astronauts if they reach an altitude of 62 miles.

Takeoff: An artist impression of the Hypermach SonicStar, a business jet which will be capable of a top speed of 2,664mph twice as fast as Concorde.

Mr Mol told the Sunday Times that ticket prices will be comparable to the £6,200 cost of the cheapest seats on Concorde before it ended flights in 2003.

The first Briton to buy a ticket is Anton Kriel who appeared on the BBC TV programme Million Dollar Traders.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2044318/Fly-London-Sydney-2-hours-By-2030-travellers-jet-13-750-mph-spaceship.html#ixzz1a9QAV7qQ

Nasa's 2013 solar flare warning: how much do we need to worry?

So, do we really need to worry about a huge solar storm burning out the electrical systems of half the world in 2013? Masochists that we are here at the Telegraph, we love to shoot down our own stories, and I was cracking my knuckles for this one. It's got all the ingredients – white-coated authority, grave warnings of impending doom, exciting sciencey nuclear nemesis in space. NASA! Solar flares! Planes falling out of the sky! Etc.   Read More>>>>>>

The Year The Army Stopped Niagara Falls

Remember our article, THE DAY NIAGARA FROZE OVER--(CLICK HERE FOR INCREDIBLE PHOTOS)

 

In 1969, the Army Corps of Engineers accomplished an awesome feat: They turned off Niagara Falls. They did it to clean up the area, and check for structural integrity. Here are pictures of this bizarre episode in structural engineering history. These pictures were taken by tourists who visited the dry falls in 1969. Environmental design blog Mammoth explains the context: For six months in the winter and fall of 1969, Niagara's American Falls were "de-watered", as the Army Corps of Engineers conducted a geological survey of the falls' rock face, concerned that it was becoming destabilized by erosion. During the interim study period, the dried riverbed and shale was drip-irrigated, like some mineral garden in a tender establishment period, by long pipes stretched across the gap, to maintain a sufficient and stabilizing level of moisture. For a portion of that period, while workers cleaned the former river-bottom of unwanted mosses and drilled test-cores in search of instabilities, a temporary walkway was installed a mere twenty feet from the edge of the dry falls, and tourists were able to explore this otherwise inaccessible and hostile landscape. via Mammoth Photos from Russ Glasson's Flickr stream.   800x600 | Full Size

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Space junk at tipping point, says report

Scientists in the US have warned Nasa that the amount of so-called space junk orbiting Earth is at tipping point.

Space debris plot by NASA Wiki image

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A report by the National Research Council says the debris could cause fatal leaks in spaceships or destroy valuable satellites.

It calls for international regulations to limit the junk and more research into the possible use of launching large magnetic nets or giant umbrellas.

The debris includes clouds of minuscule fragments, old boosters and satellites.

Some computer models show the amount of orbital rubbish "has reached a tipping point, with enough currently in orbit to continually collide and create even more debris, raising the risk of spacecraft failures," the research council said in a statement on Thursday.

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Solar Industry Responsible for Lead Emissions in Developing Countries, Research Finds

ScienceDaily (Aug. 31, 2011) — Solar power is not all sunshine. It has a dark side -- particularly in developing countries, according to a new study by a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, engineering professor.

A study by Chris Cherry, assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering, found that solar power heavily reliant on lead batteries has the potential to release more than 2.4 million tons of lead pollution in China and India.

Lead poisoning causes numerous adverse health effects, including damage to the central nervous system, the kidneys, the cardiovascular system, and the reproductive system. In children, blood lead concentration is associated with learning impairments, as well as hyperactive and violent behavior.    MORE>>>>>>>>

New alloy could split water to make fuel

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A team of Kentucky scientists has found a way to 'tweak' an inexpensive semiconductor to generate hydrogen from water using sunlight.

Through theoretical computations, they've demonstrated that an alloy formed by a two percent substitution of antimony in gallium nitride  has the right electrical properties to enable solar light energy to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen, a process known as photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting.

When the alloy is immersed in water and exposed to sunlight, the chemical bond between the hydrogen and oxygen molecules in water is broken, allowing the hydrogen to be collected.

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History Channel Puts The Strongest UFO Evidence Under The Microscope

• In 1986, a Japan Airlines pilot saw what he described as an unidentified flying object over Alaska closely tailing his 747. He made an evasive move. His career was thrown into turmoil, but he never recanted what he claimed he saw.

• In 1987, a Federal Aviation Administration executive says the CIA warned him not to talk about UFOs because the public would panic.

• In 1997, former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington mocked thousands of people who said they saw mysterious lights over Phoenix, calling out a staffer dressed in a cheesy ET costume at a press conference. Ten years later, he apologized for lying to the media and the public.

What these events have in common is that they are unveiled on a new two-hour History Channel special, "Secret Access: UFOs On The Record," that features in-depth accounts from people who have been willing to risk their jobs and reputations to speak out about their remarkable experiences with UFOs.

"The theme of the program is that UFOs exist, but there's a small percentage of sightings that are significant and haven't been explained," said Leslie Kean, author of The New York Times bestseller UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On The Record, which forms the basis of the History Channel special.

Here's a collection of images that Leslie Kean put together for The Huffington Post on Aug. 23, 2010, to promote the publication of her book:

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Read Commentary by Bob Barney on The Plain Truth about UFO's Click here-- You'll be surprised.

The Day the Earth Stood Still

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Galileo’s prosecution by the Church for promoting the heliocentric theory – that the Sun sits at the centre of the Solar System encircled by the Earth and other planets – is usually portrayed as a landmark battle in the war between religion and science, the moment when Galileo becomes science’s first great martyr.

However, when revisiting the story during our research for our book The For­bidden Universe, we realised that the trad­itional explanations of the Church’s determin­ation to get Galileo just don’t add up. Applying the shameless CGI of hindsight, science historians transmuted him into a modern rationalist-materialist born out of time, persecuted by superstitious – in other words cretinous – men whose intell­ects, if one could dignify them with the term, were stuck in the Middle Ages.

That’s the lazy sod’s version of history. The reality, as forteans would suspect, is that there’s much, much more to it than that.

In fact, although the ‘science-versus-religion’ scenario is still often trotted out to a popular audience, academics have long recognised that it is too modern an explanation. They now see the affair rather as a collision between two obstinate egos, two pathologically ‘right men’: Galileo, who refused to be told what to do or say, and Pope Urban VIII, bitter about Galileo (in his Dialogue on the Two World Systems) having put his views in the mouth of a character named Simplicio. But something is still missing – something that neither side wanted to be seen in the harsh light of day…


THE MISSING PIECE>>>>>>>>>>>