The Road to Area 51 - Los Angeles Times

The Road to Area 51 - Los Angeles Times: "Colonel Hugh 'Slip' Slater, 87, was commander of the Area 51 base in the 1960s. Edward Lovick, 90, featured in 'What Plane?' in LA's March issue, spent three decades radar testing some of the world's most famous aircraft (including the U-2, the A-12 OXCART and the F-117). Kenneth Collins, 80, a CIA experimental test pilot, was given the silver star. Thornton 'T.D.' Barnes, 72, was an Area 51 special-projects engineer. And Harry Martin, 77, was one of the men in charge of the base's half-million-gallon monthly supply of spy-plane fuels. Here are a few of their best stories..."

The $5 solar oven at News: Breaking Health News

The $5 solar oven at News: Breaking Health News: "Inventor Jon Bohmer has created a $5 oven made out of cardboard boxes"

Fingerprinting Blank Paper Using Commodity Scanners | Freedom to Tinker

Fingerprinting Blank Paper Using Commodity Scanners | Freedom to Tinker: "This paper presents a novel technique for authenticating physical documents based on random, naturally occurring imperfections in paper texture. We introduce a new method for measuring the three-dimensional surface of a page using only a commodity scanner and without modifying the document in any way. From this physical feature, we generate a concise fingerprint that uniquely identifies the document."

Daily pill that halts Alzheimer's is hailed as 'biggest breakthrough against disease for 100 years' | Mail Online

Daily pill that halts Alzheimer's is hailed as 'biggest breakthrough against disease for 100 years' | Mail Online: "A new drug halts the devastating progress of Alzheimer’s disease, say British scientists.

It is said to be more than twice as effective as current treatments.

A daily capsule of rember, as the drug is known, stops Alzheimer’s disease progressing by as much as 81 per cent, according to trial results."

Ice bridge holding Antarctic ice shelf cracks up | Environment | Reuters

Ice bridge holding Antarctic ice shelf cracks up | Environment | Reuters: "OSLO (Reuters) - An ice bridge holding a vast Antarctic ice shelf in place has shattered and may herald a wider collapse caused by global warming, a leading scientist said on Saturday."

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www.data-yard.net - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study adds to the previously reported evidence that cigarette smoking protects against Parkinson's disease. Specifically, the new research shows a temporal relationship between smoking and reduced risk of Parkinson's disease. That is, the protective effect wanes after smokers quit.

Rise of sea levels is 'the greatest lie ever told' - Telegraph

Rise of sea levels is 'the greatest lie ever told' - Telegraph: "But if there is one scientist who knows more about sea levels than anyone else in the world it is the Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel M�rner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change. And the uncompromising verdict of Dr Morner, who for 35 years has been using every known scientific method to study sea levels all over the globe, is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story.

Despite fluctuations down as well as up, 'the sea is not rising,' he says. 'It hasn't risen in 50 years.' If there is any rise this century it will 'not be more than 10cm (four inches), with an uncertainty of plus or minus 10cm'. And quite apart from examining the hard evidence, he says, the elementary laws of physics (latent heat needed to melt ice) tell us that the apocalypse conjured up by
Al Gore and Co could not possibly come about."

Russia backs return to Gold Standard to solve financial crisis - Telegraph

Russia backs return to Gold Standard to solve financial crisis - Telegraph: "The Gold Standard was the anchor of world finance in the 19th Century but began breaking down during the First World War as governments engaged in unprecedented spending. It collapsed in the 1930s when the British Empire, the US, and France all abandoned their parities.

It was revived as part of fixed dollar system until US inflation caused by the Vietnam War and 'Great Society' social spending forced President Richard Nixon to close the gold window in 1971.

The world's fiat paper currencies have lacked any external anchor ever since. It is widely argued that the financial excesses and extreme debt leverage of the last quarter century would have been impossible - or less likely - under the discipline of gold."

Medical journal says Pope distorting condom facts | Reuters

Medical journal says Pope distorting condom facts | Reuters: "LONDON, March 27 (Reuters) - A prestigious medical journal on Friday accused Pope Benedict of distorting scientific evidence to promote Catholic doctrine by saying that condoms increase the spread of AIDS.

The Lancet in an editorial called on the Pope to retract the comments made last week, saying anything less would be an immense disservice to the public and health advocates fighting to contain the disease."

Harvard Aids expert says Pope "correct" on condoms and spread of HIV -Times Online

Harvard Aids expert says Pope "correct" on condoms and spread of HIV -Times Online: "The head of a Harvard-based AIDs prevention centre says the Pope is “correct” to claim that condom distribution risks aggravating the transmission of HIV."

Daily Express | UK News :: Oily fish 'can stop cancer'

Daily Express | UK News :: Oily fish 'can stop cancer': "EATING oily fish just once a week could help men to survive prostate cancer, scientists revealed yesterday.

A study shows a diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids found in fish such as herring, salmon and mackerel could prevent development of the deadly disease.

The oils are also believed to be able to block the spread of existing tumour cells, acting as a kind of treatment."

BBC NEWS | Health | Steaming hot tea linked to cancer

BBC NEWS | Health | Steaming hot tea linked to cancer: "Drinking steaming hot tea has been linked with an increased risk of oesophageal (food tube) cancer, Iranian scientists have found.

The British Medical Journal study found that drinking black tea at temperatures of 70C or higher increased the risk."

Want to live longer? Cut back on red meat - CNN.com

Want to live longer? Cut back on red meat - CNN.com: "'This is the biggest and highest quality study like this,' says Barry M. Popkin, Ph.D., from the University of North Carolina, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study, which was published Monday in Archives of Internal Medicine. 'They collected the diet data very carefully, and it's saying to people, 'You don't have to eat red meat every day.' '"

Scientist: Warming Could Cut Population to 1 Billion - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

Scientist: Warming Could Cut Population to 1 Billion - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com: "COPENHAGEN — A scientist known for his aggressive stance on climate policy made an apocalyptic prediction on Thursay.

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, said that if the buildup of greenhouse gases and its consequences pushed global temperatures 9 degrees Fahrenheit higher than today — well below the upper temperature range that scientists project could occur from global warming — Earth’s population would be devastated."

UW-Milwaukee Study Could Realign Climate Change Theory - Milwaukee Weather News Story - WISN Milwaukee

UW-Milwaukee Study Could Realign Climate Change Theory - Milwaukee Weather News Story - WISN Milwaukee: "MILWAUKEE -- The bitter cold and record snowfalls from two wicked winters are causing people to ask if the global climate is truly changing.

The climate is known to be variable and, in recent years, more scientific thought and research has been focused on the global temperature and how humanity might be influencing it.

However, a new study by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee could turn the climate change world upside down."

U.S., Israel at Odds Over Iran's Nuclear Weapons Aspirations - washingtonpost.com

U.S., Israel at Odds Over Iran's Nuclear Weapons Aspirations - washingtonpost.com: "Iran has not produced the highly enriched uranium necessary for a nuclear weapon and has not decided to do so, U.S. intelligence officials told Congress yesterday, an assessment that contrasts with a stark Israeli warning days earlier that Iran has crossed the 'technological threshold' in its pursuit of the bomb."

Greenland ice tipping point 'further off than thought' | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Greenland ice tipping point 'further off than thought' | Environment | guardian.co.uk: "The giant Greenland ice sheet may be more resistant to temperature rise than experts realised. The finding gives hope that the worst impacts of global warming, such as the devastating floods depicted in Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth, could yet be avoided."

Caravaggio may have been the first master of photographic technique | Art and design | The Guardian

Caravaggio may have been the first master of photographic technique | Art and design | The Guardian: "Revered as the baroque master of lifelike portraits and light and shadow, the 16th-century painter Caravaggio is now being touted as the first master of photographic technique, two centuries before the formal invention of the camera."

BBC NEWS | Health | Nano-treatment to torpedo cancer

BBC NEWS | Health | Nano-treatment to torpedo cancer: "Nanotechnology has been used for the first time to destroy cancer cells with a highly targeted package of 'tumour busting' genes."

Daily Express | UK News :: Global warming? It’s the coldest winter in decades

Daily Express | UK News :: Global warming? It’s the coldest winter in decades: "Satellite data shows that concerns over the levels of sea ice may have been premature.

It was feared that the polar caps were vanishing because of the effects of global warming.

But figures from the respected US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show that almost all the “lost” ice has come back."