יום חמישי, 31 במרץ 2011
Geert Wilders steps up anti-Islam rhetoric, calls Prophet 'paedophile and a rapist' ~ but there is no law against it
Right-wing Dutch MP Geert WildersMuhammad sent Khalid Ibn al-Walid to the tribe of the children of Haritha and told him: "Call them to accept Islam before you fight with them. If they respond, accept that from them, but if they refuse, fight them." Khalid
יום רביעי, 30 במרץ 2011
Closer Look at Cell Membrane Shows Cholesterol 'Keeping Order'
Cell membranes form the “skin” of most every cell in your body, but the ability to view them up close and in motion cannot be rendered by many experimental techniques. A team of scientists working at the National Institute
יום שלישי, 29 במרץ 2011
Cancer Turns Out To Be A P53 Protein Aggregation Disease
Protein aggregation, generally associated with Alzheimer’s and mad cow disease, turns out to play a significant role in cancer. In a paper published in Nature Chemical Biology, Frederic Rousseau and Joost Schymkowitz of VIB, K.U.Leuven and Vrije Universiteit Brussel describe that certain mutations of p53, an important tumor
יום שני, 28 במרץ 2011
Rare Hand Transplant Surgery Successfully Performed at Emory University Hospital
Transplant and reconstructive surgeons from Emory University Hospital announced today at a news conference that they have successfully performed a rare complete hand transplant on 21-year-old Linda Lu, a college student from Orlando, Fla. This is a first for the
יום ראשון, 27 במרץ 2011
HiPRWind: The Goal Is Gigantic Offshore Wind-Turbines
What will it take to build a floating 10 MW wind-turbine? This is just one of many questions that the European Union’s HiPRWind project aims to answer. SINTEF will work on two of the project’s ten work-packages.
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In the
Antarctic Icebergs Play A Previously Unknown Role In Global Carbon Cycle, Climate
In a finding that has global implications for climate research, scientists have discovered that when icebergs cool and dilute the seas through which they pass for days, they also raise chlorophyll levels in
יום שישי, 25 במרץ 2011
Debate: Can Islam be reformed? - Video
Islamic scripture was written or compiled in Syria ~ using a combination of Syriac and Old Arabic. Zuhdi Jasser ~ was behind Third Jihad ~ and he is one of the only ones I've heard speaking out against political Islam. In one article he was
יום חמישי, 24 במרץ 2011
Wave Of Enforced Disappearances In Libya Says UN
A group of independent United Nations human rights experts today voiced deep concern about hundreds of alleged enforced disappearances that have taken place in recent months in Libya, where what started as peaceful civilian protests demanding the ouster of Muammar
יום רביעי, 23 במרץ 2011
יום שלישי, 22 במרץ 2011
CWRU Researchers Aim To Bring Fuel Cells Within Reach
Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) researchers aim to bring fuel cells within reach.
Catalysts made of carbon nanotubes dipped in a polymer solution equal the energy output and otherwise outperform platinum catalysts in fuel cells, a team of Case Western Reserve University engineers has found.
Scanning Tunneling Microscope Image of a Carbon
Catalysts made of carbon nanotubes dipped in a polymer solution equal the energy output and otherwise outperform platinum catalysts in fuel cells, a team of Case Western Reserve University engineers has found.
Scanning Tunneling Microscope Image of a Carbon
יום שני, 21 במרץ 2011
Police Log
There was a kitchen fire shortly after midnight at Jerry’s Restaurant. Globe Fire Department contained the fire in less than an hour.An injury accident occurred early this morning at the 70/77 junction. One person was taken to Cobre Valley Regional Medical Center.Nobody was hurt in an
יום ראשון, 20 במרץ 2011
No future for Christians in Muslim areas of Ethiopia ~ 69 Churches Razed to Ground ~ Always to the sound of Allah Akbar
“The fact is that thousands of local Muslims, my neighbors, have participated in it. That’s why I don’t see a future for me and other Christians in this town anymore,”says Wolde Giorgis. Evangelical churches and homes have been burnt
יום שבת, 19 במרץ 2011
Mankind's Evolutionary Ancestry Questioned; Fossils May Be Ancient Apes Not Human Relatives
Someday a future intelligent organism could sweep away a million years of dust and find the bones of a Homo sapiens and wonder what he was.
Further research would show Homo sapiens walked upright, lived in communities and buried their dead. But this future
Further research would show Homo sapiens walked upright, lived in communities and buried their dead. But this future
יום שישי, 18 במרץ 2011
Gaddafi declares ceasefire as France, UK ready no-fly zone - Video
Video of Libya rebels under fire as Gaddafi airstrikes reported
Islamization
Islamization
יום חמישי, 17 במרץ 2011
NASA TV To Cover MESSENGER Spacecraft Entering Mercury's Orbit
NASA Television and the agency's website will carry live coverage from 8 to 10 p.m. EDT Thursday as the first spacecraft enters Mercury's orbit. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which operates the MESSENGER spacecraft, is conducting the webcast from its mission
יום רביעי, 16 במרץ 2011
Viscous Cycle: Quartz Is Key To Plate Tectonics
More than 40 years ago, pioneering tectonic geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson published a paper in the journal Nature describing how ocean basins opened and closed along North America's eastern seaboard.
His observations, dubbed "The Wilson Tectonic Cycle," suggested the process occurred many times during Earth's long history,
His observations, dubbed "The Wilson Tectonic Cycle," suggested the process occurred many times during Earth's long history,
יום שלישי, 15 במרץ 2011
Let them eat Islam: Top Algerian Salafist's fatwa says calls for reform un-Islamic
Sheikh Abdelmalek Ramdani??Here is the Islamic thinking behind the very existence of the Islamic dictatorship ~ it can't be an accident that virtually every Muslim country has one."As long as the commander of the nation is a Muslim,
יום שני, 14 במרץ 2011
Expansion Rate of Universe Recalculated, NASA's Hubble Rules Out One Alternative to Dark Energy
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have ruled out an alternate theory on the nature of dark energy after recalculating the expansion rate of the universe to unprecedented accuracy.
The universe appears to be expanding at an increasing rate. Some believe
The universe appears to be expanding at an increasing rate. Some believe
יום ראשון, 13 במרץ 2011
Satellite Images of Effects of Earthquake on Japan From NASA
NASA Images Tsunami's Effects on Northeastern Japan
The extent of inundation from the destructive and deadly tsunami triggered by the March 11, 2011, magnitude 8.9 earthquake centered off Japan's northeastern coast about 130 kilometers (82 miles) east of the city of Sendai is revealed in this
The extent of inundation from the destructive and deadly tsunami triggered by the March 11, 2011, magnitude 8.9 earthquake centered off Japan's northeastern coast about 130 kilometers (82 miles) east of the city of Sendai is revealed in this
יום שבת, 12 במרץ 2011
Translucent, Inc Earns Patent for Manufacturing Process for Nano-Scale Rare Earth Oxide Electronics and Optics
Translucent, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) has developed atomic layer epitaxy (ALE) for the fabrication of new forms of rare-earth oxides, rare-earth nitrides and rare-earth phosphides. Further, ternary compounds composed of binary (rare-earth oxides, rare-earth nitrides and rare-earth phosphides) mixed with silicon and or germanium to
יום שישי, 11 במרץ 2011
France's Sarkozy sacks Muslim diversity head over criticism of 'Islam in France' debate
The debate will explore firstly how "the practice of religions may be compatible with the rules of the secular republic", and secondly "the question of Islam in France".Speaking on Thursday, Mr Dahmane compared the situation of French Muslims to that of Jews during World War
יום חמישי, 10 במרץ 2011
Keith Ellison: Dramatics at the radical Islam hearing - Video
If it was about Muslims going shopping and taking their children to school ~ you would not need a Senate hearing ~ but all the hostility does show that Muslims are embarrassed by the violence ~
יום רביעי, 9 במרץ 2011
Curbing cholesterol could combat infections
ΩLowering cholesterol could help the body’s immune system fight viral infections, researchers have found.Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have shown a direct link between the workings of the immune system and cholesterol levels. A key immune hormone
יום שלישי, 8 במרץ 2011
Colo. marry-a-foreign-terrorist woman admits aiding foreign terrorist cell
Do you still believe in Islam ~ yes and I believe Islam is peaceful!!Paulin-Ramirez arrived in Ireland on Sept. 11, 2009, and married an Algerian terrorism suspect the same day. Defense lawyer Jeremy Ibrahim called her a sincere religious convert who married "for the love of Islam,
An interesting contrast
Madeleine Jacobs, the CEO of the American Chemical Society, last year in her "2010 highlights" C&EN column:We are well into 2010, and I would like to share what we are emphasizing this year. When people ask me what
יום שני, 7 במרץ 2011
Answering Arab-American: Islamophobia greater threat to the US than Muslim terrorists
Another example of Muslims trying to control the whole society so that they can make Islam better .... A poke at Rep. King ~ whose about to hold congress hearings on radical Islam ~ perhaps...Pull this argument
Horoscope for March 7-13
Cross-posted from Aloha AstroAries (March 21st - April 20th)This is your power and action week, Aries. The moon starts the week in your sign, making everything you initiate now flow along more easily because you are working
יום ראשון, 6 במרץ 2011
Jihad in Frankfurt - A stark reminder of the threat that is Islamist ideology.
Police stand around a covered U.S. military bus at Frankfurt airportGood article ~ WSJWith Islam does the whole world become Vietnam?On Wednesday two American soldiers were shot dead on a military bus at Frankfurt Airport. Arid Uka, a 21-year-old Kosovo native, has confessed to the murders of Senior Airman Nicholas Alden, 25,
Staff scientists in academia?
I'm guessing that most chemblogosphere denizens have read Dr. Jennifer Rohn's piece suggesting the formation of professionalized staff scientists in labs rather than itinerant postdocs. Derek Lowe has an interesting and (more direct than usual) response to Rohn, which I'm sure
יום שבת, 5 במרץ 2011
NASA Light Technology Successfully Reduces Cancer Patients Painful Side Effects from Radiation and Chemotherapy
A NASA technology originally developed for plant growth experiments on space shuttle missions has successfully reduced the painful side effects resulting from chemotherapy and radiation treatment in bone marrow and stem cell transplant patients.
Glowing red light from High Emissivity Aluminiferous Luminescent Substrate, or HEALS technology
Glowing red light from High Emissivity Aluminiferous Luminescent Substrate, or HEALS technology
BREAKING: Unemployment rate down to 8.9%, from January's 9.0%
Fresh (not so fresh) electrons from BLS. The unemployment rate is at 8.9%, down from January's 9.0%. U6 unemployment also slightly down to 15.9%, from January's 16.1%. More
יום שישי, 4 במרץ 2011
France to enforce ban on full-face veils from April
Despite the law against wearing the Burqa and Niqab, women dressed this way are still seen in the streets of Marseilles, France, 26/10/2011Off with their veils!!The veils will be outlawed virtually anywhere outside women's own homes, except when
יום חמישי, 3 במרץ 2011
Daily Pump Trap: 3/3/11 edition
Good morning! Between March 1 and March 3, there were 20 new positions posted on the ACS Careers website. Of these, 1 (5%) is academically connected. Wanna live in Houston?: Celanese is a Fortune 500 polymer company. They've posted 11 positions, all interviewing at ACS Anaheim later this month. Chemists (with experience),
Men planned to join Somali Islamic group, plead guilty - face life
Carlos Eduardo Almonte on the left, and Mohamed Mahmood Alessa on the right in an undated photo courtesy of the U.S. MarshalsCarlos Eduardo Almonte ~ he's from the conquered Islamic regions!! Dumb & Dumber!!NEWARK, N.J., March 3 (UPI) -- Two men pleaded guilty Thursday in Newark, N.J., admitting
יום רביעי, 2 במרץ 2011
Process Wednesday: "Ruggedness"
In the process chemistry literature, there are many words that are liked, e.g. 'simple', 'efficient'. But our mentor-by-literature Neal Anderson (and others) seem to prize the word 'rugged' or 'robust' more than most. In his book "Practical Process Research and Development", Dr. Anderson
Oil threat rises as Arab & North Africa unrest spreads
The office of the chief of police is burned by anti-regime protesters in Benghazi, Libya, on February 25, 2011.Authorities in Saudi Arabia, on the verge of major dynastic change, arrested a Muslim cleric in the oil-rich Eastern province Feb. 27 after he called for a constitutional monarchy. That
יום שלישי, 1 במרץ 2011
Many, many things we love
Goodness me, there were a lot of participants in the "12 chemistry things" I love list:Leigh's list -- check out the beautiful photo. Matt's list -- always nice to have the inorganic chemistry view. LabMonkey's list -- funny how ethyl acetate always shows up as a favo(u)rite smell.
'Quantum Tuning Forks' Demonstrate Directly Coupling of Vibrating Ions
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have for the first time coaxed two atoms in separate locations to take turns jiggling back and forth while swapping the smallest measurable units of
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