John Stanton
CryptomeSat, 30 Jun 2007 17:12 UTC
Evolutionary Psychology and Neuroscience disciplines are set merge into a unified field known as Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience or ECN. ECN may produce novel integrated micro, macro models of brain-behavior relationships based on the principles of general Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology and the findings of Neuroscience. Applications may range from predictive human behavior models to neuroweaponry.
Comment: Evolutionary psychology to quote a professor I know, is "neither evolutionary or psychology." It's more like trying to come up with scientific explanations for maintaining the status quo of the selfish elites in power. A big field being pushed in some universities is neuroeconomics, a subset of this ECN business. What is known is often so puzzling that to aggressively pursue this means PTB are really desperate to maintain every shred of control possible. The people who make it big tend to be those that run studies and write theories explaining the behavior of machines, how to be better machines, and why it is beneficial. As if that is all we can aspire to. They forget that if selfishness reaches a particular threshold in a given population, is not evolutionarily stable. There are myriad of things already on the market that alters the function of the brain behavior but I guess that just isn't enough. We must all be psychopaths or completely programmed sheep down to how fast we should think about the things they want us to think.
Mysterious fleeting changes in the appearance of parts of the Moon have been reported by many observers watching with both the naked eye and through telescopes.
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Often these consist of a brightening of a small patch of the Moon's surface. Astronauts on Apollo 11 reported an apparent brightening of part of the Aristarchus crater while in orbit around the Moon, for example (see the transcript towards the end of this
PDF paper).
Dan Eden
ViewzoneSat, 30 Jun 2007 15:37 UTC
Imagine the shock of growing up in a loving family with people you call "Mum" and "Dad" and then, suddenly, learning that you are actually adopted!
This same sense of shock came as scientists announced that the Sun, the Moon, our planet and its siblings, were not born into the familiar band of stars known as the Milky Way galaxy, but we actually belong to a strange formation with the unfamiliar name of the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy!
Dan Eden
ViewzoneSat, 30 Jun 2007 14:32 UTC
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ViewZone asked me to write a story about the Mayan Calendar. There is a common belief that the calendar holds a prophecy that the end of the world will happen in 2012. At the time, I knew very little about the whole topic and when I began doing the research. I like to think I had an open mind. My investigation began with mainstream archaeology and the expert interpretations of the calendar. But it soon took a turn that made my hair literally stand on end. I am now convinced that these prophecies are true.
To understand what is likely to happen to Earth and it's people, you will need to remain calm and try to follow the facts. It's not as simple as some people describe. It requires an understanding of some fairly complicated scientific realities, but I think I can explain them in a way that you will easily understand.
Comment: This all sounds pretty dramatic, however SOTT experts have run several computer simulations and it seems that, because of the vast distances and sizes, the likelihood of "crossing" the galactic plane having any significant meaning is remote. It could be said that we are already there and will be there for some time.
In fact, the coming Winter Solstice of 2007 looks to be far more interesting since Jupiter and the Sun will be almost conjunct on that day.
Jon Cartwright
PhysicsWebSat, 30 Jun 2007 11:32 UTC
Clouds of mercury have been spotted moving across the surface of alpha Andromedae -- a star that astronomers had believed to be too large to support "weather" in its atmosphere. The group, based in Sweden, the US and Canada, have also proposed a new theory suggesting that gravity could be responsible for such weather on large stars, rather than the magnetic fields that shape the surfaces of smaller stars.
Magnetic fields emanating from stars and planets can usually be attributed to convection currents forcing molten metal to shift about in so called "dynamo action", which converts mechanical energy into magnetic energy. In small stars like our Sun, the magnetic field can become so intense in regions on the surface that it traps heat, causing dark sunspots to form. But physicists believe that most larger stars do not have convection currents stretching to their surface and therefore would have a zero - or at least small - magnetic field. This should mean they are devoid of surface structure.
Recently, however, observations of irregular surface distributions of heavy elements on large blue "B-type" stars have swept aside this assumption. In particular, alpha Andromedae, which is 97 light-years from Earth, has a predicted magnetic field less than 10 Gauss, yet appears to have spots of mercury all over its surface.
XinhuaSat, 30 Jun 2007 08:09 UTC
An excavation team has discovered in northern Spain the oldest human fossils confirming mankind's presence in Europe over more than 1 million years ago, local media reported on Friday.
The fossil, discovered in the Atapuerca Sierra in the northern province of Burgos, is a human tooth. Jose Maria Bermudez de Castro, co-director of research at the Atapuerca site, was quoted as saying the tooth could be as old as 1.2 million years.
The fossil, which gives a new perspective to human history, was found in the entry to Sima del Elefante, a pleistocene deposit that was the last to be systematically excavated in Atapuerca.
The differences between dusty Mars and lush, vibrant Earth are more than just skin deep. The two planets are different down to their very core.
Earth contains a heavy version of silicon that is absent from Mars.
The finding, detailed in today's issue of the journal Nature, suggests
Earth's core formed under very different conditions from those on Mars. It also supports the idea that the
moon formed from material torn from early Earth by a collision with a planet-sized rock.
A new hi-tech hospital being built in Scotland will be the first in the UK to use a fleet of robots to take over from humans in tasks such as transporting heavy medical equipment and laundry.
The initiative at the £300 million hospital at Larbert, Stirlingshire, is intended to allow hospital porters to spend more time dealing with patients.
Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves. For 40 years, physicists and cosmologists have been quietly collecting examples of all too convenient "coincidences" and special features in the underlying laws of the universe that seem to be necessary in order for life, and hence conscious beings, to exist. Change any one of them and the consequences would be lethal. Fred Hoyle, the distinguished cosmologist, once said it was as if "a super- intellect has monkeyed with physics".
RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
APFri, 29 Jun 2007 03:36 UTC
Garfield, Morris and the Aristocats get the fame, but look to the origins of today's furry felines and you find "lybica," a Middle Eastern wildcat. Domestic cats can be traced to wild progenitors that interbred well over 100,000 years ago, new research indicates.
Comment: Evolutionary psychology to quote a professor I know, is "neither evolutionary or psychology." It's more like trying to come up with scientific explanations for maintaining the status quo of the selfish elites in power. A big field being pushed in some universities is neuroeconomics, a subset of this ECN business. What is known is often so puzzling that to aggressively pursue this means PTB are really desperate to maintain every shred of control possible. The people who make it big tend to be those that run studies and write theories explaining the behavior of machines, how to be better machines, and why it is beneficial. As if that is all we can aspire to. They forget that if selfishness reaches a particular threshold in a given population, is not evolutionarily stable. There are myriad of things already on the market that alters the function of the brain behavior but I guess that just isn't enough. We must all be psychopaths or completely programmed sheep down to how fast we should think about the things they want us to think.