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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a
nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a
"Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed
considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense
initiatives more successful? Can such an application of
science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable,
necessary or impossible?
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lchic
- 04:57am Oct 17, 2002 EST (#
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The rich spoilt oil-moneyed psycho men in frocks are trying
to spin the world into chaos, set culture against culture.
What's the end game -
an arch of defunct retrograde
Islam
out of touch with modernity -
sheep & goat
herding the only occupation
women wrapped
circumcised
imprisoned
viels of ignorance
neither
enlightenment
nor progress
Five people were killed and 70 others wounded after two
bombs exploded in shopping centres in the southern Philippines
city of Zamboanga, officials said. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2002/10/item20021017155635_1.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/
lchic
- 05:02am Oct 17, 2002 EST (#
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GU asks
??? Do you encrypt?
" I stay transparent.
When I was organising resistance against the government I
was open - that's the best protection.
Somebody will
be able to overcome any encryption technique you use!
Our only weapons are truth, honesty and
openness. "
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,812886,00.html
lchic
- 05:07am Oct 17, 2002 EST (#
4968 of 4974)
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Post 350 Science in the News
Teen angst rooted in busy brain
NewScientist [16 Oct, 2002]
Scientists believe they have found a cause of adolescent
angst. Nerve activity in the teenaged brain is so intense
that they find it hard to process basic information,
researchers say, rendering the teenagers emotionally and
socially inept.
Robert McGivern and his team of neuroscientists at San
Diego State University, US, found that as children enter
puberty, their ability to quickly recognise other people's
emotions plummets. What is more, this ability does not
return to normal until they are around 18 years old.
McGivern reckons this goes some way towards explaining
why teenagers tend to find life so unfair, because they
cannot read social situations as efficiently as others......
Sounds like a good argument for the UN to rule
against child & teen soldiers.
A good argument too for countries to ensure a 'rounded'
rather than 'rote-indoctrined' education.
lchic
- 07:20am Oct 17, 2002 EST (#
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For some it's genetic to shy-away (from trouble)
Shyness |
Narration: Serotonin is one of the chemical messengers one
brain cell uses to communicate with another. It ferries
signals across the gap between the brain cells – the synapse.
Serotonin is created on one side and normally, once it’s got
to the other side and delivered its message, it’s reabsorbed
and disappears. But take the shyness drug and reabsorption is
slowed, bathing the brain in serotonin and reducing the
shyness. Sallee says this is no more than just a theory.
Dr Sallee McLauren: At this stage we don’t actually know
whether anxiety is related to too much serotonin, not enough
serotonin. We’re not even really certain that’s it’s serotonin
.....
lchic
- 07:23am Oct 17, 2002 EST (#
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"" ... The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We
grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America.
We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after one thing
only - gold. As the natives were showering him with gifts and
kindness, he wrote in his diary, "They do not bear arms ...
They have no iron ... With 50 men we could subjugate them all
and make them do whatever we want." Columbus is the perfect
symbol of US foreign policy to this day.
This is a racist and imperialist war. The warmongers who
stole the White House (you call them "hawks", but I would
never disparage such a fine bird) have hijacked a nation's
grief and turned it into a perpetual war on any non-white
country they choose to describe as terrorist.
To the men in Washington, the world is just a giant
Monopoly board. Oddly enough, Americans generally know how the
government works. The politicians do everything they can for
the people - the people who put them in power. ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,813189,00.html
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