May 7, 2008 by asgard14.

Human beings may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests.

The human population at that time was reduced to small isolated groups in Africa, apparently because of drought, according to an analysis released Thursday.

The report notes that a separate study by researchers at Stanford University estimated that the number of early humans may have shrunk as low as 2,000 before numbers began to expand again in the early Stone Age.

“This study illustrates the extraordinary power of genetics to reveal insights into some of the key events in our species’ history,” said Spencer Wells, National Geographic Society explorer in residence.

“Tiny bands of early humans, forced apart by harsh environmental conditions, coming back from the brink to reunite and populate the world. Truly an epic drama, written in our DNA.”

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March 15, 2008 by asgard14.

The European Union’s competition watchdog has appoved the use of €99m (£76m) of French state aid for a consortium attempting to build an internet search engine to take on Google.A lack of funding has meant the project - which is Latin for “I seek” - is still in the concept stage, but will now be able to get up and running thanks to support from France, which has championed the scheme.

Following an “in-depth examination,” the European Commission decided that the Quaero project “brings positive externalities for the community as a whole.”

However, Quaero “is not spontaneously underpinned by the market owing to divergent interests within the consortium and to uncertainties regarding the project’s chances of success,” the EU’s executive arm said in a statement.

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March 1, 2008 by asgard14.

This is another example of the difference as to what is stated in news articles for the general public and those of the scientific community.

While statements are made in the lay media that race is a “social construct” to avoid attacks by Politically Correct enforcers and “defunding” or cancellation of projects, scientists deal with reality, and have to treat it and discuss it as such.Discoveries which can result in Politically Incorrect policies have to be discussed very carefully in public. Discoveries that might result in Politically Correct neutral policies such as the one below are more easily discussed. Discoveries that appear to “help” or “favor” Politically Correct groups are often carried and even hyped in the general public media.Also, if scientists use the term “ancestry” instead of “race,” this tends to confuse and not provoke the Politically Correct lynch mob.

Gene expression differences between those of European and African ancestry affect response to drugs and infections

Differences in gene expression levels between people of European versus African ancestry can affect how each group responds to certain drugs or fights off specific infections, report researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center and the Expression Research Laboratory at Affymetrix Inc. of Santa Clara, CA.

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February 22, 2008 by asgard14.

A 2,000-year-old mechanical computer salvaged from a Roman shipwreck has astounded scientists who have finally unravelled the secrets of how the sophisticated device works.

The machine was lost among cargo in 65BC when the ship carrying it sank in 42m of water off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera. By chance, in 1900, a sponge diver called Elias Stadiatos discovered the wreck and recovered statues and other artifacts from the site.

The machine first came to light when an archaeologist working on the recovered objects noticed that a lump of rock had a gear wheel embedded in it. Closer inspection of material brought up from the stricken ship subsequently revealed 80 pieces of gear wheels, dials, clock-like hands and a wooden and bronze casing bearing ancient Greek inscriptions.

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February 2, 2008 by webmaster.

Scientists: Blue Eyes Are A Recent Genetic Mutation

According to a recent study, people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team of scientists claim to have tracked down a genetic mutation that leads to blue eyes. They say the mutation occurred between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago and that before then there were no blue eyes. “Originally, we all had brown eyes,” said Hans Eiberg from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Copenhagen. We can conclude that all blue-eyed individuals are linked to the same ancestor,” Eiberg said. “They have all inherited the same switch at exactly the same spot in their DNA.” Eiberg and his colleagues detailed their study in the Jan. 3 online edition of the journal Human Genetics. That genetic switch somehow spread throughout Europe and now other parts of the world. “The question really is, ‘Why did we go from having nobody on Earth with blue eyes 10,000 years ago to having 20 or 40 percent of Europeans having blue eyes now?” John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “This gene does something good for people. It makes them have more kids.”

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January 25, 2008 by webmaster.

A study led by McGill University researchers has demonstrated that small differences between individuals at the DNA level can lead to dramatic differences in the way genes produce proteins. These, in turn, are responsible for the vast array of differences in physical characteristics between individuals.
The study, part of the Genome Regulators in Disease (GRID) Project funded by Genome Canada and Genome Quebec, was led by Dr. Jacek Majewski of McGill University’s Department of Human Genetics and the McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, and first-authored by his research associate Dr. Tony Kwan. It was published January 13 in the journal Nature Genetics.
The study was originally initiated by Dr. Tom Hudson, former director of the McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, and drew upon the data collected by the vast HapMap (Haplotype Map) Project, a global comparative map of the human genome, which Hudson and his colleagues were instrumental in completing.

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December 14, 2007 by webmaster.

Homo sapiens sapiens has spread across the globe and increased vastly in numbers over the past 50,000 years or so—from an estimated five million in 9000 B.C. to roughly 6.5 billion today. More people means more opportunity for mutations to creep into the basic human genome and new research confirms that in the past 10,000 years a host of changes to everything from digestion to bones has been taking place.
“We found very many human genes undergoing selection,” says anthropologist Gregory Cochran of the University of Utah, a member of the team that analyzed the 3.9 million genes showing the most variation. “Most are very recent, so much so that the rate of human evolution over the past few thousand years is far greater than it has been over the past few million years.”

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December 12, 2007 by webmaster.

The Inconvenient Truth
Why the human race is growing apart
Races have evolved away from each other over the past 10,000 years, according to new research that challenges standard ideas about the biological significance of ethnicity.
A genetic analysis of human evolution has shown that rather than slowing to a standstill it has speeded up, with different pressures on different populations pushing racial groups further apart. Scientists behind the findings suggest that European, African and Asian populations grew genetically more distinct from each other over several thousand years, as their environments took them down different evolutionary paths.
This would call into question the popular scientific view that race has little or no biological meaning, as the genetic similarities between ethnic groups greatly outweigh differences.

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December 10, 2007 by webmaster.

“First Americans” All from Siberia, Study Confirms

Humans somehow made their way into the Americas from distant lands, but knowing precisely when and from where they made the journey are matters of heated scientific debate.
New genetic evidence, however, backs up a chilly northwestern arrival to North America from Siberia about 12,000 years ago, via a temporary land bridge spanning the Bering Strait. The findings further challenge an alternative idea that humans sprinkled in to both North and South America on open sea voyages 30,000 years in the past.
“We have reasonably clear genetic evidence that the most likely candidate for the source of Native American populations is somewhere in east Asia,” said Noah Rosenberg, a genetic researcher at the University of Michigan Medical School.
Rosenberg explained that the evidence stems from two genetic trends between Siberian and Native American people: One, that genetic similarity between the peoples thins out the further south a native is sampled, and two, that a unique genetic mutation can be found only in Native American and Siberian ancestors.

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November 18, 2007 by webmaster.

Pär Nyström the Swedish student who led the team of scientists made his first test on a 5 months baby named Almita Knutson. The tests are unharmful to the babies.

Here are some of the reports:

Nyström, P. (2007) The infant mirror neuron system studied with high density EEG. Social neuroscience. In press.

von Hofsten, C. (2007). Motor development from an action perspective. To be published in M.M. Haith & J.B. Benson (Eds.), Encyklopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development. Elsevier.

von Hofsten, C., & Gredebäck, G. (2007). The role of looking in social development. In V. Reid & T. Striano (Eds.), Interpreting People through Brain and Behaviour. Blackwell.

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October 25, 2007 by webmaster.

James Watson, the 79-year-old scientific icon made famous by his work in DNA, has set off an international furor with comments to a London newspaper about intelligence levels among blacks. He told a British newspaper that he was “gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really.”
Political correct JEW-owned London’s Science Museum canceled a sold-out lecture he was to give there Friday. The mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, said his comments “represent racist propaganda masquerading as scientific fact…. That a man of such academic distinction could make such ignorant comments, which are utterly offensive and incorrect and give succor to the most backward in our society, demonstrates why racism still has to be fought.” In the United States, the Federation of American Scientists who is also jewish owned and managed stated “chose to use his unique stature to promote personal prejudices that are racist, vicious and unsupported by science.”

Dr. James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for co-discovering the structure of DNA, poses with the original DNA model in 2005.

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October 11, 2007 by webmaster.

Origins: How The World Came To Be is a great documentary movie made by a creationist scientist named A.E. Wilder-Smith. The video clarifies the differences among the variations within a kind. The documentary has a Romanian Subtitle. Be patient and watch the whole documentary, otherwise you won’t understand much. If you watch the whole thing you will have a complete revelation about the lie called Evolutionism that has been accepted and promoted by the main-stream media as a “scientific fact”. A “master designer” created the various basic kinds of animals (and people) and designed them to reproduce after their own kind. God created all of us different with different ancestors and therefore keep in mind that by mixing your race you are destroying God’s creation and will! Just imagine all of us mixed into one, there would be no more whites no more blacks, no more asians and so on, but just an ugly hybrid thing that God DID NOT CREATED NOR WANTED!

PART 1

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August 29, 2007 by webmaster.

Bill Gates defeated by a Romanian?

Mr. Florin Mihai Fluturel, aged 34, Iasi, Romania, a lawyer, businessman, investor and inventor has established a new world record becoming The Richest Man in the world.
Florin Fluturel holds 79% from the social capital of the Romanian company ROMVECTOR X, having 30,999,600,079.00 shares in value of 98.75 billion EUR.
“The digital era will change the world for the better and take the human civilization to a new level of understanding and knowledge of the Universe” – Florin Fluturel
Using intelligently the resources related to the right of intellectual property and legislation, they made the evaluation of a complex system of inventions and innovations, a system that is in the company’s property and that became subsequently a part from its social capital.

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March 25, 2007 by webmaster.

New landmark research has found that alcohol and tobacco are more dangerous than some illegal drugs like marijuana or Ecstasy and should be classified as such in legal systems, according to a new British study.
In research published in The Lancet magazine, Professor David Nutt of Britain’s Bristol University and colleagues proposed a new framework for the classification of harmful substances, based on the actual risks posed to society. Their ranking listed alcohol and tobacco among the top 10 most dangerous substances.
Nutt and colleagues used three factors to determine the harm associated with any drug: the physical harm to the user, the drug’s potential for addiction, and the impact on society of drug use. The researchers asked two groups of experts - psychiatrists specializing in addiction and legal or police officials with scientific or medical expertise - to assign scores to 20 different drugs, including heroin, cocaine, Ecstasy, amphetamines, and LSD.
Nutt and his colleagues then calculated the drugs’ overall rankings. In the end, the experts agreed with each other - but not with the existing British classification of dangerous substances.
Heroin and cocaine were ranked most dangerous, followed by barbiturates and street methadone. Alcohol was the fifth-most harmful drug and tobacco the ninth most harmful. Cannabis came in 11th, and near the bottom of the list was Ecstasy.

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March 3, 2007 by webmaster.

Russia, Moscow, 17 March 2006, Interfax - Scientists have proved experimentally the miracle-working properties of the sign of the cross and prayer.

‘We have ascertained that the old custom to make a sign of the cross over food and drink before a meal has a profound mystical meaning. Standing behind it is the practical use: the food is purified literally in an instant. This is a great miracle, which happens literally every day,’ physicist Angelina Malakhovskaya said as cited by the Zhizn newspaper on Friday.

Malakhovskaya have studied that power of the sign of the cross with the blessing of the Church for nearly ten years now. She has carried out a great number of experiments, which have been repeatedly verified before their results were made public.

She has discovered in particular the unique bactericidal properties of water after being blessed by an Orthodox prayer and a sign of the cross. The study also revealed a new, earlier unknown property of the Word of God to transform the structure of water, increasing considerably its optical density in the short ultra-violet spectral region, the newspaper writes.
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