Ed Hillary, biomass, Alzheimer’s, Diyala ied, Protein folding

"Well George, we’ve knocked the bastard off."
Ed Hillary 1919-2008
... oddly NZ TV news has been featuring a pic of Tensing on top of Everest, in their tributes to Ed.

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from an economist at Massey University's Centre for Energy Research ..
Using biomass fuel on a massive scale in combination with carbon sequestration could return atmospheric carbon dioxide to pre-industrial levels within decades, ..
Peter Read calls his proposal global gardening... an area the size of France and Germany would have to be enlisted for growing biomass fuels for a quarter of a century .
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Referees at the journal Climatic Change rejected Read's paper, but editor Stephen Schneider elected to publish it as an editorial commentary.
..Gregg Marland.it's unclear whether Read's vision is “a dream or a nightmare”.
nature
biofuel may be a distraction, just as fission may be a distraction. The global situation may be so critical that such distractions may spell doom

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sciencedaily
a dramatic and unprecedented therapeutic effect in an Alzheimer’s patient: improvement within minutes following delivery of perispinal etanercept, which is etanercept given by injection in the spine. Etanercept (trade name Enbrel) binds and inactivates excess TNF.
jneuroinflammation
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Oddly direct language from the shrub in Ramallah
"Swiss cheese isn't going to work when it comes to the outline of a state," Bush said.
he called for the end of the "occupation" of Arab land by the Israeli military.
Shrub's big problem is Democracy... Hamas who won the election, are always described as 'seizing' Gaza...How close to the truth must Shrub come to undermine Hamas?
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Nukes for England:
Last July The Guardian newspaper said six reactors could cost as much as $24bn.
cash spent on fission is not spent on efficiency, a 10x waste, enough to doom us all?
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40,000 pounds of bombs ..Latifiya district south of Baghdad..... ... .During a house search in Diyala on Wednesday, six American soldiers and an interpreter..a bomb inside the structure.
... Thursday’s bombing run was intended to avoid that kind of trap. Colonel Ferrell said that insurgents near Latifiya and Arab Jabour had built elaborate defenses..
.850 Iraqi soldiers and 150 American soldiers took part in the assault.
.... And most fighters appear to have slipped away again.
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I truly want to quit this war commenting. BUT 20 tons of bombs near Baghdad doesnt sound like 'Mission Accomplished II'
It does sound like an occupier who hasnt managed to secure the capital zone 5 years in. An occupier who wants to stay in Barracks, for the very good reason that 'deep ieds' are all around. So saturation bombing is required. Hearts and Minds frappé not won?
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Bacon for sale
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Protein folding
planetary
The chief difficulty in simulating protein folding is time ... ... perhaps a decade or two of computer time to analyze the folding of a single protein.
Within a year, SETI@home had logged not a decade or two but millions of years of computer time.
the Stanford group launched folding@home
Sony’s PlayStation 3 10 to 50 times faster than an ordinary PC. PlayStation 3 consoles account for only one fifth of machines running folding@ home, they account for two thirds of the project’s computing power.

stanford
see video of proteins "trying" to fold - spooky
youtube
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Asteroid 2007 WD5 — is similar in size to the object that carved Meteor Crater into northern Arizona some 50,000 years ago and is approaching Mars at about 30,000 miles per hour (48,280 kph). 6% chance of impact this month?
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NY Times on Bangkok street food

nytimes
Raan Jay Fai, 327 Mahachai Road, (66-2) 223-9384, is near Wat Saket in the older part of Bangkok
Nguan Lee, corner of Soi Lang Suan and Soi Sarasin, is in the central business district; (66-2) 250-0936.
Chote Chitr, Prang Pu Thorn alley, off Tanao Road, is in the old part of Bangkok.
Samosa seller: near the corner of Phahurat and Chakraphet Roads in Little India. Look for a small alley with a sign above it that says “Sunny Video Indian Movies.” Often open only during the daytime.
The best areas for street snacks include the side streets off of Yaowarat Road, in Chinatown; Talad Loong Perm (Loong Perm market), on 89 Vibhavadi-Rangsit Road, is in the northern part of Bangkok, just behind the Thai Airways building.

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Ed Hillary, biomass, Alzheimer’s, Diyala ied, Protein folding