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4Jul06

03 May 2008

Cllimate Change, Waihopai , Rice, Colossal Squid

Global Warming has been cancelled:
...just kidding, folks. What this may mean is that absent record high temperatures soon, Climate Change campaigns may well falter. Which leaves us with the much more immanent Peak Oil crisis, the fear of which is causing food riots right now, even after a high global grain crop.
It seems civilization will fall due to fear of oil shortages, long before the crops wither they will lack trucks, or be converted to chimpy's ethanol.


we make the following forecast: over the next decade, the current Atlantic meridional overturning circulation will weaken to its long-term mean; moreover, North Atlantic SST and European and North American surface temperatures will cool slightly, whereas tropical Pacific SST will remain almost unchanged. Our results suggest that global surface temperature may not increase over the next decade, as natural climate variations in the North Atlantic and tropical Pacific temporarily offset the projected anthropogenic warming.
Advancing decadal-scale climate prediction in the North Atlantic sector
N. S. Keenlyside1, M. Latif1, J. Jungclaus2, L. Kornblueh2 & E. Roeckner2

nature
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Felt my first home-coming earthquake
# Reference Number: 2902957# NZST: Sat, May 3 2008 3:12 am# Magnitude: 4.0# Depth: 30 km# Details: 10 km west of Porirua
Only 2 seconds, but I definitely got shook...
geonet
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BLENHEIM, New Zealand, April 30 Waihopai spy base on a foggy night
Anzac Ploughshares spokesperson Manu Caddie said the three used wire cutters to cut through an electrified fence and razor wire, then evaded motion sensors before deflating the dome covering the satellite.
dishes.
Dominican Friar Father Peter Murnane, organic gardener Adrian Leason and Hokianga farmer Sam Land.

"Waihopai is not a US base but forms part of a US-led global intelligence sharing network known as the UKUSA alliance."
aka "echelon" - the absurd response of authority here is that Waihope doesnt collect NZ phone/emails. Only 'other nations' - so The Aussies collect ours from Intelsat 703 and its all sent to Room 641A in Folsom Street,
"ironically, using violent means to disable warplanes and military equipment. (NZHerald)"

- Nothing ironic here, the NZHerald evidently doesn't grasp the concept of non-violence. The only irony perhaps, is that the Dominicans 16th century were the torturers for the inquisition, and destroyers of indigenous cultures.
Father Murnane is redeeming this history by this magnificent act against the USA war machine. NZ is one of the very few nations that has no USA bases or ship visite, but some bases are local in name only.

aaa

Two 2m cuts were sufficient to deflate the dome. - the cost is claimed as $1M - perhaps its a Haliburton no-bid replacement? why not $20 of rubber cement, the cuts were presumably low, at the horizon level for the dish
fas
scoop

one word people: PGP. Actually since intercepts are kept based on automated key-words, any simple cipher would do.
Yesterday I heard someone tallkng on RNZ about Blackberrys, or rather he said "we wont talk about that", when the interviewer mentioned encryption.
So Balckberries are encrypted. It would be interesting to know if its more effective than GSM phones, which are almost real-time breakable, its said.
Blackberry state "Data remains encrypted in transit and is never decrypted outside of the corporate firewall." ... who would trust 'TotalInformationAwareness" not to suborn that corporate firewall. ie it seems you have to trust the key that youre given. I have no idea what users are doing vs point-to-point. I dont know how open theBerry OS is.
Blackberry also say
blackberry
"End-to-End Mode connections most appropriate for applications where only the transaction end-points are trusted."
which sounds good.

freeprotocols claim that BBerry being closed OS, cant be secure, but mobiletracker claims that "While there will be an extra cost associated with the service, PGP provides sender-to-recipient email security in the form of high-grade public key encryption." which sounds great. Caveat: I have never laid eyes on a BBerry.

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wordpress
Global rice stocks have halved since hitting a record high in 2001 while demand is continuing to rise
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RP, Philippines
The government aims to achieve 92.38-% sufficiency in rice production this year, rough rice production is projected 17.32 million metric tons.

..yield 4.04 metric tons per hectare from 3.07 metric tons in 2000. And rice production reached a record 16.24 million metric tons last year..
manilastandardtoday
RP spends $1.6B on rice subsidies, hoping to keep those 84M people quiet
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In Asia rice prices have almost tripled this year alone

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Russia is doing too little to reverse a critical decline in its population driven by increasing alcohol abuse, poor diet and social change, a United Nations report said. Karl Kulessa, the United Nations Population Fund’s chief in Russia, said Russia’s population could fall to 100 million, from 142 million, in 40 to 50 years. Russia lost 400,000 to 650,000 people a year from 1992 to 2006. Life expectancy for men among the population of 142 million was 55 years in the 1990s,
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aaa
"Ahmadinejad examined a carbon rotor for a new generation of centrifuges known as the IR-2,"
I hope this is a demo model.. The NYT goes on to say that some rotors failed due to imbalance from bacteria from ungloved workers hands.
- a terrific series of pics in the NYT, rubbing the USA's nose in it.
nytimes
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New Lead Level in USA
On Thursday, the E.P.A. proposed a standard between 0.1 and 0.3 micrograms per cubic meter, or one-5th to one-15th of the old level.

Senator Barbara Boxer, the California Democrat who is chairwoman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, said the proposed standard was not strict enough to protect children. “Once again, the Bush administration has failed to heed its scientists,” Mrs. Boxer said.
NYT
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yet another herb I've never smokled:
Subjective effects of Salvia divinorum
ncbi
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aaa
Collosal Squid thawes in Te Papa. Some disappointment it wasnt '20000 leagues' big but I got impressed by the rotating teeth on its tentacles
Te Papa webcams at
r2
- I havnt seen them, my phone bill is unpaid so my bandwidth is choked
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29 April 2008

Monsamto, Miley, xkcd, LHC

Even as the company is pushing its G.M. agenda, Monsanto is buying up conventional-seed companies. In 2005, Monsanto paid $1.4 billion for Seminis, which controlled 40 percent of the U.S. market for lettuce, tomatoes, and other vegetable and fruit seeds. Two weeks later it announced the acquisition of the country’s third-largest cottonseed company, Emergent Genetics, for $300 million. It’s estimated that Monsanto seeds now account for 90 percent of the U.S. production of soybeans...the largest seed company in the world.
[what happened to Cargills?]
vanityfair
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aaa
Miley
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xkcd
Hamiltonian
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xkcd
cinema

xkcd
crypto

aaa
Feynman

xkcd
dreaming

xkcd
Hamiltonian


aaa
pi


losanjealous

The Nietzsche Family Circus on war
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Professor Dr. Otto E. Roessler, Theorist Dr. Raj Baldev and others are warning of a very real, very possible, very present danger to the planet from the Large Hadron Collider.
wired
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27 April 2008

Fongoli chimp, Patti Smith, Eric Kande, Pepe Escobar

Meanwhile, Tumbo nonchalantly continues on her way, stopping frequently to eat (as is typical for her - I swear she eats more than any chimp I know!), seemingly without a care in the world for these 8 guys following her around. She does pay them a bit of attention at times, if you get my drift, but I wanted to write today about something else the males were very interested in.
One thing that makes the Fongoli chimps unique, compared to chimpanzee communities that have been studied elsewhere, is that they use caves for resting, feeding and socializing during the hottest times of the year
Jill Pruetz

Senegal Chimps in thet news:
(actually data from 2007, just now in Nat Geog.)
google
aaa
40 year old, too old to hunt, survives by cracking open fruit

aaa
They also cool off in caves

aaa
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bbc
the journal Current Biology.
.. 22 cases of chimps fashioning tools to jab at smaller primates sheltering in cavities of hollow branches or tree trunks.

The report's authors, Jill Pruetz and Paco Bertolani..Fongoli, Senegal, between March 2005 and July 2006.
..13 different hunting bouts. So it really is habitual."

Adolescent females exhibited the behaviour most frequently..n one case, Pruetz and Bertolani, from the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies in Cambridge, UK, witnessed a chimpanzee extract a bushbaby with a spear.

..Some chimps also sharpened the tip of the tool with their teeth.
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neurophilosophy
and tiling patterns
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pbs
ape genius
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nationalgeographic
the_hunting_chimpanzees

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Greene on Strings
brian_greene
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dreamoflifethemovie
Patti Smith
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Eric Kandel who won the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of learning and memory in the sea slug Aplysia californica.
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Al Sadr interview via Pepe Escobar a top journo
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Jellyfish explosion...
searchforvideo

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