Topic: Glaubensfragen - on January 28, 2009 at 11:41:00 AM CET
Attenborough reveals creationist hate mail for not crediting God
Sir David Attenborough has revealed that he receives hate mail from viewers for failing to credit God in his documentaries. In an interview with this week's Radio Times about his latest documentary, on Charles Darwin and natural selection, the broadcaster said: "They tell me to burn in hell and good riddance."
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 28, 2009 at 11:39:00 AM CET
Erstes Globales Forum von Produzenten illegalisierter Pflanzen vom 29-31.1.2009 in Barcelona/Spanien
Warum kultivieren Menschen in bestimmten Regionen der Welt Pflanzen, die von internationalen Verträgen als illegal deklariert wurden? Das ist die bestimmende Frage auf die das “Erste Globale Forum der Produzenten illegalisierter Pflanzen” (FMPCDI) eine Antwort zu geben versucht. Das Globale Forum findet vom 29. bis 31. Januar 2009 in Barcelona/Spanien statt.
Das FMPCDI soll ein Raum für Dialoge sein in dem die Teilnehmer ihre Erfahrungen austauschen, Probleme besprechen und ihre Situation reflektieren können. Es soll um zukünftige Zusammenarbeit gehen um die Menschenrechte in den betreffenden Gemeinschaften zu schützen und Modelle für nachhaltige Entwicklungen aufzuzeigen.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 28, 2009 at 11:37:00 AM CET
Marijuana Could Prevent Alzheimer's, New Study
A puff a day might keep Alzheimer's away, according to marijuana research by professor Gary Wenk and associate professor Yannic Marchalant of the Ohio State Department of Psychology. Wenk's studies show that a low dosage in the morning of a certain canavanoid, a component in marijuana, reversed memory loss in older rats' brains. In his study, an experimental group of old rats received a dosage, and a control group of rats did not. The old rats that received the drugs performed better on memory tests, and the drug slowed and prevented brain cell death.' My fine university's dollars at work!
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 27, 2009 at 5:16:00 PM CET
European Pot Smokers Map
According to this map, Denmark and France are the European countries with the highest percentage of people who use, or have used, cannabis during their adult lifetime. The French (scoring 30.6%) come second after the Danes (36.5%), but both countries pale in comparison with the world's happiest potsmoking nations, New-Zealand (41.9%) and the USA (42.4%).
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 27, 2009 at 4:18:00 PM CET
SPICE - weitere Analysenresultate
Bei den ersten Analysen von einigen wenigen SPICE-Proben war im OMCL das aus der Pharmaforschung stammende, patentgeschützte und nirgendwo zugelassene synthetische Cannabinoid JWH-018 identifiziert worden (AGES PharmMed berichtete). Deshalb wurden in Österreich sofort alle SPICE-Produkte verboten und zahlreiche Beschlagnahmen vorgenommen. Mit diesen großen und repräsentativen Probenmengen konnten weiterführende Analysen mit folgenden überraschenden Resultaten durchgeführt werden:
* Der Gehalt von JWH-018 zeigt ungewöhnlich hohe Schwankungen: Die Gehalts-bestimmungen von bisher 13 SPICE-Proben ergaben Werte von 0,06 bis 16 mg JWH-018/g Spice.
* Im Zuge dieser Analysen konnte ein weiteres synthetische Cannabinoid - CP47,497-Homologes - nachgewiesen werden. Dieser illegal in Spice enthaltene Wirkstoff stammt ebenfalls aus der Pharmaforschung und wird dzt. im OMCL aus den vorhandenen Proben für die geplanten Gehaltsbestimmungen isoliert.
Die zwei in SPICE enthaltenen synthetischen Cannabinoide haben deutlich höhere Aktivitäten als der natürliche Cannabis-Wirkstoff THC. Vor dem Konsum von Spice kann daher mehr denn je nur abgeraten werden.
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Topic: FUN - on January 27, 2009 at 1:40:00 PM CET
Where the streets have bad names
If you think that living in Penistone is tough, imagine if you live on a street named Butts Wynd (yes, a real one in St. Andrews, Scotland) or Dingleberry Road (in Iowa City, Iowa). This one to the left, Psycho Path (someone has a sense of humor) is in Traverse City, Michigan.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 27, 2009 at 1:33:00 PM CET
Video SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum
Massachusetts will have to wait a little longer for the state's first webstreamed case in Federal Court. Judge Nancy Gertner has postponed a hearing in a copyright infringement case against a Boston University graduate student, pending an appellate decision on whether the streaming should be permitted.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 27, 2009 at 1:32:00 PM CET
UK's Military Lost 440 Storage Devices in 2008
The UK's Ministry of Defense managed to "misplace" 217 laptops, 96 USB thumb drives, 80 hard drives and 47 desktop PCs in 2008. Last year was the worst on record for such losses, even though the department made an enormous effort to curtail such potential information leaks.
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Topic: NEWS - on January 26, 2009 at 3:38:00 PM CET
Auto stürzt nach 35-Meter-Flug in Kirchdach - Video
"So etwas habe ich noch nicht erlebt": Selbst Polizisten waren mehr als erstaunt darüber, was sie im sächsischen Limbach-Oberfrohna zu sehen bekamen: Ein Autofahrer war im Kirchendach gelandet - Folge überhöhter Geschwindigkeit.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on January 26, 2009 at 2:54:00 PM CET
Pope Reinstates Four Excommunicated Bishops
Pope Benedict XVI, reaching out to the far-right of the Roman Catholic Church, revoked the excommunications of four schismatic bishops on Saturday, including one whose comments denying the Holocaust have provoked outrage.
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Topic: Green - on January 26, 2009 at 1:29:00 PM CET
Amazing solar-powered fridge invented by British student in a potting shed helps poverty-stricken Africans
It's the kind of simple yet brilliant invention that would have the tycoons of Dragons' Den salivating with excitement.
Not only is the fridge solar powered, it can also be built from household materials - making it ideal for the Third World.
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Topic: MUSIK - on January 26, 2009 at 1:26:00 PM CET
Bill Gates' Plan To Destroy Music, Note By Note
Remember Mr. Microphone? If you thought music couldn't get worse, think again. Perhaps with the help of R&D tax credits, Microsoft Research has spawned Songsmith, software that automatically creates a tinny, childish background track for your singing. And as bad as the pseudo-infomercial was, the use of the product in the wild is likely to be even scarier, as evidenced by these Songsmith'ed remakes of music by The Beatles, The Police, and The Notorious B.I.G..
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