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Bruce Sterling: Cosmic Reality Check
Surprise! Our little corner of the universe is even smaller than we thought.
By Bruce Sterling
Since the days of Galileo's telescope, new and better scientific instruments have steadily transformed our conception of the universe. Now we've got the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe. This superb gizmo, launched in June 2001, is floating 1 million miles from Earth in the second Lagrange Point, measuring the density of the universe with unheard-of digital accuracy and sending data back to mission control.
Already, the probe's findings have provided a few salient new notions about the nature of cosmic reality. For starters, the universe is 13.7 billion years old. Unlike previous figures, this is not a rough estimate; the margin of error is about 1 percent. In addition, the universe is flat. Forget all that mind-boggling space-time-is-curved stuff. Euclid was right all along. And the space-time pancake will expand infinitely. There's no such thing as an end to this particular universe.
Now here's the really wacky part: Everything we're made of or can measure - from atoms to energy - is only 4 percent of the whole shebang. The rest is dark matter (about 23 percent) and, best of all, dark energy (73 percent).
...
Human societies are always reshaped by their concepts of the basic nature of the universe. Copernicus damaged the infallibility of the church; Newton laid the foundation for the Enlightenment; Einstein spurred moral relativism. What will we make of our new knowledge? Are there political implications to the idea that most of the universe is untouchable, endlessly expanding, scarcely knowable? Will we finally get over our obsession with static utopias, sudden armageddons, limits, and closure? Is there philosophical comfort to be found in a silent, never-ending steady bang?...
October 28, 2003
Marijuana smoking damages sperm
BBC NEWS | Health | Marijuana smoking damages sperm
Men who smoke marijuana frequently damage their fertility in several different ways, research suggests.
Scientists at Buffalo University found regular smokers had significantly less seminal fluid, and a lower sperm count.
Their sperm were also more likely to swim too fast too early, leading to burn-out before they reach the egg.
Lead researcher Dr Lani Burkman said: "The bottom line is, the active ingredients in marijuana are doing something to sperm."
September 30, 2003
Shocking New Jacket Hits Street
Shocking New Jacket Hits Street
A new anti-assault device for women wards off potential assailants with an 80,000-volt electric shock.
Dubbed "exo-electric armor," the No-Contact Jacket looks like an ordinary fashionable women's coat. But an inner layer of conductive fiber carries a low-amp charge that delivers a nasty but non-lethal shock to anyone who messes with its wearer.
"It's kind of like sticking your finger in a wall socket," said Adam Whiton, one of its designers. "It hurts. If someone tries to grab you from behind, they get the full, hefty shock out of it. That's really painful."
Designed by Whiton, an industrial designer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Yolita Nugent, head designer at Advanced Research Apparel, the jacket is intended to be an alternative to handguns, pepper sprays and rape whistles.
Read It Rating: 7.5
Left/Right Rating: 0
Freedom Rating: 2
Learning Percentage: 95%
August 15, 2003
Record blackout strikes Northeast
Quite a bit of detail about the immediate impact of the outage in this articleWorldNetDaily: Record blackout strikes Northeast
Posted: August 14, 2003
10:00 p.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
The largest power outage in U.S. history blacked out the Northeast this afternoon, affecting an estimated 50 million people, including residents of New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut, Ottawa, Toronto, Cleveland and Detroit.
...
July 27, 2003
Whales May Have Been More Plentiful Than Once Thought
Whales May Have Been More Plentiful (washingtonpost.com)
Scientists may have profoundly underestimated the number of whales that once lived in the North Atlantic Ocean, a controversial finding that could have critical implications for the future of whaling and whale conservation, a new genetic study concludes.
The gulf between the new estimates and those from existing historical-statistical studies is so vast -- a difference of several hundred thousand animals -- that it has already provoked a spirited debate over scientists' techniques in gathering and analyzing the data.
...
Roman and Palumbi analyzed DNA from three species of North Atlantic whales and found the genetic variation to be unexpectedly high in all cases -- a result indicating that before commercial whaling began in the 17th and 18th centuries there was a much larger pool of animals than historical records suggest.
In fact, the authors report today in the journal Science, their analysis showed that the pre-whaling, or "historic," population of humpback whales in the North Atlantic was 240,000, 12 times as many as the current historical-statistical estimate of 20,000. There are about 10,000 now.
Read It Rating: 7.5
Left/Right Rating: 0
Freedom Rating: 1
Learning Percentage: 90%
Marijuana smoking damages sperm
BBC NEWS | Health | Marijuana smoking damages sperm
Men who smoke marijuana frequently damage their fertility in several different ways, research suggests.
Scientists at Buffalo University found regular smokers had significantly less seminal fluid, and a lower sperm count.
Their sperm were also more likely to swim too fast too early, leading to burn-out before they reach the egg.
Lead researcher Dr Lani Burkman said: "The bottom line is, the active ingredients in marijuana are doing something to sperm."
Shocking New Jacket Hits Street
Shocking New Jacket Hits Street
A new anti-assault device for women wards off potential assailants with an 80,000-volt electric shock.
Dubbed "exo-electric armor," the No-Contact Jacket looks like an ordinary fashionable women's coat. But an inner layer of conductive fiber carries a low-amp charge that delivers a nasty but non-lethal shock to anyone who messes with its wearer.
"It's kind of like sticking your finger in a wall socket," said Adam Whiton, one of its designers. "It hurts. If someone tries to grab you from behind, they get the full, hefty shock out of it. That's really painful."
Designed by Whiton, an industrial designer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Yolita Nugent, head designer at Advanced Research Apparel, the jacket is intended to be an alternative to handguns, pepper sprays and rape whistles.
Read It Rating: 7.5
Left/Right Rating: 0
Freedom Rating: 2
Learning Percentage: 95%
August 15, 2003
Record blackout strikes Northeast
Quite a bit of detail about the immediate impact of the outage in this articleWorldNetDaily: Record blackout strikes Northeast
Posted: August 14, 2003
10:00 p.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
The largest power outage in U.S. history blacked out the Northeast this afternoon, affecting an estimated 50 million people, including residents of New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut, Ottawa, Toronto, Cleveland and Detroit.
...
July 27, 2003
Whales May Have Been More Plentiful Than Once Thought
Whales May Have Been More Plentiful (washingtonpost.com)
Scientists may have profoundly underestimated the number of whales that once lived in the North Atlantic Ocean, a controversial finding that could have critical implications for the future of whaling and whale conservation, a new genetic study concludes.
The gulf between the new estimates and those from existing historical-statistical studies is so vast -- a difference of several hundred thousand animals -- that it has already provoked a spirited debate over scientists' techniques in gathering and analyzing the data.
...
Roman and Palumbi analyzed DNA from three species of North Atlantic whales and found the genetic variation to be unexpectedly high in all cases -- a result indicating that before commercial whaling began in the 17th and 18th centuries there was a much larger pool of animals than historical records suggest.
In fact, the authors report today in the journal Science, their analysis showed that the pre-whaling, or "historic," population of humpback whales in the North Atlantic was 240,000, 12 times as many as the current historical-statistical estimate of 20,000. There are about 10,000 now.
Read It Rating: 7.5
Left/Right Rating: 0
Freedom Rating: 1
Learning Percentage: 90%
Record blackout strikes Northeast
Quite a bit of detail about the immediate impact of the outage in this articleWorldNetDaily: Record blackout strikes Northeast
Posted: August 14, 2003
10:00 p.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
The largest power outage in U.S. history blacked out the Northeast this afternoon, affecting an estimated 50 million people, including residents of New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut, Ottawa, Toronto, Cleveland and Detroit.
...
Whales May Have Been More Plentiful Than Once Thought
Whales May Have Been More Plentiful (washingtonpost.com)
Scientists may have profoundly underestimated the number of whales that once lived in the North Atlantic Ocean, a controversial finding that could have critical implications for the future of whaling and whale conservation, a new genetic study concludes.
The gulf between the new estimates and those from existing historical-statistical studies is so vast -- a difference of several hundred thousand animals -- that it has already provoked a spirited debate over scientists' techniques in gathering and analyzing the data.
...
Roman and Palumbi analyzed DNA from three species of North Atlantic whales and found the genetic variation to be unexpectedly high in all cases -- a result indicating that before commercial whaling began in the 17th and 18th centuries there was a much larger pool of animals than historical records suggest.
In fact, the authors report today in the journal Science, their analysis showed that the pre-whaling, or "historic," population of humpback whales in the North Atlantic was 240,000, 12 times as many as the current historical-statistical estimate of 20,000. There are about 10,000 now.
Read It Rating: 7.5
Left/Right Rating: 0
Freedom Rating: 1
Learning Percentage: 90%
