When the Vatican rubbishes your science you should know to give up.
“If the model proposed by Darwin is not considered sufficient, one should search for another,” he said in the paper. “But it is not correct from a methodological point of view to stray from the field of science while pretending to do science. It only creates confusion between the scientific plane and those that are philosophical or religious.”
Technorati tag: Intelligent Design, Creationism, Vatican
Providing they don’t screw it up Universal music are about to do the best thing for the music industry in years. They are to release 100,000 plus deleted tracks on the internet. Somebody must have read about the Long Tail.
Technorati tag: Music
The 2012 Olympics could be spoiled by sewage overflowing from London’s drains.
The Olympics site is close to the biggest sewage overflow pumping station in London. The tideway group warned last November that there was currently a 100% chance of sewage overflows in the area between May and October.
To cope with the problem the tideway group recommended that the government build a £1.7bn “super sewer” under the Thames, stretching 22 miles from Hammersmith to Barking.
A scientist has experimented with a cryogenic fluid that will replace blood in trauma victims, keeping them alive longer as they’re operated on.
Technorati tag: suspended animation
The BBC has advice for would be space tourists.
It is easy to forget that we are in space already. We are moving through it on a rocky globe that has sufficient gravity to hold us firmly to its surface.
Indeed, Earth has so much gravitational attraction that – unlike the Moon – it can hold down individual gas molecules and provide us with an atmosphere.
Technorati tag: Space
Scientists are beginning a three week experiment to better understand the formation process of tropical clouds. Better understandings of the factors involved will help build better models for predicting climate change.
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241,000 cubic metres of intermediate-level and 1,340 of high-level nuclear waste need disposal according to Nirex. The government adviser has published its latest inventory of current radioactive waste totals in the UK, and its forecast of waste totals to be created from the operation and decommissioning of existing nuclear facilities.
And if Tony Blair gets his way and restarts the UK’s nuclear industry there’ll be ever more of this stuff. I’m not as panicky as some about this, but we’re supposed to be cutting down on the pollutants we bequeath our children not increasing the volume of it.
John Dalton, Nirex corporate communications manager, said: “We have been generating this stuff for 50 years or so – surely we have responsibility to deal with the waste we have got now.
“We don’t want to just be passing it on to future generations.”
Technorati tag: Nuclear Power, Radioactive waste
Today is the first day of my Free Music Challenge and, following a hint from Lord Rich, I started at the Internet Archive with its netlabels collection. A couple of pieces of ambient and the whole of Wild About You! Tales from the Australian Rock Undergound 1963-68 seemed like a good start.
Technorati tag: Music, Internet Archive