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Warning: Bad Attitude

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More Than Two Extinct Species Per Year In England

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 8:08am GMT by Dean

More than two animals and plants a year are becoming extinct in England and hundreds more are severely threatened, a report published today reveals. Natural England, the government’s agency responsible for the countryside, said the biggest national study of threats to biodiversity found nearly 500 species that had died out in England, all but a dozen [...]

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Vote Monster Raving Loony

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Into The Blood

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:14pm GMT by Dean

Almost always I feel peaceful after meditation. I’m more focused and aware as I get about my tasks. Sometimes, I feel like I’m cruising about on an invisible Segway; at other times, I get a rush of energy which requires managing. It’s often creative, but also, despite the ongoing and increased calm which meditation brings – [...]
Fire!

Posted: March 9th, 2010, 7:14pm GMT by Dean

It started with a bleep bleep bleep… Posted via email from Dean Whitbread

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Fear

Posted: March 9th, 2010, 9:44am GMT by Dean

I’m told that I’m quite brave. Certainly I am socially unafraid. However, I did spend a week climbing Cornish sea cliffs once, which I loved, except I forgot to pull out the climbing gear, and being the last one up, I had to go back down the overhang I had just overcome, pull out the [...]
Met Office: 100 Studies Show Evidence of Man-Made Climate Change

Posted: March 9th, 2010, 8:06am GMT by Dean

It is an "increasingly remote possibility" that human activity is not the main cause of climate change, according to a major Met Office review of more than 100 scientific studies that track the observed changes in the Earth’s climate system. The research will strengthen the case for human-induced climate change against sceptics who [...]
Extinctions Moving Faster Than Evolution

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 9:05am GMT by Dean

For the first time since the dinosaurs disappeared, humans are driving animals and plants to extinction faster than new species can evolve, one of the world’s experts on biodiversity has warned. Conservation experts have already signalled that the world is in the grip of the "sixth great extinction" of species, driven by the destruction [...]
Lost and Found

Posted: March 7th, 2010, 6:34pm GMT by Dean

I found this little scrap of paper while I’ve been going through the many boxes which filled when I started refurbishing my place back in September. I locked up memories, everything from the meaningless to the irreplaceable, in no particular order, mixing the important and unimportant according to size, just to get it out [...]

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Metamaterials: The Next Photonics Revolution

Posted: March 7th, 2010, 10:08am GMT by Dean

Phil Saunders of SpaceChannel.org and Nikolay Zheludev of the University of Southampton, U.K., have graciously permitted OPN to reproduce this fascinating video, which is related to Zheludevs October OPN feature on metamaterial-induced transparency. It explores the science behind metamaterials-crystalline-like sub-wavelength arrangements of electromagnetic resonators that can exhibit exotic optical properties such as negative refraction and [...]
Dark Dangerous Asteroids Near Earth

Posted: March 5th, 2010, 3:56pm GMT by Dean

An infrared space telescope has spotted several very dark asteroids that have been lurking unseen near Earth’s orbit. Their obscurity and tilted orbits have kept them hidden from surveys designed to detect things that might hit our planet. Called the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), the new NASA telescope launched on 14 December on [...]
Just Broke (4 Deaths)

Posted: March 4th, 2010, 8:58am GMT by Dean

Nice bloke Back of his throat Just broke Made him choke Dreadful scene Left his greens Chips, bacon, beans Aged 12, 14 Nice old git Stuck around a bit Sudden fit That was it Swallowed his tongue Collapsed his lung He wasn’t young Can’t have been fun Nice young man Suntan Chelsea fan Transit van Went back Sudden crack Caught him smack IKEA flat-pack Nice old dear Tad queer Front and rear Dodgy beer Overnight Drowned in shite Dog died of fright Awful sight
Chilean Earthquake Shifted Earth’s Axis, Created Shorter Days

Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 12:49pm GMT by Dean

The earthquake that struck Chile on Saturday may have shifted the Earth’s axis and created shorter days, according to scientists at Nasa. Richard Gross, a geophysicist at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said the 8.8 magnitude quake could have moved the Earth’s axis by 2.7 milliarcseconds (about 8cm) – enough to shorten [...]
Liberation

Posted: March 1st, 2010, 2:13am GMT by Dean

How do you describe liberation to somebody who has never experienced it? It’s a tough one, that. My mother lost her partner, her soul mate, my father, just over six months ago, and in the time since then, we’ve had a series of remarkable conversations. I’m minded to let our conversations branch wherever they will and to [...]
Caribou – Skunks (The Pink Room)

Posted: March 1st, 2010, 1:29am GMT by Dean

I love Blip.FM – the greatest music discovery channel ever invented. Here’s a wonderful track by my new favourite band, Caribou, aka Dan Snaith. Posted via email from Dean Whitbread

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CDL: 25 A rush of endorphins

Posted: February 28th, 2010, 6:41pm GMT by info@cinema-du-lyon.eu (Cinema du Lyon)

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A combatant must pay a physiological price for an enervating process so intense. The “price” that the body pays is an equally powerful “backlash” when the neglected demands of the parasympathetic nervous system become ascendant. This parasympathetic backlash occurs as soon as the danger and the excitement is over, and it takes the form of an incredibly powerful weariness and sleepiness on the part of the person.

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Les Oiseaux de Céleste

Posted: February 27th, 2010, 4:30pm GMT by Dean

French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways. For his installation in The Curve, Boursier-Mougenot creates a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other musical instruments. As the birds go about their routine activities, perching [...]
Albert Lewis: The Follow Up

Posted: February 27th, 2010, 1:47pm GMT by Dean

-- Sent from a tip-of-my-tongue organic speaking device ® See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from Dean Whitbread

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Theatre Ceiling

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Massive Iceberg “May Disrupt Ocean Currents”

Posted: February 26th, 2010, 7:20am GMT by Dean

A vast iceberg which broke off the Antarctic continent this month could disrupt the world’s ocean currents and weather patterns, scientists warn. Australian researchers say the iceberg – the size of Luxembourg – could block an area that produces a quarter of the world’s dense and very cold seawater. They say a slowdown [...]
Albert Lewis, Tech Support Champion

Posted: February 25th, 2010, 5:14pm GMT by Dean

Chat Information – Thank you for contacting support. Please be prepared to answer your Security Question when we begin chatting. To enhance our security protocols, we’ll need you to provide the answer to your Security Question at the beginning of our conversation. If you have not yet set your Security Question and Answer, please log [...]
Plastic “Rubbish Patch” Found in Atlantic Ocean

Posted: February 25th, 2010, 8:03am GMT by Dean

Scientists have discovered an area of the North Atlantic Ocean where plastic debris accumulates. The region is said to compare with the well-documented "great Pacific garbage patch". Dr Karen Lavender Law of the Sea Education Association said that the pieces of plastic she and her team picked up in the nets were generally very small [...]
What is the Fastest Land Mammal?

Posted: February 24th, 2010, 9:40pm GMT by Dean

Q: What is the fastest land mammal? A: The usual answer is the cheetah. But the actual answer is the whale. We never see it onland because unknown to science, it also has the power of invisibility. Posted via email from Dean Whitbread
Man Falls Over In Tweet

Posted: February 24th, 2010, 9:35pm GMT by Dean

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10 Reasons Why Lists Fail

Posted: February 24th, 2010, 1:19pm GMT by Dean

1. Lists 2. Are 3. The 4. Refuge 5. Of 6. The 7. Insecure 8. And 9. Lazy 10. There is no ten… (Originally from Tips for Speakers) Posted via email from Dean Whitbread
Almost Birthday Present

Posted: February 24th, 2010, 10:26am GMT by Dean

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Deliberately Unfunny Joy

Posted: February 22nd, 2010, 11:47am GMT by Dean

Am I the only one to derive enormous pleasure from constructing and telling deliberately unfunny jokes? I do it often, it really makes me laugh, knowing that nobody else will laugh, and that the joke is utterly pointless, except for making me laugh, at which it excels admirably. I generate a variety of blank looks, half-smiles, [...]

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Consumerism: Desires Overshadowing Needs

Posted: February 21st, 2010, 11:07am GMT by Dean

Sometimes comments are better than the article. David Mitchell in The Observer, writing on corporations using children to market brands to children, provoked this succinct comment from “HiddenLaserTrap” : There was a time when products were advertised and sold purely for their functional value. This changed In America after the war when the corporations still had a [...]