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Earth Day: the most crucial issue

Earth Day: the most crucial issueFinally!Finally, Mr Fuller... something I agree with you 101%. The earth is in danger of running out of resources and people continue to make children like the earth is limitless. I mean, come on people! What happens when we start a backslide of...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Scientific American, food

Discussion threads 2009-04-22

Can Phishing Be Foiled?

Phish e-mails are constructed by con artists to look like legitimate communications, often from familiar and reputable companies, and usually ask victims to take urgent action to avoid a consequence or receive a reward. The desired response typically involves logging in to a Web site or calling a phone number...

Tags: Victim, Scientific American, Phishing, Cyberthreats, E-mail, Spam, Productivity, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications

White papers 2008-12-01

Shots without needles

Shots without needlesvaccinesVaccines adminstered using "particles smaller than atoms"??...so instead of the expense and hassle of a syringe all we need to do is strap a particle accelerator to our arms?....No needle story from Scientific American - Apr 2004This may be the same technology being developed. A story from Scientific...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, vaccine, Scientific American

Discussion threads 2006-04-19

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Human x-ray machines: Coming soon to an airport near you

X-ray screening is badHow about we just have everyone strip naked and pass all our cloths and carry-ons through the scanner instead? There's no such thing as privacy in the Nazi-run American airports anyway.RE: Human x-ray machines: Coming soon to an airport near youI'm just going to ask for...

Tags: Infirmary, Human x-ray machine, X-ray

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Washington: lots of talk about global warming

Fuller: Too many blogs about the LIE of global warming.Global warming b*llshit demolished:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1533290/Climate-chaos-Dont-believe-it.htmlGuys (or should I say - Fuller), stop LYING.Also, stop saying there's a problem and then coming up with burdening 'solutions' to non-existent problems. The latest FASCIST idea: Blame Children for 'global warming'. Yeah right.http://unitedfamiliesinternational.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/children-to-blame-for-climate-change/Fuller, why are you...

Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Science boycotts over envirnomental issues?

bad ideaSo, like, back in 1933, boycott Einstein and other scientists in Germany because you didn't like Nazi laws as of 1933?Probably not a good idea.Let's just boycott all other countries because they are all full of foreigners.Eco-worshippers are a bunch of crybabiesSure... let's boycott everyone that doesn't agree with...

Tags: boycott

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

(NASA spacecraft crashes into the moon)

Total Waste of MaterialLets see, we explode a bomb and crash a satellite into the moon to try and confirm whether or not water is on it. And for what purpose? To make another return trip to the moon? To build space colonies? We don't have...

Tags: spacecraft, NASA, Darwin

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

The Open College Textbook Act of 2009

ProfsWhat will the profs who force everyone to buy the latest edition of their own $125 textbook do now?Probably still the same thing.RE: The Open College Textbook Act of 2009You do know that this act will severely curtail the research that could lead to new curricula and textbooks?Why? It's because...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, textbook, Open College Textbook Act

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Are you worried that your cellphone is harming you?

The largest study showed cell users getting less cancerhttp://www.digitalsociety.org/2009/09/half-truths-on-cell-phone-dangers/The largest study showed cell users getting less cancer. I would trust the American Cancer Society before I trust the media who blindly report stories about electrosensitives without any fact checking.All this worry is over a little heat generated from the...

Tags: Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, cell phone, phone, radiation

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Works of Aristotle. FREE Author's biography & partial work in the trial 10.3 (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management

Software downloads 2009-09-10

Works of Aristotle. FREE Author's biography & partial work in the trial (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management

Software downloads 2009-09-10

Fossil fuel battle: who'll reign over America's energy future

Nothing but lies...When will this lie stop, no different than Lenin quoted, if you tell a lie enough it becomes the truth.There is NO evidence of this and it is ludicrous that everything will be electric. The power grid cannot even support what we have now, so now it is...

Tags: Obama, global warming, fossil fuel

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

iNews Green Tech 1.0 (Mobile)

iNews Green Tech gives access to feeds of green technology section. The purpose of the application is to give interest specific feeds in a single application. By default it provides news feeds of the India sections from Scientific American, CNET, Green Technology, Google, and Yahoo. It features offline reading, save...

Tags: Green Technology, Mobile, Newsfeed, PLAVEB

Software downloads 2009-09-05

U.N.'s Ban Ki-moon warns of 'abyss" and 'widespread disaster'

Dear Mr Fuller you have to understand a few thing WEll even if i find your post always refreshing and deeply educating you must understand this until there hurrican lvl 6and 7 or twister force 6 or 7 or all coastal area will be under...

Tags: Ban Ki-moon

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Ribosome damage=dead bees

Latest clue in the mystery of the dying honey bee colonies: damaged ribosomes. This genetic damage means the bees are less able to manufacture thr proteins they need to remain healthy and fight off potential infections. Here's "Scientific American" podcast with one of the researchers who discovered the...

Tags: Bee, Podcasts, Security, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-26

Colbert heats up global warming

Too funnySo, 350ppm means certain environmental disaster? And we're already above that? Hmmm...Back to the drawing board...I really REALLY resent the Chicken Littles running around screaming their heads off, and I'm gradually getting the feeling that, even if originally well-intentioned, they can't see the forest for the trees.What...

Tags: disclamer, Colbert, global warming, scientific community, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

Placing blame for the XTent failure

Science, Research, and Data Are Not To Blamefor these rest on the scientific method. Instead, other social factors are to blame:The irresponsibility of our public media in chronically sensationalizing news for the sake of entertaining rather than informing the public;The caution practicing physicians must exercise to avoid liability in...

Tags: comparative effectiveness, Paxil, XTent, stent

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Science v. public opinion

Is it a surprise that American public opinion and scientific opinion are often at great variance? The findings of a recent Pew survey show Americans are not in agreement with American science. Part of this is the current American media mix that treats every statement as...

Tags: Science, Opinion, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-27

We don't know what we don't know

We don't know what we don't knowShock! I thought the debate was over...You mean we really don't know everything? You mean we have no idea why more and more reliable scientific studies show that we are currently in a global cooling trend? You mean we don't know why there has...

Tags: carbon dioxide, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-07-14

BEIKS English Thesaurus for Windows Mobile Pocket PC 5.0 (Mobile)

Find the words you need quickly, easily and when you need them with this handy pocket thesaurus of modern American English! Help is only two taps away from within any other application with BDicty Dictionary Reader, which brongs the power and quality of the Princeton University's WordNet lexical database at...

Tags: Lexicon, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Microsoft Windows, BEIKS LLC, Pocket PC, Handhelds, Palm OS, Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Mobile Operating Systems, Hardware, Software, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-07-10