-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000301b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Portal to notices, excuses, overflow, links: http://skepticon.pitas.com * No island nations were submerged during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mt. Mayon Blows! Watch the devastation in the privacy of your own bedroom: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_660000/660943.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Sunspots and Human Behavior. The recent Solar Maximum gives us a wonderful opportunity to observe the Sun in action. Borderland Sciences has been investigating the relationship of the Sun and human behaviour for many years, and we are quite confident that we can predict behaviours based on sunspot fluctuations over very short and long durations within the Solar Cycle of 11 years. http://www.borderlands.com/sun/sunspots.htm @ Sunspots & Disease: http://www.knowledge.co.uk/frontiers/sf034p12.html : Have you predicted any human/inhuman behaviours lately? How do you behave? Do you experience 11-year mood swings? Are you peaking now? Have you taken your thorazine/dilantin/prozac/lithium? Will you share it with us? How much? @ Sunspot Cycles and Activist Strategy: http://www.kreative.net/carolmoore/sunspot-article.html @ Solar Activity and Bursts of Human Creativity: http://www.knowledge.co.uk/frontiers/sf067p17.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # San Francisco sets rain record - "This f*ckin' place is wetter than my limo's bar!" said Hizzoner Willie Brown, wringing out his custom-made fedora. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564650460-7bd # Sunniest winter for England and Wales. Last winter saw the most sunshine since records began in England & Wales, but more rain fell too, especially in Scotland. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_662000/662062.stm : Has your climate changed lately? Are you adapting to totally unexpected weather patterns? Are you developing new crops/resorts/ports? Do the voices in your head provide excellent advise? Do humans have a future on Earth?? # Global Warming: Contrarian View. Skeptics cast doubt on the idea of global warming by noting that measurements taken by earth satellites since 1979 have found little or no temperature rise in much of the upper atmosphere. http://nytimes.com/library/national/science/022900sci-environ-climate.html # Paradise Lost: Global Warming Claims Another Victim. The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has disappeared under high waves in the last lunation, cutting short its bid to become the 189th member of the United Nations. Regrets. http://www.afr.com.au:80/content/000225/world/world3.html : Has your low-lying region disappeared under the ocean lately? D'ya have a canoe? Is global warming illusory; inevitable; benefiting Reptoids; caused by volcanism, hydrocarbons/pollution, divine will, political posturing, me? # Guatemala Declares Red Alert As Volcano Erupts http://news.excite.com/news/r/000301/01/science-guatemala-volcano # Philippine Volcano Spews Boulders As Big As Houses http://news.excite.com/news/r/000301/06/science-philippines-volcano # Three Icelanders Missing As Snow Hits Volcano Area http://news.excite.com/news/r/000228/09/science-iceland-volcano _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Post-Chernobyl Genetic Disaster In Belarus. MINSK (Reuters) - Post-Soviet Belarus has been plunged into a demographic disaster, with soaring levels of infertility & genetic changes 14 years after the Chernobyl disaster in neighbouring Ukraine. http://planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=5847 # I'LL TAKE ONE WITH A GENIUS IQ & A JUMP SHOT, ANOTHER WHO'S GOOD AT CHESS ... Would you like to "design" your children? The ability to select the genes for our descendants may be here in the near future. Should we hold off on this technology while we debate its ethics? "Designer Mutants" -- http://healthcentral.com/columnists/JoeFlower/JoeFlowerFullText.cfm?ID=28003 : What's your favorite genetic change? Was/is it random/controlled? Control- led by whom? For whose benefit? Have you controlled any genetic change late- ly? Did you need/get help? From whom? What was the tradeoff? And who loses? @ The Egyptians had help building the pyramids; and Atlantis existed: http://www.grahamhancock.com [thanks, Chris -- sorry for the delay] @ "Don´t bite my finger; look where I am pointing." W.McCulloch: http://www.vordenker.de/metaphysics/metaphysics.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # E. coli more common than thought. (AP) - About half the cattle in US feed lots carry the deadly E. coli bacteria during the summer - making it at least 10 times more common than previously thought. Eat much more tofu: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564649812-3e6 # New mammal found in Andes. (BBC) US researchers have found a new rodent living in Peruvian mountains. But it was quickly devoured by French gour- mets. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_659000/659849.stm : Have you eaten any meat/flesh lately? Is it risky? D'ya relish the risks? Have you genetically engineered any animals/fish/birds/bugs/bacteria/fungi for better eating? How do they taste? How do YOU taste? D'ya need BBQ sauce? # RISKS! RISKS! RISKS! RISKS! http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/20.82.html @ DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE CHICKEN WHOSE KIDNEY WAS STOLEN? Net Hoax Watch: http://healthcentral.com/centers/onecenter.cfm?center=Internet_Hoax_Watch # GM Canola Turns Into Herbicide-Resistant 'Frankenweeds': http://www.sightings.com/politics6/frnkenweed.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Reality Check - The Bull, The Cape, & The Matador. What do we see? We see the raging bull - the people of America. We see a matador standing there, cool & untouched. The matador is waving a cape in front of the US people which continues to draw their ire & anger, or lulls them into complacency and a false sense of security. The American people, because they haven't been given the facts & truth about the privately owned "Fed," the IRS, the UN, social security & other key mechanisms of the masters of this proposed one-world government, continue to huff and puff at the cape. Sometimes they even charge the cape. http://www.sightings.com/politics6/bull.htm : Do you know the truth? Would you know the truth if it bit your ass? Are you truthful? Have you bitten anyone's ass? Did they bite back? Is reality anything that bites your ass? Do we all have toothmarks in our butts? Why? # Pres. 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