SkeptiNews 000627d - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/26_06_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No missile critics were silenced during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFO Conference At University Of Wyoming - UFOlogoists Swarm Over Laramie! LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) - UFO theorists have been descending on a conference at the U. of Wyoming. http://www.trib.com/HOMENEWS/WYO/UFOConference.html # Are jet contrails a threat? http://straightdope.com/columns/000616.html # MERCY KILLINGS AND THE CULLING OF THE ELDERLY - they're old - nobody will miss them - prepare the hypo: http://www.sightings.com/general2/euth.htm # Euthanasia machine comes to UK: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10028354 # Animal Genocide? Who's next? http://www.dwe.csiro.au/crcs/vbc/detail.htm # It's a wrap for modern mummies: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10027780 # MUMMIFICATION FOR A PRICE: http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGIQIE0CZ9C.html # Get Yourself Mummified, Eh? http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10027745 # Do tinfoil helmets provide adequate protection against mind control rays? How much do I need? Why? http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000609.html : Would'ya rather euthenize UFOlogists/seniors/Egyptians/mindcontrollers/me? Have you wrapped any tinfoil around your mummy's head lately? Do chemtrails mess up your UFOs paint? Have you culled any universities lately? Which?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Genes'R'Us: # BLUEPRINT OF THE BODY: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/genome/ # Genetic Discrimination Fears. What happens if there's a genetic revolution in medicine and nobody shows up? Experts worry that patients won't want to use new biotec if jobs/insurance are threatened by genetic discrimination. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000626/11/genetic-discrimination # Big Changes for Small Medicine. Researchers designing atomic materials to cure disease must understand other disciplines. Learn from watching how nature works. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37247,00.html # Chromosome 22 Sheds Light On Translocations - hotspot for heart defects, leukemias and schizophrenia. http://unisci.com/stories/20002/0627001.htm # Colorblindness gene identified - end of a 30-year search - whew: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567666160-b8e # Whose Genes Are They, Anyway? The human genome may be mapped, but there's still a mystery to be solved. Where did all that DNA come from? http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37216,00.html?tw=wn20000627 # Adam and Eve Mystery - Did Eve come before Adam? Adam and Eve would have had a tough time getting together. They may have lived in different eras. Genetic evidence suggests: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/adam.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Powering up the Grid. Supercomputer centres around the world are linking up over the Internet to create a new generation of enormously powerful ma- chines. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_806000/806410.stm # Also - link - link - link - Seti@home gets an upgrade - link - link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_613000/613444.stm # Screensaver to predict climate change - micros of the world, unite: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_473000/473856.stm # Germany Wants Hate Crackdown - 'What is forbidden offline must be forbid- den online' -- http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37251,00.html # White House on Cookies: Doh! But we won't do it again. Well, not much: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37233,00.html?tw=wn20000627 : Have you linked y'rself into the global supersystem yet? Is your pacemaker spamming you? Does y'r fridge get hatemail? Is y'r fax searching for aliens? Are you wired so tight that you'll never break free? Do you call it slavery? # Amartya Sen's economics goes beyond the realm of private consumption out into the real world, where families and friends have claims on us. http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/highlights/sen/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ WacoRama: # Witness heard Davidian say,'Light the fire.' A member of the Branch David- ians testified he heard a fellow sect member say, "Light the fire," just minutes before their wood-frame HQ erupted in flames on 19 Apr 1993, near Waco TX. http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/nation/docs/natdig27.htm # Witness sez Koresh never called feds 'The Beast.' A former Branch Davidian whose pregnant daughter died in the fire that brought an end to the sect's 51-day standoff with federal agents testified that David Koresh never lab- eled the agents enemies. http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10028668 # FEDS AGGRAVATED WACO FIRE. Tanks smashing holes into the Branch Davidian complex contributed to the fire: http://chblue.com/Article.asp?ID=366 # Fire expert testifies at Waco trial - 'Yup, it was a fire, all right' Hot: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567669543-db4 # Who started Waco fire? Expert for sect says govt missed potential ignition sources: http://dallasnews.com/waco/102615_waco_27tex.ART.html # Heard "rushing, screaming, crying" www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10022830 # Waco Trial Focuses on Tanks: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10020979 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Indonesia Muslim-Christian fighting spirals out of control. Church demands UN intervention: www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567667052-968 # Legality of church health plans: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10024601 # NEW TYPE OF VACATION: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4334 # Gorbachev Visits Vatican: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10029339 @ Are there jokes in the Bible? http://straightdope.com/classics/a5_244.html # RELATIONS BETWEEN HOLY SEE AND COMMUNIST STATES (1963 - 1989) - "The Martyrdom of Patience" http://ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4387 # Allies Knew Nazi Plan for Italian Jews - "thorough eradication" was no secret -- http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000627/hi_nazis.html # EXCOMMUNICATION WARNING FOR CHINESE CATHOLICS - straighten up or go to Hell, you commies: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4325 # At Sanger, Science Is Religion. From its ornate, stained-glass entrance to the reverential atmosphere of its employees, England's Sanger Centre -- whose scientists helped map the human genome -- is nearly a religious experience. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37229,00.html : What's your favorite religious experience? D'ya feel mystical when you do science/politics/art/sex/war/genocide/demagoguery? Have you excommunicated/ sequenced/compromised/martyred/erased anyone lately? Did spirits move you?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiBlinks: # UNDERSEA MOUNTAINS YIELD LIVING 'FOSSILS.' Between the devil and the deep blue Coral and Tasman seas bordering New Caledonia & Tasmania, scientists have discovered hundreds of new species on extinct underwater volcanoes rising from the sea floor. Traces of lost civilizations have been covered over: http://CNN.com/2000/NATURE/06/26/living.fossils.enn/index.html # Solving a Solar Magnetic Mystery www.alienzoo.com/news/y/200006230008.cfm # Winning the Next Space Race. Representatives of the nascent space-tourism industry paint a rosy picture of its future, while critiquing government policies that hold back entrepreneurial opportunities in the U.S. Tax me: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37236,00.html?tw=wn20000627 # UN report predicts AIDS will kill half the teens in some African nations - kiss the continent bye-bye: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10029628 # INFECTED ARMY DOCTOR HANDLED BIOLOGICAL TOXINS WITHOUT PROTECTION. 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