WILLS POINT, Tex. — Most spiders are solitary creatures. So the discovery of a vast web crawling with millions of spiders that is spreading across several acres of a North Texas park is causing a stir among scientists, and park visitors. Sheets of web have encased several mature oak trees and are thick enough in places to block out the sun along a nature trail at Lake Tawakoni State Park, near this town about 50 miles east of Dallas. The gossamer strands, slowly overtaking a lakefront peninsula, emit a fetid odor, perhaps from the dead insects entwined in the silk. The web whines with the sound of countless mosquitoes and flies trapped in its folds. Allen Dean, a spider expert at Texas A&M University, has seen a lot of webs, but even he described this one as ‘rather spooky, kind of like Halloween.’ Mr. Dean and several other scientists said they had never seen a web of this size outside of the tropics, where the relatively few species of ‘social’ spiders that build communal webs are most active. Norman Horner, emeritus professor of biology at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Tex., was one of […]
VAXJO, Sweden –It doesn’t look like the heart of a green revolution. The smoke stacks stick up jarringly above the line of pine trees and don’t make for the most scenic view as you meander around the clear blue waters of the nearby lake. But it is this power plant that has helped the small Swedish city of Växjö (pronounced vek-shur) become arguably the greenest place in Europe. On closer observation, the only thing emerging from the chimneys is the faintest wisp of steam. And inside it smells more like a sauna than a furnace. That’s because it is not oil fuelling the plant, but woodchip and other wood waste from the area’s sawmills. And as well as generating electricity, it also supplies 90 per cent of this southern Swedish town with heating and hot water. ‘We are in the middle of the woodshed and we wanted to take advantage of that,’ explained Tommy Sandh, who works in the control room. The gases produced as the wood burns are condensed into liquid form, and are purified before they reach the chimney. And instead of dumping this liquid, the power plant pumps it around town. Some gushes piping […]
WASHINGTON — Some 60 percent of those asked told a UPI-Zogby International poll they believe U.S. forces are policing a civil war in Iraq and not fighting al-Qaida. Sectarian fighting between Sunni and Shiite sects of Islam has marked much of the violence in Iraq but there is also the presence of the group al-Qaida in Iraq, which has been blamed for many terror attacks. However, the sectarian attacks often are the most dramatic and grab the attention of the public. That is perhaps why 34.6 percent of poll respondents said they strongly agreed that the U.S. military is policing a civil war. Another 22.7 percent said they somewhat agreed with the statement. Meanwhile, 21.6 percent strongly disagreed and 14.1 percent somewhat disagreed, seeing the fight as against al-Qaida. More than half — 53.7 percent — of participants strongly agreed and 25.5 percent somewhat agreed that the United States should withdraw its troops if the Iraqi leadership requested such a move. Also, 53.4 percent of those asked (40.8 percent strongly disagreed and 12.6 percent somewhat disagreed) refuted a statement that the United States has lost the war in Iraq. A total of 6,711 U.S. […]
DNA Can Be Influenced And Reprogrammed By Words And Frequencies Russian DNA Discoveries. The human DNA is a biological Internet and superior in many aspects to the artificial one. The latest Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains phenomena such as clairvoyance, intuition, spontaneous and remote acts of healing, self healing, affirmation techniques, unusual light, auras around people, namely spiritual masters, the minds influence on weather patterns and much more. In addition, there is evidence for a whole new type of medicine in which DNA can be influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies WITHOUT cutting out and replacing single genes. Only 10% of our DNA is being used for building proteins. It is this subset of DNA that is of interest to western researchers and is being examined and categorized. The other 90% are considered ‘junk DNA. The Russian researchers, however, convinced that nature was not dumb, joined linguists and geneticists in a venture to explore those 90% of ‘junk DNA’. Their results, findings and conclusions are simply revolutionary! According to them, our DNA is not only responsible for the construction of our body but also serves as data storage and communication. The Russian linguists […]
A record number of Americans are without health insurance, according to new U.S. Census Bureau statistics released Tuesday. Some of the trend can be explained by employers who are curtailing coverage or making it too costly for lower income workers to afford, the report said. ‘The number of people without health insurance coverage increased from 44.8 million in 2005 to 47 million in 2006,’ David S. Johnson, chief of the bureau’s Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division, said during a teleconference Tuesday. The percentage of Americans without health insurance rose to 15.8 percent in 2006 from 15.3 percent in 2005, Johnson added. ‘This is the second consecutive year of increase,’ he said. At the same time, the number of people with health insurance increased to 249.8 million in 2006, from 249 million in 2005. The number of Americans covered by private health insurance and government insurance remained about the same, according to the report, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2006. The problems of the uninsured are particularly acute among children. The percent and the number of children under 18 without health insurance increased to 11.7 percent from 10.9 percent from 2005 […]
Remote Viewing the Year 2060
