Global Warming Is It? (hurricane storms)
No commentsBy Shawn Wilson
The Environment is always a hot topic these days, more specifically, global warming.
It seems everyone from scientists, politicians and the media have their view and opinion on what global warming really is and what it is doing to our planet. One thing is consistent throughout - it’s a way to get the public’s attention. We are warned about the dangers of what global warming does and how we are responsible for it.
I for one do no doubt that if we take responsibility for our own waste that the world would be a better place to live in. No arguments there. What I am not convinced of is that ‘we’ are responsible for the rise in temperature that is causing “global warming”. I have read countless of published data wherein scientists vehemently disagree as to who the culprit is.
Some scientists agree that it is all part of the natural evolution of things and there is nothing we can do to prevent or stop Mother Nature from evolving at her own pace.
Others scientists, which are the ones that politicians and the media seem to focus on, who are also in the minority I might add, preach that we are responsible for the raising temperatures across the globe due to fossil fuels, garbage waste and debris; and then finally the remaining scientific groups who are sit on the fence because the have not gathered sufficient information in order to come to a proper consensus. It’s enough to drive anyone mad.
The unfortunate thing throughout all of this is that politicians have been using it as a ploy to get votes where otherwise there would have been none. It has turned into a vicious game and the media join in playing on the negativity surrounding the issue.
The government of course monopolizes this issue by quasi convincing the public that they have single handedly saved us from certain ‘doom’.
Unfortunately, perhaps the real truth of what exactly ‘global warming’ is, is hidden beneath all the lies, exaggerations, falsehoods and misrepresentations.
One cannot know for certain what the true explanation of global warming is, we can only continue to gather information and make informed decisions as to what and where the problem truly lies. Studies are still being conducted as to the nature of this phenomenon called global warming and we may not have conclusive hard evidence until many, many years from now.
The danger now lies with the probability that global warming being blamed on humanity to its exclusivity and will only encourage politicians and government groups to stake their claim even deeper into the unsuspecting public and gaining control over them.
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Prehistoric Extractions In The News
By Aydan Corkern
I’m sure that you have, during some time your life, heard about some group of people finding some prehistoric fossil. Depending on the location or the size of the object, it could take months or even years to extract this piece of history. They will want to be able to take it out of this area in one piece.
They found whole animals frozen in ice from the Ice Age. This extraction took them years to complete because of the size and weight. They had to bring in special machines to remove the chunk of ice that would have had to been done without breaking the massive chunk of ice. Then they had to find a way to move it to a place where it could be looked at where the scientists wouldn’t be out in the cold.
These people doing the extractions had to withstand temperatures so cold that they couldn’t be out in the weather too long because they would be overcome by the cold. They would have to put themselves in danger not only with the weather but also because of the dangerous animals that might be in the area.
In other situations they might find whole ancient cities that have lain underground for centuries. Then you have the tombs in Egypt, and you might have heard of the tombs in Mexico. We have even had extractions here as well. Most of these have been sites of historic fights or old Indian villages. The biggest area has to do with the American Indians of the Great Basin of North America. We have learned much from these sites.
These sites could tell the people that are doing the work how these people lived and even how they died. They could tell by what they found how long this village had been at this location and could pinpoint the time of its demise.
We have scientists that go all over the world for the sole purpose of looking for old fossils and extracting these things out of the ground. The more they find the more the government will give them in grant money to keep this dig going. Some of these digs have been very well known and some of them you will never hear about. If you have ever been in a museum almost everything that you might see is from some extraction of one kind or the other.
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Cognitive Drug to Enhance Brain Functioning
By Robert Webb
A pharmaceutical company is now currently working on a new drug that may be able to be used as a cognitive enhancer. In theory it could improve a person’s working memory. Working memory is the process by which the brain can temporarily store and also manipulate certain information, such as remembering a phone number. This specific drug is able to enhance the functioning a dopamine type 1 receptor in the brain. Dopamine is an important neurotransmitter in the brain that has a variety of functions. Increasing dopamine can often increase mood and a person’s attention by stimulating one of 5 different dopamine receptors. Stimulation of the D1 receptor is extremely important for the proper functioning of a person’s working memory. Under stimulation of these types of receptors leads to the cognitive dysfunction that is often found in those with attention deficit disorder.
Enhancing D1 receptor activity may allow a person to have an improved attention span. Improper D1 receptor functioning is also correlated with what are called “negative” schizophrenic symptoms. Negative schizophrenic symptoms include lack or decline in speech, apathy, emotional blunting and poor social motivation. A person with negative schizophrenia may have enormous social difficulties. So this new pharmaceutical compound may be able to improve several specific schizophrenic symptoms. Working memory can decline as a person ages due to a reduction in D1 receptor number. So this new pharmaceutical compound may be able to improve cognitive problems that are correlated with old age.
The new drug is actually an inhibitor of a new intracellular target that can increase activity of the D1 receptor in brain cells. Preclinical data has already shown that it may treat a wide variety of disorders such as schizophrenia, ADHD, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. All of these disorders may have improved cognitive functioning after using this drug.
Increasing activation of the D1 receptor may also have a positive impact on a person’s mood. Increasing dopamine is known to enhance a person’s pleasure response via the mesolimbic system of the brain. This new drug should not induce psychoses which can be induced by a dopamine type 2 enhancer sometimes. If this drug gains FDA approval it should be very useful for a variety of brain ailments. It may be used to increase cognition, functioning and improve a person’s mood. It may also be used by regular people to improve normal cognitive functioning on the job or at school.
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